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S04E02: Tin Geber by Internet of Humans, with Jillian York and Konstantinos Komaitis.
Edited by Javier Pallero.
In this episode, Konstantinos Komaitis and Jillian York speak with Tin Geber. Tin is a creative technologist and founder of Draftlab, a digital agency for social change makers. In the past decade he w...
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Hey skeezies in lieu of presentations, here's an episode of Internet of Humans by @jillian.bsky.social and Konstantinos Komaitis and moi, where we talk about cardinal sins of open source and the death of AI
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
I buy $1B of GPUs from you:
- boring
- just a transaction
- markets are unimpressed
I invest $1B in your company, and you provide me with GPUs worth $1B:
- genius
- both stocks go up
- healthy market growth
- boring
- just a transaction
- markets are unimpressed
I invest $1B in your company, and you provide me with GPUs worth $1B:
- genius
- both stocks go up
- healthy market growth
October 9, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I buy $1B of GPUs from you:
- boring
- just a transaction
- markets are unimpressed
I invest $1B in your company, and you provide me with GPUs worth $1B:
- genius
- both stocks go up
- healthy market growth
- boring
- just a transaction
- markets are unimpressed
I invest $1B in your company, and you provide me with GPUs worth $1B:
- genius
- both stocks go up
- healthy market growth
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The CEOs discussed removing the chief executive of a United Group subsidiary that owns N1, a Serbian TV channel that has documented nine months of anti-government protests.
www.occrp.org/en/news/audi...
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Audio Recording Reveals United Group and Telekom Srbija CEOs Discussing Undermining Serbian Broadcaster
The CEOs discussed removing the chief executive of a United Group subsidiary that owns N1, a Serbian TV channel that has documented nine months of anti-government protests.
www.occrp.org
August 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The CEOs discussed removing the chief executive of a United Group subsidiary that owns N1, a Serbian TV channel that has documented nine months of anti-government protests.
www.occrp.org/en/news/audi...
www.occrp.org/en/news/audi...
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What is the charge? Sharing a meal? A succulent Subway meal?
August 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
What is the charge? Sharing a meal? A succulent Subway meal?
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Check out my #DEFCON33 talk about the Signalgate, full of unbelievable incompetence from the highest levels of the Trump administration www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYy...
"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33)
YouTube video by Micah Lee
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August 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Check out my #DEFCON33 talk about the Signalgate, full of unbelievable incompetence from the highest levels of the Trump administration www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYy...
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New, from me: Elon Musk talks about saving our species. But the greatest legacy of his time in government will be to condemn millions to death because he could not discern reality from a paranoid fantasy.
How Musk and Trump killed USAID.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
How Musk and Trump killed USAID.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
The Death of US AID
The most consequential legacy of DOGE will be human misery on a massive scale
donmoynihan.substack.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
New, from me: Elon Musk talks about saving our species. But the greatest legacy of his time in government will be to condemn millions to death because he could not discern reality from a paranoid fantasy.
How Musk and Trump killed USAID.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
How Musk and Trump killed USAID.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
I am nano-retiring (taking a lunch break)
I just invented the micro-micro-retirement. You take it EVERY SINGLE week, and it’s where you don’t work on Saturday and Sunday
July 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I am nano-retiring (taking a lunch break)
now that stack overflow successfully shot itself in the foot (and face and multiple organs), I have a fantastic business idea, hear me out:
Stack Overflow, but only the bits that made it successful in the first place.
Stack Overflow, but only the bits that made it successful in the first place.
July 7, 2025 at 9:27 AM
now that stack overflow successfully shot itself in the foot (and face and multiple organs), I have a fantastic business idea, hear me out:
Stack Overflow, but only the bits that made it successful in the first place.
Stack Overflow, but only the bits that made it successful in the first place.
Meta is perfectly capable of making this fully secure and private. Meta also has a track record of breaking their rules and the law and use your data to better sell ad space because that’s their core business, and fines are already priced into operating costs.
www.theverge.com/news/693310/...
www.theverge.com/news/693310/...
WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages
More AI in WhatsApp.
www.theverge.com
June 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Meta is perfectly capable of making this fully secure and private. Meta also has a track record of breaking their rules and the law and use your data to better sell ad space because that’s their core business, and fines are already priced into operating costs.
www.theverge.com/news/693310/...
www.theverge.com/news/693310/...
I encourage everyone to spend tons of time with AI chat bots and reading the content they create because, like vaccines, it inoculates you to AI slop via exposure to their average and predictable writing patterns, so your brain can learn to tune them out
June 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I encourage everyone to spend tons of time with AI chat bots and reading the content they create because, like vaccines, it inoculates you to AI slop via exposure to their average and predictable writing patterns, so your brain can learn to tune them out
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I wrote about how to turn in-person meetings into Signal groups, how to manage large semi-public Signal groups while vetting new members, and how to sue announcement-only Signal groups, perfect for rapidly responding to ICE raids micahflee.com/using-signal...
Using Signal groups for activism
Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli ge...
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June 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I wrote about how to turn in-person meetings into Signal groups, how to manage large semi-public Signal groups while vetting new members, and how to sue announcement-only Signal groups, perfect for rapidly responding to ICE raids micahflee.com/using-signal...
i’m OBSESSED with pitbull and this new wave of fame have you seen the O2 arena videos? just a sea of bald caps and everyone is having a blast
June 12, 2025 at 5:59 AM
i’m OBSESSED with pitbull and this new wave of fame have you seen the O2 arena videos? just a sea of bald caps and everyone is having a blast
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EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social joins BBC Sounds/BBC Radio 4 to discuss YouTube’s power to spread unchecked information.
Like and Subscribe: How YouTube Changed the World - What happens when YouTube gets political? - BBC Sounds
As YouTube spreads, so does information - the good and bad. We explore the consequences.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social joins BBC Sounds/BBC Radio 4 to discuss YouTube’s power to spread unchecked information.
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A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:
April 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:
microsoft is to software what AI slop is to quality writing: stuff that seems to make sense at first but quickly shows itself to be convoluted and sometimes genuinely alien crap
March 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
microsoft is to software what AI slop is to quality writing: stuff that seems to make sense at first but quickly shows itself to be convoluted and sometimes genuinely alien crap
nature is healing
(AFP) - A dozen Teslas were torched in France in what authorities are treating as an arson attack, the prosecutor's office said Monday.
@afpnews.bsky.social $TSLA
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Dozen Teslas torched outside French dealership: authorities
A dozen Teslas were torched in France in what authorities are treating as an arson attack, the prosecutor's office said Monday.
www.france24.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
nature is healing
