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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 1d

Nie ma dowodów, źe Trump wiedział o Project 2025

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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 1d

and the music is SOPHIE? He’s good

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

www.youtube.com

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 3d

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

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 3d

unfortunately I believe I got my first job because of posting on twitter

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 5d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 6d

Dems need a new scarecrow since Musk decided he's more into chatbots than people, and Miller's perfect for the role

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 6d

okrutnik

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 6d

Tbf there are NBA players unaware of this stuff m.youtube.com/watch?v=da68...

Patrick Beverley finds out for first time about Karl Malone and the 13 year old

YouTube video by Chaz NBA

m.youtube.com

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 6d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 6d

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

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 6d

A work of art

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 6d

That's what I'm hoping for as well, especially since it would also make @socio-steve.bsky.social happy

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 7d

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

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 8d

wizard frog is insane

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 7d

It's a great read. I've been thinking a lot about this paragraph in particular, slowly developing a spiritual bond with crabs.

Firstly, humans do live in something like an intertidal zone: the turbulence and inescapable betweenness of our lives as we move in and out of the ‘virtual’ world. And, secondly, we encase ourselves in exoskeletons more literally every day as we become increasingly supported and defined by our technologies. If we recognise ‘intertidal scavenger’ and ‘skeleton’ to be analogies for our present-day condition in late-stage capitalism, and view civilisation as an ‘extended phenotype’ from which we cannot extract ourselves, we will find that we are already much more like crabs than we might assume.

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 7d

That is basically the core thesis of this great aeon essay, which argues that through technology we're evolving in a process akin to carcinization 🦀 aeon.co/essays/are-h...

Are humans destined to evolve into crabs? | Aeon Essays

‘Everything becomes crab’ is more than an absurd meme. The crab is a deep symbol of our devil’s bargain with technology

aeon.co

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 7d

Interestingly, many pro-digital sovereignty voices are warning that the worst thing the EU can do is to try to build its "own Silicon Valley" - see this @dmugge.bsky.social piece www.euractiv.com/opinion/the-... or this from @marietjeschaake.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/5c49...

How should Europe build its own Silicon Valley?

There is fresh debate about the EU’s position in the technology race

www.ft.com

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 7d

Macron is at the forefront of this push because "European AI" is almost synonymous with "French AI" (Mistral, Station F, etc.). But I'd look to Draghi as the intellectual leader of this movement - here's an excerpt from his recent keynote commission.europa.eu/document/dow...

The third area is the vertical integration of AI into industry.
Sectoral AI applications are even more critical than raw supercomputing power. Here,
Europe has a real advantage: its firms hold more than half the global market in industrial
automation solutions, a cornerstone of industrial AI. Yet only around 10% of
manufacturing firms used AI last year.
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Industry and governments must work together to turn this head start into proprietary
European solutions. The Commission’s “Apply AI” strategy this autumn will be a key
test.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 7d

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...

Is the Media Studies Cabal in the Room With Us Right Now?

I read The Stack in 2020 as a grad student in ANU's Applied Cybernetics program. I give it credit for directing my attention to the interaction between layers of digital and physical infrastructures. ...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 9d

There's a direct link between fashwave and this, but using the word "fashwave" in any normal conversation would, in most scenarios, immediately cost you all semblance of seriousness www.mic.com/articles/187...

This is fashwave, the suicidal retro-futurist art of the alt-right

In the online art workshops of the white nationalist alt right, young neo-Nazis and neo-fascists trade simple aesthetic tips: Consider your color scheme in advance, build your image in sections of thi...

www.mic.com

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 9d

As it should: he isn't 6-7, merely 4-7

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 10d

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

Thomas Harvell-DeGolier, ABD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 10d

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 11d

You can tell from his face that this is a man who can do both: "a “humorous” marketing stunt and a more serious reflection of his concerns over worsening demographic trends"

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Henry Foy @henryjfoy.ft.com · 11d

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

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 12d

This line went hard the first time, but it's so much harder with hindsight bsky.app/profile/zohr...

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Jul 17

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 12d

That's more or less what I was implying, at least that we use things like “stressing about finances”, often unconsciously, as a proxy for mental health issues

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 12d

Ezra Klein: There's a Rick & Morty quote I really like.

Ezra Klein: It goes like this, "Why would a pop-tart want to live inside a toaster? That would be like the scariest place for them to live."

Ezra Klein: Because in the episode they go to a neighborhood where everyone is a pop-tart and they live in toaster-houses.

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 12d

I'm also fascinated by the proportions of men and women worried by financial pressures and mental health. For the latter, they're almost the same, which seems “right”: those problems are often tied. So why is it so different with men? Because caring about money is more socially acceptable for them?

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.bsky.social · 12d

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

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12d

That's quite the chart annotation.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A chart of "Major concerns of PhD candidates." The top text says, "Financial pressures top the list of concerns faced by PhD candidates, but concerns differ among the sexes. Those studying in the United States rank the political landscape as their main worry." The chart shows that in the full survey, political landscape is the biggest concern for about 20% of students (a bit higher for women than men) but there's an annotation saying "In US PhD students, this rose to 64%". Overall, the highest-rated concern was financial pressures at around 40%.

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