Ivan Zinchenko
@ivanzapsky.bsky.social
Philosophical pessimist. Antinatalist. Pro–open borders. No national allegiance. EU federalist.
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The irony is totally lost on him, isn't it?
Breaking news: Donald Trump has said that 'help is on its way' to protesters in Iran as he urged them to take over the country’s institutions. The US president added that he had cancelled 'all meetings' with Iranian officials until killings of the protesters had stopped. ft.trib.al/ezIxgZB
January 13, 2026 at 3:21 PM
The irony is totally lost on him, isn't it?
Ah, yes, the totally real danger of Greenland becoming another Venezuela! I have to hand it to this guy. Even if I tried really hard, I would never come up with a justification for invading and annexing Greenland that was even remotely as stupid as this.
Rep. Randy Fine on his bill to make Greenland the 51st state: "We need to make sure we assert our dominance over the Western Hemisphere ... the last thing we need is Greenland to become another Venezuela where we have huge problems we have to deal with in the future."
January 13, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Ah, yes, the totally real danger of Greenland becoming another Venezuela! I have to hand it to this guy. Even if I tried really hard, I would never come up with a justification for invading and annexing Greenland that was even remotely as stupid as this.
It's cruel at the best of times.
Last year, with her due date approaching, @madeleinewatts.bsky.social sought to prepare for parenting by arming herself with knowledge—all the better to stave off annoying narratives of motherhood floating in the cultural ether.
Mama Tried | Madeleine Watts
Is creating new life in the face of rising authoritarianism, a casually accepted genocide, and climate collapse inherently cruel?
thebaffler.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:26 PM
It's cruel at the best of times.
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9/ Until you push back and demonstrate real consequences for crossing red lines, you will remain an object in Trump’s thinking, not a subject. Deterrence is the only language leaders with authoritarian mindset understand.
January 6, 2026 at 2:08 PM
9/ Until you push back and demonstrate real consequences for crossing red lines, you will remain an object in Trump’s thinking, not a subject. Deterrence is the only language leaders with authoritarian mindset understand.
Couldn't help but laugh out loud. These guys are something.
KERNEN: Europeans are talking about it almost being like Vladimir Putin and Ukraine.
JEFF LANDRY: I disagree. When has the United States engaged in imperialism? Never. Europe has engaged in imperialism. The reason the Danish have Greenland is because of imperialism.
JEFF LANDRY: I disagree. When has the United States engaged in imperialism? Never. Europe has engaged in imperialism. The reason the Danish have Greenland is because of imperialism.
January 6, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Couldn't help but laugh out loud. These guys are something.
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Again. Over and over again. When fascists explain to you that they are aggressive expansionists that want to invade their neighbours - believe them. They always mean it.
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 6, 2026 at 9:31 AM
Again. Over and over again. When fascists explain to you that they are aggressive expansionists that want to invade their neighbours - believe them. They always mean it.
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claude code is fucking insane
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
January 5, 2026 at 6:49 PM
claude code is fucking insane
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
i know literally NOTHING about Hegel. ZERO. and it just built me a complete system of German idealism
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From the wife of the White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
Europe, don't say you weren't warned.
Europe, don't say you weren't warned.
January 3, 2026 at 10:53 PM
From the wife of the White House Deputy Chief of Staff.
Europe, don't say you weren't warned.
Europe, don't say you weren't warned.
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Great piece by @pederschaefer.com about how the new world, old world clichés don't really work in the 21st century.
It is the United States, the world's oldest democracy, which is creaking under its archaic institutions. The comparatively younger nation-states of Europe, and the EU, are more agile.
It is the United States, the world's oldest democracy, which is creaking under its archaic institutions. The comparatively younger nation-states of Europe, and the EU, are more agile.
Is America the 'New Old World?'
Or does Europe actually have the newer, more able institutions and social fabric?
open.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Great piece by @pederschaefer.com about how the new world, old world clichés don't really work in the 21st century.
It is the United States, the world's oldest democracy, which is creaking under its archaic institutions. The comparatively younger nation-states of Europe, and the EU, are more agile.
It is the United States, the world's oldest democracy, which is creaking under its archaic institutions. The comparatively younger nation-states of Europe, and the EU, are more agile.
The thing with this pedophile is that whatever Putin's lie you name, he'll deny it being a lie.
What is it that happens in their heads?
And I’m not even including the whole sex offender thing.
And I’m not even including the whole sex offender thing.
December 31, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The thing with this pedophile is that whatever Putin's lie you name, he'll deny it being a lie.
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🚨 Today, the EU Council is set to endorse home raids to search for migrants. This is what a police-state looks like.
We must stop this, help us share.
We must stop this, help us share.
December 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
🚨 Today, the EU Council is set to endorse home raids to search for migrants. This is what a police-state looks like.
