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Justin M

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Working on security in tech. Opinions are my own :) If you have a large audience, please do not RT me

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Justin M @justinm.one · 16h
Move fast and fix things
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Justin M @justinm.one · 19h
Social media is incompatible with democracy.
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Justin M @justinm.one · 21h
This is desperation from Anthropic to try and get open weights models banned
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Justin M @justinm.one · 10/10/2026
Currently reading a codebase and seeing how sloppy it is (and has been before the advent of AI), and now I understand why the team behind it loves AI...
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Justin M @justinm.one · 09/10/2026
Why don't these graphs ever get overlays with tool/model releases showing whether or not specific innovations actually cost jobs? Why is it always "since ChatGPT launch" when ChatGPT couldn't even do image or video at launch? Image generation was implemented in 2025.
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Justin M @justinm.one · 09/10/2026
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NYTimes Increases REAL AI Harms w/Outdated "Standards" as Ezra Distracts w/AI Doomer B.S.
YouTube video by Internet of Bugs
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Justin M @justinm.one · 08/10/2026
Lmao. Anthropic is not a serious company.
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Justin M @justinm.one · 08/10/2026
At random, checked an old list I had of suspected bot accounts. It's quite surprising to see one particular account has not only not been banned, but has grown in followers (and a handful of accounts I respect are following it). Checked on it, and it is still posting disinfo. Ban the follow button.
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Nick Rempel @nrempel.com · 06/10/2026
wild that this is exactly what using a computer is like now
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Justin M @justinm.one · 06/10/2026
Great technical deep-dive on the HuggingFace hack
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Did an AI Really Hack Hugging Face?
YouTube video by LiveOverflow
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.
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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis
Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears
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Justin M @justinm.one · 05/10/2026
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Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
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Justin M @justinm.one · 05/10/2026
Now this is how to steal an election
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Justin M @justinm.one · 05/10/2026
404media.co
Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes.
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Justin M @justinm.one · 04/10/2026
Respect youtu.be/nJ5V3pk6PEA?...
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Justin M @justinm.one · 02/10/2026
Honestly seems like literally the only use case of this is for committing fraud
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Justin M @justinm.one · 02/10/2026
Mood
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Year 2025
YouTube video by Montee - Topic
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
“Despite what Flock and other surveillance tech vendors would have you believe, more surveillance does not necessarily equal safer communities.”
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Flock is just one part of the new surveillance state
"Flock and other companies are building an omnipresent digital dragnet without democratic consent, enabling law enforcement to track people across the country with the click of a mouse," writes Gideon...
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, holding a red ball labeled "A SILLY MEME".
The second panel shows Sarah taking the ball and going through a door labeled "GROUP CHAT".
The third panel shows a group of women sitting together and consoling one woman in the center. The woman in the center is saying "...And that's how it happened. It's been the worst day of my life."
The fourth panel shows Sarah standing in the doorway behind them awkwardly holding the red ball.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Justin M @justinm.one · 01/10/2026
Oh yikers. This is like "abandon YouTube" levels of bad. You straight up don't get the same video as the next person. There are so, so many problems with this. The fact that their execs even greenlit this means Google is dead.
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Dear YouTube!
YouTube video by Marques Brownlee
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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It was great speaking to Sam on this, and really demonstrates in practice how the doomerism narrative really does distract from concrete and current-day AI risks. I suppose faulty and unreliable models (the reality) just isn't as alluring as an AGI god (the fiction).
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Justin M @justinm.one · 28/09/2026
"They couldn't crack newsrooms" Yep. Social media recommendation engines ("the algorithm") basically just gave our enemy a very powerful tool to use against us. Facebook should've been banned after Myanmar IMO
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.
Screenshot of a post from threads

matt.j.robb & 16h (€) So muse handled my Facebook marketplace today. Just found out it told people my address and agreed a lowball price and then they showed up without it even telling me until late tonight that it messed up.

