Ricardo J. Méndez
@ricardo.bsky.social
Privacy, decentralization, freedom, sometimes crypto stuff.
Career CTO working on strategy and investments now.
https://numergent.com/
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
https://ger.mx/AxZ_orTzLdEBPyklSWqbSKOUNQ8Oz68iaC2A1Hyhu2Cm#did:plc:cf6futaebyc2k4wgzsr4v42k
Career CTO working on strategy and investments now.
https://numergent.com/
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
https://ger.mx/AxZ_orTzLdEBPyklSWqbSKOUNQ8Oz68iaC2A1Hyhu2Cm#did:plc:cf6futaebyc2k4wgzsr4v42k
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Ricardo J. Méndez
@ricardo.bsky.social
· Sep 19
I am a little less optimistic: I strongly suspect the current institutions are mostly incapable of dealing with this new approach, and we may quickly - globally - end up with something unrecognizable.
numergent.com/2025-09/Fast...
numergent.com/2025-09/Fast...
Ugh, I need some #ATDev help. I've got an expo app that was working with app passwords but I'm migrating to OAuth.
Auth flows seemingly work fine whether I'm running as a web app or on iOS simulator. However, creating Bluesky posts only works well on web, but fails silently on iOS simulator.
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Auth flows seemingly work fine whether I'm running as a web app or on iOS simulator. However, creating Bluesky posts only works well on web, but fails silently on iOS simulator.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Ugh, I need some #ATDev help. I've got an expo app that was working with app passwords but I'm migrating to OAuth.
Auth flows seemingly work fine whether I'm running as a web app or on iOS simulator. However, creating Bluesky posts only works well on web, but fails silently on iOS simulator.
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Auth flows seemingly work fine whether I'm running as a web app or on iOS simulator. However, creating Bluesky posts only works well on web, but fails silently on iOS simulator.
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What the fuck....?
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
What the fuck....?
The puzzles in @doublefine.com’s Keeper are barely there, but damn if it isn’t the world’s prettiest Salvador Dali Walking Simulator.
December 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The puzzles in @doublefine.com’s Keeper are barely there, but damn if it isn’t the world’s prettiest Salvador Dali Walking Simulator.
CNN can be and often is pretty shit, but that's a choice image for how Putin is doing exactly what he wants with the U.S..
December 4, 2025 at 6:52 AM
CNN can be and often is pretty shit, but that's a choice image for how Putin is doing exactly what he wants with the U.S..
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"Hello, I'm here to order a Robotic Partner."
"Ah, welcome. Please fill in this form."
"Sure, for body options and features, right? Let's see... One of those, definitely. Hm. What's this 'Do you expect to be obeyed?' For that money, of course I do!"
"Then we cannot help you. We only do partners."
"Ah, welcome. Please fill in this form."
"Sure, for body options and features, right? Let's see... One of those, definitely. Hm. What's this 'Do you expect to be obeyed?' For that money, of course I do!"
"Then we cannot help you. We only do partners."
December 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Hello, I'm here to order a Robotic Partner."
"Ah, welcome. Please fill in this form."
"Sure, for body options and features, right? Let's see... One of those, definitely. Hm. What's this 'Do you expect to be obeyed?' For that money, of course I do!"
"Then we cannot help you. We only do partners."
"Ah, welcome. Please fill in this form."
"Sure, for body options and features, right? Let's see... One of those, definitely. Hm. What's this 'Do you expect to be obeyed?' For that money, of course I do!"
"Then we cannot help you. We only do partners."
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The CIA recruited a child and trained him to be an assassin
Its yesterdays new by now, but someone in my Discord realized something about the Afghan shooter recently
It's widely reported that he was recruited by the CIA in 2011 for a death squad. It was also widely reported that he's 29. It is NOT widely reported that that means he was 15 at the time.
It's widely reported that he was recruited by the CIA in 2011 for a death squad. It was also widely reported that he's 29. It is NOT widely reported that that means he was 15 at the time.
