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Matt DeSiena

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Matt DeSiena @theinstantwin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mia Sato reports on Mark Zuckerberg’s concession that TikTok beat him. Facebook (Meta) is apparently testing the final stage of Instagram’s full transition away from your friends and into a discovery platform. That will be my last active day on Instagram.
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“Are You Ready for Everything to Look Like TikTok?”
Mia Sato reports on Mark Zuckerberg’s concession that TikTok beat him. Facebook (Meta) is apparently testing the final stage of Instagram’s full transition away from your friends and into a discovery platform. That will be my last active day on Instagram.
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Matt DeSiena @theinstantwin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Less than three months after token-maxxing rightfully got shredded by the press, the companies using AI, and starting with the CFOs, the need to get people churning on tokens (for some reason) hasn’t subsided. Now AI companies are compromising their own harnesses to drive unnecessary token use. As…
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The Instability of the AI Business Model: Exhibit A
Less than three months after token-maxxing rightfully got shredded by the press, the companies using AI, and starting with the CFOs, the need to get people churning on tokens (for some reason) hasn’t subsided. Now AI companies are compromising their own harnesses to drive unnecessary token use. As I keep saying, this is a transformative […]
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 30/09/2026
Some wondered what Reddit being a public company would mean for the site and its community. This may be the biggest and most dramatic change yet
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Sarah Streza 🏳️‍🌈 @sarahstreza.com · 15/09/2026
Regulatory capture against open weight models has got to be the cause of all of this coordinated "oh no the big bad model is gonna kill evewyone uwu" fear mongering by the oligarchs. Don't believe a word they say.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you are an expert witness, do not use ChatGPT to write the report you are charging $475/hour for. All of your chat prompts are subpoenable and we are all going to laugh so hard. www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
404media.co
‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.
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Sung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm laughing and crying at the same time. 🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026
So far the button does not allow you to report the entire site.
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LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button
Following 404 Media's reporting on how LinkedIn is full of AI slop, the platform is giving users a chance to report it when they see it.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/06/2026
“We can’t live a full dignified life — with the ability to question authority, have different relationships with people, test ideas [and] blow off steam — if we don’t have private communication.”
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Signal's Meredith Whittaker: The Push for Online Safety Risks Mass Surveillance
The president of the encrypted messaging app says autonomous AI agents, device scanning and digital advertising are converging into a new architecture of surveillance.
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spooky Deirdre Connolly¹ ² at a distance @durumcrustulum.com · 07/06/2026
i wouldn't call it 'post' cringe
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Goodhart's Law strikes again: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I suspect for their own good, the people who actually do work at SpaceX keep Elon as far away from the real contracts as possible
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Matt DeSiena @theinstantwin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I was up this morning making the kids’ pancakes and browsing the Pope’s new encyclical (as one does on a Monday) and saw this paragraph. Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms,…
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The Pope’s Endorses Open Source?
I was up this morning making the kids’ pancakes and browsing the Pope’s new encyclical (as one does on a Monday) and saw this paragraph. Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where […]
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Has any Big Tech company done as many AI-related reorgs in the past five years than Meta?
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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
doing a licencing deal with Apple and thinking that you'll be the one making money is which stage of Kubler Ross?
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Sample script handed to creators: "I just learned that China is trying really hard to beat the US in AI. If they do, it could mean that China gets personal data from me and my kids." OpenAI is currently backing US tech laws that would mandate mass harvesting data from children.
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A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I repeat: there are no great consumer AI products
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Vas Panagiotopoulos @vaspanagiotopoulos.com · 23/04/2026
New @citizenlab.ca investigation exposes how suspected commercial surveillance vendors exploit the global 📶telecom interconnect ecosystem, leverage private operator networks, and conduct covert location tracking operations that can persist undetected for years. citizenlab.ca/research/unc...
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The Citizen Lab Bad Connection: Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors
Our investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns and, for the first time, links real-world attack traffic to mobile operator signalling infrastructure. The findings expose h...
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 18/04/2026
So many people's starting point to coding was "I just wanted to customize my MySpace page". If you make it worth learning, people learn.
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Wessel van Rensburg @wildebees.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
"In one post, Polymarket implied that Zohran Mamdani, then running to be New York City’s mayor, would win the election with the help of rigged ballots where his name appeared multiple times, contributing to a widespread and misleading conspiracy theory that he was cheating."
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Matt DeSiena @theinstantwin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
There was a time and place for the "stay at 30,000 feet" level managers and MBA programs were great at churning them out... but these people are the least capable of producing the most important LLM accelerator: context
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Matt DeSiena @theinstantwin.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
I would also argue it takes a specific type of manager to not feel this. "We need to see this problem at a 5,000 foot level" managers = in for a massive world of hurt "We need to be close to the work to help them answer questions / lead." = in for a massive advantage
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Matt DeSiena @theinstantwin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
And the government funding of 12 red states
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
“Murder is coming to AI. But not to Claude.”
