Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Can't stop thinking about @ocksportello.bsky.social’s “Cooper Flagg was to this Mavericks team, what AI is to the US economy” theory. Nico Harrison getting fired and immediately changing his bio to “Unemployed” is THE recession indicator

This is excellent, and great fun to read. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

"the only AI company with a real (...) function to the working class", "Palantir's been the most anti-woke company", "it's admirable to be (...) high-testosterone male" - it's all jargon! (screenshot from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social's great piece on Karp: www.unpopularfront.news/p/palantirs-...)

My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash

Na długi weekend polecam się z podcastem, w którym przekonuję Andrzeja Bobińskiego, że w dążeniach do technologicznej suwerenności Europy niekoniecznie chodzi o same technologie (do posłuchania także na Apple Podcasts czy Spotify) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEQc...

Moje hasło wyborcze

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

They're the same picture

Na długi weekend polecam się z podcastem, w którym przekonuję Andrzeja Bobińskiego, że w dążeniach do technologicznej suwerenności Europy niekoniecznie chodzi o same technologie (do posłuchania także na Apple Podcasts czy Spotify) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEQc...

Passengers on a high-speed train between Poland's two largest cities were taken by surprise when a sheep wearing a nappy began wandering through the carriages.

Wanted to take a bite at the "sandwich guy" jokes, but with so many comedians around for whom it's bread and butter, my attempt would be at best like the crumbs from a rich man's table

Broke: short ontology Woke: flatten ontology (Schatzki 2016 www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...)

A propos of mayors and SimCity: a piece of Polish politics lore. In 2002, a newspaper organized a contest for candidates in the Warsaw mayoral election to build the largest city in SimCity 3000. Lech Kaczyński’s team won. He also became the mayor and then the president of the country.

This is, of course, false. One of the first non-animated foreign films (the animated ones are almost always dubbed) I recall having full dubbing was Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, which premiered in Poland the same year as it did in the US. But since it’s a16z, the orientalism is almost expected.

A good example of this phenomenon is the coalition supporting the implementation of the Digital Services Act in Poland, which includes big business orgs, human rights NGOs, artists worried about copyright infringements, and many other groups united by the shared goal of tempering platform power

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The European Commission unduly protected Elon Musk’s social network X from public scrutiny, the European Ombudsman has found. The watchdog has asked the Commission to be more transparent about disclosures from companies under the EU's Digital Services Acts. New story: www.ftm.eu/articles/eu-...

Business flowcharts that will summon a demon from the ninth circle of hell if drawn with white chalk on a wooden floor

In short, the ANES data shows: 📉 Social media use is shrinking 💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~50 points to the right 🧩 Platforms are splintering 🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed. Here are the key take-aways 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

One underestimated aspect of the rapid development and proliferation of AI models is that Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools have become ubiquitous. Using the search function in an app? Suddenly, it can find words in images. Opening a PDF of a scanned document? Boom, you can copy it as text.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

The tech industry is obsessed with Tolkien for all the wrong reasons

Napisałem raport o techsuwerenności Europy. W części 1. poświęcony jest definicjom i historii tej idei, w 2. - praktyce jej wdrażania. Powstał głównie z myślą o osobach, które chcą uporządkować sobie wiedzę nt. tego modnego pojęcia. PDF: www.politykainsight.pl/_resource/mu...

What if we made every religious leader a Chicagoan who likes baseball so that the interfaith dialogue would be dependent on the results of White Sox and Cubs. “But most of the world wouldn’t understand what the divisions are about!” as if they did now, an inning sounds as mysterious as Filioque

Jeszcze jedna historia z dzisiejszej konferencji - dramat w trzech aktach I. Organizator z Poznania otwiera wydarzenie: “Cieszę się, że w meczu Lech-Legia było 0:0, bo nie będzie dzisiaj zamieszek”. Niemrawe śmiechy, nagle organizator poważnieje, bo po nim mówi prezydent, i dodaje “Nigdy nie było!”

Kiedy eksperci mówią, ja słucham

Napisałem raport o techsuwerenności Europy. W części 1. poświęcony jest definicjom i historii tej idei, w 2. - praktyce jej wdrażania. Powstał głównie z myślą o osobach, które chcą uporządkować sobie wiedzę nt. tego modnego pojęcia. PDF: www.politykainsight.pl/_resource/mu...

Best as I can tell, the only thing that can truly "cancel" you politically now is a loss of attention or a loss of money and, thanks to digital platforms, attention is a conversion unit for money. Which, no matter what side you're on, has huge implications for the future of American democracy.

A kindergartener

My two cents: 1. It's a systemic failure that there is such a community as "Nazi creators" on the open web 2. Even more dreadful is the fact that they're good at their jobs, skilfully weaving normie, indie, and thinly-veiled fascist content in edits that get millions of views across platforms

German diplomat nails it: “I don’t want to help make Brexit work”. Why the hell should the EU devalue its USP?

The unity around “sovereignty” in Europe masks a deeper question that inevitably follows and underpins the current broad agreement: sovereignty for what purpose, and in service of whose political project? asks Zuzanna Warso.

Time to update my chart

This does have international ramifications too, as far-right parties abroad can claim that the term is not “extremist” because the U.S. government also uses it.

and the music is SOPHIE? He’s good

I got my first paid commissioned piece through Twitter. As an aspiring writer living outside of Warsaw, I relied heavily on weak ties established through social media for networking, contacting sources, and more. For some time it was genuinely a place that could jump-start one's media career

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Kemi Badenoch is the much-anticipated reboot of The Office (UK)

*Alex Jones voice* "I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the freakin' frogs antifascist!"

Wrote more about Benjamin Bratton's paranoid imagination of a media studies cabal holding back AI progress in Europe. mail.cyberneticforests.com/is-the-media...

the brazilians are better at being a country than us rn because their sane people have mastered slop

This is a terrific story about a Polish hotel chain offering perks to couples who conceive in its properties in a bid to help the country's dire fertility rate. But I just can't get past the idea of *this guy* explaining the terms of the offer to excited couples... on.ft.com/3KC5dhr

A huge gender gap in concerns about imposter syndrome seems to be a sad reminder of the sexism in academia masked as “meritocracy”

I'm always saying that!