Jose Afonso Furtado
@jafurtado.bsky.social
Are Republicans changing their minds about AI safety? By Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social / Plataformer www.platformer.news/ftc-chatbots...
Are Republicans changing their minds about AI safety?
A new FTC inquiry into chatbots and children shows that some within the Trump Administration may be reconsidering their anti-regulation approach
www.platformer.news
September 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Are Republicans changing their minds about AI safety? By Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social / Plataformer www.platformer.news/ftc-chatbots...
Read, Write, Act: Inside the MCP server boom, by Asimov’s Addendum, Sruly Rosenblat, Ilan Strauss, Isobel Moure and Tim O’Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social / Asimov’s Addendum - Substack open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...
Read, Write, Act: Inside the MCP server boom
A mapping of 2,874 MCP servers shows concentration risks and a surge in agentic browsing — with implications for APIs, local MCPs, and market design.
open.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Read, Write, Act: Inside the MCP server boom, by Asimov’s Addendum, Sruly Rosenblat, Ilan Strauss, Isobel Moure and Tim O’Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social / Asimov’s Addendum - Substack open.substack.com/pub/asimovad...
AI-First Companies, by Jakob Nielsen @jakobnielsen.bsky.social / Jakob Nielsen on UX - Substack open.substack.com/pub/jakobnie...
AI-First Companies
AI-First means massive automation to repetitive tasks, rapid iteration over perfection, ubiquitous AI integration across workflows, and workforce transformation requiring AI literacy.
open.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
AI-First Companies, by Jakob Nielsen @jakobnielsen.bsky.social / Jakob Nielsen on UX - Substack open.substack.com/pub/jakobnie...
Microsoft’s AI Chief Mustafa Suleyman Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’, by Will Knight @willknight.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/micros...
Microsoft’s AI Chief Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’
Mustafa Suleyman says that designing AI systems to exceed human intelligence—and to mimic behavior that suggests consciousness—would be “dangerous and misguided.”
www.wired.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Microsoft’s AI Chief Mustafa Suleyman Says Machine Consciousness Is an ‘Illusion’, by Will Knight @willknight.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/micros...
Reposted by Jose Afonso Furtado
I've got a new piece up in the @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social today, explaining my deep pessimism about the future of the subscribe-to-open OA publishing model. Comments are coming in thick and fast and the discussion has been really good so far, I think.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/18/s...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/18/s...
Subscribe-to-Open Is Doomed. Here's Why. - The Scholarly Kitchen
A scholarly communication ecosystem that relies on voluntary support rather than charging for access to content becomes radically less capable of keeping money in the system.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org
August 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I've got a new piece up in the @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social today, explaining my deep pessimism about the future of the subscribe-to-open OA publishing model. Comments are coming in thick and fast and the discussion has been really good so far, I think.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/18/s...
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/18/s...
The Four Archetypes of Platform Organizations, by Simone Cicero /The Rules of the Platform Game - Boundaryless www.boundaryless.io/blog/four-ar...
The Four Archetypes of Platform Organizations - Boundaryless
Explore how successful organizations balance portfolio and platform strategies across 4 distinct archetypes. Learn to optimize decoupling and coherence for sustainable growth.
www.boundaryless.io
September 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The Four Archetypes of Platform Organizations, by Simone Cicero /The Rules of the Platform Game - Boundaryless www.boundaryless.io/blog/four-ar...
Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights
After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. Interview by Dell Cameron @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/eff-ci...
After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. Interview by Dell Cameron @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/eff-ci...
Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights
After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. In a WIRED interview, she reflects on encryption, AI, and why she’s not ready to quit the battl...
www.wired.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights
After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. Interview by Dell Cameron @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/eff-ci...
After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. Interview by Dell Cameron @dell.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/eff-ci...
On the Cultural Fatigue around AI. By Richard Yao / IPG Media Lab - Medium medium.com/ipg-media-la...
On the Cultural Fatigue around AI
Compression culture, parental panic, and the remaining trust gap
medium.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
On the Cultural Fatigue around AI. By Richard Yao / IPG Media Lab - Medium medium.com/ipg-media-la...
Are We Losing Our Minds? A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia, by Kent Anderson / The Geyser www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...
Are We Losing Our Minds?
A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia
www.the-geyser.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Are We Losing Our Minds? A new position paper warns against the uncritical adoption of AI in academia, by Kent Anderson / The Geyser www.the-geyser.com/are-we-losin...
Education at a Glance 2025 (OCDE Report) / @oecdstatistics.bsky.social www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
Education at a Glance 2025
Education at a Glance is the authoritative source of information on the state of education worldwide. It offers comprehensive data on the structure, financing, and performance of education systems acr...
www.oecd.org
September 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Education at a Glance 2025 (OCDE Report) / @oecdstatistics.bsky.social www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
The Unwritten Rules of Managing a Research Lab to Cultivate Innovation. Early lessons in research managment at Xerox PARC have stood the test of time.
By Jeremy Roschelle @jeremyr.blog / BLOG@CACM cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the...
By Jeremy Roschelle @jeremyr.blog / BLOG@CACM cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the...
September 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
The Unwritten Rules of Managing a Research Lab to Cultivate Innovation. Early lessons in research managment at Xerox PARC have stood the test of time.
By Jeremy Roschelle @jeremyr.blog / BLOG@CACM cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the...
