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não necessariamente gata, mas esquerda @sergiosampaiomulhe.bsky.social · 3d

Essa é uma postagem da página "diário de Ceilândia".
Pra quem não sabe, na Ceilândia é onde fica a 2° maior favela da América latina, o sol nascente. Tem 350k de habitantes, em sua imensa maioria, pobres.
A Ceilândia é um caso clássico onde o Estado só aparece pra reprimir, e muitas vezes nem isso.

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Glaze and Nightshade @theglazeproject.bsky.social · 5d

Heather's new TED talk on AI and human identity, is now online.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJZ...

How artists can protect their work from AI | Dr. Heather Zheng | TEDxChicago

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Humanista @humanistaufrgs.bsky.social · 5d

Avanço de empreendimentos de alto padrão transforma o espaço urbano e reforça a segregação social na capital gaúcha, reduzindo os espaços de convivência entre os cidadãos de diferentes classes. www.ufrgs.br/humanista/20...

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Eduardo Martins dos Santos @edunonsense.bsky.social · 5d

Às vezes surge uma foto que me faz querer mudar todo o meu jeito de me vestir.

Robert Redford caminhando em um parque vestindo um blazer de lã com a lapela erguida, luvas pretas e calças jeans.

Eduardo Martins dos Santos @edunonsense.bsky.social · 10d

He said he doesn't want his name in a list of people who want to join ICE

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Eduardo Martins dos Santos @edunonsense.bsky.social · 11d

The cover art for the video game PaRappa the Rapper, showing an anthropomorphic cartoon dog wearing a red beanie, a light blue tank top, baggy blue jeans and red sneakers. In the background there are several other anthropomorphic animals and plants.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 20d

I'm just like a large language model in that I've read everything on the internet and it's made me effectively useless

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · Sep 29

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Satanic Manic @killhamster.bsky.social · Sep 28

Nature is healing

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Sep 26

It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · Sep 26

"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

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Eduardo Martins dos Santos @edunonsense.bsky.social · Sep 25

Tá acontecendo, gurizada!

www.youtube.com/live/JJmc_L4...

AO VIVO E COM IMAGENS! RED BULL BUILDING DROP | ge tv

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · Sep 13

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

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Eduardo Martins dos Santos @edunonsense.bsky.social · Sep 10

Que maldade, gente. É só um cara normal com uma linha do cabelo que muda de lugar o tempo todo.

Eduardo Martins dos Santos @edunonsense.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hell yeah!

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linhadotrem @linhadotrem.bsky.social · Sep 2

Léo é também assinante do nosso catarse e recebe 20 tiras por mês por 5 reais catarse.me/linhadotrem

quadro 1 - "Esse aqui é o Léo, aquele amigo músico que falei", diz Uma moça está abraçada num homem cabeludo e barbudo de boina, o apresentando para outra pessoa. O homem diz "Ultimamente tenho me dedicado mais ao desenho"

Quadro 2 - O Léo agora está numa noitada, no meio de várias pessoas. "que bom que você veio" diz ele para outro homem, que responde "adoro seu stand up". "Mas hoje vou ser DJ", rebate o Léo

Quadro 3 - Léo agora está diante de um microfone em uma mesa e diz: "Fala galera, começando mais um podcast! Vou falar sobre minha experiência com tattoo"

último quadro - Ele agora está abraçado numa garrafinha cujo rótulo tem a cara dele, cabeludo, barbado e de boina. "Minha cerveja artesanal", diz. Texto: "Da Vinci hoje seria qualquer um"

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Sally Beaumont- Voice Actor & Game Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social · Sep 2

Reminder: if you are worried about AI replacing you as an artist: don’t use AI voices,
If you don’t want composing to be handed over to AI: don’t use it to write text.
You get the idea.

If you value your job: protect others jobs too.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · Sep 2

i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat

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Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice

tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist

original post: www.tumblr.com/chiptrillino...

Screenshot of tumblr text post by fourohfourlifenotfound August 24 part 1/3:

"If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens.
And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage.
So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here).
The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time."

Text post part 2/3:

"The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content.
Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself.
This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now."

Text post part 3/3:

"How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging.
But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them. "

Response by drtanner:

"Blocking TERFs and other assorted bigots is especially effective on bsky, because the block function there is nuclear. In short, if you block someone, not only can they not view your account or any of your posts, but any replies they made on your posts will no longer be viewable by others, even if they haven't personally blocked that user themselves. If they quote you, you can even decouple your post from their quote. In short, blocking someone on bsky produces mutual hiding of content, and it's extremely effective at starving these cunts of oxygen. Bigots who can't convince people to fight with them and whose posts don't gain any traction because they're blocked by everyone and their dog leave the platform, i.e. Jesse Singal.
It works, people just need to remember to do it more. Preemptive blocking of dickheads before they start shit with you is the best way to prevent things like this from happening. "

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ceej @ceej.online · Aug 30

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

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Eduardo Martins dos Santos @edunonsense.bsky.social · Aug 17

Same, Chakotay. Same.

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Eduardo Martins dos Santos @edunonsense.bsky.social · Aug 14

Too often is that I'm at a bar and I want a cup of coffee.

Eduardo Martins dos Santos @edunonsense.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hear hear!

Eduardo Martins dos Santos @edunonsense.bsky.social · Aug 10

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The 1990s Final Boss!

YouTube video by Air Dolphin

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Aug 9

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

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Eduardo Martins dos Santos @edunonsense.bsky.social · Aug 2

Now add paternity to that.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Feb 19

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped?

I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry.

Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto.

It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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