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zgr-ftw.bsky.social
Tech optimist, software developer in fintech. Lived through the Eastern Bloc collapse firsthand, got a casual interest in geopolitics from that.
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As a software developer, I use AI every day as a research tool. However, the code it produces is still completely useless. Actually replacing "high-paid engineers" is a fantasy and will remain one until we get a significant breakthrough. futurism.com/young-coders...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If they want to shrink the size of government, DOGE should start with the DEA.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

I don't think about the sexual partners I've had in terms of "Body Count." Instead I add up all their weights and contemplate the Gross Tonnage

submitted 34 days ago • 64 comments

I mean, you must be completely disconnected from reality to not have known already after his first term

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

The only one missing to complete the circus is Steven Seagal, lol

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 45 days ago • 18 comments

"First, see the world as it is, not as we wish it to be." This. The magnitude of naiveté and ignorance in Europe, the people saying things like "Russians trade with us, they won't do anything stupid" or "we have NATO, we are safe", is what led us to the point we're at now.

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submitted 48 days ago • 29 comments

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

submitted 53 days ago • 66 comments

Also, not a single person out of the thousands involved leaks anything 😄

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

It became clear which path Zuck had decided to go down five months ago, so this isn't really surprising. The Facebook feed had already become a stream of irrelevant and fake content in recent years anyway, so it's not going to be missed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE7S...

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

1/ RE Meta's decision to abandon fact-checking (and follow the lead of other platforms taking a similar hands-off approach), it's not great. But we have seen this movie before in media history and it's probably more instructive to anticipate what this moment creates. ...

submitted 57 days ago • 37 comments

If you've ever wondered why Arab militaries seem so ineffective in combat, here's a great analysis from a U.S. Army Colonel who spent his career in the Middle East. www.youtube.com/watch?v=exb-...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

THIS is how it’s done, folks.

submitted 82 days ago • 2311 comments

Reminder: using the military to implement a mass deportation campaign is not only illegal and immoral, it would severely degrade military readiness and professionalism, and risks turning the military into a republican guard or a party-army.

submitted 83 days ago • 11 comments

In early 2000s I though internet was going to uplift societies via access to knowledge. What we got instead was disinformation, propaganda and clickbait and it's clearly a failure of our education systems. The ratio of people without critical thinking hasn't changed only now they're easier to target

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

It's not an opioid crisis. It's a prohibition crisis. When we faced the exact same situation during liquor prohibition – mass deaths from a poisoned supply controlled by gangs – the solution was to end prohibition. It's the same thing now.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

This suggestion by Mark Cuban caught my eye; might work, certainly worth floating, but I think insufficiently cynical. Opposition to phasing out coal isn't about jobs; it isn't even, mostly, about profits. It's a front in the culture war. 1/

submitted 96 days ago • 121 comments

As long as the children of all Russian oligarchs and politicians (including Putin) live in the West, the credibility of their nuclear threats are zero.

submitted 98 days ago • 10 comments

Drugs are good actually, and everyone on earth uses them in one form or another.

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In programming, the trick "when stuck, just delete everything and start over" works surprisingly well. It's also surprisingly difficult to do due to the sunk cost fallacy.

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

I didn't know it had a name until today: The Shirley Exception, aka "this law is harsh but surely they would make an exception". I wouldn't be surprised if we hear about it a lot during Trump's second term. lynmillerlachmann.com/unpacking-th...

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment