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Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

Example of good slides without AI
youtu.be/kbTQlQWAHec

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 1d

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 1d

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

November 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM

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Laura M. Castro

@lauramcastro.bsky.social

Compartir espazos de divulgación é fantástico: a ilusión de contribuír a democratizar o coñecemento é anecdótica fronte ao aprender doutras colegas igualmente comprometidas.

Da interesante xornada na que estiven hoxe comparto convosco a Henrietta Lacks. Lede! 🤯

pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriet...

November 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 6h

Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"

Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce

Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.

www.cnbc.com

November 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM

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Dr Abeba Birhane

@abeba.bsky.social

yes, i can assure you this is fraudulent research

Boycott Google @eleveneleven11.bsky.social · 8h

Although its very possible this is fraudulent research. Its very hard to tell these days.

Traumatizing AI models by talking about war or violence makes them more anxious | Live Science share.google/3bbGYPSHzQ1k...

Traumatizing AI models by talking about war or violence makes them more anxious

A recent study exposing AI models to carefully designed prompts around trauma revealed they can get anxious, potentially affecting the conversation and having negative impacts on people who use such m...

share.google

November 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

The DHH Problem
tomstu.art/the-dhh-prob...

The DHH Problem

tomstu.art

November 29, 2025 at 8:37 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 10h

team ai hater includes Bong Joon Ho, Guillermo del Toro, Vince Gilligan, the Pope, and me

Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 15h

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

November 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

UTFPR entrou na onda da IA também.
O post no Instagram foi um mega sucesso. Mais de 2000 curtidas.

November 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

A aniversariante do dia é professora Ana Regina.

Para quem ainda não assistiu, aproveite este período de fim de ano, em que tudo fica mais tranquilo e leve, e veja/ouça nossa entrevista com ela no Fronteiras da Engenharia de Software

youtu.be/73akU58d-TY

45: Formação de Recursos Humanos de Excelência, com Ana Regina Cavalcanti da Rocha (COPPE UFRJ)

YouTube video by Fronteiras da Engenharia de Software

youtu.be

November 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

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Peter Ullrich @peterullrich.com · 16h

This AI generator is a bit too realistic 😄

replaceyourboss.ai

November 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

Should the government own all AI Companies?
youtube.com/shorts/7eQIU...

Novelist confronts AI researcher over intellectual property | Janne Teller, Timothy Nguyen

YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

youtube.com

November 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM

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Dwayne Monroe

@cloudquistador.bsky.social

This is a critically important conversation. Both because of the specific topic at hand and also because the story of US meddling in the region shows that socialism didn't fail, it is relentlessly attacked and sabotaged

makcapitalism.bsky.social @makcapitalism.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The Return of Operation Condor (we talk Ecuador, general strike, US-backed narco-military regime lead by Daniel Naboa, & the imperialist revenge against Pink Tide governments)
millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/the-return-o...

November 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

The form of assessment that requires written work to be read outside the classroom by the professor seems to have died out.

November 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

Universities in the US seem to me to have too many students per class and much more pressure to publish than here in Brazil.

November 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 4d

ICYMI: TP&TN's "How to Prevent AI from Making Us Stupid"

Anastasia Berg and @alexispapazoglou.bsky.social discussed #AI and #education, language and intellectual maturity, the spectre of cognitive elitism, and resisting AI.

#philosophy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eZP...

The Philosopher & the News: How to prevent AI from making us stupid? Anastasia Berg & A. Papazoglou

YouTube video by The Philosopher

www.youtube.com

November 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d

people are angry that chatbots are being thrust on them; that the industry is unregulated; that it’s deskilling young people; is being used as a weapon against labor and popular gAI is built on theft of the work of millions of artists and authors.

You don’t get to demand civility.

John F Wu @jwuphysics.bsky.social · 3d

Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...

November 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

Você usa o RefactorEx?
#ElixirLang
open.spotify.com/episode/60tc...

RefactorEx: Refatoração em Elixir, com Gabriel Pereira

Spotify video

open.spotify.com

November 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

Next year, in my introductory programming course:

- more paper-based activities
- more programming in Portuguese (using some of the Design Líquido languages)
- final practical project in C

November 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

One of the best uses of image-generating AI, according to a Brazilian podcaster: generating an infographic of your career from the PDF of your CV that LinkedIn generates.

Do we really need to see this?

November 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

Are torrents more ecological than streaming services?

Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 1d

Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt

As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use

simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...

In June 2025 Sam Altman claimed about ChatGPT that "the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours".

In March 2020 George Kamiya of the International Energy Agency estimated that "streaming a Netflix video in 2019 typically consumed 0.12-0.24kWh of electricity per hour" - that's 240 watt-hours per hour at the higher end.

Assuming that higher end, a ChatGPT prompt by Sam Altman's estimate uses:

0.34 Wh / (240 Wh / 3600 seconds) = 5.1 seconds of Netflix

Or double that, 10.2 seconds, if you take the lower end of the Netflix estimate instead.

I'm always interested in anything that can help contextualize a number like "0.34 watt-hours" - I think this comparison to Netflix is a neat way of doing that.

This is evidently not the whole story with regards to AI energy usage - training costs, data center buildout costs and the ongoing fierce competition between the providers all add up to a very significant carbon footprint for the AI industry as a whole.

November 29, 2025 at 9:39 AM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io · 1d

Devemos programar em português? Projeto Design Líquido, com Leonel Sanches
open.spotify.com/episode/3R54...

Devemos programar em português? Projeto Design Líquido, com Leonel Sanches

Spotify video

open.spotify.com

November 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io · 1d

Devemos programar em português? Projeto Design Líquido, com Leonel Sanches
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kai-...

Devemos programar em português? Projeto Design Líquido, com Leonel Sanches

YouTube video by Adolfo Neto

www.youtube.com

November 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM

Adolfo Neto

@adolfont.github.io

"Estimado Cliente,

El motivo de esta comunicación es informarle de que, como probablemente ya sabe, lamentablemente en Iberia Líneas Aéreas de España hemos detectado un incidente de seguridad relacionado con un acceso no autorizado a los sistemas de un proveedor de Iberia, que ha ..."

November 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM