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Mike Riverso

@mikeriverso.bsky.social
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Sci-fi, games, and progressive politics. “De-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy.” #BlackLivesMatter. #TransLivesMatter. He/him. Toronto.

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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 1h
ah ah ah!
The Count from Sesame Street holding up a number one.
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alex 🐀 @tinysnekcomics.bsky.social · 1h
that’s only 0.5 scaramuccis 🫪🫪🫪
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Doc Vivi's Personal Account @personalvivi.bsky.social · 1h
I know all the Democratic candidates coming out against trans rights is depressing, but I'd like to point out that the fact they all waited until after the primaries to do so shows they're scared of us, and our allies.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2h
Yes, yes, and yes. Facebook, Instagram, US-based TikTok (Oracle) and Twitter/X are owned by conservative and far-right oligarchs who have made it clear that they want to shape reality. Musk has also taken steps like creating Grokipedia to cook LLM training data to further manipulate discourse.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 3h
October 16, 1968
Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists on the medal stand at he 1968 Olympics in Mexico City; Peter Norman looks on
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 2h
The real question is what happens when (not if) the big corps give up on hyper scaling AI via giant models and massive data centers. The data centers will likely be useless, as the tech burns out too fast to be repurposed. On-device smaller models will still exist, but will they be useful enough?
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 2h
So many new urban spelunking opportunities!
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 2h
Right, but they already do that. And as I understand it, the hardware in AI datacenters is too specialized to be easily repurposed. Only so many uses for matrix multiplication.
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 2h
Can all these vibe coders get by with local models? Will agent swarms still be a thing? Video generation will almost certainly die, and image quality with deteriorate immediately.
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 2h
The real question is what happens when (not if) the big corps give up on hyper scaling AI via giant models and massive data centers. The data centers will likely be useless, as the tech burns out too fast to be repurposed. On-device smaller models will still exist, but will they be useful enough?
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dapurplesharpie @sharpiepls.com · 3h
i told yall that AI would be dead by Q2-Q3 2027 or Q1 2028 and i am very happy with my prediction thus far
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 8h
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“More than 100 elected officials have joined me in calling on parking lot and garage owners across New York City: Don’t give ICE a place to operate. Don’t rent to them. Tell them they’re not welcome.

Last week, ICE agents shot Oscar Belgal in the neck in Marble Hill while his 5-year-old son sat in the car. They had been staging nearby in a private parking lot.

Our city laws keep ICE off public property. Now, we’re calling on private property owners to do the same. One garage on Morton Street already removed ICE vehicles after neighbors spoke out. Every owner has that power.”
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John Breen @breen.tech · 3h
“Both sides are bad” is not the same as “both sides are equally bad” One can be bad while the other is worse
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henry wallace stan account @jazzpomegranate.com · 3h
we need to prosecute elon for the crimes he committed with doge and the mass deaths he has caused and, like the nazis at nuremberg, HANG HIM after SECURING A LEGAL CONVICTION
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Charl Landsberg (They/Them) ‍⚧️ @charllandsberg.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Sorry, but you can't have it both ways. Either trans lives matter or our votes don't.
Two buttons meme:

An image of a hand hovering over two buttons.

Left button: "Trans people need to go under bus!"

Right button: "Trans people must vote for my side!"

