Marko Bajlovic

rbreich.bsky.social

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How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

marko.tech

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Silicon Valley Is Coming for the Pentagon’s $1 Trillion Budget

"The more than 50 major defense contractors that existed in 1993 has narrowed to just a handful today — Lockheed, RTX (formerly Raytheon), Northrop, Boeing, General Dynamics and L3Harris." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Zuckerberg has announced that Meta will use AI to create highly effective advertisements that bypass human critical thinking pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/r...

marko.tech

5 days

Zed Editor Settings in 2025

I share my latest @zed.dev IDE settings, which include theme, extensions, linting configurations, overrides, and formatting options. marko.tech/journal/zed-...

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5 days

What is consciousness? | Donald Hoffman and Lex Fridman

Fascinating excerpt on a talk on (multiple) conciousness and its fundamentality in creating space-time and physical structures rather than being a product of them; implying an infinite variety of possible conscious experiences.

60minutes.bsky.social

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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

marko.tech

1 week

just added "like" functionality to articles on the site. give it a slap if you find yourself down at the end of the page ^^

marko.tech

1 week

Using Localized, Offline LLMs with LM Studio

Run your own AI models, on your own computer, no subscriptions, no tracking/analytics, no snitching, and rather customizable: a short introduction marko.tech/journal/usin...

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2 weeks

memecoins are ‘legalized ponzi schemes’

memecoins are legalized ponzi schemes

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Web Browser telemetry - 2025 edition

Is your browser talking to home base too often..? sizeof.cat/post/web-bro...

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Palantir: The New Deep State

Taking over government via the stack...

jasonkoebler.bsky.social

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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it:

www.404media.co/this-college...

marko.tech

3 weeks

CSS Custom Properties vs. Sass Variables: A Pragmatic Guide Always Twisted

When to use SASS variables or CSS custom properties. Well written, logical guide for what to use and when to still use SASS in projects. www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/css...

marko.tech

3 weeks

Steam Calculator and SteamID Finder

See how much you’ve spent on Steam: steamdb.info/calculator/

rebeccawithacause.bsky.social

3 weeks

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This is simultaneously the grossest and most accurate ad I’ve ever seen. #MAGABlowingYourTaxes

marko.tech

3 weeks

Just updated 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 (startyparty.news) with over 175+ new news/publishers/sources

datajournalist.nl

12 weeks

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This is really clever and fun! @paulbutler.org found a way to hide text 'in' an emoji by hacking the way unicode works. paulbutler.org/2025/smuggli...

He also build a tool to encode en decode your own messages. 😎󠅇󠅟󠅧󠄑󠄐󠅃󠅟󠄐󠅩󠅟󠅥󠄐󠅑󠅢󠅕󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅕󠄐󠅓󠅜󠅕󠅦󠅕󠅢󠄐󠅟󠅞󠅕󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅑󠅤󠄐󠅖󠅙󠅗󠅥󠅢󠅕󠅔󠄐󠄹󠄐󠅘󠅙󠅔󠄐󠅑󠄐󠅝󠅕󠅣󠅣󠅑󠅗󠅕󠄐󠅙󠅞󠄐󠅝󠅩󠄐󠄲󠅜󠅥󠅕󠅣󠅛󠅩󠄐󠅠󠅟󠅣󠅤󠄯󠄐󠄻󠅥󠅔󠅟󠄗󠅣󠄐󠅤󠅟󠄐󠅩󠅟󠅥󠄑 emoji-encoder.vercel.app?mode=decode

thetnholler.bsky.social

3 weeks

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This part

marko.tech

3 weeks

RAT WARS, by HEALTH

HEALTH getting experimental and heavy with this album youwillloveeachother.bandcamp.com/album/rat-wa...

georgetakei.bsky.social

3 weeks

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Great. Now I need to inject bleach into my eyes.

marko.tech

3 weeks

Senate hears Meta dangled US data in bid to enter China

“Facebook's former director of global public policy told a Senate committee that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was willing to do almost anything to get the social network into China - including, she alleged, offering up Americans' data.”

www.theregister.com/2025/04/11/m...

acyn.bsky.social

4 weeks

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Sanders: We look to these law firms who have hundreds of well-paid lawyers to defend the constitution, to defend the rule of law. They were more interested in getting millions of dollars from their lobbying.. They should be ashamed of themselves.

makenakelly.bsky.social

4 weeks

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woke up with the burning question of how secure Coca Cola Freestyle machines are and I'm sad to report that they come with facial recognition-ready cameras

neillewisjr.bsky.social

4 weeks

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I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten. senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...

marko.tech

4 weeks

"The politics of Clearview’s founders aligned more closely with those of the rioters. Almost a year after the insurrection, Peter Duke, the founders’ neoreactionary ally, hosted Stop the Steal ringleader Ali Alexander on his podcast to push a conspiracy theory..."

marko.tech

4 weeks

"...they were “building algorithms to ID all the illegal immigrants for the deportation squads.” Now, the company had found a willing partner in ICE, which has a history of racial and religious profiling, violating constitutional rights, and invasive data gathering and surveillance."

marko.tech

4 weeks

"Clearview had compiled a massive biometric database that would eventually contain billions of images the company scraped off the internet and social media without the knowledge of the platforms or their users. Its AI analyzed these images, creating a “faceprint” for every individual."

marko.tech

4 weeks

The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI

This is why when traveling to US, if you're a citizen, always decline those camera face scans at ports of entry. They're not advertised as optional, but are. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

marko.tech

4 weeks

marko bajlovic

Social

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

Silicon Valley Is Coming for the Pentagon’s $1 Trillion Budget

Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again) (07 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Zed Editor Settings in 2025

What is consciousness? | Donald Hoffman and Lex Fridman

just added "like" functionality to articles on the site. give it a slap if you find yourself down at the end of the page ^^

Using Localized, Offline LLMs with LM Studio

memecoins are ‘legalized ponzi schemes’

Web Browser telemetry - 2025 edition

Palantir: The New Deep State

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

CSS Custom Properties vs. Sass Variables: A Pragmatic Guide Always Twisted

Steam Calculator and SteamID Finder

RAT WARS, by HEALTH

Senate hears Meta dangled US data in bid to enter China

I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten. senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...

"The politics of Clearview’s founders aligned more closely with those of the rioters. Almost a year after the insurrection, Peter Duke, the founders’ neoreactionary ally, hosted Stop the Steal ringleader Ali Alexander on his podcast to push a conspiracy theory..."

"...they were “building algorithms to ID all the illegal immigrants for the deportation squads.” Now, the company had found a willing partner in ICE, which has a history of racial and religious profiling, violating constitutional rights, and invasive data gathering and surveillance."

"Clearview had compiled a massive biometric database that would eventually contain billions of images the company scraped off the internet and social media without the knowledge of the platforms or their users. Its AI analyzed these images, creating a “faceprint” for every individual."

The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI