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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · 3d

Next year your apps will answer for you. Your social graph will register as vibrant while you cook dinner. Your Presence Score will affect your career. This isn't sci-fi. It's already being built.

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#FutureTense #FutureTech #AI #DigitalLife

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · 5d

AI isn't a mind. It's an airport for human culture. We're arguing about the sentience of the terminal while a few companies buy all the land.

ft.azmackay.com/p/the-wrong-...

#ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #FutureTense #Tech

The Wrong Emergency

We're debating AI consciousness while knowledge infrastructure gets built

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · Jul 3

why did this make me laugh

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Jun 17

Plot twist: Your biggest AI security threat isn't hackers. It's your own employees trying to be helpful.
theaimonitor.substack.com/p/ai-governa...
#AI #TechSecurity #Innovation

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Jun 7

Willy nilly. Silly Billy's.

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Jun 7

Thanks Jenny!

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Jun 6

Your employees are already using AI at work. Yes, even Brian from marketing.

Stop fighting shadow AI. Start channeling it.

open.substack.com/pub/theaimon...

Shadow AI on the Rise

From Hidden Risk to Strategic Asset

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Jun 5

Excited to share something we've been building at QA-Systems!
Like many organizations, we struggled with AI adoption - scattered API keys, rising costs, and zero visibility into who was using what. So we built AI Controller to solve our own problem.
www.linkedin.com/posts/adamma...

#ai #enterpriseai #aigovernance #innovation #techlaunch | Adam Mackay

Excited to share something we've been building at QA-Systems! Like many organizations, we struggled with AI adoption - scattered API keys, rising costs, and zero visibility into who was using wha...

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Jun 3

I hated typing on those rubber keys.

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Jun 3

Thinking is optional. But recommended.

A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Jun 3

To much $$$ invested for it to 'die'. The only way is to push through the transition and hope there is life for humanity on the other side.

A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Jun 3

It's in the south of the UK 😃

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · May 15

Solar rays scatter through aerosols
a smoke plume rises
evidence etched in the atmosphere

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · May 9

Light filters through old trees,
bluebells whisper in the hush,
the forest forgets nothing.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · May 8

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace.

You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

This photograph captures Sir David Attenborough seated outdoors on the rugged terrain of Skomer Island. Behind him, the ocean and coastal cliffs form a scenic backdrop under a clear sky. Sir David, dressed in a khaki jacket and light trousers, looks towards the camera with a gentle expression, exuding a sense of warmth, calm, and wisdom. Around him, puffins can be seen flying and perched on the rocky ground, illuminated in rays of golden sunlight as the sun sets behind the cliffs.

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · May 4

Sorry. Dixon's loss, I'm sure.

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · May 1

Astronomers just found a massive hydrogen cloud named Eos hiding 300 light-years away, "literally glowing in the dark" in ultraviolet light. A giant structure in our cosmic backyard, invisible until now. What else is lurking out there that we can't yet see? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A nearby dark molecular cloud in the Local Bubble revealed via H2 fluorescence - Nature Astronomy

Eos is a newly discovered molecular cloud sitting just 94 pc from the Sun. It was detected through the far-UV emission of its molecular hydrogen, having been missed in conventional molecular gas surve...

www.nature.com

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Apr 27

Physical AI is here: Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin chips bring agentic AI & robotics to life. Straight from Terminator’s Skynet playbook. Are we ready? apnews.com/article/457e...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveils new Rubin AI chips at GTC 2025

Nvidia founder Jensen Huang kicked off the company’s artificial intelligence developer conference, on Tuesday by telling a crowd of thousands that AI is going through “an inflection point.”

apnews.com

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Apr 25

In the quiet reflections of a forgotten pond, Earth's whispers linger... a timeless archive quietly resisting synthetic eternity. Past and future merge, awaiting humanity's rediscovery that purest technology lies in leaves and untainted waters.

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Homovictimus @homovictimus.bsky.social · Apr 22

Extraordinary!

A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Mar 23

We don't fear machines thinking like humans; we fear humans thinking like machines.

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Apr 21

Some horizons are drawn in shipping lanes, others in half‑finished paragraphs. He doesn’t care which one I’m chasing—just that the tide is here, the breeze is real, and we’re sharing it in this moment.

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Apr 19

When algorithms predict everything, imagination becomes revolutionary.

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Apr 14

The most powerful interface is still the space between imagination and possibility.

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Apr 11

This looks awesome!

Paramedic Chris children's book series @paramedicchris.bsky.social · Apr 11

@admmcky.bsky.social of interest:

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A Z Mackay @azmackay.bsky.social · Apr 11

Realizing brain interfaces could soon be subtle enough to hide between hair follicles really hammers home how blurred the line between internal thought and external action might become. How invisible will the machine get?
research.gatech.edu/new-wearable...

New Wearable Brain-Computer Interface | Research

Micro-brain sensors placed between hair strands overcome traditional brain sensor limitations.Georgia Tech researchers have developed an almost imperceptible microstructure brain sensor to be inserted...

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