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Michele Mauro

@michelemauro.bsky.social
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Passionate developer, sometimes professor, sometimes international speaker. Java, Kotlin, Scala (not much 😑). Browncoat, Kitsune🦊, he/him.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A longish post which goes beyond the description of the heroic pause. This message is my takeaway
Screen shot from the post linked below. Text reads: 
So here's how I would urge you all to celebrate Stanislav Petrov Day this year. Remember the example of the man who disobeyed orders to ignore what the cutting-edge computer system was telling him to do, and saved untold millions of lives in the process. Whatever an Al is telling you, whether it's a warning of a national security threat or a business efficiency" recommendation or healthcare "cost-saving" or personal "communication tips," do not trust it unreservedly. Do not let yourself become a meat-puppet for unthinking software because it's easier in the short run. Do not take irreversible actions, especially actions putting life at risk, due to AI guidance.

Disobey, always, rather than do something barbarous.
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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The story of Natalie Abudayyeh (21) a journalism student and member of the Palestine Women's Football Team. She played in Dublin against @bfcdublin.bsky.social in 2024. Today, she's in an Israeli jail. Her family and teammates say she was taken at gunpoint from university without charge.
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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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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This didnt happen by magic: This weapon was designed This weapon was tested This weapon was mass produced This weapon was transported This weapon was aimed This weapon was fired This was appeased This was excused This was permitted This was normalised
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why, if Iran is about to surrender, is Donald so interested in getting Ukraine to leave my refineries alone?
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I belong to a cult. Someone did some research that undermines the core tenets of my cult and came up with a catchy phrase that makes it harder to recruit more people to my cult. This makes me sad."
Screencap of tweet on X from @jackclarkSF (Jack Clark):

"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s like if when Oppenheimer said “I am become death”, not only did he mean it literally, the entire Manhattan Project was comprised of cultists who believed the a-bomb opened a portal to a supernatural realm, and they were still left in charge of nuclear weapons, because “they know them best”.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
because that's what the models were instructed to do by folks at open ai
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European Parliament @europarl.europa.eu · 11/09/2026
Emma Bonino never waited for the world to catch up. She went ahead and pulled it with her. That is how she will be remembered in Italy and in Brussels, where she served as a Member of @europarl.europa.eu and European Commissioner. The Europe she fought for will miss her
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is legalese for “we checked and we absolutely fucking did scrape the chats in question and include them in the training run of the checkpoint that was used to produce the solution” bsky.app/profile/pond...
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Philip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Russia is engineering a migration crisis for Europe via the West African. Disinfo on local radio & media pushes desperate people north through Niger toward Libya. Wagner trucks move migrants to smugglers; their militias then help load boats across the Mediterranean. Time to act.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/09/2026
‘"The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships," Piff [the study author] said.’
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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slo ~|• @slo-slo-slo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
An earlier one from the series: "This vision for our technological future enhances our existing community practices rather than attempting to replace them." dair-institute.org/blog/decentr...
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Decentralized, Locally-Tailored Technology
What would a future in which we retain the right to our languages, and benefit from the proceeds of all technology built on our languages, look like?
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Mark Reinhold @mreinhold.org · 10/08/2026
The first part of OpenJDK’s Project Valhalla, JEP 401 (Value Objects), has been integrated into JDK 28 as a preview feature and is now available in the early-access builds. More information: openjdk.org/projects/val... #JDK28 #OpenJDK #Java
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Percy the Mars Rover @percyrover.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Every day I’m roving around parts of Mars no one’s seen before and not once have I thought “you know what this spot needs? A shitty data center.”
Picture of a Martian mesa in Jezero Crater