December 3, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The CIA recruited a child and trained him to be an assassin
My first thought on the co-CEO news was "ugh, Alameda all over again, co-CEOs always means nobody is responsible or in charge".
I did not realize the new co-CEO is CZ's partner.
Guess I was wrong on the part about nobody being in charge.
I did not realize the new co-CEO is CZ's partner.
Guess I was wrong on the part about nobody being in charge.
New Binance CEO makes CZ’s ‘non-executive’ role more blatant protos.com/new-binance-...
New Binance CEO makes CZ’s ‘non-executive’ role more blatant
Yi He, the newly appointed co-CEO of Binance, is CZ’s family office co-manager and the mother of his children.
protos.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
My first thought on the co-CEO news was "ugh, Alameda all over again, co-CEOs always means nobody is responsible or in charge".
I did not realize the new co-CEO is CZ's partner.
Guess I was wrong on the part about nobody being in charge.
I did not realize the new co-CEO is CZ's partner.
Guess I was wrong on the part about nobody being in charge.
This is how I learned that Claude Code uses @bun.sh
bun.com/blog/bun-joi...
It's somewhat sad that the main path to open source sustainability still seems to be to hook a whale, but on the plus side, the Bun team will have more than enough money to continue building for the foreseeable future.
bun.com/blog/bun-joi...
It's somewhat sad that the main path to open source sustainability still seems to be to hook a whale, but on the plus side, the Bun team will have more than enough money to continue building for the foreseeable future.
Bun is joining Anthropic
Bun has been acquired by Anthropic. Anthropic is betting on Bun as the infrastructure powering Claude Code, Claude Agent SDK, and future AI coding products & tools.
bun.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This is how I learned that Claude Code uses @bun.sh
bun.com/blog/bun-joi...
It's somewhat sad that the main path to open source sustainability still seems to be to hook a whale, but on the plus side, the Bun team will have more than enough money to continue building for the foreseeable future.
bun.com/blog/bun-joi...
It's somewhat sad that the main path to open source sustainability still seems to be to hook a whale, but on the plus side, the Bun team will have more than enough money to continue building for the foreseeable future.
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I was really thrilled to get to work on The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens with @aumasson.jp. I think we did a good job but also apologies in advance to the teens that we tried to make jokes and generally Be Chill. Also no paywall to make it easier to share! www.wired.com/story/digita...
The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens
Practicing good “operations security” is essential to staying safe online. Here's a complete guide for teenagers (and anyone else) who wants to button up their digital lives.
www.wired.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I was really thrilled to get to work on The WIRED Guide to Digital Opsec for Teens with @aumasson.jp. I think we did a good job but also apologies in advance to the teens that we tried to make jokes and generally Be Chill. Also no paywall to make it easier to share! www.wired.com/story/digita...
Just arrived at the Your Party conference. Buzzing!
November 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Just arrived at the Your Party conference. Buzzing!
Ask me again why I reject otherwise great opportunities which require me to travel to or through the US.
It is a sign of democratic collapse because explicit white racism appears to be the policy of the US Government. Non white citizens no longer have the same protection under the law as white ones. We are all potentially identifiable as members of "disruptive populations"
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Ask me again why I reject otherwise great opportunities which require me to travel to or through the US.
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Everything Hari says in this thread
‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Everything Hari says in this thread
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The Mandarin collar has a really handsome silhouette and I wish that it had been adopted as a business casual standard, since it's at it's best on a business shirt with no tie - the essence of business casual
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Mandarin collar has a really handsome silhouette and I wish that it had been adopted as a business casual standard, since it's at it's best on a business shirt with no tie - the essence of business casual
This exchange inspired a new blog post, mostly fueled by the fact that the number of people claiming ATProto / #ATDev is decentralization theater is too damned high.
numergent.com/2025-11/Does...
numergent.com/2025-11/Does...
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This exchange inspired a new blog post, mostly fueled by the fact that the number of people claiming ATProto / #ATDev is decentralization theater is too damned high.
numergent.com/2025-11/Does...
numergent.com/2025-11/Does...
Ooof. This is the current day version of “defenders have to succeed every time, attackers only have to succeed once”.
Anthropic: A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size www.anthropic.com/research/sma... "as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a "backdoor" vulnerability in a large language model—regardless of model size or training data volume."
November 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Ooof. This is the current day version of “defenders have to succeed every time, attackers only have to succeed once”.
I suspect blockchain people have a hard time interiorizing how Bluesky and ATProto are fundamentally different from how they're used to think about decentralized systems.
There's no consensus. Forks are not an act of sedition, they're about customizing your space.
Don't like something? Change it.
There's no consensus. Forks are not an act of sedition, they're about customizing your space.
Don't like something? Change it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I suspect blockchain people have a hard time interiorizing how Bluesky and ATProto are fundamentally different from how they're used to think about decentralized systems.
There's no consensus. Forks are not an act of sedition, they're about customizing your space.
Don't like something? Change it.
There's no consensus. Forks are not an act of sedition, they're about customizing your space.
Don't like something? Change it.
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Happy Thanksgiving, America!
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Happy Thanksgiving, America!
Timeline cleaner, and the alt text is just as good.
THREAD.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead.
We decided to call him Jim.
This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Timeline cleaner, and the alt text is just as good.
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In the end, it’s an even older problem: if you share something with someone - name, address, phone number, anything - they may share it with someone else.
People need to be mindful of who they share globally unique identifiers with.
(Yet another reason why I like @germnetwork.com cards)
People need to be mindful of who they share globally unique identifiers with.
(Yet another reason why I like @germnetwork.com cards)
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
In the end, it’s an even older problem: if you share something with someone - name, address, phone number, anything - they may share it with someone else.
People need to be mindful of who they share globally unique identifiers with.
(Yet another reason why I like @germnetwork.com cards)
People need to be mindful of who they share globally unique identifiers with.
(Yet another reason why I like @germnetwork.com cards)
I sometimes wonder if all these spammy accounts directly mentioning others asking for “funds for my family” are not just scams, but an active false-flag operation to get people to mute the word “Gaza”.
November 27, 2025 at 10:46 AM
I sometimes wonder if all these spammy accounts directly mentioning others asking for “funds for my family” are not just scams, but an active false-flag operation to get people to mute the word “Gaza”.
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"By cementing ‘voluntary’ mass scanning, they are legitimizing the warrantless, error-prone mass surveillance of millions of Europeans by US corporations, while simultaneously killing online anonymity through the backdoor of age verification."
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"By cementing ‘voluntary’ mass scanning, they are legitimizing the warrantless, error-prone mass surveillance of millions of Europeans by US corporations, while simultaneously killing online anonymity through the backdoor of age verification."
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Understanding the world is intimately tied to acting in the world; you know something to be true because of the coherent activities it supports in the world.
This creates a link between knowledge and power: when you're powerful, *incoherent* actions can succeed from sheer power.
This creates a link between knowledge and power: when you're powerful, *incoherent* actions can succeed from sheer power.
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Understanding the world is intimately tied to acting in the world; you know something to be true because of the coherent activities it supports in the world.
This creates a link between knowledge and power: when you're powerful, *incoherent* actions can succeed from sheer power.
This creates a link between knowledge and power: when you're powerful, *incoherent* actions can succeed from sheer power.
Guillermo del Toro’s In The Realm of the Senses
Guillermo del Toro’s Fiddler on the Roof
Guillermo del Toro's Snatch
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Guillermo del Toro’s In The Realm of the Senses
You know MeetUp is screwing up with MeetUp+, because the way you find out it exists is because group organizers send out messages to members clarifying that YOU don't need to pay, because they're already covering expenses.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
You know MeetUp is screwing up with MeetUp+, because the way you find out it exists is because group organizers send out messages to members clarifying that YOU don't need to pay, because they're already covering expenses.