Yuriy Akopov
@yakopov.me
Kiwifarms, but for communism.
January 5, 2026 at 9:05 AM
Kiwifarms, but for communism.
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One underrated factor here is that a lot of old third place culture was really built on fairly low daily spending. I forget who posted this, but if you looked at pub sales during the peak of pub culture in the UK in the 50's, everyone's just nursing a pint for a couple of hours before going home.
January 5, 2026 at 2:39 AM
One underrated factor here is that a lot of old third place culture was really built on fairly low daily spending. I forget who posted this, but if you looked at pub sales during the peak of pub culture in the UK in the 50's, everyone's just nursing a pint for a couple of hours before going home.
It's our version of "imagine a burger".
January 4, 2026 at 9:22 PM
It's our version of "imagine a burger".
Remember when early image models used to generate pictures of black Roman legionnaires or female firefighters when asked without mentioning it explicitly, and it caused a tsunami of media commentary?
January 4, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Remember when early image models used to generate pictures of black Roman legionnaires or female firefighters when asked without mentioning it explicitly, and it caused a tsunami of media commentary?
I've got a nice fountain pen for Christmas and am now trying to handwrite more (I'm normally making a lot of notes, esp. at work, but they are also all digital).
it's a completely different mindset: my digital notes are neatly organised by topics, but all handwritten notes go into the same notebook
it's a completely different mindset: my digital notes are neatly organised by topics, but all handwritten notes go into the same notebook
January 4, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I've got a nice fountain pen for Christmas and am now trying to handwrite more (I'm normally making a lot of notes, esp. at work, but they are also all digital).
it's a completely different mindset: my digital notes are neatly organised by topics, but all handwritten notes go into the same notebook
it's a completely different mindset: my digital notes are neatly organised by topics, but all handwritten notes go into the same notebook
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I mean this belongs in a museum but also it shows how much the average person was/is paying attention to Ukraine, like, actually following events rather than just absorbing opinions
January 4, 2026 at 7:16 AM
I mean this belongs in a museum but also it shows how much the average person was/is paying attention to Ukraine, like, actually following events rather than just absorbing opinions
Gotta keep the rent down.
January 4, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Gotta keep the rent down.
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I do feel that one of the ways in which socialists have "gotten it wrong" is that this is so orthogonal to the actual "desires" of the market or even large parts of the capitalist class
January 3, 2026 at 9:30 PM
I do feel that one of the ways in which socialists have "gotten it wrong" is that this is so orthogonal to the actual "desires" of the market or even large parts of the capitalist class
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Up to 240m views on this amazing documentary now - a hymn to Britain as the uniquely place birthplace of AI and still it home with DeepMind - and never yet seen anyone I follow mention on here or Twitter.
The DeepMind documentary Google recently dropped onto YouTube are quite something. Centring Demis Hassabis - and to a large extent Britain - as the crucible of the AI revolution.
The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection
YouTube video by Google DeepMind
youtu.be
January 3, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Up to 240m views on this amazing documentary now - a hymn to Britain as the uniquely place birthplace of AI and still it home with DeepMind - and never yet seen anyone I follow mention on here or Twitter.
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Jaana was a distinguished engineer at GitHub and is now a principal engineer at Google.
I expect more testimonials from accomplished engineers about productivity gains of AI in 2026.
Engineers claiming AI tools don’t work well will increasingly look like a skill issue than a problem with AI tools
I expect more testimonials from accomplished engineers about productivity gains of AI in 2026.
Engineers claiming AI tools don’t work well will increasingly look like a skill issue than a problem with AI tools
January 3, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Jaana was a distinguished engineer at GitHub and is now a principal engineer at Google.
I expect more testimonials from accomplished engineers about productivity gains of AI in 2026.
Engineers claiming AI tools don’t work well will increasingly look like a skill issue than a problem with AI tools
I expect more testimonials from accomplished engineers about productivity gains of AI in 2026.
Engineers claiming AI tools don’t work well will increasingly look like a skill issue than a problem with AI tools
Prepare for people who performatively didn't vote for Harris lecturing you about how helping Trump (by not liking Maduro) is bad.
January 3, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Prepare for people who performatively didn't vote for Harris lecturing you about how helping Trump (by not liking Maduro) is bad.
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I'm taking you to New York.
January 3, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I'm taking you to New York.
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And what engagement it does have is just colleagues trying desperately to amplify it with little success.
January 3, 2026 at 9:39 AM
And what engagement it does have is just colleagues trying desperately to amplify it with little success.
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Lost amid the discussion of why the Government should get off X is its utter uselessness as an engagement tool and the fact departments are wasting vast sums making content for it. Take this:
January 2, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Lost amid the discussion of why the Government should get off X is its utter uselessness as an engagement tool and the fact departments are wasting vast sums making content for it. Take this:
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the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad
January 2, 2026 at 1:43 AM
the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad
The world divided between a few 'great powers' which are neutral to friendly to each other but don't count their other neighbours as equals is 100% Putin's view, and America asserting its own 'area of influence' so brazenly helps him enormously (and gives China a fat excuse re: Taiwan).
Nigel Farage expresses support for Trump's "unorthodox" breach of international law - on grounds that they may "make China and Russia think twice"
But the main impact on Russia and China will be to help them to legitimise aggression in cases like Ukraine and Taiwan, citing Trump/US as analogous.
But the main impact on Russia and China will be to help them to legitimise aggression in cases like Ukraine and Taiwan, citing Trump/US as analogous.
January 3, 2026 at 11:15 AM
The world divided between a few 'great powers' which are neutral to friendly to each other but don't count their other neighbours as equals is 100% Putin's view, and America asserting its own 'area of influence' so brazenly helps him enormously (and gives China a fat excuse re: Taiwan).
If Maduro has indeed been captured, you now have a reference point for February 2022. This is what was supposed to happen, and it only didn't because Ukrainians didn't let it to.
January 3, 2026 at 9:56 AM
If Maduro has indeed been captured, you now have a reference point for February 2022. This is what was supposed to happen, and it only didn't because Ukrainians didn't let it to.
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The dead VDV from Hostomel seeing the U.S. conduct a successful 3 hour heliborne special military operation.
January 3, 2026 at 9:36 AM
The dead VDV from Hostomel seeing the U.S. conduct a successful 3 hour heliborne special military operation.
You don't despise Americans who proudly didn't vote for Harris enough. Nothing of that was inevitable.
January 3, 2026 at 7:40 AM
You don't despise Americans who proudly didn't vote for Harris enough. Nothing of that was inevitable.
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if you (programming lang enjoyooors) want to feel driven insane you can always look at the early golang user group
they have a lengthy contrived argument about mutexes that sounds as silly as the "how many days in a week" bodybuilder forum thread if you have seen a std::sync::Mutex even once
they have a lengthy contrived argument about mutexes that sounds as silly as the "how many days in a week" bodybuilder forum thread if you have seen a std::sync::Mutex even once
January 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
if you (programming lang enjoyooors) want to feel driven insane you can always look at the early golang user group
they have a lengthy contrived argument about mutexes that sounds as silly as the "how many days in a week" bodybuilder forum thread if you have seen a std::sync::Mutex even once
they have a lengthy contrived argument about mutexes that sounds as silly as the "how many days in a week" bodybuilder forum thread if you have seen a std::sync::Mutex even once
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The split-screen here is unbelievable - first from yesterday, the others from 2017. Musk’s Twitter has truly driven us mad. People absorb far more of their beliefs from their social environment than they realize, and we’ve created an environment where being a gutter bigot is the baseline expectation
January 2, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The split-screen here is unbelievable - first from yesterday, the others from 2017. Musk’s Twitter has truly driven us mad. People absorb far more of their beliefs from their social environment than they realize, and we’ve created an environment where being a gutter bigot is the baseline expectation
Anna, 51
Alistair, 42
Adam, 55
David, 73
Frederike, 60
Most youthful and vigorous newspaper readers.
Alistair, 42
Adam, 55
David, 73
Frederike, 60
Most youthful and vigorous newspaper readers.
Dump him, girl www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
You be the judge: should my boyfriend change the way he showers?
Audrey thinks Noah doesn’t take bathing seriously enough. He says he’s a ‘quick-shower kind of guy’ but keeps himself clean. You decide whose argument scrubs up best
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Anna, 51
Alistair, 42
Adam, 55
David, 73
Frederike, 60
Most youthful and vigorous newspaper readers.
Alistair, 42
Adam, 55
David, 73
Frederike, 60
Most youthful and vigorous newspaper readers.
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"Maddeningly, voters want contradictory things: low prices when they shop, high wages for themselves; not many immigrants but lots of cheap labour; rising house prices when they own and lower ones when their children want to buy"
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
From The Economist
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
From The Economist
The truth about affordability
Voters in rich countries are angry about prices. Politicians could make things worse
www.economist.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:26 AM
"Maddeningly, voters want contradictory things: low prices when they shop, high wages for themselves; not many immigrants but lots of cheap labour; rising house prices when they own and lower ones when their children want to buy"
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
From The Economist
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
From The Economist
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Extremely healthy that the same platform shapes my country’s politics more than ever and is the only way to find out if my football team’s match is frozen off.
January 2, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Extremely healthy that the same platform shapes my country’s politics more than ever and is the only way to find out if my football team’s match is frozen off.
Everything else aside, very weird this is posted in first person, "I deeply regret uwu" instead of an actual person's official apology.
They both say it openly they're changing the output of their model to suit their views, but also we need to treat it as a genuine source with inevitable mistakes.
They both say it openly they're changing the output of their model to suit their views, but also we need to treat it as a genuine source with inevitable mistakes.
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Everything else aside, very weird this is posted in first person, "I deeply regret uwu" instead of an actual person's official apology.
They both say it openly they're changing the output of their model to suit their views, but also we need to treat it as a genuine source with inevitable mistakes.
They both say it openly they're changing the output of their model to suit their views, but also we need to treat it as a genuine source with inevitable mistakes.