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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης

@michalis.site
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Michalis Sarigiannidis Ontological naturalist. Come for the pith, thtay for the profundity. Oh, and fuck Nazis.

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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 22/09/2026
youtube.com
Meta Is Using You To Build A Robot Empire
YouTube video by Proton
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 16/09/2026
They’re not hitting the brakes, the brakes are hitting them. This is a blatant attempt to establish regulatory capture at a time when they’ve ran out of steam. #ai
arstechnica.com
AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed
Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 04/09/2026
You can get your fascism on amazon. For a low price.
Searching "fascism" on duckduckgo, brought up an amazon ad: "fascism for a low price"
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 28/08/2026
Fines are meaningless. Meta must be dissolved. #dissolvemeta
theguardian.com
What could Meta’s US settlement mean around the world – and what now for other claims against firm?
Other governments could seek similar concessions, while separate legal action is pending in places ranging from Kenya to the Netherlands
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 27/08/2026
Father Dionysios Tabakis says his views are those of the Orthodox church ‘nothing more, nothing less’ … so he’s admitting he’s a bigot then, right?
theguardian.com
Greek Orthodox priest and cult musician clarifies views on homosexuality
Father Dionysios Tabakis says his views are those of the Orthodox church ‘nothing more, nothing less’
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Annals of Unsurprising Results: Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A perfect conceit for the 20s: the world's biggest bookstore has become a destroyer of books
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
how is this worse than I expected
Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It took nearly 7 decades, after invention of the silicon solar cell in 1954, for the world to install 1 terawatt of solar capacity, enough to power entire USA After passing that milestone in 2022, world added its second terawatt in 2024 and its third in 2026 e360.yale.edu/digest/three...
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The World Adds a Third Terawatt of Solar Power
In March, the world passed a major energy milestone, adding its third terawatt of solar power. Increasingly, poorer countries are leading the shift to solar, analysts say.
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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Of course you should, because their idiotic "choices" affect and have the potential to ruin the health of other people's kids. How hard is this, exactly? Or even approximately?
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Dara O Briain @daraobriain.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Praise be! Take 35 minutes to enjoy the somebody taking incredible care about making something both very beautiful and utterly ridiculous.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/08/2026
I led a report about the environmental and resource parts of this! Companies intentionally conflate wildly different machine learning applications: using a sprinkling of good to justify a tsunami of bad ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...
A two panel info graphic showing energy consumption is mostly from generative

