Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... How Palantir captured the UK Ministry of Defence

Oh no. Oh nooooo. Xbox's new CEO is a natalist/birthrater. How did MS miss this in their opsec? Literal stone's throw away from the likes of Palmer Luckey. "Will my son have classmates in the future? ...the fertility rates are declining." Then she suggests the fix is... AI? Timestamped:

This is long and grim, but interesting and well written: www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

This is a great thread

My smartphone is Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, and X-free. :) No, it was a video for HTMHell! youtube.com/@htmhell?si=...

I went on a secret trip, and I will tell you all about it in my newsletter next week! www.djamilaknopf.com/newsletter

“What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own.” @nvie.com on how Microsoft continvoucly morged his diagram: nvie.com/posts/15-yea...

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

A nightly build bringing #darkMode to servicestandard.gov.de : As Germany’s cross-gov’t #designSystem KERN offers a dark mode, we have now enabled it after some testing. For now, the website recognises the user’s operating system settings. In the future, we will add a manual overwrite button, too.

Grotesque.

#Accessibility #GovDesign job klaxon 🔔 State-owned digital outcome provider Dataport is looking for #A11y testers with a background in human-computer interaction or #UX design. Candidates can apply for various cities across northern and eastern Germany. ⬇️ verwaltungsgestaltung.de#positionen

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The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up: - all energy sources - all our data - all investment dollars - all new jobs - all capex - all attention - and now, all hardware components with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.

One of my goals for 2026 is to finally minimize reliance on US tech/SaaS as much as I can. This is another reminder that I’m already running late with that.

Here comes Kimya Gandhi. Absolutely looking forward to welcome her on board of #btconf in Düsseldorf. You don't know Kimya? Here's a blog post introducing her: beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse...

This 2017 report details 14 deaths on 🇬🇧UK soil that “US spy agencies have linked to 🇷🇺Russia – but the UK police shut down every last case. A bombshell cache of documents reveals the full story of a ring of death on British soil that the government has ignored.” www.buzzfeednews.com/article/heid...

“The Rise of “CARINT” and the Weaponization of Vehicle Data: At least 3 Israeli companies are operating in this sector, developing tools that allow governments to track vehicle movements in real time, cross-reference vast databases and identify specific targets among thousands of cars on the road.”

I wonder how overseas bookings for Disney destinations in the US are going in 2026. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

💥 I made a new drawing in my AI series, this time about Vector Databases, ANN, and HNSW. I hope it's useful! It might be good to look at the Transformers one in the series before this one, for additional background.

China will be the real winner of the AI bubble.

Check out this track I did for Moonshell Island!

New study by the National Bureau of Economic Research: A survey of 6000 CFOs, CEOS throughout US, Europe, UK and Australia comes to the conclusion that businesses predict that "AI" will improve productivity by a whopping 1.4%. Truly earth shattering. https://www.nber.org/papers/w34836

Politics London discussing driverless taxis casually referring to “jaywalking pedestrians”. Jaywalking is not a thing in UK law. Transport for London and Government had better not be asleep at the wheel on this.

“The former General Manager of defense contractor L3Harris’s cyber subsidiary Trenchant, Peter Williams, sold eight zero-day exploit kits to 🇷🇺 Russia, according to a court filing last week.“ He pleaded guilty. www.theregister.com/2026/02/15/e...

That it took so long for so many to publicly acknowledge Karp and Thiel's descent into madness is telling in itself

Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding: Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

The OpenClaw author who in 2021 wouldn’t buy a GPU for his one employee who actually understood Machine Learning (and the math behind it) because he “couldn’t see how this can be useful for document processing” being hired by OpenAI as some sort of “AI genius” is peak 2026 AI. *chef’s kiss*

in other news: Österreichs Wirtschaftsminister will ein Gesetz novellieren, das es nicht gibt. Das "Sicherheitsexportgesetz"

I've started reading Mearsheimer's und Sebastian Rosato's "How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy" and this far it's basically an apology for Putin's war. In the preface one learns that Mearsheimer received money and a prize from the Russian Valdai club. Well, well, well.

With a screenshot from a time when computers still worked and CPU hot-swapping was allowed. 👌

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

In the Russian Empire it was said you could build a nearly comprehensive directory of all interesting figures in the intelligentsia organized by when and where they were sent to the gulag.

6) Things I was asked about most: .What’s happening with FCAS. .How to speed up everything (procurement, innovation, industry production etc). .What the 2029 date really means and how worried we should be. .What gives me hope.

2) I was genuinely surprised to STILL find ppl trying to tell us that the transatlantic relation is fine. This always happens at MSC as it is full of old (quite literally) transatlanticists. But given the last year, I did not expect to sit through statements telling me NATO has never been stronger.

There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way.

And if you can’t handle the inhumane timelines, abuse, and lying to customers/investors (double-time now when AI promises got into the mix, quadruple if the startup serves “serious” industries), you’re out real quick. And good luck finding colleagues who care — most are too scared of being fired.

And here we are soaking in silicon valley's dirty bathwater.

Designing a Compact RGB 14-Segment Display

As someone who has thought a bit (and even done some research) about how to communicate confidence and uncertainty, I believe that this is not the reason why a portion of the public mistrusts science (www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...) The core reason is deliberate and widespread disinformation

Variation on the little guy #miniature #plasticity3d #plasticity #blender #mech

Meanwhile Austria: “Companies buying Chinese trains are of the devil and our Siemens trains are not breaking down, they’re just _not in the mood_, okay?!”

Guys, the Godot Shaders Bible B&W physical version was just released worldwide on Lulu, and is coming soon to Amazon! 🥳 I invite you to take a look here 🔗 jettelly.com/store/the-go... #godot #indiedev #gamedev

The precision and refinement of the drawing of Antique Olive is extraordinary. 👋 The drawing of the t is a perfect example.

Once again, Russia can hardly be said to be engaging in a battle of wits if the other side keeps turning up unarmed. abcnews.com/Internationa...

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These graphs often accompany "software engineering is over" proclamations. They do not mean what these people claim they do. * Hiring's actually a bit higher than in 2019 * Look at when the downturn started - months before ChatGPT was even announced Over-hiring + interest rate hikes caused this