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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The coffee has not kicked in - I am still confused on what happened on that kick off.

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It should not be easier to book a car with a pet than a kiddo. Period. Oliver agrees

Brussels griffon looking at camera sitting on chair.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Rachel is absolutely brilliant. But don’t take my word for it, buy a ticket & find out for yourself!

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Two changes are urgently needed. First: AI companies need to rely more on the safety expertise that already exists in other fields. And second, before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do. In a nuclear-power plant, the technical systems and rules people follow are set up so that, if equipment breaks or someone pushes the wrong button, we still won’t risk a meltdown. OpenAI and other labs are growing and deploying frontier AI with far less redundancy and rigor than this, even though the harm from an irreversible loss of control would be much greater than the harm from any single meltdown. Even short of a full loss of control, we could see autonomous swarms of AI agents that act without human permission. Imagine “rogue” agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep.

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So then let that be the grudge you hold - the generation after Dennis the menace cleaned up that river.

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now that river is clean. Cleaner than most actually. And that was 40+ years ago

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe I have been watching too many women’s health videos - but the one on the right is a no.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think we need to differentiate between “AI uses a lot of water!” (not necessarily bad on its own) and “AI stresses local water supplies” (a potentially real issue). The distinction is important because even “modest” use can cause serious issues, especially given the locations of data centers

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yea it’s nasty up here in the Bronx

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey if you are in NYC from out of town, thinking of leaving this weekend - I would try to get out tonight or at the latest tomorrow morning before the sun. See if you can your flight moved to an airport away from the storm that can be reached by train.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And this was the song my mom introduced Billy Joel to me with

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Still crushing those quick hopping misfits in the Bronx

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The absolute hubris of this man continues to shock me. I don’t know why.

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ash is an excellent follow if you are interested in what’s going on in Iran and the ME writ large, especially as it relates to shipping, trade, etc. He has been an excellent voice for seafarers as well.

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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 09/09/2026

‘The rush to dominate AI is starting to look like a trillion-dollar game of chicken. The one to watch is Oracle. It’s the weakest of the bunch financially and the most likely to blink first.’ www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 08/09/2026

All my dashboard alerts went off. Then this flashed up on AlJazeera. I think this will be another night of death and destruction… I will keep searching for confirmations - CENTCOM are usually fast to claim strikes in this area.

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Pre-me too I spoke up about my manager who was boinking a lateral female colleague and promoting based on her “skills” - which I wasn’t offering. We were all laid off. It sucked. I am stronger for it now.

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am from Pasco County (where the Osteen family is from) and which is not far from Citrus where they are now. Super proud of what that community did.

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

What about color work? I love the complexity of it - but I have only done accessories - not a full sweater tbh.

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

fyi. a good definition!

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The juxtaposition of him vs Dolly Parton is wild.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 30/08/2026

Biden managed to enact laws that Republicans voted against but then would go on to claim credit for in their home districts. Trump pushes policies so unpopular that Republicans do whatever they can to avoid talking about them in their home districts.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The situation in Haiti is terrifying. On Sunday, 150 gunmen swept down on a town to kill, rape, loot, and burn. 22 people were executed in a churchyard. 52 were taken hostage. Stephen Miller mockingly says Haiti is safe and ICE just sent its second deportation flight this month; with kids on board.

They arrived in silence, under cover of darkness, heavily armed as they surrounded the town and moved through Kenscoff’s rugged terrain and towering forests in the mountains above the Haitian capital. Numbering around 150, the gunmen swept through several locations as they made their way toward the center of the town, opening fire on resident who tried to flee. At least 13 people were shot and killed as the gunmen ran through downtown, according to an account by the United Nations human rights office. As more than 50 others sought refuge in L’Arche de la Nouvelle Alliance, a Protestant church that had been sheltering people already displaced by the violence, the gunmen pursued them. When they arrive, they forced residents from the church and executed 22 of them in its courtyard. A dozen others were killed behind the sanctuary. The attackers didn’t just stop there. Before withdrawing from downtown, an area encompassing City Hall and a Haiti National Police substation, they abducted at least 52 people, including a mother and her five children, as well as another mother and her infant. Children and elderly who could not run were killed inside their homes. Others were burned alive after gunmen set at least a dozen houses on fire, witnesses told the National Human Rights Defense Network. The attackers also shot horses and other livestock inside the rural enclave.

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Can she do virtual urgent care? Is someone working her that can help with setting that up?

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

It’s like the northern version of bless your heart

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Nate Pentz @natepentz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There is so much amazing crop art this year at the Minnesota State Fair focused on the resistance to the ICE occupation we faced, this one in particular had me choked up.

Crop art with a whistle text says

I can't keep doing this
I have to keep doing this

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The Capybaron, Seasonally Spooky @thecapybaron.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There once was a hitman from Sweden Who was, on the motorway, speedin’ His mark goes unwhacked, For in ironic fact, The killer’s the one who’s left bleedin’

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I am on a private plan in the US - I got a neuro consult - the earliest appointments I could get were March or October 2027.

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

But there is the 3 query freebie before you get the sign in prompt - don’t remember that from google.

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

But I think it’s hard to do that with all of the circular financing and deals that are happening. And understanding the actual demand for compute when they seem to be selling each other their excess compute.

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Does anyone understand any of the AI hyperscaler business models?

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Christine Mendonça @chrislmendonca.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I would add it was anyone in Sevier county - not just her hometown.

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