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Jurgis Kirsakmens

@xjki.bsky.social

Serial procrastinator and indie app developer. https://drinkcontrol.app https://landlordy.app Tech&indie stuff at https://mastodon.social/@xjki #nobot #noindex

323 Followers  |  127 Following  |  190 Posts  |  Joined: 15.08.2023
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We started with every app bundling full web browser inside, then every app started to add small (multi-gig) LLM, now it's linux image with LibreOffice inside.

This is the year of Linux on (your) desktop - in your ~/LibraryApplication Suport/Claude folder.

08.03.2026 19:04 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

So let me get this straight ...

1. US bombs Iran
2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate
3. Russia gives Iran targeting info
4. Oil price shoots WAY up
5. US unsanctions Russian oil

06.03.2026 22:10 — 👍 4735    🔁 1804    💬 210    📌 127
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A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another.

We are doomed: https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

05.03.2026 18:05 — 👍 7    🔁 62    💬 3    📌 9
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Kolēģu rūpīgi lolotais projekts iziet tautās!
eztf.lu.lv/par-mums/zin...
Lieto palīgu fizikas apguvei - un padod draugam, ja noder!

03.03.2026 16:06 — 👍 36    🔁 16    💬 4    📌 0

So operation "epic fury" is a "major combat operation" but is too limited in scope to be called a war, and a "special military operation" is not an invasion but a retreat during it is a "goodwill gesture".

The post truth age has become the post satire era.

03.03.2026 08:26 — 👍 1165    🔁 228    💬 33    📌 9

Sašustpratība :))

02.03.2026 15:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's what you said when Russia attacked Ukraine?

28.02.2026 10:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Number of Russia-linked hybrid attacks in Europe has increased sharply since mid-2025, ICCT and GLOBSEC report The International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) and the GLOBSEC policy think tank have updated their report on Russia’s so-called “crime-terror nexus” in Europe

Number of Russia-linked hybrid attacks in Europe has increased sharply since mid-2025, ICCT and GLOBSEC report

Poland remains the most affected country, with 31 incidents on its territory, followed by France (20), Lithuania (15), and Germany (15).

26.02.2026 14:48 — 👍 17    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1
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Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-department-of-war

26.02.2026 22:36 — 👍 125    🔁 38    💬 11    📌 31

Skatos, ka arī Latviju ar sasniegusi ne ar ko nepamatotā centristu cīņa par galēji labējiem vēlētājiem.

27.02.2026 07:10 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Alice in adult-land: Nomma Zarubina admits to collaborating with the FSB and involvement in prostitution On Feb. 19, Nomma Zarubina agreed to a plea bargain. The Russian national, who was arrested in the United States in late 2024, pleaded guilty to giving false testimony about her cooperation with Russi...

Alice in adult-land: Nomma Zarubina admits to collaborating with the FSB and involvement in prostitution

@dobrokhotov.bsky.social and @christogrozev.bsky.social detail the Russian national's path from sex worker to agent tasked with seducing opposition figures and infiltrating think tanks.

26.02.2026 08:29 — 👍 22    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1
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Upura sindroms lielā mērā kavē Latgales attīstību. Saruna ar ekonomistu Pēteri Strautiņu "Latgalē ļoti daudz kas ir atkarīgs no elites, un elitei ir jāmaina domāšanas veids. Tai Latgales elites daļai, ar kuru man ir nācies saskarties, mierināt un skaidrot, ka viņi nav pamesti un nolemti,....

Šodien LSM atklāj savu jauno Latgales redakciju. Un šai sakarā - ļoti interesanta @pstrautins.bsky.social intervija par to, kas tur notiek. www.lsm.lv/raksts/dzive...

26.02.2026 07:12 — 👍 13    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Joprojām domāju, ka tech gigantu lobija aktivitātes Latvijā (Valaiņa photo opps ar uzņēmumu pārstāvjiem, neko par tech nezinošo citu LV politiķu izmantošana, lai runātu par abstraktām "inovācijām" u.c.) būtu ļoti auglīgs un svarīgs lauks mūsu pētnieciskajai žurnālistikai.

25.02.2026 13:15 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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And fantastic scenes in Georgia tonight.

1000s took to the streets of Tbilisi again (Day 454), with the theme support for Ukraine, including a rousing rendition of "Oi u luzi chervona kalyna" (Oh, the Red Viburnum in the Meadow)
#SlavaUkraïni

24.02.2026 23:06 — 👍 88    🔁 37    💬 3    📌 1
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Nekrīti izmisumā. Vēstule zinātniekam, kura dzimtenei Krievija uzbruks nākamajai viņi centīsies tev atrast drošu vietu sistēmā. šī drošā vieta būs “personīgais stāsts”

Slava Ukrainai, tās varoņiem un varonēm, šodien un katru dienu.

Darjas teksts kā atgādinājums, ka katram roka jāpieliek Ukrainas atbalstam. Lai šī vēstule nebūtu rakstīta mums.

www.punctummagazine.lv/2024/01/08/n...

24.02.2026 12:34 — 👍 15    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
DO NOT DESPAIR — darya tsymbalyuk [you can watch the recording from ASEEES 2023 Presidential Planery: Decolonization in Practice (2023)  here]  DO NOT DESPAIR a letter to a scholar...

It feels important and almost urgent to re-share the text by Darya Tsymbalyuk today. "DO NOT DESPAIR. A letter to a scholar whose homeland will be attacked by Russia next."

Glory to Ukraine, its heroes and heroines today and all the days to come. daryatsymbalyuk.com/DO-NOT-DESPAIR

24.02.2026 12:28 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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The defining face of the first day of the full-scale invasion is Ukrainian marine Vitalii Skakun.

