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Sergio Visinoni

@piffio.bsky.social
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Passionate about books, engineering leadership and helping others grow. Check out my website sergiovisinoni.com or my newsletter makemeacto.cc Also on Mastodon at mastodon.social/@piffio Please share your reading suggestions

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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Plus, you should really check out Iris' Arca product. As I like to say: when everyone is moving up the stack, move down. Being knowledgeable is always going to make you a better person, regardless of direct economic returns. deadsimpletech.com/arca
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Arca by deadSimpleTech — expert-written notes, exercises, and answers for working engineers | deadSimpleTech
Part course, part periodical, part forum. Expert-written notes on statistics and engineering fundamentals for working engineers; read them, do the exercises, and ask the author directly when you get ...
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today is a great day. I just got the honour and great pleasure of seeing an article by @iris-meredith.bsky.social go live on the Sudo Make Me a CTO newsletter. It's a great reminder of the importance of liberal arts for tech folks makemeacto.cc/the-liberal-...
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The liberal arts of tech
Today we're honoured to welcome a guest post by Iris Meredith, a fellow engineer, writer, and passionate about learning across a broad spectrum of topics.
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yay, my weekly opportunity to share a classic post of mine which has gone unnoticed for too long (published in Feb 2025) makemeacto.cc/is-genai-dig...
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Is GenAI Digital Cocaine?
How a recent common frustrating experience with AI-assisted tools let me to a deeper reflection on the impacts of overreliance on such crutches.
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As I've got momentum building up in the shop, I decided this work deserves the official label of "Fuck Big Tech" collection. #2 in the series is titled "Sovereign Cloud". Worked on it during the weekend, it went up in my daughter's bedroom last night. She promised she'll tidy up her desk next
Picture of the shelf being worked on, before paintingPicture of the shelf being worked on: fully assembled and paintedPicture of the shelf installed in my daughter's bedroom, above her cluttered desk
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ignore that, AI will bring abundance for everyone. Just be patient :)
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Didn't count the exact number, but my absolute favourite logo has always been the one in the center
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've recently learned of a company that has what I called Schrödinger's meetings. People do not accept or reject meeting invites, and you'll only figure out who attends when the meeting starts. And of course all of the company's attention is going into pushing AI adoption to improve productivity.
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No thanks Notion Calendar. I prefer to create events with humans.
New notion calendar popup inviting me to "Create events with AI"
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
mastodon.social/@piffio/1172...
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There are days when I'm just grateful that real life is now what you see on LinkedIn
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/09/2026
Mistral is the company that provides generative AI models to @ecosiasearch.bsky.social totalenergies.com/newsroom/tot...
TotalEnergies Announces a Partnership with Mistral to Develop Frontier AI Models for Reservoir Exploration and Engineering
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Paris, September 15, 2026 – TotalEnergies and Mistral announce a 3-year joint program representing an investment of more than €100 million aimed at developing a new generation of frontier AI models to support TotalEnergies' geosciences experts in the exploration, characterization and development of oil and gas reservoirs.

Driving Innovation by Combining AI, Geoscience Expertise and Subsurface Data

This partnership will draw on the latest advances in artificial intelligence, particularly agentic AI, to combine next to 10 petaflops of data with nearly a century of knowledge, know-how and expertise accumulated by TotalEnergies in geosciences and reservoir engineering. The objective is to develop new frontier models, able to integrate, process and interpret large volumes of data in order to generate multiple scenarios for the development of exploration opportunities, as well as for optimizing and extending the life of existing projects.

TotalEnergies and Mistral will establish a joint scientific laboratory combining the subsurface know-how and expertise of TotalEnergies' subsurface teams with the scientific and technological capabilities of Mistral, a European AI champion, to develop solutions tailored to the specific needs of the Company's businesses.
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Time is running out for the promised IPOs (which won't happen due to their ridiculous financials). They're looking for excuses to postpone them without disclosing the reality. It's the equivalent of the war on Iran to distract the attention from the Epstein files.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“why are all the ai ceos all of a sudden saying this weird thing?” burning man was last week and this may actually just be the explanation
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026
Just trying a new marketing trick
a picture of a wind farm that says

WIND POWER

Crossed out: It generates clean energy, lowers your power bills and gives back to your community


