Jiri Mandak
@jirimandak.link
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Bluesky folks came up with a fundamentally new and privacy-protecting method of doing this unlike every other service. Almost every negative response is based on how people assume Bluesky is doing this based on how bad everyone else does it. Bad actors have so poisoned the entire market...
v1.112 is live!
We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.
Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.
Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
We’re launching Find Friends, a contact import feature that helps you find people you know on Bluesky.
Try it! In the mobile app, go to Settings → Find friends from contacts.
Read how we took a more secure approach to this than other platforms: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
December 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Bluesky folks came up with a fundamentally new and privacy-protecting method of doing this unlike every other service. Almost every negative response is based on how people assume Bluesky is doing this based on how bad everyone else does it. Bad actors have so poisoned the entire market...
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
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I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.
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If they implement the NSS, and to be clear, there is every reason to believe they are already, it could destroy the alliance.
"The strategy signals that the Trump administration plans to orchestrate the downfall of almost all of Europe’s political leaders." www.csis.org/analysis/nss...
"The strategy signals that the Trump administration plans to orchestrate the downfall of almost all of Europe’s political leaders." www.csis.org/analysis/nss...
The NSS That Could Destroy the NATO Alliance
The latest U.S. National Security Strategy doesn’t just sideline Europe—it seeks to reshape its politics, backing nationalist parties and challenging the European Union in ways that could push the tra...
www.csis.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
If they implement the NSS, and to be clear, there is every reason to believe they are already, it could destroy the alliance.
"The strategy signals that the Trump administration plans to orchestrate the downfall of almost all of Europe’s political leaders." www.csis.org/analysis/nss...
"The strategy signals that the Trump administration plans to orchestrate the downfall of almost all of Europe’s political leaders." www.csis.org/analysis/nss...
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Monte Dolack, Suburban Refuge, 1984
November 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Monte Dolack, Suburban Refuge, 1984
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BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
‘I escaped a Russian prison — only to end up in an American jail’
Dozens of Russian dissidents have been expelled from the US and forcibly returned to Russia with the co-operation of immigration authorities
www.thetimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.
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We are literally destroying our planet and ourselves in service of a toy a handful of billionaires have promoted as the everything app to destroy the negotiation power of labor. We are going to kill ourselves to fire ourselves because they want to permanently pull the ladder up behind them.
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
We are literally destroying our planet and ourselves in service of a toy a handful of billionaires have promoted as the everything app to destroy the negotiation power of labor. We are going to kill ourselves to fire ourselves because they want to permanently pull the ladder up behind them.
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August 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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U.N. special rapporteur Alice Edwards said she's documented "serious cases of torture" in Russian prisons and detention sites. “Look, I’m calling this part of Russian war policy. It’s clear that it’s organized. It’s clear that it’s systematic.”
Our investigation, no paywall: wapo.st/3YNw5PF
Our investigation, no paywall: wapo.st/3YNw5PF
April 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
U.N. special rapporteur Alice Edwards said she's documented "serious cases of torture" in Russian prisons and detention sites. “Look, I’m calling this part of Russian war policy. It’s clear that it’s organized. It’s clear that it’s systematic.”
Our investigation, no paywall: wapo.st/3YNw5PF
Our investigation, no paywall: wapo.st/3YNw5PF
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A Russian operation is one of the most successful so far in getting lies repeated by popular AI chatbots. Gift link to my story today. wapo.st/44vhnR3
Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way.
In their race to push out new versions with more capability, AI companies leave users vulnerable to “LLM grooming” efforts that promote bogus information.
wapo.st
April 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A Russian operation is one of the most successful so far in getting lies repeated by popular AI chatbots. Gift link to my story today. wapo.st/44vhnR3
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Since the onset of the war, Czechia’s crude oil imports have contributed nearly 3 billion euros in tax revenues to the Russian state. In total, Czechia has spent 8.4 billion euros on Russian oil and gas since February 2022, more than six times the 1.32 billion euros it has provided in aid to Ukraine
April 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Since the onset of the war, Czechia’s crude oil imports have contributed nearly 3 billion euros in tax revenues to the Russian state. In total, Czechia has spent 8.4 billion euros on Russian oil and gas since February 2022, more than six times the 1.32 billion euros it has provided in aid to Ukraine
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Marharyta Polovinko, a 31-year-old Ukrainian artist and paramedic, was killed on the battlefield.
