iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

Of the books I read too early to fully appreciate, Guareschi’s “Don Camillo” might have had the biggest impact on me. Not even the plots (though I loved the one abt football), but the empathy with which the characters are portrayed. I want to think I see people the way Guareschi saw his characters

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The optimist in me says “dog training skills passed down through generations”, the pessimist - “animal cruelty”

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Is AIPAC in any way involved in defending data centers? It’s the first contact on the phone in the corner

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Mariusz Baranowski @baranowski-m.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jęcz’s law of crime novels: the less skilled the author, the more ingenious their detective protagonist

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Take a look at our latest article (with @dankammen.bsky.social from @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social , Piotr Jabkowski & Shreyashree Dutta) in Nature Energy @natureportfolio.nature.com ! As fresh as a morning roll ;) lnkd.in/dGADDxce lnkd.in/dZuc8mb5 lnkd.in/duqWjVxy

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Prezes UOKiK stawia zarzuty Google

Today Polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection launched proceedings against Google. It alleges that the company was abusing its dominant market position in negotiations with Polish publishers concerning remunerations for their content uokik.gov.pl/prezes-uokik...

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Google może nieuczciwie wykorzystywać swoją pozycję rynkową w relacji z polskimi wydawcami medialnymi. Zastrzeżenia budzi sposób negocjacji w sprawie wynagrodzenia za wykorzystywanie artykułów prasowy...

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In both doomsday and abundance-coded scenarios there is always this (hidden or not) assumption that every realm of social practicea (from education, through agriculture, to war) either is or soon will be digitized, and therefore can be “hacked”

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And it directly clashes with both the processes of digital transformation, which are far more tedious and complex than many assume from the distance, and the attitudes to the trend changing from the technooptimism of the previous decades

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

a16z is the final boss of the administrative alphabet soup

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“-With that book, “Brothers Karamazov” (…) or even with “Crime and Punishment”… -That’s brothers too?”

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Jako główny autor w tym projekcie zachęcam mocno do rejestrowania się i podawania dalej informacji, że jako Polityka Insight lecimy w kosmos 🛰️

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I witnessed a lot of these transformations in Poland, where prolific “ideas-entrepreneur”, after getting pushback for their sloppy, contrarian takes, started selling them to people who couldn’t care less about the soundness of ideas as long as the headlines and slogans sounded right

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

I think the "conjunctural intellectual" framework also helps understand the post-left contrarians who found themselves on the populist right after failing to sell the broad liberal left their hodgepodge of vulgar marxism and anti-globalism, and volkists turned out to be less picky customers

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Can’t wait for the discourse “Hero of Fallujah” (feat. Downshift) will start

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“Move fast and break things” culture escaped the Meta sandbox and hacked OpenAI www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...

In emails, the employees said they worried that OpenAI's newest artificial intelligence models were not being appropriately monitored during testing to gauge the technology's sophistication and to secure the models, according to messages viewed by The New York Times.
In response, OpenAI executives told the employees that the tests needed to move forward as quickly as possible to release the A.I. models on time. No additional security protocols were instituted, said the workers, who were not authorized to speak publicly on sensitive matters.

Two OpenAI employees said workers had raised concerns for months about potential safety issues with testing A.I. models, including not enough monitoring. Employees also asked about vulnerabilities in the type of software the company was using to manage day-to-day safety, according to messages viewed by The Times. Each time, their questions were brushed aside or acted on too slowly, they said.

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On a related note, lately YouTube has been serving me Grok Bot ads, and they are all about things like giving employees NDAs, or letting AI handle emails from your kid’s school. I guess xAI knows its customer base, i.e. the type of people who use Grok despite, well, everything

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When I prompted it to “UN-hack”, I meant reversing the previous hack!

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Carter Lowe @whitesoxx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Almost literally what Ted Cruz said a couple of weeks ago www.politico.com/live-updates...

Cruz said. “If there are going to be killer robots, I would rather they be American killer robots, rather than Chinese killer robots.”

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They are cooking up food in the #WhiteSox stadium that you cannot possibly comprehend

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Strona też będzie. Natomiast newsletterowy model wydawniczy ma swoje unikalne zalety, szczególnie dzisiaj, gdy platformy robią co mogą, by ograniczać kierowanie ruchu na zewnętrzne strony

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As the only one without an essay-oriented blog and no known association with LessWrong, he is the least consumed by poster's madness among AI CEOs

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And it was merely a coincidence that they focused on an agency most vital for liberal NGOs in the CEE (I know several people who lost grant funding because of DOGE) and providing civilian aid to Ukraine? It’s really hard to believe there wasn’t an intent behind targeting USAID

With an important caveat being Musk’s reported drug use, I think it is safe to say he was aware of conspiracies around USAID since at least December 2024 bsky.app/profile/jecz...

Audio from the conversation with one of the kids is priceless bsky.app/profile/solo...

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It is a world model, though a defective one bsky.app/profile/jecz...

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Newsletter i podcast będą za darmo, także koniecznie weźcie też dla rodziny i znajomych

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Jako główny autor w tym projekcie zachęcam mocno do rejestrowania się i podawania dalej informacji, że jako Polityka Insight lecimy w kosmos 🛰️

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YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK

I have a playlist of songs for late night bike riding and it just made it www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjvv...

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The E-Bike Song | SNL UK

Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Typical Peter, rejecting the most important person in Christianity on Earth for three times

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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Wickline is great, unsung hero of the current cast (even though she sings a lot)

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 27/09/2026

Jane Wickline somehow found a way to make Dario Amodei’s whole deal funny youtu.be/-Nvne3LzBls?...

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Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.’s Threat to Humanity - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?

“Everything Borsook would later write as a journalist covering the industry (…) seemed to flow from a simple imperative drawn from her experience at that minicomputer: never lose sight of the human in the machine, the Dicks (as it were) behind the system” www.wired.com/story/paulin...

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A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.

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I remember @maxread.info pointing out that “late Silicon Valley culture” is akin to “gifted-kid camp culture”, and these screenshots are a great example of it

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In Poland, Meta is currently entangled in a very public dispute around ads promoting financial scams, e.g. using likenesses of local celebrities and politicians. I’m sure the news that they can be very effective in moderating paid content, if they want to, will be well received here

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Great read with an absolutely gut-wrenching twist in the middle, and a solid dose of commentary on the state of WIRED and the rest of US tech media at the turn of the century

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Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?

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A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.

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The numer one spot understandably gets the most attention, but to me the maddest thing about this list is that The Young Pope didn’t even make the top 100

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For reference - the first one was @astro-slawosz.bsky.social, and it was a delight bsky.app/profile/jecz...

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So far this year I’ve interviewed two most well-known (home and abroad) people in the Polish space sector. And it’s only the beginning - 🔜 I’ll post more info about a cool new project in Polish and English

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Maybe because they are all blog boys and talk in essayistic phrases