Venture capitalists Andreessen and Horowitz invest in startup that sells thousands of AI bot influencers to manipulate social media as a service, clearly violating major platform policies www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

We are happy to share with you our new issue "Building Trans Communities" (November–December 2025), where we mobilize collective embodiments and solidarities against transphobia around the world. Order your copy here: thefunambulist.net/shop/62-buil...

Matança, que inclui 4 PMs, foi desencadeada para tentar colocar pecha em Lula e fazer lobby para Trump, que busca classificar CV e PCC como "terroristas" para justificar ação armada no Brasil sem aval do governo brasileiro.

Ha poucas pesquisas com dados sobre o impacto econômico de ações de segurança FRACASSADAS como estas, "contra o tráfico". A última, feita em 2024 com os poucos dados disponíveis apontava para mais de 7 bilhões por ano - em apenas 6 estados!

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What makes Bluesky different: it’s open source, so anyone can contribute to building the experience they want. And even if you build a whole new app, the protocol means you can migrate with your data, identity, and relationships intact.

Ted Cruz’s new bill would let AI companies set their own rules for up to 10 years

join us for the 4th session of our Gender & Tech Online Talk Series on Sept. 29th, 11AM, EDT. we are eager to host two brilliant keynote speakers, Paz Peña (Mozilla Foundation) and Tamara Kneese (Data & Society), who will discuss the social and environmental impacts of technocapitalism. more info: 👇

Respeito à nossa Constituição, à nossa legislação e ao povo brasileiro. É isso que exigimos. Porque democracia e soberania não se negociam 🇧🇷 🎥 Audiovisual/PR

“This back-to-school season, the usual first-day jitters have been replaced by paralyzing fear. Kids are missing school, afraid to leave their homes. Parents are having to make plans in case they are disappeared. And teachers are having to be trained in safety protocols should they encounter ICE.”

Contribuí para essa super matéria da @laismartins.com no @intercept.com.br ⬇️⬇️⬇️

It’s deeply concerning to see #LinkedIn remove a policy protecting transgender and nonbinary people from one of the most prevalent and extreme types of online anti-trans hate at a time when trans people are under unprecedented attack, writes GLAAD’s @jenniolsonsf.bsky.social.

this is insane

Come and join us in the third webinar of our Gender and Tech Online Talk Series - this time to discuss platform governance from an intersectional perspective with the amazing Julie Owono and Coleen Carrigan. More details below! See you there?

This talk will be moderated by @yasmincurzi.com, who is also co-organizing this series with me. The series is sponsored by the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab and the UVA School of Data Science.

Are you interested in learning more about how gender is shaped by digitization and platform governance? Join us on Aug 28 11am EDT for the 3rd event in the Gender & Tech Online Talk Series with Julie Owono & Coleen Carrigan. Free & open to the public. Register here: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

One more effort to politicize federal grantmaking. *Grants must by approved by a political appointee, working with OMB. *"Discretionary awards must, where applicable, demonstrably advance the President’s policy priorities." *Cannot "promote anti-American values" www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

What kind of vile people put this much effort into reducing racial, economic and cultural diversity on campuses? What kind of people think it's bad to make an effort to include underrepresented people in higher ed? Their vision of America is truly that of AmeriKKKa. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

Trump EO requires commissars to decide who gets federal money: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Source: apnews.com/article/poll...

Bolsonaro sabia exatamente o que estava fazendo: provocou o STF, burlou restrições e acabou em prisão domiciliar. Ver o país pegando fogo do conforto de seu lar é exatamente o que ele queria. Leia na íntegra: www.intercept.com.br/2025/08/04/b...

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...

Indígenas Anacé protestam contra data center do TikTok no Ceará e pedem suspensão do licenciamento ambiental www.intercept.com.br/2025/08/04/i...

But they’ll still shove it into everything, force-feed it to everyone (unwanted integration into software, unproven edtech etc), externalize costs, induce unpaid work. …

Well this is bad. Google is indexing ChatGPT conversations exposing sensitive user data I tried a few quick searches. I found someone's chat where I can see their api key I found some building their resume. Their name, email and phone numbers are exposed. www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo...

