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Omar Khafagy

@omarkhafagy.bsky.social
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Writer. Dad. Skill chaser.

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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Yikes Apple, what was that rap? Like… no hate to the artist, guy’s good. But the idea is VERY “high school bonus points assignment.”
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"_____ is real" has become such a fingerprint of LLM-generated writing. It's wonderfully ironic.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I don't know about you, but when I think "self-defense" I totally think "Eternal Darkness."
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Inside of you there are two Naomis.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We're living in the Potemkin era of Western civiliation.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I know very few of us can do anything to help Lebanese people. But I hope at the very least you'll take a minute of silence today for them and all those who, in the last year, have died to satiate the greedy bloodlust of monsters.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
TACO Tuesday
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I just... don't get it anymore, man. I don't. I open up my laptop and it feels like it immediately bursts into flames with non-stop news. My phone feels the same way. But then I talk to people around me and 99% of them seem to be oblivious to the world. I feel like I have double vision.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
"They try to guess the answer that sounds best, not the objectively correct one." This is the best definition of "bullshitter" I've ever seen in my entire life.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Man, I feel for Ponce. Guy just gets back to the major leagues and gets injured. Really hope it wasn’t as bad as it looked. 😬 #bluejays #baseball
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The thing about the internet is that anyone can share any thought. And they do. And that’s why it will always be worse than real life.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
My theory: AI investment is a play for infrastructure. Layoffs are to soften the losses to placate shareholders. But this has always been about infrastructure, and not for AI. The long game? VR and AR environments with corporations operating as defacto virtual governments.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Little known fact about World Series games, after 15 innings the winner is decided by Beyblade duel
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Dan Johnson, 💀Socialist💀 @coil.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We're glad you're enjoying the game! Your Baseball+ subscription allows you to watch up to 14 innings of most games. To continue watching, press OK to upgrade to Baseball+ Platinum. If you don't want to upgrade right now, individual innings can be purchased for as little as $5.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I remember when this game started.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
if this keeps going, we’re gonna see third gen players born on the field
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Me: so tired today. Hope this game will go quick. as long as we’re up by three, I’ll go to bed. Jays & Dodgers: another inning Me: what? Jays & Dodgers: another. Inning. Me: wait. Please. Jays & Dodgers: ANOTHER INNING!!!!!
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This shouldn’t need to be said. But it does, because a loud and vocal minority of chronically online people insist that moral absolutism is an adequate substitute for empathy and compassion. They preach a kind of secular moral purity—they’re fundamentalists without a church.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
“They wear masks because they know they’re wrong.” No they don’t. They wear masks to avoid consequences, but they still think they’re right. Batman wears a mask. So do many other heroes. They see themselves like that, or they wear masks because it’s an “in-group” behaviour and they wanna belong.
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I want to hear from every fucking asshole baseball writer, podcaster, blogger and other talking head moron who wrote the Jays off without watching them play a single game this year. What the fuck is up.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Americans, here’s the thing: I really like you guys. In general, I think a lot of Americans are hard working, decent folks with a fascinating and dense history for your relatively short existence as a nation. I hope you never stop yearning to fulfill the ideals that underpin your country.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Whenever I get depressed or anxious, I remember that I can pick up a magic rectangle and watch the world tear itself to pieces and then make gifs about it. And that makes me feel much better.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
AI videos are getting more realistic at the same time as AR technology begins to spread. I bet that footage from the latter will feed the models for the former and result in realistic AI-generated AR footage. Which leads me to wonder: in a few generations, will anyone even believe what they see?
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Amen. And it isn’t just about faking reality. It’s also about discrediting reality. Jump ahead couple years and imagine video footage is released incriminating a politician. Videos like the ones this guy is talking about are writing the playbook on how to handle that with an AI smoke bomb.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Chronically online Leftists be like: Sure the world is descending into a nightmarish dystopia while I impotently shame the shameless and my own potential allies, but… at least I’m right.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
www.ft.com/content/2712...
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Disinformation warriors are ‘grooming’ chatbots
Russian hackers are exploring ways to inject propaganda into the training data of generative AI models
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I’m obsessed with this. I find myself wondering if COVID had a long-term biological impact on our brains. Even if it only affected like 10% of the population that way, the people around them would be affected in terms of mental health.
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Ethan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
There's a lot to study from Zohran Mamdani's electoral victory, but I'm particularly interested in its graphic design. Vivid, unexpected colors. A hand drawn feel that nods to the grassroots nature of the campaign, with nods to old NYC bodega signage, metro cards, and even old Bollywood posters.
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ByteVagabond @bytevagabond.com · 02/03/2025
Milky Way as seen from Mars.
Mars chocolate bar in front of milkyway bar
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
#AI is for propaganda. Specifically, it is for English-language propaganda. I don’t see anyone talking about this, but it’s the elephant in the room. LLMs are exceptionally good at creating believable colloquial English. They are lousy at Russian, for example.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I would go back thousands of years and tell three stories: 1. Doctor Parsec 2. Into the Dark 3. First Light It would go back to before the invention of lightspeed. Before lightsabers. It would focus on a single planet’s final days in an unexplored and unconnected galaxy. 🧵
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Fun Sherlock Homes story that brings the man into 21st century San Francisco. Almost two thirds of the way through. On a different note… are we married to the name“Flashes”?
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
A brief taxonomy of BlueSky posts: - serious - satire - bad jokes - shit posts - “don’t do that scolds,” wherein the poster condescendingly tells everyone they’re doing “it” wrong. - baiting, wherein a troll goads scolders into scolding - twitter screenshots - meta posts (this one)
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Scorsese has discovered ChatGPT and asked it to give him a new idea based on the films in his own IMDB page.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This surprises me because I’ve always thought of it the other way around. As an Egyptian-Canadian, I’ve noticed no one talks more about politics than people who feel powerless—many Arabs fit that bill. The ability to ignore politics is a privilege, because it means you’re not as affected.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Musk won’t care. To Musk, everything he is doing is to save humanity. He has a utopian vision of the future he believes is being hamstrung by an inefficient power structure created by corrupt elites. He isn’t counting the dollars. He thinks he is saving us from ourselves.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Without historical context, the news is simply propaganda.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The trouble with liking music from every genre is that algorithms don’t know wtf to do with you.
Screenshot of Apple Music Get Up! Mix playlist featuring:

Crawling
LINKIN PARK

Naveed
Our Lady Peace

LOVE (Bonus Track)
Michael Bublé

Goody Goody
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

Wilbury Twist
The Traveling Wilburys

Looking East
Jackson Browne

Don't Kill My Melody
The Winking Owl

Niacin Flush
a crowd of rebellion
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
“People’s sense of reality is fracturing because of AI!” I’m getting tired of this argument. I’m not a fan of AI, but it isn’t AI that’s breaking people’s sense of reality. Before AI, people blamed CG, photoshopping, video editing, photography & even NOVELS for breaking a sense of reality. 1/?
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fishttp:// @fishttp.website · 19/01/2025
the banning of tiktok is another painful reminder to buy physical copies of your media. i have dozens of dvds of an ai voice reading reddit comments over unrelated minecraft footage.
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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 15/01/2025
I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Announced alongside a complete remaster of Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask as one long game
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Semicolons are my favorite punctuation.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
lol can we finally stop acting like these people know what’s good for humanity? Please?
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
I find myself wondering about the drug culture in Silicon Valley and the way that community has shifted over the last ten years or so. I can’t help but wonder if it has affected the way their leaders think. Maybe not one drug in particular but the whole cocktail.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
No one is better equipped to deal with the post-truth Internet than fiction readers and writers.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Yup. I think a lot of people fail to understand that the ways in which things could get better are a LOT fewer than the ways things could get much, much worse. Many in wealthy nations really don’t understand how ugly life can get. That’s not to downplay the problems but to introduce perspective.
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 10/01/2025
How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
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How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
In the wake of Meta’s decision to remove its third-party fact-checking system and loosen content moderation policies, Google searches on how to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads have been on the rise. People who are angry with the decision accuse…
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Here’s the thing about Facebook, Twitter (X), Instagram, and TikToK. We don’t need them. We never did. We used them because they were sold to us for free, and they were easy to make money from. But that just isn’t true anymore.
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Omar Khafagy @omarkhafagy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Another thing: town squares are public spaces and should be publicly funded, owned, and operated. So why are our online spaces treated differently? A consortium of libraries around the world should host and moderate our online town squares. And PRESERVE them. These are public records.
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