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Gabriel

@gmarkoff.bsky.social
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Living in SF, not a tech bro. Personal account - all stated views are my own. Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every French presidential poll LADY HITLER - 35% JEAN D'AUSTÉRITÉ - 18% CHUD COMMUNISTE - 17%
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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The billionaire controlled SF DCCC is so corrupted. The latest: “The same month she blocked a resolution calling for restrictions on Flock Safety, the chairperson of the SF Democratic Party accepted a $10,000 donation from a tech mogul bankrolling the police department’s surveillance deployment”
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SF Dem Party chair who blocked key Flock vote got donation from surveillance backer
Nancy Tung spoke at a conference hosted by the camera company in the weeks before the vote.
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 28/09/2026
I think if you meaningfully punish OpenAI & co for all of these cyberattacks then they will stop doing them. Whether or not you want to anthropomorphize the agents, you gotta just land there.
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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Another big Wiener fan
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
burned into the flesh as a mark of the devil for all who wear them
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
whenever I fuck up and do some stupid shit at work I'm going to start saying I "went rogue"
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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
While the nation turns against Flock and mass surveillance, SF’s Democratic Central Committee—a body with two Flock employees on it—just voted to double down on Flock and mass surveillance. SF Democratic Party leadership is a disgrace right now. Completely captured by conservative tech oligarchs.
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Flock is under fire. SF’s moderate Democrats are doubling down on the cameras
Flock has lost contracts in many blue cities, but San Francisco leaders are largely defending SFPD’s use of surveillance devices.
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters
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Gabriel @gmarkoff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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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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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
You know, when politicians are term-limited out sometimes they do what’s in their heart, and he’s got nothing but love for throwing out homeless people’s stuff, eliminating jobs with that merger, and killing women
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026
ya I'm a swiftie. 🪶
a white swift flying towards the camera and taking a bite with mouth open. I'm a fan of those birds.
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is human trafficking on a massive scale.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 22/09/2026
Of the billionaires By the billionaires For the billionaires Newsom 2028
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Mom Friend S. Pumpkins @momfriend64.northsky.social · 22/09/2026
The one-two punch of Gavin Newsome allowing Trump ally Larry Ellison to have control of all of Paramount and Warner Brothers/HBO, and him vetoing a bill that would protect gender care doctors from being extradited to other states for criminal charges How again is this different than a Republican?
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026
Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 21/09/2026
donald trump: i love this guy more than literally all my relatives and wives mamdani: this is the first time in my life that i can't make myself smile
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Gabriel @gmarkoff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Been rewatching Seven Samurai in pauses (it’s very long) and damn does it hold up. Still just crazy how good Mifune is in it as Kikuchiyo, can’t imagine anyone else doing that role.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Today at 12:30, Wilber called his wife to tell her that he had been shot,” Lincoln-Goldfinch said in an earlier interview late Sunday. “And he was yelling in agony, and the call cut off. That was all she knew.”
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Cheryl by the Sea 🌊 @peachycheryl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thanks for the reminder. For those who don’t know the story 👇 Hopefully this merger will forever end Bonta’s future political aspirations. Not much of a consolation compared to Bonta selling out 🇺🇸 press diversity. oaklandside.org/2024/07/03/a...
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AG Rob Bonta received campaign funds from owners of Oakland karaoke bar raided for drugs, sex trafficking
Music Cafe and its managers—targeted for ketamine sales and sex trafficking in 2018—provided California’s top law enforcement officer with $37,000.
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Gabriel @gmarkoff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If anyone is surprised by Rob Bonta being a coward sellout who turns traitor, don’t be. When the going gets tough Bonta gets going, it happens every time
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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Lindsay Dusard @lindsaydusard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
three called 911 for help.
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Matt Jordan @itsmattjordan.com · 19/09/2026
Me when it's time to defend Tillamook
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🚨Press reports state AGs are negotiating to settle their suit against the Paramount-WBD merger.🚨 "Here’s what every politician negotiating in backrooms should understand: People won’t forget who stood up for them and who capitulated" @jgo4justice.bsky.social www.freepress.net/news/free-pr...
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Free Press Calls on Attorney Generals Not to Cave to Ellison’s Extortion
The reported deal would abandon the thousands of creatives and workers who risked speaking out and the tens of millions of consumers the attorneys general should be fighting for.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
"what if the democrats become labour on trans rights" is the nightmare scenario for trans people in the united states and avoiding that is why I think we need to continue pushing back on dems who waver as hard as possible
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Gabriel @gmarkoff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Accidentally bumping right into the flat, smooth, non-jagged end of a steel bar hurts like hell, but I’ve watched a lot of movies and tv shows where the hero shrugs off getting stabbed, so all I can conclude is stabbing probably hurts less.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
RFK Jr. wants people to get sick. He wants them to get sick and he thinks it is a good thing if they die, since those who live will have "natural immunity" and emerge stronger and fitter.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Logging off the zoom meeting
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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 17/09/2026
While the mayor’s on Instagram touting block parties with Train, SF artists at the fringes say real support has been elusive. “We were all living in an era of cookie crumbs keeping us somewhat sustained and now we have no crumbs,” says filmmaker Maria Judice. www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...
