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Strange days. “I can imagine people there aren’t very happy with us. So my friends and I decided that on this trip, we would all just speak French to each other.”

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When should we stop saying ‘told you so’?

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"The human domain has been shrinking rapidly over the past 70 years, but bullshiting always seemed like something we humans would able to hold on to for ourselves. Alas not." cacm.acm.org/opinion/arti...

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Arranque do projeto ‘Trajetos Comunicantes’ (@braga25). Parabéns, Luis Pinto.

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Durante mais quanto tempo vamos insistir em entrar em campo com 10 jogadores?

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Ah...o humor (mesmo em Braga) é preciso!

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Inverno. Chove. Muito. E o vento é forte. Certo. Houve alguns estragos. Ok. Mas meia hora de espaço informativo nisto? (Em todos os canais - diga-se)

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Ainda bem que esta publicação 'teve acesso' à documentação e a pareceres tão independentes. Aqui não mais mais nada para ver. Siga! Olhem para outro lado, se fazem o favor!

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"Finding beauty in the trashy". www.youtube.com/watch?v=60-E...

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While 2025 marks Austen’s 250th birthday, the phrase “pride and prejudice” first appeared more than 400 years ago, in religious writings by English Protestants. An English professor traces the phrase’s history:

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"DOGE is not about efficiency. It is about erasure. Democracy is being deleted in slow motion, replaced by proprietary technology and AI models. It is a coup, executed not with guns, but with backend migrations and database wipes." www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...

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"DOGE is not about efficiency. It is about erasure. Democracy is being deleted in slow motion, replaced by proprietary technology and AI models. It is a coup, executed not with guns, but with backend migrations and database wipes."

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Trump administration has identified words to be banned on government websites or at least be wary of using. Among them: women, race, injustice, climate science, pollution, victim, historically. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The revolution will not be...

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This is a really thought-provoking piece about what LLMs like ChatGPT actually are - I referenced it in my leader yesterday but I recommend reading the whole thing www.newscientist.com/article/2472...

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Trump’s moves to curb independent media look familiar to the Hungarian journalist András Pethő: “The MAGA authorities have learned Orbán's lessons well.” theatln.tc/VlZjD1iB

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NEW: The leaders of every major political party in Greenland have united in a joint statement against Trump. "We cannot accept the repeated statements about annexation & control of Greenland. We find this behavior unacceptable. “Greenland is one country that everyone wants to stand behind." 🇬🇱🇩🇰

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Tell me he's stupid without using words...

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NEW: Sen. Mark Kelly just announced he is getting rid of his Tesla. “I don’t want to be driving a car built and designed by an asshole.”💥💥 👏 #TeslaTakedown

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"Extremism is ultimately a social construction strategy that arises when one group encounter another group that understands reality in consequentially different ways, destabilizing the in-group’s consensus view of reality."

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"We found that right-leaning online shows dominate the ecosystem, with substantially larger audiences on both politics/news shows and supposedly nonpolitical shows that we determined often platformed ideological content or guests."

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Ah, o humor...

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"As Poynter celebrates its 50th anniversary, we look back at 50 of the most significant media moments and people of the past 50 years, while also detailing how they have impacted our future." www.poynter.org/the-poynter-...

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Este jovem faz cada vez mais lembrar aquele boneco dos Gato Fedorento, do 'quinza-zero-quinza-zero'!

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Guarde-se bem, para memória futura, esta entrevista. Pode ser a única coisa decente que sobra do PSD depois da enxurrada de lama levar consigo as 'elites com interesses' que o tomaram de assalto nos últimos anos. expresso.pt/politica/cri...

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Bem, @danielolivalx.bsky.social . "Prefiro, politicamente, Passos Coelho? Não. Mas, com Passos ou Moreira da Silva, estaríamos a debater o que interessa, não avenças e esquemas." expresso.pt/opiniao/2025...

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Uma proposta bonita, que não é sobre crentes ou não crentes - é sobre Humanidade. “Deus fez-nos diferentes para que pudéssemos conhecer-nos uns aos outros”. setemargens.com/deus-fez-nos...

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(Fondly remembering Mel Gibson...) - "they'll never take... our freedom!” Wait! They will.

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"I wish we could return to the newspaper of a not so distant past. But that is not to be, and here is the unavoidable truth: the Washington Post I joined, the one I came to love, is not the Washington Post I left." www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...

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If only...

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"It is not classic authoritarianism—nor is it autocracy, oligarchy, or monarchy. Trump is installing what scholars call patrimonialism. (...) Patrimonialism’s antithesis is not democracy; it is bureaucracy." @jonrauch.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Kash Patel wants to criminally charge groups who received EPA grants for climate change projects. You know, like those greedy bastards at Habitat for Humanity. He thinks climate change isn't real, so he thinks these groups have committed fraud. Which of course is fucking crazy.

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After Washpost CEO Will Lewis killed her column, Ruth Marcus asked to speak with him. “He declined to see me, instructing an editor to inform me that there was no reason to meet, because his decision was final.” The spiked column appears at the end of this piece. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...

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Our actual enemies and the BBC’s commercial rivals hate everything that makes it important & valuable. (And they don’t help themselves much these days in all sorts of ways.) But this is a crucial test of the current government’s resolve.

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How to obliterate History - 101.

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What Journalists Should Know About Deepfake Detection in 2025, by Kaylee Williams of the @towcenter.bsky.social www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

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Trump's #DOGE initiative accelerates a 50-year trend of government privatization. Government contracting reached $1.98 trillion in 2023, 7% of the total economy. Nathan Meyers @umassamherst.bsky.social #economics #ElonMusk

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"Our universities, our governments, our news organisations were meant to not only embody particular principles but to assure that they can be preserved and transmitted across generations." (via @reutersinstitute.bsky.social) reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/full-te...

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"The main issue is that many PDFs are simply pictures of information, which means you need Optical Character Recognition software to turn those pictures into data, especially when the original is old or includes handwriting." arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/w...

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"I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come". christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...

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"Almost two-thirds of respondents (65%) see generative AI tools “notably improving” their data/analytics capabilities. Those numbers indicate that AI’s integration into comms processes has reached an acceleration point." www.cision.com/resources/gu...

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"Demand for reliable information, I think, has gone up as the pool of unreliable or uncertain information has grown. Some of it might be reliable, some of it might not be. I think you cast that as an existential risk. I can cast that as an opportunity." www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

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(Boa malha, @tiagoramalho.bsky.social) “Qual é o problema se as pessoas acreditam na astrologia, lêem o horóscopo de manhã, acreditam em óvnis. O que é que isso interessa? A vida é deles, deixem-nos divertir-se. Agora, vemos porque devemos preocupar-nos.” www.publico.pt/2025/03/10/c...

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A ‘Brand’ New World, Elon.

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"AI’s trajectory could shift from being a catalyst for progress to a force that entrenches inequality and undermines democratic institutions. The need for transparent, accountable, and adaptable AI governance has never been greater." www.techpolicy.press/ai-at-the-br...

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Podemos acreditar mais no ditado ‘Deus dá-os e eles juntam-se’ ou na invariável atração combustível da classe política por lobbying-disfarçado-de-trabalho-até-porque-não-há-lobbying-neste-lindo-país. Qual será?

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“In a very short time, we have created not only silly systems of governance and regulation, but are also managing to subvert academic life through the creation of bullshit jobs and, I would argue, bullshit practices.”

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‘Now you see me / now you don’t’, kinda government. Everything must go. Wait…

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