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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Elon Musk, June 2025: "We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data."

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Musk's Grok retraining is harder than it looks

AI researchers warn that efforts to politically shape LLMs are misguided and dangerous.

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tante @tante.cc · 24/09/2026

"And then, finally, and perhaps most importantly, Silicon Valley executives may love over-optimizing their lives and running chatbots like a team of tireless assistants, but I’m just not convinced the general public wants to be a manager." Am I too boring to need an AI agent?

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Thank you! This is a really great framing of the problem – and its problematics. And though I wasn't raised in a religious context, in Brazil I often heard the original sin framed as "Eva tempted Adam into eating the fruit." Dude didn't even own his shit, in a way that fits here quite nicely.

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Defending democracy by pointing to an idealized past defends something that never existed for everyone. The beanie never flew. But can we can build something that actually delivers on universality? Where the law binds and protects everyone, without exception? Can we not a return, but start?

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Niemöller wasn't writing poetry. He was writing a user manual Project 2025 learned by heart. Still, no one in an in-group ever asks: could I become the other? The categories always expand. The AfD and Trump started with refugees. Now it's journalists, institutions, the constitutional order itself.

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

ICE raids, Dover balaclavas, these aren't aberrations. They're Wilhoit at the border, performed by democracies. Guardrails exist (courts, journalism, protest) but the violence happens anyway. For those in detention, the theoretical availability of judicial review is not a meaningful distinction.

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Democracy was in the same area code. The American Dream ran on cheap brown labor and women doing unpaid work at home. Migrants accepted only if they conformed. The Klan in the South. Not the same, but the same mechanism. An in-group sustained by an out-group.

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And those in the in-group don't examine the price, like Calvin never examines the beanie. People say "They protect their own" — who's "their own"? The Han Chinese who conform. The Singaporean who accepts cameras everywhere and executions for drugs. The ethnic Russian loyal to the state project.

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So now people ask: who will give us direction? Not because they're stupid, but because democracy stopped offering an answer. Strongmen offer legibility, an "honest" account of who's in, who's out. Singapore delivers 90% homeownership. China delivers infrastructure. The trains run on time.

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Reagan, Thatcher, that's Wilhoit as economic policy. Deregulate for capital, discipline for labor. The real betrayal was the center-left adopting the same framework. Clinton, Blair, Schröder kept the binding with social liberalism as compensation: marry who you like (but you can't afford a house)

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Frank Wilhoit: conservatism is exactly one proposition. There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. Nothing more to it. Ever. Democracy's claim to moral superiority rests on a universality that was always conditional.

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

That's democracy's arc. The advertising was spectacular. The wait was long. The hope was real. And what arrived was not flight; it was a bill. Climate costs, defense spending, austerity, stagnant wages. Two+ incomes buying what one used to. And no answer to "for what?"

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There's a Calvin & Hobbes strip where Calvin orders a propeller beanie from the back of a cereal box. The ad says it lets you fly. He suffers through weeks of terrible cereal, waits months for delivery. His hope never falters. Then it arrives. It cannot make him fly.

Calvin & Hobbes strip series. Calvin anxious and excited about the delivery of a propeller beanie.

Calvin & Hobbes strip. Calvin disappointed at the fact the beanie doesn't allow him to fly.

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The 20th century ended with democracy winning a utopia contest. Not just a geopolitical contest, a promise contest: freedom, dignity, unlimited potential for all. The former communist bloc signed up for the winning vision and got the factory floor.

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Annette Dittert nails it when she says the AfD's rise isn't about logic or policy consistency, but about emotion, vibe, feeling. But she stops short of naming that feeling. I think it's the death of a utopia.

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“You’re right. This is on me. Let me own the failure plainly.”

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Are they making a split based on location, then?

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sure. Their maps app, their OS. Some level of discomfort is usually required to move out their walled garden, though

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the universal holiday season eatings symbol, "No dyets allowed" (đ)

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Great A'Tuin, the four elephants, and discworld

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Norcross @floridanorcross.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

story time: so the NASA site build and re-platforming was a massive undertaking, as one might imagine. in addition to leading the dev team (4 of us total) i was personally tasked with building out the new underlying site architecture and then migrating the existing content. not a big deal, right? 🧵

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Praise be to Melon Husk's blabbermouth: "We will use Grok 3.5... to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data."

axios.com

Musk's Grok retraining is harder than it looks

AI researchers warn that efforts to politically shape LLMs are misguided and dangerous.

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Tim is just the PR shine to get the token extruder going. The actual goal is to editorialize history and convince people things didn't happen a certain way.

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Perhaps some bright PM in an AI lab will push for a LNM (Large Numbers Model) and then... 😄

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Tim And Eric Mind Blown Universe Meme

Alt: Tim And Eric Mind Blown Universe Meme

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Apologies, I didn't mean to sound obnoxious. But if it (with harnesses) really could do more _consistently_, wouldn't it have done so by now?

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It's a token extruder, not a calculator, enturely different functions. It'll never count properly.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 18/08/2026

I just typed out a comment to a post, re-read it, thought "Oh, right, I'll look like a fucking creep if I post that" and then deleted it, which is a reminder that the reason I came up with "The failure mode of 'clever' is 'asshole'" is because I need the warning as much if not more than other folks

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Bender el que Ofende @benderofuscado.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A mí llamadme loco, pero yo aquí veo un patrón.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.

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Ivan Monteiro @ivanmonteiro.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

What do you look at when you walk at night? Brigham Young University study highlights focus differences, further confirming (real and perceived) dangers posed to female use of public spaces

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