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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: New cat species just dropped! 🧪 What is a tilcayo, exactly? Well, it's a small wild cat in the genus Leopardus and a member of the tiger cat species complex, but it is NOT a tigrina, oncilla, kodkod, Geoffroy's cat... www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Rainer Woratschka @worrius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Sollte man wissen: Ulrich #Siegmund kumpelt mit dem Typen, der dafür verantwortlich ist, dass Amerikaner auf offener Straße ermordet wurden. #AfD #SachsenAnhalt
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
first the Dolly, now the king Harald of Norway, and the real arseholes are still breathing 😡
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JustSayin @justsayin-fromx.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
My LGP-21 emulator is more or less done. I might fix the timing - it runs too fast in comparison with the real hardware, and the UI is rather ugly 😅, but it works just fine. it was the first time I touched C++ in 2 decades, and it wasn't as scary as I thought. I actually liked it a lot.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
And sometimes you discover that although both rap and musicals aren’t your thing, you keep listening to Hamilton for months.
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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Picard civics tip: If there is one truth, one constant that history shows us over and over, it is that resistance is never futile.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Day 3, Beskid Mountains, Poland. #motosky
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
To continue the vacation topic. The Waldviertel in Austria is a bloody motorcycle wonderland. Beautiful roads, tons of curves, and no traffic. Also, good food. Go to Waldviertel, lads and gals. (It’s a rather uninspiring photo, but it’s hard to ride and make photos at the same time) #motosky
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Vacations, day 1. And of course, the logical route from Germany to Poland lead through Austria :) the ferry will take you to the oder bank od Danube for a modest price of 6 eur #motosky
A motorcycle on a wooden deck of a river ferry on the Danube in Austria
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
my tiny LGP-21 emulator is alive. mostly - but enough to read the program from a tape and execute it - as long as I don't expect too much of it ;)
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Congratulations to Airbus. cloud migrations ain't easy. I'm glad to see at least some signs of european awakening.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I’m going to the cinema to watch that new Odyssey movie, but will it be as good as the Coen Brothers version?
A frame from the Oh brother where art thou by Coen Brothers showing three main characters walking down a dirt road
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Liberté, égalité, fraternité!
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
It’s hot 🥵.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
OK, this next one is a classic Hideo Shiraki: a jazz legend He was a drummer who played with the John Coltrane quintet in Tokyo when Coltrane was touring Japan in ‘66 He started in hard bop but then added traditional instruments like the koto The koto intro ❤️ 10/22 youtu.be/dqpACUcBwvo?...
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Sakura, Sakura
YouTube video by Hideo Shiraki - Topic
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Peter Egan truly is a great story teller. I enjoy this book a lot. But also, being flown as a passenger on the front seat of the Cub, I don't know how did they survide that trip without murdering or at least divorcing each other. must be love.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Global Townhall at work. the older I am the less patience for the corporate newspeak I have.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
first #motorcycle ride of the year: check ✅
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 28/02/2026
Wenn Paramount Warner Bros kauft, bekommen sie auch TVN, den wichtigsten liberalen Nachrichtenkanal in Polen, der unter der PiS-Regierung ein wichtiges Gegengewicht zum rabiat rechten Staatsfernsehen TVP war.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If you’re going to watch one YouTube video today, let it be that one: youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...
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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/01/2026
This is SUCH a good @climateadam.bsky.social video - the quotes here from tech CEOs are beyond belief. I didn't even know about a bunch of these......go watch:
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Climate Scientist Reacts to AI Overlords
Artificial Intelligence is here, and it's changing the world. But when it comes to climate change, whether those AI changes are going to save us or doom us depends heavily on who you ask. I take a…
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Jan Böhmermann 🤨 @janboehm.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
"Wenn man die Lage Polens auf dem Globus anschaut, sind die vom Deutschen Reich gestellten Fragen übrigens nachvollziehbar." Was für ein wahnsinnig gefährlicher Trottel!
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 09/01/2026
Hey you. YES, YOU! Go listen to some classical music today.* The world is a parlous and horrible place. You need a breather. *If you are hearing impaired, go look at some beautiful art instead.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I might be in a process of developing a slight Goldberg problem :) I have to say, I’m rather found of the Garcia and Morinière’s take. Never thought it might sound “right” on a guitar. But here we are. It does.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Weird times to read about the #american history, but 1. Y’all had some good moments 2. Taxes isn’t really an American thing, is it?
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Allow me to connect some dots for you: Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more. Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.
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rob pike @robpike.io · 25/12/2025
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)

IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The last of Christmas presents purchased
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#Bach It’s quite magnificent.
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J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations (Two Guitars) - Thibaut Garcia & Antoine Morinière - Complete Album
YouTube video by Warner Classics
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
👏👏👏
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Münchner Gericht: ChatGPT darf Liedtexte nicht ohne Lizenz nutzen
Im Streit um die Nutzung von Liedtexten - unter anderem von Herbert Grönemeyer - hat der ChatGPT-Betreiber OpenAI eine Niederlage gegen die GEMA hinnehmen müssen. Das Landgericht München sieht eine Ur...
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 04/11/2025
People cannot eat AI.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Mechanical keyboards are all nice and dandy, but let me tell you, that old apple thing, that has costed me 30€ off of eBay is the most comfortable typing experience I’ve hat in a long time. And yeah, replaceable batteries!
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LibreOffice @libreoffice.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We have zero plans to put AI in LibreOffice, of course. Our focus is privacy and letting you control your data. Some users want AI features and they can get them via optional extensions made by the community – but we won't put it in the app itself.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
" I can confirm from a source with direct knowledge of billing that Anthropic spent $1.35 billion on Amazon Web Services in 2024, and has already spent $2.66 billion on Amazon Web Services through the end of September." Do those numbers mean anything anymore?
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This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
So, I originally planned for this to be on my premium newsletter, but decided it was better to publish on my free one so that you could all enjoy it. If you liked it, please consider subscribing to su...
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Well done Python Foundation!!
securityonline.info
Values Over Cash: Python Foundation Rejects $1.5M US Grant Over Anti-DEI Clause
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) declined a $1.5M federal grant for security, citing US government stipulations that banned promoting DEI programs.
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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 25/10/2025
This is absolute bull. Just pull the plug. And I don't even know where to start with the claim that they are "like HAL 9000" or "will even sabotage shutdown". Sooner this bubble bursts the better.
theguardian.com
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
Like 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL 9000, some AIs seem to resist being turned off and will even sabotage shutdown
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tonic-water.bsky.social @tonic-water.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Yeah…
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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Das Treffen in Budapest zu haben ist Wahlkampfhilfe für Orban und ne Klatsche für die EU.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I od razu lepiej
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words. The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.
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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 03/10/2025
Counterpoint: Everyone should watch and upvote this to make it Netflix’s #1 show.
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‘Cancel Netflix’: Elon Musk leads rightwing backlash over trans character in kids’ show
Resurfaced clip from Dead End: Paranormal Park led Musk to encourage his followers to cancel their subscriptions
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Dr. Eli Sommer @eklo.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Als wäre er ein Heiliger. Es ist der Horst Wessel Moment der USA und niemand wacht auf. Deutsche Medien machen mit, als hätte es dem Faschismus in Deutschland mit Krieg und Millionen Toten nicht gegeben.
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Bent Freiwald @freiwald.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Monatelang haben wir gemeinsam mit dem @zdfmagaz.in dazu recherchiert, wie die AfD Lehrkräfte einschüchtert. Bei @krautreporter.bsky.social erscheint heute das Ergebnis: der Report „Brandmauer Schule”, mit allen Hintergründen zur heutigen Sendung von @janboehm.bsky.social. THREAD🧵
Screenshot vom ZDF Magazin Royale. Jan Böhmermann spricht in die Kamera, unten im Bild "krautreporter.de"
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Jen Chaney @jenchaney.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Fuck yeah Letterman
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Leif Боднарчук 🍁 🇺🇦 @leifb73.eurosky.social · 15/09/2025
I wanna see sanctions against Musk. Gov should get off X. It’s run and manipulated by an agitator of violence who can’t countenance any regulation of his social media network, or himself. Rein him in, fence him off, do SOMETHING to show we won’t be lectured by the world’s biggest divorced dad.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Nungesser and Coli monument in Étretat, Normandy, France. They attempted a non-stop Atlantic flight in 1927, just few weeks before the Lindbergh. The last time they were seen was over Étretat. Their fate remains unknown.
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Ismaninger Kautkopfturnier. 😬
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Michał 🇪🇺 @mkowalik.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Savage
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