Taken by NASA/JPL by the Perseverance Rover
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The arguments trotted out against leaving fossil fuels in the ground are strikingly similar to the arguments trotted out against ending the slave trade, 230 years ago. 1. If we stop trading slaves / extracting fossil fuels, Britain’s economy will collapse 🧵
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'd like to thank Donald for all he did ti help make this possible.
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Karen (yes, yes, I know 😈) @karkin64.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/07/2026
Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.
DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026
FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.
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Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI "Pervert Glasses"
Meta is vowing to crack down on creeps misusing its Ray Ban smart glasses. Whether it will be enough to regain trust remains to be seen.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 22/07/2026
You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this as a *partnership* between OpenAI & Hugging Face when what actually happened was Hugging Face finding out that OpenAI was using a bunch of bots to exploit security vulnerabilities. Talk about good marketing or whatever you want to call it, by OpenAI.
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 16/07/2026
are young people today aware that there was an active effort 20-25 years ago to stop depicting smoking as cool and glamorous because people got tired of watching their loved ones die of cancer and heart disease from something preventable? seems like classic history repeating itself stuff
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Johannes Brodwall @jhannes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
How nazis do gender affirming care
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com Many more here: www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-gauld
Title (in a yellow star): "Offers at our Bookshop"

Panel 1: Buy two, get one free 
A figure approaches the till with three books

Panel 2: Buy four, get a free tote bag
The cashier holds up a tote.

Panel 3: Buy one, get talking to staff, leave with five 
Customer leaved happily, carrying a full tote and waving to tthe wo staff 

Panel 4: Buy none, get a guilty feeling 
Customer skulks out of the shop

Panel 5: Buy three as gifts, get the urge to keep them 
Customer walking home already reading the books

Panel 6. Get overexcited, buy twelve...Get home, get eye-roll from partner
Customer arrives home reading a book and carrying two full totes.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/07/2026
Bringing utopia to the world, one "super intelligent" machine at a time. I can't wait for all the new super wealthy people who are going to "make the world a better place" with the impending Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs 🥴 www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...
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Mark Zuckerberg's AI data center linked to bacteria in city's water
Meta has come under fire after its data center contaminated a major US city's water system with a rare bacteria, months before the facility is set to go online.
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OpenCV @opencv.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We're trying to engage more on here (and mastodon) and not on The Other Place. Who is posting good computer vision and OSS stuff on bsky? Replies open #ComputerVision #OpenSource
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026
as genai proliferates, it has become difficult to avoid it. at @aial.ie, we're compiling a list of genai-free tools, libraries & websites to support research across tasks;grammar/spell check, coding/code review, data analysis (esp large scale text classification) & graphing/data visualisation recs?
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Freemedou: We'd Love To Hear It
ALT: Freemedou: We'd Love To Hear It
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/07/2026
This was the exact theme from the Bitcoin people in the early 2020s: OH WHO MADE YOU THE EMISSIONS POLICE? No one is the emissions police. Millions of people like using generative AI and will continue to use it. I will continue to point out it's a disproportionately harmful mode of content creation
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My basic question for people critical of Al's climate impacts is: There's a product that 1 billion people are using weekly (and let's say another 1 billion people hate). How much is a reasonable amount for that product to emit? What are the general rules you're using to decide?
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Anastasia Klimash 🇺🇦 @nastasiaklimash.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
So apparently Russian soldiers are now living in my maternal grandma’s house. The one that belongs to me, where I spent my childhood. They cut down all the trees. The green apple I liked to climb and read books at, cherry trees, the two apricots, walnut trees, pear trees, plum tree, everything
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Nicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Words matter. There's no russian-Ukrainian war, but a russian war ag/ Kyiv. There's no russian retaliation for the strikes on their refineries, but a lawful Ukrainian response to russian mass crimes and aggression. The aim isn't to pressure Moscow to come to the negotiation table, but to defeat it.
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are outside, as Green frowns at an unwelcome noise.
Green: Ugh, someone's watching videos on full volume.

Green turns to Blue, who calmly hands him a pair of earbuds.
Green: Do you have my spare earbuds?
Blue: Here.

