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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yes, light watching, plus I'm a sucker for underdog sports stories, then add it that it is about golf... :-)

Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Indeed. Choosing which risks you take are key. For me, there’s a scene in Disney’s “greatest game ever played” where this dynamic is clear, as one player swaps clubs to trick another into making a much riskier shot…

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

In truly competitive scenarios - where a certain level of skill is assumed (someone is not fighting their own poor swings as I am…) - I suspect it does affect a bit. Match play is most clear example IMHO.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

From De Strandharker.. just lovely

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 27/08/2026

People don't hire AI agents, nor do people hire mouse and keyboards. AI agents are software tools; not people.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 26/08/2026

They are lowering US flags to half-mast for a week, but if the government really wants to pay tribute to Dolly, they should fund education, the arts, and medical research instead of trying to eradicate them.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Poignant moment as I enjoy reading Ready Player One while on vacation and come across a reference to RHPS, today of all days. RIP, Tim Curry.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was universally loved because she was a rich person who knew what it was like to be poor, stayed down to earth, and spent her life giving back to others who were less fortunate. The oligarchs who don’t understand why everyone hates them probably won’t learn from this. But they should

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thanks for this. Big fan of your work and newsletter. Didn’t know/remember you were in Canada. We’re fortunate to have you here.

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Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Just to be clear this is like saying "for this trade deal to go through, you must eliminate college football" level ask in our politics

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Trump imposes crushing new taxes on American consumers & businesses - compounding the toll of his failed unprovoked war with Iran by escalating his failed unprovoked trade war with our longtime staunchest ally and trade partner, and advancing global disorder. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...

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Canada-U.S. Trade War Escalates as Talks Collapse

Intense negotiations to stave off new levies by the Trump administration ended in an impasse as Mark Carney suspended talks. U.S. tariffs on Canada, and retaliatory tariffs on the U.S., will come into...

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Human in the loop" is another way of saying that one person will have to review the output of 10 workers' worth of LLM slop, and then that worker will be held responsible for errors made by the LLM. It's a scam.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Indeed. World models and neurosymbolic AI (h/t @garymarcus.bsky.social ) are worthy of much more attention and appreciation than they have right now.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 05/06/2026

If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues.

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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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Lou Mannheim @loumannheim87.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

No special treatment for Space X in the S&P 500! Just announced. Wow. That profitability requirement means it might never get in.

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Tech Field Day @techfieldday.com · 31/05/2026

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Caffeine. Also immediately reminded of “Where Wizards Stay Up Late” as a great book on Internet origins, by Katie Hefner.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 18/05/2026

Martin A. Brooks 🇺🇦
@mart_brooks
“This video demonstrates….”

How I want tech stuff explained to me in order of preference:

1) A well written technical document.
2) A maintained wiki.
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998) Spray painted on the side of a cow.
999) A video.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I like your golf posts/skeets/…. Keep them up :-)

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Wondering if we can collectively bring these timelines down, not unlike what we’ve done with certificates. Naturally we need to understand the constraints for releasing patches more quickly.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

“We’ll replace <app> with stuff we code ourselves!”

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Oh goodness, yes we will. I think about evolution of other critical infrastructure across history. There will be painful moments, but we will improve. I just hope we can do it with benefit of hindsight considering lessons from history.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

From fuzzing in 1989 to now… I truly hope this helps us move forward in terms of better practices around hardened environments. Secure by design/default is great, but only half the issue…

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I’m just waiting for the announcements from golf courses opening!

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Adam Frank @adamfrank4.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Great piece by astronomer and SETI leader Jason Wright on the endless, exhausting claims about 3I/Atlas by Avi Loeb. "zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong" sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

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Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained

Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft. He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Especially if the jedis want to work ATC. I read it as a notice about staffing related shortages at all those airports plus weather notice at the ones at bottom: winds, thunderstorms, low visibility. In other words, extra patience related to travel.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Thanks for sticking around and sharing your knowledge, even when having to deal with such things.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The realization that the good work I do is how I provide for my family. Simple, but works for me.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I’m a fan of knowing which work one should outsource. For us, we chose to pay others to do some yard work and some house cleaning. The “value of time” calculator from ClearerThinking.org was helpful for deciding. HTH.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Hoping for the best for you. We lost one of the boxes of stuff when we moved from Brazil to Canada ages ago. Most arrived ok, but one didn’t :-(

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Oh no! Hoping you can navigate as speedy a recovery as possible.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

You can tune a file system but you can’t tuna fish :-)

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This is heartbreaking. You’re 100% correct, of course.

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I wanted to find it. Tried Claude, no luck. Gemini pointed me to the TOMT community in Reddit but didn’t link the video. I found it searching there, thanks to some kind soul that posted 5y ago or something. :-)

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I'm really happy that a combination of AI and Reddit led me to find the video of a short ad I was looking for. Courtesy of Computer Associates, no less, I think it perfectly captures some of the key issues with cybersecurity nowadays. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNFt...

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Computer Associates Commercial: eTrust Sector 12

YouTube video by Charles Song

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Fernando Montenegro (he/him) @fsmontenegro.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Really clear, thank you for sharing. Hoping more people lean on it and adapt it to their environments.

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