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David Nemer
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Assoc Prof of Media Studies & Anthropology at the University of Virginia. Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. Anthropology of Tech/STS Books: Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press); Favela Digital (GSA)🇧🇷🇺🇸
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Go Hoosiers!! #1ndiana
December 7, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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We saw a similar situation in Brazil. When X/Twitter was fined & subsequently suspended, it was not an act of censorship; rather, the Supreme Court was enforcing a law passed in 2014- a widely known and long-standing piece of legislation that platforms have been required to follow for over a decade.
daphnek.bsky.social Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 1d
Don't let anyone tell you that the Commission's DSA enforcement against X is about speech or censorship.

That would, indeed, be interesting. But this is just the EU enforcing some normal, boring laws that would get bipartisan support in the U.S. (I bet similar bills *have* had that support.) 1/
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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klonick.bsky.social
Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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🚨 Nova coluna no @theconversation.com

Já te chamaram de "socialista de iPhone"? Saiba que usar um iPhone não contradiz defender justiça social ou um Estado presente. O contraditório é negar o papel público na inovação enquanto se lucra com ela.

Mais detalhes: theconversation.com/o-verdadeiro...
O verdadeiro paradoxo do “socialista de iPhone”
A crítica do “socialista de iPhone” revela menos sobre socialismo e muito mais sobre o desconhecimento de como a inovação realmente acontece
theconversation.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Reposted by David Nemer
leorossatto.bsky.social
Rio de Janeiro riodejaneiring em níveis inéditos www.metropoles.com/colunas/mire...
Presidente da Alerj é preso por vazar informação de operação contra CV
Rodrigo Bacellar, presidente da Assembleia Legislativa do Rio de Janeiro (Alerj), foi preso pela PF por decisão do STF
www.metropoles.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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notasdoinferno.bsky.social
Newsletter já está pronta. No n° de estreia, vocês vão ler um editorial explicando minha história dentro do extremismo e um artigo detalhado, com uma linha do tempo histórica, de como os brasileiros ganharam importância em grupos supremacistas globais. Para assinar:

livepix.gg/notasdoinfer...
Plano Newsletter de Notas do Inferno - LivePix
Contribuição mensal
livepix.gg
December 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Reposted by David Nemer
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Newsletter pronta, só preciso de um grupo de assinantes para começar a disparar
notasdoinferno.bsky.social Notas do Inferno @notasdoinferno.bsky.social · 5d
Newsletter já está pronta. No n° de estreia, vocês vão ler um editorial explicando minha história dentro do extremismo e um artigo detalhado, com uma linha do tempo histórica, de como os brasileiros ganharam importância em grupos supremacistas globais. Para assinar:

livepix.gg/notasdoinfer...
Plano Newsletter de Notas do Inferno - LivePix
Contribuição mensal
livepix.gg
December 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Reposted by David Nemer
shannonmattern.bsky.social
“Not so long ago, the dolts among us were free to think their thoughts quietly to themselves with no easy way to share them… But then we connected everyone on the planet and gave them each the equivalent of their own printing press, radio station, and TV network.”
A Theory of Dumb
What if the cause of Americans’ collective cognitive decline is, simply, each other?
nymag.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Já o antropólogo David Nemer pondera que a pauta moral ainda é a principal “cola identitária” do campo da direita, que reúne grupos dispersos mantidos sob o guarda-chuva de Bolsonaro nas duas últimas eleições.

