Felipe R. da Silva.
@felipers.bsky.social
Bioinformatics @Embrapa.
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I'll stop here. But note that these are all cases involving ADULTS outsourcing the basic requirements of their professional responsibilities to these tools of cognitive automation.
Now tell me we need to be pushing this into schools. I fucking dare you.
Now tell me we need to be pushing this into schools. I fucking dare you.
December 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I'll stop here. But note that these are all cases involving ADULTS outsourcing the basic requirements of their professional responsibilities to these tools of cognitive automation.
Now tell me we need to be pushing this into schools. I fucking dare you.
Now tell me we need to be pushing this into schools. I fucking dare you.
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Colocaram implantes cerebrais em uma mulher que perdeu os movimentos e agora ela consegue tocar piano só com os impulsos nervosos enquanto ela imagina tocar. Muito legal.
O twist: os eletrodos lêem os impulsos antes de serem registrados pela consciência. Então ela sente que o piano toca sozinho.
O twist: os eletrodos lêem os impulsos antes de serem registrados pela consciência. Então ela sente que o piano toca sozinho.
Mind-reading devices can now predict preconscious thoughts: is it time to worry?
Ethicists say AI-powered advances will threaten the privacy and autonomy of people who use neurotechnology.
www.nature.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Colocaram implantes cerebrais em uma mulher que perdeu os movimentos e agora ela consegue tocar piano só com os impulsos nervosos enquanto ela imagina tocar. Muito legal.
O twist: os eletrodos lêem os impulsos antes de serem registrados pela consciência. Então ela sente que o piano toca sozinho.
O twist: os eletrodos lêem os impulsos antes de serem registrados pela consciência. Então ela sente que o piano toca sozinho.
Reposted by Felipe R. da Silva.
Gift article about the across-the-board *slowdown* in federal funding for science - on ALL the topics. But especially for up-and-coming scientists.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Gift article about the across-the-board *slowdown* in federal funding for science - on ALL the topics. But especially for up-and-coming scientists.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🎁
“it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
December 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.”
Reposted by Felipe R. da Silva.
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
"Meanwhile, artificial intelligence technologies are undermining the value of the industry’s creative endeavours by enabling companies to create ads quicker and more cheaply".
Omnicom to axe historic ad agencies and cut 4,000 jobs in IPG takeover on.ft.com/3XopTNd
Omnicom to axe historic ad agencies and cut 4,000 jobs in IPG takeover
John Wren enacts swift restructuring and says cost savings from $13bn deal will surpass previous estimates
on.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"Meanwhile, artificial intelligence technologies are undermining the value of the industry’s creative endeavours by enabling companies to create ads quicker and more cheaply".
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Here’s this year’s Books We Love—but thanks to lots of work by lots of people, you can also look over all the Books We Love years back to 2013. It’s a remarkable project, and I can say that because I have nothing to do with it. (/fin)
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
apps.npr.org
November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Here’s this year’s Books We Love—but thanks to lots of work by lots of people, you can also look over all the Books We Love years back to 2013. It’s a remarkable project, and I can say that because I have nothing to do with it. (/fin)
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it’s over
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
on.ft.com/4ahkNKa
November 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
it’s over
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dá pra ter muito problema ao mesmo tempo não precisa escoher um só.
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
dá pra ter muito problema ao mesmo tempo não precisa escoher um só.
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Reposted by Felipe R. da Silva.
Reposted by Felipe R. da Silva.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Reposted by Felipe R. da Silva.
I just published: Gene Editing: Precision Breeding Regulations Now Live
On 13 November 2025, UK regulations for precision bred plants came into effect. We can now register precision bred plants, such as those with disease resistance and reduced reliance on fungicides.
medium.com/p/gene-editi...
On 13 November 2025, UK regulations for precision bred plants came into effect. We can now register precision bred plants, such as those with disease resistance and reduced reliance on fungicides.
medium.com/p/gene-editi...
Gene Editing: Precision Breeding Regulations Now Live
FIRST PUBLISHED: 14.11.25 BY LAURA TURCHI AND MIA CERFONTEYN | THE SAINSBURY LABORATORY
medium.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I just published: Gene Editing: Precision Breeding Regulations Now Live
On 13 November 2025, UK regulations for precision bred plants came into effect. We can now register precision bred plants, such as those with disease resistance and reduced reliance on fungicides.
medium.com/p/gene-editi...
On 13 November 2025, UK regulations for precision bred plants came into effect. We can now register precision bred plants, such as those with disease resistance and reduced reliance on fungicides.
medium.com/p/gene-editi...
Reposted by Felipe R. da Silva.
Salve, pessoal. Um projeto que eu estava preparando para o ano que vem subiu no telhado. Cheguei a recusar algumas propostas pra não estar com o tempo comprometido caso desse certo. Não deu. Assim, estou aberto a tomar cafés pra pensar coisas pra adiante.
November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Salve, pessoal. Um projeto que eu estava preparando para o ano que vem subiu no telhado. Cheguei a recusar algumas propostas pra não estar com o tempo comprometido caso desse certo. Não deu. Assim, estou aberto a tomar cafés pra pensar coisas pra adiante.