instead (in larger not crossed out) There’s a 10% chance it will kill off the entire human species in just a few years!!
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of the best things of summer is being mostly offline. Another one is reading tons of books! Here's the review of the books I read in July and August, including a couple from @doctorow.pluralistic.net and the great one by Sarah Winn-Williams. makemeacto.cc/books-i-read... #booksky
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📚 Books I Read in July and August 2026
Back from a long break with a long list of summer reads. Two highlights, one of which comes with some caveats. Also, a great biography, more vibe writing and a bunch of sci-fi reading because why not?
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"AGI has been achieved" is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If enough media and people believe the statement, it's an indicator that human intelligence has declined to the point that it's actually *below* what advanced LLMs can "display". "achieved" by lowering the threshold and making people dumber.
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
That's what someone says when they don't have any valid argument to convince you of their thesis. Desperate.
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
They are just desperate
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
They can simply move to another platform, there is very little lock-in when you scratch the surface.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/08/2026
Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.
An FR24 map showing N411ZW going from Miami to Gitmo.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
*The Struggle Continues! AINTIFA INTERNATIONAL
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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 28/08/2026
Modern Dependency Problems (with apologies and thanks to XKCD) Probably needs more arrows, tbh
The classic XKCD dependency stack cartoon, but relabeled. The image shows a huge pile of boxes representing "all modern digital infrastructure" precariously balanced atop each other. A label at the right (ha!) says "A project led by a guy who then turns out to be a fascist" and arrows point from that to boxes all over the diagram.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/08/2026
Extremely subjective and uninformed take here but I reckon people becoming addicted to genAI has created a very significant increase in just total cognitive shutdown moments. You know when someone hears something they're avoiding engaging with and they become one of those startled paralysed goats
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wrote about this topic/danger more than a year ago: makemeacto.cc/is-genai-dig... I have taken to talk about "tokeine" since then.
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Is GenAI Digital Cocaine?
How a recent common frustrating experience with AI-assisted tools let me to a deeper reflection on the impacts of overreliance on such crutches.
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
When I see news media proudly showing "AI-generated" reconstructions of the disaster in Nepal (caused by climate change), I can't help but wonder if we might not after all deserve extinction. Wonder where human decency has disappeared. Why not throw some cigarette butts in the forest while at it?
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Was waiting for this article since you posted the graph yesterday!
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
For one thing, we should stop calling them "smart" glasses. There's nothing smart in it... if anything, they're a pretty damn stupid idea.
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Source?
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 24/08/2026
If Jensen Huang has time to attend a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago and fly across the world to meet with President Xi Jinping, he can find time to testify in front of Congress about reports that NVIDIA technology is powering Russia’s war machine.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
if you are or know a pregnancy expert who could talk to me about Emily Oster's pregnancy work, hit me up here or by email (ifbookscouldkill on gmail). or ignore me, that's your prerogative also.
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I honestly suspect it's related to this: www.lemonde.fr/en/internati... I don't believe they're doing it for any consideration about user experience, transparency or ethics, as they never cared about any of those
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EU tells firms to label AI-generated content from Sunday
The European Union will tell companies they must integrate watermarks and other markers into their content if it has been created by artificial intelligence from Sunday.
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Happy that I left Substack about a month ago, though I'm also interested in seeing how many publications will be found out using AI. 🍿 time I guess
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
85% full now
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Congrats!
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Just ignore Hacker News. users will eventually move elsewhere
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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Matteo Bovetti @matteobovetti.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
After many work done during the last 4 months, VaireDB is finally out on my personal GitHub. github.com/matteobovett... I'm working for close the gap to release v0.1 in the upcoming months. #database #analytical #vairedb
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GitHub - matteobovetti/vairedb: VaireDB is a cloud native, high performance distributed analytical database.
VaireDB is a cloud native, high performance distributed analytical database. - matteobovetti/vairedb
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
After the announcement I've actually started to seriously consider moving all my stuff to Codeberg
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Bodil @bodil.lol · 24/07/2026
Lots of "ethics aside" people announcing their conscientious boycotts of Codeberg in my feed today, like I didn't have plenty of reasons to love Codeberg already.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026
OpenAI is doing this because Mythos got airtime thanks to the media that does press-release-as-aservice. So now, as one security engineer put it, “something which would have been an embarrassment ten years ago is now repackaged as a capability demo, a heroic AI-vs-AI story and a marketing pitch"
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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026
I just want to state for the record I'm completely on board with all of the ToU changes at #Codeberg. 🚫 Ban cryptocurrency. 🚫 Ban slop. It is long past time to reel in the technolibertarian dystopia we've all been suffering through for years now. I truly believe in *heavily* moderated spaces […]
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Original post on indieweb.social
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
For folks looking to read/listen to other good folks, I've just put together a summer list. Only high-quality and personally vetted recommendations in there makemeacto.cc/how-to-expan...
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How to expand your horizons during this summer
A curated selection of online sources for information and education in technology, society, culture and politics. Check them out during the summer, and make them your own sources of information beyond...
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
What I loved the most about the #worldcup Spain (Pedro Sanchez), beating Argentina (Milei) in the USA (Trump's feud), by leveraging the power of the collective over egocentric individuals. There's hope for the future
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I've been sharing with many people around me how we're adding to software development a hard dependency into a subscription model... with the loss of control and ownership that it entails. Just the next stage in rent-based technofeudalism as @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social calls it
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
It's also a "we are allowed to keep doing more of this shit because we're the good guys" kind of argument... which is ironically the same one used by US AI companies against the "evil" Chinese competitors. Reminds me of the compelling arguments against lesser evil by Varoufakis
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm also proud of the fact that the article mentions @doctorow.pluralistic.net , @bcmerchant.bsky.social , @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social and Cal Newport. You'll find a lot of books recommendations hidden in the essay!
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
> If Mary Shelley were alive today, she'd probably write a book titled "Frank-Epstein". Except this one won't be science fiction but investigative journalism. I'm particularly proud of that sentence I came up with for my latest article. Should I feel bad? makemeacto.cc/how-exactly-...
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How exactly is doing more AI going to make it better?
A reaction to two recent popular articles by Charity Majors. Is AI a big deal? Is resistance to AI fundamentalism? Does the solution to the current problems emerge from doing more of it?
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Sergio Visinoni @piffio.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
After numerous revisions, here's my contribution to the discussion. makemeacto.cc/how-exactly-...
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How exactly is doing more AI going to make it better?
A reaction to two recent popular articles by Charity Majors. Is AI a big deal? Is resistance to AI fundamentalism? Does the solution to the current problems emerge from doing more of it?
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