Luís R.
@goblindegook.bsky.social
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In a lengthy report, Reuters exposed five years of Meta practices and failures that allowed scammers to take advantage of users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Bombshell report exposes how Meta relied on scam ad profits to fund AI
Meta goosed its revenue by targeting users likely to click on scam ads, docs show.
arstechnica.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In a lengthy report, Reuters exposed five years of Meta practices and failures that allowed scammers to take advantage of users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
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Hello, Malta! My first time in your beautiful country and I'm so happy to be here. Looking forward to meeting the writers who will be attending my workshop on Saturday.
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Hello, Malta! My first time in your beautiful country and I'm so happy to be here. Looking forward to meeting the writers who will be attending my workshop on Saturday.
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Here in Valletta, Malta with @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and @goblindegook.bsky.social (photo by Luis). Guess which one is me? 😉
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Here in Valletta, Malta with @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social and @goblindegook.bsky.social (photo by Luis). Guess which one is me? 😉
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
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Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth
Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...
www.wheresyoured.at
September 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
Yes, two of my favourite topics combined: cookery and badmouthing Sam Altman.
I forgot about this for a while but the Bryce Elder "Sam Altman's kitchen" piece may be one of my favourite things I've read in business or tech history.
www.ft.com/content/b180...
www.ft.com/content/b180...
August 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Yes, two of my favourite topics combined: cookery and badmouthing Sam Altman.
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STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
July 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.
Two Days in Two Hours
On moving fast and not breaking anything.
goblindegook.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Internet users advised to change passwords after 16bn logins exposed
Internet users advised to change passwords after 16bn logins exposed
Hacked credentials could give cybercriminals access to Facebook, Meta and Google accounts among others
Internet users have been told to change their passwords and upgrade their digital security after researchers claimed to have revealed the scale of sensitive information – 16bn login records – potentially available to cybercriminals.
Researchers at Cybernews, an online tech publication, said they had found 30 datasets stuffed with credentials harvested from malicious software known as “infostealers” and leaks. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Internet users advised to change passwords after 16bn logins exposed
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A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work
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May 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work
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📢 Meetup: Construir blocos com a Interactivity API
🗣 @s3rgiosan.dev
📍 Sede da Eupago, no Porto (Praça Artur Santos Silva, 74)
#WordPress
🗣 @s3rgiosan.dev
📍 Sede da Eupago, no Porto (Praça Artur Santos Silva, 74)
#WordPress
Construir blocos com a Interactivity API, Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
A Interactivity API oferece uma forma padronizada para programadores adicionarem interacções no front-end dos seus blocos, sendo já utilizada em blocos do core como Pesquis
www.meetup.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:08 AM
📢 Meetup: Construir blocos com a Interactivity API
🗣 @s3rgiosan.dev
📍 Sede da Eupago, no Porto (Praça Artur Santos Silva, 74)
#WordPress
🗣 @s3rgiosan.dev
📍 Sede da Eupago, no Porto (Praça Artur Santos Silva, 74)
#WordPress
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i don’t think i’ve ever missed alt text *because* of this setting.
alt text is easy, fun, polite, necessary, &—critically in the age of “govt openly enthusiastic about eugenics & ending accessibility initiatives”—the right thing to do, especially if you’re on bluesky to inform or drive action.
alt text is easy, fun, polite, necessary, &—critically in the age of “govt openly enthusiastic about eugenics & ending accessibility initiatives”—the right thing to do, especially if you’re on bluesky to inform or drive action.
March 30, 2025 at 3:23 AM
i don’t think i’ve ever missed alt text *because* of this setting.
alt text is easy, fun, polite, necessary, &—critically in the age of “govt openly enthusiastic about eugenics & ending accessibility initiatives”—the right thing to do, especially if you’re on bluesky to inform or drive action.
alt text is easy, fun, polite, necessary, &—critically in the age of “govt openly enthusiastic about eugenics & ending accessibility initiatives”—the right thing to do, especially if you’re on bluesky to inform or drive action.
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Freedom is when the boss tells you what to write and think. bsky.app/profile/maxt...
New: Jeff Bezos emailed staff at the Washington Post this morning announcing that the Post opinion pages going forward were largely going to focus on defending personal liberties and free markets. Current opinion section editor David Shipley is out.
February 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Freedom is when the boss tells you what to write and think. bsky.app/profile/maxt...
