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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Worth saying explicitly. When we're talking about the US, we've never been a right society. America's entire foundation is built on a hierarchy of rights and freedoms. This is the America that has always been. And that's different from treating this like a new problem. bsky.app/profile/behi...

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Zed's Dead, Baby @behindthebluemotel.com · 09/10/2026

I feel like a lot of the existential talk surrounding AI is sort of a dovetail to Granny Weatherwax's "don't treat people as things" idea wherein you should be very suspicious anytime someone wants to treat things as people more than they do some actual people

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't have a case on it. I have an android, and nobody gives a shit about them, so the cases are usually pretty plain and uninteresting. So my upgrade cycle is usually how damaged is the phone and is it worth getting repaired vs just buying a new one.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I dropped my phone today and officially hit the "you need a new one" level of damage. My fingerprint unlock doesn't work anymore. 😅

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

PSA: LLMs are neither sentient nor sapient. I loved Data from Star Trek TNG, but that was science fiction, not our reality. Also, where are our settlement checks?

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

The US has a long history of suffering and death as public spectacle and the administration has been tapping into that vein of US tradition since their return.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Richard Milhouse Nixon not only wasn't convicted of his blatant crimes, he recieved a full presidential pardon, events which set the tone/laid the groundwork for the increasingly naked corruption of American politics in general & the Republican party in particular through the 20th & 21st centuries…

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't think it includes models running on a laptop. You have more control over what it can access. But more importantly, the cloud models come with a lot of hidden instructions that we can't see. I think the most important thing for this tech is transparency.

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't like to find myself commenting on people's appearance... so imma just say nothing. Cause... wow.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.

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Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget

Sure, seems safe.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I say all this to say that you should expect Meta to take every opportunity to steal as much data as they can. As soon as I saw that Muse was from Meta, it was a hard no for me. And here we are. With them proving me right yet again.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meta tried to get your texts by getting you to switch to Whatsapp. That didn't really work. Maybe they can get at SMS some kinda way, but Apple said nah. Within our platform, we lock things down even further. So Meta sent in a trojan horse that can access iMessage through backchannels.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All Meta wants to do with AI is convince you to give them more ways to exploit you. Just like they did with Muse. You've got a helpful assistant, but that assistant is also hoovering up your private data. New data sources that Meta wanted but didn't have access to before.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Facebook doesn't just offer an advertising platform. They offer a way for anonymous third parties to put their messages in front of you at any time. You have no idea how things end up in your Facebook feed. That's because it's not based on what you want. It's based on what someone else paid for.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meta is on the other end of the spectrum. Their business model is they will give anyone else full access to your data. They don't care what people do with it as long as they get paid. Do some advertising, start a genocide, whatever. They have proven over and over that they have no boundaries.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Google doesn't want to give your data away. But they do wanna set up their AI so it is the only one with access to your private data. Just as an example, their pitch is that they're the only ones that should have your email. So they are the best solution for AI that accesses your email.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Google usually has some incentive towards data privacy because they won big with email. That's something where people expect high security and privacy. And they sell it to companies too, so they can't fuck around. But AI is rapidly causing conflicting incentives for them.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Google falls somewhere in-between Apple and Meta in my mind. Google sells eyeballs to advertisers. They do that by providing things you want for free in exchange for knowing more about you. And they want to *own* that data. They want to be the only ones that have it so they are the gatekeeper.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

That's also partly why they're "behind" on AI. Apple has a culture of preserving data security to an absurd degree. They're trying to figure out how to maintain that posture with this reckless LLM technology and they're having a hard time.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Apple has a strong incentive to be a good steward of your data privacy. What they sell is a feeling to mostly affluent people that they have a trustworthy service. It's a "closed" ecosystem. It's part of why Apple can charge a premium and people still pay.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I have this conversation, someone usually mentions that we give Apple and Google a lot of our data too. That's true. We tend to talk about whether you can "trust" these companies. But I think it's more useful to talk about incentives. Who has the *incentive* to screw you over.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Meta wants your data so they can exploit it. Whatever else they're talking about, that is always their motivation. In any context. You don't have to think hard about it. If it's a question of giving Zuck your data, the answer should always be hell no.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Again, I will keep saying that it doesn't have to be this way. I believe we *could* have ai assistants that are more secure. But that's not what's happening. Not because they're fundamentally bad, but because the people building them don't want that.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can understand why the features of a supposed AI assistant are compelling. I kinda wanna try it too. But I know too much about how these things work. Do not give a cloud-based agent access to your shit. Especially one from the big tech companies.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm not being a pedant. It's not about vocabulary. Did you just come to talk shit to me? Because I'll pass. You can continue to think whatever you want.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Why do you think you know what inherent means in the context I created in my own post? Why does that make sense to you? I think you're generally right that most people's definition of "inherently" is very bad.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This isn’t meant to be taken seriously. But you’re right that you need to exercise caution when running them on your personal hardware.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Read this thread if you wanna know something about how "AI" came to be what it is. bsky.app/profile/polo...

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I do appreciate the softening. But all of this was so unnecessary. You needed me to be one-dimensional but I'm just not.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I didn't summon you or anybody else to discuss shit with me. You wanted to get some quick likes by quote posting. I can post dumb shitposts whenever I like. And I can still also have critical discussions about things I actually know something about. bsky.app/profile/polo...

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I swear y'all insist on wearing ignorance like a badge of honor.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm not outside the debate. I've been having it since before you knew what this shit even was. I've been begging y'all to ask a question to find out my actual stance on this stuff. But that would ruin your "strays" or whatever. bsky.app/profile/polo...

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Or could it be that you're not concerned at all. Could it be that you're continuing to actively contribute to what you perceive as a mental health episode while doing none of the things that might actually help. Fuck outta here. Y'all are wild.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oh so I'm in this conversation by myself now? Yeah I get it. You have a good reason for spending all of this wasted energy. Because you're concerned for my "mental health" while also continuing to insult me and disregard whatever I'm saying. Make it make sense.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I do agree that some of my behavior on here is not very healthy. And I'm comfortable with being a flawed individual in some ways. But that still ain't gonna magically make it so you're right about the one random post you decided defines everything about who I am.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Digging a hole with who? You? I'm not the one who thinks their opinion should matter to every random person they come across on social media. You've more than said your piece. But here you still are, up my ass and waiting for me to give a shit.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Y'all don't know what to do about any of this shit. So you spend your time sending "strays" at random people and thinking you're righteous. It's fucking weak actually.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You ain't "going against" no real problems champ. You're finding random people on the internet who you think you're smarter than and using them for validation. Meanwhile you can't even put your real name and face on the internet because you ain't really about that life.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm not a victim. I'm still here letting y'all run your mouths without listening to a word I'm saying. And now you're taking the real information I gave you and making excuses for why it doesn't count. I see you bro. We both know you're full of shit but can't back down now.

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