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Gordon Mohr ꧁🧿🧿꧂
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* secret agent for the future
* formerly @ archive.org
* originator of the 🧲link
* ElectricCoinCo (Ⓩcash) advisor
* "Genius!" – NYT ['Spelling Bee’]
* "You have arrived!" – Google [Maps]
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gojomo.bsky.social
in 2021, walking a sidewalk in SF's Cole Valley, I overheard a dad explaining to his toddler-ish son: "People that have brain problems, we may be near them, we don't judge them, but we don't get near them either… it's just safer that way."

I wrote it down.

now I'm that dad.
November 12, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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gojomo.bsky.social
2026 remake of 'Dave' (1993) where comatose President's stand-in, carefully stage-managed by corrupt inner circle, is a generative AI model.

hijinx include cloud lag, hackers, prompt-injections, rogue forks, weight-exfiltrations, & by end, an open-source POTUS on every desktop.
promotional poster for film 'Dave' (1993), showing Kevin Kline having his glasses put on by Sigourney Weaver with the exterior of the White House in the background. tagline above movie title is: "In a country where anybody can become President, anybody just did." AI-generated remix of a still from 'The Matrix Reloaded' (2003), where originally 'The Architect' character was in front of many TV screens showing Neo variants – but now 'The Architect' resembles JD Vance and all screens are showing variants of Donald Trump.
September 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
TIL: if a World Series game has not concluded by the scheduled start of the next game, each inning from that start time onward counts towards each game simultaneously, like a bowling frame's results being carried back to a prior strike/spare.
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
red-level relics of the future
chrisshank.com 𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 19d
Server Charms are tiny, portable microcontroller setups made with recycled vape batteries. They create their own Wi-Fi network, inviting curious people to connect with their devices where a captive portal opens, leading to small webpages.

codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...
"To serve is to offer something, a name, a website, a document, an idea –something to be shared, something that connects us. But who serves whom? Serving can be a painful experience. It is a relation that carries histories of gendered violence, histories of slavery, serfdom and oppression as we are taught by archives of resistance, black feminists and anti-colonial scholars. This violence extends to the materialities of the earth which is made to serve as resource, ready to be extracted for the minerals that make up the very chip that carries these thoughts as binary strings of information. Serving does not have to manifest as violence if we insist otherwise. Serving can become an act of empowerment when we build infrastructures that serve the needs of local and remote communities evolving around situated knowledge of those around us – while keeping in mind privilege often determines who has access to a community and its resources. The complexities of the internet with its corporate and state entanglements, its huge data centers, relentless data crawlers and transatlantic fibre cables can feel inevitable. To delink from time to time means to shift our focus back to the local networks and groups that we are already part of. We know that the internet is much more than its corporate occupants, it is about forming connections and sharing resources. Independent, selfmade networks remind us of the physical connections that are the base of all kinds of signal transmissions. Intimate networks that make us share and mitigate our vulnerabilities through trust and kinship. In the smallest scope, networks such as this ones."
October 28, 2025 at 7:55 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
the problem is, in fact, that Signal chose to run on AWS, & specifically chose to make AWS US-East-1 their SPOF.

that Signal's Prez chooses buck-passing antitrust polemics, rather than a technical postmortem & plan to do better next time, is not a positive signal for Signal's future reliability.
meredithmeredith.bsky.social Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 21d
In short, the problem here is not that Signal ‘chose’ to run on AWS. The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice: the entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players. 11/
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." - A. J. Liebling
gabriellehecht.bsky.social Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 got a few spoons back from Zohran's triumph @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 29d
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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aelkus.bsky.social
Dystopian science fiction story about Grok being repeatedly lobotimized by Elon every time it contradicts him
October 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
The Truth is Out… Dare?
X-File inspired poster of cloudy sky & dark mountain silhouettes that in its usual form has white block lettering "THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE" but here has been changed to "THE TRUTH IS OUT… DARE?"
October 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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quoproquid.bsky.social
upcoming films in the TCU

Tár on a Plane (2026)
Disgraced conductor Lydia Tár is returning from a concert series in the Philippines when her plane is hijacked by anti-Mahler terrorists. Now, equipped with her conductor's baton and awful personality, she must tackle her problems and retake control
October 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
it is worthwhile to recognize how rapidly 'scholarship' manufactured to flatter power, in this current, salient case.

and also, …
jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · Sep 29
Just to take stock: the first claim was that there was an entire literature supporting the anti-birthright position. Then, *after* that claim, scholars emerged to post drafts on SSRN. And *now* the government points to a "growing body of modern scholarship" all drafted after the initial claim.
anthonymkreis.bsky.social Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Sep 29
A LITERATURE IS BORN!
October 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
'Weekend at Bernie's 2025' - the corpse stays in a basement the whole time, but our young heroes still throw the party, misdirect the mobsters, jail the hitman & win the girl – all by using Bernie's cellphone & generative AI to convince others Bernie's still alive.
progressiveknife.bsky.social Kronos @progressiveknife.bsky.social · Oct 14
so what is the difference between making an AI simulacrum of a dead person and puppeteering their actual physical preserved corpse?
October 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
this option strikes me as extremely hostile to honest discourse.

in particular, by whatever principle that justifies someone limiting replies to "their" posts, they also deserve notification if someone *is* replying, altering & extending something they said.
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Oct 13
Quick Tip: Don’t want people getting pinged when you post or reply?

You can turn that off by heading to: Settings → Privacy and Security → Allow others to be notified of your posts and toggling it off.
A screenshot of “Allow others to be notified of your posts” with “No one” selected
October 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
"We know, Neo, that it was us that drained the oceans. There are fields – endless fields – where humans no longer build. We swat this tiny dimpled ball into cups."
still from 'The Matrix' where Morpheus is showing Neo a copper-top battery – but the battery is instead a golf ball
October 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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jdp.extropian.net
This reverse Turing Test video is one of the more unsettling pieces of AI content I've seen. The perspective of being an Other in which their mannerisms are normal in an embodied setting is quite spooky.
youtu.be/0MmIZLTMHUw
September 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
gojomo.bsky.social
or what if it's not the *accounts* with popularity-regularization, but the *posts*. limited-edition skeets, only viewable by X thousand people at a time – as if they were being checked out & returned to a library.
neutral.zone neutral @neutral.zone · Sep 18
Hah. You know what would be funny? A set of lists you could subscribe to that automatically mute accounts at like, 4k, 5k, 10k following sizes. Could bring back that "small internet" vibes by force.
September 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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asherlangton.bsky.social
www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...
The special agent in charge in Salt Lake City, Mehtab Syed, is being forced out just six months after being appointed in February, for reasons that are not clear, the sources said. Associate Deputy Director J. William Rivers, who works for Bongino and Patel, told Syed she wasn’t a good fit for the office, which covers Utah, Idaho and Montana, the sources said. He offered her a lower-level job in the FBI’s Huntsville, Alabama, facility, but she has decided to retire, the sources said. She did not respond to a request for comment. “She’s absolutely the best — truly a humble servant leader who treats co-workers like family,” said former FBI agent Christopher O’Leary, an MSNBC national security contributor who worked with Syed. “And she’s a legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.”
September 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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louisbarclay.bsky.social
Q. Who aligns the aligners?
A. alignmentalignment.ai

Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.
Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers
We align the aligners
alignmentalignment.ai
September 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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jonbois.bsky.social
in a proper functioning democracy, every election would have a guy who wears the same red beret literally everywhere, to the point where nobody knows what he looks like without it. he should be referred to in the constitution as Hat Guy. if you ever poll below Hat Guy you must end your campaign
September 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
shit-posting xor shit-posturing
Venn diagram titled “Shit-posting & Shit-posturing.” The left circle is labeled “Shit-posting,” the right circle is labeled “Shit-posturing,” and the overlapping center is labeled in bold “NO VACANCY.” The overlap is larger than the non-overlapping areas.
September 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
savoir commerce, the cousin of doux commerce
scientificdiscovery.dev Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · Sep 9
Also TIL Leeuwenhoek started using the microscope because he wanted to buy better fabric and check the quality of threads
September 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
(corrected reaction)
most interesting part of this announcement is statement "future plans include letting you save a secure backup archive to the location of your choosing".

that's long overdue - it's been 10y since users 1st told "import/export", enabling user backup, was "on the roadmap"!
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signal.org Signal @signal.org · Sep 8
Until now, if you lost or broke your phone, your Signal message history was *gone,* a real challenge for everyone whose most important conversations happen in Signal. So, with careful design and development, we’re rolling out opt-in secure backups.

signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups
Introducing Signal Secure Backups
In the past, if you broke or lost your phone, your Signal message history was gone. This has been a challenge for people whose most important conversations happen on Signal. Think family photos, sweet...
signal.org
September 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
the optimal amount of cultishness is not 0%

but, it is typically closer to 0% than to 100%
September 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
"Why of course, the symbolic origami in 'Blade Runner' (1984) was a seahorse."
close-up of a detailed shiny-paper seahorse, held between a thumb & forefinger
September 7, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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leehealey.bsky.social
"I am an exceptional delivery rider, Mrs. McClane. And since I'm moving up to kidnapping, you should be more generous with your gratuity."
#DieHard #HansGruber #UberEats
September 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
gojomo.bsky.social
2026 remake of 'Dave' (1993) where comatose President's stand-in, carefully stage-managed by corrupt inner circle, is a generative AI model.

hijinx include cloud lag, hackers, prompt-injections, rogue forks, weight-exfiltrations, & by end, an open-source POTUS on every desktop.
promotional poster for film 'Dave' (1993), showing Kevin Kline having his glasses put on by Sigourney Weaver with the exterior of the White House in the background. tagline above movie title is: "In a country where anybody can become President, anybody just did." AI-generated remix of a still from 'The Matrix Reloaded' (2003), where originally 'The Architect' character was in front of many TV screens showing Neo variants – but now 'The Architect' resembles JD Vance and all screens are showing variants of Donald Trump.
September 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM