Ricardo J. Méndez
@ricardo.bsky.social
Privacy, decentralization, anti-fascism, sometimes crypto stuff.
Career CTO working on strategy and investments now.
https://numergent.com/
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
https://ger.mx/AxZ_orTzLdEBPyklSWqbSKOUNQ8Oz68iaC2A1Hyhu2Cm#did:plc:cf6futaebyc2k4wgzsr4v42k
Career CTO working on strategy and investments now.
https://numergent.com/
I'm on Germ DM 🔑
https://ger.mx/AxZ_orTzLdEBPyklSWqbSKOUNQ8Oz68iaC2A1Hyhu2Cm#did:plc:cf6futaebyc2k4wgzsr4v42k
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Ricardo J. Méndez
@ricardo.bsky.social
· Sep 19
I am a little less optimistic: I strongly suspect the current institutions are mostly incapable of dealing with this new approach, and we may quickly - globally - end up with something unrecognizable.
numergent.com/2025-09/Fast...
numergent.com/2025-09/Fast...
Building Better Social panel at #MozFest with @tessa.germnetwork.com, Mari Zumbro from Filament, and Jad Esber from Koodos.
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Building Better Social panel at #MozFest with @tessa.germnetwork.com, Mari Zumbro from Filament, and Jad Esber from Koodos.
Human-equivalent intelligence, exhibit N+1.
Microsoft Gave AI Agents Fake Money to Buy Things Online. They Spent It All on Scams decrypt.co/347709/mi...
November 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Human-equivalent intelligence, exhibit N+1.
If you see this, post egg.
November 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
If you see this, post egg.
I will sadly have to miss it, due to a conflict I can’t work around, so I’ve released my spot.
Sorry I can’t make it - seems like the place to be if you are in the EU and building on ATProto!
Sorry I can’t make it - seems like the place to be if you are in the EU and building on ATProto!
Our agenda for Eurosky Live is now... live! We're very excited about it. Check it out here www.eurosky.social/eurosky-live
We have a few spaces left, sign up here luma.com/knk1342n
If you can't be there in person you can join the live stream, sign up here smokesignal.events/did:plc:ooen...
We have a few spaces left, sign up here luma.com/knk1342n
If you can't be there in person you can join the live stream, sign up here smokesignal.events/did:plc:ooen...
Eurosky Live - 19 November, Berlin — eurosky
Our first Eurosky Live conference will take place in Berlin on 19 November 2025. The conference will explore the open social web and how Eurosky’s digital building blocks could power 'Trusted European...
www.eurosky.social
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I will sadly have to miss it, due to a conflict I can’t work around, so I’ve released my spot.
Sorry I can’t make it - seems like the place to be if you are in the EU and building on ATProto!
Sorry I can’t make it - seems like the place to be if you are in the EU and building on ATProto!
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Apple, sadly, got complacent and lazy once it felt safe in its monopoly.
(Even if people like to blame Jobs’ passing for their decline)
It’s time they got a proper shake-up. Behemoths need the fear of god put into them every now and then.
(Even if people like to blame Jobs’ passing for their decline)
It’s time they got a proper shake-up. Behemoths need the fear of god put into them every now and then.
Gruber saying extraordinary truths about Apple's losing strategy of thumbing its nose at regulators over the App Store daringfireball.net/2025/10/appl...
Apple Loses Landmark U.K. Lawsuit Over App Store Commissions
The best time to adjust the rules of the App Store — its exclusivity on app distribution for the entire iOS platform, the exclusivity of Apple’s IAP for purchasing digital content, the commission perc...
daringfireball.net
November 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Apple, sadly, got complacent and lazy once it felt safe in its monopoly.
(Even if people like to blame Jobs’ passing for their decline)
It’s time they got a proper shake-up. Behemoths need the fear of god put into them every now and then.
(Even if people like to blame Jobs’ passing for their decline)
It’s time they got a proper shake-up. Behemoths need the fear of god put into them every now and then.
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if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong
June 8, 2023 at 1:42 PM
if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong
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Let's all allow Dick Cheney's peaceful passing at the ripe old age of 84 to remind us of the importance and joy of speaking ill of the dead when the dead were assholes.
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Let's all allow Dick Cheney's peaceful passing at the ripe old age of 84 to remind us of the importance and joy of speaking ill of the dead when the dead were assholes.
A while back I remarked how surprised I was that the best political coverage was coming out of @rollingstone.com and @teenvogue.com
Guess this solves that problem for the government, while further pushing their white-first worldview.