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Forget Lurie’s Boosterism. SF Artists Say Only DIY Organizing Can Save the Scene
While the mayor boasts about Vogue World as a win for the local “creative community,” one thing’s never been more clear: A healthy art scene can’t depend on politicians or wealthy donors.
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Gabriel @gmarkoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Wages of Fear (1953)
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
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 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
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https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
if we’re still pretending that Mitch McConnell is alive then we should be able to criticize him for his silence on the anniversary of 9/11
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Butt Praxis @buttpraxis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Yeah the endgame here is very obviously the destruction of girls’ sports by making them sites of mandatory sexual abuse and it is really blackpilling how many people are going along with it out of fear of trans people or their hope for little Christleigh getting a track scholarship to Azusa state
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
sikhs were beat up for supposedly being muslim. muslims were branded terrorist cells. democrats were sent anthrax and called pro-terrorist for opposing invading iraq. this post-9/11 unity you always hear republicans, democrats and the media talking about NEVER HAPPENED.
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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The weeks after 9/11 were filled with unhinged Islamophobia and any claim that we were completely united explicitly places them on the outside of who you consider to be American
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be."
The disconnect between last Tuesday’s monstrous dose of reality and the self-righteous drivel and outright deceptions being peddled by public figures and TV commentators is startling, depressing. The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public. Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a “cowardly” attack on “civilization” or “liberty” or “humanity” or “the free world” but an attack on the world’s self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions? How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq? And if the word “cowardly” is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others. In the matter of courage (a morally neutral virtue): whatever may be said of the perpetrators of Tuesday’s slaughter, they were not cowards.Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid. Our spirit is unbroken, although this was a day that will live in infamy and America is now at war. But everything is not O.K. And this was not Pearl Harbor. We have a robotic President who assures us that America still stands tall. A wide spectrum of public figures, in and out of office, who are strongly opposed to the policies being pursued abroad by this Administration apparently feel free to say nothing more than that they stand united behind President Bush. A lot of thinking needs to be done, and perhaps is being done in Washington and elsewhere, about the ineptitude of American intelligence and counter-intelligence, about options available to American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East, and about what constitutes a smart program of military defense. But the public is not being asked to bear much of the burden of reality. The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy.

Those in public office have let us know that they consider their task to be a manipulative one: confidence-building and grief management. Politics, the politics of a democracy—which entails disagreement, which promotes candor—has been replaced by psychotherapy. Let’s by all means grieve together. But let’s not be stupid together. A few shreds of historical awareness might help us understand what has just happened, and what may continue to happen. “Our country is strong,” we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/09/2026
the Pedo Platform owned by the chief donor to the Pedo Party, whose chief was Jeffrey Epstein's best friend for 20 years
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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 11/09/2026
The 170,000 documents that were released by Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration reveal how government officials—especially Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg—deceived New Yorkers about the dangerous chemicals that were in the air in the days and months following 9/11.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries
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Gabriel @gmarkoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Eternal hatred to Bush and Cheney for exploiting a terrible, evil crime to commit vastly greater and more evil crimes. Eternal hatred to Bush and Cheney for destroying our world and stealing the future of my entire generation and those who come after.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Therrrre it is.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You asked, we answered: Now in more colorways!
A group of four cats sitting inside a cardboard box labeled "CATS FOR MEN." The background features a dark, blurred forest. The text at the top reads "CATS FOR MEN," and at the bottom, it states "NEW MASCULINE COLORS FOR MASCULINE MEN."An orange cat with white paws is sitting against a dark, forested background. The text reads "CATS FOR MEN" at the top and "ORANGE WITH LITTLE WHITE SOCKS FOR THE ORANGE MAN WITH WHITE SOCKS" at the bottom.A cat with a striped coat is sitting against a background of dark, blurry trees. The text reads "CATS FOR MEN" at the top and "DESERT CAMO FOR THE CUNNING STRATEGIST" at the bottom.A dark-furred cat sits in a shadowy forest. The text reads, "CATS FOR MEN. Midnight Black. For the nocturnal soldier.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026
You really can't budge an inch on this stuff. It does nothing but validate their deranged hatred. This was a test of leadership and Talarico failed it
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Three notes: (1) this is not *just* marketing. These guys really do mean it. They are convinced they’ve built a vengeful digital god. (2) but also they’re a cult. They are not impartial scientific experts. (3) and one of the byproduct of their endless confidence is marketing hype.
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