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  "url": "https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/117009214458255732",
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  "text": "RE: https:// mastodon.social/@hannorein/116 993738619160318 So... after naively asking @ hannorein earlier in the week for advice on someone for the first time asking me for vibe-coding review (because it relates to a paper we're working on that's *almost done*), I've now been asked two more times this week by two different people to provide an "expert scientist" review for AI-vibe-coded output. This future sucks.",
  "author": "sundogplanets",
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  "posted_at": "2026-07-30T13:42:01.797Z",
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  "author_name": "Prof. Sam Lawler"
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  "url": "https://glammr.us/@overholt/117008797474566619",
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  "text": "From the website of the company that’s destroying books to feed them into the ravenous AI maw. “A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information. Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an AI model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated. The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one.” https://www. news.com.au/technology/online/ internet/ai-labs-buy-scan-shred-millions-of-rare-books/news-story/0c3b45a67093ab462a587a0348538ce9",
  "author": "[email protected]",
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  "posted_at": "2026-07-30T11:55:59.000Z",
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  "author_name": "John Overholt"
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{
  "url": "https://toot.cafe/@baldur/117008796047741659",
  "rank": 12,
  "text": "Starting to see posts and videos from dev/UX people along the lines of \"AI works really well but for completely unrelated reasons I now hate my job, am feeling lost and burned out, and am planning to leave the industry\" Too bad nobody tried to warn them and got repeatedly ignored or dismissed /s 🤷‍♂️",
  "author": "[email protected]",
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  "platform": "mastodon",
  "posted_at": "2026-07-30T11:55:37.000Z",
  "status_id": "117008796708961093",
  "favourites": 77,
  "author_name": "Baldur Bjarnason"
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{
  "url": "https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/117009152995499282",
  "rank": 4,
  "text": "Secret Panel HERE 😩✨ https:// patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts /ultimate-128285610",
  "author": "MrLovenstein",
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  "replies": 1,
  "platform": "mastodon",
  "posted_at": "2026-07-30T13:26:23.950Z",
  "status_id": "117009152995499282",
  "favourites": 49,
  "author_name": "J. L. Westover"
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{
  "url": "https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/117009020284446712",
  "rank": 18,
  "text": "With \"surveillance pricing,\" businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https:// pluralistic.net/2026/07/30/pay -for-privacy/#ab2654 1/",
  "author": "[email protected]",
  "boosts": 30,
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  "platform": "mastodon",
  "posted_at": "2026-07-30T12:52:38.000Z",
  "status_id": "117009020725259604",
  "favourites": 17,
  "author_name": "Cory Doctorow"
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{
  "url": "https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3mrufr45qzc24",
  "rank": 15,
  "text": "😕🤷🏼",
  "author": "[email protected]",
  "boosts": 32,
  "replies": 2,
  "platform": "mastodon",
  "posted_at": "2026-07-30T12:08:30.207Z",
  "status_id": "117008849387348349",
  "favourites": 8,
  "author_name": "The Tennessee Holler "
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{
  "url": "https://mastodon.xyz/@johl/117008901249823844",
  "rank": 10,
  "text": "Dear Fediverse, please help me out! I‘m desperately looking for an # OpenSourceHardware company/project (maybe selling their products through crowdfunding or their own webshop) that would like to talk to me or care for an email interview for a journalistic article. Do you know anyone who‘d fit? I already have something from MNT Research in Berlin, but I need more! Help!",
  "author": "[email protected]",
  "boosts": 43,
  "replies": 9,
  "platform": "mastodon",
  "posted_at": "2026-07-30T12:22:22.000Z",
  "status_id": "117008901412996060",
  "favourites": 6,
  "author_name": "Jens Ohlig"
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{
  "url": "https://haunted.computer/@Dio9sys/117008841837117019",
  "rank": 14,
  "text": "sometimes I say \"no worries!\" when I am at least 33% worries",
  "author": "[email protected]",
  "boosts": 26,
  "replies": 4,
  "platform": "mastodon",
  "posted_at": "2026-07-30T12:07:16.000Z",
  "status_id": "117008842144603780",
  "favourites": 32,
  "author_name": "Dio9sys"
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{
  "url": "https://mastodon.social/@randahl/117008692674662930",
  "rank": 18,
  "text": "For everyone who remembers how Trump thought COVID could be cured by injecting bleach, it was a blessing that Anthony Fauci brought in a scientific perspective during the pandemic. But in Trump land where the history must be rewritten if the wannabe king commands it, senators have now brought Fauci in for questioning, so they can shame him for trying to save a nation in spite of Trump's efforts to just let people die. https:// youtu.be/9x5q9JDsddA?si=biKCov rjlnloh8PO",
  "author": "randahl",
  "boosts": 14,
  "replies": 4,
  "platform": "mastodon",
  "posted_at": "2026-07-30T11:29:20.009Z",
  "status_id": "117008692674662930",
  "favourites": 20,
  "author_name": "Randahl Fink"
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{
  "url": "https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117008826452715874",
  "rank": 19,
  "text": "Oh my. A trusted source who enabled Google's new AI feature for Gmail just received this nudge from the service today, which encouraged him as part of his suggested to-dos list to fall for a cryptocurrency scam waiting in his inbox. IDK why, but when I saw this I was reminded of that Seinfeld episode where Kramer gets a new phone number but it's the old Moviephone number, and so he starts answering the phone and reading the listings. \"Why don't you just tell me what scams to click?\" https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=XagGEi_n_ok",
  "author": "[email protected]",
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  "platform": "mastodon",
  "posted_at": "2026-07-30T12:03:21.000Z",
  "status_id": "117008826771530653",
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  "author_name": "BrianKrebs"
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