Absolutely wild. 1/2

[Embedded image of a series of text messages from a meta muse "agent" given the call sign "Jarvis" (Parts of first message obscured by its logo have been replaced with brackets and ellipses and best guesses from context):]

Heads up, Usman is […] building right now for the MX Keys Mini [. He is sta]nding in front of the Shoppers Drug [Mart.]

$10 by e-transfer. The auto-reply told him to message when he's at your door.

10:28 PM Bad news on the MX Keys Mini pickup. Usman showed up at your building around 9:15 and waited, messaged a bunch of times, and nobody came down. He left angry at 9:38 and left a negative rating.

Worse, my auto-reply told him "Yep I'm here!" at 9:27 when you clearly weren't available, which is on me. That's a bad look and it made the no-show worse.

I've sent him an apology from your account owning it and offering to try again another day. But the negative rating is real, and I should probably stop the auto-replies from claiming you're home when I can't verify that. Want me to change the pickup replies so they don't promise you're there?

[reply, presumably from the threads user]: You gotta never do that ever again don't agree for pickup unless you check with me

[Response from Muse "Agent"]: You're right and I'm sorry. That should never have happened. It's locked in now as a hard rule: i will never […you]'re there unless you've explicitly […] that specific pickup. If someone proposes a time, I'll tell them I'll check and…  Screenshot of a tweet from Ray Wong @raywongy:
    Deleted Muse after seeing this post on Threads about how it told some Facebook Marketplace sellers the guy’s address and they showed up at his door

    Dangerous and creepy

    This would have been 1000x worse if the person was a woman
    4:35 PM · Sep 27, 2026
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fool's Expertise bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/27/f...
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Fool's Expertise | The Observation Deck
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Justin M @justinm.one · 25/09/2026
Average person's understanding of getting hacked by AI
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NCIS 2 IDIOTS 1 KEYBOARD
YouTube video by Ricardo Figueiredo
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Justin M @justinm.one · 25/09/2026
If we have international law, why don't we have international internet law?
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Justin M @justinm.one · 24/09/2026
The CEO of Nvidia doesn't even know where he lives or what his own phone number is?
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Justin M @justinm.one · 22/09/2026
OpenAI is really dog-walking Bernie. This is sad to see. They could release their training data and then use a tool like Ai2's OlmoTrace to show where this text came from. But instead they're going to manipulate a sitting United States Senator into thinking AI has become superintelligent.
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Justin M @justinm.one · 21/09/2026
Broke: promotion by merit Woke: promotion by participation in an orgy
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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 21/09/2026
shoutout to a German court for getting the facts about Bluesky wrong but the interpretation right, in a new ruling that actually has positive implications for open social networks connectedplaces.online/the-algorith...
connectedplaces.online
The Algorithm, Apparently Chronological
A German court has explicitly named Mastodon and Bluesky as positive examples of social networks that could retain hosting protection. It gets Bluesky’s feeds wrong, but its reasoning about user control might be more useful than it realises.
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Justin M @justinm.one · 20/09/2026
Wow ESOPs are kinda badass
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Justin M @justinm.one · 18/09/2026
Interesting thought... Pandering to your viewers via an analytics dashboard is itself a form of sycophancy. You are literally telling them what they (in some cases, psychologically) want to hear rather than what they need to hear just to suck up more of that sweet ad revenue.
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How to succeed in MrBeast production (leaked PDF)
Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s a 2022 Rolling Stone profile if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company …
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Justin M @justinm.one · 17/09/2026
Movies about the post-apocalypse are gonna open up with this clip
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One Project founder Justin Rosenstein helped create Facebook's "like" button. He writes that it went wrong because of "economic misalignment," and warns that AI, built into the same profit-driven economy, is "becoming an even greater threat."
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The Like Button Helped Social Media Put Profit Over People. We Can’t Let AI Do the Same.
AI will supercharge whatever economy we put it in, so let’s put it in one governed by and for the people, writes Justin Rosenstein.
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Justin M @justinm.one · 17/09/2026
Technically AI is probably already killing us! It's commonly known as "polarization" - which is in large part caused by recommendation engines ("the algorithm") and the attention economy at large.
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Justin M @justinm.one · 16/09/2026
Interesting 🧵... (Nobody is in the wrong here IMO)
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Justin M @justinm.one · 15/09/2026
2 different types of communication platforms... Idea-centric and person-centric. Idea-centric platforms organize people around ideas (e.g. skiing, hacking, etc.) People-centric platforms directly connect individuals (e.g. 5 people in a group chat, 1 person following 10 others)
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...
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The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
X, the Everything We Want You to See App
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garrison @garrison.corporate.fm · 13/09/2026
atproto dev stubbing their toe:
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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · 13/09/2026
In case you weren't aware how the anonymous Hacker News moderators control the narrative in Silicon Valley. (Bluesky Communities can't come soon enough)
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Justin M @justinm.one · 12/09/2026
Does the Anthropic researcher dude straight up have no idea what he's talking about?
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Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com · 09/09/2026
Apple quietly dropped a ton of detail about the Apple Watch’s new always-on don’t-call-it-transcription feature and it is FASCINATING. support.apple.com/en-us/148354
Like all of our products and features, Audio Intelligence on Apple Watch was built from the ground up to protect your privacy.
• Audio is not recorded or stored. Audio Intelligence features don't create audio recordings. No audio can be accessed by the operating system, apps, you, or even Apple.
There is no recording to share, forward, or produce if requested by any party, because no recording exists.
• Raw audio is never accessible. Audio flows into a protected buffer inside the S11 chip's Secure Exclave — a hardware-isolated compartment built into the silicon of Apple Watch and iPhone that processes sensor data separately from the rest of the system. Data that is processed and analyzed in the Secure Exclave can't be accessed by the operating system, apps, you, or even Apple. Once processed, this data is immediately deleted.
• Siri Recap and Live Rewind help jog your memory, not provide a detailed record. Siri Recap doesn't produce a transcript. It generates a brief, high-level summary — comparable to notes you might jot down after a conversation. Live Rewind shows a text snippet of what was just said in the last 15 seconds, so you can catch something you missed.• No speaker attribution. By design, Audio Intelligence features don't identify and attribute speakers. Siri Recap may contain names if mentioned in the conversation, but doesn't directly attribute speakers (for example, "John said..." or labeling as "Speaker A" versus
"Speaker B"). Similarly, Live Rewind may transcribe what someone said word-for-word, but does not attribute quotes to speakers.
• Audible and visible signals for Live Rewind.
When activated, an audible chime plays from the speaker on your Apple Watch, even if your Apple Watch is on silent or you have headphones connected. A full-display animation and microphone indicator appear on the display, and a distinct double-press gesture is required to activate Live Rewind. This is to alert those nearby that the feature has been activated.
• Omitted content. Siri Recaps are designed to omit potentially harmful content, such as language that promotes self-harm or hateful speech, and sensitive information, such as financial data, government-assigned identifiers, authentication data, and certain personal identifiers.
• Be mindful of those around you. While audio is not recorded and stored, and no speakers are attributed, consider those around you where conversations might be private or sensitive.
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Justin M @justinm.one · 18/08/2026
I'm pretty sure this exact phenomenon caused the genocide in Myanmar. The Ratio feed in Bluesky can show you what this looks like.
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Justin M @justinm.one · 10/09/2026
"Criti-hype"
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Justin M @justinm.one · 09/09/2026
NYT decided this needed a push notification. This is going to age well
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Justin M @justinm.one · 07/09/2026
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What If We Made Advertising Illegal?
What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.
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Justin M @justinm.one · 06/09/2026
There should be "net neutrality" but for social media platforms. It'd be very similar to (and probably implemented on) AT protocol; your account is yours, and platforms like Instagram or Facebook are simply frontends that display the content on your profile.
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