But climate benefit claims are mostly traditional AI
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Fauci show trial is an amazing illustration of the fundamental immaturity and insecurity of the modern right. What really outrages them is that he dared to suggest that people make sacrifices for the common good. So much of X/techbro/manosphere thought is just insisting that should never happen.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 22/07/2026
A number of popular philosophers are (a) rude and (b) speak, and write, in word-salad streams of consciousness, and the people who interview and publish them never question it. That is astonishing to me.
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Tedra Osell @tedos.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Some of this I already knew. Some I didn’t. All of it sucks.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 14/07/2026
“Verify your age” My favourite show when I was a kid was “Voyagers!”
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Or the claw of Godzilla, by order of the Islamic Republic of Japan!
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Ahead of England v Norway in the World Cup, enjoy this classic from my old pal Patrick Kidd in The Times
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 10/07/2026
Measured and informed, as always
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Did a group of Ukrainians blow up Nord Stream?
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 03/07/2026
My July article, long in the planning, discusses whether infamous Biblical baddies like Goliath shared a language with Homer and Plato. Happily, the piece runs contrary to Betteridge’s law of headlines ('any headline ending in a question mark can be answered with no'). dannybate.com/2026/07/03/d...
dannybate.com
Did the Philistines Speak Greek?
It’s often nice to spot familiar faces where you don’t expect them, like an unforeseen run-in with a friend while on holiday. Joy in unexpected encounters is possible in the intellectual realm too;…
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 02/07/2026
Aren't stripes what you get if you join the dots?
theguardian.com
Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion: still wearing stripes? It’s time to join the dots
Once dismissed as frivolous, spots are having the last laugh – popping up on celebs, catwalks and all over the algorithm
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Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026
Today! My first novel in six years! Everybody's Perfect! Delany once titled a story "A Tale of Plagues and Carnivals." But what if more plague and more carnivals? What if Venice but less substantial? And more magical? With immigration and friendship? It's a bit weird but I hope you like it anyway.
Everybody's Perfect, artfully arranged on an antique map of Italy with part of my toy Venetian bookshelf and a cool pen that was a gift from Novacon when I was GoH in 2013. Photo, concept, and artful arrangement by my daughter Alex Walton, and the map is hers too.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I don't care how fully entrenched the brain worm is, I bet if RFK Jr. thinks *real* hard he can still think of examples of gun violence that date to his childhood.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/06/2026
Turns out, the Illuminati are fucking dweebs and losers
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
hankgreen.com/fourbythree
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 13/06/2026
I’m out for the day. I just can’t stand all the Musk news. I understand the outrage but I don’t want to see so many pictures of that horrible person.
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Philipp Steinkrüger @psteinkrueger.eurosky.social · 12/06/2026
Trillion Dollar Business
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 12/06/2026
How big is your #vocabulary? take the test! I really hate that I I didn’t get a perfect score. vocabowl-870366514258.us-west1.run.app * I learned about this by watching "The Rest Is Science": youtu.be/9t-5lQ2mzuw?...
My vocab owl score: 76000 words
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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The US and Israel have destroyed Iran's largest water dams and backup water tanks, including EVERY backup water tank in ALL of Southern Iran. The people who die of thirst and hunger (Iran's agriculture relies on water tanks) as a result of these war crimes will never be mentioned in the death toll.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 11/06/2026
If you are at all interested in #Christian politics then you must read this article.
decorrespondent.nl
These Christians want to overthrow democracy around the world. Thanks to Donald Trump, they’re actually doing it
They stormed the Capitol in 2021 and helped deliver Donald Trump’s re-election. Now they are rolling out their extremist agenda at breakneck speed — in the US and abroad. Meet the greatest threat to W...
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 11/06/2026
Defend a Nazi, get blocked.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 07/06/2026
BASIC is the first programming language I learned as a kid in the 80’s. It taught me patience… and not to trust checksums published in magazines.
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Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
As @gregpak.net pointed out, this man is one of the most destructive in this admin with worldwide & longterm ramifications. I also want people to stop acting like he's just "stupid" or doing things for no reason. His reason is eugenics & wellness grifts.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 05/06/2026
They keep saying crap like this because it’s the only way to keep an inherently boring subject in the media.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 04/06/2026
Book recommendations by my favourite authors, that’s what I’m here for. ⬇️
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 04/06/2026
‘I never said that.’ Albert Einstein
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~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Sick of the relentless adult content I see on Bluesky: back pain, interest rates, tax brackets, that noise you make when you stand-up sometimes.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 28/05/2026
Good
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 28/05/2026
Bad karma for helping American tech industry avoiding EU taxes and regulations:
theguardian.com
‘Hidden datacentre tax’ costing Irish households millions, report says
Datacentres used 22% of country’s electricity last year, pushing up household bills, study suggests
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 21/05/2026
Magic beans do not exist. If they did exist, the people who have them wouldn’t be spending billions to convince us to buy them. #AI
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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 21/05/2026
www.keithfrankish.com/jokey-philos...
keithfrankish.com
Philosophy article recipe – Keith Frankish
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 20/05/2026
Remember this? Not a care in the world.
youtu.be
David Cameron sings to himself after announcing resignation date - BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Ahem
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 08/05/2026
*This* is what I am here for.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 08/05/2026
What a surprising turn of events provided that you know nothing about humans and the fact that a certain percentage of them are complete shit As a side note I was gifted a pair of these and they immediately went into a drawer and have not come back out again gizmodo.com/extortion-us...
gizmodo.com
Extortion Using Smart Glasses Is a Thing Now
A woman in London was asked to pay up if she wanted a video of her removed from social media.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 08/05/2026
I don’t understand the outrage about this. It’s like a three-time Trump voter saying “well, now he’s going too far.” The fact is that Google is doing much worse with its browser, like actively spying on you. A file parked on your drive is the least of your problems if you trust Google.
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 07/05/2026
Before you buy new Google gear, you might want to consider what they did to Nest.
engadget.com
The Google Fitbit Air is an AI-infused take on Whoop wearables - Engadget
It's basically a small Fitbit Inspire without a strap.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/05/2026
Bollocks. One, hardcovers are selling great, especially the ones that these days come with sprayed edges and illustrated end pages. Two, ditching hardcovers would absolutely gut author and bookseller incomes. You want to fuck up publishing? Kill the hardcover. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The hill I will die on: Heavy, awkward and incredibly expensive – we don’t need hardback books | Larry Ryan
It’s an annoying choice: either lug around a heavy tome or try to remember when the paperback version is coming out, says freelance writer Larry Ryan
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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 05/05/2026
#Trumpland #FelonMusk #USAID
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Μιχάλης Σαρηγιαννίδης @michalis.site · 04/05/2026
Palantir is a threat to European security.
techdirt.com
Palantir Workers Are Finally Noticing The Skulls On Their Caps
There’s a famous Mitchell & Webb sketch where two SS officers, mid-conversation on the Eastern Front, suddenly notice something troubling about their uniforms. “Hans,” one ask…
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