Chorei no início de uma aula na semana retrasada falando do Lô. Enquanto eu viver, garanto a imortalidade dele!
Começando a semana com texto emocionante sobre as invenções de Lô Borges.
silencionoestudio.com.br/o-tempo-nao-...
silencionoestudio.com.br/o-tempo-nao-...
O tempo não para nem vai esperar - Silêncio no Estúdio
Infelizmente, alguns sonhos envelheceram. Que a obra e a memória de Lô nos ajudem a reencontrar o caminho da invenção, da mágica e do risco.
silencionoestudio.com.br
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Chorei no início de uma aula na semana retrasada falando do Lô. Enquanto eu viver, garanto a imortalidade dele!
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It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
Reposted by Felipe R. da Silva.
Although focused on the EU, the warnings offered here are no less true for AI policy in the US, or anywhere else for that matter. In my lifetime I've never seen grandiose hype of what *might* happen with a technology drive what we are doing in the here and now. Not good!
In a short piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @abeba.bsky.social and I write #AIHype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course.
Stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence.” Serve citizens. Don't cater to the whims of tech CEOs.
www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
Stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence.” Serve citizens. Don't cater to the whims of tech CEOs.
www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
AI Hype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course | TechPolicy.Press
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about "AGI" and "superintelligence."
www.techpolicy.press
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Although focused on the EU, the warnings offered here are no less true for AI policy in the US, or anywhere else for that matter. In my lifetime I've never seen grandiose hype of what *might* happen with a technology drive what we are doing in the here and now. Not good!
Reposted by Felipe R. da Silva.
It's a wee bit unfortunate that the phrase "cognitive offloading" has become the go-to phrase for describing what AI does, including by those worried about its impact on education. I believe a more accurate term is cognitive *automation*, as Francois Chollet described years ago.
AI is cognitive automation, not cognitive autonomy
Like the rest of computer science, AI is about making computers do more, not replacing humans.
fchollet.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It's a wee bit unfortunate that the phrase "cognitive offloading" has become the go-to phrase for describing what AI does, including by those worried about its impact on education. I believe a more accurate term is cognitive *automation*, as Francois Chollet described years ago.
Reposted by Felipe R. da Silva.
ICIJ's latest investigation The #CoinLaundry is a collaboration of 113 journalists from 38 media partners in 35 countries that exposes how cryptocurrency companies have empowered a shadow economy that lavishly profits from crime.
Here are our findings:
Here are our findings:
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
ICIJ's latest investigation The #CoinLaundry is a collaboration of 113 journalists from 38 media partners in 35 countries that exposes how cryptocurrency companies have empowered a shadow economy that lavishly profits from crime.
Here are our findings:
Here are our findings:
Even @wired.com acknowledges how superior (better!) @home-assistant.io is!
I've been using Home Assistant for almost 2 years now. There's no turning back.
I've been using Home Assistant for almost 2 years now. There's no turning back.
If you're spending more time fixing your smart home than using it, it could be time to stop relying on the cloud. Here's how. www.wired.com/story/heres-...
I Ditched Alexa and Upgraded My Smart Home
If you're spending more time fixing your smart home than using it, it could be time to stop relying on the cloud. Here's how.
www.wired.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Even @wired.com acknowledges how superior (better!) @home-assistant.io is!
I've been using Home Assistant for almost 2 years now. There's no turning back.
I've been using Home Assistant for almost 2 years now. There's no turning back.
Reposted by Felipe R. da Silva.
My quote of the day
In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.
Dan Ariely
In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.
Dan Ariely
November 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
My quote of the day
In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.
Dan Ariely
In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.
Dan Ariely
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As Doug Altman wrote, "We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons”.
Incentives are key for that, but I'd argue that so should accountability. Without real consequences for deviating from such goal, nothing will change.
Incentives are key for that, but I'd argue that so should accountability. Without real consequences for deviating from such goal, nothing will change.
November 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
As Doug Altman wrote, "We need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons”.
Incentives are key for that, but I'd argue that so should accountability. Without real consequences for deviating from such goal, nothing will change.
Incentives are key for that, but I'd argue that so should accountability. Without real consequences for deviating from such goal, nothing will change.
Reposted by Felipe R. da Silva.
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
During the height of the pandemic, Tyson used Palantir to predict Covid-19 infections among meatpacking workers down to a nearly exactly figure. But rather than using this data to increase worker protections, Tyson used it plan for labor shortages + plant closures
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
My latest for @sentientmedia.org
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Shameless plug:
For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie life in most of the world. Built up over generations, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know anything about them, and they're all at risk of failing. Here's the latest:
For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie life in most of the world. Built up over generations, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know anything about them, and they're all at risk of failing. Here's the latest:
Two Hundred Years to Flatten the Curve
How generations of meddlesome public health campaigns changed everyday life — and made life twice as long as it used to be
www.thenewatlantis.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Shameless plug:
For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie life in most of the world. Built up over generations, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know anything about them, and they're all at risk of failing. Here's the latest:
For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie life in most of the world. Built up over generations, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know anything about them, and they're all at risk of failing. Here's the latest: