Amon Barros

This reads to me as Foucault's idea of the author function.

Demystifying Anthropic and ClaudeAI with Gideon Lewis-Kraus Podcast Episode · Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · March 3 · 1h 1m

Highly recommend this pod on AI where @chrislhayes.bsky.social interviews Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of a big recent New Yorker piece on the subject. Tons of interestng discussion, especially for us ex-philosophy geeks.

Forthwith, a short 🧵

‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’ Del Bigtree, a longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., isn’t just anti-vaccine. He’s pro-infection.

It's as if they understand and accept the facts and/or expert consensus on a given topic but set policy in the opposite direction to annoy the libs.

It's not just ignorance or a lack or knowlege. It's anti-knowlegde.

No, AI is not coming for your developer job, regardless of the nonsense the hype mongers are pushing. (I'm talking just about developer jobs—it obviously impacts other areas.) That's not to say the layoffs aren't real, but rather that the corporations are hiding normal corporate behavior behind
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My secret life as a cat.

In 1953, at Churchill's instigation, and with his assistance, the CIA launched two coups against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the 2nd of which succeeded. Why? Because he rightly sought to nationalise Iran's oil supplies, which the UK was taking: seizing Iran's wealth.

O Banco Master operou a maior fraude de créditos de carbono que se tem conhecimento. Essa história podia servir para afundar o mercado voluntário de carbono.

Polarization and Democracy in Latin America An insightful examination of Latin America’s contemporary democratic landscape and how it is marked by patterns of polarization and volatility. Although Latin American democracies have shown considera...

Happy to share that "Polarization and Democracy in Latin America" is out now with @uchicagopress.bsky.social and available in multiple formats.

If it looks interesting, please consider requesting it at your university library!

Check it out 👇

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Etre contre la guerre en Iran, ce n’est pas être pro-mollahs ou antisémite ! Estimer que l’opération américano-israélienne est une insondable bêtise, c’est aujourd’hui prendre le risque d’être perçu et décrit comme en défense des mollahs. Dans ce débat, violence, outrance et mensonge sont malheureusement de mise.

Thomas Legrand veut rappeler ceci : être contre la guerre en Iran, telle qu’elle a été décidée à Tel-Aviv et à Washington, ce n’est pas être pro-mollahs ou antisémite. La polarisation devient un système de débat, une facilité rhétorique désastreuse.

Son billet :

Alvo da PF, cunhado de Vorcaro doou R$ 5 milhões para Tarcísio e Bolsonaro Pastor Fabiano Zettel, casado com a irmã de Vorcaro, foi o maior doador de campanha, entre pessoas físicas, do governador e do ex-presidente

"Pastor Fabiano Zettel, casado com a irmã de Vorcaro, foi o MAIOR doador de campanha, entre pessoas físicas, do governador e do ex-presidente"

Fabiano Zettel MAIOR doador da campanha de Tarcísio e Bolsonaro em 2022. Repito: MAIOR doador.

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✍️ Ni tristesse, ni joie, ni soulagement : c’est secouée par une émotion indescriptible que la réalisatrice iranienne Sepideh Farsi regarde de loin son pays bombardé. Exilée en France depuis 1984, elle appelle à condamner à la fois cette agression et le gouvernement des mollahs ➡️ bit.ly/40JsQJE

Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

Breaking News: Scientists have been using methods that underestimated how high sea levels already are, a new study found. One result is that hundreds of millions more people are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated.

LOLOL

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

Guys, the Italian unemployment rate has just fallen below the UK's.

China’s Cheap Money Is Shaking $9.5 Trillion Global Loan Market Chinese banks, flush with low-cost funds, are reshaping parts of the global loan market, underscoring how deflationary pressures in the world’s second-largest economy are increasingly influencing comp...

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Very interesting Bloomberg article on one of my favorite topics – how, in a hyperglobalized world (i.e. one with very low transportation, communication, and financial-transaction costs), countries that control their external accounts effectively...
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Todos saúdam Tostex, o Deus ancestral nunca esquecido.

A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart". Horizontal axis categories: Contents purist: Must contain books Contents neutral: Must contain information Contents rebel: Can contain anything Vertical axis categories: Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody Examples represented on the grid: Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library

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Scientists: "Food gives you energy"

Me after eating:

People who moved to the UAE for tax purposes are now, I assume, closely examining a map of the region.

Detesto cartoons que tratam a audiência como inapta.
Antíteses de Laerte.
Encher um cartoon de texto, parece falta de habilidade em expressar com o desenho ou falta de confiança na comunicação com alguma ambiguidade.

Ma vie sans les réseaux sociaux (4/4) : «Je ne sais plus grand-chose de ce qu’il se passe en ligne et je m’en fous (ou presque)» Notre journaliste Loraine Bourget a décidé de se plier à l’exercice du «Off February», un défi qui invite ses participants à supprimer pendant un mois toutes les applications de réseaux sociaux de leur smartphone.

📵 Durant le «Off February», notre journaliste a passé un mois sans réseaux sociaux. Verdict : «Je ne sais plus rien de ce qui se passe en ligne (ou presque), je m’en fous (ou presque) et, mieux encore, ça me plaît (vraiment).»

Now out in the American Sociological Review

We present the first large-scale assessment of the structure and evolution of temporalities expressed in U.S. climate change news coverage (2000 to 2021). For this, we analyzed more than 23,000 statements about climate change effects and actions. 🧵 1/

Labour after Gorton and Denton It wasn't even close. While the pollsters kept coughing up the Gorton and Denton numbers that put the three parties inches from one another,...

"On the occasion of Labour's 126th birthday, Starmer's gift to the party has been a new historic low. One that, on its current trajectory, could be the first of many."

I finally found my spirit animal 🇲🇽💯

Não pode nem fazer comentários em tom jocoso, porque são grandes as chances de um comentário como esse ser o vencedor...

4 panel comic Panel 1: Purple Guy in sweatshirt addresses the reader. He says, “Sure, Twitter has a Nazi problem. But I’m staying to fix it” Panel 2: Purple Guy has gone full on Sitting Backwards On A Chair Mode. The chair has the X logo on it. He is wearing sunglasses and blue jeans. He is talking to some Nazis. He says “Listen Fellas, did you know that being a Nazi…” Panel 3: Close up on Purple Guy lowering his sunglasses for maximum effect. He continues “Is BAD?” Panel 4: The Nazis look flabbergasted by this revelation. They all go “WHUAAA??”

A man with Coprolaliac Tourette’s Syndrome (award-nominated for a film about his disorder) yelling the N-word at Black actors on stage, is an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. A trolley problem for a new era. It’s a Woke 2.0 cosmic test of some kind. Too on the nose to engage with.