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Andreas Flierl

@andreas.flierl.eu
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Software developer. Wannabe musician. Gamer. He/him. “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” ― Albert Camus

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Sam Logan @samandfuzzy.com · 4h
When it rains, it pours
Skull Panda is walking outdoors. When it starts to rain. He opens his umbrella. But when he does, a bunch of tiny little open umbrellas start raining out of it and hitting him. He closes the umbrella. Then a bunch of tiny closed umbrellas start raining out of the sky.
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
This collective LLM delusion is completely baffling to me. People are talking like truth, correctness, precision, performance, security… none of it matters anymore. Generating a lie is «good enough». Wtf is wrong with people? If correctness doesn’t matter, why would I pay you? A wrong answer is free
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 13h
A light brown and white lop-eared bunny rests outside in sunlit grass with daisies.
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Hillel @hillelwayne.com · 9h
I have a new blog post! This is a response to the current formal methods hype and explains what TLA+ is good for and what it's not designed to check. buttondown.com/hillelwayne/...
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What TLA+ can and can't check
Let's chill just a little bit on the "TLA+ will save AI from itself" narrative
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Andreas Flierl @andreas.flierl.eu · 9h
BTW in case you hadn't noticed: search engines do not find things anymore unless they are on major commercial platforms (including "social" networks).
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 18h
Nobody past the age of twenty should be obsessed with what people majored in in college and see it as the single defining choice that entirely shapes someone, deterministically, for all time
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🌱Apothecarius🌿 @ladyphthalo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let me out of this dystopian fever-dream.
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Titania @titaniasrealm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All set for cozy season 🎨 Jamie Lauby
Illustration of a chipmunk standing in front of a cozy tree hollow home, surrounded by mushrooms. There is an acorn lantern in the window, and a kettle on the stove can be seen inside the door.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots.
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Quote Investigator @quoteinvestigator.com · 29/09/2026
Art is born of constraint, lives by struggle, and dies of freedom Who composed this maxim: André Gide? Albert Camus? Leonardo da Vinci What does it mean? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/09/29/a...
Mosaic version of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
if you’re a dude thinking “i’ve never done anything disgusting” (citations needed) then you’ve more than likely sat there quietly while your friend did something disgusting or bragged about doing something disgusting. you cannot absolve yourself.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
AI coding's actual use case is enterprise software proceeding with vastly greater velocity from dumb idea to unshiftable tech debt waste dump the stuff was always terrible and barely worked, but we can churn it so much faster now
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Element @element.io · 29/09/2026
A wonderfully detailed write-up of French local authorities' push to replace WhatsApp with Matrix from @billgoodwin.bsky.social at @computerweekly.bsky.social, who spoke with @adullact.bsky.social's Matthieu Faure about the project and what the future holds. www.computerweekly.com/news/3666512...
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French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging | Computer Weekly
French local authorities to deploy a ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech.
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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 29/09/2026
base rate fallacy strikes again (lol, the timestamp in the url www.schneier.com/blog/archive...)
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Terrorists, Data Mining, and the Base Rate Fallacy - Schneier on Security
I have already explained why NSA-style wholesale surveillance data-mining systems are useless for finding terrorists. Here’s a more formal explanation: Floyd Rudmin, a professor at a Norwegian univers...
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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 29/09/2026
Who could have guessed.
Guardian headline "Trial of live facial recognition in London station ends with a false positive and no arrests"
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026
Your daily reminder - the Norwegian Consumer Council has really, really solid work on how to be anti-enshittification www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/
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Breaking Free
In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it.
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gabby @fullmoon.id · 28/09/2026
I know I keep saying this, but people who claim that "specs are the new code" haven't actually sat down and read these fucking specs Every time I scratch the surface of these claims the underlying specs are garbage. The absolute sloppiest of slop
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Haskell programming language @haskell.org · 28/09/2026
In case you missed it: "CloudMicroHaskell: Direct-Style Distributed Haskell with MicroHs" www.krook.dev/posts/cmh/po...
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CloudMicroHaskell: Direct-Style Distributed Haskell with MicroHs
Learn how CloudMicroHaskell brings Cloud Haskell-style distributed programming to MicroHs through runtime graph serialization, remote spawning, servers, and supervisors.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
i think that the end goal of a lot of tech companies at this point is to destroy any point social or psychological mediation the individual has left, such that there are any only atomized individuals connected by computer networks, with the tech company oligarch as the owner or operator of said nets
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J. Hrebinka (Shanahan) 🇺🇦🇯🇴 @enceladosaurus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This! I've struggled to our my finger on why some "X in STEM" features/events bother me. Beyond "women in STEM" stuff still including me despite me being non-binary (and no, non-binary is not woman-lite), Dr. Guest describes it perfectly. It's feeling like the object of study instead of an equal.
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Andreas Flierl @andreas.flierl.eu · 28/09/2026
It tells you something about the state of music notation software that the de facto exchange format is XML.
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Clumsy Ninja 📚 @clumsyninja.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
TL:DR "The Anthropic scientists... said that their A.I. had taken 'the first steps of a biological discovery on its own.' Dr. Mestre disputed that claim. 'They are the same systems we have been studying for years' and are the same enzymes that he had described to Anthropic’s A.I."
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We should let people dream of something besides labor
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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 28/09/2026
Really disappointing to see so many games colleagues repeating rhetoric that "AI" is "inevitable" Strongly recommend people engage with the history of "inevitability" politics: bsky.app/profile/leen...
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❌👑 Bernadette🫘🟧💙🐈‍⬛ @vintageknits.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/09/2026
"Which social groups are harmed? What natural resources are consumed? Who makes profit?" If you're not asking this in discussions about technology then the answer to what will happen is predictable (see above): unhinged misogyny, eugenics — supposedly all the things you were trying to depart from.
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We didn’t uninvent filling buildings with asbestos or putting lead in all the gasoline and paint. You’re allowed to stop doing harmful things and it’s possible to do so.
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this is, unironically, probably the biggest difference between fascists and liberals. fascists are delighted with all the harm they cause, while liberals continuously look at the trolley problem with sorrow and let the trolley kill 15 poor people because stopping it might be bad for shareholders
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/09/2026
It's also so ahistorical. People just used to walk away and never call or write all the time.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026
> In most fields where the consequences for error are serious, human performance is not 99% accuracy or 99.9% accuracy; it's 99.99% accuracy or better.
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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 27/09/2026
The moral panic around estrangement is backlash against the small amount of cultural progress we have made for familial abuse survivors. Against the idea that parents don't get to hurt their kids, against the absolute tyranny of the heteropatriarchal family.
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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 27/09/2026
sorry, some big AI vendors went on record *in court* recently saying their products are a world-historic act of theft and we're still supposed to treat this as a legitimate technology?
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Simon S. Andersen @snakepixel.art · 21/09/2026
Anyway! #pixelart #ドット絵
A pixel-art scene from Street Fighter 3 Third Strike with Lottie the calico cat fighting the character Ruy. She's already cleared the first round with a no-hit perfect. Good job.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/09/2026
Once you realise patriarchy is ancient greek or older, many things click into place.
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daily bunnies 🐇✨ @dailybunnies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Close-up of a brown bunny’s nose, whiskers, and mouth.
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming
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shanley @shanley.com · 19/05/2026
Things that happened to me immediately after I said Marc Andreessen needs to be removed from power in an interview with the MIT Tech Review, the most prestigious tech publication in our industry:
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Andreas Flierl @andreas.flierl.eu · 26/09/2026
Why I find Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson (to name just two of my favorite musicians) so inspiring: there is no shortcut to achieving this level of mastery. You have to put in the long, lonely hours and pour your heart into it consistently over decades to get that good.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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ZomBean @bigbeannrg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Awake but at what cost
Cat lying down with eyes looking offscreen
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"meet your new ai agent!" no. fuck you. fuck off. eat bee piss and then the bees. fuck you
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gabby @fullmoon.id · 25/09/2026
all of us people sick of fixing others' LLM slop need to form a union or something
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Axels15 @axels15.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I can't believe our world is being destroyed by assholes who can't remember their own fucking address or phone number.
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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 24/09/2026
This is the status of software engineering in 2026 mouse.dev/blog/muse-ru...
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I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB | Mouse
I asked Muse to archive the files it could see and send them to my Google Drive. It did.
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Marina Weisband @afelia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ich weigere mich, dass Juden instrumentalisiert werden, um progressive Politik und gerechte Mieten zu verhindern. Es ist so offensichtlich vorgeschoben, dass es beleidigend ist.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 23/09/2026
Meta unsure why women not buying pervert glasses
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Meta unsure why women not buying pervert glasses
MENLO PARK, CA — As Meta’s totally cool, definitely-not-creepy smart glasses become more popular with tech bros and straight-up pervs, the tech company is reportedly baffled as to why their glasses wh...
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