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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This kind of censorship should be opt-in as a feature of each user's client, not enforced server-side by the platform. The potential for abuse by authoritarian government way outstrips the potential to help fight terrorism.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This sounds like the sort of target you'd chose if you wanted to expose the FBI for corrupt hiring practices. I suspect the hackers are the good guys in this story.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Remember Descent? You were zooming around blowing up asteroid mines by sabotaging the reactor. Was this game about a labor uprising? Was I an astroluddite?

A screenshot from Descent, "new game" is selected, among other menu options.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They swore you'd soar, check your sore body. See the sweat pour from each pore of your poor body. - Watsky

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One day, our browsers will catch up, and will not bother even rendering untrusted content. If we're lucky, we'll be in control of what counts as untrusted in that scenario.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If my dog bites somebody, it's on me. It should be no different with a company. Put some shareholders in jail.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Gödel tells us that mathematics is necessarily inconsistent or incomplete, which means we get to make some choices about which mathematics we build.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

> So this is highlighting an age-old tension between safety and privacy I think that tension goes away if your government is run by criminals. Then consensus is easy.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm not super in the know about who's who in the Linux community, but I've heard of DHH. Is there anybody 1Password could've funded that would've caused more of a backlash? If not, then I assume that the backlash is the point, and DHH's particular objectionable view is just fuel.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This is about more than which brand is used. I hope we see Axon and others in the news as well.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There's a lot of disagreement out there over whether LLM code is useful. I notice that this article's critiques are mainly anchored in a SaaS world. Towards the end he concedes that LLMs are great for "personal software" (a growing category).

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thinking of everything in terms of property eventually causes brain damage.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This may be difficult for some to hear, but I really don't think you can selectively shop your way to freedom.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I wish we didn't call it AI. The intelligence came from humans, it's authentic intelligence, just remixed. RI would've been better because everybody understands that a remix culture that doesn't celebrate and support its inputs is doomed to be a temporary one.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I know a guy who argues that climate does not exist, at all. He would catch lily-livered climate *change* deniers in his trap from time to time, always to hilarious effect.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Imagine an army of octipodes, rising from the surf in contraptions that are part fish tank, part mech warrior.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

PSA: huggingface.co is named for this emoji 🤗 not this creature (a face hugger). It took me a while for this to dawn on me.

An alien creature wrapped around a human's head.

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augustdrake @augustdrake.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yes that's the idea. Amazon is operating on the idea that it's legal to duplicate and scan a book if the scan is your only copy

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Incentives for destroying rare books. Nice job copyright law.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The whole "be your own bank" idea only made sense in a world where crypto was continually working to decentralize power, working to spread itself out. Most of these coins got distracted by greed and stopped doing that job. Now they're gonna get robbed like the banks they failed to replace.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

After years of hard work and therapy, it finally happened for me

A bunch of ducks on a log in a river, standing in a row

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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I hate how Claude reaches for needlessly economic metaphors:

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Should it matter what HuggingFace thinks? These would be criminal charges wouldn't they? I mean, if I fire a gun in public and the bullet breaks your window, maybe you can decline to press charges about the window, but the original crime of illegal discharge remains.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

@thehill.com can you explain how Thorium ended up here?

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I'd like to commission a matrix mantis for my profile picture so that I can criticize AI without the hypocrisy of doing so with an AI generated profile picture. Budget: $40 Is that the kind of think you can just go around and ask people to do? I don't know how art works but I want to support it.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

There's a lot of artistry that can go into the clever application of mathematics and algorithms. And there's a lot of potential to use AI as a medium for artistic expression. Remix and cover as homage is respectable. And that's all totally different than just having the AI do the art for you.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I expect that these models will really take off once the training process stops happening predominantly in datacenters and instead is mostly bound by automated wetlab efficiency.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Imagine millions of petri dishes, and a robot on rails with a microscope, studying each one and generating training data that's not found elsewhere on the internet.

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Devour🌱 @devoureroftime.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Someone at Meta's advertising department knew EXACTLY what they were doing when suggesting the song.

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Sarah Birnbaum ❌👑 @sarahvb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

“You’re a schmuck for following the rules“ is how we badly damage society. “Rich and/or famous people can escape accountability forever” is how we destroy it for good.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It really does matter which rules. Given that the culprits now make the rules, we're going to have to break some to hold them accountable.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I've just learned that my mother in law is interesting in some app called grafenose. It's like spaghetti-o's except deep down it's #GrapheneOS

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I told fable that we were going to stop designing an implementing, and stop to polish and hunt bugs. A few hours later: > The polish era arguably just claimed its first scalp: a test built to check portability found and killed a remote DoS on day one. Scalps? Jeez fable, get help.

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Errant @errantv.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Stop calling them peptides! The public doesn't know what a peptide is, the use of the term in laymen is a huge PR/marketing push by grifters! Call them what they are: untested synthetic hormones!

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We gotta stop treating money like it's a workable proxy for consent.

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Many of my coworkers aren't merely MAGA, if you follow the org chart upwards, you end up with people who are involved with the Trump administration. One thing I've noticed about the environment that selected those people as leaders:

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Velveeta isn't cheese, which always makes finding it in a new grocery store a bit of an Orwellian exercise. Don't ask what it is, the answer would do you damage, but categorize it well enough to find it nonetheless. Its a very American experience.

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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of beetles

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 17/07/2026

AWS emailing customers they owe $7T

You requested that we alert you when the actual cost associated with your My Monthly Cost Budget budget exceeds $765.00 for the current month. The month actual cost associated with this budget is $7,113,986,191,293.41. You can find additional details below and by accessing the AWS Budgets dashboard.
Budget Name
Budget
Type
Budgeted
Amount
Alert
Type
Alert
Threshold
ACTUAL Amount
My Monthly Cost Budget
Cost
$900.00
ACTUAL
> $765.00
$7,113,986, 191,293.41

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 16/07/2026

The Luddites were right by the way. They were violently suppressed by the military, working on behalf of the factory owners. Chartists and other activists took up the fight of Luddism to win us back worker rights. George, just have a read of this mate: tomhumberstone.com/luddites

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I'm a Luddite (And So Can You!) | Tom Humberstone

I'm a Luddite (And So Can You!)

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Kudos to Andreas 💐 Thousands of us at Google organized against the company’s Maven contract nearly 10 years ago, even though principles like this existed. We saw no hope that such principles would survive bottom line pressure—nor were they legally drafted to do so.

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US to fund Trump-aligned Europeans building ‘civilisational bonds’

State department grants of up to $3mn are designed to boost groups pushing Maga-style policies

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MatrixMantis @matrixmantis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I wish I could get www.buffalofieldcampaign.org 's take on this. Was this buffalo avenging a lost family member by taking down a human?

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Buffalo Field Campaign: Working to Stop the Yellowstone Bison Slaughter

Buffalo Field Campaign - West Yellowstone, Montana

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