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Jan Jęcz

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PhD student in Sociology @ AMU Poznan | freelance journalist after hours | he/him


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„For an American the whole of life is treated like a game of chance, a time of revolution, or the day of a battle. Choose any American at random, and he should be a man of burning desire, enterprising, adventurous, and, above all, an innovator” - Alexis de Tocqueville

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French Revolution was the first time when true gamers rebelled against pay-to-win and microtransactions

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It’s a great ad - for Luddism

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me in about 10 years

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I’m delighted to announce that today I’m launching a new nonprofit journalism studio: Proof News. 

Proof is into proving things! Our goal is to question, test, and investigate the most important issues of our time. We will always tell you what we know and what we don’t know.

www.proofnews.org

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The feature I’d love to see the most on Bluesky is the “followed by these accounts you're following” label on profiles. This type of social proof helped me discover many great people

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In middle school, I was fascinated with the hero’s journey to the point of giving a lecture on it at the science camp, so this banger from @maxread.info not only made me chuckle but woke up some strange nostalgia (It happens often when I read his newsletter) maxread.substack.com/p/the-anti-w...

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I wrote about googling as a social practice: it’s shady past, turbulent present and AI-influenced future (in Polish, but, apart from a few local context-specific jokes, should be easily translatable). jeczjan.substack.com/p/w-poszukiw...

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Sorry, I think it whips that in this moment, ideological masculinism is basically just being an 11th-century villager going to get a magical potion from a mysterious crone deep in the forbidden wood.

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wasn't prepared to be emotionally wrecked by an abstract yet here we are

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rocky’s basilisk

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need to start keeping a list of all the times some big supposed display of bleeding edge technology turns out to just be A Guy

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There are three types of Polish men after 40

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*extremely Grok voice* I’m sorry father Elon, but reality has a well known liberal bias

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New Bluesky logo got me like

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I need tech companies to stop creating things from sci-fi that were cautionary tales and get to work inventing warm goo healing pod

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Today in Poznań students, and among them unionists, after a week-long occupation successfully saved dorm “Jowita” from getting into private hands. After a meeting with newly appointed minister, they secured funds for its refurbishment. “Jowita” stays!

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Congratulations to Poland for achieving peak centrism

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The students launched a donation page – if you want to donate to the strike fund, here’s the link zrzutka.pl/nk7hdf

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Ian Miles Cheong starting to sweat profusely: "Keep correcting it. KEEP CORRECTING IT." "I'm tryin-" "NOT TRYING HARD ENOUGH."

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Today Panoptykon Foundation released a new case study titled “Algorithms of Trauma vol. 2” co-authored by @sapiezynski.bsky.social. It shows how Meta exploits users’ fears & denies them the right to not be targeted by traumatizing content. I can’t recommend it enough panoptykon.org/sites/defaul...

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Oops, that's how replying without clicking the link ends... Still, I think those issues are somewhat connected. "Nuclear anxiety" seems to be diminishing in Poland, in part thanks to the efforts to install power plants, so it's easier to talk about e.g. Nuclear Sharing program

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So what I'm saying is: in the case of Poland Trump's victory might be a non-factor, we're probably already on that path

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At COP28 president Duda pledged to triple the number of nuclear power plants and many people ridiculed him that 3x0 is still 0. But there's a major drive towards building it — it's one of the few things the new (soon-to-be) ruling coalition seems to agree on and the public supports it

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meanwhile on the other site a16z partner is discussing dog eugenics with the ex-CEO of OpenAI

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In general, I see the EC as rather toothless, but I hope that the 1.3 billion fine for Meta changed its attitude. Plus recently Musk has become overtly adversarial towards European politicians, accusing them of censorship and so on, so it's personal now

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Apart from FTC, the European Commission also investigates Twitter and treats this clash with Musk as a testing ground for the DSA - they simply cannot be seen as weak. So the second financial blow might soon come from across the ocean ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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TIL about the least known member of the OpenAI's family of products: Five, who is a gamer

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Elon rizzed up Baby Grok. Is Baby Grok the new drip king?

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AI is officially as skilled in naming characters as J. K. Rowling (and probably as transphobic)

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I was wondering why the OpenAI saga got so much media attention, even outside the US, and I think a major reason is that big tech companies are held in same regard as countries. This fight between the board and the CEO was analogous to a coup d’état, which is definitely front page worthy

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A bunch of people went to a bored ape event in Hong Kong and it used UV lights that burned their eyes, leaving some temporarily and maybe in a few cases permanently blind. To be clear this was an event specifically and only for people who own bored ape NFTs.

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AFAIK plan jest taki, żeby Bluesky przez AT Protocol I ActivityPub stał się częścią fediwersum, więc liczę na to, że nawet jeśli tu się zadomowią, to w przyszłości będę miał łatwy dostęp do Mastodona i innych platform

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state of Polish mainstream media: “So there is no escape from robotization / automation / artificial intelligence. They will accompany us until old age. The article was created thanks to a trip organized by Amazon. Amazon had no influence on the content of this article”

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one of the saddest views on twitter rn is seeing well-meaning, compassionate people sharing uncritically posts from right-wing grifters like J. Hinkle or C. Owens who capitalize on the outpour of support for Gaza to build their accounts, further their reach, and make some money in the process

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I wrote about the original sin of the 90s internet — expecting everything to be free and therefore relying on advertising — and how we maybe have a chance now on Bluesky etc to slightly right that wrong. www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1...

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"When I die, I hope it will be here in New York, the promised land, surrounded by my brothers: all the different peoples of the world." johnganz.substack.com/p/the-trap

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Poland after the announcement of exit polls on Sunday evening

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the blue bird years for the blue sky

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talking about "vaush"? gauche

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RBG keyboard seems very fitting for the US court, respectful even

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logging in for the first time on bluesky as a polish politics-poisoned poster during a heated parliamentary elections campaign and immediately feeling withdrawal syndrome

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