Paula Simoes
@paulasimoes.bsky.social
My blog: https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/
Mastodon: @paulasimoes.ciberlandia.pt
Digital Humanities; Public Domain; Open Access; History, Heritage, Creativity & New Media, Free & Open Source Software. Books 📚
Mastodon: @paulasimoes.ciberlandia.pt
Digital Humanities; Public Domain; Open Access; History, Heritage, Creativity & New Media, Free & Open Source Software. Books 📚
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Amanhã! 😎
A Summit da Web que interessa.
Uma conversa sobre as redes nos dias atuais: das plataformas das Big Techs aos nossos direitos digitais, até às formas alternativas de conectar em rede.
eventos.coletivos.org/event/abando...
Uma conversa sobre as redes nos dias atuais: das plataformas das Big Techs aos nossos direitos digitais, até às formas alternativas de conectar em rede.
eventos.coletivos.org/event/abando...
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Amanhã! 😎
O impacto negativo da verificação de idade no software livre. A ler⏬
Das Thema #Alterverifikation ist gerade in aller Munde. Egal ob #Chatkontrolle JMStv oder #OSB. Überall werden direkte Forderungen nach Altersverifikation laut
2022 habe ich bei @netzpolitik_feed aufgeschrieben was das für Open-Source Projekte bedeuten könnte.
netzpolitik.org/2022/chatkon...
2022 habe ich bei @netzpolitik_feed aufgeschrieben was das für Open-Source Projekte bedeuten könnte.
netzpolitik.org/2022/chatkon...
Chatkontrolle: Akute Gefahr für offene Software
Dass die Chatkontrolle dramatische Folgen für unser aller Grundrechte hätte, ist inzwischen allenthalben bekannt. Dass ihre Einführung aber auch die Open-Source-Community hart treffen würde, wird hing...
netzpolitik.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
O impacto negativo da verificação de idade no software livre. A ler⏬
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“You must sometime fight it out or perish”
Dr. Luella Axtel's book Grow Thin on Good Food offered sensible diet-and-exercise advice ahead of its time.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/27/y...
#books #PublicDomainDayCountdown
Dr. Luella Axtel's book Grow Thin on Good Food offered sensible diet-and-exercise advice ahead of its time.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/27/y...
#books #PublicDomainDayCountdown
November 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
“You must sometime fight it out or perish”
Dr. Luella Axtel's book Grow Thin on Good Food offered sensible diet-and-exercise advice ahead of its time.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/27/y...
#books #PublicDomainDayCountdown
Dr. Luella Axtel's book Grow Thin on Good Food offered sensible diet-and-exercise advice ahead of its time.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/27/y...
#books #PublicDomainDayCountdown
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Why buy stuff you don’t need? This #blackfriday, consider supporting individuals, companies, and organisations that contribute to #freesoftware (aka #opensource), like us 😉 https://fsfe.org/donate
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Why buy stuff you don’t need? This #blackfriday, consider supporting individuals, companies, and organisations that contribute to #freesoftware (aka #opensource), like us 😉 https://fsfe.org/donate
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"A majority of Europeans agree: in a survey, 83 per cent of EU citizens said they want union busters like Amazon to be excluded from public contracts." #MakeAmazonPay
www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-dig...
www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-dig...
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"A majority of Europeans agree: in a survey, 83 per cent of EU citizens said they want union busters like Amazon to be excluded from public contracts." #MakeAmazonPay
www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-dig...
www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-dig...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Finally got around to sticking some of my Agatha telly stuff on YouTube, so here's a playlist for anyone desperate to see me chat with Alan Carr, Lucy Worsley, Anita Rani and Alan Titchmarsh. What a party that would be! #AgathaChristie
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Mark Aldridge on Agatha Christie - YouTube
youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Finally got around to sticking some of my Agatha telly stuff on YouTube, so here's a playlist for anyone desperate to see me chat with Alan Carr, Lucy Worsley, Anita Rani and Alan Titchmarsh. What a party that would be! #AgathaChristie
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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A página em branco ficou assim, toda em doirados, na edição de aniversário do Ípsilon.
