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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"I don't know how much longer I'll be able to continue making a fortune by voluntarily staying at a company that is barreling full-speed ahead with something most of us believe will have catastrophic consequences."
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 21/09/2026
When you talk to an AI, you are talking to the company hosting the AI, EFF’s @falsemirror.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy told @WIRED.com. “These chat windows—that we’re used to being connections between us and another person—are really just us directly putting information into Meta servers about ourselves.”
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Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
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Dr J. Rosenbaum @jrosenbaum.com.au · 22/06/2026
I don't know how to get through to most people that we are closer to being homeless than we are to being billionaires. Everyone becomes disabled at some point therefore disability is an everyone issue.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The NYT Alan Greenspan obituary says he oversaw "a period of immense wealth creation." In reality, his time at the Fed from 1987-2006 was a period of average GDP growth — BUT the growth that there was flooded to America's richest people, making them think it was a period of immense wealth creation.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 22/06/2026
One of the 15 defendants in Minnesota indicted on "Antifa" charges for allegedly standing up to ICE is simply accused of writing an article we published about the murder of Renee Good. The author describes an ICE agent shooting a pepper ball at his eye, point-blank. You can read the article here:
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Minneapolis Responds to ICE Committing Murder
On January 7, 2026, an ICE agent murdered Renee Good. This is an account from a participant in the protests that broke out on scene of the murder.
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dvs @devious.computer · 18/06/2026
Call it the Ed was right victory lap
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dvs @devious.computer · 18/06/2026
The stigma certainly isn't fading in my social circles. And I'm happy to remind anyone who has forgotten how shameful these things are to actually buy and wear.
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dvs @devious.computer · 04/06/2026
Disgusting behavior.
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Jericho @attrition.org · 30/04/2026
InfoSec News (ISN) Mail List History As early as 1996, I created a mail list called InfoSec News (ISN) which initially was to share news about the industry. At the time, there were no online news sites covering the topic with any regularity and most were hobbies at best. So the original list had…
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InfoSec News (ISN) Mail List History
As early as 1996, I created a mail list called InfoSec News (ISN) which initially was to share news about the industry. At the time, there were no online news sites covering the topic with any regularity and most were hobbies at best. So the original list had many articles that I had typed in by hand from print InfoSec magazines.
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dvs @devious.computer · 13/04/2026
I remember when he was campaigning for his first term and people wrote about how the media needs to avoid adopting his speech patterns and framing, even if only to mock it. They did it anyway. Now look where we are.
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dvs @devious.computer · 13/04/2026
Happy birthday!
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CJ Trowbridge @cjtrowbridge.com · 08/04/2026
Use old cell phones as AI servers
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dvs @devious.computer · 19/03/2026
Maybe just stop using dating apps? Get out of the house. Do something you enjoy. Meet other people who share your interests. Make friends. Maybe wind up dating one of them. Who knows? Couldn't be worse than sitting at home, swiping on your phone.
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Larry MacDougall @larry-macdougall.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Armoured Mice take down a Carrion Range Trawler in the snow. Work continues on third Gwelf book, The Haunted Garden. More soon. Tally Ho!
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Nikita @elitenikita.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I didn’t spend the last 22.5 years of my life in the hacker community, organizing the world’s most complicated hacker convention, because I wanted things to stay the same. Don’t be a little bitch, DISOBEY.
Picture of awesome high school boy who punched a pro-ice antagonist in the face. He’s drawing this fist back to punch, the Text says “OKAY”. Context: he was told “you’ll get in trouble” after he said “i’m gonna punch you in the face”, spoiler alert he punched that douche canoe anyway.
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dvs @devious.computer · 13/02/2026
Hanging at Hacker Feud @ WWHF
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dvs @devious.computer · 13/01/2026
I’m doing well enough all things considered. Between jobs but making do. How about you?
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including
citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them
ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the
president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal
government doesn't act extrajudicially.
Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”
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dvs @devious.computer · 12/01/2026
I vehemently agree with you. My only hope is that we find as gentle a path through what's coming as possible.
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dvs @devious.computer · 12/01/2026
It was a terrible year. Subsequent years just happen to have been progressively worse. That's why this has been my favorite meme for the last decade.
two panel meme. top panel shows a person wearing goggles and a mask which conceals their entire face. a caption reads "hey friend listen, I know the world is scary right now but. bottom panel shows a closeup of the aforementioned person staring directly into the camera. caption reads "it's gonna get way worse"
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dvs @devious.computer · 20/12/2025
Yeah, so... The epilogue of my trip is... After @defcon.bsky.social I came back to Denver and I've been here ever since. I'm still looking for work, but I'm doing my damnedest to stay in the 303 for the long term.
