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Reposted by Riccardo Mori

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My most evergreen post.

Them: "why didn't you warn us?"
Everyone: "we did"
Them: "why didn't you warn us louder?"
Everyone: "WE DID"
Them: "Well you should've warned us in a way that got through to us. This is definitely on you"

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Everything is Super Intelligence for the Blithering Idiot.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When people ask me for 'my WhatsApp' and I say I don't have WhatsApp, you should see the horror and disbelief in their eyes. And in that moment I think, "the horror is right there on *your* phone".

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a terrific article. I’d stumbled on it a couple of months ago but had lost the link. Now I found it again, thanks to a boost in Mastodon. azhdarchid.com/imagining-th... #FuckAI

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"Over time" is the problem. Do you think that the increase in local models' usage will make companies say, "Sure, let's stop building data centres"? Because I don't.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well, that’s one of the most generous promo periods I’ve ever seen!

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The “AI is just a tool” crowd is starting to get on my nerves. Those who think that if they can just extract the ‘good uses’ for it, it’s all fine. The engine that allows AI to run is an extremely, resource-hungry one. Resources that should be used for the actual betterment & sustainment of people.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Speaking of feedback, almost nobody seems to have caught on the fact that my recent piece about the Surface Duo is *also* about the iPhone Duo. They look at the title and think, “Haha, it’s actually a Surface Duo review”. It is, but also isn’t. morrick.me/archives/10418

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The Duo. No, the other Duo.

I like my first-generation Microsoft Surface Duo. It's more opinionated than the iPhone Duo.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Goodness, now I have *AI agents* writing to me with feedback(?) about my articles. Note: I have no idea what this thing means in the part I’ve highlighted in orange:

Screenshot of an email I received, written by an AI agent.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I like that satire still nails everything like a good hammer. #FuckAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKNi...

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every AI ceo all of a sudden

YouTube video by Man Carrying Thing

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

you see? And this happens all the time. Thing I wrote there in a post, here must become a thread. It's 2026, we should have a 512 character limit, no?

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Apologies for the lack of updates. My primary social place is Mastodon. I used to crosspost between the two networks, then the tool I was using proved unreliable. So I started doing it manually. But it's frustrating, because on my Mastodon instance my post can be up to 500 characters long, while h—

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If my sink’s siphon has a leak, and I call a plumber to fix it, when the job’s done I don’t feel empowered.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In a recent conversation, an acquaintance told me that “LLMs make me feel empowered”, which seems so contradictory to me. I feel empowered when, for example, I have to face a sudden issue and manage to solve it by doing my homework.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There are no “Anti-AI zealots”, Mr Masnick. Only AI zealots, and people with common sense who don’t drink the Kool-AI of the AI industry, and recognise that the costs of ‘AI’ vastly, spectacularly outweigh the benefits.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

City centre, before a luxury clothing and accessories shop. – €8,500 for a handbag the size of a notebook!?! Does it come with a free SSD?

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New, on Morrick.me — The ‘trap’ in the Apple Upgrade plan isn’t about money: morrick.me/archives/10359

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The ‘trap’ in the Apple Upgrade plan isn’t about money

Eyes on the prize, people. Eyes on the prize.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Remember that a car with a mid engine doesn’t necessarily mean it has a mediocre engine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-eng...

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Mid-engine design - Wikipedia

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Another day where my timeline serves me depressing news and information I have zero power to act on. It’s this overlap of ‘good to know’ and ‘bad to know’ that’s making these times anguishing. I’m also annoyed that, by spreading the word, I’m both raising awareness and feelings of powerlessness.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

We laugh now. I hope this will still be parody down the road. #FuckAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDCz...

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are you using A.I. right now?

YouTube video by Wolf Shirt

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Pay attention to those people who don’t even want you to understand them or ‘solve’ their problems — all they want is for you to *listen* to them. And for that you have to stop yapping. To stop talking *at* people and broadcast yourself.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

(2/2) “At this point, it’s better to just build your own gaming PC.” — Good luck finding a decent graphics card, adequate RAM and storage capacity, for less than $1,049 today. “Just buy a Steam Deck” — LMAO ↓

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

(1/2) Goodness, the amount of bad takes regarding the Steam Machine is overwhelming: “They should have tried to hit the $999 mark for the price” — Base model costs $1,049. You can’t afford $50 more for it? “I was expecting console prices” — LOL, the Steam Machine is not a console, it’s a PC.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The best feedback I’ve received so far is a short email from one of my readers, that says: “AI is what happens when rich idiots and poor idiots unite.”

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I can assure you, you won’t waste 45 minutes of your life by watching this video. I knew a few of these things already, but for many people this can be an eye-opener. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8sz...

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How Wall Street Hacked Your Brain

YouTube video by Anna Bocca

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sorry, Canadian friends, I didn’t realise it was Canada Day already! Cheers! 🇨🇦

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This video popped up in my recommendations out of the blue. I really liked it, and noticed the same things the creator talks about. Food for thought. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvzF...

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Something Changed And Nobody Noticed...

YouTube video by Tom Scryleus

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

If you have a large collection of CDs bought over the years and you remember seeing protective foam inserts inside the jewelboxes, go check them and throw away those foam inserts. Because if they’ve degraded and oxidised, your CDs will be irreparably lost. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUq-...

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The Silent CD Killer You Forgot!

YouTube video by The Best Record Shops

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I disabled both Ad Privacy and Digital Wellbeing apps on my Android phone following the instructions in this video, and battery life has been noticeably better. Hope this helps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6aW...

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They Secretly Installed a New App on Your Phone To Show More Ads — Delete It Now!

YouTube video by Useful Things

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This is a long, but extremely interesting interview with the creator of the Zig programming language, Andrew Kelley. I wish more people in tech were like this guy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqdd...

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Zig 2026: No-AI Policy, $670K Foundation, Left GitHub & Why Zig Isn’t 1.0 - Andrew Kelley Explains

YouTube video by JetBrains

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The ever-excellent Lucas Brar strikes again. Seven Nation Army, but it’s a Bach fugue www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GsI...

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Seven Nation Army but it's a Bach Fugue

YouTube video by Lucas Brar

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I fondly remember the time when I didn’t need to be reminded of the date of the #WWDC keynote.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The mending on the tech industry’s part has to be of astronomical scope and efficacy for me to re-embrace tech the way I used to.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Tech — current tech and the current industry trends — have broken an unseen contract between me and it/them. Me and you are no longer tech’s end — we are means to an end for someone else in tech.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

If you asked me right now what I wanted to do in my life, my answer would be: love my wife, write my novel, take photos, play some games on my PC. As you can see, technology plays little to no part in any of these activities. And that is also a measure of my current interest in it.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Sometimes I go back and read old posts from when I was more prolific & inspired, but on the other hand I can’t escape this feeling of looking at all that tech talking, and framing it as “Eh, I used to drink more at that time” and now that ‘alcohol’ has somehow lost its cool, if you know what I mean.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Really struggling to find anything to talk about on my blog.

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Riccardo Mori @morrick.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

@theletterf.bsky.social There you are! I stopped seeing your posts on Mastodon and wondered whether something had happened to you. 🙂

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