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Mario Savarese

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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 10/08/2026

"Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more. It will free up time for the things you enjoy[...]" Yes, I definitely do not enjoy my relationships or my hobbies and wish to offload these to my agent, sign me up.

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Mario Savarese @mariosavarese.com · 04/04/2026

From @lauraolin.bsky.social's wonderful newsletter: stopsloppypasta.ai/en/#rules

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Stop Sloppypasta: Don't paste raw LLM output at people

Sloppypasta: verbatim LLM output pasted at people. Why it's rude and what to do instead.

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Mario Savarese @mariosavarese.com · 09/10/2025

The perfect excuse to extend my stay this Christmas <3

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Fra Angelico and the Miracle of Faith Made Visible

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

What’s worrying here is that the UK government seems absolutely determined to access user private data, no matter the bad press and the consequences. And they’re now willing to do it overtly. Between this and recent moves against encryption in the EU, we’re going to a bad place.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

An illustration of me, and the headline: "AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker
The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security"

To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer. It will not be possible for apps like Signal—the messaging app whose foundation I run—to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS. Feeding your sensitive Signal messages into an undifferentiated data slurry connected to cloud servers in service of their AI-agent aspirations is a dangerous abdication of responsibility.

Happily, it’s not too late. There is much that can still be done, particularly when it comes to protecting the sanctity of private data. What’s needed is a fundamental shift in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents. First, privacy must be the default, and control must remain in the hands of application developers exercising agency on behalf of their users. Developers need the ability to designate applications as “sensitive” and mark them as off-limits to agents, at the OS level and otherwise. This cannot be a convoluted workaround buried in settings; it must be a straightforward, well-documented mechanism (similar to Global Privacy Control) that blocks an agent from accessing our data or taking actions within an app.

Second, radical transparency must be the norm. Vague assurances and marketing-speak are no longer acceptable. OS vendors have an obligation to be clear and precise about their architecture and what data their AI agents are accessing, how it is being used and the measures in place to protect it.

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Mario Savarese @mariosavarese.com · 04/09/2025

The coolest gang! Congrats on an great #rustconf talk :-) @lambda.bsky.social @itsibitzi.dev @zekehg.bsky.social

Daniel Hugenroth presenting Secure Messaging at RustConf

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 12/08/2025

In this era of enshittification, I still think Craigslist is a good example that you build for the long term by not chasing *short term* profits which involve squeezing users out of as much value as possible as quickly as possible, rather than building long term value that people like to use.

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Mario Savarese @mariosavarese.com · 09/06/2025

Incredibly proud to have been a part of the team that made this a reality. Congratulations on the launch!

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Mario Savarese @mariosavarese.com · 21/04/2025

First the Signal revelations, now this? Take my money @theatlantic.com

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