By Jeremy Roschelle @jeremyr.blog / BLOG@CACM cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the...
Why retention is so hard for new tech products, by Andrew Chen @andrewchen.bsky.social / @andrewchen - Substack open.substack.com/pub/andrewch...
Why retention is so hard for new tech products
And how to apply these lessons to the current gen of AI apps
open.substack.com
September 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Why retention is so hard for new tech products, by Andrew Chen @andrewchen.bsky.social / @andrewchen - Substack open.substack.com/pub/andrewch...
Information literacy and chatbots as search, by Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social / Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
Information literacy and chatbots as search
By Emily This post started off as a thread I wrote and posted across social media on Sunday evening. I'm reproducing the thread (lightly edited) first and...
buttondown.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Information literacy and chatbots as search, by Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social / Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
The Tech Industry Is Locking AI Into Old Models. That’s Bad for Everyone, by John Battelle @battellemedia.com / Searchblog battellemedia.com/archives/202...
John Battelle's Search Blog The Tech Industry Is Locking AI Into Old Models. That’s Bad for Everyone.
I’ve written a lot about AI lately, and I’ll admit, most of it is critical. Plenty of you have asked me why I’m so down on the sector. The crux of it is this: I think we’re …
battellemedia.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The Tech Industry Is Locking AI Into Old Models. That’s Bad for Everyone, by John Battelle @battellemedia.com / Searchblog battellemedia.com/archives/202...
OpenAI’s future, foretold? Two new charts paint two very different scenarios, by Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social / Marcus on AI - Substack open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
OpenAI’s future, foretold?
Two new charts paint two very different scenarios
open.substack.com
September 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
OpenAI’s future, foretold? Two new charts paint two very different scenarios, by Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social / Marcus on AI - Substack open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
Global voices, one network: Expanding the Web of Science platform with Research Commons – Plus More ATG News, by Tom Gilson / @chashub.bsky.social www.charleston-hub.com/2025/09/glob...
September 7, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Global voices, one network: Expanding the Web of Science platform with Research Commons – Plus More ATG News, by Tom Gilson / @chashub.bsky.social www.charleston-hub.com/2025/09/glob...
“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5, by Ashley Belanger @ashleybelanger.bsky.social / @arstechnica.com arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion
Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.
arstechnica.com
September 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5, by Ashley Belanger @ashleybelanger.bsky.social / @arstechnica.com arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All, By Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-do...
The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All
Eliezer Yudkowsky, AI’s prince of doom, explains why computers will kill us and provides an unrealistic plan to stop it.
www.wired.com
September 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All, By Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social / @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-do...
Spotting Scams Based on Fake Profiles, by Alex Tray @alextray.bsky.social / BLOG@CACM cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/spo...
September 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Spotting Scams Based on Fake Profiles, by Alex Tray @alextray.bsky.social / BLOG@CACM cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/spo...
Masterful photo edits now just take a few words. Are we ready for this? By Chris Velazco @velazco.bsky.social / @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Review | Masterful photo edits now just take a few words. Are we ready for this?
For better or worse, Google’s Gemini chatbot just got a “Nano Banana” AI image editing boost.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Masterful photo edits now just take a few words. Are we ready for this? By Chris Velazco @velazco.bsky.social / @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Lonely Fans, by Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com | No Mercy / No Malice www.profgalloway.com/lonely-fans/
Lonely Fans | No Mercy / No Malice
Loneliness is lucrative. Leonid Radvinsky, the secretive owner of OnlyFans, received a $700 million windfall last year, while the platform’s top tier of content creators — mostly women — earn millions...
www.profgalloway.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Lonely Fans, by Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com | No Mercy / No Malice www.profgalloway.com/lonely-fans/
Bookstores Contend with National Guard Presence in Washington, D.C. By Claire Kirch, with reporting by Cathy Lynn Grossman @clgrossman.bsky.social / @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Washington D.C. Indies Contend With Police and Military Presence
The Trump administration’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., last month is impacting sales and foot traffic to various degrees at indie bookstores across the city.
www.publishersweekly.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Bookstores Contend with National Guard Presence in Washington, D.C. By Claire Kirch, with reporting by Cathy Lynn Grossman @clgrossman.bsky.social / @publisherswkly.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Reposted by Jose Afonso Furtado
Long title :-) Summary of my response to LIS Forward > Introduction and summary: Long title :-) Summary of my remarks about LIS Forward > Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward
Introduction and summary: Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward
A discussion of libraries and library studies in the context of library education. It is the introduction to, and summary of, my response to the LIS Forward position paper.
buff.ly
September 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Long title :-) Summary of my response to LIS Forward > Introduction and summary: Long title :-) Summary of my remarks about LIS Forward > Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward
The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking, by Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social / Marcus on AI - New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
September 4, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking, by Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social / Marcus on AI - New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
The AI-Powered Mediocrity Line, by Luiza Jarovsky @luizajarovsky.bsky.social / Luiza’s Newsletter- Substack www.luizasnewsletter.com/p/the-ai-pow...
The AI-Powered Mediocrity Line
The demand for excellent professionals is rising, and it will likely be among the major factors of change in the job market and in how people plan their lives in the upcoming years | Edition #231
www.luizasnewsletter.com
September 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The AI-Powered Mediocrity Line, by Luiza Jarovsky @luizajarovsky.bsky.social / Luiza’s Newsletter- Substack www.luizasnewsletter.com/p/the-ai-pow...