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sabrio.bsky.social

@sabrio.bsky.social

About vibe coding and the elusive sense of productivity www.fast.ai/posts/2026-0...

Breaking the Spell of Vibe Coding – fast.ai

Sinister variations on the positive state of flow

www.fast.ai

January 28, 2026 at 5:48 PM

sabrio.bsky.social

@sabrio.bsky.social

Police Violence in Berlin www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Harry Stopes | Police Violence in Berlin

Police violence against demonstrators isn’t new. What is distinct in the Palestine case, however, is the consistent...

www.lrb.co.uk

December 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM

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Dave Karpf

@davekarpf.bsky.social

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Feb 19

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

July 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM

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Nadia Zaboura

@nadiazaboura.bsky.social

Neue Folge: Mit Shai Hoffmann analysiere ich im Podcast "Über Israel und Palästina sprechen" die deutsche Nahost-Berichterstattung - tief und faktenbasiert.

Im Zentrum: die Rolle des Springer-Konzerns, Doppelstandards, Selbstzensur, außenpolitische Korridore und Verantwortungslosigkeit (...)

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Über Israel und Palästina sprechen

Podcast · Shai Hoffmann · Willkommen bei 'Über Israel und Palästina sprechen', dem Podcast, der die Vielfalt der Meinungen zu diesem komplexen Thema in unserer deutschen Gesellschaft hörbar macht. Be...

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May 16, 2025 at 7:24 AM

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Pablo Samuel Castro

@pcastr.bsky.social

The are lots of people who've influenced AI but haven't won Nobel prizes.
I discuss a tiny sliver of them in this parody of @billyjoelofficial.bsky.social 's "We didn't start the fire"...
Enjoy!

youtube.com/shorts/qDSYA...