Johann Lau
@johannlau.bsky.social
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Russia has no plans to invade:
Moldova.
Ok. But not Georgia
Ok but not Ukraine.
Ok, Just Crimea
Ok, just Crimea & part of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia
Ok, all of Ukraine
But Russia won't attack EU
Moldova.
Ok. But not Georgia
Ok but not Ukraine.
Ok, Just Crimea
Ok, just Crimea & part of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia
Ok, all of Ukraine
But Russia won't attack EU
December 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Russia has no plans to invade:
Moldova.
Ok. But not Georgia
Ok but not Ukraine.
Ok, Just Crimea
Ok, just Crimea & part of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia
Ok, all of Ukraine
But Russia won't attack EU
Moldova.
Ok. But not Georgia
Ok but not Ukraine.
Ok, Just Crimea
Ok, just Crimea & part of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia
Ok, all of Ukraine
But Russia won't attack EU
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Also, Ukraine is Europe so the invasion has long started.
December 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Also, Ukraine is Europe so the invasion has long started.
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Goodbye “Russia isn’t going to invade Ukraine 2022” crowd, let’s welcome the “Russia isn’t going to invade Europe 2026” crowd.
a man is riding a segway in an office with the words welcome aboard below him
Alt: a man is riding a segway in an office with the words welcome aboard below him
media.tenor.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Goodbye “Russia isn’t going to invade Ukraine 2022” crowd, let’s welcome the “Russia isn’t going to invade Europe 2026” crowd.
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"We will have to once again destroy the god-forsaken Berlin." - Solovyov had yet another outburst and once again started talking about the destruction and "liberation" of major European cities.
December 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"We will have to once again destroy the god-forsaken Berlin." - Solovyov had yet another outburst and once again started talking about the destruction and "liberation" of major European cities.
Now this is letter writing. A lot of women going "woo yeah, men suck!" never stop to realize just how infantile they are next to the thinking women that paved the way for their slop, or ask themselves when they last wrote or managed to read a letter. Some never have, and never will. But hey, vagina.
December 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Now this is letter writing. A lot of women going "woo yeah, men suck!" never stop to realize just how infantile they are next to the thinking women that paved the way for their slop, or ask themselves when they last wrote or managed to read a letter. Some never have, and never will. But hey, vagina.
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This past Sunday, from 8am to 8pm, New Yorkers from every corner of our city traveled to the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria to share their dreams, their worries, the change they want to see across New York. It was an honor listening to each of them.
December 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This past Sunday, from 8am to 8pm, New Yorkers from every corner of our city traveled to the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria to share their dreams, their worries, the change they want to see across New York. It was an honor listening to each of them.
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Am 16. Dezember 1992 verlegte der Künstler Gunter Demnig den ersten Stolperstein in Köln mit dem er vor der letzten bekannten Adresse des Opfers des Nazi Unrechtsregimes ein Zeichen setzen wollte, daß diese Menschen nicht vergessen sind und nicht vergessen werden dürfen.


December 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Am 16. Dezember 1992 verlegte der Künstler Gunter Demnig den ersten Stolperstein in Köln mit dem er vor der letzten bekannten Adresse des Opfers des Nazi Unrechtsregimes ein Zeichen setzen wollte, daß diese Menschen nicht vergessen sind und nicht vergessen werden dürfen.


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There are many interpretations of Hanukkah, including resilience in the face of tyrannical empires attempting to destroy Jewish customs and community.
Here's a tyrannical empire attempting to destroy Jewish customs and community:
Here's a tyrannical empire attempting to destroy Jewish customs and community:
December 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
There are many interpretations of Hanukkah, including resilience in the face of tyrannical empires attempting to destroy Jewish customs and community.
Here's a tyrannical empire attempting to destroy Jewish customs and community:
Here's a tyrannical empire attempting to destroy Jewish customs and community:
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"Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei says that in 3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of the code that software developers were in charge of."
No, it won't. It will pull from its datasets a code pre-written by contributors or grabbed from open sources on the internet, with crap results.
No, it won't. It will pull from its datasets a code pre-written by contributors or grabbed from open sources on the internet, with crap results.
Anthropic's CEO says that in 3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of the code software developers were in charge of
"And then in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said.
www.businessinsider.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
"Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei says that in 3 to 6 months, AI will be writing 90% of the code that software developers were in charge of."
No, it won't. It will pull from its datasets a code pre-written by contributors or grabbed from open sources on the internet, with crap results.
No, it won't. It will pull from its datasets a code pre-written by contributors or grabbed from open sources on the internet, with crap results.
> Near the top of the list: Urban VPN Proxy. A Chrome extension with over 6 million users. A 4.7-star rating from 58,000 reviews. A "Featured" badge from Google, meaning it had passed manual review and met what Google describes as "a high standard of user experience and design."
8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by
www.koi.ai
December 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
> Near the top of the list: Urban VPN Proxy. A Chrome extension with over 6 million users. A 4.7-star rating from 58,000 reviews. A "Featured" badge from Google, meaning it had passed manual review and met what Google describes as "a high standard of user experience and design."
Ghouls vs. the person they stand on so they might seem a little taller.
And I say this as someone who didn't give the time of day to all that "outrage over mean jokes" stuff... just because I am a callous asshole, why would I assume Reiner to be, too?
And I say this as someone who didn't give the time of day to all that "outrage over mean jokes" stuff... just because I am a callous asshole, why would I assume Reiner to be, too?
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Ghouls vs. the person they stand on so they might seem a little taller.
And I say this as someone who didn't give the time of day to all that "outrage over mean jokes" stuff... just because I am a callous asshole, why would I assume Reiner to be, too?
And I say this as someone who didn't give the time of day to all that "outrage over mean jokes" stuff... just because I am a callous asshole, why would I assume Reiner to be, too?
> Walmart appears to be a low-cost retailer, but that’s because it induces its suppliers to push prices up at rivals. The net effect is less competition at every level.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-doc...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-doc...
Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy
The Trump FTC tried to hide a complaint showing Pepsi forced shoppers to pay higher prices everywhere but Walmart. But now it's unsealed. And the politics of affordability are explosive.
www.thebignewsletter.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
> Walmart appears to be a low-cost retailer, but that’s because it induces its suppliers to push prices up at rivals. The net effect is less competition at every level.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-doc...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/secret-doc...
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"voters are less obsessed with manners and more interested in prices"
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/even-in-a-...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/even-in-a-...
Even In a Populist Moment, Democrats Are Split on the Problem of Corporate Power
Democratic voters have turned against big business, but only the progressive faction of the party has listened. This distance between voters and leaders is unusual and can't go on forever. Or can it?
www.thebignewsletter.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"voters are less obsessed with manners and more interested in prices"
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/even-in-a-...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/even-in-a-...
> People told her stories of being kicked out of their synagogues or their family table for their opposition to the war and the political project of Zionism. If they were going to stay Jewish, they needed somewhere to do it.
December 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
> People told her stories of being kicked out of their synagogues or their family table for their opposition to the war and the political project of Zionism. If they were going to stay Jewish, they needed somewhere to do it.
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it's actually worse. not only are AI aggregators (including Musk's lobotomized Grok) spreading this myth, it's entirely based upon an 'article' written by AI originally posted by a website with an Icelandic ISP
December 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
it's actually worse. not only are AI aggregators (including Musk's lobotomized Grok) spreading this myth, it's entirely based upon an 'article' written by AI originally posted by a website with an Icelandic ISP
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Poland states the obvious: EU and NATO member state Hungary is an ally of Putin’s Russia Russia
December 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Poland states the obvious: EU and NATO member state Hungary is an ally of Putin’s Russia Russia
"People abroad see freedom as this stable platform where they can build their identity. Russians often see it as a slippery surface where you can lose everything you managed to hold on to."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hqz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hqz...
I Grew up in Russia. Here’s why we’re afraid of Freedom.
YouTube video by Silent East
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"People abroad see freedom as this stable platform where they can build their identity. Russians often see it as a slippery surface where you can lose everything you managed to hold on to."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hqz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hqz...