Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

The US-Israel war on Iran has emitted 5 million tonnes of CO₂ₑ in its first 14 days. The world currently has 0.6 million tonnes of novel and permanent CO₂ removal (CDR) capacity annually.

Deskilling students and devaluing intellectual work does not appeal more simply because we can now do it at scale

A point often made about critiques of genAI in the classroom (or the dissertation) is that the ills described—formulaic work, poor sourcing, plagiarism—are not new. This is true! What *is* new is the idea that a tool that automates them should make us “rethink” whether they’re bad. Why would it?

Lembram há uns 30 anos atrás, quando a gente dizia que todos os filmes eram iguais sem imaginar o que aconteceria 30 anos depois?

El 50 aniversario del último golpe militar en Argentina encuentra al país bajo un Gobierno que relativiza el terrorismo de Estado, mientras la literatura, el cine y otras artes continúan elaborando el legado del genocidio

For every 1°C of warming, the atmosphere can hold approximately 7% more moisture. Just sayin’.

Disturbing anecdotal reports of "AI psychosis" and negative psychological effects have been emerging in the news. But what actually happens during these lengthy delusional "spirals"? In our preprint, we analyze chat logs from 19 users who experienced severe psychological harm🧵👇

Well... That's one way to have longer days...

Músicas para cantar gritando: "O Que Sobrou do Céu" - O Rappa

Tem mais essa

Today, tech billionaires who are ignorant, evil, or both are trying to change how we understand what it means to be human: what we are able to do with our minds, what we want to do, why we bother living at all. Don't let them monstrify you. From HUMANS: A Monstrous History: 7/7

Marc Andreessen claiming that he "doesn't do introspection" is just another building block in the attempt to shift the definition of "person" in a way to allow "AI"s to gain rights.

Seeking power for data centers, Meta and other companies plan to use equipment that is expensive and polluting.

It's still smart for Brin. He's worth $240 billion; this tax could theoretically cost him $12 billion. This is a fraction of that. But *even if the math didn't work for him*, he'd still do it. He'd spend $20 billion to save $1 billion of it came to that, because the numbers aren't the point.

The first round of mergers and cuts to “certain academic programs” have been announced at UNT and it is an atrocity. Among them: no more degree programs in Linguistics, no more MA in WGST, and… www.unt.edu/budget-updat...

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René Higuita no sorteio da Conmebol. Que espetáculo

The editors I know have all been basically crossing their fingers hoping the first AI scandal wouldn't be one of their books.

Welp, here we go. Been expecting this to happen soon.

Martelinho de ouro na Funilaria do Zé Nerso e tá novo

My book is available for pre-order. Use coupon code E26CRLLO to save 30% when you order from @dukepress.bsky.social dukeupress.edu/the-business...

NOT NOW, MILLIONS OF SCORPIONS

‘Doomsday scenario’: a visual guide to the oil and gas site attacks in the Middle East

Fossil fuels push the world towards autocracy. Were we less dependent on them, there might have been no President Trump, no President Putin, no ayatollahs, no Netanyahu, no perpetual Middle East wars. Democracy depends on unhooking ourselves. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

these new resurrection men suck

Parece provável, então, que estejamos entrando agora em uma era pós-ordem, uma era de crise hegemônica duradoura. Leia o artigo completo: jacobin.com/2026/03/post...

New @chaykak.bsky.social column on a none more K. Chayka topic: Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Congratulations to Trump - the sharpest gas price spike since Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago. And we’ve barely started.

Iran has ordered people to evacuate energy production facilities in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar as it threatened to launch strikes following an earlier Israeli attack on its own gas infrastructure, Bloomberg reports. Oil prices have spiked.

é curioso que, quando os usuários pedem revisão das mensalidades na Justiça, todos os planos apresentam "laudos atuariais" dizendo que estão quebrados, gastando mais nos atendimentos do que arrecadam dos clientes

Thanks @johnmerrick.bsky.social and @the-breakdown.bsky.social for running essays on oil and the American-Israeli war in the ME, including one from me on empire and Palestine. www.break-down.org/oil-war/

Camara quer tirar do IBAMA a capacidade de fiscalizar via satélite 👍🏻 Os caras querem que os agentes do IBAMA fiscalizem apenas in loco. Esse foi o absurdo que eu tive que escrever ontem. climainfo.org.br/2026/03/17/c...

Venezuela campeã do mundo de baseball contra os EUA em Miami

Ah, pois é...

OK, these two slides got my attention. Source: substack-post-media.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/post-files/1...

Per sources, 26% of Virginia’s energy consumption is in data centers.

To put it in perspective. In the late 90s, we're talking a little over 100,000 books published each year in the US. 1,000,000 in 2009. 4,000,000 in 2025.

They would, if they lived under Lula's rules... 😎

Wow! With the wonderful new DLSS 5 technology, we can finally see the real way Miyamoto envisioned Mario in his hit game '64'! Technology is amazing

The humanities: weak, contemptible, ineffective, populated mainly by losers, graduates incapable of doing anything but menial service work. Also the humanities: a dangerous, incomprehensibly powerful force whose total destruction is necessary if society is to continue, children are to be born, etc.

All the bad weather, everywhere, all at once. It's too early to say this is down to climate change, but we know a hotter atmosphere makes some extremes more frequent and most even more extreme

"I'm standing here in front of you guys because an English professor ... read something that I wrote —it was the first assignment when I was 17 years old, my freshman year— and said 'Hey I think you should go to Hollywood and write screenplays.' Literally said that to me."

Neymar fora da penúltima lista. E, com as lesões de Bruno Guimarães, Militão, Rodrygo, Estêvão, a lista da seleção ficou bem, bem, bem fraca... E não tem a ver com a presença do ex-jogador em atividade, que entra em campo com os olhos cheios de cachaça

Não demora muito e os analistas (sempre lembrando: "analista" = aquele que tira as opiniões do ânus) vão dizer que é efeito da pré-candidatura de Flávio Bolsonaro

Próximo filme do KMF: membros da Academia do Oscar desembarcam por engano no Recife, onde são recebidos à bala por jagunços liderados por Tânia Maria

Hora do K-Pop...

Só pra deixar claro que eu não chorei em Valor Sentimental

Javier Bardem tiene los cojones!

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