Do poczytania na długi weekend open.substack.com/pub/jeczjan/...

Director of the CIA is in the room but you have OSINTdefender's twitter page up on the screen

Man’s creating sound bites to be sampled in dozens of protest songs to come

Do poczytania na długi weekend open.substack.com/pub/jeczjan/...

Behold, my one of a kind Kermit The Frog Energy Dome! And inside? A screaming Kermit mouth!

It’s SO COLD outside that I saw rugged individualists SPOONING to create the WARMTH OF COLLECTIVISM

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

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...

The Polish government has asked the EU to take action against TikTok over a series of videos showing AI-generated young women calling for Poland to leave the EU. "There is no doubt this is Russian disinformation," says the government's spokesman.

Health Speculations Swirl As Trump Seen With Damage Numbers Above Head https://theonion.com/health-speculations-swirl-as-trump-seen-with-damage-numbers-above-head/

This photo and the stolen lobsters story mark a great end to an already amazing year for heists

Dune 3: Dune Dune Duuune!

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

And Tiny Tim, who WILL NEVER DIE (Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh)

Zygmunt Bauman, “Modernity and the Holocaust” (1989)

Happy holidays! Probably my favorite stop-motion from the past few years. Really enjoyed creating this one.

Each year I find some gems on the @alphaville.ft.com's "non-FT articles of the year" list. This time it was i.a. an investigation into Mike Wazowski's ethnic background sproutstack.substack.com/p/is-mike-wa...

Show this image to your relatives during the holidays to immediately bridge generational gaps

European states need immigrants but don't want them. How to square that circle? Posture against immigrants while taking in more than ever before but treating them as a permanent second-class serving caste with few rights. Me @financialtimes.com on European kafala as.ft.com/r/7e2026f8-5...

Udało się! W nowym rozkładzie jest pociąg o 21, przed północą w Poznaniu!

Living in Poznań means sitting in a café straight out of Kreuzberg, where young people who look like they live in Kreuzberg tell each other horror stories about their catholic upbringing.

All discourse is the same now.

A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).

US threatens countermeasures after EU fine on Musk's X reut.rs/4aRh32b

European Commission announcing climate-related policies:

If “Europe Is in Decline”, as Anton Jager argues today in the NYT, then in what state is the United States?

The UK negotiated a quantum deal, but didn't know that for the US it meant that it's in a quantum superposition

So, the EU is left with trade defences and IRA style industrial policies as the only viable options. I am a broken record, but some of us have been thinking about this now for a few years, once the Chinese economy started dramatically re-unbalancing, and it’s where you logically end up. 3/3

Announcing eurosky.social accounts - launching January 2026. ✅ Managed by Eurosky, a European non-profit initiative ✅ Hosted on European cloud ✅ Governed by European law www.eurosky.social/register

WTF are we doing here, BBC?

I propose "Musk's razor", an inverted Hanlon's razor, that states "Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice"

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

"Asked in the interview to compare himself to a professional player, Mr. Mamdani named Nicklas Bendtner, a former Arsenal striker known for his modest production and surplus of self-confidence. “Just absurdly believing in my own abilities,” Mr. Mamdani said, laughing." GOAT

A Polish city has changed the scarf on a decorative Christmas teddy bear from blue to red after complaints that the original looked like the Ukrainian national colours. In fact, blue and gold had been chosen because they are the colours of the city’s coat of arms.

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

Shot Chaser

My working theory of the gen AI backlash is: in private, many people enjoy gen AI - as long as they think it's their choice to use the tools or consume content but once they sense it's forced upon them, they start to hate it and become vocal about it

“Per a draft for an action memo outlining options for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the administration is weighing a move to revoke the visas of Former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, CEO and founder of the Center for Countering Digital Hate”

It's soul-crushing to see him light up and start talking about „a genius level at everything intelligence sitting there, waiting to unravel the mysteries of humanity”, and it turns out he doesn't mean his child, but ChatGPT

I am slowly getting convinced that the Commission prepared a digital enforcement advent calendar and will announce a new decision every day until Christmas.

It's fitting that people like Pete Hegseth see themselves as modern crusaders because crusaders were quite literally a bunch of failsons

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

About 243,000 more children under 5 years have died or will die this year than in 2024. Much of that increase is due to reductions in global health aid, including USAID cutbacks. (gift link) www.wsj.com/health/for-f...

In response to Musk calling to “abolish” the European Union, the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, wrote in Musk’s replies on X: “Go to Mars. There’s no censorship of Nazi salutes there.”

Can it be any clearer?

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.