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👾 chaotic good brooklyn-based designer, programmer, and dabbler in music, art, and other random endeavors. 🍉 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mstdn.social/@mgiraldo, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
The below is correct and any claims of "rogue behavior" and other popular attempts at anthropomorphization are merely means to actively distance the original purveyors of software agents by 1) shifting blame onto users of agentic tooling and 2) claiming agents themselves are something more […]
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lea @lea.ordinary.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
If you/your project is affected by DigitalOcean stopping their OSS credits program, please shoot me a PM immediately. Might be able to help. Boosts for visibility would be appreciated. #foss #linux
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Andboo Haunton 🎃😷 @andrewhinton.jawns.club.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Careful with these “AI assistant” services … as many have been saying, there’s a steep privacy cost. www.wired.com/story/muse-creates-de…
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Pablo M.U. :vericol: @derpoltergeist.col.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
Un recordatorio que la vaina esa de las "blue zones" es, en el mejor de los casos, desinformación chaos.social/@danielaKay/1173816732…
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Autoerotic Defenestration (@danielaKay@chaos.social)
This is one hell of an article: "Dr Saul Newman has uncovered the “secret” to living to 110" (Spoiler: it's 'poor record-keeping') https://science.anu.edu.au/news-events/news/dr-saul-newman-has-uncovered-secret-living-110 Money quote: "Dr Newman’s research was supported by a 2010 Japanese government review which found 82 percent of people over 100 years old in Japan were actually already dead – including the country’s oldest man, whose corpse had been hidden by his daughter while she pocketed his pension for 30 years."
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/1173636… Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution […]
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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/1173742139… finally signed up for a paid subscription to support Molly White’s cryptocurrency reporting loved her 2024 talk on the how building things on the web is magic too xoxofest.com/2024/videos/molly-white
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Glyph @glyph.im · 01/10/2026
Taylor Lorenz is preparing for her "why I left the left" right-wing grifter pivot. Do not trust her. www.thefp.com/p/two-drinks-with-tay… (If you do not know "the free press", it is Bari Weiss's right-wing false-balance propaganda outlet, so talking to them *at all* is […]
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mgiraldo @mgiraldo.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@inthehands/1173604814… this but for everything. i no longer want to post anything online 😔
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mgiraldo @mgiraldo.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
“Not knowing how to judge the outcome is not an uncomfortable side effect of generative AI use, it is the main attraction.” letterror.com/ai
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On generative AI at LettError.com
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mgiraldo @mgiraldo.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
@flexibits i’m on fantastical 4.2.1 (2323.1041.d4ccaae9fb) on macOS 15.7.9 (24G830) and the “mini” view is no longer dismissed when clicking away. is there a way to change this?
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KanaMauna @kanamauna.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house | Technology | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/technology/2026…
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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users
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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]
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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@buermann/113206030… Happy #StanislavPetrov Day to all those who celebrate, live it like it's your last. I guess I could observe this year's #Ramadoom by refusing to use LLMs but you'd have to make me in the first place. Like the one where the Catholic gives […]
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Alberto Cottica @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
This is very interesting: preliminary estimates of the costs of the 2026 heat waves in #Belgium are at or above 1% of GDP. One estimate says it will offset the entire predicted economic growth for 2026. So, the powers that be refuse to take #climateAction because it would jeopardize "growth" […]
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mgiraldo @mgiraldo.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
RE: hachyderm.io/@mralancooper/11733441… also because recycling is mostly a myth
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
"We have waited thirty years for the cyberlibertarian future to arrive and produce the promised harmonious community. It's time to face the facts. It's never coming." Mat Duggan looks back at how the assumptions and contradictions in popular 1990s Internet manifestos set us up for the […]
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mgiraldo @mgiraldo.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@ianRobinson/117315… not a surprise that Lorenz is now best buddies with Bari Weiss
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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
*Well, it looks like everybody is Jekyll and Hyde, not one brain but truly two different brains med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026…
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Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My point is: you don’t have to believe that ChatGPT will go Skynet on us, to believe that these nutjobs will gladly burn down the planet trying to make it happen. (Some of these factions want to create Good Skynet to fight the Bad Skynet. I’m sorry. I know it’s dumb. It’s not my fault.)
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mgiraldo @mgiraldo.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
RE: sfba.social/@historyofpunkrock/1173… the photo is awesome but i have never really understood why a musician would do this. musical instruments represent millenia of knowledge and craft
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mgiraldo @mgiraldo.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
RE: toot.cafe/@baldur/117303330026381094 i thought it was just me. yay vibe coding
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Brian Vastag @brianvastag.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
I have so little sympathy for White House political editors and reporters. Some of them do good work. Most of them have helped us get to this moment of extreme peril for our county. Ten thousand stories about Biden's age. Normalizing every broken law and norm. Going about as if everything is […]
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mgiraldo @mgiraldo.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@fluidwire/11730215… TIL
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Omar Antolín @oantolin.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
Now entering the age of the secrecy. 🙁
Tweet by Jeffrey Shallit that says:

A new risk for mathematicians: a colleague reports that immediately after they posted an abstract of their upcoming talk online, a
student elsewhere used Al to derive proofs of the stated results and then posted it on the arxiv.

