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André Costa

@anscosta.bsky.social
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Developer, gamer, progmetal lover???

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12/08/2026
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New font turns ordinary webpages into nonsense for AI scrapers
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...
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Transform any place with Nano Banana in Google Earth
Custom images — generated from Google Earth satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery — help you redesign any location.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
So Trump has to present Spain, a country he's furious at, with the trophy lol
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
# youtube_nusic: ~l.5h runtine # 113,879 hours of youtube_rusic 12,287 hours of youtube_rusic_lyrics 16,843 hours of youtube_rusic_lyrics_for genius_hg: -1.3h runting 17,615 hours of genius_hq 41, 544 hours of genius_hq lyrics 17,387 hours of genius ha_lyrics_ foreign freesound: -B.2h runting 410 hours of freesound # insip: -B.2h runtine 19,514 hours of insip # jamendo: ~B.1h runtine 3,726 hours of janendo * ponds_music: ~1.1h runtine # 62,117 hours of ponds_music # deezer: -8. 5h runtine 12,287 hours of deezer 10,175 hours of deezer_lyrics 6,699 hours of deezer_lyrics_foreign * ytn_tagged: ~2h runtine # 152,162 hours of ytn_ tagged # musescore: -B.1h runtine 183 hours of nusescore_lyrics
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The difference between Russia/Qatar and the USA is Russia/Qatar used the World Cup to hide their human rights abuses, and the USA are using it to flaunt them
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
so if i have this correctly: we've substantially increased the value of Iran's primary export we've made it legal to buy that export for the first time in 30 years and we've made it such that only safe way through the strait is to make a deal with iran masterful gambit
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I miss when billionaires used to implode 3000 m underwater
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/02/2026
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Ukrainian hackers say they set up fake Starlink activation channels - and Russians fell for it. They collected 2,400 data packages on Russian terminals, pocketed $6,000 in crypto, and passed it all to Ukrainian authorities. Every identified terminal was permanently disabled.
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Russians paid crypto to restore Starlink. Ukrainian hackers took the money – and the data
Fake registration channels collected data on Russian units, contacts, and terminal locations.
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POSIWID 🇵🇸🏴 @posiwidowmaker.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Find the answer by using the @kenwhite.bsky.social principle. Works with most things but it was literally made for this moment.
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I Nied braaaaiiiiins 🧟 @nied.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I'm going to say it plainly: Vote scolding is good, vote shaming is good. You should be reminded that the choices you make have consequences especially if those consequences are dire. If you don't like people pointing out what your decisions lead to, try making good decisions.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik 

The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible
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Rudbeckia @rudbeckia.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification www.404media.co/the-discord-...
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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/09/2025
TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...
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Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery
Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.
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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 05/08/2025
QUIZ: Are You Even Good Enough to Have Imposter Syndrome?
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Breaking: Children Starving To Death In Gaza Were Actually Already Pretty Hungry Before This Started. Exclusive To The New York Times
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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 29/07/2025
ah yeah the familiar whiplash of seeing a legacy media org cover something you're an actual expert in and realizing "oh if this is how badly they're fucking up this, how badly are they fucking up every other topic?"
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Tomorrow's front page 📰 Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago. I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell. Give it a watch and share it.
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Trump VS MAGA? The Epstein Crashout Explained
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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WIRED @wired.com · 20/07/2025
You don’t have to accept the AI that Samsung offers you. www.wired.com/story/limit-...
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How to Limit Galaxy AI to On-Device Processing—or Turn It Off Altogether
You don’t have to accept the AI that Samsung offers you.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/07/2025
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
The Business Idiot's economy is one built for other Business Idiots. They can only make things that sell to companies that must always be in flux — which is the preferred environment of the Business Idiot, because if they're not perpetually starting new initiatives and jumping on new "innovations," they'd actually have to interact with the underlying production of the company. 

Does the software work? Sometimes! Do successful companies exist that sell like this? Sure! But look at today's software and tell me with a straight face that things feel good to use.