LULA NA CHINA NO QUARTA SÁBADO

After participating this week for the first time at the @icon-s.bsky.social in Brasilia, I’m heading to Bochum to visit the @cais-research.bsky.social (also for the first time!). Looking forward to sharing my ongoing research on platform regulation and online gender-based violence in Brazil.

"This trend is very worrying when opaque rules are now applied to make these take down decisions, especially in the current political climate," she said. Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ainda que Microsoft e Google tenham dito que não suspenderão os serviços prestados ao STF e ao Min. Moraes, isso tudo só deixa ainda mais evidente a necessidade de investimento em uma infraestrutura digital que seja independente dos EUA. www.poder360.com.br/poder-intern...

Agora, vamos falar a verdade; essa sanção da Lei Magnitsky sobre o ministro do Supremo Alexandre de Moraes é uma desmoralização do Supremo americano, uma humilhação para eles. Passa a imagem de uma país completamente perdido e submetido aos desmandos de um presidente autoritário e megalomaníaco.

me solidarizarei com alexandre de moraes e a partir de hoje também não pagarei nenhuma fatura de cartão seja visa ou mastercard

Bolsonaro realmente cumpriu sua promessa de campanha e conseguiu a proeza de unir o Brasil: Hugo Motta, José Sarney, Alcolumbre, parte do agro, Folha, Estadão, Louro José… Realmente, todo mundo em defesa das instituições.

Course evaluations have been a ticking time bomb for years. An absolute Trojan horse of an institutional feature that offers zero helpful data points for improving education and the research on its downsides *before this* latest manipulation is a mile wide.

A galera da criação de conteúdo bullshit postando vários e fios e cards nas redes sociais é 100% isso aqui (não raro são os que assinam Dr fulano - sem ser doutor - e/ou pesquisador(a) - mal e mal tendo só graduação -)

There are less trans woman History Professors in the US than I have fingers on one hand, and one of them was just FIRED 🚨 Why? Anti-trans alumni/donors threatened to pull support form the university... substack.com/home/post/p-...

Geralmente esse homem está errado, mas nesse ele acertou e muito Poucas empresas realmente deletam seus dados quando você pede pra deletar. A maioria só coloca uma flag no banco de dados.

“Wikipedia is this economic anomaly. In many ways, it’s sort of magical that people will just volunteer without explicit economic incentives to create artifacts that are meant to share knowledge with everyone in the world”

OMG. Hilarious, but right on target. New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for "The President Violated the Constitution": “The president, tiptoeing precipitously down the sidelines of legality, inadvertently ran the constitutional football out of bounds.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

🤖 I really quite prefer this method of AI-enhanced answers to queries: Seeing sources alongside the highlighted portion determined to be directly relevant to your question. Ideally a few sources, esp. where there is multiple answers or disagreement. This combines multiple “AI” techniques.

Facebook ranks worst for online harassment, according to a global activist survey

In this article, a video is shown of ICE agents saying “we are going to have start shooting people.” Oh yea?

1 A tradução mais clara do que seja imperialismo, revelando q o tarifaço dos EUA nada mais é do q estratégia para forçar o Br a voltar à condição de colônia para a exploração tbem de minérios, além dos nossos dados (foto FSP hj) pbs.twimg.com/media/Gwsrax...

It's not just the college campus centers. It's all the think tanks, & the publications, & the free speech organizations, & all the other societal institutions that claimed to care about limited government, conservative principles, public virtue, democracy, viewpoint diversity, etc. Near-total 🦗 now.

"A key legacy of illiberalism [is]...a series of institutional traps that are difficult to counteract in the short term without resorting to the same methods that established them." "Democracy After Illiberalism: A Warning from Poland" by Stanley Bill and Ben Stanley muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

This clip is better than Adolescence youtu.be/abZmFCs-ltY?...

For those who refuse loyalty as an option, the dilemma between voice vs exit is a feature of authoritarianism, not a bug.