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Jan Jęcz
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digital economy analyst, politykainsight.pl/en | PhD student in sociology, AMU Poznan (digital activism, practice theory) | he/him
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Badly drawn bicycle with words „Autism score 0.93” above
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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*ponders*
Wojak-type meme titled „The Nooticer” Physically incapable of not pointing out every pattern he sees "HMMM I'M NOTICING!!!" everything is a data point to him Extremely aesthetic high perched eyebrow sifts replies for more shit to nootice "It's weird, because.." One eye larger than the other to nootice things better "Funny thing is.." Beard worn through from constant chin-rubbing Prone to schizophrenia Nooticed you're gay just from reading your posts
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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As always, read @maxread.info maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...
One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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So about that #digitalomnibus package
The Godfather saying “Look how they massacred my brussels effect”
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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"the only AI company with a real (...) function to the working class", "Palantir's been the most anti-woke company", "it's admirable to be (...) high-testosterone male" - it's all jargon!

(screenshot from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social's great piece on Karp: www.unpopularfront.news/p/palantirs-...)
…Jargon gains its power from the fact that those who speak, and hear, it really are searching for a lost community. The very presence of the stranger demonstrates that such community cannot be simply given; jargon is powerful precisely in proportion to how much the shared context of life has been destroyed. It therefore offers a “dishonest answer to an honest longing” for intersubjectivity, gaining strength in proportion to the intensity the need that has been thwarted (Karp 2002, 85). Wishes that contradict social norms are brought into the web of social relations (Geflecht der Lebenswelt), in such a way that they do not need to be sanctioned or punished for violating social norms (91). On the contrary, they serve to bind members of social groups to one another. So, this is all very weird. To recap, Karp wrote his dissertation on a form of rhetoric that employs aggression to bind a community together and then he goes and writes a terrible, jargon-filled, cliché-riddled book about how the United States needs to rearm with the help of Silicon Valley. The shittiness, one might say, is the point: is Karp intentionally using jargon in this technical sense to create his own vision of Volksgemeinschaft? Maybe, but the rhetoric is not stirring! As for “aggression in the life-world,” Karp is saying “Yes, please!” In the book, Karp explicitly says how he wants to cultivate a more martial society to defend “the West.”
November 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Moje hasło wyborcze
Grafika w stylu hasła "ZOHRAN for NEW YORK" z napisem "ROGAL dla KAŻDEGO"
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Ale mi kolega zrobił tzw. przypominanie, wszędzie ten żart widziałem jak mieszkałem w Karkonoszach
KAMIEŃ PRZEPOWIADAJĄCY POGODĘ Mokry - pada deszcz Suchy - nie pada Rzuca cień - świeci słońce Biały - pada śnieg Zimny - jest mróz Nie widać - jest mgła Nie ma - przeszło tornado
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Chart from Financial Times showing divergent paths of the AI impact on GDP growth (ending scarcity or leading to human extinction), with a shrug emoji pasted so that its hands gesture towards both paths
November 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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They're the same picture
Photo of Lady Gaga, Jared Leto, and Adam Driver from the premiere of House of Gucci
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Edited dril tweet saying “issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the government backstop . you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to us”
November 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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A quote from Kaczyński from
before the event: (…) we have set up a special team that has been meeting every day (…) because we take our game very seriously. I know that two things need to be combined here—experts on the game and actual specialists from different fields. wyborcza.pl/7,76842,1072...
Translation below the original text Na potrzeby "SimCity" powołaliśmy specjalny sztab, który od środy spotyka się codziennie, bo naszą grę traktujemy bardzo poważnie. Wiem, że trzeba tu połączyć dwie rzeczy - znawców tej gry i prawdziwych ekspertów z różnych dziedzin. Muszę przyznać, że zaskoczyły mnie realia "SimCity". Spodziewałem się dużo większych uproszczeń. For the purposes of SimCity, we have set up a special team that has been meeting every day since Wednesday, because we take our game very seriously. I know that two things need to be combined here—experts on the game and actual specialists from different fields. I must admit that I was surprised by the realities of SimCity. I expected much greater simplifications.
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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This is, of course, false. One of the first non-animated foreign films (the animated ones are almost always dubbed) I recall having full dubbing was Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, which premiered in Poland the same year as it did in the US. But since it’s a16z, the orientalism is almost expected.
ElevenLabs wouldn’t exist if they weren’t based in Europe. In Poland, where much of the original team is from, all foreign films are dubbed with one actor, who performs lines in monotone for both genders (I personally felt this pain too growing up in China, but at least the production teams responsible for dubbing splurged for two actors!). This frustration partially led to the recognition that the world needed a strong text-to-speech offering.
November 6, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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BHL after getting pied in the face
November 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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The tech industry is obsessed with Tolkien for all the wrong reasons
A graph with Peter Thiel's head surrounded by the One Ring in the middle. The top-left is a logo of Anduil, Varda's top-middle, and Valinor's top-right. All three companies are connected to the ring through arrows labeled "Invested in through Founders Fund". On the left are logos of Narya and Arda Capital, both connected to the ring with an arrow labeled "Invested in". The bottom-left is Valar, Palantir is the bottom-middle, and Mithril is the bottom-right. All three are connected to the ring through an arrow labeled "Co-founded". Finally on the right, connected to the ring with an arrow labeled "Owns", are Lembas and Rivendell One (no logos)
October 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Bangers only
Zdjęcie debaty “Gospodarczy model rozwoju Polski - czy jesteśmy skazani na liberalizm?” z udziałem Sebastiana Stodolaka i Marcina Kędzierskiego
October 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Obok też grubo
Zdjęcie podzielonej sceny, po prawej debata o feminizmie, po lewej o nowym horyzoncie Europy z udziałem m.in. Marcina Gielzaka i Rafała Wosia
October 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Kiedy eksperci mówią, ja słucham
Zdjęcie z debaty “czy feminizm pomaga kobietom?” z udziałem Pauliny Matysiak i Marcina Horaly
October 27, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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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...
Screenshot okładki raportu z tytułem „Techsuwerenność Europy. Od idei do praktyki” i ilustracja z wyobrażeniem płyty głównej i flaga UE w miejscu procesora Screenshot strony 8 dokumentu pt „Część 1. Idea” Screenshot strony 28 pt. „Część 2. Praktyka” Screenshot diagramu zawierającego ilustracje symbolizujące kolejne warstwy stosu technologicznego i wymieniającego przykłady polskich podmiotów zajmujących się tymi obszarami obok każdej z nich
October 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Mr. Mamdani said he would also arrest Vladimir V. Putin, the president of Russia, for whom the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant in 2023. “It is my desire to ensure that this be a city that stands up for international law,” he said.
October 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Time to update my chart
A graph with Peter Thiel's head surrounded by the One Ring in the middle. The top-left is a logo of Anduil, Varda's top-middle, and Valinor's top-right. All three companies are connected to the ring through arrows labeled "Invested in through Founders Fund". On the left are logos of Narya and Arda Capital, both connected to the ring with an arrow labeled "Invested in". The bottom-left is Valar, Palantir is the bottom-middle, and Mithril is the bottom-right. All three are connected to the ring through an arrow labeled "Co-founded". Finally on the right, connected to the ring with an arrow labeled "Owns", are Lembas and Rivendell One (no logos)
October 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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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.
October 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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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. 7 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.
October 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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I know it's about Don Jr being a hunter/poacher, but still
Noem’s chances at securing the No. 2 spot were ultimately buried by the publication of her second memoir, No Going Back, in which she told the unfortunate story of shooting a disobedient puppy named Cricket on the family farm. “That’s not good at all,” Trump told his son Don Jr., according to Revenge. “Even you wouldn’t kill a dog, and you kill everything.”
September 23, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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‘Tis but a scratch!
Wednesday 10 September 2025 4:22 pm Britain’s Milei revolution starts here By: Steve Baker
September 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Edited tweet from @matrixreloaded_: writers in The Atlantic will write anything. 'Baruch Spinoza was canceled.' No he wasn't. That isn’t true.
September 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM