Paula Simoes
@paulasimoes.bsky.social
My blog: https://paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com/
Mastodon: @paulasimoes.ciberlandia.pt
Digital Humanities; Public Domain; Open Access; History, Heritage, Creativity & New Media, Free & Open Source Software. Books 📚
Mastodon: @paulasimoes.ciberlandia.pt
Digital Humanities; Public Domain; Open Access; History, Heritage, Creativity & New Media, Free & Open Source Software. Books 📚
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A mesma invenção que espalhou conhecimento e alfabetização também serviu para difundir preconceito, polarização e violência, especialmente contra as mulheres. A história da imprensa é também a história de como a tecnologia pode amplificar tanto o progresso como o medo.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A mesma invenção que espalhou conhecimento e alfabetização também serviu para difundir preconceito, polarização e violência, especialmente contra as mulheres. A história da imprensa é também a história de como a tecnologia pode amplificar tanto o progresso como o medo.
🔗 shifter.pt/2025/10/impr...
🔗 shifter.pt/2025/10/impr...
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"A história dos julgamentos de bruxas mostra claramente o que acontece quando a propaganda misógina alimentada pela tecnologia fica fora de controlo."
"Como a imprensa desencadeou a mortífera caça às bruxas na Europa" 🔗 shifter.pt/2025/10/impr...
"Como a imprensa desencadeou a mortífera caça às bruxas na Europa" 🔗 shifter.pt/2025/10/impr...
November 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"A história dos julgamentos de bruxas mostra claramente o que acontece quando a propaganda misógina alimentada pela tecnologia fica fora de controlo."
"Como a imprensa desencadeou a mortífera caça às bruxas na Europa" 🔗 shifter.pt/2025/10/impr...
"Como a imprensa desencadeou a mortífera caça às bruxas na Europa" 🔗 shifter.pt/2025/10/impr...
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Another brilliant essay from @eryk.bsky.social, this time he writes the history of ChatGPT against the backdrop of mass loneliness and social distance. This history is still unfolding and the signs are not encouraging for where we are headed.
What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Another brilliant essay from @eryk.bsky.social, this time he writes the history of ChatGPT against the backdrop of mass loneliness and social distance. This history is still unfolding and the signs are not encouraging for where we are headed.
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Mil milhões por ano!
Já se justificava uma descida do IRC 🤗
Já se justificava uma descida do IRC 🤗
Portugal perde 2,9 milhões por dia com fuga aos impostos das multinacionais
Portugal perde 2,9 milhões de euros por dia em impostos não cobrados às multinacionais, que utilizam estratégias mais diversas para não pagar Imposto sobre o Rendimento de Pessoas Coletivas (IRC). Seg...
www.jn.pt
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Mil milhões por ano!
Já se justificava uma descida do IRC 🤗
Já se justificava uma descida do IRC 🤗
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November 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Why Civil Society Is Sounding the Alarm on the EU’s #DigitalOmnibus Rollback
www.techpolicy.press/why-civil-so...
www.techpolicy.press/why-civil-so...
Why Civil Society Is Sounding the Alarm on the EU’s Omnibus Rollback | TechPolicy.Press
Under the guise of “simplification,” a corporate-backed wave of weakening digital rules is underway that threatens all of our rights, writes Joshua Franco.
www.techpolicy.press
November 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Why Civil Society Is Sounding the Alarm on the EU’s #DigitalOmnibus Rollback
www.techpolicy.press/why-civil-so...
www.techpolicy.press/why-civil-so...
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📬 New newsletter: European Books Data Commons, CommonsDB Explorer launch, AI copyright rulings, and more on making cultural heritage work for AI while keeping control public. Not subscribed yet? Read the full issue and sign up here: mailchi.mp/openfuture/b...
📚 Building a European Books Data Commons - Newsletter #50
European Books Data Commons: a public-interest model for opening cultural heritage to AI training and computational research.
mailchi.mp
November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
📬 New newsletter: European Books Data Commons, CommonsDB Explorer launch, AI copyright rulings, and more on making cultural heritage work for AI while keeping control public. Not subscribed yet? Read the full issue and sign up here: mailchi.mp/openfuture/b...
Loved the Trollope and Eliot (recent reads) 😍
Morning, it’s been a while….
Indulging my passion for a chonky classic read today
Have you read any of these?
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Indulging my passion for a chonky classic read today
Have you read any of these?
www.instagram.com/p/DRWaVuADNI...
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Loved the Trollope and Eliot (recent reads) 😍
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We are back. Our provider found and repaired a fiber issue last night and traffic has returned. We are sorry for the disruption.
The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed.
We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
November 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We are back. Our provider found and repaired a fiber issue last night and traffic has returned. We are sorry for the disruption.
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Cory Doctorow na #WebSummit:
A Internet está uma m*rda. Que fazer? "Juntem-se a grupos de defesa de direitos digitais".
A Gália não está toda ocupada, apenas parece. Muitos ainda resistem. 💪
«“Merdificação” em curso: porque é que a Internet está pior?»
www.publico.pt/2025/11/19/p...
A Internet está uma m*rda. Que fazer? "Juntem-se a grupos de defesa de direitos digitais".
A Gália não está toda ocupada, apenas parece. Muitos ainda resistem. 💪
«“Merdificação” em curso: porque é que a Internet está pior?»
www.publico.pt/2025/11/19/p...
November 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Cory Doctorow na #WebSummit:
A Internet está uma m*rda. Que fazer? "Juntem-se a grupos de defesa de direitos digitais".
A Gália não está toda ocupada, apenas parece. Muitos ainda resistem. 💪
«“Merdificação” em curso: porque é que a Internet está pior?»
www.publico.pt/2025/11/19/p...
A Internet está uma m*rda. Que fazer? "Juntem-se a grupos de defesa de direitos digitais".
A Gália não está toda ocupada, apenas parece. Muitos ainda resistem. 💪
«“Merdificação” em curso: porque é que a Internet está pior?»
www.publico.pt/2025/11/19/p...
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🇪🇺 "This is the biggest attack on European's digital rights in years," said Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems "When the Commission states that it 'maintains the highest standards', it clearly is incorrect. It proposes to undermine these standards."
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
Europe Is Ready to Dilute Its Tough Rules on Privacy. You Can Blame AI for That
Critics warned that proposed changes will weaken the GDPR in a way that amounts to an attack on digital rights.
www.cnet.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🇪🇺 "This is the biggest attack on European's digital rights in years," said Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems "When the Commission states that it 'maintains the highest standards', it clearly is incorrect. It proposes to undermine these standards."
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
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When EU digital sovereignty started gained traction it was grounded to a different way of doing business, one bound by EU rules.
With this week's #DigitalOmnibus ,the EU is sacrificing digital rules for the sake of an over-hyped AI race.
Who wins? Big Tech of course
www.somo.nl/the-real-win...
With this week's #DigitalOmnibus ,the EU is sacrificing digital rules for the sake of an over-hyped AI race.
Who wins? Big Tech of course
www.somo.nl/the-real-win...
The real winners of the AI Race : Amazon, Google, Microsoft - SOMO
Who really profits from the 'AI race'? Amazon, Google, and Microsoft own the AI infrastructure, and startups are dependent on Big Tech firms.
www.somo.nl
November 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
When EU digital sovereignty started gained traction it was grounded to a different way of doing business, one bound by EU rules.
With this week's #DigitalOmnibus ,the EU is sacrificing digital rules for the sake of an over-hyped AI race.
Who wins? Big Tech of course
www.somo.nl/the-real-win...
With this week's #DigitalOmnibus ,the EU is sacrificing digital rules for the sake of an over-hyped AI race.
Who wins? Big Tech of course
www.somo.nl/the-real-win...
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23,00 fewer deaths. Each one a familiy friend, a relative, a colleague, one of us. 23 THOUSAND.
"If a mandatory lockdown had been imposed a week earlier in March 2020, there would have been about 23,000 fewer deaths, it concluded." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under Tories
Second pandemic report focuses on decision-making, organisation and messaging by senior politicians including Boris Johnson
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
23,00 fewer deaths. Each one a familiy friend, a relative, a colleague, one of us. 23 THOUSAND.
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Last week Conservative & far right MEPs pushed through Omnibus package that weakens 3 corporate sustainability laws
Omnibus decision-making was clear corporate capture ⚠️
Legal experts warn that Omnibus I may be illegal 💥
Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Omnibus decision-making was clear corporate capture ⚠️
Legal experts warn that Omnibus I may be illegal 💥
Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Deregulation Watch | Corporate Europe Observatory
Check out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environme...
www.corporateeurope.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Last week Conservative & far right MEPs pushed through Omnibus package that weakens 3 corporate sustainability laws
Omnibus decision-making was clear corporate capture ⚠️
Legal experts warn that Omnibus I may be illegal 💥
Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Omnibus decision-making was clear corporate capture ⚠️
Legal experts warn that Omnibus I may be illegal 💥
Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
www.corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...
