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Jan Jęcz

@jeczjan.eurosky.social
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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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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026
THAT ATLANTIC
ARTICLE
IS A PSYOP TO KEEP YOU FROM LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 16/10/2026
The SDA’s top goal was not to influence citizens in adversary countries, but to persuade Russian bureaucrats that the company was effective in order to get the next contract or renew a budget. The SDA’s claims, however, were not assessed by sober executives with an eye on the bottom line, nor by panels of evidence-driven peer reviewers. They were read and interpreted by Russian officials and intelligence officers who probably did not understand how public opinion is actually shaped in open societies. Disinformation entrepreneurs and autocratic bureaucrats, at least in Russia, have been reinforcing each other’s conspiratorial worldviews for at least a century.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
The only pin on my fanny pack
metal pin with a beaver
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026
As I was saying
Jan Jęcz

@jeczjan.eurosky.social
🦫 The more I learn about these amazing creatures, the stronger is my conviction that asking “have you considered the beaver?” should be an indispensable part of any process with an aim to find a solution for an environmental challenge
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
MVP
Reading also has to keep mattering as technology shatters attention spans and rewires our brains in ways we never imagined or really asked for. If humans stop reading and writing, parts of our brains will wither.

This is not intended as grandstanding. A lot of this is selfish: Writing will make me better at other parts of my job. I also want my voice—my true writing voice—to be out in the world as larger forces inexorably homogenize the way things look and sound.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026
Wiadomo, lepsze maczety niż meczety
„Jak popatrzymy na przykład na to, co się dzieje w miastach Europy Zachodniej, jak chodzi o całe dzielnice, do których jest strach wejść człowiekowi o naszym kolorze skóry, to ja bym tu był bardzo ostrożny, jak chodzi o politykę progresywną" - odparł.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
“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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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
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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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Scene from The Office where Dwight looks at a jar and asks "You got this Kosher certified?", to which Ryan responds "No, I meant like, "It's cool. It's kosher. It's all good.""
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Poland’s status officially upgraded from CEE to CE
Palantir
@PalantirTech
Palantir CEO Alex Karp with Polish President Karol Nawrocki in New York.
Palantir stands with Poland, committed to supporting its national security and defense needs as we further extend our footprint in Central Europe.

Below a photo of Nawrocki and Karp standing next to each other in front of Polish and US flags
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026
Time for some British food discourse, courtesy of Zack Fox
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
Everyone involved in the debates around LLMs ability to "understand" would benefit from reading some practice theory, e.g. Schatzki's "Social Practices"
World Intelligibility

World intelligibility is how things make sense; and how things make sense is their meaning. Something's meaning, moreover, is what it is understood to be. This notion of meaning applies to all phenomena encountered in experience and thought. The meaning of an object, for instance, is what the object is understood to be (e.g., a tree, a star, or a house). There is no meaning independently of understanding What something is understood to be is expressed in both sayings and doings. Just as the understanding of trees is expressed in the use of the word "tree," what is said about trees, and how people act toward them, a person's understanding of a particular tree is ex- pressed in her calling it a tree, what she says about it, and how she acts toward it (e.g., climbs it, fells it, or admires its foliage). Keeping in mind that understanding is expressed in doings as well as sayings helps hold at bay an overlinguistified conception of intelligibility. Further warding off this widespread but baneful conception is the realization that understanding is acquired through exposure to and the performance of nonverbal as well as verbal behaviors. A person's understanding of trees is acquired not only through exposure to uses of the word "tree" and to speech acts about trees, but also by observing and carrying out such activities as climbing trees, gazing at them,