Sweating man labelled 'centrists'.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 10h
£10 spent on benefits isn't just £10 lost, it's £10 that will then be spent on food, or rent which keeps circulating in the economy. £10 given to big businesses in a tax cut just ends up in a profit margin, or a millionaire shareholders pocket. Its likely never spent again.
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 6h
This is not a serious country.
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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 10h
I have deleted the emails that were in my inbox and which you were probably sending for reasons Forgive me they were annoying so many and so long
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meyo 🌸 @meyoco.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
☁️ cloudy catwalk ☁️
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 7h
But you know, maybe this is just the shit my generation got stuck with Maybe it’s our job to preserve the idea that brains are valuable and good, actually bsky.app/profile/chan...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8h
I don’t want my entire intellectual world to be consumed by convincing people that their brains are worth using 😭
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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 10h
Weird - surely you would want to encourage employees to use the magical productivity enhancing tools as much as possible, maybe even have a leaderboard to encourage their use, so we can look at all the productivity! Wonder why they have stopped?
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 8h
hey remember how elon musk cut off starlink to give putin the upper hand in the ukraine war?
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
can't take "LLMs are people" discourse seriously when we haven't even convinced everyone that all people are people.
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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 10h
One of the things I hate most about AI is its insistence on invading my escapism. The world is utterly shit and then when I try to escape it all I see is AI slop fucking up Tolkien, Board and Computer Games, myths and folklore, history... everything. It's incessant and I hate it.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The Nazis' famous occultist weird science shit, happened because *a decade earlier* they'd destroyed all German science and education immediately upon gaining power. Los Alamos happened in the US because that's where they'd exiled all their best physicists in 1933.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Fascists always embrace pseudoscience and snake oil and woo and quacks, because it always first attacks the concept of knowledge and expertise and objective reality. Turns out, shooting all the experts on day one, creates a void for the most obviously ignorant dipshits you've ever seen to thrive.
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 19h
Been reading a book about the history of economic bubbles, and one thing that really does seem unique with the (potential) ai bubble is that it's the only one I'm aware of that is... religious? Messianic? Meaning there are powerful people who I believe would burn down their lives just to build it.
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A lot absolutely unhinged takes out there by folks treating ChatGPT like it’s Lt. Cmd. Data.
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone, somewhere, proved that 3.5e was somehow Turing Complete.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 15/10/2026
Parking: $50/month Lunch: $75/month Gas: $80/month Claude tokens: $1,000/month Please someone help me budget this my chatbot girlfriend is starving
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Like, I fully understand that it might be difficult to know if and when we’ve crossed that line, but we are absolutely nowhere near it.
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
A lot absolutely unhinged takes out there by folks treating ChatGPT like it’s Lt. Cmd. Data.
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I want to know what this is about, but apparently is so obscene that no one will even link to it, and I should probably not want to know.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/10/2026
conflating chatbots with slavery is so insanely disrespectful I don't think I should even make a joke about it
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I just want some dems to come out and say with conviction that racism is bad and transphobia is bad and ableism is bad and homophobia is bad and fuck, it seems like almost none are doing that.
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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The core problem with this proposal isn't "we take the high road," it's that by normalizing high profile attacks on naturalized citizenship you erode naturalized immigrant rights broadly
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Morgan Johnson @poormojo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Adguard does this via a free dns profile as well. Simple to set up, no need to use their app.
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I get it, we’re all fuckin’ tired and overworked, but there’s something to be said for simply doing less instead of asking AI to pick up the slack.
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Linda Blair @mjmbca.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
So much of the pitch for AI in general is literally just “Don’t you wish you didn’t have to think for yourself?”
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Oof
Oracle down 9%
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 14/10/2026
between this and CharacterAI it does feel like Something Is Happening
Chart showing coreweave down almost 25% in the last 5 days 
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65.69 UsD -21.04 (-24.26%) + past 5 days
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
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Adroitly Absurd @adroitlyabsurd.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Wizards saw a rag-tag group organizing into an effective & powerful force for good & went “yeah let’s walk face-first into this metaphor & be the big bad”
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It would be so easy for WotC to not piss off the entire D&D community. That they consistently fail to do so is very frustrating.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Zacharia, despite years of claiming to be a lawyer, is not a lawyer. The latest on the scandal and Zacharia's disastrous response:
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UPDATE: Katie Zacharia’s disastrous response to Popular Information’s report
Zacharia, who claimed for years to be a lawyer, is not a lawyer.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
BREAKING: A complaint has been filed with the California Bar against White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia, citing Popular Information’s reporting, for “the Unauthorized Practice of Law and for Holding Herself Out as Entitled to Practice Law.”
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