My colleague hadn't posted to arxiv yet.
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026
RE: tldr.nettime.org/@tante/11729106405… Everyone at those companies knows what they are doing. They are destroying our information infrastructure for their own gains and profit. We must not forgive them.
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
RE: infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/1172885… "Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for AI training was “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” calling it perhaps the “largest […]
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Shine McShine 🐌 @shine-mcshine.neopaquita.es.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026
The very same people who justified platforming nazis because of "free speech" are now trying to get artists fired for chanting "free Palestine". Because it was never about free speech. It was about platforming nazis.
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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · 16/09/2026
RE: dragonscave.space/@KaraLG84/1172793… This is why you write text alternatives yourself. Saying “AI will do it” makes blind people reliant on gatekeepers. Imagine if in the US models would think of ICE Agents as “sensitive content”. This tech is not neutral even as it […]
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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
How's that "apolitical stance" going, Ed?
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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
RE: mas.to/@FantasticalEconomics/117271… The most plausible explanation for the sudden Broligarch panic about "A.I." I've seen.
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mgiraldo @mgiraldo.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
“basically imagine the entire AI industry is the I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Car Sketch. Oh, but, also, I guess they think the hot dog car is god or could become god in the future. And that if they hadn’t crashed the hot dog car into the store, China would have. And they would rather […]
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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Timeline cleanser of a parrot that found a traffic cam to ham it up for.
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I can’t believe we have 4 years of experience with AI psychosis and still most people are just pretending it isn’t happening.
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Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient
Blake Lemoine says system has perception of, and ability to express thoughts and feelings equivalent to a human child
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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
#Dachau is a small town in Germany. It's twenty kilometres from Munich. The Duke of Bavaria -- one of the seven Prince-Electors of the Holy Roman Empire -- had a palace there; but until 1933, that was the only thing that was particularly notable about the place. Bear with me, this thread has a […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
wasnt ai coding supposed to be "just another layer of abstraction"? this feels like one of the ways that the doomer narrative has a stranglehold on discourse around what is just patently obviously companies doing fucking crimes. imagine if 10 years ago google was just like "this past weekend we […]
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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
if i rig up a random number generator to a bomb, program it to generate a number between 1 and 20 every five minutes, set the bomb to go off if i roll a 20, begin the random number generator, then leave the room, i am liable for when the bomb goes off. the fact that a deeply stupid […]
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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026
U.S. cities: we can’t have mixed zoning China: let’s have a convenience store on a cliff newatlas.com/outdoors/worlds-most-t… #China
A photo of convenience store on the side of a cliff in China with people climbing alongside it
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glamcode @glamcode.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026
How I receive your offer to put AI into anything 👇 #AI #LLM
Two panels from a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip.
Calvin has a hammer and offers “you name the surface and I’ll fill it full of nails”. The answer of mum is “Um, no…” and “No thanks, not today”.
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It turns out that my new favourite genre is mathematicians writing about AI
In recent months, the success of Al in solving major mathematical problems has made headlines even outside mathematical circles.
But solving problems is only a tool and proxy for achieving the primary goal of conceptual understanding and insight. Forgetting this in the world of Al may turn the tool against the primary goal. Indeed, the mass production at faster and faster pace of "true/false" statements could destroy fertile ground instead of breathing life into new ideas.
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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
On this day in 1973, the Chilean army, backed by the CIA, overthrew the democratic government of Salvador Allende. They installed a dictatorship that lasted until 1988. Thousands were killed and disappeared. Keep this is mind when you hear USians talk about freedom and democracy […]
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
"Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab." I wrote about why we have to care about Omarchy. As a fascist power grab within the FLOSS ecosystem. tante.cc/2026/09/11/power-grab
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Power grab
Omarchy should not matter. But sadly it does. As a power grab. If you don’t know what Omarchy is here’s the short summary. David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of RubyOnRails, owner of a software business and millionaire, decided a few months ago to go all in on Linux and – because that’s just his MO – […]
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cartocalypse @cartocalypse.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Writing GIS docs without a strict terminology is exhausting. Is it "Column"? "Attribute"? "Column value"? "Attribute value"? Or maybe even "Property"? "Key"? Hrmpf!
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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
Any "open source" project with a section proudly titled "Backed by the oligarchy" on its homepage[1] should be more than just a red flag to anyone (even if you don't know or care about the other horrendous political takes of its main author). This project with all its fascist dog whistling […]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
If you travel with a wheelchair I will build you a shock recording black box for free. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/qant…
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Qantas changes tune over broken wheelchair after ABC questions
Qantas has backflipped and says it is now planning to replace an expensive powered wheelchair broken beyond repair on one of its flights, after questions from the ABC.
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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
I shared a link to "the openai navier stokes solution makes funding basic research look like a bargain" and someone sent me this: dyson had 661 engineers over 6 years write 16 million lines of code to make an AI toothbrush that can shoot water in the gaps […] [Original post on neuromatch.social]
Design and engineering

Six years in development 

661 Dyson engineers worked on Dyson CameraJet™.

Dyson has filed 38 patents for Dyson CameraJet™.

Dyson developed and validated proxy plaque in collaboration with the National University of Singapore.

Dyson worked with 30 dental professionals globally during development

Dyson CameraJet™ runs on 16 million lines of code.

Over 470,000 dental images were collected in the development of the machine learning system.
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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250… The only way this ongoing influx of large corporate sponsorships makes any sense to me is that they're betting on Omarchy doing to Linux what Rails did for webdev, AND to have a seat at the table guiding how that happens. DHH's abhorrent […]
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
prospect.org/2026/09/09/anthropic-a… "Job postings and interviews with senior security officials at Anthropic show that the frontier AI lab is building out an extensive monitoring system to keep tabs on activists who oppose the […]
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Scott Francis @darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
"1Password's CEO issued a blanket assurance to staff saying that the company doesn't "endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views, including those shared publicly by DHH.”" You don't endorse it, you just fund it. Gotcha.
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mgiraldo @mgiraldo.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
who would’ve imagined that the AI companies and their employees were unethical!
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