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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 26/09/2026

Also had another woman tell me on the first date that she wouldn't date a bisexual man, before I had a chance to out myself. I didn't bother, either, I just didn't text her back. Then she called me for a second date and I got to feel a little smug for the length of one awkward phone conversation

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 26/09/2026

Yeah that happened to me too

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 23/09/2026

Anyway, it all worked out for the best. I ended up marrying a wonderful, beautiful woman who got me a Bi Pride Flag refrigerator magnet as a Hanukkah present last year. Happy Bisexual Visibility Day!

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 22/09/2026

I got burned by this once. I started dating this woman, raised the topic of queer people and found out that she was cool with them, and then came out as bi - at which point she instantly broke up with me.

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 19/09/2026

3. Those real company's websites had easily guessable passwords. So Gemini ended up accessing real companies' systems by mistake, because it was told to do it and just pointed in the wrong direction. None of this stuff is rogue superAI. It's just LLMs doing LLM things and humans doing human things

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 19/09/2026

In short, Google hired a company to test Gemini. Then, three things went wrong: 1. The testers mistakenly let it access the real internet. 2. They gave it the names of some fictional companies to hack, only it turns out there are real companies with those names.

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 19/09/2026

This is a scary headline, but if you look inside the article, it explains what actually happened. (I work for Google, but have no inside information about this. I'm just going off what the news says.)

nbcnews.com

Google says its AI model gained unauthorized access to three outside systems

The company said the intrusions resulted from mistaken identity, where Gemini thought it was operating within a test but was actually connected to the real internet.

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 19/09/2026

No disrespect but if your argument depends on the Power of Imagination then I think it would be irresponsible not to be skeptical.

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

God forbid someone take a maximalist approach to human rights

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 13/09/2026

What would the underlying crime be? Trespassing? Disturbing the peace?

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 13/09/2026

No one said you had to change the name of your belief system just because other people who share it are bad.

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 13/09/2026

I've been yelling at my elected officials telling them exactly this for a year and a half

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 08/09/2026

Ask your pediatrician to update their drivers to the latest version

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 07/09/2026

As a PhD in Computer Science, my advice to people worried about their kids' health is simply: Have you tried turning your kids off and on again

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 28/08/2026

Literally this morning, I heard an eight year old girl shout to a bunch of other eight year old girls "You guys, throw me the ball!" This was in the NYC suburbs.

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boonque @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Critical PSA: unless you've recently changed your settings, your YouTube links are probably doxxing your YouTube profile *by default*!

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 22/08/2026

Can't wait for them to release Greater Toronto Area 6

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 22/08/2026

That's true, but let's not copy the Islamophobic "Sharia law!!" thing from the Republicans.

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Cryptographer: i can prove to you that I know how much is in the cup, but you don't get to know the actual amount

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 20/08/2026

They do a privacy training at Google where you're told that the fictional "gShoe" team wants to put cameras on shoes for no reason and collect all the data. Then you're asked if this is potentially a problem (yes). You have to re-take this privacy training regularly, so it's a bit of a meme. But…

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Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action

Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. In a short demo, a man holds a book up...

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 20/08/2026

As a software engineer at Google who works on privacy software, it is very embarrassing for me to basically dox myself by trying to share a YouTube video. But at least we're not slapping cameras on earbuds

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 16/08/2026

Then someone else made it up and you believed the lie, I guess. Or is it an AI hallucination ?

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 16/08/2026

What are you talking about? I can't find a single report of that. Did you make it up?

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 15/08/2026

You're getting contradictory answers because "ethnically Jewish" is not a well-defined phrase. The concept of being Jewish is older than the concepts of ethnicity or religion and it doesn't exactly behave like either one.

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 13/08/2026

Someone recommended her book to me when my wife was pregnant, and I was interested at first, but started having major questions at the "1 glass of wine per day is probably fine" part

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 08/08/2026

Okay sorry I missed the intermediate post with the Anne Frank fantasy. Deleting

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 06/08/2026

My PhD thesis (from 2016) was about how cryptographic techniques could be used to extract only targeted, warranted information from cell tower dumps. The technology to preserve privacy has existed for a while now, and the government just doesn't want to use it!

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Shammai @shammaiintl.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Many such cases

Meme comic of dog.

Panel 1: Dog holding a ball in its mouth says, "I'm just asking questions!"
Panel 2: Dog looks angry as a hand reaches for the ball and says, "No answers!"
Panel 3: Zoom in on dog as it says, "Only questions!"

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 25/07/2026

What kind of disgusting stuff

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 23/07/2026

If the US were an extension of Israel I'd be able to actually vote against Netanyahu

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 22/07/2026

Shout-out to the CNN reporters making sure the victims' stories get told.

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 15/07/2026

Sometimes I wonder if Rabbi Yochanan was actually a woman, or just incredibly beautiful and beardless and confused with a woman and often seen near women's mikvehs and also has a hot sister

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 09/07/2026

I gave my son five banana slices, but he kept insisting there were only four. Now I feel like a Cardassian

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Boolassa @dalassa.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Thread of things that make America great for the Fourth of July To start this is one of the proudest moments in America:

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Between this and the French with the sign on the Eiffel Tower, good reminder these things are bigger than the current admin and moment

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 28/06/2026

My 21 month old son decided he wanted to read books to his stuffed animals today. But his form of "reading books" is holding the book, showing me each page, and asking "What does that say?"

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 23/06/2026

Hey that's the same one I have!

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chelsea bridge 🏳️‍⚧️ @secretaboutbox.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

IF YOU SEE THIS CLOSE THE TAB IMMEDIATELY this is a trick to install malware on your machine. it is not a real captcha system.

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 18/06/2026

Not all of the interviews he does are like this. A lot of them are more generic "You're an expert, please share what you know" type interviews.

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 17/06/2026

I may not have much of a reputation, but I am a cryptographer, and this is true. The problem with people using Signal isn't Signal, it's people.

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 15/06/2026

And I'm not even an elder millennial, I'm just a middle-of-the-pack millennial

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Aaron Segal @theaaronsegal.com · 15/06/2026

I mean I remember a time when there were kids who would bully me unless I helped them bully this other kid. It was just how life was in schools and summer camps

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Psynwav @psynwav.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy 1 year anniversary to Musical Transients! That's pretty neat. :) youtu.be/MAW84RRNw84

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Musical Transients (Full Album)

YouTube video by Psynwav

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