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anna (they/them)

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situation monitorer, video essay sommelier, tea drinker, hospital connoisseur, policy wink. professional cyber poaster at @css.ethz.ch. arguably a political scientist; civilian but i know ball. zurich, sometimes london. personal profile itsallcyber.baby

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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 34m
would you rather fight a nuke-sized mantis shrimp or a hundred shrimp-sized nukes
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 1h
not a good few days to be online much. i’m ok, just don’t want to be inundated with cornell 7 news. for sort of obvious reasons
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19h
I believe fraternity hazing and military hazing and sports team hazing where men abuse each other is acclimating them into a broader culture of abuse where they will then believe it is their right to abuse other more vulnerable people. It’s so insidious. And that’s also why I think men defend it
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 29/09/2026
no you know what actually it’s my fault for reinstalling instagram
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 29/09/2026
“you put the trans in transhumanist” - my partner
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 29/09/2026
entrance to waiting room, new department / new hospital building, any% speedrun: 6 minutes
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 26/09/2026
the cartoon of a guy saying yea
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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, but if you bring gypsum - or any damn mineral below 3 on the Mohs scale at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 26/09/2026
hello [symptom] my old friend
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 25/09/2026
you know what’s nice? a set of negative test results that’s actually dispositive for once!
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 25/09/2026
i didn’t understand smoking until i got my first job
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internet freds 🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
we need so many stronger privacy protections for where technology keeps heading.
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 24/09/2026
here, timeline cleanser
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Blind Ranking Numbers (James Grime)
YouTube video by Numberphile
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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
these are not “autonomous” attacks: they are failures by humans to implement appropriate controls for the computers acting on their behalf, and we must not forget it.
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 24/09/2026
you know i'm right
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noforn is the dumbest marking
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 24/09/2026
ghoulish.
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 23/09/2026
man, nobody fucking does it and i really don’t understand. it’s such a cheap and easy way to prevent illness. it’s barely inconvenient. i truly don’t get it
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 23/09/2026
you know what’s expensive? rugs
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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 22/09/2026
A friend sent me this one last night.
Post:

unbearable experience @paso • Sep 17
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just remembered that time i was stealth mode at a conference and this guy asked me how come i 'decided to work on trans communities as a cis gay man' and i panicked and just replied 'well, marxism' to which he just said
'right of course

Reply:

river
@KuwaCos
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disco elysium roll
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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.
 
it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 22/09/2026
making lecture slides
Another disclaimer

We will not be talking about Al today

I imagine you will have discussed Al more than extensively at your jobs and that it will be discussed often in other parts of this course 

plus Al is very far from my research agenda

Consider this your two-hour vacation from thinking about Al!
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 21/09/2026
not to reheat @faineg.com's nachos, but genuinely, how are you supposed to tell people 'oh coxon probably just resigned to get a reverse gangbang from aella' - or other such things - to people who are not online? is there a good and authoritative explainer somewhere?
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 20/09/2026
planes: fucking love them
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Kung Hei FYat Choy!-Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I just think we should monitor the situation in all domains.
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 19/09/2026
it’s really true, btw. if people read you as rich, they’ll want to give you free stuff.
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 19/09/2026
@r0wdy.sk33t.expert
photo of an ad on the tube in london (victoria line). the ad is for PostHog, formatted like a tabloid frontpage, and reads: “just like your codebase, AI wrote this”
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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s not often an economics conference keynote makes me laugh out loud.
So that's the strategic choice, but at some level, eventually, we do need to try to understand what's driving this. And that's where, if I can make a plea, I do think we need to bring the international relations people into these discussions. Yeah, they don't do quantitative models. They have an annoying addiction to 2 x 2 matrices, but they are smart. They've thought about it a lot and have actually picked up some aspects of international interdependence that I think economists have neglected.
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 19/09/2026
ok zurich time. come on
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 18/09/2026
You know what’s an actual existential threat to humanity? Climate change. Weirdly, I don’t see the same people worrying about that. Odd. Wonder why that might be
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 18/09/2026
geography final boss
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Fine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Threads like this highlight how correct we were for hating the tech press throughout the 2010s and early 2020s for being entirely captured by the industry they purported to cover. Kara Swisher should never be able to show her face without being asked how she ignored this for more than a decade.
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Isabel J. Kim @isabel.kim · 16/09/2026
random rat/ea garbage ive been keeping tabs on since i was sixteen should NOT be relevant to geopolitics and yet every day i read posts on the internet and on websites also
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 16/09/2026
worlds most predictable idiot
screenshot from the app “flighty” showing upcoming flights on the zurich-london and vice versa route, and one doing zurich-venice.
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 15/09/2026
let me contribute to the meme conversation, this deserves to go international.
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Se Nel Mondo Esistesse Un Pò Di Bene
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 15/09/2026
My Flat Is Coming Together Holy Shit I’m So Proud
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 15/09/2026
at least i’ve got some cool options for two truths and a lie
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 13/09/2026
i get to spend like six hours on trains tomorrow. europemaxxing
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 13/09/2026
it just started raining here exactly as i come home with two suitcases worth of stuff (i’m completing my move via tram) i foresee a wildly cosy night in folks!!
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qntm @qntm.org · 09/09/2026
AI streamlines lying. It stems from an institutional culture of habitual lying and not caring about lying. It comes from the top
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 13/09/2026
I found a Rarity-85 word worth 95 pts in OUTLIER. OUTLIER · 888 points · 10 rare words. 1 find no one else found today. auspicious asf playoutlier.com/s/CNENYY
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OUTLIER · Day 115
gravityfalse scored 888 on Day 115. Can you beat them?
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 11/09/2026
im not gonna scroll the tl, sorry mutuals, you cant make me feel angry about the world tonight. i've been building bookshelves. the Vision for my new place is coming together. vibes are good
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 10/09/2026
first grocery run from the new flat. the aldi is very conveniently located with public transport. yet another anna w
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 10/09/2026
what this website wants me to post about today: - kirk - brent prices going stonks - iphone foldables - whatever the fuck trump is up to this week what i want to post about today: - i don't want to jinx it but we are inching ever closer to my pet project being greenlit for like two years aaaaaaaaaa
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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 10/09/2026
Scoop: NATO allies foil Russian subsea cable sabotage plot www.reuters.com/world/europe... By @gramslattery.bsky.social & Sarah Mcfarlane.
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: NATO allies foil Russian subsea cable sabotage plot
Deep in Arctic waters near the remote Svalbard archipelago this spring, NATO allies caught Russian subs training to unleash a secret weapon designed to disable critical undersea cables without leaving...
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 10/09/2026
is that good bsky.app/profile/rory...
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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anna (they/them) @annapagnacco.com · 09/09/2026
why yes, i am perfectly happy to be awake at 4am, why are you asking
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