Way to go, USA.
Guess this solves that problem for the government, while further pushing their white-first worldview.
Way to go, USA.
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A while back I remarked how surprised I was that the best political coverage was coming out of @rollingstone.com and @teenvogue.com
Guess this solves that problem for the government, while further pushing their white-first worldview.
Way to go, USA.
Guess this solves that problem for the government, while further pushing their white-first worldview.
Way to go, USA.
This is coming 4-5 days after they announced signing “letters of engagement with various reputable firms” to handle their proof of reserves.
That’s gotta be a crypto speedrun record.
That’s gotta be a crypto speedrun record.
🔴 NEW: Stream Finance halts withdrawals after $93M loss, xUSD depegs 75% protos.com/stream-finan...
Stream Finance halts withdrawals after $93M loss, xUSD depegs 75%
DeFi platform Stream Finance has halted deposits and withdrawals in response to the loss of $93M of “Stream fund assets.”
protos.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is coming 4-5 days after they announced signing “letters of engagement with various reputable firms” to handle their proof of reserves.
That’s gotta be a crypto speedrun record.
That’s gotta be a crypto speedrun record.
Accountability or bust. Always.
Like I've said a thousand times, create tools for accountability against moderators.
November 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Accountability or bust. Always.
Interesting @openvibe.social bug: Signed up to test it with one Bluesky account, logged off, signed in with a different account; and I am getting notifications from the first account.
November 2, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Interesting @openvibe.social bug: Signed up to test it with one Bluesky account, logged off, signed in with a different account; and I am getting notifications from the first account.
OK, wall-to-wall baseball posting does have some upside, even for a baseball-illiterate.
November 2, 2025 at 8:52 AM
OK, wall-to-wall baseball posting does have some upside, even for a baseball-illiterate.
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Le Printemps, by Pierre-Auguste Cot, 1873, 📸 by @bellikemike.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Le Printemps, by Pierre-Auguste Cot, 1873, 📸 by @bellikemike.bsky.social
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it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
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Happy Halloween, 80s kids!
October 31, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Happy Halloween, 80s kids!
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the American AI Lab investor thesis is that you should give them infinite $$$$, because whoever has more GPUs is going to dominate the market for AI products, which will be huge.
making the budget 10x smaller proves that THIS IS NOT TRUE. most of the money being burned on GPU is basically waste.
making the budget 10x smaller proves that THIS IS NOT TRUE. most of the money being burned on GPU is basically waste.
October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
the American AI Lab investor thesis is that you should give them infinite $$$$, because whoever has more GPUs is going to dominate the market for AI products, which will be huge.
making the budget 10x smaller proves that THIS IS NOT TRUE. most of the money being burned on GPU is basically waste.
making the budget 10x smaller proves that THIS IS NOT TRUE. most of the money being burned on GPU is basically waste.
I remember when I thought I could get them to.
Good times.
Good times.
remember when computers did what you told them to
October 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I remember when I thought I could get them to.
Good times.
Good times.
Rather high-definition warrant canary, with a fallback case and all.
"So to deal with the threat, officials created a secret warning system: the companies must send signals hidden in payments to the Israeli government, tipping it off when it has disclosed Israeli data to foreign courts or investigators."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Rather high-definition warrant canary, with a fallback case and all.
Infra earnings season.
October 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Infra earnings season.
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Oh hi! You should check these out. Especially that Technical Recruiter role, there...
bsky.social/about/join
bsky.social/about/join
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View open positions at Bluesky
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October 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
October 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families
> mutes most American politics keywords
> feed is wall-to-wall baseball
Time to find more European devs and privacy people to follow.
> feed is wall-to-wall baseball
Time to find more European devs and privacy people to follow.
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 AM
> mutes most American politics keywords
> feed is wall-to-wall baseball
Time to find more European devs and privacy people to follow.
> feed is wall-to-wall baseball
Time to find more European devs and privacy people to follow.
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Happy National Black Cat Day to everyone except this disastrously unprofessional model at the shelter today who would not hold still. 😠
October 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Happy National Black Cat Day to everyone except this disastrously unprofessional model at the shelter today who would not hold still. 😠
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what the fuck?!!!! @kathryntewson.bsky.social, get a load of this, Ed Zitron reps DoNotPay. www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...
Ed Zitron Gets Paid to Love AI. He Also Gets Paid to Hate AI
He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
what the fuck?!!!! @kathryntewson.bsky.social, get a load of this, Ed Zitron reps DoNotPay. www.wired.com/story/ai-pr-...