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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 14h

Great conversation here on whether LLMs can legitimately be called bullshit machines, as per Frankfurt, speckled with useful/interesting studies and the inevitable occasional sealion.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

If, like me, you first read this as referring to Amazon Web Services, I have done bad news: it's actually autonomous weapons systems, aka killer robots. Which might do a little more damage than a few "indignities" to your liberties. Even worse news: Anthropic asked him for advice???

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

First time anyone on EuroSky has ever blocked me. Inevitable, but kinda sad, given we've never interacted in any way.

Screenshot: "@rhythmandseven.eurosky.social has blocked you"

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Impact assessments are a feature of the EU's Better Regulation process. So I guess the Kids act doesn't qualify as a better regulation.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

So I'm planning on going to Leiden next Sunday to help launch @aster.id at IOSP the following day, and discover that a train strike notice was published for precisely that period www.belgiantrain.be/en/travel-in... but wait, it gets better...

belgiantrain.be

Strikes and union actions

All information on disruptions with the SNCB-NMBS train offer in case of union action

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 30/09/2026

The social internet — for science! I'm super excited to see @aster.id launching. It's an Atmosphere service provider (like @eurosky.social) for researchers, hosted by your friends at the @modalfoundation.eurosky.social. Why does it matter? Thread time! 🧵

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

Hugely excited that this now sees the light of day. Aster will not only serve science and scientists, it will help deliver #trust signals to online communities.

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 30/09/2026

The lie here is suggesting that "9% of @bsky.app users are active daily" is the same measurement as "9% of @wsocial.eu users have ever posted more than once". #Wsocial 's actual DAU is less than 1%. This is how propaganda works. Tell little lies often enough and eventually it sounds like truth.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026

This still works! "Sometimes the constituent woke from one dream into another, then woke from that into a third, which was a survey...

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Denmark is trolling Trump.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

Getting things on in the garden today, and I'm not alone.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026

#atscience idea: a service which helps scientists do this for every paper.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What gets you booted from Substack? Andrew Tate still seems to have a newsletter there while charged with: 10 counts of rape, 3 of trafficking for sexual exploitation, 3 of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, & making/distributing indecent images of a child. possessing extreme pornography.

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Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 20/09/2026

By the way: if you are a designer that is crazy enough to want to help with @sifa.id design: send me a DM!

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Greetings from the Ardennes in drought.

Photo of a chateau on a river. The water level is low

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

Nobody should be surprised by this... At least, no one who was paying attention to the @eurosky.social launch in November... bsky.app/profile/math...

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anna 🍂🍁🍎 @anna.germnetwork.com · 16/09/2026

New rec for my fellow website builder enthusiasts! greengale.app/fei.chicory.... "What I would really love is a system where people who code can build templates and expose variables to the person who they're developing the website for."

greengale.app

The website builder I want to see

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm no SEO expert. Why, when I googled "wsocial is a european truth social leaflet prendergast" (lmgtfy.com?q=wsocial+is...) to write the post below, @renderg.host's post from *June* didn't appear in pages 1-10 of SERP? Not referenced in the AI summary, either.

Search engine result page 1 for the search mentioned in the post.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 11/09/2026

I am so looking forward to digging into this. Tools & services to help web builders integrate their sites onto the atmosphere could turn the entire web into an Atmospheric recruitment service...

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

At WSocial's launch, their Chair said "you’re free to use any other app on the AT Protocol and take your data with you..."

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026

Wooot, at least it'll be closer than Vancouver! 👏👏👏

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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 10/09/2026

the at protocol is just a psyop by domain registrars to make people buy more domain names

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

Pinning this one to my digital background. My early experiments with AI were "meh", and I doubt I'll ever have it write for me, but since interesting Claude code into my obsidian vault... holy shit 👀👀👀

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Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 07/09/2026

So, euh... interesting discussions in the last couple days. Made me look again 👀 at the choices I've made building @sifa.id (public profiles...) 😅 Make sure to pour a cup 🍵 first 🧵👇

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨 WENT ON HOLIDAY FOR A WEEK WITH THE FAMILY 🚨🚨🚨 BUT NOW WE'RE BACK hope everyone is having a nice Sunday ❤️❤️❤️

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Guido X Jansen @gui.do · 05/09/2026

Well, how I understand eIDAS, is that you own the wallet on your phone. You ask the gov to put proof in your wallet that you are 18+: just yes/no. Then you can share that proof with your goat porn site, proving to them you are 18+. In that case, the government doesn't know about the goat porn.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 05/09/2026

"a company that is a big player in the age verification space, talking up age and identity verification laws... had a long-standing ongoing leak of every ID it scanned" Quiz: was this company American or Swedish? (answer below)

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026

Getting strong "On a Plate" vibes...

the on a plate cartoon, described here: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/35816251

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Teefa @tifaret.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am trans and I use AI. I have received numerous death, rape, and kys threats on Bluesky. Every time it has been from an anti-AI activist. The anti-AI crowd is rotten and wouldn't act this way if they actually cared about trans safety. I am sick of my identity being used to defend this behavior.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 01/09/2026

I wish I could say I was surprised and disappointed, but I'm neither. "Enshittification just can't happen to a European app, because no European was ever an amoral bastard, right?"

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

If there was a Star Fleet medal for understatement.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 26/08/2026

Facebook directly enabled the Rohingya genocide. Every executive involved in running the company today chose to work at a company that directly enabled those deaths. Compared to that, it is _nothing_ for their products to cause your children harm. Billions for a settlement is a pittance.

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Rachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶

A broad-tailed hummingbird hovers next to an anise hyssop plant framed by purple blooms and with a rainbow behind it!!! The bird also has a little bead of water on its bill because it is raining.

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Can you spot the tautology? Answer below.

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Caesar @caesar.dev · 23/08/2026

"Just because I run a Nazi bar, doesn't mean I'm a Nazi supporter" – CEO of @wsocial.eu

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Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026

Reading this thread, weighing up whether I should share my readmeQ manager obsidian plugin. I'm not a developer, so there's no way I'd have it without Claude code. Am I evil?

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

UK transit nerds are next level.

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