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Marat Amerov
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Software Development, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Linux and related topics
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youtu.be/7wE8G-d7SnY
The Plan is to Make the Internet Worse. Forever. | Aaron Bastani Meets Cory Doctorow
YouTube video by Novara Media
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 8:13 PM
maratamerov.bsky.social
hey.paris/posts/appleid/
20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple
Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple De...
hey.paris
December 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
maratamerov.bsky.social
medium.com/@kenbayer/we...
We were worried about the wrong dystopia
We were all so busy worrying about Big Brother we forgot to worry about Soma
medium.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
maratamerov.bsky.social
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
maratamerov.bsky.social
Steering Humanity through AI & Climate Risk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwyu...
Steering Humanity through AI & Climate Risk
YouTube video by Norwich Friends of the Earth
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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www.whitefusion.studio/ai-ethics/
The Hazards of Generative AI & Our Ethical Stance | Whitefusion
Are you a developer? A publisher? A small business or non-profit? Here's my promise to you: I might not have all the answers, but we'll hunker down and figure it out together.
www.whitefusion.studio
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
maratamerov.bsky.social
mertbulan.com/2025/02/24/w...
We don't need startups, we need Digital-Mittelstand – Mert Bulan
While the German economy is stagnating, Digital-Mittelstand may offer a solution.
mertbulan.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
maratamerov.bsky.social
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-exhaus...
The Exhaustion of Permanent Disruption
The Slow Death of Mastery
www.joanwestenberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
maratamerov.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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todbot.com
Finally got my Emacs setup how I like www.hackster.io/news/the-key...
The Key to Overengineering
Each key on this massive 1,000-key keyboard built by Attoparsec types a full word. It's a terrible design, but in the best kind of way.
www.hackster.io
March 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Marat Amerov
pulusound.fi
emacs users horrified to discover that "meta-x" now means two awful social media companies
December 2, 2024 at 6:09 PM
maratamerov.bsky.social
blog.aaronbieber.com/2021/07/27/s...
Stop Calling People Resources
This is the Merriam-Webster definition: re·source, n. a source of supply or support: an available means—usually used in plural a natural source of wealth or revenue—often used in plural a natural fea...
blog.aaronbieber.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:40 AM
Reposted by Marat Amerov
spavel.bsky.social
Every animal becomes crab, but every plant becomes coffee
tomkimmerer.bsky.social Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · Oct 17
Caffeine is so important in plant defense that its occurrence in at least 60 different plant species evolved independently. Instead of 1 biochemical path to coffee, there are at least 12 pathways that evolved by exaptation - reusing existing pathways for a new outcome. Have a cup of coffee!
A diagram of the plant chemical caffeine next to three roasted coffee beans. Source: The Nutrition Source at Harvard
October 18, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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jobium.bsky.social
21,000 workers have died so far while working on that ridiculous Line city in Saudi Arabia. Remember that next time you see a fancy sponsored ad for it.
November 2, 2024 at 10:13 AM
Reposted by Marat Amerov
luca.run
Fedifinder now displays how a Bluesky account was matched to your Twitter followings:

- by link eg. staging.bsky.app/profile/luca.run
- by bsky domain eg username.bsky.social
- by known ATP domain eg. luca.run
- by guessed username eg. histoftech

https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
New: Your contacts on Bluesky URLs to profiles and username matches (unverified; be careful!). List of accounts from bsky.jazco.dev. @luca.run (luca, link) @aliafonzy.bsky.social (Aliafonzy43, bsky domain) @staging.bsky.app (Aliafonzy43, link) @arcalinea.bsky.social (arcalinea, guessed username) @jay@bsky.app (arcalinea, link) @jay.bsky.team (arcalinea, known ATP domain) @amir.blue (ashevat, link) @april.social (CubicleApril, known ATP domain) @ruchowdh.bsky.social (ruchowdh, bsky domain) @ruchowdh.bsky.social (ruchowdh, bsky domain) @robyncaplan.bsky.social (robyncaplan, guessed username) @nickcald.bsky.social (nickcald, guessed username) @carlbergstrom.com (CT_Bergstrom, known ATP domain) @tdhopper.com (tdhopper, known ATP domain) @ixek.bsky.social (ixek, guessed username) @replylord.bsky.social (replylord, guessed username) @histoftech.bsky.social (histoftech, guessed username)
May 2, 2023 at 12:26 PM