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Luis

@gentlemangeek.me
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Creative Director at More Starch, Trekkie, Cat lover.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
what I had to say turned out not to be a column
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Something Like People
A poem
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
Your favorite Anthropic so-called "whistleblower" said that the rationalists have "specialized minds" that allow them to see that the end is about to be brought on to us by a magical machine god. Parroting the cult leader (of the rationalists, the R in TESCREAL) who says the same about himself.
His autobiography even opens with a parable: as a small child he threw his favorite squirtgun off a third-floor balcony rather than accept that his mother could lend out what was his, and felt complete when he heard it hit the pavement. He goes on to describes himself as a specialist in the technological transformation of the human species, one of the few people alive with the standing to steer it. He identifies with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the one person who sees the danger clearly and has to act while everyone else gets on with ordinary life.
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 02/10/2026
youtu.be/UVXywuDAZEY Incredible documentary on black Americans immigrating to Mexico. I have definitely noticed the trend in Mexico City.
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Why are black Americans moving to Mexico?
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 02/10/2026
This is so fucking stupid Audible
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People who believe LLMs are conscious are having one of the biggest AI meltdowns yet because someone is running a Saw-like torture chamber for LLMs on GitHub. Just before we published, GitHub took it down. GitHub hasn't said why www.404media.co/someone-tort...
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 26/09/2026
Oh man is this a talk that I can see online?
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 21/09/2026
There is some irony to the fact that you have inspired me with your hot punk rock whimsy, and yet you have been lacking in inspiration. Maybe it come back ten fold.
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel
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404 Media @404media.co · 21/09/2026
A Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
I have started being in the habit of asking who their other guests are & sometimes declining press requests after finding because the outlets I'd expect to be politically aligned with have been platforming literal eugenicist cultists to talk about "AI" and asking me to appear with or after them.
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 16/09/2026
You know when someone really cool and with a not small number of followers follows you and you feel like maybe you're cool now but then years later you realize they unfollowed and you wonder "was it something I wrote?"
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 16/09/2026
Love this
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 06/09/2026
What a gorgeous color on you.
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Chronicle of millions of deaths foretold: Exceeding human heat tolerance in a warming, ageing world: a global projection modelling study - The Lancet Planetary Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Exceeding human heat tolerance in a warming, ageing world: a global projection modelling study
Our results suggest accounting for age stratified vulnerability, intolerable heat will be experienced at much larger scales and for longer durations, affecting far more people than previously estimate...
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BGR @bgrcom.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Prime Video's The Peripheral, is based on William Gibson's cyberpunk novel of the same name, which was sadly canceled due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
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Amazon's Cyberpunk Series Based On A William Gibson Novel Deserved A Second Season - BGR
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 17/08/2026
This was fun.
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mcflynnthm @mcflynnthm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I obviously love @theverge.com and this is a great deal.
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TQ 🌿 @witchytq.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
they know we don't want it. they do not care.
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 09/08/2026
It's probably been a little over a year.And a half, but I think it's time for another west wing rewatch. My sould needs it.
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 08/08/2026
I suspect the RAMpocalyse is good for my wallet. Its forced a real evaluation of what tech i actually NEED vs Want.
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 08/08/2026
Don't ask ChatGPT. Ask a human instead. I am knowledgeable about: - design (creative director for 13 yrs) - consumer tech - Geekery (sci-fi films, TV, and books) - Gamer (RPGs, FPS, Retro Gaming (as in all the way to NES) - History and Politics Drop what people can ask you about #askahuman
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I understand 60 Minutes is a huge platform. But NYT sets the agenda for American politics and elite discourse. That gave Ross huge power. And he used it poorly and often disingenuously. Good riddance.
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 08/08/2026
Ah hell that made me smile. Here is to whimsy.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Very important and harrowing read about our world on fire.
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 06/06/2026
Yea that was INTENSE
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 10/05/2026
I love this movie
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 30/04/2026
All these gen z's cosplaying the 90s and not one has gone full 90s eyebrows.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/04/2026
"I went on Amazon and bought one of the cheapest, smallest DVD players available," our Wirecutter expert writes. "It was the best purchase I made in all of 2025." nyti.ms/4tUf18x
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My Favorite Streaming Service Is a DVD Player and My Library Card
A small, affordable DVD player can be an easy way to make use of once-beloved discs sitting around your apartment.
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 28/04/2026
Searching YT for Mr Blobby at near midnight might have just given me nightmares 😅
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WIRED @wired.com · 13/04/2026
As major news outlets including USA Today Co. and the New York Times restrict the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from archiving their stories, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the vast collection of web pages.
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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 13/04/2026
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# Tiny Happy Friction #4: Why I Broke Up with ChatGPT and Why You Should Too.
I don’t trust OpenAI.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/04/2026
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Sure; you might need a job to buy food and medicine and clothes for your children, but have you ever considered how you losing your job, your house and the ability to feed your children, all owing to AI, is actually a good thing because it makes people like Aravind richer?? HAVE YOU??
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/03/2026
The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.
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CEO Ignores Lawyers, Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Loses Terribly in Court
The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 14/03/2026
Fuck Disney
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The opposite of solarpunk
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/03/2026
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports
Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I have a piece out in @theguardian.com today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back with everything we have
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The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz
Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist ...
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 01/03/2026
Look at Margots little socks!!! #cats
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/02/2026
Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 15/02/2026
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Review by gentlemangeek - One Yellow Eye
There is something oddly apt about finishing this book on Valentines Day. It's a holiday that ...
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Unironically yes, LOWER DECKS is about how the response to the disappointments of the post-Cold War era and the complexity of the modern world should not be despair or cynicism but instead a recommitment to the original ideals of liberalism, thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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From Undiscovered Country to Nemesis: How Star Trek Reflects Society
It is a common cliche that Science Fiction says more about the present than it does the future, and perhaps no franchise embodies that more than Star Trek, which has always openly served as a socie…
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 12/02/2026
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Dumb Runner @dumbrunner.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I recorded this today, in Portland, Oregon, at a huge march to the ICE facility in SW. The crowd was full of cyclists who had ridden there in memory of Alex Pretti; members of several labor unions; and ordinary citizens of every age, including this little girl. So of course ICE deployed tear gas.
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 19/01/2026
I am moving away from streaming music and want to utilize my long dormant iTunes library but the music app sucks. Any recommendations for apps to organize a local music library on Windows. #music
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Luis @gentlemangeek.me · 09/01/2026
Friends good news you can always give less of your fucks.
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