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Przedsprzedaż ruszyła! Najnowsze dzieło Agaty Kaźmierskiej i moje doczekało się finału! :) www.empik.com/konce-swiata...

The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...

At the same time:

“.. We now have an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” another European diplomat observed in recent days ... “The transatlantic alliance is over.” @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/dona...

Come ON

Trochę ponad miesiąc temu Nowy Jork wprowadził opłaty za wjazd do centrum samochodem. Korki z dnia na dzień zniknęły, nagle w budżecie pojawiła się kasa na remonty metra i nowe autobusy. Trump uznał, że transport publiczny to lewactwo i skasował program. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to three people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency.

The elite war against public wellbeing proceeds.

New from me: Some federal workers say they are moving all but the most innocuous conversations from platforms like Facebook or text messages to Signal, fearing tech companies will turn over their data to the Trump administration. www.theverge.com/news/610951/...

Disney is reducing content warnings that caution viewers about racial stereotypes on some of its classic films, including “Dumbo” and “Peter Pan,” as part of a wider revamp of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs as it adjusts to the new Trump era.

This is a comprehensive (and very bleak) summary of the current state of US science

Za 7 lat pierwsza gwiazdka może się nieco pospieszyć. Około 70-metrowa asteroida 2024YR4 ma już przeszło 2 procent szans na uderzenie w Ziemię 22 grudnia 2032 r.

Nowa ustawa proponowana przez stanowy kongres Teksasu będzie wymagała od potencjalnych wyborców, którzy chcą zarejestrować się w spisie, by przedstawili akt urodzenia zawierający to samo nazwisko. Co może być przykrą niespodzianką dla 69 mln teksańskich mężatek, które nazwisko zmieniły...

Texas Rep. Introduces The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act preventing 69 million married women from being able to register to vote. It requires a birth certificate that matches their current name, which is a problem for women who changed their legal name when they got married

Hej, @google, dlaczego na polskim Google Maps wyświetla się nazwa "Zatoka Amerykańska"? To wbrew stanowisku Komisji Standaryzacji Nazw Geograficznych poza Granicami Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Może jeszcze zaznaczycie, że Krym jest w Rosji?

In the Soviet Bloc, the Communist Party assigned political minders/ commissars to every school, factory, army unit, etc to ensure ideological compliance and loyalty to the regime. Hiring was based on class background and demonstrated loyalty. Obviously, this is very different.

I understand why federal employees need to do this. For the rest of us,…

Is measuring CO2 woke?

This is crucial reporting from @katherinejwu.com. Among the data being scrubbed is “the agency’s AtlasPlus tool, which contains nearly 20 years of CDC surveillance data on HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis…” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032

Do Europeans still get to set the rules for their own elections? Or does Elon Musk decide? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Jakby co, Tygodnik Powszechny jest już na Bluesky :)

Bluesky adds video to user profiles

DeepSeek displaces ChatGPT as the App Store’s top app

Właśnie odkryłem, że przegapiłem grudniowy odcinek Fall of Civilizations. Mój absolutnie ulubiony, bezkonkurencyjnie najbardziej fascynujący podcast.

Still one more week to go this January, but so far 20 out of 24 days have seen all-time records of global average temperature for those dates. pulse.climate.copernicus.eu

Warto posłuchać. Dlaczego gest Muska prawdopodobnie nie był żadnym przypadkiem. I co big tech może mieć wspólnego z o wiele starszym zagrożeniem.

🛑 On the Big Tech platforms, you don't see what you want to see, but what they want you to see. 🆙 We need to campaign for algorithm transparency, platforms interoperability and transportability.

Donald Trump has pardoned Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, who has spent over a decade in prison for building the world's first dark web drug market. Ulbricht is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some parts of the crypto community.

11AM: How bad could the new administration be? 4PM: And Elon did that how many times?

OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com: Kyle MacLachlan writes of his longtime collaborator, the late David Lynch: “David didn’t fully trust words because they pinned the idea in place. They were a one-way channel that didn’t allow for the receiver. And he was all about the receiver.”

For no reason that he can articulate, Trump has triggered a crisis in Denmark www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat theonion.com/jd-vanc...

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

TikTok says it will go offline on Sunday if Biden doesn’t intervene

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

O śmierci reżysera w social mediach poinformowała jego rodzina #wyborcza wyborcza.pl/7,101707,316...

Something many of us know but still it's useful to have it rigorously established and formalized in this manner:

h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social

the crazy part is this means the facebook we’ve all been experiencing for the past 5 years was the *good* version

Każdy nowy Every Frame a Painting to powód do rzucenia wszystkiego innego www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa1O...

There it is. Officially a scrub as they troubleshoot a vehicle subsystem issue that would take them beyond the launch window. Haven't decided when they'll try again. Good night.