Mastertwit 🇵🇸
@mastertwit.bsky.social
Father of two small boys. Reader of books, Saints FC fan, climate worrier, Luddite. Free Palestine.
Great guide on what NOT to give your family for Christmas!
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker
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November 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Great guide on what NOT to give your family for Christmas!
November 26, 2025 at 10:44 AM
“The entire financial system, including government bonds and mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.”
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
“The entire financial system, including government bonds and mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not.”
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This is one of my favs...
November 18, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This is one of my favs...
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$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement.
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
Meta plans $1 billion data center in Beaver Dam
The facility is expected to be completed in 2027 and will support 100 jobs, according to state officials.
www.wisn.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement.
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
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Things that make generative AI dangerous:
1. Job market impact. As a cutting measure it's being used to generate "boilerplate". This is putting writers out of work.
2. Stock market bubble. When this inevitably crashes it will take out pension funds and savings.
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1. Job market impact. As a cutting measure it's being used to generate "boilerplate". This is putting writers out of work.
2. Stock market bubble. When this inevitably crashes it will take out pension funds and savings.
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April 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Things that make generative AI dangerous:
1. Job market impact. As a cutting measure it's being used to generate "boilerplate". This is putting writers out of work.
2. Stock market bubble. When this inevitably crashes it will take out pension funds and savings.
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1. Job market impact. As a cutting measure it's being used to generate "boilerplate". This is putting writers out of work.
2. Stock market bubble. When this inevitably crashes it will take out pension funds and savings.
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I’ve already seen this Black Mirror episode.
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I’ve already seen this Black Mirror episode.
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Anyone else noticed how Nazi rallies get the go-ahead fairly easily from state governments, then the horrified public reaction is weaponised to pass anti-protest laws, which are then used to quash anti-genocide dissent and justify police assaults on small brown women? You picking up on this, too??
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Anyone else noticed how Nazi rallies get the go-ahead fairly easily from state governments, then the horrified public reaction is weaponised to pass anti-protest laws, which are then used to quash anti-genocide dissent and justify police assaults on small brown women? You picking up on this, too??
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November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Would we allow tobacco lobbyists to attend a lung cancer conference?
📣 BREAKING: One out of every 25 attendees at the #COP30 climate talks is a fossil fuel lobbyist.
The arsonists aren’t just in the building — they’re throwing fuel on the fire.
We need to #KickOutTheSuits NOW!
READ: kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
The arsonists aren’t just in the building — they’re throwing fuel on the fire.
We need to #KickOutTheSuits NOW!
READ: kickbigpollutersout.org/Release-Kick...
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Would we allow tobacco lobbyists to attend a lung cancer conference?
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it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
An excellent article that explains why GenAI produces flat, repetitive and soulless writing with “an abundance of verbs and adjectives and a clear shortage of nouns, a clear sign that they are going around in circles to say little.”
Finally one thing they are, due to being statistical models of text, these neural networks and other large language models are indeed designed to do: milquetoastify boringify language.
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
LLMs steal and drain off human creativity originality verve by merely copying.
english.elpais.com/technology/2...
The ChatGPT effect: We’ve all started talking like robots
The use of artificial intelligence is leading to a flattening of our language that is evident in the emails we write and the texts we compose. Studies have already confirmed this. Robotic verbiage era...
english.elpais.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
An excellent article that explains why GenAI produces flat, repetitive and soulless writing with “an abundance of verbs and adjectives and a clear shortage of nouns, a clear sign that they are going around in circles to say little.”
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Who supports the Albanese Govt's new environment laws?
• Chevron
• BHP
• the Minerals Council of Australia
• the Business Council of Australia
Who doesn't support the new laws?
• Australian Conservation Foundation
• Greenpeace
• the Climate Council
• the Wilderness Society and more. 🤔 #auspol
• Chevron
• BHP
• the Minerals Council of Australia
• the Business Council of Australia
Who doesn't support the new laws?
• Australian Conservation Foundation
• Greenpeace
• the Climate Council
• the Wilderness Society and more. 🤔 #auspol
November 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Who supports the Albanese Govt's new environment laws?
• Chevron
• BHP
• the Minerals Council of Australia
• the Business Council of Australia
Who doesn't support the new laws?
• Australian Conservation Foundation
• Greenpeace
• the Climate Council
• the Wilderness Society and more. 🤔 #auspol
• Chevron
• BHP
• the Minerals Council of Australia
• the Business Council of Australia
Who doesn't support the new laws?
• Australian Conservation Foundation
• Greenpeace
• the Climate Council
• the Wilderness Society and more. 🤔 #auspol
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The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The fact a *single* Amazon full-time employee requires SNAP benefits should be a crime. The fact Amazon is the largest employer of SNAP recipients is a disgrace. Jeff Bezos shouldnt be that rich; he should be in jail.
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AI "is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecо-destroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins."
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social
LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social
LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
November 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
AI "is a thieving, hallucinating, biased, data-scraping, ecо-destroying, surveillance bot that will never be able to reconcile the receipts of its unethical origins."
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social
LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
—A Psalm for the Analog @melaniedusseau.bsky.social
LOOMING: drive.proton.me/urls/JE8JPJR...
www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
Our very own ACCC is taking Microsoft to court for tricking people into paying higher fees for AI garbage that no one asked for. You love to see it
Microsoft in court for allegedly misleading millions of Australians over Microsoft 365 subscriptions
The ACCC has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court against Microsoft Australia and its US-based parent company Microsoft Corporation for allegedly misleading approximately 2.7 million Australian ...
www.accc.gov.au
November 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Our very own ACCC is taking Microsoft to court for tricking people into paying higher fees for AI garbage that no one asked for. You love to see it
This appears to be good news.
Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright
• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
• Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright
• OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied
October 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This appears to be good news.
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
October 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
Current stack! On track to hit my goal of 100 books in 2025. Currently on book number 85.
Full titles in alt text.
#booksky #libraries
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#booksky #libraries
October 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Current stack! On track to hit my goal of 100 books in 2025. Currently on book number 85.
Full titles in alt text.
#booksky #libraries
Full titles in alt text.
#booksky #libraries
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“I think they are a profoundly antisocial technology that should be rejected in every way possible,” said Gilliard. “Their
very existence is toxic to the social fabric.” @hypervisible.blacksky.app
www.theverge.com/tech/807834/...
very existence is toxic to the social fabric.” @hypervisible.blacksky.app
www.theverge.com/tech/807834/...
Privacy laws can’t keep up with ‘luxury surveillance’
“It’s not clear to me that a small red light would be sufficient notification in some states for someone to consent to being recorded.”
www.theverge.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
“I think they are a profoundly antisocial technology that should be rejected in every way possible,” said Gilliard. “Their
very existence is toxic to the social fabric.” @hypervisible.blacksky.app
www.theverge.com/tech/807834/...
very existence is toxic to the social fabric.” @hypervisible.blacksky.app
www.theverge.com/tech/807834/...
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A big congratulations and well done to the beautiful nation of Ireland
October 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
A big congratulations and well done to the beautiful nation of Ireland