Ivan Monteiro
@ivanmonteiro.bsky.social
I help build long-term value Products.
Ex: Meltwater ▪︎ posts on society, culture, politics, product management + sky photos & the occasional memery ▪︎ views my own except where noted
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-cm
https://ivan-monteiro.medium.com/
Ex: Meltwater ▪︎ posts on society, culture, politics, product management + sky photos & the occasional memery ▪︎ views my own except where noted
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-cm
https://ivan-monteiro.medium.com/
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AI-Enabled Teddy Bear Pulled From Shelves For Giving Advice On BDSM, Where To Find Knives https://theonion.com/ai-enabled-teddy-bear-pulled-from-shelves-for-giving-advice-on-bdsm-where-to-find-knives/
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
AI-Enabled Teddy Bear Pulled From Shelves For Giving Advice On BDSM, Where To Find Knives https://theonion.com/ai-enabled-teddy-bear-pulled-from-shelves-for-giving-advice-on-bdsm-where-to-find-knives/
"The self-proclaimed techno-utopians in Silicon Valley... have enabled this ruin. They’ve traded reality for profit and prioritized technologies that aren’t just soulless and amoral, but inhuman in the most literal sense of the word."
Now pile industrial amounts of fake AI slop on top of it.
Now pile industrial amounts of fake AI slop on top of it.
I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.
That MAGA Account Might Be a Troll From Pakistan
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
"The self-proclaimed techno-utopians in Silicon Valley... have enabled this ruin. They’ve traded reality for profit and prioritized technologies that aren’t just soulless and amoral, but inhuman in the most literal sense of the word."
Now pile industrial amounts of fake AI slop on top of it.
Now pile industrial amounts of fake AI slop on top of it.
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left
'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that
Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left
'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that
Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
Roll, roll, roll, roll
To thrill my soul
You got to beep-a-gunk-a-chucha
Honk-konk-konk-kadanta
Each-ya-puna-ney-cha
Bap-pa-lula-ni-chao
Pao-pati-cha
Ni-saong-kong
ALLL-RIIIGHT
To thrill my soul
You got to beep-a-gunk-a-chucha
Honk-konk-konk-kadanta
Each-ya-puna-ney-cha
Bap-pa-lula-ni-chao
Pao-pati-cha
Ni-saong-kong
ALLL-RIIIGHT
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 AM
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left
'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that
Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
I take a look at my life and realize there's nothin' left
'Cause I've been blastin' and laughin' so long that
Even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
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What if color harmonies were a continuum? Not fixed rules, and you could glide through them just by interpolating?
November 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
What if color harmonies were a continuum? Not fixed rules, and you could glide through them just by interpolating?
"I ❤️ my job. Great salary, clear path to promotion, supply of cold brew in the office. & even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Mo-Fr, from am-pm, outside work, I’m actually a really good person."
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 21, 2025 at 6:17 AM
"I ❤️ my job. Great salary, clear path to promotion, supply of cold brew in the office. & even though my job requires me to commit sociopathic acts of evil that directly contribute to making the world a measurably worse place from Mo-Fr, from am-pm, outside work, I’m actually a really good person."
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
Ostensibly, the goal would be to develop commercial nuclear reactors to power those massive data centers they want for project stargate. But I just cannot help getting some "vibe-bombing" energy out of the whole thing.
Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman
The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.
futurism.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Ostensibly, the goal would be to develop commercial nuclear reactors to power those massive data centers they want for project stargate. But I just cannot help getting some "vibe-bombing" energy out of the whole thing.
Back in June, Melon Husk said: "We'll use Grok 3.5... to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data."
The goal is editorial control of reality.
The goal is editorial control of reality.
October 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Back in June, Melon Husk said: "We'll use Grok 3.5... to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data."
The goal is editorial control of reality.
The goal is editorial control of reality.
"...as a tech worker, I’ve seen first-hand people’s propensity to believe in things they don’t understand, perhaps specifically because they don’t understand them."
Remember Sterling's corolary of Clarke's3rd law? "Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic."
Remember Sterling's corolary of Clarke's3rd law? "Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic."
"the money is made by making investors believe, not that the product will work, but that individuals and society as a whole can be made to also believe, if they put enough money behind the idea, that a certain type of future is inevitable"
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Tech bros need the world to believe their hype. Here’s an idea – let’s just ignore them | Pip Finkemeyer
Social media didn’t live up to its promises. So why do we think artificial intelligence will be any better?
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"...as a tech worker, I’ve seen first-hand people’s propensity to believe in things they don’t understand, perhaps specifically because they don’t understand them."
Remember Sterling's corolary of Clarke's3rd law? "Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic."
Remember Sterling's corolary of Clarke's3rd law? "Any sufficiently advanced garbage is indistinguishable from magic."
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
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it is my pleasure to report they are indeed mad as fuck on the other site over being blocked and ignored. keep up the excellent work everyone
October 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
it is my pleasure to report they are indeed mad as fuck on the other site over being blocked and ignored. keep up the excellent work everyone
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A helpful explanation of why LLM performance degrades rapidly with increasing context size, and why the *effective* maximum context size is orders of magnitude smaller than the one they sold you.
www.ashisharora.ai/post/the-hid...
www.ashisharora.ai/post/the-hid...
The Hidden Science Behind LLM Token Limits (And How Million-Token Models Actually Work)
Introduction"Why can't I just paste my entire company's documentation into ChatGPT?"If I had a dollar for every time I've heard this question in my two years as a Generative AI consultant, I could pro...
www.ashisharora.ai
October 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
A helpful explanation of why LLM performance degrades rapidly with increasing context size, and why the *effective* maximum context size is orders of magnitude smaller than the one they sold you.
www.ashisharora.ai/post/the-hid...
www.ashisharora.ai/post/the-hid...
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For the avoidance of doubt, this is how the inventor of "vibe coding" actually writes code.
Can we all stop pretending now?
Can we all stop pretending now?
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
For the avoidance of doubt, this is how the inventor of "vibe coding" actually writes code.
Can we all stop pretending now?
Can we all stop pretending now?
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Portable memory devices shrunk both short- and long-term attention. GPS atrophied spatial navigation. AI diminishes cognitive abilities. Not only the things you own end up owning you, they are also eating you up. Do not give away your abilities for convenience sake.
October 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Portable memory devices shrunk both short- and long-term attention. GPS atrophied spatial navigation. AI diminishes cognitive abilities. Not only the things you own end up owning you, they are also eating you up. Do not give away your abilities for convenience sake.
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if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation
shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done
shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done
STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.
VANCE: No, George, I sai--
STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
VANCE: No, George, I sai--
STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
October 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation
shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done
shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done
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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
October 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?
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Gosh, I hope none of these fall into the hands of a dictatorship.
A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...
These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day
You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.
www.pcmag.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Gosh, I hope none of these fall into the hands of a dictatorship.
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We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
Like people, dogs will become loud, annoying and/or aggressive if they are always pent up, have no social circle, and no way to vent.
Amazing work 👏
Amazing work 👏
$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing
IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn
IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn
October 4, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Like people, dogs will become loud, annoying and/or aggressive if they are always pent up, have no social circle, and no way to vent.
Amazing work 👏
Amazing work 👏
80+years ago, Dorothy Thompson hit the nail on the head. It is an inherent lacking that drives people to become — and keeps them — nazis.
"Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them."
"Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them."
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
harpers.org/archive/1941...
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
harpers.org
October 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
80+years ago, Dorothy Thompson hit the nail on the head. It is an inherent lacking that drives people to become — and keeps them — nazis.
"Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them."
"Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed, or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them."