Luís António Santos
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Luís António Santos
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Curious. Portuguese. Born in Mozambique. Used to be a journalist. Now a university professor. Into new forms and formats for journalism. And sound production.
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"What does this tell us? Perhaps that Donald Trump is easily distracted; if he was still slamming news outlets daily for using “Gulf of Mexico,” it’s entirely possible newsroom execs would consider the path of least resistance."
www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nine...
Nine months later, that body of water down south is still the “Gulf of Mexico” to news outlets
Since the start of summer, "Gulf of America" has been losing what little popularity it had in newsrooms.
www.niemanlab.org
"The majority of teens (80%) said that professional journalists do not produce information that is “more impartial” than other kinds of content creators online."
About half of the teens surveyed believe that journalists frequently “make up details, such as quotes” and “pay for sources.” More than a third of teens believe journalists could improve by simply “Telling the truth,” “Fact checking,” and “Not lying.” buff.ly/7vgO0ci
“Biased,” “Boring,” “Chaotic,” and “Bad”: A majority of teens hold negative views of news media, report finds
About half of the teens surveyed believe that journalists frequently “make up details, such as quotes” and “pay for sources.”
www.niemanlab.org
Estou curioso para perceber 1) se se fala disto nos média nacionais e, sobretudo, 2) como se fala…
Please do not betray all this faith in change for the common good…
This person took this when they called the race
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“the techno-fascist assault on universities increasingly comes from within. (…) Far from offering genuine solutions, these technologies exacerbate social injustices and corrode the ecosystem of human knowledge.”

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Open access link: archive.ph/ZHGCm
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
'Some of the greatest people I've ever met' 😜
Donald Trump showing his appreciation for his Black soldiers, by Godfrey the comedian.
Data centers are beginning to put intense pressure on America’s electrical grid. Data centers “are perhaps bigger, by an order of magnitude, than anything we’ve connected to the grid before,” an energy executive said.
Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid
A data center, which can use as much electricity as Philadelphia, is the new American factory, creating the future and propping up the economy. How long can this last?
www.newyorker.com
Continuemos a falar da ‘invasão’ de estrangeiros e dos cartazes do coisinho…que estas coisas passam (ainda) mais despercebidas.
"This series is the result of months of interviews with scholars and journalists, including many standards editors in the biggest US newsrooms."
www.cjr.org/new-journali...
Standards and Practices
www.cjr.org
"People are less weird than they used to be. (...) data from every sector of society is pointing strongly in the same direction: we’re in a recession of mischief, a crisis of conventionality, and an epidemic of the mundane. Deviance is on the decline."
www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...
The Decline of Deviance
Where has all the weirdness gone?
www.experimental-history.com
"With his every word and deed, Trump has given Americans reason to believe that he will seek a third term, in defiance of the Constitution. It seems abundantly clear that he will hold on to the office at any cost, including America’s ruin."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
President for Life
Donald Trump is trying to amass the powers of a king.
www.theatlantic.com
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🇫🇷 Emmanuel Macron va lancer mardi un débat autour de l'impact des réseaux sociaux et d'internet sur la "déstructuration" du débat public et la démocratie, dans la perspective des prochaines élections, a annoncé lundi l'Elysée.
“in the past few years, several organizations covering the threats posed by the far-right have closed, downsized, or shifted coverage elsewhere. Our open-source and data-driven approach will help to fill this hole.”
On Monday, former Bellingcat journalist Tristan Lee and open-source researcher Jennefer Harper will launch Decoherence Media, a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right.”
Data journalists start news site to track extremist movements
Decoherence Media is a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right,” co-founder Tristan Lee told Semafor.
www.semafor.com
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
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This is what my AI colleagues should have been doing for long but instead they preferred to ride the hype wave

irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/01/14/s...
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Belgian AI scientists are advocating *against* the use of AI in academia. “If independent thinking is no longer encouraged at university, where would it?” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
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Trump is having a tariff meltdown on Truth Social this morning