Amanda

Amanda

@amanda.systems

I’m usually on @amanda@social.spejset.org (Mastodon). PhD student of programming languages working on the Polonius borrow checker for Rust. Terrible philosopher. Mid Marxist. Technically a librarian.

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Deeply unfair to twins who unlike fascism and patriarchy can choose to walk different paths (this is a joke please don't get mad at anyone involved in this except for the fascists) Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Elaine Crory@elainecrory.bsky.social

This is becoming a common pattern worldwide and if you're wondering it's because facism and patriarchy are twins.

conspiracy theory: this is meat-assisted DoS of one of the best tech critical journalistic outfits out there

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This is so weird.

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

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Techmeme@techmeme.com

Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens (Torsten Slok/Apollo Global Management) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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bunch of people learning labor theory of value the hard way

Techmeme@techmeme.com

Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens (Torsten Slok/Apollo Global Management) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

But sir, I am the tech sector

Baldur Bjarnason@baldurbjarnason.com

“No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector” https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email > the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.

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Nu tycker jag inte att Musk borde ha någon makt i huvudtaget utanför den fängelsecell han förtjänar att sitta i. Men är ändå toppen att amerikanska staten förlamas av att alla deras oligarker samlat för mycket politisk makt. Netto bra om deras militär inte klarar av att verka runt världen

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social

If Musk can disable Starlink against the Ukrainian or other European militaries, he can also disable it against the US government. Musk's brain is so utterly fried that in trying to prevent US state intervention he is making claims that make nationalisation of SpaceX more likely

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A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project Emerges (Gift Article)Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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If they’re as bad at this as they are at de extinction we are just gonna get a slightly larger malinois and a billion dollars of VC Money poured into dogs That nobody wants as pets

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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en viktig sak att komma ihåg om sånt här är att syftet aldrig är att lyckas utan att håva in investeringspengar.

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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now, yes, you may die. but have you considered that we preserved the supply of a famously evil luxury good?

ProPublica@propublica.org

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

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literally everything this government does

ProPublica@propublica.org

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

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Not a single word of this is hyperbolic in the slightest. Buy your friends in cybersecurity the drink or chocolate of their choice right now. We are not doing well

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

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if you told me this was a cry for help from the advertising professionals who made this ad i would have no idea how to disprove that.

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Det här ser verkligen extremt illa ut. Man undrar ju hur många myndigheter, företag osv som har högar med bortglömd oälskad PHP som ligger i något hörn och möglar på en installation som inte är lätt att patcha.

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Booksellers and indie publishers take note! ⚠️ Elizabeth Soto is appealing a 50 year sentence connected to the publication and distribution of anarchist literature in Texas.

DFW Support Committee@dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social

A message from Prairieland Defendant Elizabeth Soto from Johnson County, where her state case is currently pending. @nlg.org @brennancenter.org @fireantmovement.bsky.social

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Vad gör vi nu, när valrörelsen är över och rösterna räknade, men partierna fortsätter käbbla? Vi kan faktiskt sluta vänta och agera som om världen redan vore en annan, bättre. Det kallas prefigurativ handling och kan visa en väg ut ur hopplösheten, skriver @fridahylander.bsky.social.

supermiljobloggen.seFrida Hylander: “Vi kan agera som om världen redan hade förändrats”EFTERVALSSTRATEGI:: Vad gör vi nu, när rösterna räknade, men partierna fortsätter käbbla? Vi kan faktiskt agera som om världen redan vore en annan, bättre skriver Frida Hylander i veckans krönika.

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burning plastic army men in the backyard throw your head back and breathe deeply the odor of melting plastic until spikes shoot through your head and your eyes blur and the world around seems to fuzz away you can’t quite place it but you know you’ve been here before it’s the smell of america

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At long last, we have created a way for you to take away Nikki's free will, from the classic horror movie "don't take away Nikki's free will"

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com

Nikki from OBSESSION joins FORTNITE tomorrow. You wished for this...