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Lol John Oliver set up a how-to guide for how to make Meta make less ad $$$ from you. johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com
How to Change Your Meta Settings | Make yourself less valuable to Meta. Brought to you by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Lol John Oliver set up a how-to guide for how to make Meta make less ad $$$ from you. johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com
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The more I think about this, the more it feels like the real trick in Severance is the separation of grievance (the reason to organize) and agency (the ability to organize.)
If you can’t remember being exploited were you actually exploited?
If you can’t remember being exploited were you actually exploited?
February 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
The more I think about this, the more it feels like the real trick in Severance is the separation of grievance (the reason to organize) and agency (the ability to organize.)
If you can’t remember being exploited were you actually exploited?
If you can’t remember being exploited were you actually exploited?
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Google spent billions of dollars on this shit.
January 31, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Google spent billions of dollars on this shit.
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I keep this tweet from @kenwhite.bsky.social at the ready for this very thing.
January 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I keep this tweet from @kenwhite.bsky.social at the ready for this very thing.
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Trump hated TikTok (because China) until it helped him win an election (as even he acknowledges) and now he’s going to save it and take a victory lap. So he’ll have X, TikTok, Insta, and Facebook all working on his behalf. That’s a big difference between now and 2017.
January 19, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Trump hated TikTok (because China) until it helped him win an election (as even he acknowledges) and now he’s going to save it and take a victory lap. So he’ll have X, TikTok, Insta, and Facebook all working on his behalf. That’s a big difference between now and 2017.
At Meta, speech is so free it has flown away.
CONFIRMED: Facebook has *banned* anyone from linking to Pixelfed. #MetaBlockingPixelfed
I just tried posting a message on Facebook that reads: "Anyone here using Pixelfed?" with a link to Pixelfed.Social
Within *seconds* I got a post saying my post was banned.
Screenshots below.
I just tried posting a message on Facebook that reads: "Anyone here using Pixelfed?" with a link to Pixelfed.Social
Within *seconds* I got a post saying my post was banned.
Screenshots below.
January 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
At Meta, speech is so free it has flown away.
I’ve been a software engineer for almost 20 years and let me tell you: I don’t trust most programmers to write code correctly, with or without AI assistance, let alone do any job outside their field of expertise.
January 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I’ve been a software engineer for almost 20 years and let me tell you: I don’t trust most programmers to write code correctly, with or without AI assistance, let alone do any job outside their field of expertise.
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Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon criticizing billions currying favor with Trump was spiked — and now she has quit the paper
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon criticizing billions currying favor with Trump was spiked — and now she has quit the paper
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🛠️ Littlefoot for Footnotes
🔍 @goblindegook.bsky.social maintains littlefoot.js, a lightweight, jQuery-free fork of Bigfoot.js for footnotes. He asked me if I could integrate it with the Footnotes block — so I did! 😃
🌐 github.com/s3rgiosan/littlefoot
🙌 Feedback is welcome!
#WordPress #OpenSource
🔍 @goblindegook.bsky.social maintains littlefoot.js, a lightweight, jQuery-free fork of Bigfoot.js for footnotes. He asked me if I could integrate it with the Footnotes block — so I did! 😃
🌐 github.com/s3rgiosan/littlefoot
🙌 Feedback is welcome!
#WordPress #OpenSource
December 2, 2024 at 11:03 AM
🛠️ Littlefoot for Footnotes
🔍 @goblindegook.bsky.social maintains littlefoot.js, a lightweight, jQuery-free fork of Bigfoot.js for footnotes. He asked me if I could integrate it with the Footnotes block — so I did! 😃
🌐 github.com/s3rgiosan/littlefoot
🙌 Feedback is welcome!
#WordPress #OpenSource
🔍 @goblindegook.bsky.social maintains littlefoot.js, a lightweight, jQuery-free fork of Bigfoot.js for footnotes. He asked me if I could integrate it with the Footnotes block — so I did! 😃
🌐 github.com/s3rgiosan/littlefoot
🙌 Feedback is welcome!
#WordPress #OpenSource
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Exceedingly important discovery: Ikea Kallax shelves are exactly two LEGO studs wide. A simple bracket shape like this will stay in place without any support.
October 24, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Exceedingly important discovery: Ikea Kallax shelves are exactly two LEGO studs wide. A simple bracket shape like this will stay in place without any support.