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[Μіkkο Ρіkаrіnеn @oh2mp]

Muumit!

[Short Squeez @shortsqueeznews]

BREAKING: Gokce Guven, the 26-year-old founder of fintech startup Kalder and Forbes 2025 30 Under 30 honoree, faces up to 52 years in prison for an alleged $7 million fraud.

[Jakub Dymek @jakub_dymek]

Przemówienie Marka Carneya w Davos, a sprawa Polska. Kilka refleksji. 1) Oczywiście, że "mdzynarodowy liberalny ład oparty na prawie" był fikcją opartą na hipokryzji (Kosowo,Irak,tortury CIA,Libia...). Napisałem o tym w życiu bardzo dużo. Ale ta hipokryzja miała swoje zalety...

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔 A group of Princeton researchers is calling Big Tech's extraction of human attention "human fracking." The analogy: just as oil companies pump high-pressure chemicals into the ground to force out petroleum, tech companies pump endless streams of addictive content into our faces to force out attention, which they collect and sell.
70% of the world's population now has a smartphone. Globally, people spend close to half their waking hours looking at screens. Among young people in wealthy countries, the number is higher. The essay argues this is "a world-spanning land-grab into human consciousness, which big tech is treating as a vast, unclaimed territory, ripe for sacking and empire."

The authors point out that environmental politics didn't exist in 1950. By 1970 it was a global force. They argue a similar shift is coming for attention. People across the political spectrum, left and right, all agree something is wrong with a world where everyone scrolls endlessly through algorithmic feeds while trillion-dollar corporations deploy military-grade technology to keep children hooked.

My Take
The fracking metaphor captures the extraction mindset. Oil frackers don't care what happens to the land after they've pulled out the oil. Tech companies don't care what happens to your attention span after they've monetized it. The externalities get dumped on individuals and society while the profits flow to shareholders.

This connects to everything I've been posting. AI is supposed to deliver productivity gains and free up human time. Instead, the same companies are designing systems to capture as much of that time as possible. The product isn't AI. The product is us. Our attention is being fracked so that someone else can sell it. And just like with oil, we won't fully understand the damage until the landscape is already ruined.

Hedgie🤗

[Cam @harleybaghdad]

In my culture, family is completely unimportant. And we hate food.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Step 1: It's not really happening

Step 2: Yeah, it's happening, but it's not a big deal

Step 3: It's a good thing, actually

Step 4: People freaking out about it are the real problem

[Matthew Schmitz @matthewschmitz]

Beginning in 2014, prestige industries decided they urgently needed to diversify. They didn’t purge established Boomers. Instead, they did everything possible to avoid hiring white millennial men.

This is the story of a generation derailed by DEI.
https://t.co/kUfmpHfaMH

[Sebastian Turała @SebastianT95p]

Rosyjski żołnierz czekający przy torach - nie wie, że IC Przemyślanin ma 480min opóźnienia (awaria kibla)

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

Was the more than 20-fold rise in trans identities since 2010 the result of people finally feeling free to express their authentic selves? Or was it a social contagion?

Five years ago, I and others were canceled for suggesting the latter. New evidence shows we were right.

Read my latest for the Wall Street Journal ⬇️
🔗https://t.co/RkMiKqxCo0

[Champagne Joshi @JoshWalkos]

This is how it’s done when faced with someone who has been fully indoctrinated into the CRT cult.

[Faika El-Nagashi @el_nagashi]

In the EU, we hardly ever speak of women anymore. Political parties—left, center, and also conservatives—have embraced gender self-ID without scrutiny or debate. Does this threaten women’s rights? Yes. And here I explain why.

[Lee Harris @LeeHarris]

"No trans athlete has EVER been excluded from sport. They've just been asked to compete where it's fair"

This is fantastic. @sharrond62 brilliantly deals with a trans activist who heckled her at the Conservative Party Conference.

Calm. Confident. Correct.
Well said Sharron🔥

[Matthew Syed @matthewsyed]

The Palestine Action protesters have been characterised as warm, decent, cuddly. I went to talk to them and the mask slipped. Just a question or two about what they really think exposed the increasingly potent and assertive antisemitism in the UK

https://t.co/Xti8mZjc7t

[Profesor Pingwin @ProfesorPingwin]

o chuj, młody Urban wyglądał jak Sławomir Mentzen po roku w PZPR xD

[Michał Podlewski @trajektoriePL]

Butelka 3,001 litra, która nie podlega systemowi kaucyjnemu – oto szczyt polskich innowacji w czasach skrajnego niedofinansowania nauki i badań podstawowych.

[NIK @ns123abc]

Sam Altman 2 weeks ago: “we need 7 trillion dollars and 10GW to cure cancer”

Sam Altman today: “We are launching AI slop videos marketed as personalized ads”

[Matt Goodwin @GoodwinMJ]

Totally insane.

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

Let’s make a deal at a grand bargain between the two sides that hate each other so much. The Left will quash all their loony woke shit, and the Right will stop the slide into autocracy.

[WomenAreReal @WomenAreReals]

“Go suck a sawed-off shotgun.”
“You’re a Nazi piece of shit.”
“We kill Nazis”

That’s Connor Wolfe’s response to women holding “No males in female cycling” signs

Wolfe is notorious for threatening women, celebrating Kirk’s death & vowing to burn the US flag on the Olympic podium

[Amiri King @AmiriKing]

This is like an episode of South Park.

If you had shown me this video in the 90’s my head would’ve exploded.