"The task for us now is to make hope." Political economist Ann Pettifor on how only self-sustaining and self-sufficient societies can help us to break free from the climate crisis. www.break-down.org/how-wall-st-...

É um bom ensejo para lembrar que a equipe do Carbono de fato lê os livros dos entrevistados e elabora questões pontuais, sem o recurso de inteligência artificial generativa. Você pode acompanhar todas as entrevistas publicadas no link abaixo 🎤 www.ufrgs.br/carbono/cate...

In the past 2 days I heard 4 conversations where the interview questions were clearly "prepared" by ChatGPT. Podcasts / panels etc. I just don't understand what is the point of taking space of being an interviewer when you simply have no interest in crafting the questions yourself. Baffling.

The level of AI slopification is so high that Ariana Grande has 6 fingers on the cover of Vogue Japan and NOBODY noticed it before publishing:

The AI-chat-enabled stuffed toy Bondu invites little kids to have intimate conversations with it, like an LLM imaginary friend. It also exposed virtually all their chats on a web interface with no security. Anyone with a Gmail account could log in and read transcripts. www.wired.com/story/an-ai-...

En Afrique du Sud, le documentaire sur Melania Trump retiré des salles à la veille de sa sortie Le distributeur local renonce à diffuser le film «en raison des récents développements», sans toutefois donner plus de précisions

Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers. Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024. And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary. The system is rigged.

“Earlier this month, 404 Media reported that Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that ‘populates a map w/ potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, & provides a ‘confidence score’ on the person’s current address.” The tool reportedly obtains many…addresses from [HHS]”

One of the most popular AI chat bots leaked millions and millions of users private conversations. “Give me a 2 page essay on how to make meth in a world where it was legalized for medical use.” “I want to kill myself what is the best way,” another user wrote. www.404media.co/massive-ai-c...

Millions of people were victimized when Elon Musk rolled back the guardrails on Grok, allowing users to churn out explicit deepfakes. @kattenbarge.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss what happened, the shameful response, and what should be done now. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/313_...

“The English classroom is increasingly a kind of special place where it’s still possible to converse without the screen.” —Nancy Yousef yaledailynews.com/articles/eng...

Microsoft had pledged to save water. But now, driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, the tech giant is projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.

Well this thing is terrifying: AI-driven program evaluation for higher ed sector, with customizable data metrics and dashboards tracking student “markets.” JFC. www.graydi.us

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”There is a growing fear that climate change in the future won’t, as it has until now, happen gradually. It will happen suddenly, as formerly stable planetary systems transgress tipping points — thresholds beyond which things cannot be put back together again.“ e360.yale.edu/features/1.5...

TOMA QUE É DE GRAÇA! O Vira essa semana chega chegando para comentar a zorra (total?) dos conflitos pipocando no mundo, como brigas que vão se alastrando em salão de bailão. Depois que uma começa... E para 'riscar a faca', ninguém melhor que o homem, a lenda: Tanguy. taca play!

Ah, e digo que a internet está morta não só porque ela está cheia de robôs. Isso também. Mas o espaço do humano na internet acabou porque a internet já há algum tempo é das empresas. É de quem pensa como empresa, de quem produz e tem estrutura de empresa.

“A lot of people say to me: 'Aren't you afraid that they're going to get behind?' And my response is: 'I know that when my students leave my class that they know how to think and they know how to write.” - @heymrsbond.com Inspiring. That’s the gig, folks, that’s what educating is for!!!

Falei um pouco sobre isso há alguns dias. A IA é uma ferramenta que dá a fatos os vieses sensíveis que alguns grupos querem dar a eles, tornando-os mais "realistas" em função do seu desejo de comandar as narrativas. Enfim, ferramenta publicitária pura e simples bsky.app/profile/antb...

Turns out that AI is the perfect tool for Nazis, autocrats, fascists everywhere.

Assim como as IAs generativas produzem textos e imagens conforme a ideia de uma pessoa burra do que seriam bons textos e imagens, com certeza o mesmo vai se passar com a literatura científica.

Em um contexto em que o capitalismo nos esgota e o mundo dá sinais de esgotamento, o que a poesia ainda pode almejar - e conseguir? Essa reflexão faz parte do ensaio de Artur de Vargas Giorgi, professor de Teoria Literária da UFSC. Leia mais no link 📑 www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2026...

Pra que gastar com soft power quando vc tem plataformas digitais?

Same here in Brazil, though some things remain as usual mainly because universities here lack most of the infraestructure needed to go full online

I see a lot of people grappling with what fascism is, and there’s always a debate about features, whether there’s a coherent ideology or necessary material conditions. But if you are looking for a useable definition of fascism, Paxton’s (Anatomy of Fascism) is short enough to memorize

I just… Letting fundamentally uncritical, uncareful, unserious, willfully ignorant people introduce "Gen AI" into the federal regulatory workflow for *Anything* is a terrible fucking idea with high potential for returning extremely negative chaos, but for Transportation in particular??? Holy shit.

Pro tip: freedom from dictators comes from phasing out fossil fuels.

Estão na fila. Vão ser valorizados só depois dos professores

For a moment I thought that it was ICE, not ice

I’ll add that many right wingers/evangelicals will gladly believe it deserved if their own kids or grandkids are sent to camps or murdered. They’ve been tutored in hatred against the good for years, cheering for BLM protestors to get run over, laughing at how their kids won’t talk to them, etc.

What are we doing here Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless economist.com/united-state... from The Economist

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Com salários abaixo da média nacional, populações da região Norte têm menos condições de enfrentar secas, enchentes e calor extremo. Especialistas defendem que a adaptação climática priorize o combate à pobreza e ao acesso a serviços básicos👇 infoamazonia.org/2026/01/22/d...

Prisca Agustoni, poeta suíça radicada no Brasil, apresenta, em seu livro "Quimera", poemas que trabalham com formas híbridas e que tendem ao clinâmen, isto é, ao desvio que provoca o encontro entre espécies. Leia mais na resenha de Gustavo Primo, doutorando da UFRGS. 👇 www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2026...

‘Justiça não foi feita’, diz mãe que perdeu os filhos no desastre da Vale em Brumadinho. Rompimento da barragem de rejeitos da mineradora em Minas completa sete anos no próximo domingo. Confira a reportagem da @apublica.org:

"[P]ositing technological innovation as a deus ex machina absolves us from the responsibility of a frontal confrontation with fossil capitalism—and capitalism itself."

É impressão minha ou o vocabulário da corrupção saiu de pauta nesse período pré-eleitoral? Em tempos de Lava Jato, era só o que dava como munição contra o PT

burghum: hey kids, meet coalie coalie: hi kids! we're gonna be best friends! kids: yayyyyyyy!! burghum: we will now b u r n h i m. kids: [horrified shrieks as coalie is set ablaze]

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My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Relatório da ONU declara o início de uma era de falência hídrica global Relatório pede uma reformulação fundamental da agenda global da água, visto que danos irreversíveis levam muitas bacias hidrográficas a um ponto de não retorno Clique no link para ler:

Governo Lula libera quase R$ 1 bi para recompor orçamento de universidade federais

The longer it takes European leaders to forcefully push back against the United States, the more Donald Trump will ratchet up his pressure on them because they appear weak. The choice increasingly looks like a break from the US or giving into Trump’s every demand. There’s no middle path.

Macron, no grupo do Whats dos presidentes: "Galera, olha só: não mandem mensagens para o Trump. Ele vaza. Fiquem ligados. Se precisarem, mandem mensagem de visualização única. Abraços. Tamo junto"

The powerful have their power. We have the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to act together | Mark Carney

“Ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair). [high confidence]”

✊🏽 VITÓRIA! A rede social X e a inteligência artificial Grok têm 7 dias para impedirem a criação de pornograf*a infantil e pornograf*a sem consentimento. Essa é uma decisão conjunta da Agência Nacional de Proteção de Dados, do MPF e da Senacon fundamentada nas minhas denúncias. +👇🏽