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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 01/10/2026

Maoism with European Characteristics

Deep fried meme with Mao donning an EU cap, tractor in foreground, hammer and sickle in background

Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 01/10/2026

Why would shareholders unionise? Big tech comp is 1) K-shaped and 2) mostly made up of stock Your incentives are to align with capital, not labour.

Levels.fyi chart of TC trajectories in Meta and Google

Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 27/09/2026

I did something similar with Claude, it said I'm basically simping for 60s KMT Taiwan, and the fucking PAP in Singapore. * sigh *

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 25/09/2026

The YC-stack, as they call it...

Claude using Metacog's drugs tool to ingest Psilocybin abd Adderall

Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 24/09/2026

Strait's still closed, boys girls and enbys

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 23/09/2026

This photo is sending me 😭😭😭

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 23/09/2026

> US warns allies of missile and interceptor delays of up to five years after Iran war

Two dark castles for Taiwan: "Buy weapons that never arrive", or "Don't get sold weapons that never arrive"

Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 22/09/2026

People mock this meme, saying it's wholly exaggerated, but even in the heart of liberal democracy in Europe, the German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, famously goes “Elections cannot be allowed to change an economic programme of a member state!”

Years ago, Eric Li explained the biggest difference in the political systems between China and U.S.:

In America, you can change the political parties but you can't change policies.
In China, you can't change the party but you can change policies.

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 22/09/2026

This is the best custom feed that Astra has come up with

Custom feed: "An escape from the bubble: neglected follows, rotating outside recommenders, and a broad public sample. Surprise over relevance; all languages welcome"

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 21/09/2026

Mark Carney delivered that one speech about Middle Powers, and is riding those vibes high while gutting the Canadian public sector lmao Like they say "they can't hear you scream 'shareholder value' all the way from Brussels"

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 21/09/2026

The reviews are in folks. This is probably one of the best interview Hasan's ever done. I wish NAFO / China hawks / etc would listen in its entirety

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 21/09/2026

Chinese-Thai-US alignment kept the Khmer Rouge armed and seated at the UN as a counterweight to Vietnam. The US knowingly kept Pol Pot's army alive as an instrument against Vietnam and the USSR, outsourced the arming to China and the logistics to Thailand, plausible deniability (Brzezinski)

"I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot,” recalled Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter’s National Security Adviser, in 1981. “Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could.” The U.S., he added, “winked semipublicly” as the Chinese funneled arms to the Khmer Rouge, using Thailand as a conduit.

Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 20/09/2026

DeepSeek are pulling some transformer architecture plays that seem like their north star is running 550B+ param models off hopes and dreams

Global KV cache per token went from 389,000 to 890 bytes between DeepSeek v1 and v4.1

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 19/09/2026

Who funded those Islamic fundamentalists? Even fucking Hilary Clinton openly criticises US funding and support of Al Qaeda

Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 16/09/2026

Since Von Der Leyen is trending today #VDL #SOTEU

"Thank you very much for receiving us here. And indeed, we are friends of Israel. And when a friend is under attack, we have to stand together. We stand by you. It was very important for us to come here today. Thank you very much for hosting us here"

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 16/09/2026

A misogynist "rapper", Trump-Xi stan and a single issue voter walk into a bar...

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 16/09/2026

Astra built me some custom Bsky feeds. "Side quests" is my personal favourite atm:

Custom bluesky feeds, including:

- "Small Wonders"
- "Side Quests"
- "Conversations"
- "Bridges"
- "Alive Again"

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 14/09/2026

"JDPON DON WILL DISRUPT THE AMERIKKKAN HEGEMONY"

"The bullet pierced my ear, but I still hear the voice of the Party." Meme with Trump in Tiananmen Square wearing Chinese uniform

Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 10/09/2026

Taiwan F&B ♥️ Diffusion Models

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 10/09/2026

Oh, but it's the pro-AI crowd that's got the 'chosis... smh

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 04/09/2026

Very timely read of this passage from Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, given so much of Bluesky has been trying to drag the rest of the left away from idiotic Butlerian Jihad. This is very in line with what FALC and other left-accelerationists have been proposing.

"In any case, resistance to the ‘new’ is not a cause that the left can or should rally around. Capital thought very carefully about how to break labor; yet there has still not yet been enough thought about what tactics will work against capital in conditions of post-Fordism, and what new language can be innovated to deal with those conditions. It is important to contest capitalism’s appropriation of ‘the new’, but to reclaim the ‘new’ can’t be a matter of adapting to the conditions in which we find ourselves –we’ve done that rather too well, and ‘successful adaptation’ is the strategy of managerialism par excellence."

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 01/09/2026

Hilarious that the comments on this trend are basically "this movie description includes too many words that will be prohibited; we cannon even post about thekk promo"

Screenshots of post-screening chatter praise the show while noting that keyword-tagged discussion was locked ahead of the premiere.

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 01/09/2026

Unfortunately DHH's antiziganism is on the tame side compared to the general systemic and societal antiziganism in Europe. Outright banning of Roma cultural events by state institutions, lynching, etc. is still very common. I wish the DHH outrage will make Euros re-evaluate their views on Roma ppl

Share of people in Europe with unfavorable opinion on the Roma People. Balkans and Italy in the 68-83%

My humble opinion is that I think it does, exactly in the way that Ash is describing, the way idpol is being weaponised by the same people that would normally call it out as 'cancel culture'. Again, not my words:

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I shut up an listen to the words of women POC

Omarchy is giving strong Embrace Extend Extinguish vibes idk why

Omarchy founding patrons including Tobi Lutke, Jack Dorsey, ...

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Balkanposting my summer because Euros here are complaining this platform is too US-centric

Romanian tomatoes are red and tasty, eat raw with salt

Romanian cherries are super cheap, I cant believe Japanese and Taiwanese pay an arm and a leg for them

Romanian churches are exempted from "norms of social living", meaning they ring their bells at 6,7,12,18 every day

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I got flagged for talking about pay-as-you-earn pension schemes and these people are using frontier AI for engineering mass shootings? Did Anthropic force Fable to watch "Plan 75" as the protagonist on repeat?

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Mate, just block me and move on with your day. This grandstanding is really annoying. The position you're calling clueless is the one 420 MEPs voted for. If they're wrong about their own powers, that's an interesting argument and I'd read it. Genuinely

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Would make sense over a time period that, at the end, had a ~50% increase in dual income working couples.

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Alright, fine, I'm getting on the Niri hypetrain

Fastfetch result from a NixOS machine running Niri as a WM

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 29/08/2026

Google Maps does this all the time...

Google Maps showing the 9-Dash Line in the South China Sea

Difference in Google Maps borders around Crimea, depending on UA/RU/International locale

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It's literally the same think that Ezra Klein said, and also doesn't match what you say about 'action' taken against Jews.

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 29/08/2026

Here's the full quote, do you disagree? Do you think all Jews are a monolith?

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Bogdan Buduroiu @buduroiu.com · 29/08/2026

What are you talking about? It's literally the opposite

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If that were true, you'd expect former colonies to immediately have done better once freed. They followed the same pattern, same oligarchy buildup, same fall in living standards. My parents in Romania were buying shoes, fridges, anything but holding cash in the 90s, because of hyperinflation.

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Simple interpretation, and the same one Ezra Klein had

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Can Chinese people stop doing this shit? We really don't care about your ethnonationalism bruh

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The Democrats would rather lose the midterms than lose AIPAC lmao

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AIPAC Avengers is a genuinely funny name

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"We've all collectively decided, out of our own accord, to come out in condemnation of a Twitch streamer"

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