He heroically sacrificed his life by blowing up a bridge in Henichesk to slow the advancing Russian columns.

24.02.2026 13:05 — 👍 2512    🔁 563    💬 58    📌 27
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cant.stop.laughing

24.02.2026 06:18 — 👍 2855    🔁 872    💬 14    📌 19
S13 E02: Epstein Files & Twitter: 2/22/26: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight S13 E02: Epstein Files & Twitter: 2/22/26: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

What twitter should be?
youtu.be/-_4s56ewrnM?...

23.02.2026 18:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What comes next:
"This was oddly poetic, as perhaps the only example in this entire saga of agents doing a favor for the soon-to-be-displaced white collar workers. When they ended up as delivery drivers, at least half their earnings weren’t going to Uber and DoorDash. Of course, this favor from […]

23.02.2026 08:08 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Color Memory Game — How well do you remember colors? We show you a series of colors. You try to recreate them from memory. Challenge your friends to beat your score. It's harder than you think.

Do you have functioning eyes?
https://dialed.gg/
https://dialed.gg/

22.02.2026 08:32 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

This was very interesting conversation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9aGC6Ui3eE

21.02.2026 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Remember these two infantry guys from Ukraine's 93rd Mechanised?

They defended their position near Kostyantynivka for 130 days and nights without rest, and in the end, they even got back with a Russian POW with them.

Photos of their return from the trenches
went viral around the world.

19.02.2026 12:26 — 👍 692    🔁 137    💬 15    📌 11
Article: The political effects of X’s feed algorithm

Abstract: Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

Article: The political effects of X’s feed algorithm Abstract: Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects1. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk’s platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users’ feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

Figure 2. ITT estimates of feed-setting changes on engagement and political attitudes. ITT effect estimates of switching the algorithm on and off (in s.d.). Left, effect of moving from the chronological to the algorithmic feed for users initially on the chronological feed. Right, effect of moving in the opposite direction for users initially on the algorithmic feed. For each outcome, the results of two specifications are reported. Blue, unconditional estimates with robust s.e., controlling only for the initial feed setting and, where applicable, pre-treatment outcome levels. Orange: conditional estimates, controlling for pre-treatment covariates using GRFs; 90% and 95% CIs are reported. Numerical effect sizes and P values correspond to the conditional estimates (all tests are two-sided). The unit of observation is respondent. From top to bottom, sample sizes are n = 4,965, n = 3,337, n = 4,965, n = 4,965, n = 4,596, n = 4,596 and n = 4,850. Tests are described in Methods. Supplementary Information Table 2.16 reports the exact numerical point estimates, s.e., CIs and sample sizes for every specification. All outcomes are standardized. Additional results are presented in Supplementary Information section 2. PCA, first principal component from principal component analysis.

Figure 2. ITT estimates of feed-setting changes on engagement and political attitudes. ITT effect estimates of switching the algorithm on and off (in s.d.). Left, effect of moving from the chronological to the algorithmic feed for users initially on the chronological feed. Right, effect of moving in the opposite direction for users initially on the algorithmic feed. For each outcome, the results of two specifications are reported. Blue, unconditional estimates with robust s.e., controlling only for the initial feed setting and, where applicable, pre-treatment outcome levels. Orange: conditional estimates, controlling for pre-treatment covariates using GRFs; 90% and 95% CIs are reported. Numerical effect sizes and P values correspond to the conditional estimates (all tests are two-sided). The unit of observation is respondent. From top to bottom, sample sizes are n = 4,965, n = 3,337, n = 4,965, n = 4,965, n = 4,596, n = 4,596 and n = 4,850. Tests are described in Methods. Supplementary Information Table 2.16 reports the exact numerical point estimates, s.e., CIs and sample sizes for every specification. All outcomes are standardized. Additional results are presented in Supplementary Information section 2. PCA, first principal component from principal component analysis.

X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

18.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 1881    🔁 729    💬 30    📌 87
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Suppliers of death: The Insider identifies another 160 companies making purchases on behalf of the Russian military The United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom face two main difficulties when imposing sanctions aimed at disrupting Russia’s military production. First, it is not always clear which g...

Suppliers of death: The Insider identifies another 160 companies making purchases on behalf of the Russian military

If these were all to be added to sanctions lists at the same time, it could deal a serious blow to Russia’s military production.

18.02.2026 10:25 — 👍 47    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 2

On reward hacking, cheating and evil models https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvMMZLYoDr4

17.02.2026 22:21 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Independence Day "Lithuania"! Here is a picture of you peacefully leaving Russia in 1991, for which you don’t show enough gratitude.

Russia is the leading provider of European independence days.

16.02.2026 19:29 — 👍 588    🔁 136    💬 10    📌 5

Folderi?

16.02.2026 18:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ukraine’s War of Endurance The fight for advantage in the conflict’s fifth year.

Happy to share the latest. My views on the current battlefield dynamics and where the war stands in 2026. Happy to share the latest. www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukrai...

16.02.2026 14:54 — 👍 152    🔁 29    💬 6    📌 4

❗❗ PALANTIR IS SUING US❗❗ Because of our reporting on the #SwissPalantirFiles.

More specifically, #Palantir is suing #RepublikMagazine, with whom we (@adfichter.bsky.social, Lorenz Naegeli, Jennifer Steiner,Balz Oertli & me) published our major investigation in collab with #WAVRecherchekollektiv

12.02.2026 11:53 — 👍 171    🔁 101    💬 4    📌 11