Jon Jonoski

MA in Media Studies. Houdt van film, basketbal en globalisatie. Communication Officer - ICLEI Europe. Views my own.

[Seth Dillon @SethDillon]

I started reading this and was immediately reminded of the scene in Good Will Hunting where Robin Williams' character is telling Will about his wife, who'd recently died of cancer. He was talking about her imperfections, the little things that only he knew about — like how she'd sometimes fart in her sleep and wake herself up.

"People call these things imperfections," he said. "But they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff. That's what made her my wife."

It's a great scene. I'm not sure I have a point in bringing it up, other than to say that maybe optimizing everything in your life just to live a little longer might just result in missing out on some things that matter more — and not by a small margin.

[dan @bierkonceagain]

One thing the world cup has done is shown people across the world how logically flawed punitive immigration laws actually are in a globalised economy

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

Story @TheAthleticFC

The International Sports Press Association (AIPS) has written to FIFA claiming that “many” Iranian and African journalists have been denied the necessary visas to cover the World Cup in the United States.

https://t.co/GUgKB86HvB

[Carlos Aguilar @Carlos_Film]

One of my favorite quotes from my interview with Diego Luna about fútbol and the World Cup. Link to full interview below.

[The Cosmopolitan Patriot 🌎 @AndromedaPip]

The death of Internationalism is the greatest tragedy of the human species.

[Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer @BrammerAyse]

It’s not rocket science, but it’s also not necessary.

As a Turk, I find the whole campaign rather performative and a distraction that serves nobody except the Erdoğan regime. Languages have their own names for countries. In English, it’s Germany, not Deutschland; Greece, not Hellas; Japan, not Nippon. We Turks say Almanya, Yunanistan, and Japonya without losing any sleep over it.

The only somewhat comparable case I can think of is insisting that English speakers should say "Farsi" instead of "Persian," which, in my opinion, is equally ridiculous.

[Fergus Navaratnam-Blair @Fergus_NBlair]

The thing about these kinds of Gen AI use cases is that the BBC could have easily made this video before these tools existed - you could do it with actors in makeup, you could do it with traditional VFX.

The fact that you're only doing it now means you only thought it was worth doing once the cost was essentially zero. That is to say, the content's existence has become a tacit acknowledgement of its own worthlessness.

[Dr. Friedrich Franz @fcfinvest]

French clearing the Strait by voting against GCC in the security council.

Cheap and efficient. Europe doesn't need military to clear the Strait

[Danny Picard @DannyPicard]

This might sound crazy, but these games were so good because they still had kind of a cartoonish look/feel to them. The games these days are too real. Back in the day you could just pick up a controller and have fun. Good luck with that in 2026.

[Arash Azizi آرش عزیزی @arash_tehran]

No, I am not joyful about killing of Larijani, who likely masterminded killing of thousands of Iranian protesters in January. You know what I would be joyful about?

If he was put in a fair trial in a democratic Iran.

And you know what would even make me more joyful? If an officer slapped him once during the interrogation process and then that officer was put on trial himself and had to answer because in a rule-of-law, democratic country, you can't slap a prisoner. Even if he killed thousands of people.

Call me delusional or holder of luxury beliefs but I won't give up on the quest for basic decency.

[Z @BrianZisook]

This applies to everything now. Music, film, TV, sports. The gravitas is gone. And it’s not because the talent is lesser. Media is fragmented, and so, we rarely have shared moments — which create that feeling. Instead, everyone just exists in their own algorithmic feed.

[Richie Floyd @richiejfloyd]

I wish we lived in a world where I didn't feel constantly compelled to post this video, but until then here's Tony Benn speaking on war with clarity and moral conviction that you won't see from the evil people running the world today

[TOM MARTIN @tomhasideas]

I don’t want hyper personalization I want to feel part of the same thing everyone else collectively experiences

[john @johnsemley3000]

people get the Olympics backwards. the athletes represent the nation. in the sense that THEY determine the expression of the nation. not vice versa. America exists “on behalf” of them. and should therefore account for itself.

[Gaurav Sen @gkcs_]

MIT Technology Review has confirmed that posts on Moltbook were fake.

Just a few days ago many AI influencers (including Andrej Karpathy) had said that the website was "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff".

It wasn't.

The "taking over humanity" posts were human-generated. The top downloads were mal-ware (human generated).

It was a phishing website dressed up in AI hype.

If you are worried about AI taking over the world in a few years, please don't. There is no research basis for that opinion.

Antrophic and OpenAI want you to beleive that they are just months away from AGI. Because it results in free marketing, boosting their stock value.

Stay skeptical, stay safe :)

[Christian Bangel @christianbangel]

Der einzige Politiker des Westens, der Migration nicht als Krise erzählt.
Möge er Nachahmer finden.

[Rory Smith @RorySmith]

This is a good story and interesting in lots of ways but striking that Match of the Day, on actual TV, gets almost 7m viewers across a weekend. That’s more than 10% of the (British) population. It’s presumably still how the vast majority of fans consume football.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

JD Vance: "Denmark hasn't done a good job at keeping Greenland safe."

Just out of curiosity when was the last time that a Greenlander was shot dead by a masked agent of their own government?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I don’t get how many smart people can say this stuff again and again with a straight face. The purpose of demonstrations by college students is to change US government policy. Not virtue signal - which is what their cynical opponents think they’re doing. To try and pressure and change our government’s policy. So what would they demonstrate against when it comes to Iran? Our government isn’t arming the attacks on protesters in Iran, doesn’t fund Iran, and isn’t allied with Iran.

And yet smart people keep saying ‘why don’t you protest X instead of Z’ when they know Z isn’t like X and our government actually is responsible for Z not X. This isn’t hard. FFS.