We must stop this, help us share.
We must stop this, help us share.
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⚠️The top 0.001% - less than 60,000 multi-millionaires -
owns three times more wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
Explore more findings in this third edition of the World Inequality report 👇 wir2026.wid.world
owns three times more wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
Explore more findings in this third edition of the World Inequality report 👇 wir2026.wid.world
World Inequality Report 2026
The World Inequality Report 2026 offers the most up-to-date synthesis of international research efforts to track global inequalities.
wir2026.wid.world
December 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
⚠️The top 0.001% - less than 60,000 multi-millionaires -
owns three times more wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
Explore more findings in this third edition of the World Inequality report 👇 wir2026.wid.world
owns three times more wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
Explore more findings in this third edition of the World Inequality report 👇 wir2026.wid.world
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It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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If you swap each letter in “bomb” with the next letter in the alphabet, you’ll get “cpnc.” Recently, scientists showed that and other methods can bypass filters on LLMs like Gemini, DeepSeek and Grok. @peterha2l.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographe...
Cryptographers Show That AI Protections Will Always Have Holes | Quanta Magazine
Large language models such as ChatGPT come with filters to keep certain info from getting out. A new mathematical argument shows that systems like this can never be completely safe.
www.quantamagazine.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If you swap each letter in “bomb” with the next letter in the alphabet, you’ll get “cpnc.” Recently, scientists showed that and other methods can bypass filters on LLMs like Gemini, DeepSeek and Grok. @peterha2l.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/cryptographe...
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People pouring their hearts out to AI bots is kind of the understandable end-stage of ‘don’t traumadump to your friends/go to therapy (therapy is fucking expensive)/you don’t owe anyone anything’ hyper-individualised, atomised culture we’ve ended up in, imo. People!! Are Lonely!!!!
August 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM
People pouring their hearts out to AI bots is kind of the understandable end-stage of ‘don’t traumadump to your friends/go to therapy (therapy is fucking expensive)/you don’t owe anyone anything’ hyper-individualised, atomised culture we’ve ended up in, imo. People!! Are Lonely!!!!
My psyche during a panic attack.
Russia's Black Sea coast under drone attack. Air defense fires in all directions.
November 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
My psyche during a panic attack.
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
— Macbeth, in Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Act 5, Scene 5)
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
— Macbeth, in Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Act 5, Scene 5)
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
— Macbeth, in Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Act 5, Scene 5)
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
— Macbeth, in Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Act 5, Scene 5)
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The human brain consumes 20% of the body’s energetic resources, but most of that energy goes toward just staying alive. Active thought is a small portion of our total neural metabolism.
How Much Energy Does It Take To Think? | Quanta Magazine
Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our most complex organ.
www.quantamagazine.org
June 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The human brain consumes 20% of the body’s energetic resources, but most of that energy goes toward just staying alive. Active thought is a small portion of our total neural metabolism.
"As detailed in a study published in the Journal of Marketing earlier this year, an international team of researchers found that the AI's biggest fans tend to be the people with the shallowest familiarity with it."
"People with lower AI literacy are more likely to perceive AI as magical and experience feelings of awe."
The Tech Industry Has a Dirty Secret: The More People Learn About AI, the Less They Trust It
Researchers have found that trust in artificial intelligence falls among people as they become more AI literate.
trib.al
September 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
"As detailed in a study published in the Journal of Marketing earlier this year, an international team of researchers found that the AI's biggest fans tend to be the people with the shallowest familiarity with it."
"An analysis of the ChatGPT dump revealed its own controversies, including an exchange in which the chatbot provided advice to a purported lawyer on how to "displace a small Amazonian indigenous community" in order to build a dam on their territory."
August 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"An analysis of the ChatGPT dump revealed its own controversies, including an exchange in which the chatbot provided advice to a purported lawyer on how to "displace a small Amazonian indigenous community" in order to build a dam on their territory."
America somehow went from Monica going down on Bill to Donald going down on Vladimir.
August 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
America somehow went from Monica going down on Bill to Donald going down on Vladimir.
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as someone who likes to see the best in people the number of fuckers falling for the computer saying "while i'm just a chatbot... i think you're really special! ;)" is testing me
August 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
as someone who likes to see the best in people the number of fuckers falling for the computer saying "while i'm just a chatbot... i think you're really special! ;)" is testing me
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“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.
“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.
“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.
August 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“A legitimate PhD-level expert in anything,” they said.
“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.
“Show me a diagram of the US presidents since FDR, with their names and years in office under their photos,” I said.
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Musk, who think he’s humanity’s savior, will likely be remembered as the man who caused the deaths of 15 million people www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality
across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates
show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Musk, who think he’s humanity’s savior, will likely be remembered as the man who caused the deaths of 15 million people www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...