André Costa
@anscosta.bsky.social
Developer, gamer, progmetal lover???
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
www.404media.co/the-discord-...
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TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...
Man, 34, is no longer blind after tooth is implanted in eye in 'crazy' surgery
Tooth-in-eye surgery sounds like science fiction, but it can help people with severely damaged corneas see again. A patient and his doctors describe what it's like.
www.nbcboston.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...
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Breaking: Children Starving To Death In Gaza Were Actually Already Pretty Hungry Before This Started. Exclusive To The New York Times
July 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Breaking: Children Starving To Death In Gaza Were Actually Already Pretty Hungry Before This Started. Exclusive To The New York Times
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ah yeah the familiar whiplash of seeing a legacy media org cover something you're an actual expert in and realizing "oh if this is how badly they're fucking up this, how badly are they fucking up every other topic?"
This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...
July 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
ah yeah the familiar whiplash of seeing a legacy media org cover something you're an actual expert in and realizing "oh if this is how badly they're fucking up this, how badly are they fucking up every other topic?"
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Tomorrow's front page 📰
Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
July 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Tomorrow's front page 📰
Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland
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Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago.
I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell.
Give it a watch and share it.
I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell.
Give it a watch and share it.
Trump VS MAGA? The Epstein Crashout Explained
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
www.youtube.com
July 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Finally got a chance to watch the @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social routine about Trump and Epstein that came out a few days ago.
I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell.
Give it a watch and share it.
I am blown away that he managed to put together a full hour of stand-up about breaking news and it's somehow polished and funny as hell.
Give it a watch and share it.
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You don’t have to accept the AI that Samsung offers you. www.wired.com/story/limit-...
How to Limit Galaxy AI to On-Device Processing—or Turn It Off Altogether
You don’t have to accept the AI that Samsung offers you.
www.wired.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
You don’t have to accept the AI that Samsung offers you. www.wired.com/story/limit-...
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July 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day
June 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day
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insane that mamdami is getting accused of being an antisemite with like 100x the furor of elon musk, who runs stormfront 2 and did a hitler salute on national television
June 25, 2025 at 3:47 AM
insane that mamdami is getting accused of being an antisemite with like 100x the furor of elon musk, who runs stormfront 2 and did a hitler salute on national television
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"mommy why is Teheran a green crater" "well, this one video game about depression got a good review from an ex boyfriend..."
They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
"mommy why is Teheran a green crater" "well, this one video game about depression got a good review from an ex boyfriend..."
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June 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Quality manager John Barnett died in an “apparent suicide” during his deposition on the insane practices he saw and tried to stop at the Dreamliner assembly plant.
“It generally takes 10 or 12 years for assembly-line sloppiness to culminate in a plane crash…”
This plane was delivered 11 years ago.
“It generally takes 10 or 12 years for assembly-line sloppiness to culminate in a plane crash…”
This plane was delivered 11 years ago.
One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed
Whistleblowers always warned that passengers would pay a price for Boeing’s tyrannical corner-cutting, especially with the planes shipped overseas.
prospect.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Quality manager John Barnett died in an “apparent suicide” during his deposition on the insane practices he saw and tried to stop at the Dreamliner assembly plant.
“It generally takes 10 or 12 years for assembly-line sloppiness to culminate in a plane crash…”
This plane was delivered 11 years ago.
“It generally takes 10 or 12 years for assembly-line sloppiness to culminate in a plane crash…”
This plane was delivered 11 years ago.
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A new study shows ADHD is not be coming more common, but that greater awareness and acceptance are likely to be encouraging more people to seek help. This is undoubtedly the same for autism.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Greater awareness behind ADHD surge, study suggests
Study found ADHD is not becoming more common, despite a surge in people being diagnosed.
www.bbc.com
June 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
A new study shows ADHD is not be coming more common, but that greater awareness and acceptance are likely to be encouraging more people to seek help. This is undoubtedly the same for autism.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from
Last month AI crawlers generated 90% of my site's traffic, forcing me to pay penalties
Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.
Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors
Problem solved after moving nameservers to Cloudflare+turning on AI crawler blocking.
Site monthly outbound data back to ~40GB per month, down from 800GB (!!) No impact on human visitors
June 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
another hidden/externalized cost and form of theft in AI is the bots for Meta etc are blowing up site hosting charges of pages they're looting for information to take credit for. profits go to meta and others, made possible by costs spread to all the operators of sites they're crawling to steal from
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This story explains a LOT of things: ChatGPT appears to be rooting on sociopathic mental illness by validating every delusion of grandeur.
It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine.
www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...
It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine.
www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...
May 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This story explains a LOT of things: ChatGPT appears to be rooting on sociopathic mental illness by validating every delusion of grandeur.
It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine.
www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...
It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine.
www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...
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Shoulda right-clicked and saved it.
April 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Shoulda right-clicked and saved it.
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🚨TARIFF UPDATE:
Tariffs are non-negotiable, negotiable, but not a negotiating tactic. They are permanent until they are paused but they will never be paused, until they are paused which means they increase. Permanent exemptions already announced are temporary, but nothing has been announced.
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Tariffs are non-negotiable, negotiable, but not a negotiating tactic. They are permanent until they are paused but they will never be paused, until they are paused which means they increase. Permanent exemptions already announced are temporary, but nothing has been announced.
🤡🎪
April 13, 2025 at 8:24 PM
🚨TARIFF UPDATE:
Tariffs are non-negotiable, negotiable, but not a negotiating tactic. They are permanent until they are paused but they will never be paused, until they are paused which means they increase. Permanent exemptions already announced are temporary, but nothing has been announced.
🤡🎪
Tariffs are non-negotiable, negotiable, but not a negotiating tactic. They are permanent until they are paused but they will never be paused, until they are paused which means they increase. Permanent exemptions already announced are temporary, but nothing has been announced.
🤡🎪
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Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
April 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.
Good trade.
Good trade.
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Elon Musk streaming POE 2 on his private plane while listening to “The Final Countdown” and everyone in the in-game chat is whispering him to kill himself. Now that’s cool.
April 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Elon Musk streaming POE 2 on his private plane while listening to “The Final Countdown” and everyone in the in-game chat is whispering him to kill himself. Now that’s cool.
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