112 SOCIAL PRACTICES

and felling them. Understanding is expressed and acquired in a tightly interwoven nexus of doings and sayings in which neither the
doings nor the sayings have priority.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
From @sayash.bsky.social and @randomwalker.bsky.social book “AI Snake Oil”. Published in September 2024, but hasn’t aged even a bit
IMAGINE AN ALTERNATE universe in which people don't have words for different forms of transportation —only the collective noun "vehicle." They use that word to refer to cars, buses, bikes, spacecraft, and all other ways of getting from place A to place B. Conversations in this world are confusing. There are furious debates about whether or not vehicles are environmentally friendly, even though no one realizes that one side of the debate is talking about bikes and the other side is talking about trucks. There is a breakthrough in rocketry, but the media focuses on how vehicles have gotten faster—so people call their car dealer (oops, vehicle dealer to ask when faster models will be available. Meanwhile, fraudsters have capitalized on the fact that consumers don't know what to believe when it comes to vehicle technology, so scams are rampant in the vehicle sector.
Now replace the word "vehicle" with "artificial intelligence," and we have a pretty good description of the world we live in.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
P. 75
the period from the invention of the radio at the end of the nineteenth century to its distribution to 50 million listeners lasted 38 years; the television introduced a quarter of a century later, needed only 13 years to achieve this, while the Internet went from the first to the 50-millionth connection in barely 4. In view of this finding, Thomas H. Eriksen asks rhetorically, "is anybody still in doubt as to whether [social -H. R.] change accelerated during the twentieth century?"
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026
P. 56
For Virilio, not only modernity but world history in its entirety can be reinterpreted as a history of acceleration in which speed becomes as it were a historical agent (Geschichts-subjekt). His historical reconstruction is moreover an eminently political one because he believes he can discern the driving force of the acceleration process in the domination of the fastest. Since historically power has been above all the power of movement, the military and weapons-technological struggle for control proves to be a continuous struggle to achieve greater speed. This battle lies at the root of the „dromocratic revolution” (which is how Virilio interprets the industrial revolution), in the course of which „metabolic” speed (of human and animal bodies) is replaced by a new, ever increasable „technological” speed.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
The popularity this “book” had in certain circles in the US (and Russia!) never ceases to amaze me. And it’s not only right-wingers - this is a quote from Ben Wikler, and Aaron in question is Aaron Swartz www.theguardian.com/culture/2014...
Can I tell you my guilty pleasure? It's the podcast version of the #1 fan fiction series of all time, and that's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It's the Harry Potter saga retold so that Harry is not just an amazingly gifted wizard, but also a scientist and a rationalist.
It's told with enormous gusto, and with emotional insight into that kind of mind, that actually reminds me a lot of Aaron, who had a similar incredulous skepticism and excitement about everything he saw.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
For @politykainsight.bsky.social I wrote a summary of the AI slowdown saga. Here’s the bottom line:
THE BOTTOM LINE
In practice, the plan to slow down the development of Al is an attempt to shape future regulations. Amodei, Altman and Musk are aware that a Republican administration does not want to restrict the development of AI, fearing that doing so would cause it to lose the technological race with China. However, incidents involving hacking attacks by AI agents and apocalyptic warnings from within the industry are creating pressure to change the status quo in the area of AI security, around which a cross-party consensus is emerging. After the elections, this may result in a regulatory environment that is less favourable to the sector. Rather than waiting for this to happen, industry leaders have put forward proposals for measures that will not harm them, and may even strengthen their companies' market position.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
It is so rare for people whose job is to hype the tech they sell to be this realistic in their predictions about the future. I fully agree these areas will be among the most impacted by the development of AI systems, and the “within a generation” timeline is actually rather conservative
Arficial intelligence is remaking the world we live in. Within a generation, the way we discover medicine, manage power grids, and secure our national infrastructure will be completely transformed. Many people already realize this and are working to build that future responsibly. Many people underestimate the scale and pace of change coming. Some, however, claim to foresee this change and use it to serve their own ends.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