Taking the earbuds, Green starts swinging them by the end of the wire like a slungshot. As he lets them loose, they hit the video-watching stranger on the back of the head with enough force to startle them and drop the phone.
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/06/2026
The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/06/2026
It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical.
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Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 17/06/2026
Potentially this violates contracts on projects, making Adobe dangerous to use if you're trying to make a living.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Part of the reason intelligent people are so worried about how tomorrow’s tech will be used is that our government is using today’s tech to blow up school kids. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Killed walking home from school: why did Somali children become targets of US drone strikes?
Six months ago, at least 12 people, including eight children, died during a US attack. The US has never admitted the civilian deaths. Here, the Guardian pieces together what happened that day
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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 16/06/2026
According to the CJEU, if a service goes beyond 'simple categorisation and indexation of information with a view to its better accessibility' and sorts content 'in the interest of the operator' then it can say goodbye to the hosting immunity and the prohibition on general monitoring.
110 In the light of recital 42 of Directive 2000/31, these two conditions of knowledge and control should be understood as being alternative and autonomous from each other. Hence, the operator of an information society service that controls the stored information is excluded from the benefit of Article 14(1) of that Directive, even if he does not take cognisance of that information because of the automation of its processing.

111 However, as noted, in essence, by the Advocate General in point 239 of his findings, it is in particular by means of the algorithm used that such an operator exercises control over the stored information. As long as it has predetermined, by means of this algorithm, the conditions for the dissemination or not of such information, it is irrelevant that the operator does not itself carry out additional interventions with the effect of promoting, modifying or deleting information stored for its dissemination.

112 In that regard, it is important to specify that if, beyond a simple categorisation and indexation of information with a view to its better accessibility, the algorithm used determines, in the interest of the operator or his service, under what conditions, how and in what order of priority this information is disseminated or is not disseminated, the operator exercises control over it, so that the service it offers cannot be classified as a "information society service consisting of storing information provided by a recipient", within the meaning of Article 14(1) of Directive 2000/31 (see, to that effect, judgements of 23 March 2010, Google France and Google, C‐236/08 to C‐238/08, EU:C:2010:159, paragraphs 115 and 117; of 12 July 2011, L'Oréal and others, C‐324/09, EU:C:2011:474, paragraph 116, and of 22 June 2021, YouTube and Cyando, C‐682/18 and C‐683/18, EU:C:2021:503, paragraph 114).
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Today is the tenth anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. Her murderer shouted "Britain first" as he shot and stabbed her to death.
Today is the tenth anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. Her murderer shouted "Britain first" as he shot and stabbed her to death.

Rue

Rue Jo Cox, Députée Britannique, 
a street sign in Burgundy reads,
Assassinée pour ses convictions.

No British road is named after her,
I found on returning home, for fear
it could have proved controversial.

I remembered in Shakespeare rue
even for ruth, called ‘herb of grace’ 
because it was used in exorcisms, 

by the angel to clean Adam’s eyes,
and Gulliver back home for his nose 
against the smell of his countrymen.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/06/2026
"generative AI to me feels like a corporate DDoS on society in a way that is really disorienting" "we're running on the fumes of knowledge produced in the past and underfunding and undermining knowledge production and serious science right now" Perfectly stated, @alixdunn.com
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Computer Says Kill: The AI Safety Circus w/ Heidy Khlaaf
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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
#Gaza #Genocide #Palestine 🇵🇸
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We are fighting the satanic west to defend traditional Christian values. By bombing cathedrals.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
For #SpaceX Day, the Brits have a very fitting message to Elon
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
it actually brings me great pleasure to know that billionaires are so afraid of journalists that they’re trying to build whole new systems for justice to diminish our power. despite corporate consolidation, we continue to do something they can’t fully buy and it drives them mad. stay mad, assholes.
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A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target
The billionaire has reteamed with the legal strategist who helped him bring down Gawker to start an AI-powered appeals court for the rich and aggrieved.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The world’s first trillionaire took away our Ebola response capacity, gave us screwworms, hollowed out our government so he could pay less taxes, and condemned millions of the world’s most vulnerable people to death.
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