Michele Mauro
@michelemauro.bsky.social
Passionate developer, sometimes professor, sometimes international speaker. Java, Kotlin, Scala (not much 😑). Browncoat, Kitsune🦊, he/him.
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Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" is the result of the world bowing before the global rampage of the US-Israel Axis. Once again, the Palestinian people are being offered as sacrifices, and along with them, the entire global system of international law.
January 22, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" is the result of the world bowing before the global rampage of the US-Israel Axis. Once again, the Palestinian people are being offered as sacrifices, and along with them, the entire global system of international law.
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Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
January 21, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
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I picked a hell of a week to visit Europe, and Switzerland, at that.l I’ve spent three days at an international gathering, and, Americans: everybody else is deep into planning a post-US world. We are only worth considering as an opponent. New alliances are being formed. We are being left behind.
January 21, 2026 at 6:35 PM
I picked a hell of a week to visit Europe, and Switzerland, at that.l I’ve spent three days at an international gathering, and, Americans: everybody else is deep into planning a post-US world. We are only worth considering as an opponent. New alliances are being formed. We are being left behind.
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It's incredibly disheartening to go to a former employer's site to find stories you've written from 10-15 years ago and they're just ... not there.
Years of journalism, of records, of knowledge, gone.
This is the modern equivalent to the collapse and destruction of the Library of Alexandria.
Years of journalism, of records, of knowledge, gone.
This is the modern equivalent to the collapse and destruction of the Library of Alexandria.
January 21, 2026 at 11:18 PM
It's incredibly disheartening to go to a former employer's site to find stories you've written from 10-15 years ago and they're just ... not there.
Years of journalism, of records, of knowledge, gone.
This is the modern equivalent to the collapse and destruction of the Library of Alexandria.
Years of journalism, of records, of knowledge, gone.
This is the modern equivalent to the collapse and destruction of the Library of Alexandria.
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News flash: MIT rediscovers coupling and cohesion and the idea of a well-structured distribution of responsibilities.
This sounds like it meshes very closely with an idea I had about "atomic development", which I keep meaning to write up, as well as possibly this one - news.mit.edu/2025/mit-res...
MIT researchers propose a new model for legible, modular software
A new MIT CSAIL approach breaks software systems into “concepts,” or individual pieces designed to do one job, and “synchronizations,” or explicit rules that describe how those pieces fit together. Th...
news.mit.edu
December 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
News flash: MIT rediscovers coupling and cohesion and the idea of a well-structured distribution of responsibilities.
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OpenAI's new "Education for Countries" program, which "will work with governments and university consortia to bring AI into education systems", is based on, well, a farcically self-serving understanding of "the history of technology" and an even worse view of education 🤢 openai.com/index/edu-fo...
January 21, 2026 at 7:23 PM
OpenAI's new "Education for Countries" program, which "will work with governments and university consortia to bring AI into education systems", is based on, well, a farcically self-serving understanding of "the history of technology" and an even worse view of education 🤢 openai.com/index/edu-fo...
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Si fa quel che si può…
January 21, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Si fa quel che si può…
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OTD in 2021 European Court of Human Rights found Russia guilty of ethnic cleansing of Georgian civilians in 2008 war & widespread, deliberate
-Killing of civilians
-Torture
-Burnings
-Evictions
i.e. “crimes against humanity".
Imagine EU leaders knowing this & still appeasing us
-Killing of civilians
-Torture
-Burnings
-Evictions
i.e. “crimes against humanity".
Imagine EU leaders knowing this & still appeasing us
January 21, 2026 at 10:44 AM
OTD in 2021 European Court of Human Rights found Russia guilty of ethnic cleansing of Georgian civilians in 2008 war & widespread, deliberate
-Killing of civilians
-Torture
-Burnings
-Evictions
i.e. “crimes against humanity".
Imagine EU leaders knowing this & still appeasing us
-Killing of civilians
-Torture
-Burnings
-Evictions
i.e. “crimes against humanity".
Imagine EU leaders knowing this & still appeasing us
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Thanks for making this video @taylorlorenz.bsky.social lets hope people listen and not accuse you of "calling everything you disagree with eugenics" and such as they did me and @xriskology.bsky.social 🙄
I don't know how much evidence people need.
I don't know how much evidence people need.
I made a deep dive video into the TESCREAL ideology shaping Silicon Valley’s biggest companies and the AI arms race, and how a shocking number of tech billionaires are pro-human extinction
Tech Billionaires Want Us Dead
YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz
youtu.be
January 20, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Thanks for making this video @taylorlorenz.bsky.social lets hope people listen and not accuse you of "calling everything you disagree with eugenics" and such as they did me and @xriskology.bsky.social 🙄
I don't know how much evidence people need.
I don't know how much evidence people need.
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I want the world to listen.
What russia is doing now by attacking Ukraine’s energy and heating infrastructure in the middle of winter is an attempt to break us, to make us give up and to erase us as a nation.
But no.
We stand.
It’s cold. It’s dark.
We are not heroes.
We stand.
What russia is doing now by attacking Ukraine’s energy and heating infrastructure in the middle of winter is an attempt to break us, to make us give up and to erase us as a nation.
But no.
We stand.
It’s cold. It’s dark.
We are not heroes.
We stand.
January 20, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I want the world to listen.
What russia is doing now by attacking Ukraine’s energy and heating infrastructure in the middle of winter is an attempt to break us, to make us give up and to erase us as a nation.
But no.
We stand.
It’s cold. It’s dark.
We are not heroes.
We stand.
What russia is doing now by attacking Ukraine’s energy and heating infrastructure in the middle of winter is an attempt to break us, to make us give up and to erase us as a nation.
But no.
We stand.
It’s cold. It’s dark.
We are not heroes.
We stand.
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The inevitability of AI is now under threat from no one wanting to use it.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:14 PM
The inevitability of AI is now under threat from no one wanting to use it.
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Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
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Il mondo si sta piano piano dimenticando dell'Ucraina. A Kyiv, la gente continua a morire, questa volta anche di freddo.
Il gelo come arma di sterminio: la strategia russa contro la popolazione ucraina
di Claudia Bettiol
www.valigiablu.it/kyiv-al-gelo... via @valigiablu.it
Il gelo come arma di sterminio: la strategia russa contro la popolazione ucraina
di Claudia Bettiol
www.valigiablu.it/kyiv-al-gelo... via @valigiablu.it
Il gelo come arma di sterminio: la strategia russa contro la popolazione ucraina - Valigia Blu
Mentre l’attenzione globale si sposta su nuove crisi internazionali, l’Ucraina entra nel suo quarto anno di guerra affrontando l'inverno più rigido dal 2022. La sistematica distruzione russa delle inf...
www.valigiablu.it
January 20, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Il mondo si sta piano piano dimenticando dell'Ucraina. A Kyiv, la gente continua a morire, questa volta anche di freddo.
Il gelo come arma di sterminio: la strategia russa contro la popolazione ucraina
di Claudia Bettiol
www.valigiablu.it/kyiv-al-gelo... via @valigiablu.it
Il gelo come arma di sterminio: la strategia russa contro la popolazione ucraina
di Claudia Bettiol
www.valigiablu.it/kyiv-al-gelo... via @valigiablu.it
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I have met toddlers more capable of emotional regulation
Breaking News: President Trump told Norway’s prime minister that one reason he’s pushing to acquire Greenland is because he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Denied Peace Prize, Trump Tells Norway He’ll Push for Greenland
In a text message, President Trump told Norway’s prime minister he no longer felt obliged to “think purely of Peace” and that the world would not be secure until America controlled the island.
nyti.ms
January 19, 2026 at 1:30 PM
I have met toddlers more capable of emotional regulation
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“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women…”
- says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman
- says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman
January 17, 2026 at 8:58 AM
“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women…”
- says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman
- says guy who happily took the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman
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“If we conflate the richness of biological brains & human experience with the information-processing machinations of deepfake-boosted chatbots, or whatever the latest AI wizardry is, we do our minds, brains & bodies a grave injustice.”
— @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize
— @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize
The Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMA
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.
www.noemamag.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:45 PM
“If we conflate the richness of biological brains & human experience with the information-processing machinations of deepfake-boosted chatbots, or whatever the latest AI wizardry is, we do our minds, brains & bodies a grave injustice.”
— @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize
— @anilseth.bsky.social, winner of @berggruen.org Essay Prize
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A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 3:24 PM
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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Just saw a content-theft account reposted by someone here. A tip: if their bio says something like, “if you own the original, DM me,” you can tell they are happy to steal, mislead, and profit off other people’s work (and don’t want to be called out about it in public). Personally, I block on sight.
January 11, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Just saw a content-theft account reposted by someone here. A tip: if their bio says something like, “if you own the original, DM me,” you can tell they are happy to steal, mislead, and profit off other people’s work (and don’t want to be called out about it in public). Personally, I block on sight.
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I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.
Now only paying subscribers can make violent non-consenual sexual imagery of women and children -
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery
X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory action
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:17 AM
I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.
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January 9, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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Tomorrow we are going to have USA and Iran each telling the other to stop shooting citizens who protest.
January 8, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Tomorrow we are going to have USA and Iran each telling the other to stop shooting citizens who protest.
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Billionaire ideology is so funny.
There are guys alive right now who had $2 billion in 2010, and have like $50 billion today, who somehow think that the entire economy will collapse if we tax them $1 billion out of the $50 billion.
There are guys alive right now who had $2 billion in 2010, and have like $50 billion today, who somehow think that the entire economy will collapse if we tax them $1 billion out of the $50 billion.
January 8, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Billionaire ideology is so funny.
There are guys alive right now who had $2 billion in 2010, and have like $50 billion today, who somehow think that the entire economy will collapse if we tax them $1 billion out of the $50 billion.
There are guys alive right now who had $2 billion in 2010, and have like $50 billion today, who somehow think that the entire economy will collapse if we tax them $1 billion out of the $50 billion.
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I ran “train the trainer” on warehouse tech. And driver tech.
It would horrify the average person, and you’d never cut off a truck again because causing them to brake can lose them wages. As can yawning.
Also the 1619 project linked this tech to how plantation slavery worked.
Horrid. All of it.
It would horrify the average person, and you’d never cut off a truck again because causing them to brake can lose them wages. As can yawning.
Also the 1619 project linked this tech to how plantation slavery worked.
Horrid. All of it.
The article also discusses our report, written by former Amazon delivery driver Adrienne Williams, @alexhanna.bsky.social and Sandra L. Barcenas Fuerte, detailing the extent of Amazon's worker surveillance & wage theft through that surveillance.
www.dair-institute.org/projects/dri....
www.dair-institute.org/projects/dri....
Worker Surveillance and Wage Theft
How algorithmic management and workplace surveillance allows corporations to steal wages, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
www.dair-institute.org
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
I ran “train the trainer” on warehouse tech. And driver tech.
It would horrify the average person, and you’d never cut off a truck again because causing them to brake can lose them wages. As can yawning.
Also the 1619 project linked this tech to how plantation slavery worked.
Horrid. All of it.
It would horrify the average person, and you’d never cut off a truck again because causing them to brake can lose them wages. As can yawning.
Also the 1619 project linked this tech to how plantation slavery worked.
Horrid. All of it.
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The new year brought some unexpected news: I've been impacted by a restructure at Broadcom.
Now open to new opportunities as a Senior/Staff Java Developer (remote from Madrid).
Happy to connect if there’s a potential fit.
👉🏼 www.linkedin.com/in/ivanlopez...
#OpenToWork #Java #RemoteJobs
Now open to new opportunities as a Senior/Staff Java Developer (remote from Madrid).
Happy to connect if there’s a potential fit.
👉🏼 www.linkedin.com/in/ivanlopez...
#OpenToWork #Java #RemoteJobs
January 7, 2026 at 10:03 AM
The new year brought some unexpected news: I've been impacted by a restructure at Broadcom.
Now open to new opportunities as a Senior/Staff Java Developer (remote from Madrid).
Happy to connect if there’s a potential fit.
👉🏼 www.linkedin.com/in/ivanlopez...
#OpenToWork #Java #RemoteJobs
Now open to new opportunities as a Senior/Staff Java Developer (remote from Madrid).
Happy to connect if there’s a potential fit.
👉🏼 www.linkedin.com/in/ivanlopez...
#OpenToWork #Java #RemoteJobs
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7 months ago today HRW reported Russian army is committing war crimes in Kherson, deliberately hunting civilians with drones in "human safaris".
Is it possible that only caring about certain war crimes is a bad idea?
Is it possible that only caring about certain war crimes is a bad idea?
January 3, 2026 at 2:38 PM
7 months ago today HRW reported Russian army is committing war crimes in Kherson, deliberately hunting civilians with drones in "human safaris".
Is it possible that only caring about certain war crimes is a bad idea?
Is it possible that only caring about certain war crimes is a bad idea?