P. 41
Three systematic conclusions can be drawn from the history of cultural war over technologies of acceleration: first, the technological acceleration process does not run in a uniformly linear fashion, but comes in surges, continually encountering obstacles, resistances, and countermovements that can slow it down, interrupt it, or even temporarily reverse it. Second, almost every surge of acceleration is followed by a discourse of acceleration and deceleration in which, as a rule, the call for deceleration and the nostalgic desire for the lost "slow world," whose slowness first becomes a distinct quality in retrospect, outweighs the excitement about gains in speed. (...) Third, even in the face of the discursive hegemony enjoyed by decelerators in high culture, every single one of these "culture wars" has so far ended with the victory of the accelerators, i.e., with the introduction and entrenchment of the new technology.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 13/09/2026
With all the talk of "technological slowdown", I feel like I picked up Hartmut Rosa's "Social Acceleration" at just the right moment. I'll post some excerpts in the thread below
Cover of Hartmut Rosa's "Social Acceleration: A NEw Theory of Modernity" featuring a fragment of J. M. W. Turner's painting "Rain, Steam and Speed"
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 12/09/2026
Darkly funny that the “Democratic Coordination” Amodei proposes is an anti-democratic regulatory capture, with the role of state limited to that of a “supporter” or “mediator” (who BTW should, for some unclear reason, waive antitrust restrictions?)
Democratic Coordination. Frontier
Al companies within democratic countries coordinate to establish
common safety standards as well as limits on the rate of unchecked AI
progress. Some forms of coordination that would be impactful for pacing are legally challenging, and will require government support.Our pacing framework is an attempt to further strengthen our commitment to safety and encourage a race to the top.
The first step is something Anthropic is unilaterally committing to (and calls on governments to require other frontier companies to match). The second step requires industry-wide coordination. 1 The third step requires
global coordination. The steps do not need to be taken strictly in order,Footnotes
1 With government mediation or waivers of antitrust restrictions.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
Reminded me of this vintage classic techcrunch.com/2019/05/18/s...
Continued Altman, "We've made a soft promise to investors that, 'Once we build a generally intelligent system, that basically we will ask it to figure out a way to make an
investment return for you."" When the crowd erupted with laughter (it wasn't immediately obvious that he was serious), Altman himself offered that it sounds like an episode of "Silicon Valley," but he added, "You can laugh.
It's all right. But it really is what / actually believe."
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
wint @dril
oh, youvve read a few academic papers on the matter? cute. i have read over 100000 posts.
7:44 AM · Oct 3, 2015
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026
Behold: European excellence in cybersecurity
Cover of a comic book from the series “The Twelve Tasks of Asterix” titled “THE PLACE THAT SENDS YOU MAD”
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
cc @slothropsmap.bsky.social
Nick (derogatory) @slothropsmap.bsky.social
Ever see an image for the first time and know you'll be seeing it again periodically for the rest of your life?
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
Yes! I got pushback from people for saying it, and that it is the funniest in its supposedly most somber moments, but I understand it - even Jeremy Strong wasn’t convinced www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
When I asked Strong about the rap that Kendall performs in Season 2, at a gala for his father—a top contender for Kendall's most cringeworthy moment—he gave an unsmiling answer about Raskolnikov, referencing Kendall's "monstrous pain." Kieran Culkin told me, "After the first season, he said something to me like, 'I'm worried that people might think that the show is a comedy And I said, I think the show is a comedy?' He thought I was kidding." Part of the appeal of "Succession" is its amalgam of drama and bone-dry satire. When I told Strong that I, too, thought of the show as a dark comedy, he looked at me with incomprehension and asked, 'In the sense that, like, Chekhov is comedy?" No, I said, in the sense that it's funny. "That's exactly why we cast Jeremy in that role," McKay told me. "Because he's not playing it like a comedy. He's playing it like he's Hamlet."
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
Sam Altman looking like Elizabeth Holmes in the trailer of the new documentary about her
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
“There are dozens of us! Dozens!”
DEMOCRATISM

SUPPORT COUNTER
37
PEOPLE SUPPORT OPENING THE DEBATE ON ROBOTISATION AND AI.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026
*Polytopia
Elon Musk
While it's true that Kasparov is almost as good at playing chess as my iPhone, he is otherwise an idiot

Spidey_ElonFan
Do u still play chess?. @elonmusk

Elon Musk
I did as a child, but found it to be too simple to be useful in real life: a mere 8 by 8 grid, no fog of war, no technology tree, no random map or spawn position, only 2 players, both sides exact same pieces, etc.
Polytopia addresses these limitations.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
Using technology vs Learning the history of said technology
Headshot of Mr Incredible on the left and the same image but black and white and distorted on the right
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
*stares directly at the camera*
My post from March 29, 2025, quoting Max Bergman:

I'm increasingly convinced that these brazen plans are influenced by the millenarian beliefs held by a significant portion of the US administration. If the world is to be transformed, whether by an AGI, a climate catastrophe, a civil war, etc., then the future of current
institutions doesn't matter.

Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social • 28 mar 2025
If the US acts on its Greenland talk it means the end of NATO. As much as everyone wants to dismiss it, it is time to take the rhetoric
literally not figuratively.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
Two panels from The Simpsons. The top one is Bart saying "This is the worst news on my feed". Bottom is Homer lecturing him "The worst news on your feed so far."
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
I love stories like this one
What relevance does clothes and wool and cotton have for things like semiconductors? Well, actually, rather a lot. Because if you think about how Britain actually became the birthplace of the factory. Part of that was because we nicked the idea and the principle of factories from Italy. We basically, we sent spies over, worked out how the Italians were doing it, recreated those factories back in Derby and created some of the world's first, because again, people have forgotten this. If you look on Wikipedia, they still say on Wikipedia the world's first factories were in the Derwent Valley mills in Derby. It's not true. We nicked them, we nicked them from Italy. And then lo and behold, America nicks those plans and those blueprints from England. So I think the same thing is happening right now as we speak, when it comes to things like lithography and when it comes to things like production of semiconductors.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026
I recently discovered that the ridiculous satellite-mirror all the astrophysicists warn about is named “Earendil-1”. Surprisingly, it doesn’t seem to be Thiel-related
A diagram of various Peter Thiel-related companies with LOtR names
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026
Same things are happening all over the Poland - here are a couple of “before and after” photos from Poznań
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 29/08/2026
wint @dril
turning a big dial taht says " misogyny " on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
7:03 • 15 Mar 2017
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026
Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.
A 3x3 grid of Polish coffin portraits from the 17th century
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026
I mean, no wonder they were seeking advice from this guy
Is It Time for a New Sexual Revolution?
One that actually brings men and women together.