She served in the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade.
Known for her powerful artwork painted with blood and inkless pens, she depicted war’s brutal reality and mourned its victims.
Photo: @solomiyamag
She served in the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade.
Known for her powerful artwork painted with blood and inkless pens, she depicted war’s brutal reality and mourned its victims.
Photo: @solomiyamag
April 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Marharyta Polovinko, a 31-year-old Ukrainian artist and paramedic, was killed on the battlefield.
She served in the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade.
Known for her powerful artwork painted with blood and inkless pens, she depicted war’s brutal reality and mourned its victims.
Photo: @solomiyamag
She served in the 3rd Separate Assault Brigade.
Known for her powerful artwork painted with blood and inkless pens, she depicted war’s brutal reality and mourned its victims.
Photo: @solomiyamag
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3/4. Russia has rejected the ceasefire and continues a war that was criminal from the beginning. Under Trump, we are only making this easier. We are putting US power on Russia’s side.
April 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
3/4. Russia has rejected the ceasefire and continues a war that was criminal from the beginning. Under Trump, we are only making this easier. We are putting US power on Russia’s side.
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Reminder there is an a/i mod tool you can subscribe to that hides a/i images or warns you about shitty a/i using freaks ↓
bsky.app
January 29, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Reminder there is an a/i mod tool you can subscribe to that hides a/i images or warns you about shitty a/i using freaks ↓
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Chilling details from a lawsuit against DOGE by USADF about how much of a lie DOGE's "IT modernization" is (the best way to describe it is if someone comes from the cable company and then says because he's in your house, he's allowed to do a home invasion) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Chilling details from a lawsuit against DOGE by USADF about how much of a lie DOGE's "IT modernization" is (the best way to describe it is if someone comes from the cable company and then says because he's in your house, he's allowed to do a home invasion) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Pointing out AI-induced glitches and hallucinations like the bearded dancers therefore seems to me to be beside the point. Such traditional critique of representation is helpless when those in power are no longer concerned with the details of representation, but only with ›flooding the zone‹
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February 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Pointing out AI-induced glitches and hallucinations like the bearded dancers therefore seems to me to be beside the point. Such traditional critique of representation is helpless when those in power are no longer concerned with the details of representation, but only with ›flooding the zone‹
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Dreaming of spring 😍😩
February 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Dreaming of spring 😍😩
Made a few Valentine's day cards for friends at work 😊
February 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Made a few Valentine's day cards for friends at work 😊
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I think the thing that makes this so distinctly bad is that it isn't just a total failure of Google to resist, but how this seems likely to haunt us forever. Our country and our perception of it is shifting and we realize no future president will do something so unpopular as rename it...
February 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I think the thing that makes this so distinctly bad is that it isn't just a total failure of Google to resist, but how this seems likely to haunt us forever. Our country and our perception of it is shifting and we realize no future president will do something so unpopular as rename it...
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The surrender of legacy media and social platforms to MAGA is multicausal but largely the product of a disciplined campaign to make infrastructure political. Without a bad-faith campaign involving years and unimaginable sums of money, I highly doubt organic incentives would produce this outcome.
January 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The surrender of legacy media and social platforms to MAGA is multicausal but largely the product of a disciplined campaign to make infrastructure political. Without a bad-faith campaign involving years and unimaginable sums of money, I highly doubt organic incentives would produce this outcome.
New rug. (by @2girls1rug on ig)
December 2, 2024 at 9:29 PM
New rug. (by @2girls1rug on ig)
heh, got numbered as #851,483
September 25, 2024 at 7:04 PM
heh, got numbered as #851,483