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
The US produces way way way too much dairy and a big reason it's in our schools is because it subsidizes the industry. You can copy and paste that to all kinds of agribusiness in the US. That who portion of the economy exists on government handouts.
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Matt DeSiena @theinstantwin.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Appreciate the phrasing "closest one to a business model" because it isn't sustainable yet, but at least they have product-market fit. outside of Google, this company (Anthropic) might be the only closed LLM of its size where we can say that.
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Matt DeSiena @theinstantwin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Universally absent from their writeups: infosec and code maintenance.
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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
BREAKING: The UK Government is working with Canada and Australia to launch a coordinated ban on X, per the Telegraph
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Jesse Wilson @swank.ca · 05/01/2026
I love a good UI rant, and this one brought receipts
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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Gang please don't use ChatGPT to write your acquisition announcement manus.im/blog/manus-j...
Screenshot: "This announcement is more than just a headline—it's validation of our pioneering work with General AI Agents."
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/12/2025
Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ archive.org/details/sier...
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 19/12/2025
Ah that's crazy, it's almost like Threads picked up the decentralization messaging when they launched so they could neutralize the Atmosphere sources.news/p/whats-next...
The fediverse is on maintenance mode
Threads still supports federation with other apps like Mastodon, but Hayes was clear that it’s not a top priority for the current roadmap. “It’s something that we’re supporting, it’s something that we’re maintaining, but it’s not the thing that we’re talking about that’s gonna help the app break out,” he said.
“As someone who has built a zillion consumer products, it’s just really hard to keep these divergent platforms and products consistent on the same protocol over time,” he explained. “There’s always going to be the trade-offs that these companies are thinking about of how much energy do I want to pour into compatibility with this ecosystem versus iterating on this thing I’m building and seeing what’s valuable.”
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John @johnbull.wtf · 19/12/2025
so once again just random ass people did the job of the FBI because they're categorically inept.
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Matt DeSiena @theinstantwin.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This isn't going to end how he wants it to end.
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Matt DeSiena @theinstantwin.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This isn't to say that a product can't evolve and add features. My favorite products have done that. (WordPress, Notion, hell Apple Notes.) .. But those features are asked for from its users and the product gets better. Keep hearing that Mark cares about his legacy. Without really making something?
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Matt DeSiena @theinstantwin.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
How else are you going to be profitable with your coveted demographic flees the platform and regulatory capture is your primary growth vehicle? Terrible all around. Add AI slop to that and it's going to speed run people off that platform.
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Matt DeSiena @theinstantwin.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
A person born in 2004 is now old enough to drink in the U.S., and 2004 is also the last time Mark built a successful product. That's a looong time ago. If your legacy is creating a product 20 years ago and only growing through M&A, enshittification is the natural evolution, right?
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10/12/2025
I think it's funny that the same incompetent knobs who tell us government can't work and are hacking away at its foundations with chainsaws for fun somehow think they can keep a lid on this
theinformation.com
DeepSeek is Using Banned Nvidia Chips in Race to Build Next Model
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup, has been developing its next major model using several thousand Nvidia’s state-of-the-art Blackwell chips which the U.S. has forbidden from being exported to China, a...
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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 02/12/2025
If you can't beat them, strategically leak that you are secretly beating them: www.theinformation.com/articles/ope...
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OpenAI Developing ‘Garlic’ Model to Counter Google’s Recent Gains
OpenAI, which in recent weeks has appeared to fall behind Google in AI development, is fighting back with a new large language model codenamed Garlic.Last week, OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Ch...
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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 26/11/2025
This will be a taxpayer funded commercial for Claude Code.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Judges and bar associations certainly shouldn’t be allowing AI use if qualified human lawyers aren’t checking the results. And with over 500 cases of AI misuse, clearly continuing legal education is failing on this issue.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/11/2025
Student surveillance companies cash in on the ai grift by promising schools and parents their tech will keep students safe from the harms of ai.
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Chatbots Are Sparking a New Era of Student Surveillance
As US educators embrace AI in the classroom, firms are selling software to flag mentions of self-harm, raising concerns over privacy and control.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
And by "off-balance-sheet debt," they mean accounting fraud
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Really the most Meta-like tactic on display from OAI lately is to release products that have obvious harms and say "oops!" two days later and add some minor safeguard
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
My comment on @theverge.com. Today, AI-controlled web browsers introduce security and privacy risks. It's also kind of a step backwards, are we returning to text-based browsers (also walled gardens, competition protection, anybody)? ;) www.theverge.com/report/81008...
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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Bending Spoons buys dying tech brands and jacks up their prices to maximize pain for their remaining customers. It is the final stage of enshittification before death
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Matt DeSiena @theinstantwin.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I love the internet.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/10/2025
“What’s happening here is a very specialized industry that’s enabling some of the world’s worst dictators and despots to undermine the foundational pillars of liberal democracy.”
motherjones.com
The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you
We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
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