Ah, isto não é o LinkdIn, pois não?
Ah, isto não é o LinkdIn, pois não?
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A página em branco ficou assim, toda em doirados, na edição de aniversário do Ípsilon.
Ah, isto não é o LinkdIn, pois não?
Ah, isto não é o LinkdIn, pois não?
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“there is something in this which refuses the sentimentality of most ghost stories”
Dr @anneelliot.bsky.social sees Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary” as a Scottish #gothic response to Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
#BookologyThursday
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/m...
Dr @anneelliot.bsky.social sees Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary” as a Scottish #gothic response to Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
#BookologyThursday
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/m...
Margaret Oliphant’s Old Lady Mary — a reply to Dickens’s Christmas Carol
From the first Christmas special in Downton Abbey, Maggie Smith as the Dowager Duchess, another old lady (from Downton Abbey, Christmas special closing Season 2, referred to below) Friends and read…
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“there is something in this which refuses the sentimentality of most ghost stories”
Dr @anneelliot.bsky.social sees Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary” as a Scottish #gothic response to Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
#BookologyThursday
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/m...
Dr @anneelliot.bsky.social sees Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary” as a Scottish #gothic response to Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
#BookologyThursday
reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/m...
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You can download a free digital version of Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen” from @gutenberg.org
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10049
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10049
Old Lady Mary: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Mrs. Oliphant
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
www.gutenberg.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:57 PM
You can download a free digital version of Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen” from @gutenberg.org
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10049
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10049
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🎉 noyb WIN: The French DPA has fined Conde Nast €750.000 for placing cookies on its Vanity Fair website without consent! The sanction follows a series of noyb complaints from 2019 (!).
The decision: www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-p...
noyb's original complaints: noyb.eu/en/say-no-co...
The decision: www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-p...
noyb's original complaints: noyb.eu/en/say-no-co...
Cookies placed without consent: the company that publishes the website “vanityfair.fr” fined 750,000 euros by the CNIL
Background information The company LES PUBLICATIONS CONDE NAST publishes printed and online magazines, including the magazine Vanity Fair. In December 2019, the CNIL received a public complaint from t...
www.cnil.fr
November 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🎉 noyb WIN: The French DPA has fined Conde Nast €750.000 for placing cookies on its Vanity Fair website without consent! The sanction follows a series of noyb complaints from 2019 (!).
The decision: www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-p...
noyb's original complaints: noyb.eu/en/say-no-co...
The decision: www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-p...
noyb's original complaints: noyb.eu/en/say-no-co...
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OMNIBUS I found in breach of EU law as it departed from basic procedural guarantees such as public consultation.
This @ombudsman.europa.eu recommendation carries important implications for omnibuses to come and the whole simplification agenda www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/recommend...
This @ombudsman.europa.eu recommendation carries important implications for omnibuses to come and the whole simplification agenda www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/recommend...
Recommendation on the European Commission’s compliance with ‘Better Regulation’ rules and other procedural requirements in preparing legislative proposals that it considered to be urgent (983/2025/MAS...
The three cases concern how the European Commission applied its ‘Better Regulation’ rules and other procedural requirements when preparing legislative pro...
www.ombudsman.europa.eu
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 AM
OMNIBUS I found in breach of EU law as it departed from basic procedural guarantees such as public consultation.
This @ombudsman.europa.eu recommendation carries important implications for omnibuses to come and the whole simplification agenda www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/recommend...
This @ombudsman.europa.eu recommendation carries important implications for omnibuses to come and the whole simplification agenda www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/recommend...
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Can AI be ethical and transparent? At READ-COOP, the unique European cooperative behind Transkribus, we prioritise democratic control and purpose over profit.
Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:
blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...
Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:
blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...
Melissa Terras on why cooperatives are the future of AI
Discover why Melissa Terras believes cooperatives like READ-COOP represent the future of AI, fostering community-driven, sustainable technological innovation.
blog.transkribus.org
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Can AI be ethical and transparent? At READ-COOP, the unique European cooperative behind Transkribus, we prioritise democratic control and purpose over profit.
Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:
blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...
Read Melissa Terras' (@melissaterras.bsky.social) thoughts on why this model is a global blueprint:
blog.transkribus.org/en/melissa-t...
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Tech can be complicated, but we've got some clear answers to frequently asked questions about the devices you use every day. www.digitalrightsbytes.org/
Welcome to Digital Rights Bytes
Digital Rights Bytes
www.digitalrightsbytes.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Tech can be complicated, but we've got some clear answers to frequently asked questions about the devices you use every day. www.digitalrightsbytes.org/
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A Summit da Web que interessa.
Uma conversa sobre as redes nos dias atuais: das plataformas das Big Techs aos nossos direitos digitais, até às formas alternativas de conectar em rede.
eventos.coletivos.org/event/abando...
Uma conversa sobre as redes nos dias atuais: das plataformas das Big Techs aos nossos direitos digitais, até às formas alternativas de conectar em rede.
eventos.coletivos.org/event/abando...
November 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A Summit da Web que interessa.
Uma conversa sobre as redes nos dias atuais: das plataformas das Big Techs aos nossos direitos digitais, até às formas alternativas de conectar em rede.
eventos.coletivos.org/event/abando...
Uma conversa sobre as redes nos dias atuais: das plataformas das Big Techs aos nossos direitos digitais, até às formas alternativas de conectar em rede.
eventos.coletivos.org/event/abando...
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Belgian unions are escalating to a historic three-day general strike in a final showdown with the right-wing government, aiming to stop the most significant rollback of the country's strong welfare state and workers' rights since the post-war era.
In Belgium, Labor and the Government Face a Showdown
Belgian unions are escalating to a historic three-day general strike in a final showdown with the right-wing government, aiming to stop the most significant rollback of the country's strong welfare…
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November 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Belgian unions are escalating to a historic three-day general strike in a final showdown with the right-wing government, aiming to stop the most significant rollback of the country's strong welfare state and workers' rights since the post-war era.
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Our November newsletter is out, featuring:
🔸 Our new study on navigating legal uncertainty in European museums
🔸 ERA Act and DFA consultations
🔸 Our contribution to a @verfassungsblog.de series on the DKA
Read now🧐: mailchi.mp/communia-ass...
Sign up📝: eepurl.com/g8TTvT
🔸 Our new study on navigating legal uncertainty in European museums
🔸 ERA Act and DFA consultations
🔸 Our contribution to a @verfassungsblog.de series on the DKA
Read now🧐: mailchi.mp/communia-ass...
Sign up📝: eepurl.com/g8TTvT
November 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Our November newsletter is out, featuring:
🔸 Our new study on navigating legal uncertainty in European museums
🔸 ERA Act and DFA consultations
🔸 Our contribution to a @verfassungsblog.de series on the DKA
Read now🧐: mailchi.mp/communia-ass...
Sign up📝: eepurl.com/g8TTvT
🔸 Our new study on navigating legal uncertainty in European museums
🔸 ERA Act and DFA consultations
🔸 Our contribution to a @verfassungsblog.de series on the DKA
Read now🧐: mailchi.mp/communia-ass...
Sign up📝: eepurl.com/g8TTvT
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Um grande obrigada a todos os que lutaram pela segurança de todos neste passo do processo. Sigam-nos nas várias plataformas porque o #ChatControl ainda não acabou e em breve poderemos ter de nos mobilizar novamente.
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Um grande obrigada a todos os que lutaram pela segurança de todos neste passo do processo. Sigam-nos nas várias plataformas porque o #ChatControl ainda não acabou e em breve poderemos ter de nos mobilizar novamente.