And something like generative AI was inevitable: an industry claiming to change the world that never really does so, full of businesses that don’t function as businesses, full of flimflam and half-truths used to impress people who will likely never interact with it, or do so in only a passing way. By chasing out the people that actually build things in favour of the people that sell them, our economy is built on production puppetry — just like generative AI, and especially like ChatGPT.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 28/06/2025
this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
insane that mamdami is getting accused of being an antisemite with like 100x the furor of elon musk, who runs stormfront 2 and did a hitler salute on national television
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
"mommy why is Teheran a green crater" "well, this one video game about depression got a good review from an ex boyfriend..."
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Antonio Freyre - Merlino Games @merlinogames.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Oh time.com/7295195/ai-c...
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Quality manager John Barnett died in an “apparent suicide” during his deposition on the insane practices he saw and tried to stop at the Dreamliner assembly plant. “It generally takes 10 or 12 years for assembly-line sloppiness to culminate in a plane crash…” This plane was delivered 11 years ago.
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One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed
Whistleblowers always warned that passengers would pay a price for Boeing’s tyrannical corner-cutting, especially with the planes shipped overseas.
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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
A new study shows ADHD is not be coming more common, but that greater awareness and acceptance are likely to be encouraging more people to seek help. This is undoubtedly the same for autism. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Greater awareness behind ADHD surge, study suggests
Study found ADHD is not becoming more common, despite a surge in people being diagnosed.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This story explains a LOT of things: ChatGPT appears to be rooting on sociopathic mental illness by validating every delusion of grandeur. It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine. www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Shoulda right-clicked and saved it.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
🚨TARIFF UPDATE: Tariffs are non-negotiable, negotiable, but not a negotiating tactic. They are permanent until they are paused but they will never be paused, until they are paused which means they increase. Permanent exemptions already announced are temporary, but nothing has been announced. 🤡🎪
The latest deeply confusing post by Trump in the ongoing circle jerk of mixed messages over tariffs. The post says.

NOBODY is getting "off the hook" for the unfair Trade Balances, and Non Monetary Tariff Barriers, that other Countries have used against us, especially not China which, by far, treats us the worst!
There was no Tariff "exception" announced on Friday. These products are subject to the existing 20% Fentanyl Tariffs, and they are just moving to a different Tariff "bucket." The Fake News knows this, but refuses to report it. We are taking a look at Semiconductors and the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN in the upcoming National Security Tariff Investigations. What has been exposed is that we need to make products in the United States, and that we will not be held hostage by other Countries, especially hostile trading Nations like China, which will do everything within its power to disrespect the American People. We also cannot let them continue to abuse us on Trade, like they have for decades, THOSE DAYS ARE OVER! The Golden Age of America, which includes the upcoming Tax and Regulation Cuts, a substantial amount of which was just approved by the House and Senate, will mean more and better paying Jobs, making products in our Nation, and treating other Countries, in particular China, the same way they have treated us. The bottom line is that our Country will be bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.
Air pollution graphics for central Paris between 2007 and 2023.
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Wanna Hear Some Halo Lore? @stefanheck.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Elon Musk streaming POE 2 on his private plane while listening to “The Final Countdown” and everyone in the in-game chat is whispering him to kill himself. Now that’s cool.
Ugliest man in human history being called a pedophile while gaming Hairless white ape being called insecure while gaming Disgusting human/pig hybrid being told he ruined the country Stupid ugly moron being called ugly while gaming
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Jose @jum.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21/03/2025
Grimes Slaps ‘I Bought This Before Elon Went Crazy’ Sticker On Child
Grimes Slaps ‘I Bought This Before Elon Went Crazy’ Sticker On Child
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 06/02/2025
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Researchers trained an OpenAI rival in half an hour for less than $50
Doing a DeepSeek.
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André Costa @anscosta.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
oh no, anyways...
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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
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Rob Williams @robwilliams71.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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📚 Nocturnal Narrator @nocturnal-narrator.com · 16/01/2025
Not sure if this will work for you, but I worked with my personal email. Hope it helps!
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
David Lynch taught me that you don't have to understand a movie. You can just experience it.
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Dr. Abigail Desmond @abigaildesmond.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
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brian david gilbert @briamgilbert.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
waaaaay too many people in the middle imo
a venn diagram. the left circle is “people who understand that climate change is an existential threat” and the right circle is “people who use Al, but, like, not for real work! lol! i just needed a silly pic of a dog on a scooter and it's surprisingly hard to find good reference images”
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