June 25, 2026
Hosted by Ross Douthat
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026
Can't opine on the contents as I haven't finished it yet, but @himself.bsky.social had an interesting (as usual) take on both the book itself and its place in the SV canon www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What the Silicon Valley Canon Is Missing From another perspective, hubris is about to get clobbered by nemesis. Jasmine Sun's question about why so many people in tech read Seeing Like a State hints at the misunderstandings that trouble the Silicon Valley canon. Many tech elites read the book as a denunciation of government overreach. But Scott was an excoriating
critic of the drive to efficiency that they themselves embody. Scott expanded on Friedrich Hayek's criticisms of the "religion of engineers." Hayek, a darling of libertarians, wrote harshly about engineering by social democrats, but was willing to praise dictators
like Augusto Pinochet who were enthusiastic about privatization. Scott, in contrast, was willing to indict all forms of "social engineering," quoting for example a description of the military engineer's "bulldozing habit of mind: one that sought to clear the ground of encumbrances, so as to make a clear beginning on its own
inflexible mathematical lines."Musk epitomizes that bulldozing turn of mind. Like the Renaissance engineers who wanted to raze squalid and inefficient cities to start anew, DOGE proposes to flense away the complexities of government in a leap of faith that AI will do it all better. If the engineers were not thoroughly ignorant of the structures they are
demolishing, they might hesitate and lose momentum. Seeing Like a State, properly understood, is a warning not just to bureaucrats but to social engineers writ large. From Scott's broader perspective, Al is not a solution, but a swift way to make the problem worse. It will replace the gross simplifications of bureaucracy with incomprehensible abstractions that have been filtered through the "hidden layers" of artificial neurons that allow it to work. DOGE's artificial-intelligence-fueled vision of government is
a vision from Franz Kafka, not Friedrich Hayek.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026
Nigdy nie jest za późno en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_did...
One of three themed advertisements used in the Why didn't you invest in Eastern Poland? campaign - this one with an image of a child and a slogan "What will you say when your child asks: Why didn't you invest in Eastern Poland?"
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026
🦉🦉🦉
American economists were predicting the
USSR would overtake the United States in the late eighties. Are we all stupid now? Do we not understand how the social sciences work anymore? As Georg W.F. Hegel once wrote,
"The Owl of Minerva takes flight only as the dusk begins to fall". We're still in broad fucking daylight.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 24/08/2026
Chalamet reading "A People's History of the United States" in "Lady Bird" (2017)
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026
Finally finished listening to @nsrnicek.bsky.social’s “Silicon Empires”. It’s a great overview of the American and Chinese AI economy, skillfully explaining peculiarities and connections of the layers of their tech stacks, as well as economic and poilitical contexts in which they developed.
Cover of the audiobook version stylized as a close-up of an integrated circuit l
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026
Some grim irony in the fact that the “Russian Starlink” is being developed by a “company within X Holding”
Bureau 1440
Russian satellite internet constellation
Bureau 1440 (Russian: Бюр 1440) is a Russian aerospace company within X Holding (ИКС Холдинг), developing Rassvet (dawn, daybreak), a satellite internet constellation in, currently, low Earth orbit for high-speed broadband data transmission. In 2023 and 2024, the company launched the experimental Rassvet-1 and Rassvet-2, with commercial operations scheduled for 2027.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026
From Tooze Bro to tech bro
When Henry Williams arrived at college, he was a STEM guy: Computers were what you did to be practical. Eventually, he imagined, he might get a Ph.D. in physics. But his undergraduate career at Columbia was still young when other events intervened.
Freshman year, he and a friend started a not-quite-kidding presidential campaign for former Alaska senator Mike Gravel. (They had heard about the senator on the socialist comedy podcast Chapo Trap House.) The campaign consisted primarily of a vigorous presence on dirtbag-left Twitter, where the so-called Gravel Teens gave their 89-year-old candidate's account an unlikely fluency.What he wanted, he told me, was to find someone who could explain "what the hell was going on in the world." From Sanders's loss, to the emergence of a global pandemic, to the economic fallout, "it's this incredibly fast-moving maelstrom of events, and particularly if you talk about the economics of it, it's almost impossible to get a grip on." This was when Williams discovered the work of economic historian Adam Tooze.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
My take is you either go full Bourdieu, with rigorous field research and diagrams, or you don't go at all
Bourdieu’s diagram of the variants of dominant taste from “Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste” (1979)
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 11/08/2026
You're laughing. The crimes of Woke 1 stay unpunished and you're laughing.
Murray from "The Joker"
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026
The best commentary on Zuck’s musings was written by @evgenymorozov.bsky.social more than a year ago www.theideasletter.org/essay/silico...
We must update our taxonomies to account for this new species of oligarch-intellectuals. If yesterday's public intellectual resembled a careful archaeologist methodically excavating cultural artifacts for display in rarefied literary journals, today's model is the demolition expert, wiring entire societal structures with ideological explosives and detonating them from the safe distance of offshore accounts.
They don't write about the future; they install it, beta-testing theories on unwitting populations in history's largest unreviewed experiment.
What distinguishes them from previous wealth-encrusted elites isn't avarice but verbosity— torrential output that would exhaust even Balzac. Where industrial barons funded think tanks to launder interests into policy papers, our oligarch-intellectuals cut out the middleman. Forget steering the algorithms: oligarch-intellectuals steer the conversation itself - and they do it with philosophical meme-grenades. Dropped at 3 AM on X, they invariably become international headlines by breakfast.
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026
Speaking of racist, Wild West-themed restaurant chains - this one is near where I leave in Poznan, Poland, in a posh part of the district, next to one of the most expensive hotels in the city
Photo of the inside of a restaurant called “Indian Steak” with a wax figure of a stereotypical Native American chieftain
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Jan Jęcz @jeczjan.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026
asteriskmag.com/issues/15/ch...
In 1998, Microsoft unveiled the mainland China version of Windows 98, and signed musician Pu Shu to endorse it. "New Boy," a track on his 1999 album, name-checks Windows 98 and Pentium computers in its chorus and became a genuine millennium
anthem for a generation.
Put on new clothes, get a new haircut
Relax with Windows 98
The road ahead will have no more suffering
How cool our future will be.
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