Anne Applebaum and David Frum. youtu.be/5oSRcLWxzYA?...

aaand another quacking new Bronze Age sculpt

Besa liked the snow.

Worth noting the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize has been encouraging Trump to do exactly this ever since she won the prize. Another one to add to the dismal record of that prize committee, too. bsky.app/profile/elio...

Growing evidence reveals that creativity is one of the best-kept secrets for boosting your health. From live theatre to a quick crafting break, here’s how to harness the power of art in your everyday life

👇Verpasst❓‼️👇

I need new boots.

Elon Musk's fortune is now 100 billion USD larger than the Swedish GDP.

Ancient Greece beyond myths, marble statues and temples: an everyday craftsman. The terracotta shows a carpenter at work with a bow-saw - a timeless image of human creativity and craftsmanship. From Boeotia, Greece, late 6th/early 5th century BC On display at National Museum Copenhagen 📷 me 🏺

“This has happened so many times that I’ve lost count,” a senior U.S. official said. “This is literally killing them. Death by a thousand cuts.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Gift link. This is terrifying.

Ukraine and Moldova have joined the EU’s mobile roaming zone as part of deepening integration between the bloc, Kyiv, and Chișinău.

My 12 yr old grandson could manipulate Trump. Putin is KGB There's no such thing as ex KGB of course he's manipulating Pedo-Don. Ex-CIA chief details Putin’s manipulation of 'incredibly naïve' Trump'. www.rawstory.com/alternet-pos...

When Epstein’s house was raided by the Palm Beach Police Department in 2005 he was tipped off beforehand, and removed the computers and other evidence from his home. #EpsteinFiles

I bought a cheap domain to redirect to my annotating contextualization engine. I say it's to check LLM text but it can honestly check anything. It runs cheap on tokens, so it's not perfect, but it will still on average catch more errors in a minute than most people will in an hour. overlay.cv

Iran updates. Thread. 1/

So this nerd-led retroactive "ACKTUALLY Y2K PANIC WAS KINDA JUSTIFIED" is simplistic and it spread as a Twitter-sized factoid. I remember a few stories about the back end work to prep for 2000 but they were drowned by all the Jerry Springer-type stuff.

It’s a shiny new year! Best wishes to you all. Here’s to 2026 🥂 Bias-cut evening dress in silver lamé, Madeleine Vionnet, France, c1938. More here via The Museum at FIT: fashionmuseum.fitnyc.edu/objects/2272...

I did not plan it this way, but I have a book on the dollar coming out on the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and the whole theme of the book is that the dollar is not in fact 250 years old www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/634502...

Those brave people deserve to win. I am with the Iranian protesters.

The destruction of knowledge and history is haphazard & breathtaking. NASA’s Largest Library Is Closing Amid Staff and Lab Cuts.

Start the new year right: this is how to make the perfect egg go.nature.com/4pJVnKd

Is Donald Trump a friend or an enemy of Europe? 48% of Europeans think he is an enemy, only 10% say he is a friend. Only in Poland, more people think he is a friend, rather than an enemy.

Brexit is clearly seen as having had a negative impact on the United Kingdom: 63% think so, with the highest number (82%) in Spain, and the lowest in Poland (43%).

1 January 1926 | A Polish Jew, Leon Weintraub, was born in Łódź. In #Auschwitz from August 1944. He was transferred to Groß-Rosen, Flossenbürg & Natzweiler-Struthof. He was liberated on 23 April 1945 near Donaueschingen. He became a doctor. Today he turns 100. Happy birthday!

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... A decent summary of some of Trump's corruption highlights in year one.

A Wikipedia page about why you shouldn’t use LLMs to write Wikipedia pages. Pretty funny. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Case_against_LLM-generated_articles #wikipedia #LLMs #citations

I don’t understand

A drone show in Chongqing just broke the Guinness World Record with 11,787 synchronized drones, creating breathtaking 3D animations that looked closer to CGI than real life. No human pilots. No delays. No crashes. Every movement guided by AI and GPS, choreographed with perfect timing. #cdnpoli

United States has officially congratulated Russia on the New Year.

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

The Language Formerly Known As Serbo-Croatian also has this preko = over sutra = tomorrow jučer= yesterday prekosutra = overmorrow prekjučer = day before yesterday Could be a calque, idk

Cheers Vincent! 👋😊☕☕✌️🌞

It’s deja vu all over again, eh? ”Finland’s Prosecutor General has issued a prosecution order, the police said. At this stage, the incident is being investigated as aggravated criminal damage and aggravated interference with telecommunications.” 🇫🇮 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

On this day in 1980, Marshall McLuhan died. Born in Edmonton in 1911, his work was a cornerstone of the study of media theory. He coined the phrase "the medium is the message". He predicted the World Wide Web and coined the term "global village".

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Africa, ca. 1945.

I admire the Dutch for many reasons, one of which is that they celebrate the New Year with doughnuts. I’ve taken a leaf out of their book, and so Oliebollen, the doughnuts in question, are #RecipeOfTheDay. And Happy New Year! www.nigella.com/recipes/new-...

The 12th-century Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral rarely steals the spotlight (thanks to that lantern tower), but it’s absolutely jaw-dropping

Al vele tientallen jaren op oudejaarsavond te zien op de Duitse TV. Voor mijn vader was Oud en Nieuw niet compleet zonder Dinner for One.

Here we go again: "Telecommunications cable between Helsinki and Tallinn has been damaged. ... The Border Guard located a vessel suspected of being responsible for the damage to the cable." (Police report in English, despite the Finnish title)

"They believed Ukraine was on the verge of failing. The fact that empirical evidence indicated the opposite didn’t bother them; if anything, they seemed to think they should help Ukraine fail faster to get it over with.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/30/world/europe/ukraine-war-us-russia.html

@isobelhk.bsky.social Tänkte på den när du återpublicerade grejen om Andréexipeditionen :) Inte vit men ändå. (Bärnstensbjörnen alltså)

As the year draws to a close, I’m signing off 2025 with a magical find! An ancient amber bear. Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø, Denmark, from a submerged Mesolithic settlement in the North Sea. ✨ Happy New Year all! ✨ National Museum of Denmark 📷 by me #Archaeology

@giedrenord.bsky.social Skulle svara på ett inlägg med en dikt från dig. Det var raderat. Hursomhelst så fick den mig att läsa lite av Sophia Parnok. Så stort tack. ruverses.com/sophia-parnok/

The year’s last sun.

"Nobody likes a loser, and Russians are not upset at Putin that he is waging this war; they are upset with Putin that he is not winning," said Ivana Stradner of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in an interview with TVP World.

31 décembre 1937 : Naissance de l’acteur, réalisateur et producteur britannique Anthony Hopkins. Figure majeure du cinéma britannique et américain, il reçoit l’oscar du meilleur acteur pour son rôle du Dr Hannibal Lecter dans « Le Silence des agneaux » 🎬. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony... #CeJourLà

If you’re wondering what this is about, I wrote an explainer here ecfr.eu/article/the-...

Listen I was the #1 tiktok hater but having recently discovered the beam ng car crash simulation videos I've completely reversed my position

Yo what the fuck short form videos are bad Short-Form Videos Degrade Our Capacity to Retain Intentions arxiv.org/pdf/2302.03714 Ht: HowTown