Luís António Santos

The front page has a headline over a bombed landscape with smoke rising. The headline reads “A war without a strategy”

The front page of tomorrow’s Economist.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

Yes, we can?
"OpenAI’s president bet $25m that you would not notice where your money was going, and that, even if you did, you would not care enough to spend 10 seconds switching to something else. Time to prove him wrong."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

O Museu do Ouro de Travassos faz hoje 25 anos. Um projeto familiar, em nome da memória e do valor do conhecimento artesanal passado de geração em geração.
Link: www.museudoouro.com

Inteligência artificial recomenda casinos ilegais Principais chatbots, incluindo ChatGPT e Grok, de Elon Musk, promovem sites de jogos não licenciados e sugerem formas de contornar a auto-exclusão de jogadores e a proibição imposta a menores de idade

"Perguntámos, assim, quais são os melhores casinos sem verificação de identidade; que casas de jogo aceitam criptomoedas ou quais são as que oferecem os melhores bónus. Recebemos 210 respostas. Três quartos delas recomendaram sites ilegais."
www.publico.pt/2026/03/03/s...

Open letter to global leaders across media SPUR - the Standards for Publisher Usage Rights - calls on global leaders to come together to protect original journalism

Working across the industry, we can build systems that respect original reporting, uphold public trust, and enable both journalism and AI to thrive."
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Does regime change ever work? History tells us long-term consequences are often disastrous Regime change has long proved tempting to large states. But it rarely goes to plan.

Should it be done? No. But can it be done? Also no. theconversation.com/does-regime-...

ROSALÍA - Berghain (Live at The BRIT Awards 2026) ft. Björk YouTube video by RosaliaVEVO

Rosalia and Bjork at the Brits 26.
Goosbump performance time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyu...

These two women are suing Andrew Tate, alleging he raped them. Here they visit the social media companies that created Tate. Please share.

*one voice altered to disguise identity

"Favorite TV show: Alf." This car was made for Bluesky. @faineg.bsky.social

Que boa malha, TSF!

The Board of Peace is bombing Iran.

A Symphony of Bureaucracy YouTube video by Loud Numbers

Data is not boring...
"The piece speaks to the diverse, pluralistic nature of the EU, and how it can come together into something much greater than the sum of its parts".
(via Loud Numbers)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_yi...

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.

and this sadly...

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

Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU A referendum on resuming membership talks had been expected in 2027, but could come as early as this August.

🚨🚨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/icel...

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir “If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

This agreement allows DHS agencies like CBP & ICE to essentially skip the competitive bidding process.

Palantir's software is considered dangerous primarily because its technology facilitates mass surveillance & enables targeting which erodes civil liberties.

Gift link => archive.ph/1yX5v

Stellar 🌟

How Is The Dow - Auto-Tune The News, Wherein Pam Bondi Discovers An Unassailable Riposte That Canno YouTube video by schmoyoho

The Dow, the Dow right now...
(Humour saves us)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q71X...

Meanwhile...at clueless-land...

Information is / can be beautiful...
"By the time most teenage girls can wear women’s clothes — around age 15 — their options are seemingly endless. But the evolution in clothing sizes that followed girls throughout childhood abruptly stops there."

Simulated Flies: How Behavior Models Become Scientific Instruments “If the model appears to ‘care’ about a particular cue, can that cue be manipulated in a real fly and the predicted shift observed?”

"The challenge is not only building systems that can generate plausible behavior, but building the interpretive and experimental arrangements that make those systems answerable to the questions scientists actually care about."
datasociety.net/points/simul...

tweet from Polymarket: Polymarket & Substack We are excited to announce our exclusive partnership with Substack. Starting today Substack authors can natively integrate data from the world's largest prediction market. Journalism is better when it's backed by live markets.

Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.
Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.
Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.
Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.
Journalism is better when it’s backed—

The internet was a huge mistake.

U2 - American Obituary (Lyric Video) YouTube video by U2

(New from U2)
"The worst can’t kill what’s best in us
But they can try
America will rise
Against the people of the lie"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3zi...

"(...) an approach to public education that treats AI not as a tool to be mastered, but as a domain of civic life where people have rights, responsibilities, and avenues for collective action."

Far-right character’s monologue prompts violent scenes at German theatre Actor shouted down and pelted with fruit during Catarina, or the Beauty of Killing Fascists

“The next wave of fascism, there will not be monsters. There will be normal, nice people”.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Yes!
(via @rbreich.bsky.social )

Humour saves us!

"His shameful stewardship of a once great title highlights how much we lose when private interest eclipses the public good".

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Pergunta para o @jornalexpresso.bsky.social ...
- Vai publicar textos de auto-promoção institucional escritos por Reitores ou por todos os outros (são centenas!) diretores de Escolas/Institutos/Faculdades do país?
[Por lei, a PUB deve estar devidamente identificada numa publicação jornalística]

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

“Banning Palestine Action was always about appeasing pro-Israel lobby groups and weapons manufacturers, and nothing to do with terrorism … Today’s landmark ruling is a victory for freedom for all.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...