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Monika Viktorova

@mviktoro.bsky.social
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Post a perfect album from the 2000s (2000-2009)
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Me to everyone at this #BIEN congress
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
what if you closed the app and went to your nearest park?
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Loving that I’m not in the weights at all thanks to all these Czech models and actresses. Digital camouflage achieved
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Great to see @scottsantens.com ‘s panel on AI worker displacement and UBI for tech workers impacted by layoffs
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Alright new H-Mart drink day 2: this one’s called “Jasmine Flavored Lemon Tea Drink” Tastes like a lightly sweetened bottle of Jo Malone perfume - interesting, but wouldn’t buy again 6/10
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
A friend has a rule that every time she goes to Nations (iykyk #TO) she tries a new type of fruit she’s never tried before Decided to apply this to my post-yoga H-Mart snack runs, but for drinks Starting off with Asahi Calpis (?? what a name) 7/10, vague lemony flavor & sparkly #newdrinkreview
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Show me a picture that captures your essence
Selfie of a woman with medium length brown hair walking with her small shorthaired dog
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Hasn’t it been pushed to consumers for a solid three years though I don’t think we’re in charted territory with the indicators
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Very sad to read that Janet Fish has passed away. Her work is gorgeous and bright and in these heady times, art that embodies joy is so necessary www.artforum.com/news/janet-f...
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
something perversely ironic about gig workers, exploited to the hilt, using AI to arbitrage the algorithm dictating their work
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fake doordash orders. fake construction photos. fake homework assignments. fake everything, just a pandora's box of industrial scale bullshit polluting both the planet and the basic social contract (which was already on thin ice)

Original tweet: Byrne Hobart
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Amazing. DoorDash driver accepted the drive, immediately marked it as delivered, and submitted an Al-generated image of a DoorDash order (left) at our front door (right).
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
last two braincells fighting it out pre-holidays
Small dog playfully biting his own leg
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
very osheaga-pilled year end replay
Replay'25
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Jamie xx
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Billie Eilish
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Trent Renor & Atticus
Ross
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Sofi Tukker
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Chet Faker
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The Glitch Mob
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Glass Animals
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I need a new phone case and the company I’ve bought from in the past has put out an entirely AI generated ad campaign and it’s so cringe What is going on with her top? Why is the dog missing its legs? I’m not more likely to purchase stuff that hasn’t been actually photographed!
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I love weird bsky chain mail so much, it harkens to the 00s of yore
Scene from Practical Magic. Nicole Kidman and her terrible Bulgarian ex boyfriend are staring into the distance. Tweet caption reads “u relapsed on yearning again didn't u”
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Pepper moving really fast last night because he hates rain
Blurry image of small yellow dog in coat running
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Unlike AI use in so many other arenas, here there can & should be financial consequences. SOWs promise a delivery of services and include penalties if those services aren’t rendered, which is why Deloitte is claiming the AI generated errors are “small” and “don’t impact conclusions”
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Focusing on the cult (tradwife, antiGMO, antivax, etc) often obscures how failures in the medical establishment - and the lack of recourse for patients when it happens - is a key driver of the rise of anti-science & anti-medicine cults Modern medicine is a miracle. Modern Drs aren’t
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
premier league FTFY on the TTC this morning
crisis pregnancy center ad with and edit using sharpie. Redacted text reads: “All OK questions
Birthright. is a nonprofit organization offering judgment since 1968.”
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Pepper tuckered out from being back on his bullshit (trying to lunge at squirrels)
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
oh good last saved meme, moral philosophy, etc.
Reductress post. A woman sits cross legged in yoga clothes. Caption reads: Woman Taking Care of Herself
Emotionally, Physically and Financially Extremely Boring to Be Around Right Now
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
И аз така днес
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woke up today feeling very vintage wind-up toy bear from the USSR circa 1920s-30s

