RE: https://josemurilo.com/2025/12/24/programe-ou-seja-programado-o-vies-do-ambiente-digital-douglas-rushkoff-sxsw-2010/ Em 2010, no Brasil, tínhamos a convicção de que a internet mudaria o mundo para melhor. De lá para cá, vivemos a distopia do sequestro do ambiente digital pelos interesses […]

"A massa crítica é o protocolo aberto e sem dono, e este já está funcionante, sem algoritmo central. A hora é de cada turma construir a própria ilha (o próprio algoritmo, se pá), e isso vai ser uma curtição." Respondendo aqui ao hábito peculiar do @uira de entrecruzar conversas, privadas e […]

"Em suas muitas ambivalências e tensões, naqueles anos 70 sensuais, vibrantes e transantes, é claro que #oagentesecreto, com todo seu embalo, não é um filme “good vibes”, com uma que outra cena bonita de drama romântico e outras de tensão pelo meio. O Agente Secreto é road movie, drama familiar […]

"#people, not Platforms The endgame is not Mastodon, Bluesky, or Threads. The endgame is finding communities on the web and following them all on the best platform for you. We don't have to enclose ourselves in walls of our own making or force users to understand the nuances of every platform […]

"The value of tech expertise in government is real. That’s why #usds and #18f existed and succeeded for over a decade. This isn’t that…They gutted the #institutionalknowledge, fired the people who knew how to do this right, and replaced it with a system where people from private companies get […]

"The global expansion of #ayahuasca is unravelling academic ideas about the brew’s universal effects. What initially surprised me was how certain ideas I had encountered in Amazonian #shamanism – particularly the notion of shapeshifting – found a surprising resonance in Chinese thought […]

Here I want to mention one last development of #Ibram-#Museus experiments with #thefediverse, which emerged as a very interesting opportunity: The App as an Adoption Strategy. @michael, from #newsmast, says the Fediverse is still a tech determined environment, where everything starts with a […]

Aí sim! Posso escolher ter o algoritmo, e influenciá-lo. From: @loops https://pixelfed.social/p/loops/906908755174645758

"The value of tech expertise in government is real. That’s why #usds and #18f existed and succeeded for over a decade. This isn’t that…They gutted the #institutionalknowledge, fired the people who knew how to do this right, and replaced it with a system where people from private companies get […]

"#activitypub is a #protocol – like email, jpeg, MP3 and ‘http’ (behind every website) – that’s built for a world with millions of ‘pubs’ with 1000s or 100 or even just one or two people in them. But it’s not just a mini-social network builder – there’s the key extra ability to connect with […]

Alô companheiros neuro divergentes do bloco do TDAH! Saiu um artigo de Perspectiva publicado pela Frontiers in Psychiatry que traz uma visão inovadora: O TDAH pode ser considerado um Transtorno do Ritmo Circadiano em boa parte das pessoas. 🤯 👉 Título: TDAH como um transtorno do ritmo circadiano […]

"Não há a menor dúvida de uma ação articulada para derrubar Alexandre de #moraes, na qual a #globo colocou seu batalhão conhecido: Malu (Globo e Globonews), Carlos Alberto Sardenberg (na CBN), inclusive acenando com a possibilidade de um impeachment – em cima de uma notícia sem fontes e sem […]

"#people, not Platforms The endgame is not Mastodon, Bluesky, or Threads. The endgame is finding communities on the web and following them all on the best platform for you. We don't have to enclose ourselves in walls of our own making or force users to understand the nuances of every platform […]

"Not by chance, recently #DaveWiner (@davew), creator of the #RSS format, declared that he sees #WordPress as the ideal “OS” for the #opensocialweb. As soon as we experimented with (@[email protected]'s) WordPress #ActivityPubplugin, we realized how we […] [Original post on mato.social]

"…despite being everywhere, #rss is somehow invisible. It’s the #plumbing of the web: essential, reliable, and routinely underestimated. … That invisibility has created a misconception, that RSS is a relic. But we’ve never relied on it more. And as the #socialweb fractures, as platforms wall off […]

No blog (2011), "cabeças-de-ponte da imaginação": "…imagino se seria possível a uma iniciativa pública, apoiada pelo estado mas governada de forma compartilhada com a sociedade, propor um #protocolo básico extensível para uma plataforma pública aberta e comum. Fico imaginando se algo como o […]

"I’ve historically overused the phrase #socialmedia platform to describe #mastodon, but I think it’s more true that what we’re building is a #socialnetwork. I think there is a difference in those terms because media is something you consume passively. It’s TV, it’s radio, it’s reading stuff […]

Como bem apresentado pelo Cory @pluralistic, a desastrosa política comercial de Trump, que acelera o longo declínio dos EUA como superpotência, é uma #oportunidade para o #brasil liderar o mundo em 2026 na legalização da #engenhariareversa, e assim quebrar as pernas dos monopólios americanos, o […]

Tech journalist Gil Duran outlines a disturbing theory that a growing number of Silicon Valley elites are pursuing a vision of power not rooted in the common good, but in profit, feudal hierarchy, and total control of the platforms that define daily life for hundreds of millions of people. Duran […]

Big Tech is getting more and more involved in politics. During the last US election, Crypto bros spent more than $100 million on the election, which got some of them out of jail. Now Big Tech is active again, this time with focus on AI, as reported in this Washington Post article. It is time to […]

This is a very smart marketing ploy, to be the only non-AI browser. But it’s wise they have left the door open a little for if/when AI shrugs off the issues that currently dog it: “We will continue building a browser for curious minds, power users, researchers, and anyone who values autonomy. If […]

I want to become more focused on my RSS Reader again next year. So I have been pondering if I should switch away from Feedly, which I have been using since...well *you know what* happened. It's browser-based always for me, but anyone have suggestions? "While it's still traditional to bemoan the […]

My wrapup of AI development in 2025: "A lot happened in the relatively new field of AI engineering in 2025, but there’s also a sense that the tools and development practices are a little fragile and immature. From MCP’s security risks to the not entirely believable claims that fully autonomous […]

I know what I’m going to play with over the holidays break 😍 #css #gridlanes https://webkit.org/blog/17660/introducing-css-grid-lanes/

"... while we think of the role of the finance sector as "capital allocation" – that is, using investors' money to fund new businesses and expansions for existing business – that hasn't been important to finance for quite some time. Today, only 3% of bank activity consists of 'lending to firms […]

"…despite being everywhere, #rss is somehow invisible. It’s the #plumbing of the web: essential, reliable, and routinely underestimated. … That invisibility has created a misconception, that RSS is a relic. But we’ve never relied on it more. And as the #socialweb fractures, as platforms wall off […]

“Most people know #rss powers blogs and podcasts. “But it powers popular news apps too…like Lexis Nexis or Bloomberg. It’s also widely used to keep track of status updates of all kinds: weather, software updates, infrastructure uptime, and so on. “Most of this activity happens behind the […]

Threads is effectively shelving their fediverse integration, after it saw marginally little use Zuck has played the game well, harming both open protocol movements while growing his platform, getting good PR and distracting regulators connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

"Not by chance, recently #DaveWiner (@davew), creator of the #RSS format, declared that he sees #WordPress as the ideal “OS” for the #opensocialweb. As soon as we experimented with (@[email protected]'s) WordPress #ActivityPubplugin, we realized how we […] [Original post on mato.social]

Nos primórdios da Internet, houve uma corrente de ‘hackers’ que advogou a total ausência da atuação de governos no ambiente digital. Isto aconteceu com a publicação da Declaração de Independência do Ciberespaço. Os últimos 20 anos parecem indicar que a ausência […] [Original post on mato.social]

No blog (2011), "cabeças-de-ponte da imaginação": "…imagino se seria possível a uma iniciativa pública, apoiada pelo estado mas governada de forma compartilhada com a sociedade, propor um #protocolo básico extensível para uma plataforma pública aberta e comum. Fico imaginando se algo como o […]

There was an "instability" that prevented users on Instagram from searching for left-leaning Brazilian users including president Lula. https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/politica/2025/12/7311233-meta-esclarece-instabilidade-em-perfil-de-lula-no-instagram.html (in Portugese) @skarnio took […]

Após semana divertida no #fedibr, quero saudar a turma do "bonde da @bianaaf", que trouxe frescor renovado. Reverbero a inspiração da colega, lembrando do #orkut. "Ao contrário das plataformas posteriores, o reconhecimento ali dependia de estar presente, não de performar para um algoritmo. A […]

"Real #community involves #negotiation. It involves showing up for one another, navigating disagreement, and giving time and care even when it is not convenient. Platforms strip away these dimensions because #friction interrupts #Engagement. The result is an experience that looks like connection […]

"From cars to air conditioning, television to social media #feeds, one cost of modern life has been the way it makes it ever more comfortable to sit alone in our living rooms or cars. It makes us need our neighbors less, which means we know them less and trust them less. The rise of cable TV […]

Great piece. https://newpublic.substack.com/p/we-need-a-revolution-in-social-media

"...minha conclusão é que os não-fascistas que permanecem no X o fazem por uma razão simples: eles têm uma compreensão completamente errada de como o #poder funciona na #esferadigital... Se você entende como os #algoritmos de recomendação funcionam, você percebe que não há limite para o […]

"[Both Trump and Rubio have] portrayed Maduro as a cartel leader, in charge of groups like the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. Those assertions, however, have been contradicted by the US intelligence community, which found no evidence that Maduro controls the gang." Five key takeaways from US […]

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115746730662598273 FLOSS needs fewer corporations and more structures where the public (not only developers) can actually determine the path into the future. FLOSS only means more than "Amazon and Microsoft can use your code without paying you a wage" if it […]

> This new form of riches [--finance--] is based on gambling. [97% of it literally is gambling.] What does it mean about us that we reward so generously this work which does so little? What kind of society are we really? And what does it mean that we think about this so little? […]

"The #neweconomy of #ideas is much more directly dependent on attention, which means much more directly incentivized toward whatever captures #attention… A confident hot take generates more #Engagement than a careful analysis that acknowledges #uncertainty. The old system rewarded people who […]

RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/12/19/implementing-encrypted-messaging-over-activitypub/ Big news for the #fediverse! End-to-end encryption is coming to #activitypub. @swf with support from @sovtechfund is coordinating two interoperable implementations. Bonfire is proud to be one of […]

Imagine a social network that can’t be bought, sold, or controlled by a billionaire. A place where communities govern themselves, and your data stays yours. That's Mastodon. Join us in turning that vision into reality. Donate to power people-first social […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Aí sim! Posso escolher ter o algoritmo, e influenciá-lo. From: @loops https://pixelfed.social/p/loops/906908755174645758

The Fediverse is a "#postcapitalistisland". "A Space Beyond #capitalistrealism, as diagnosed by #markfisher – the pervasive belief that #capitalism is not only the dominant economic system but the only viable and imaginable one (“It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of […]

"...minha conclusão é que os não-fascistas que permanecem no X o fazem por uma razão simples: eles têm uma compreensão completamente errada de como o #poder funciona na #esferadigital... Se você entende como os #algoritmos de recomendação funcionam, você percebe que não há limite para o […]

Embora à princípio pareça impossível, com algum esforço de #imaginação podemos conceber cenários em que a integração com o Fediverso torna-se realidade para o #youtube—um gigante único na web: 1) #ofediverso#imaginaçãocresce o bastante para que a adesão à federação seja vantagem econômica. Cenário […]

Nos primórdios da Internet, houve uma corrente de ‘hackers’ que advogou a total ausência da atuação de governos no ambiente digital. Isto aconteceu com a publicação da Declaração de Independência do Ciberespaço. Os últimos 20 anos parecem indicar que a ausência […] [Original post on mato.social]