oglobo.globo.com/politica/not...
Encruzilhada à direita: prisão amplia dúvidas sobre força do bolsonarismo e sucessão nas urnas em 2026
Cientistas políticos e antropólogos que estudam a evolução do fenômeno desde 2018 afirmaram ao GLOBO que a maior privação de liberdade pode afetar o papel de Bolsonaro como cabo eleitoral e fragmentar...
oglobo.globo.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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razzball.bsky.social
Don’t know the reason/the reason
Insider Wire # @InsiderWire #BREAKING: X just paused the account location feature for an unknown reason. Fake accts run the X platform and this one’s pretending to be from Israel but it’s India Fake accts run the X platform and this one’s pretending to be from US but it’s Nigeria Fake accts run the X platform and this one’s pretending to be from US but it’s Bangladesh
November 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Não tem IA no mundo que criaria um vídeo desses. 🤣🤣 O roteirista do Brasil capricha demais.
bicicreta.bsky.social Letícia Oliveira @bicicreta.bsky.social · 14d
O bagulho todo derretido, mas que várzea kkkkk
November 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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E nós aqui, depois de anos estudando e analisando o bolsonarismo, para finalmente constatar o óbvio: a estupidez é mesmo um de seus pilares centrais.
November 22, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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tomphillips.bsky.social
Bolsonaro says he took a soldering iron to his ankle tag out of “curiosity”
karlagamba.bsky.social Karla Gamba @karlagamba.bsky.social · 14d
No momento da troca da tornozeleira eletrônica, Jair Bolsonaro foi questionado sobre pq ela estava tão danificada. Ele responde que, por “curiosidade”, usava o ferro de solda desde a tarde 👇🏾
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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katerqburns.bsky.social
“Things happen” the “things” being an American journalist being dismembered
nbcnews.com NBC News @nbcnews.com · 18d
President Trump on Jamal Khashoggi, who the CIA determined was ordered to be killed by Saudi Crown Prince MBS:

"You're mentioning somebody that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen."
November 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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casmudde.bsky.social
The Chilean contest between a communist and the far right is the feverish wet nightmare dream of all centrists.
November 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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joefore.bsky.social
I have no insider info, but Jim's account plus the recent agreement that DOJ signed w/ UVA suggests, to me, the following theory:

- Key folks at Board of Visitors and/or DOJ (at least two of whom UVA alums) wanted Jim out immediately in Summer '25.

1/
joefore.bsky.social Joe Fore @joefore.bsky.social · 22d
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.

It's a surreal--and troubling--read.

drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Reposted by David Nemer
brianckeegan.com
“This time is different!”
jentrification.com jentrification @jentrification.com · 24d
math!

J.P. Morgan calls out AI spend, says $650 billion in annual revenue required to deliver mere 10% return on AI buildout — equivalent to $35 payment from every iPhone user, or $180 from every Netflix subscriber 'in perpetuity'
J.P. Morgan calls out AI spend, says $650 billion in annual revenue required to deliver mere 10% return on AI buildout — equivalent to $35 payment from every iPhone user, or $180 from every Netflix su...
It's going to be a rollercoaster ride.
www.tomshardware.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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cbs19news.bsky.social CBS19 News: Charlottesville News First @cbs19news.bsky.social · 24d
Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger sent a letter to the UVA Board of Visitors on Wednesday, saying it should wait to pick a new president until after her inauguration in January.
Spanberger tells BOV to pause process to pick new UVA president
Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger says the University of Virginia should wait to pick a new president.
www.cbs19news.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger sent a letter to the UVA Board of Visitors on Wednesday, saying it should wait to pick a new president until after her inauguration in January.
Spanberger tells BOV to pause process to pick new UVA president
Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger says the University of Virginia should wait to pick a new president.
www.cbs19news.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Reposted by David Nemer
shannonmattern.bsky.social
Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" — open access!
Archiving Machines
Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...
mitpress.mit.edu
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Meta projected that 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods — that's $16 BILLION. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day.

www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Reposted by David Nemer
tamigraph.bsky.social
Our new book, Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry, is out today!

Use the code DIGI-WORKERS-HOMIE on the @commonnotions.bsky.social site for a 25% discount
Cover of Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry by the Capacitor Collective
November 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Os tiroteios no Rio geraram também uma avalanche de desinformação nas redes. Vídeos de Gaza, áudios promovendo o caos, imagens antigas e até conteúdo gerado por IA estão circulando como se fossem da operação no Rio. Tem muita gente grande por trás dessa produção. Explico melhor no vídeo 👇🏽
October 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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O Senado americano aprovou a Resolução Conjunta S. J. Res. 81, uma resolução conjunta que encerra o estado de emergência nacional declarado para impor tarifas sobre artigos importados do Brasil. Republicanos que votaram a favor: Collins, McConnell, Murkowski, Paul e Tillis.
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM