LLMs are a fundamentally useless technology because their applications (supposedly) boil down to humans not having to think for themselves or do their own writing / drawing / filming. But if you can do it on your own - why would you need a robot to do it? It’s, at best, a novelty. That’s why […]

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥 "Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show" "Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]

"The Pipeline Made Visible Unlike old #authoritarianism built on fear and force, this new system rules through code, capital, and infrastructure — making resistance feel architecturally impossible. It’s a self-reinforcing loop: #ideology fuels venture capital → #capital captures the state → […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115503016101266241 Congratulations to @Mastodon @MastodonEngineering on the 4.5 launch! Also nice to see an updated roadmap! https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap #mastodon #fediverse

"#zohran #mamdani won by literally meeting #people where they’re at—in bodegas, subway stations, sidewalks, even at the NY Marathon. He met people not to pitch them, but to listen and learn. These conversations informed his successful campaign more than his charm, social media prowess or any of […]

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 […]

Ronaldo Lemos: "#stf publica decisão que modifica o #marcocivil da Internet A decisão redefine completamente o marco normativo da internet no #brasil, substituindo o modelo atual, que era simples e objetivo, por 4 novos regimes de responsabilidade concomitantes. Não será fácil saber na prática […]

#fernandohaddad: "I don't believe that the #energytransition can fit into a national project. And therefore we are proposing at the #COP30… to start building some kind of #internationalgovernance, one that has it's own budget. We can't make the mistake of imagining that inter-state & […]

"The presidency of #cop30 proposes the revision of financial rules and the #taxation of fortunes, jets and specific goods - such as military or luxury items - as ways to reach the goal of US$ 1.3 trillion (R$ 7 trillion) per year for #climatefinancing. The proposals are in one of the most […]

"The Pipeline Made Visible Unlike old #authoritarianism built on fear and force, this new system rules through code, capital, and infrastructure — making resistance feel architecturally impossible. It’s a self-reinforcing loop: #ideology fuels venture capital → #capital captures the state → […]

"The presidency of #cop30 proposes the revision of financial rules and the #taxation of fortunes, jets and specific goods - such as military or luxury items - as ways to reach the goal of US$ 1.3 trillion (R$ 7 trillion) per year for #climatefinancing. The proposals are in one of the most […]

#fernandohaddad: "I don't believe that the #energytransition can fit into a national project. And therefore we are proposing at the #COP30… to start building some kind of #internationalgovernance, one that has it's own budget. We can't make the mistake of imagining that inter-state & […]

Ronaldo Lemos: "#stf publica decisão que modifica o #marcocivil da Internet A decisão redefine completamente o marco normativo da internet no #brasil, substituindo o modelo atual, que era simples e objetivo, por 4 novos regimes de responsabilidade concomitantes. Não será fácil saber na prática […]

Looks like X is juicing web visit numbers by opening a browser WebView in the background whether the user visits the link or not. They've re-invented pop-under fraud (allegedly). news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580...

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

🇺🇸 Zohran Mamdani vence a eleição para prefeito de Nova York após a maior participação em décadas. Com plataforma progressista e foco em acessibilidade econômica, torna-se o prefeito mais jovem da cidade em mais de um século jnascim.info/mamdani-mayor

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115492635409809971 Today, we're taking our first step into the moderation tools we've been wanting to build for Bridgy Fed for a while now. The reason we're launching this small iteration first is that: (1) it's recently become more urgent for our […]

"#GilbertoGil, as the Minister of Culture in Brazil…surrounded by 2 panelists: #Barlow saw the internet as a place which should not be bothered by governments & regulations. #Barbrook had the view that the internet had been created with public funding, and […] [Original post on mato.social]

"O desenho representa, com notável detalhamento, o cerco montado pelas armadas luso-brasileiras para retomar o controle do #recife durante a ocupação dos #holandeses. Acredita-se que o desenho tenha sido realizado logo após a expulsão desses, em 1654." […]

Grande Dia! Saiu a versão 1.0 do #tainacan: "Hoje, com quase 2.000 instalações ativas e mais de 50.000 downloads, não faz mais sentido definir o projeto como “Beta”. Testado e validado por milhares de usuários, podemos afirmar que o primeiro roadmap está completo: lançamos o Tainacan versão 1.0 […]

"US semiconductors export controls…effectively pushed #China to develop models that are a) more efficient (since operating under constrains the U.S. doesn't have) and b) #opensource (since China has constrained compute). Which turns out to be the better strategy […] [Original post on mato.social]

Is there an analogue to open source in any other industry? That is, is there any other profession where people spend their personal time working on hobby projects they give away for free, which others (including companies) use to augment and improve their own projects, adding value to their […]

Bluesky has overtaken Twitter/X as the highest social engagement metric for the entire publication corpus of some universities. Here's all the attention for all research from Rhodes University, ZA. In October 2025 Bluesky mentioned their research more than X/Twitter. 1/2

#tainacan: With nearly 2,000 active installations and over 50,000 downloads, the project has moved beyond "Beta." Having been tested by thousands, Tainacan version 1.0.0 is now launched, marking the completion of the initial roadmap. The primary goal of providing a #freesoftware solution for […]

Good read about the big scam that is AI. "Bosses really want AI to work, because they really, really want to fire you. As Allison Morrow writes for CNN bosses are firing workers in anticipation of the savings AI will produce…someday. "All this can feel improbable. Would bosses really fire […]

From #markfisher: "Desejo #PósCapitalista" "Are we moving #beyondcapitalism? If so, what alternatives are we moving towards and how will they be implemented? #blaqswans, a group that tracks and analyzes improbable events that shake the prevailing system, adapted the Collaborative Economy […]

"Derek Wall’s analysis of #ostrom's work reveals a how it is invaluable for developing a left political programme in the twenty-first century. Central to Ostrom’s work was the move ‘beyond panaceas’; transforming institutions to widen participation, promote diversity and favour cooperation over […]

"A verdadeira #liberdadedeexpressão e associação não pode ser garantida apenas pela tecnologia; ela exige uma transformação radical nas relações de propriedade e poder na sociedade. A luta por #direitosdigitais, #privacidade, acesso universal à internet e por uma moderação de conteúdo que sirva […]

Esse cara é um milagre! Que Deus o proteja. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lwHWb2g5GbE

"É preciso recusar a submissão. A #soberaniadigital não se compra em pacotes de nuvem vendidos por quem nos espiona. Ela se constrói camada por camada, com tecnologia aberta, produção coletiva, nacional e estratégia pública." […]

Imperdível a análise sobre a armação da extrema direita internacional ligada à operação policial de Castro no Rio. Escute o #forodeteresina https://pca.st/episode/2b309241-a6ef-4968-865c-fbafcbd2ad6c

"With the “#dislikes” beta rolling out soon, #bluesky will take into account the new signal to improve user personalization. As users “#dislike” posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked feeds, but […]

Grande Dia! Saiu a versão 1.0 do #tainacan: "Hoje, com quase 2.000 instalações ativas e mais de 50.000 downloads, não faz mais sentido definir o projeto como “Beta”. Testado e validado por milhares de usuários, podemos afirmar que o primeiro roadmap está completo: lançamos o Tainacan versão 1.0 […]

"Além de se tornarem a principal vitrine de #bares, as #bigtechs viraram também as concorrentes diretas desses estabelecimentos, diz o empresário, porque oferecem tanta opção de lazer em casa que fica difícil convencer alguém a sair." […]

Esse cara é um milagre! Que Deus o proteja. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lwHWb2g5GbE

"Just outside #cairo, right next to the famous #pyramids of #giza, a monumental facade of glass and light sandstone rises from the desert. Behind this approximately 800-meter-long facade, a true homage to #history has been created. #egypt's most ambitious cultural project, the Grand Egyptian […]

What is an eco-civilisation? What are its values and what are the frames within which it works? Why do we need it in the first place and what will the Establishment do to maintain business as usual? Most importantly, what can each of us do to live an eco-civilisation into being? […]

Complete CSS has been live for nearly a year now and some of the most important content in the course is now free, for everyone to learn from. https://piccalil.li/links/the-entire-principles-module-of-complete-css-is-now-free/

#JoséDirceu: "Onde houver #interessepúblico estruturante, devem existir cláusulas de desempenho e controle de ativos, conteúdo local e transferência de conhecimento. Por isso, política industrial, segurança e infraestrutura precisam andar juntas: sem base material — energia estável […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@LillyHerself/115442431981227572 X will soon be fully AI driven By removing “heuristics” (manual rules like likes, reposts, or replies), X will let its in-house AI model Grok decide what content users see. In other words, X’s feed will be fully AI-driven, curated by […]

I have mostly kept my two twitter accounts alive out of some kind of morbid curiosity; watching something that belonged to all of us dismantled and destroyed by ONE idiotic male. But these new changes break the model completely. ➡️ Fediverse, brace for another migration.

Three years on Mastodon today. Very conscious move from Twitter, which at that time wasn’t that wonderful and serendipitous platform anymore. I learned a lot there. Once. Mastodon is nice, and theoretically almost perfect. But in practice, not the source of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I've lately been quite obsessed with this app called StreetComplete. It gamifies contributing to OpenStreetMaps in a really nice way by giving you you little quests to do while you walk around. A fun way to get some steps in, to make you look closer at your […] [Original post on mas.to]

Content warning: talking about AI tools. If you hate all such mentions, just block or mute me. I'm trying to vibe code up something kinda cool (and built using ATproto). It's partly working (which is amazing) and partly not (which is frustrating).

Hi @Sarahp, thanks for reporting on the social web and great to see you have a presence here yourself. A minor quibble with the wording of your 19 Sept article; "Mastodon, the non-profit organization that maintains the software powering the decentralized alternative ..." […]

Hi @Tak, I'm one of the curators of fediverse.party. I just saw a SocialHub thread about Gush; https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/first-time-i-ve-heard-of-gush-an-activitypub-based/5608 Apparently that's your work? Great stuff! Is there a test instance yet that I can poke around on?

1. Reagan’s speech is real 2. It’s public domain 3. Americans pay the cost of the added 10% tariffs, not Canadians 4. Trump keeps lying because he thinks you’re all too stupid to fact check 5. The average family will pay an extra $4900 this year because his tariffs

In a recent blog post, Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum maker iRobot, argued that Musk’s vision of a humanoid robot-filled future is “pure fantasy thinking.” https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/

Celso Amorim repudia intervenção dos EUA na Venezuela. - bshpvo https://horadopovo.com.br/celso-amorim-repudia-intervencao-dos-eua-na-venezuela/ #capa #ameaas #CelsoAmorim #invaso #trump #venezuela

"#Trump told reporters on Sunday he felt “very badly” about #Bolsonaro’s fate but told a reporters it was “none of your business” when asked if the issue would be part of the talks. … Trump said he would be willing to discuss #Venezuela if #Lula wanted to but […] [Original post on mato.social]