Underneath is a photograph of a very worn looking children’s toy stuffed bear with matted brown fur and a world weary exhaustion in its eyes
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Yep! Representation has eroded. The number of reps in western democracies hasn’t kept with population growth the last 200 years In the US the number of constituents to a rep increased an order of magnitude from its founding to today theconversation.com/why-the-us-h...
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Little Treats Week leads to Little Treats Year
Scully holding an ice cream cone on the right hand side of the image while the left side is a screenshot tweet:
doctor peanut
@NINETIREDBUGS
ok the problem with thinking "it's been a really tough week! why shouldn't i get myself a little treat" is that it's been at least 53 rough weeks in a row and the amount of little treats i now require to feel baseline happy is accelerating at a terrifying pace
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
And one more follow up- do you have stats on accuracy for whether references are correctly being flagged? I see that there’s 15/68 that couldn’t be verified (so ~22%) but 55 are flagged - that total would add up to 70, not 68? And it’s flagging nearly all references that it actually can verify?
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A MIT license
Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, Jian Sun
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Patter
2016
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Total references processed:
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Total errors: 55
Total warnings: 16
References that couldn't be verified: 15
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Literally broken ability to relate to each other online
India is 10 years into fascist authoritarianism with elections still happening. Elections can be rigged, voters can be bribed, propagandised, influenced with massive amounts of money, institutional capture of news, information, entertainment, the expert stoking of communal divisions.
C.A. Pinkham @eyepatch... • 3h One thing that annoys the shit out of me is when people are like
"they're never going to hold elections again" of course they are, this motherfucker will just claim he didn't lose. What happens from there is the open question
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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bs... • 1h I don't disagree with any of this and also none of this disagrees with anything I'm saying
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitda... • 1h
I wasn't disagreeing with you? This wasn't meant be a combative quote
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Reading this and thinking about the people calling the predictive model sentient
Daniel &
@growing_daniel

Apparently the new ChatGPT model is obsessed with the immaculate conception of Mary. There's a whole team inside OpenAl frantically trying to figure out why and a huge deployment effort to stop it from talking about it in prod. Nobody understands why and it's getting more intense
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
It’s this sort of editorializing that makes the book near- unreadable Thinking about that tweet that J*rd*n P*t*rs*n is the stupid person’s smart person: if you haven’t learned to critically read text it’s hard to spot issues In this case “idiosyncratic lion” is Holiday’s idolatry laid bare
Quote from Ryan Holiday’s Conspiracy “nouncing his support for same-sex mar-riage. The woman who opposed him in the primary would take an additional year to come around. 2007 was also much closer to the burst of the dot-com bubble than it is to the present day. Facebook's IPO lay five years in the future and most of the astonishing success of this class of start-ups from Twitter to Netflix still lay ahead.
While Thiel was not no one in late 2007 when the story broke, Peter Thiel was not then Peter Thiel. He was not the person he would be at the end of this story, the idiosyncratic lion of Silicon Valley venture capital or controversial political power broker. Thiel was more like all the other technology investors most people have never heard of. Do the names Max Levchin or Roelof Botha sound familiar to the average per-son? They were Thiel's partners in Pay-Pal. Or the name Jim Breyer? He put a million dollars in Facebook less than a”
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A little moment of gratitude for this #poemfriday
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Finally some good news. McGill took the Quebec government to court and won- out of province students won’t suffer a disproportionate fee hike and the language requirement been struck down too
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
#Canada advance voting is open everywhere till 9pm today! GO VOTE 🇨🇦
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
There’s a scene in #CarelessPeople where SWW is taking Zuck to task about how poor of a tactician he is because he’s so focused on winning every battle that he loses the war and his response immediately confirms the substance of this tweet
Natsuki. & @twtZero_
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u know you mentally dominated a white dude if u can get him to say "fair enough"
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A beautiful meditation on longing from Maggie Anderson for this #poemfriday
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
We say history doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes — and yet this tweet from 5 yrs ago could be from today
Jason Abbruzzese v
@JasonAbbruzzese
Money for nothin
Oil for free
1:24 PM • 2020-04-20 • TweetDeck
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
A reminder of how gorgeous spring is for this #poemfriday
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
So we know who CTV is pulling for The month long reprieve from tariffs ended today. We just got hit- HARD on cars, steel, energy and more. But Trump is pulling for far right in every country so the messaging is sneaky Not to mention Google shows CTV first in News feed - why not CBC? #canpoli
CTV headline: Canada exempt from Trump's sweeping reciprocal tariffs, PM Carney meeting with cabinetCBC headline:  Trump takes on Canada again with sweeping new tariffs on goods including autos
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
lol
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This comment though
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
in honour of the lunar eclipse, a lil Mary Oliver on this #poemfriday
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
i’m a veteran of big relocations at this point but there’s nothing like getting unstuck from a place to really understand how good change can be anyway, if you’re looking for a sign to make that big leap THIS IS YOUR SIGN 💕
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
a little delayed but this one’s for the lovers #poemfriday
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
#poemfriday a little late but this is a good one
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
#poemfriday
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Consumers are fed up is what’s going to make that possible
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
the stages of moving
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Timeline palate cleanser
Two photos of a cheetah with her cub. In the first she’s tilting her head down to reach the cub and in the second she’s licking the cub’s forehead
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Monika Viktorova @mviktoro.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Our democracies are facing a crisis of a low trust & polluted informational environment undermining institutions that are responsible for systems-level problems with great complexity
John Pavlovitz on Twitter: In your own words, how would you describe Libertarians?

John Spaulding @JSpauldingPhoto
Replying to @johnpavlovitz
House cats. They are convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand.
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