Maria
@mariazamorano.bsky.social
Canadian/Colombian in London. MSc in Media and Comm’s from LSE. Interested in tech/digital policy and research 🤖
Clubbing in Bogota is crazy cuz what do you mean I just met a guy who works at the plastic surgery office in Miami that fixed Jake Paul’s face YESTERDAY 😭
December 21, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Clubbing in Bogota is crazy cuz what do you mean I just met a guy who works at the plastic surgery office in Miami that fixed Jake Paul’s face YESTERDAY 😭
This is true and it really begs the question: why did tech giants adopt the goal of personifying/anthropomorphizing technology as much as possible?
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
This is true and it really begs the question: why did tech giants adopt the goal of personifying/anthropomorphizing technology as much as possible?
Nothing like wildly popular but bad prose with heavy-handed metaphors (🎋) to break down my imposter syndrome re: writing
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Nothing like wildly popular but bad prose with heavy-handed metaphors (🎋) to break down my imposter syndrome re: writing
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People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
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I’ve always wondered why Bill Gates’ word is taken as some sort of gospel in the climate space…he is simply not an environmental scientist. In fact he’s not even close
November 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I’ve always wondered why Bill Gates’ word is taken as some sort of gospel in the climate space…he is simply not an environmental scientist. In fact he’s not even close
This is the first OpenAI product that I initially thought could see success long term. The paid element complicates it, though…why would someone pay a premium for a web browser (even with its AI bells and whistles) when Google is free?
OpenAI launched its AI browser yesterday—and of course there's an option where it can access all your browsing history.
More and more these AI platforms—especially agents—want access to all your data to ~personalize~ answers
WIRED story on the Atlas browser here: www.wired.com/story/openai...
More and more these AI platforms—especially agents—want access to all your data to ~personalize~ answers
WIRED story on the Atlas browser here: www.wired.com/story/openai...
October 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This is the first OpenAI product that I initially thought could see success long term. The paid element complicates it, though…why would someone pay a premium for a web browser (even with its AI bells and whistles) when Google is free?
*should
October 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
*should
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the excel spreadsheet would almost certainly be legible to humans across the recorded history of the species, from a sumarian scribe to whatever techno organic collective that emerges as our evolutionary successor
This is the truest thing I have ever seen. You cannot imagine how much the Romans would have lost their minds for excel. They literally already started writing our historical chronicles in synchronized columns *by hand*
July 21, 2025 at 12:19 AM
the excel spreadsheet would almost certainly be legible to humans across the recorded history of the species, from a sumarian scribe to whatever techno organic collective that emerges as our evolutionary successor
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New short post, you shouldn't make claims that assume the average person is really stupid andymasley.substack.com/p/my-are-you...
My "Are you presuming most people are stupid?" test
For AI criticism and everything else
andymasley.substack.com
June 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
New short post, you shouldn't make claims that assume the average person is really stupid andymasley.substack.com/p/my-are-you...
i have no problem with Sabrina Carpenter being sexual/kinky on main like this. my issue is that I don’t think this image is explicitly kinky *enough* to totally disprove the arguments that this cover evokes sexual violence
🚨 Sabrina Carpenter announces new album ‘Man’s Best Friend.’ Out August 29th.
June 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
i have no problem with Sabrina Carpenter being sexual/kinky on main like this. my issue is that I don’t think this image is explicitly kinky *enough* to totally disprove the arguments that this cover evokes sexual violence
big day for Italian Americans
Pope Leo XIV stepped onto a balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City on Thursday — his first appearance as leader of the Roman Catholic Church. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
May 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
big day for Italian Americans
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slapping a "i bought this before icarus fell" sticker on my pair of wax wings
April 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
slapping a "i bought this before icarus fell" sticker on my pair of wax wings
Not to be dramatic/a conspiracy theorist, but do we think these incredibly powerful people keep making these outlandish, magical claims to to uphold the inflated AI valuation bubble going on in the stock market rn
Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won't be needed 'for most things'
A new era of "free intelligence" powered by AI will change the way humans work, says billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
www.cnbc.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Not to be dramatic/a conspiracy theorist, but do we think these incredibly powerful people keep making these outlandish, magical claims to to uphold the inflated AI valuation bubble going on in the stock market rn
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I do not believe in any tech product where the devs want us to view it with some form of religious awe, a divine gift redefining human experience and bequeathing knowledge unto us humble land apes. I believe in a tech product where the devs are like “this is handy for planning breakfasts”
February 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I do not believe in any tech product where the devs want us to view it with some form of religious awe, a divine gift redefining human experience and bequeathing knowledge unto us humble land apes. I believe in a tech product where the devs are like “this is handy for planning breakfasts”
they should invent a grocery store that has cell service
February 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
they should invent a grocery store that has cell service
thank you to that one benevolent vacuum robot at Heathrow for not running me over despite all the heat I give new tech and AI in my posts 💕 very generous, much appreciated
January 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
thank you to that one benevolent vacuum robot at Heathrow for not running me over despite all the heat I give new tech and AI in my posts 💕 very generous, much appreciated
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the ai bot isn’t “admitting” its secrets to you or “revealing” its creators intentions it’s just a word generating machine generating words the only meaning is that which you read into it and imo that should be none
January 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
the ai bot isn’t “admitting” its secrets to you or “revealing” its creators intentions it’s just a word generating machine generating words the only meaning is that which you read into it and imo that should be none
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At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
December 26, 2024 at 7:13 PM
At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses.
The people who are vulnerable to dis/misinformation on social media are not just kids!
we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors
December 26, 2024 at 8:19 PM
The people who are vulnerable to dis/misinformation on social media are not just kids!
Excellent article that gently discusses the great emotional impact of AI companions on the varied people who interact with them. The biggest shock to me, though, was how the AI companion app creators justify their work:
What do you love when you fall for AI?
Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.
www.theverge.com
December 7, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Excellent article that gently discusses the great emotional impact of AI companions on the varied people who interact with them. The biggest shock to me, though, was how the AI companion app creators justify their work: