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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · 3d

Jays fans:

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Blade Runner - Final scene, "Tears in Rain" Monologue (HD)

YouTube video by Guillermo St

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · 7d

As a real Chotinerhead, I read all his interviews, and what most fans of his takedowns don't realize is that 80-90% of his guest acquit themselves just fine under the same interview techniques. He's the Dunning-Kruger of Q&As.

www.newyorker.com/contributors...

Isaac Chotiner

Isaac Chotiner is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he is the principal contributor to Q. & A., a series of interviews with public figures in politics, media, books, business, technology, and mo...

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · 10d

We are THIS close to Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong. Only a matter of which microstate goes full franchulate first.

sf.gazetteer.co/beta-testing...

Beta-testing a new world order

Today, SafetyWing wants customers for its insurance products. Tomorrow, it wants statehood

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · 12d

INFINITE JEST-heads: What are the best pages/passages to read about the "Entertainment?"

(Yes, my paperback copy has an unbroken spine; why do you ask?)

Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · 13d

It is WILD how much roadwork in Montreal is still unfinished when then first freeze is barely a week away.

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Kamiten, Cursed Feral Clown @kamitenz.bsky.social · 13d

The only thing smart in my house is a TV because I was not given a choice in the matter. Modem televisions are near impossible to get without smart features.

Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · 13d

Nearly a decade ago, my @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social colleagues and I warned that smart homes were a gigantic attack surface for cyberattacks and malware. And we weren't remotely the first to do so. www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · 13d

Along with Tobias Revell's and @ndkane.bsky.social's HAUNTED MACHINES, which taught me "Any sufficiently advanced hacking is indistinguishable from a haunting." tobiasrevell.com/Haunted-Mach...

Haunted Machines – FutureEverything – 2015-02 — Tobias Revell

Haunted Machines – FutureEverything – 2015-02 Haunted Machines is an ongoing project started by myself and Natalie Kane which launched at and is...

tobiasrevell.com

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · 13d

Speaking of which, here's Mat Honan's speculative story from 2014 that was a major inspiration: www.wired.com/2014/06/the-...

The Nightmare on Connected Home Street

I woke up at 4 am to old-timey dubstep spewing from my pillows as the lights flashed on throughout the house.

www.wired.com

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Limonene @limonene.bsky.social · 13d

You were right back then and it’s only gotten harder to find appliances that aren’t connected. I assume the ability to sell consumer data as an additional revenue stream is irresistible to corporations.

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Asia Górska @mayome.bsky.social · 13d

I remember being so excited abt IoT, I was 20, starry-eyed and only worried about privacy in the context of Facebook. I still like the idea of home automation and power use graphs!

But the execution of it all bore horrors i couldn’t have conceived of back then…

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · 13d

If I'm not the fastest talker who's ever appeared on that network, I'll sleep a week in an Amazon Smart Iron Maiden.™

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · 13d

[email protected] coined "luxury surveillance" to describe the devil's bargain of smart glasses and AI+AR (AIR).

Read my interview with him in "The Augmented City" to learn what we can do about it: urban.tech.cornell.edu/the-augmente...

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · 13d

We even talked about it on CSPAN! www.c-span.org/program/publ...

Smart Home Technology

Information technology and legal professionals talked about the benefits of "smart home"* technologies as well as the potential risks they pose in the areas of security and privacy. * "Smart home" te...

www.c-span.org

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · 13d

Nearly a decade ago, my @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social colleagues and I warned that smart homes were a gigantic attack surface for cyberattacks and malware. And we weren't remotely the first to do so. www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · 13d

Wrote a report about this for the Atlantic Council in 2016! And we weren't even early! www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...

Smart Homes and the Internet of Things

Read the Publication (PDF) The Internet of Things (IoT) is the next step in the evolution of wireless networks. Analysts predict the IoT will double in size to nearly 50 billion devices by 2020, compr...

www.atlanticcouncil.org

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Michèle Champagne @michhham.bsky.social · 27d

Great. “AI” and Big Tech waste billions to rip societies apart (a good investment apparently, as nearly 40 percent of US GDP growth in 2025 comes from AI, which can’t possibly go on forever, or can it) so people buy gold as a “hedge against destruction”.

— via @glindsay.bsky.social

Why Tech Stocks Are Booming While Gold Is Dooming

Welcome to the age of cognitive dissonance investing.

www.bloomberg.com

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · 28d

*chuckles* I’m in danger

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · Oct 6

"You can see the workslop everywhere, except in productivity statistics" — Robert Solow, probably

Michèle Champagne @michhham.bsky.social · Oct 6

Forget competency. Consider pursuing a career as an AI “Workslop” Course-Corrector.

— via @glindsay.bsky.social

Upwork Monthly Hiring Report: Increasing Demand for Skills That Combat AI “Workslop”

Discover key insights from the Upwork Monthly Hiring Report for September 2025. Understand hiring trends, top skills in demand, and which roles are seeing growing demand.

www.upwork.com

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · Oct 6

Any specific cuisines/experiences in mind? And when's the trip? (Winter is coming...)

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Michèle Champagne @michhham.bsky.social · Oct 6

Forget competency. Consider pursuing a career as an AI “Workslop” Course-Corrector.

— via @glindsay.bsky.social

Upwork Monthly Hiring Report: Increasing Demand for Skills That Combat AI “Workslop”

Discover key insights from the Upwork Monthly Hiring Report for September 2025. Understand hiring trends, top skills in demand, and which roles are seeing growing demand.

www.upwork.com

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · Oct 3

Popped in to see how the reactionary urbanists were doing at over newgeography, and the definite article in this headline really said it all for me.

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · Sep 29

Listening to Genesis’ Invisible Touch on my late father’s matte black component stereo is triggering some sort of Gen X primal memory

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · Sep 25

Hey, @parismarx.com, you should totally have her on!

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · Sep 24

I met Paulina on the tour for “Cyberselfish,” cited her in my own book, and never forgot her gimlet-eyed take on the SF scene.

It’s high past time to belatedly recognize her prescient warnings on what Silicon Valley was and what it would become. She was there, she saw it, and no one has any excuse.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · Sep 24

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Greg Lindsay @glindsay.bsky.social · Sep 23

They're doubling down on this. x.com/AJentleson/s...

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