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CarlBLatro
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Ageing Pākehā New Zealander. Programmer of sorts. Reckons my own.
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CarlBLatro 2 months ago
What Jay's been up to... "In my new role as CIO, [ at Bluesky ] I’ve started an Exploration team to find out. The first thing we’ve built is an app called Attie, named after the AT Protocol. Attie is an agentic social app and custom feed builder. It feels more like having a conversation than configuring software. You describe the sort of posts you want to see, and the coding agent builds the feed you described."
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CarlBLatro 2 months ago
"The press is under a coordinated, global assault and I write this as a critical friend of what remains of Britain’s independent media: do not, in the historian Tim Snyder’s words, obey in advance. Stop doing dumb shortsighted self-sabotaging deals, stop thinking tech companies will save you, they never have and never will and answer the sodding questions when journalists put them to you."
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CarlBLatro 2 months ago
"This isn’t just about bad civics education or Fox News melting brains like microwaved Velveeta. It’s about early childhood trauma. Specifically: Authoritarian child abuse—and the way it wires people’s brains, early and permanently, to seek out charismatic narcissistic abusers like heat-seeking missiles launched from the tiny neglected hearts of their own bruised inner children."
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CarlBLatro 2 months ago
How to make toys and houses and diapers and such...