Jonats / Aventureiro

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This is a reminder to try playing Olivia Dean's The Art of Loving in your stereo speaker setup.
Lamig ng boses and the atmosphere is for chilling.

Miss ko na ulit cold weather biking.
Even night commutes are turning sweaty again

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

This is the kind of critical AI literacy practice that I'd like to see make its way into schools. It's not about how to best use this or that product; it's about mapping systems of power.

We went from making up reasons like "weapons of mass destruction" to you know what, fuck it we don't need to even lie, the president "had a feeling" that they pose a threat so we just bomb them so we can. A country doing this can't expect peace inside.

Snapped this photo of a bike in Kyoto, and subsconsciously ginaya ko pala (2nd pic is of mine). Now the only remaining thing is figuring out how to live beside a beautiful river like the Kamogawa

Polymarket to allow bets on the name of the new terrorist organization spawned by the war in Iran.

Queer Love, queer joy 🤝 Public Transit

No one has brought up yet that the Boyfriend S2 brought us a good show and solid storytelling without (minimal?) use of the private car.
Public / mass transit was the star in this show

27 Million Fewer Car Trips: Life After a Year of Congestion Pricing How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.

A reminder that one year in, congestion pricing has clearly been a successful policy: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

AI BOOSTER BINGO The squares read: I might get attacked for saying this Imagine what it'll do in 5 years Al critics are just afraid Al is better than you Everyone is doing it "Levels the playing Field" Your time will be spent on work that MATTERS Your time will be spent correcting the Al's errors MORE VOLUME!! Shit outputs? Switch to [alternate LLM] Yes jobs will be cut... Humans aren't perfect either It's FUN!!! No practical advice "Sorry bluesky" Solution to chronic underfunding What if it could cure cancer??? I made something that appears passable No need for pesky underlings Is it accurate? No. But... Framing human work as "bespoke, hand-crafted" Get with it or get left behind!!! Al critics are luddites This was actually written by AI For more free printables please visit www.timvandevall.com, created by Tim van de Vall, copyright 2013 Dutch Renaissance Press LLC

I made a bingo card

A bit related: The Amsterdam Rainbow dress

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

From Gaza to Iran, Children Have Always Been Sacrificed by Western Imperial Aims A US-Israeli strike on a elementary school in Minab reportedly killed at least 165 – mostly young girls who were only trying to learn.

"From Gaza to Iran, Children Have Always Been Sacrificed by Western Imperial Aims"

A US-Israeli strike on an elementary school in Minab reportedly killed at least 165 – mostly young girls who were only trying to learn, writes Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo:

We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world The most disturbing revelation so far

Carole Cadwalladr in her "How To Stop the Broligarchy" substack

"Epstein has given us an extraordinary portal through which we can now see how hostile state influence, criminality and the impunity of the billionaire class are intimately enmeshed."

broligarchy.substack.com/p/we-all-liv...

In Davos, the rich talk about ‘global threats’. Here’s why they’re silent about the biggest of them all | Ingrid Robeyns Economic inequality is at the heart of all humanity’s major problems, but the wealthiest refuse to confront a system that benefits them, says economist and historian Ingrid Robeyns

Ingrid Robeyns:
"As I documented in detail in my book Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth, economic inequality is also about the increase in social, ecological and political damage caused by billionaires and centimillionaires."

www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...

Breaking Down the REAL Conspiracies Behind Epstein and His Elite Circle YouTube video by Zeteo

Listen to the women journalists/writers! They are the ones who are piecing it all together.

Naomi Klein: "The Epstein class is the after, afterparty of the Davos class [which convenes annually at the World Economic Forum]."

youtu.be/Bu1k_mzzwnU?...

"This book will help you make the leap from bus to car."

And I immediately know that the author is American that has grown up in a car-dependent society. Still need to read the book tho

Done Data Work? You Might Have Worked With the US Military Without Knowing. As data workers organize around the world, they need to push for change on what appears to be a major ethical oversight, writes Krystal Kauffman.

The AI boom runs on invisible labor, writes Krystal Kauffman, a research fellow with the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). Underpaid workers in Kenya, the US, and beyond are unknowingly training intelligence systems. This isn't just an ethics problem—it's a consent problem, she says.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

the US military, for instance, is never going to sour on AI, because the idea of a system that makes up an endless list of legally permissive targets, & produces an endless stream of words to justify such engagements, will always, ALWAYS, be appealing to a warmongering, settler-colonial empire.

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

There are far too many cyclists who think that if they're just really good boys and girls on their bike that drivers won't kill them. And that is because they are all victims of an abusive system of car dependency.

Attorney General Bonta Exposes Amazon Price Fixing Scheme Driving Up Costs for Americans, Asks Court to Immediately Halt Illegal Conduct New evidence shows Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products and making Amazon richer and richer OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob B...

BREAKING: CA’s Attorney General found evidence that whether or not you shop on Amazon, its price-fixing is raising costs across the board. The evidence is so damning that they’re asking for an injunction to immediately stop this behavior. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

“Our opposition calls us paid protesters,” she said. “They cannot comprehend or understand that this is coming from the deepest corners of people’s souls. They cannot get their heads around it.”

Oh ediba OpenAI also shed off its NonProfit pretense to finally emerge for what it is.

The People vs. AI Across red states and blue, a grassroots movement is pushing back on the unchecked growth of the artificial intelligence industry.

Surveying the growing backlash to AI, TIME spoke to nine Americans from disparate regions, ideologies, and professions — including a nurse, a pastor, and a filmmaker — who are taking the fight over this technology into their own hands. time.com/7377579/ai-d...

Exclusive: New Google Partnership a ‘Sizable Investment’ in AI for Teachers Tech giant won’t attach a price tag to 3-year agreement with ISTE+ASCD.

I'm with Justin Reich, who said, "industry-sponsored professional development is, at its core, a 'customer acquisition' campaign."

As Google attempts to strengthen its grip on teachers and students, here's a 🧵 with work that examines the Googlization of education...

He does not seem to share that same reverence for humanity; his reverence is reserved for the fantastical AGI gods he seems determined to bring into being. This shouldn’t be a surprise. Many of the billionaires at the height of Silicon Valley adhere to an anti-human worldview that not only sees humans merging with machines, but being consumed by them. Altman has paid to have his brain frozen when he dies, in the hope that it can be uploaded to a computer sometime in the future, and has argued that “the merge” — where humans and machines become one — is essential for the future of humanity. This is all in line with the longtermist worldview, which argues the value of people alive today and people who might live a million years from now are equivalent. If an action today might help ensure billions of people will live in the far future, even if it means harming millions in the present, that is justified under their anti-human calculus. It’s a philosophy that seems to exist purely to justify the science fictional pursuits of tech billionaires while their actions magnify the suffering of billions of actual people. In fact, those future people they envision are not people at all, but “post-humans” who live in vast computer simulations, not as flesh and blood.

Altman’s denigration of humanity is part of a wider anti-human worldview the tech industry has adopted to justify doing whatever they want, regardless of the wider impacts on the public. If communities suffer to realize Altman’s AI ambitions, that’s fine by him.

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