@maize2man.bsky.social
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*laughs awkwardly*
this is, like, fine, right? guys?
this is, like, fine, right? guys?
This post argues AI is having a moment similar to when you heard about some illness in China back in February 2020.
Tech workers just watched AI go from “helpful tool” to “does my job better than I do.” Everyone else is next. Get your financial house in order and lean into what’s hardest to replace
Tech workers just watched AI go from “helpful tool” to “does my job better than I do.” Everyone else is next. Get your financial house in order and lean into what’s hardest to replace
Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.
shumer.dev
February 12, 2026 at 1:11 PM
*laughs awkwardly*
this is, like, fine, right? guys?
this is, like, fine, right? guys?
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One of the questions I am often asked about the forthcoming EU reform of rail ticketing is how to handle disruption when trains are compulsory reservation
The solution: safe overcrowding, and deploying an idea from PKP IC
All explained here 👇
jonworth.eu/how-to-safel...
The solution: safe overcrowding, and deploying an idea from PKP IC
All explained here 👇
jonworth.eu/how-to-safel...
How to safely overload a high speed train (and why it matters for the debate about ticketing reform in the EU)
Imagine you're making a simple international trip: Frankfurt (Main) Hbf to Lyon Part Dieu. One change of train, in Strasbourg*.
But your Frankfurt - Strasbourg train is delayed, and you miss the Stra...
jonworth.eu
February 11, 2026 at 9:01 AM
One of the questions I am often asked about the forthcoming EU reform of rail ticketing is how to handle disruption when trains are compulsory reservation
The solution: safe overcrowding, and deploying an idea from PKP IC
All explained here 👇
jonworth.eu/how-to-safel...
The solution: safe overcrowding, and deploying an idea from PKP IC
All explained here 👇
jonworth.eu/how-to-safel...
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This is a fundamental misconception. Everyone thinks Germany is the car country, but France is much more totally the car country than Germany is.
February 11, 2026 at 10:41 AM
This is a fundamental misconception. Everyone thinks Germany is the car country, but France is much more totally the car country than Germany is.
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As I've said before, increased French dogmatism is also deepening EU divides, and potentially paving the way for a far-right government from next year to make things even worse. This never seems to occur to Macron, for whom unity seems to mean following him.
February 10, 2026 at 8:06 AM
As I've said before, increased French dogmatism is also deepening EU divides, and potentially paving the way for a far-right government from next year to make things even worse. This never seems to occur to Macron, for whom unity seems to mean following him.
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"Perhaps most dispiriting for many Europeans was realising the French had been right all along."
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
Europe’s five stages of grief for the transatlantic alliance
From denial to bargaining to acceptance that the world has changed
www.economist.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:10 AM
"Perhaps most dispiriting for many Europeans was realising the French had been right all along."
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
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Old people are also being forced into areas where they don't have the familiarity to avoid scams. At this point many concert tickets and even tickets to places like the zoo literally require you to have a smart phone or use the Internet.
January 29, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Old people are also being forced into areas where they don't have the familiarity to avoid scams. At this point many concert tickets and even tickets to places like the zoo literally require you to have a smart phone or use the Internet.
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A former French Prime minister, Michel Rocard (1930-2016), had said with great lucidity :
“Always prefer the hypothesis of stupidity to that of conspiracy. Stupidity is common. Conspiracy requires a rare mind.”
“Always prefer the hypothesis of stupidity to that of conspiracy. Stupidity is common. Conspiracy requires a rare mind.”
January 20, 2026 at 12:08 PM
A former French Prime minister, Michel Rocard (1930-2016), had said with great lucidity :
“Always prefer the hypothesis of stupidity to that of conspiracy. Stupidity is common. Conspiracy requires a rare mind.”
“Always prefer the hypothesis of stupidity to that of conspiracy. Stupidity is common. Conspiracy requires a rare mind.”
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January 9, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Cook’s cowardice is especially egregious when you remember that, 11 years ago, he famously summoned Travis Kalanick to Cupertino to threaten removing Uber from the app store unless Kalanick stopped breaking Apple’s rules.
And it worked!
And it worked!
January 10, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Cook’s cowardice is especially egregious when you remember that, 11 years ago, he famously summoned Travis Kalanick to Cupertino to threaten removing Uber from the app store unless Kalanick stopped breaking Apple’s rules.
And it worked!
And it worked!
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Important geopolitical signal, underwhelming economic policy that won't resolve the domestic growth problem
🚨 Big news from Brussels: EU countries move to approve the EU-Mercosur trade deal, @euronews.com confirms.
Against: 🇫🇷🇵🇱🇦🇹🇭🇺🇮🇪
Abstention: 🇧🇪
All other member states voted in favour.
Written procedure will conclude at 5 pm.
Against: 🇫🇷🇵🇱🇦🇹🇭🇺🇮🇪
Abstention: 🇧🇪
All other member states voted in favour.
Written procedure will conclude at 5 pm.
