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Wojtek Brzezinski

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Polish science journo, 2023 Knight Science Journalism @ MIT Fellow. Writes about climate, AI, social media and space. Will talk your head off about scuba diving. www.wojtekbrzezinski.pl www.tygodnikpowszechny.pl

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Wojtek Brzezinski @wojtekbrzezinski.pl · 22/09/2026
W radiowej "Dwojce" krotka rozmowa o końcach świata: www.polskieradio.pl/podcasty/zbl...
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Koniec świata niejedno ma imię. Czego boimy się najbardziej? - ZBLIŻENIE - podcast Polskiego Radia
Globalne ocieplenie, kolejna pandemia, sztuczna inteligencja i bunt robotów, a może nawet zombie? Kultura i rzeczywistość dostarczają nam coraz to nowych scenariuszy końca świata. Co mówią one o naszy...
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Wojtek Brzezinski @wojtekbrzezinski.pl · 05/11/2025
Pisze o nas KSJ@MIT :)
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Wojtek Brzezinski @wojtekbrzezinski.pl · 06/05/2025
Przedsprzedaż ruszyła! Najnowsze dzieło Agaty Kaźmierskiej i moje doczekało się finału! :) www.empik.com/konce-swiata...
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Co to będzie? Krótki przewodnik po końcach świata
Ponad 2 000 000 produktów w kategoriach Książka, Muzyka, Film, Zdrowie i uroda, Zabawki, Dom i ogród, Elektronika, AGD, Sport. Dostawa 0zł do salonów.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The attempted mugging of a visiting president was about the world war that Musk, Trump, and Vance have chosen. If we attend to what Vance and Trump said yesterday, we can work our way to the unreason of American policy, and to the chaos that will follow. snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-tr...
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The War Trump Chooses
That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason
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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
At the same time:
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
“.. We now have an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” another European diplomat observed in recent days ... “The transatlantic alliance is over.” @politico.com www.politico.eu/article/dona...
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Come ON
Screenshot of headline and story blurb:

Record-Setting Ocean Liner, a Titan of Its Time, Begins Its Final Voyage

The S.S. United States, the largest passenger ship ever built in America, left Philadelphia under tow on Wednesday, eventually to be sunk off the Gulf Coast.

5 min read
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 19/02/2025
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Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes
Swapping QR codes in group invites and artillery targeting are latest ploys.
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Wojtek Brzezinski @wojtekbrzezinski.pl · 19/02/2025
Trochę ponad miesiąc temu Nowy Jork wprowadził opłaty za wjazd do centrum samochodem. Korki z dnia na dzień zniknęły, nagle w budżecie pojawiła się kasa na remonty metra i nowe autobusy. Trump uznał, że transport publiczny to lewactwo i skasował program. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Trump administration terminates approval of New York City congestion pricing
The toll structure had been hitting motorists for $9 if they rolled into central Manhattan from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekends.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/02/2025
Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service is seeking access to a heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service system that includes detailed financial information about every taxpayer, business and nonprofit in the country, according to three people familiar with the activities, sparking alarm within the tax agency.
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Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The elite war against public wellbeing proceeds.
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
New from me: Some federal workers say they are moving all but the most innocuous conversations from platforms like Facebook or text messages to Signal, fearing tech companies will turn over their data to the Trump administration. www.theverge.com/news/610951/...
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Federal workers say they increasingly distrust platforms like Facebook
Chaos in Washington, DC, is forcing some to move to new platforms.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 13/02/2025
Disney is reducing content warnings that caution viewers about racial stereotypes on some of its classic films, including “Dumbo” and “Peter Pan,” as part of a wider revamp of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs as it adjusts to the new Trump era.
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Disney scales back content warnings on classic films amid DEI shift
Classic films including “Dumbo” and “Peter Pan” will no longer autoplay warnings about racial stereotypes. It comes as Trump cracks down on diversity initiatives.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/02/2025
This is a comprehensive (and very bleak) summary of the current state of US science
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Wojtek Brzezinski @wojtekbrzezinski.pl · 12/02/2025
Za 7 lat pierwsza gwiazdka może się nieco pospieszyć. Około 70-metrowa asteroida 2024YR4 ma już przeszło 2 procent szans na uderzenie w Ziemię 22 grudnia 2032 r.
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Wojtek Brzezinski @wojtekbrzezinski.pl · 12/02/2025
Nowa ustawa proponowana przez stanowy kongres Teksasu będzie wymagała od potencjalnych wyborców, którzy chcą zarejestrować się w spisie, by przedstawili akt urodzenia zawierający to samo nazwisko. Co może być przykrą niespodzianką dla 69 mln teksańskich mężatek, które nazwisko zmieniły...
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Jenn @jennburrill.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Texas Rep. Introduces The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act preventing 69 million married women from being able to register to vote. It requires a birth certificate that matches their current name, which is a problem for women who changed their legal name when they got married
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Married women could be stopped from voting under SAVE Act
The act could affect whether married women without passports are able to register to vote.
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Wojtek Brzezinski @wojtekbrzezinski.pl · 12/02/2025
Hej, @google, dlaczego na polskim Google Maps wyświetla się nazwa "Zatoka Amerykańska"? To wbrew stanowisku Komisji Standaryzacji Nazw Geograficznych poza Granicami Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Może jeszcze zaznaczycie, że Krym jest w Rosji?
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Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
In the Soviet Bloc, the Communist Party assigned political minders/ commissars to every school, factory, army unit, etc to ensure ideological compliance and loyalty to the regime. Hiring was based on class background and demonstrated loyalty. Obviously, this is very different.
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Maris Lenhart @kaysra.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I understand why federal employees need to do this. For the rest of us,…
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Rage Against the Miocene @organiccarbon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Is measuring CO2 woke?
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This is crucial reporting from @katherinejwu.com. Among the data being scrubbed is “the agency’s AtlasPlus tool, which contains nearly 20 years of CDC surveillance data on HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis…” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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CDC Data Are Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
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The Register @theregister.com · 31/01/2025
Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032
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Asteroid as wide as 886 cans of spam may hit Earth in 2032
Is this NEO the one? Yup, as in, a 1% chance of hitting us ... sadly Video  Astronomers reckon a 220-million-kilogram asteroid is going to swing by Earth in 2032 with a 1-in-100 chance of hitting us.…
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 29/01/2025
Do Europeans still get to set the rules for their own elections? Or does Elon Musk decide? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Europe’s Elon Musk Problem
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
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Wojtek Brzezinski @wojtekbrzezinski.pl · 28/01/2025
Jakby co, Tygodnik Powszechny jest już na Bluesky :)
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 27/01/2025
Bluesky adds video to user profiles
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Bluesky adds video to user profiles
Social network Bluesky is doubling down on video. After it added a new TikTok-like custom video feed last week in the wake of the U.S. ban on the popular video app (now on pause), the company on Monday announced it’s adding a new video tab to Bluesky user…
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 27/01/2025
DeepSeek displaces ChatGPT as the App Store’s top app
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DeepSeek displaces ChatGPT as the App Store’s top app
The mobile app for DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, skyrocketed to the number-one spot in app stores around the globe this weekend, topping the U.S.-based AI chatbot, ChatGPT. On iOS, DeepSeek is currently the No. 1 free app in the U.S. App Store and 51 other…
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 27/01/2025
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Trump may leave TikTok’s algorithm under ByteDance’s control
Everything insiders are saying about Trump’s plan to save TikTok.
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Wojtek Brzezinski @wojtekbrzezinski.pl · 27/01/2025
Właśnie odkryłem, że przegapiłem grudniowy odcinek Fall of Civilizations. Mój absolutnie ulubiony, bezkonkurencyjnie najbardziej fascynujący podcast.
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19. The Mongols - Terror of the Steppe (Part 1)
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Wolfgang Cramer @cramer-bondeau.fr · 26/01/2025
Still one more week to go this January, but so far 20 out of 24 days have seen all-time records of global average temperature for those dates. pulse.climate.copernicus.eu
global daily surface temperatures up to Jan 24, 2025
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Wojtek Brzezinski @wojtekbrzezinski.pl · 22/01/2025
Warto posłuchać. Dlaczego gest Muska prawdopodobnie nie był żadnym przypadkiem. I co big tech może mieć wspólnego z o wiele starszym zagrożeniem.
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Elon Musk salute was 'no accident', says expert in the alt-right | LBC
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 22/01/2025
🛑 On the Big Tech platforms, you don't see what you want to see, but what they want you to see. 🆙 We need to campaign for algorithm transparency, platforms interoperability and transportability.
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/01/2025
Donald Trump has pardoned Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, who has spent over a decade in prison for building the world's first dark web drug market. Ulbricht is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some parts of the crypto community.
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Trump Frees Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison
Donald Trump pardoned the creator of the world’s first dark web drug market, who is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some parts of the crypto community.
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 20/01/2025
11AM: How bad could the new administration be? 4PM: And Elon did that how many times?
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The Register @theregister.com · 19/01/2025
OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries
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OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler can be tricked into DDoSing sites, answering your queries
The S in LLM stands for Security OpenAI's ChatGPT crawler appears to be willing to initiate distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on arbitrary websites, a reported vulnerability the tech giant has yet to acknowledge.…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/01/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com: Kyle MacLachlan writes of his longtime collaborator, the late David Lynch: “David didn’t fully trust words because they pinned the idea in place. They were a one-way channel that didn’t allow for the receiver. And he was all about the receiver.”
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Opinion | Kyle MacLachlan: How David Lynch Invented Me
How could words possibly do justice to an experience like that?
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/01/2025
For no reason that he can articulate, Trump has triggered a crisis in Denmark www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe
"Trump might forget about Greenland. But also, he might not. Nobody knows. He operates on whims," @anneapplebaum writes.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 18/01/2025
JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat theonion.com/jd-vanc...
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JD Vance Begins To Suspect There Another Group Chat
PALM BEACH, FL—Noticing everyone else’s phone simultaneously buzzing throughout a meeting, Vice President-elect JD Vance began to suspect there was another group chat among Trump’s senior staff that he wasn’t part of, sources confirmed Monday. “It can’t be a coincidence that they all keep looking down at their phones and chuckling at the same time,” […]
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw
Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl
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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · 17/01/2025
Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)
A computer screen with a display showing output from an xray diffraction spectrometer. Close up view showing fraction of metals. Fun stuff.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 18/01/2025
TikTok says it will go offline on Sunday if Biden doesn’t intervene
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TikTok says it will go offline on Sunday if Biden doesn’t intervene
TikTok might turn itself off.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/01/2025
Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.
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Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...
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Gazeta Wyborcza @wyborcza.pl · 16/01/2025
O śmierci reżysera w social mediach poinformowała jego rodzina #wyborcza wyborcza.pl/7,101707,316...
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Something many of us know but still it's useful to have it rigorously established and formalized in this manner:
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 14/01/2025
h/t @karaswisher.bsky.social
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Wojtek Brzezinski @wojtekbrzezinski.pl · 15/01/2025
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Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms | Johnny Ryan
The latest actions of Musk and Zuckerberg are a sign of things to come, but the EU already has the power to give people back control, says Johnny Ryan, director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council...
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 15/01/2025
the crazy part is this means the facebook we’ve all been experiencing for the past 5 years was the *good* version
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Wojtek Brzezinski @wojtekbrzezinski.pl · 13/01/2025
Każdy nowy Every Frame a Painting to powód do rzucenia wszystkiego innego www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa1O...
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Where Do You Put the Camera?
YouTube video by Every Frame a Painting
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