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A aprovação no Conselho significa que os trílogos podem começar: reuniões entre o Conselho e o Parlamento, na presença da Comissão Europeia. É importante que os legisladores garantam que o texto final remova os problemas que ainda existem e que atacam a segurança e privacidade dos cidadãos.
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
A aprovação no Conselho significa que os trílogos podem começar: reuniões entre o Conselho e o Parlamento, na presença da Comissão Europeia. É importante que os legisladores garantam que o texto final remova os problemas que ainda existem e que atacam a segurança e privacidade dos cidadãos.
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Apesar deste ser o melhor que se poderia esperar do Conselho, o texto mantém problemas como a monitorização voluntária das comunicações e a verificação da idade (que são também atentados à privacidade de todos).
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Apesar deste ser o melhor que se poderia esperar do Conselho, o texto mantém problemas como a monitorização voluntária das comunicações e a verificação da idade (que são também atentados à privacidade de todos).
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Atualização #ChatControl: A votação final no Conselho da União Europeia foi hoje. O texto aprovado *não tem* a obrigação das plataformas de monitorizar as comunicações, o que é positivo 👏
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Atualização #ChatControl: A votação final no Conselho da União Europeia foi hoje. O texto aprovado *não tem* a obrigação das plataformas de monitorizar as comunicações, o que é positivo 👏
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A mesma invenção que espalhou conhecimento e alfabetização também serviu para difundir preconceito, polarização e violência, especialmente contra as mulheres. A história da imprensa é também a história de como a tecnologia pode amplificar tanto o progresso como o medo.
🔗 shifter.pt/2025/10/impr...
🔗 shifter.pt/2025/10/impr...
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A mesma invenção que espalhou conhecimento e alfabetização também serviu para difundir preconceito, polarização e violência, especialmente contra as mulheres. A história da imprensa é também a história de como a tecnologia pode amplificar tanto o progresso como o medo.
🔗 shifter.pt/2025/10/impr...
🔗 shifter.pt/2025/10/impr...
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"A história dos julgamentos de bruxas mostra claramente o que acontece quando a propaganda misógina alimentada pela tecnologia fica fora de controlo."
"Como a imprensa desencadeou a mortífera caça às bruxas na Europa" 🔗 shifter.pt/2025/10/impr...
"Como a imprensa desencadeou a mortífera caça às bruxas na Europa" 🔗 shifter.pt/2025/10/impr...
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"A história dos julgamentos de bruxas mostra claramente o que acontece quando a propaganda misógina alimentada pela tecnologia fica fora de controlo."
"Como a imprensa desencadeou a mortífera caça às bruxas na Europa" 🔗 shifter.pt/2025/10/impr...
"Como a imprensa desencadeou a mortífera caça às bruxas na Europa" 🔗 shifter.pt/2025/10/impr...
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Another brilliant essay from @eryk.bsky.social, this time he writes the history of ChatGPT against the backdrop of mass loneliness and social distance. This history is still unfolding and the signs are not encouraging for where we are headed.
What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Another brilliant essay from @eryk.bsky.social, this time he writes the history of ChatGPT against the backdrop of mass loneliness and social distance. This history is still unfolding and the signs are not encouraging for where we are headed.
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Mil milhões por ano!
Já se justificava uma descida do IRC 🤗
Já se justificava uma descida do IRC 🤗
Portugal perde 2,9 milhões por dia com fuga aos impostos das multinacionais
Portugal perde 2,9 milhões de euros por dia em impostos não cobrados às multinacionais, que utilizam estratégias mais diversas para não pagar Imposto sobre o Rendimento de Pessoas Coletivas (IRC). Seg...
www.jn.pt
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Mil milhões por ano!
Já se justificava uma descida do IRC 🤗
Já se justificava uma descida do IRC 🤗