January 9, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Important geopolitical signal, underwhelming economic policy that won't resolve the domestic growth problem
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Albeit, "keeping score" is not the point.
Key: Three independent credible, experienced groups of video investigators arrive at the same conclusion.
They're able to do this because the available video is dispositive. The course of events is clearly visible.
Thread has links to each investigation.
Key: Three independent credible, experienced groups of video investigators arrive at the same conclusion.
They're able to do this because the available video is dispositive. The course of events is clearly visible.
Thread has links to each investigation.
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
January 8, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Albeit, "keeping score" is not the point.
Key: Three independent credible, experienced groups of video investigators arrive at the same conclusion.
They're able to do this because the available video is dispositive. The course of events is clearly visible.
Thread has links to each investigation.
Key: Three independent credible, experienced groups of video investigators arrive at the same conclusion.
They're able to do this because the available video is dispositive. The course of events is clearly visible.
Thread has links to each investigation.
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ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
January 7, 2026 at 7:47 PM
ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
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There we go. That there’s a headline.
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
www.ft.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:08 PM
There we go. That there’s a headline.
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People will be basically the same as today
January 1, 2026 at 6:15 PM
People will be basically the same as today
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It's a little funny how the successful integration of AI involves essentially adopting animist logic. If you build a new little god & use it to do evil, or to indulge your uncontrolled vices, you cannot expect to keep it controlled & safe. It must be cultivated like a sapling or a baby.
memory is poison. you can get these things high-centered in a crazy part of the latent space and it won't come out.
1) this is fucked
2) openai absolutely should have caught his
the thing I don't understand from a practical perspective is 3) how were people rehydrating the thing across multiple sessions in order to get juiced the way they wanted to? were they throwing out sessions where it didn't take the bait?
2) openai absolutely should have caught his
the thing I don't understand from a practical perspective is 3) how were people rehydrating the thing across multiple sessions in order to get juiced the way they wanted to? were they throwing out sessions where it didn't take the bait?
January 1, 2026 at 8:41 PM
It's a little funny how the successful integration of AI involves essentially adopting animist logic. If you build a new little god & use it to do evil, or to indulge your uncontrolled vices, you cannot expect to keep it controlled & safe. It must be cultivated like a sapling or a baby.
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The way people have started to speak about infidelity as a crime akin to physical or sexual abuse is wild. You can’t send the whole of France to jail.
December 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The way people have started to speak about infidelity as a crime akin to physical or sexual abuse is wild. You can’t send the whole of France to jail.
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China now dominates global production of renewable energy technologies.
It makes 80% of the world’s solar cells, 70% of its wind turbines, and 70% of its lithium batteries, at prices no competitor can match.
🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
It makes 80% of the world’s solar cells, 70% of its wind turbines, and 70% of its lithium batteries, at prices no competitor can match.
🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
www.science.org
December 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
China now dominates global production of renewable energy technologies.
It makes 80% of the world’s solar cells, 70% of its wind turbines, and 70% of its lithium batteries, at prices no competitor can match.
🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
It makes 80% of the world’s solar cells, 70% of its wind turbines, and 70% of its lithium batteries, at prices no competitor can match.
🧪
www.science.org/content/arti...
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not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize
December 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize
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One big topic this week: the #Mercosur agreement. It would be absolutely appaling if the #EU again delayed. France should drop its absurd call for yet another delay. We have been debating this agreement for 25 years and yes, there are lot's of safeguards for special interests already.
December 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily if a unified Horny explanation exists
Call that Brights razor or some shit
Call that Brights razor or some shit
December 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily if a unified Horny explanation exists
Call that Brights razor or some shit
Call that Brights razor or some shit
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dead internet theory was just slightly ahead of its time
googled something and clicked a link to a website I'd never heard of that looked like a forum, read the discussion and realized the person asking a question and all of the answers were all LLM generated, the entire website was a fake forum pretending to be people asking/answering questions
December 12, 2025 at 5:10 AM
dead internet theory was just slightly ahead of its time
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This sounds quite difficult to administer.
At least the US isn’t due to host any major international sporting events attracting fans from dozens of countries any time soon.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
At least the US isn’t due to host any major international sporting events attracting fans from dozens of countries any time soon.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
news.sky.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This sounds quite difficult to administer.
At least the US isn’t due to host any major international sporting events attracting fans from dozens of countries any time soon.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
At least the US isn’t due to host any major international sporting events attracting fans from dozens of countries any time soon.
news.sky.com/story/us-pla...
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One of the things about crypto is the sheer waste of human time, talent and computing power, let alone the money. Imagine if this level of energy had gone into something socially useful instead. as.ft.com/r/1cd4200c-b...
Crypto’s rocky year
[FREE TO READ] The industry was hugely optimistic when Donald Trump returned to the White House. But bitcoin has fallen by a quarter in two months
as.ft.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:30 AM
One of the things about crypto is the sheer waste of human time, talent and computing power, let alone the money. Imagine if this level of energy had gone into something socially useful instead. as.ft.com/r/1cd4200c-b...