Ladies and gentlemen, I give you one Jackal.

And, of course, here’s THE Jackal.

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🚀 These ridiculous Josephine No 2 wine glasses

These Josephinen Hütte glasses are, uh, not durable. What they are, though is incredibly gorgeous, insanely thin and very light. I could stack superlatives all day and you still wouldn’t get it until you held one in your hands. It feels like you’re holding heavy oxygen. When you drink from them it feels like the wine is materializing out of thin air into your mouth, it’s really ridiculous.

I love a proper hedonist, an epicurean. Salud, Panzer. #eng

🚀 A moment with a great book – Manu

The other day I finished reading Things Become Other Things by Craig Mod and for the first time in my life, a book made me feel the need to hug the author. Craig, thank you for creating this book.

And thank you, Manuel, for bringing Craig Mod to my attention. #eng 📚

🚀 Separating Fact from Fiction on Social Media in Times of Conflict - bellingcat

In a time of crisis, social media is flooded with images, videos and bold claims. This can be useful for researchers like ourselves but overwhelming for the general public seeking the facts.

At Bellingcat, we pride ourselves on providing tools and resources for our audience to think critically about sources they find online. In this short guide, we give a few tips on what to consider when confronted with an abundance of footage and claims.

Here’s how to separate fact from fiction with real, recent examples of misinformation.

Good advices to keep a skeptic eye on misinformation. #eng

1800-2050 AD will go down in history as the brief period when humanity could afford to have billions of people dedicated to sitting on their arses, reading and writing on increasingly technological devices and getting fat. It was not sustainable, so an apocalyptic event put an end to it.

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🚀 Nikki Haley’s key aide stays quiet | Semafor

Lerner’s hand is clearly visible in Haley’s simple, patient approach to the 2024 campaign. Unlike her rivals, she’s opted against focusing on a single state — a time-honored path to a moment of glory and a losing campaign. Instead, she’s stretched her focus out to all the primary states, trying to chart a narrow course across the early primaries toward ending up as the sole non-Trump alternative. Her message to voters is also simple: She’s the most electable Republican — and one who can depart from the “chaos” that so often surrounds Trump.

Haley, who pays Lerner’s firm a relatively modest $15,000 monthly retainer, has also been frugal, a preoccupation of Lerner’s (and a marked contrast with DeSantis’s messy, extravagant bid). On Tuesday, the campaign announced it had raised $24 million in the fourth quarter of 2023 — more than doubling their previous fundraising numbers — and entered the new year with $14.5 million cash on hand.

It’s Haley’s own dexterity, however, that has kept her upright, at least until recently, on the near-impossible Republican tightrope. She’s a rare former Trump aide who maintained both her relationship with him and her distance from him, a party of one who is seen neither as Trump’s pawn nor his nemesis. Winning a Republican primary against him may well be impossible, but Haley and Lerner’s careful strategy seem, so far, to have gotten her closer than anyone else.

A very interesting piece on Nikki Haley’s strategy for the GOP nomination, and her strategist, Jon Lerner. #eng

🚀 Things I Learned This Year - Carl Barenbrug

Things I Learned This Year

3. You don’t need to fill your time. Creating calendar white space provides a buffer for work and play.
4. Find the intersection of doing what makes you happy, what is smart for you long-term, and what is useful to others. Whatever that is, do it often.
5. Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
6. Friends are not forever, but they enrich our lives like no others can.
7. Age should never hold back your confidence.
8. Nobody cares how many books you’ve read. People care what books you’ve read. And timing can determine quality. The impact a book can have on you is dependent on where you are in life.
9. Don’t dwell on augmenting your life. Self-care is more important than you probably think.
10. Move to your own rhythm. This is where progress is realised. Keeping pace with others is a losing battle.
11. How slowly or quickly you think is not an accurate measurement of your intelligence. Slow thinking is more deliberate and less emotional.
12. Just because AI is available, doesn’t mean you need it in your product.
13. Personal websites and newsletters are far more valuable than any social media presence.
14. You can’t teach minimalism to somebody who hasn’t felt the pain of having too much stuff.
15. Solo projects evolve faster, but collaborative projects evolve better.
16. We don’t need a million followers. And maybe we don’t need a thousand true fans. But we probably could use ten good internet friends to make our digital life better.
17. Email is the best form of communication. Especially if you write informally.
18. It’s okay to obsess over numbers, but only if they give a sense of mission rather than distraction.

This is a list of 20 things that Carl learned last year. I highlighted the ones that are meaningful to me, go over to Carl’s page to read the rest. They make quite a good 2024 bucket list for me.

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