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titsay 𓆏 @titsay.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
i am meant to love
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dvs @devious.computer · 02/08/2025
I made it to Denver Thursday evening, meet up with friends, and has a great time. Yesterday, a friend and I went to an animal sanctuary. Today, I’m resting. Then, I get on the road to Vegas with a caravan of friends.
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dvs @devious.computer · 01/08/2025
I left Reno last night. I’ve been on this bus for the last 21 hours through Salt Lake City and Cheyenne on my way to Denver. I’m almost there.
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dvs @devious.computer · 31/07/2025
I got into Reno a few hours ago. Since I have a several hours long layover here, I went to the National Automobile Museum. They have a great collection of cars. Including some vehicles that belonged to Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, creator of Rat Fink.
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dvs @devious.computer · 30/07/2025
I’ve got a layover in Reno for a few hours. Any suggestions on where to eat or a patio I can sit on for a while?
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dvs @devious.computer · 30/07/2025
Good morning! I made it to Sacramento. I’m now on a bus heading to Reno. I saw some beautiful Northern California scenery. Like Shasta Lake.
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dvs @devious.computer · 30/07/2025
I’m in Portland waiting on a bus to Sacramento. Have a couple pictures of the Columbia River Gorge.
Photograph of Columbia River. View framed by pine trees on either side. In the mode of the river is a small island sparsely covered with treesMountain with step like cliffs and pine trees at the top and in front
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dvs @devious.computer · 29/07/2025
I’m currently boarding a Greyhound bus to head to #HackerSummerCamp. I’ll be staying in Denver Thursday to Saturday before heading on to Vegas. If anyone wants hang out in either city, let me know. @defcon.bsky.social @bsideslv.org
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dvs @devious.computer · 20/07/2025
I will be at hacker summer camp this year, attending @bsideslv.org and @defcon.bsky.social. Anyone wanna hang out?
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dvs @devious.computer · 12/07/2025
I need this sticker
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emily dare ૮₍・ɷ・₎ა artist @artbyemilydare.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Asexual Possum 🖤🩶🤍💜
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
New MIT study with young adults (mostly college students) finds a clear "cognitive cost" of using ChatGPT to write essays: less satisfaction, less inclination to think critically, and lower levels of brain connectivity (based on EEG analysis) as compared with those who wrote without AI: is.gd/R9t7XS
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SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Stay safe and stay sharp gang.
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emily dare ૮₍・ɷ・₎ა artist @artbyemilydare.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Protect Trans kids!! 🏳️‍⚧️🩵🩷🤍✨
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SorryHat @sorryhat.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Lunch sketch.
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emily dare ૮₍・ɷ・₎ა artist @artbyemilydare.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Rainbow Possum for Pride 🏳️‍🌈✨
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Jason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Kudos to the bird that managed to shit an image of itself onto this bloke's car.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
reminder, bsky has a clever way to display pronouns that's built in! but you only see them if you yourself opt in, so please feel free to here by subscribing and then choosing which applies!! @pronouns.diy
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pikaole @pikaole.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🪶 Tea party crows 🐦‍⬛
Crows and baby crows are enjoying a tea party. There are delicious-looking desserts and black tea. The surroundings are decorated with ribbons and roses. The atmosphere is sparkly, peaceful, and happy.
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WizardAFA @wizardafa.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday
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dvs @devious.computer · 10/05/2025
I used to make extensive use of lists over on the other place. Feeds look fun but I'm not ready to mess with them yet. Gonna start casually building some lists here.
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dvs @devious.computer · 10/05/2025
Thing is, the USPS was self-sustaining until 2013 when Republicans passed a law requiring it to prefund its retiree health care benefits 75 years in advance, paying for retirement health care for individuals who haven’t been born yet, let alone enter the workforce. apwu.org/usps-fairnes...
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Support the USPS Fairness Act
For over a decade, the United States Postal Service has been plagued with the onerous burden of prefunding its retiree health care benefits as mandated by the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act...
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dvs @devious.computer · 09/05/2025
This is my resume now. Hire me.
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Simon Hintermann @aurumek.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Your daily dose of escapism 🌿
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dvs @devious.computer · 02/05/2025
It’s exactly this easy.
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dvs @devious.computer · 30/04/2025
I appreciate what you’re doing. Please keep it up!
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.” - Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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