Continuem a votar à direita:
Maria João Albuquerque/PSD/Comissão Europeia querem obrigar cidadãos a terem pensões privadas:
"(...) workers would be automatically enrolled in supplementary pension schemes but free to opt out."
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Maria João Albuquerque/PSD/Comissão Europeia querem obrigar cidadãos a terem pensões privadas:
"(...) workers would be automatically enrolled in supplementary pension schemes but free to opt out."
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
EU tells capitals to improve citizens' private pension options
The EU wants citizens to have more ways to ensure an adequate retirement income while also steering part of their savings toward the bloc’s strategic priorities – but state pensions will remain “the b...
www.euronews.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Continuem a votar à direita:
Maria João Albuquerque/PSD/Comissão Europeia querem obrigar cidadãos a terem pensões privadas:
"(...) workers would be automatically enrolled in supplementary pension schemes but free to opt out."
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
Maria João Albuquerque/PSD/Comissão Europeia querem obrigar cidadãos a terem pensões privadas:
"(...) workers would be automatically enrolled in supplementary pension schemes but free to opt out."
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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Status update: fiber cut between data centers - trucks are rolling. Services are slow but functional, except for the Wayback Machine, which is still offline.
The Wayback Machine, openlibrary.org, and some other archive.org functions are offline because some network gear has failed.
We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
We apologize and are working on it. More as it happens.
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Status update: fiber cut between data centers - trucks are rolling. Services are slow but functional, except for the Wayback Machine, which is still offline.
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Calendário do Advento
November 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Calendário do Advento
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❗🇪🇺 The ‘Digital Omnibus’ has now been officially presented by the European #Commission.👀��� Read all about what this means for the #GDPR on our website 👉 noyb.eu/en/digital-o...
Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles
The EU Commission has published its proposal for the "Digital Omnibus". The planned changes to the GDPR would lower protections for Europeans
noyb.eu
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
❗🇪🇺 The ‘Digital Omnibus’ has now been officially presented by the European #Commission.👀��� Read all about what this means for the #GDPR on our website 👉 noyb.eu/en/digital-o...
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📰 "#Privacy activists are predictably outraged. Billboards urging Ursula von der Leyen to put Europeans over #American tech CEOs lined the street outside the #Commission HQ, the Berlaymont, throughout Wednesday morning."
👉 Continue reading: www.euractiv.com/news/eus-dig...
👉 Continue reading: www.euractiv.com/news/eus-dig...
EU’s digital law cuts spark fears and doubts on competitiveness | Euractiv
"If it's about competitiveness, this is certainly not helping," said Mario Mariniello from a Brussels-based think tank
www.euractiv.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📰 "#Privacy activists are predictably outraged. Billboards urging Ursula von der Leyen to put Europeans over #American tech CEOs lined the street outside the #Commission HQ, the Berlaymont, throughout Wednesday morning."
👉 Continue reading: www.euractiv.com/news/eus-dig...
👉 Continue reading: www.euractiv.com/news/eus-dig...
Von der Leyen drifts right with new digital deregulation plans
Privacy reforms face opposition from center and left groups but is welcomed by the right.
#DigitalOmnibus
www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
Privacy reforms face opposition from center and left groups but is welcomed by the right.
#DigitalOmnibus
www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
Von der Leyen drifts right with new digital deregulation plans
Privacy reforms face opposition from center and left groups but is welcomed by the right.
www.politico.eu
November 20, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Von der Leyen drifts right with new digital deregulation plans
Privacy reforms face opposition from center and left groups but is welcomed by the right.
#DigitalOmnibus
www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
Privacy reforms face opposition from center and left groups but is welcomed by the right.
#DigitalOmnibus
www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
#MurderEveryMondayMurderEveryMonday" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction with a farm animal in the cover
#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction with a farm animal in the cover
#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction with a farm animal in the cover
#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction with a farm animal in the cover
#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction with a farm animal in the cover
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November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
#MurderEveryMondayMurderEveryMonday" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction with a farm animal in the cover
#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction with a farm animal in the cover
#MurderEveryMonday Crime fiction with a farm animal in the cover
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É hora de aplicar a lei contra #apple!
A @fsfe tem ajudado a @EUCommission em um processo crucial para o futuro da interoperabilidade e do software livre.
Muito obrigado @ansol pela coordenação dessa coluna!
https://www.pressreader.com/portugal/pc-guia/20251031/page/31 (with sign up)
A @fsfe tem ajudado a @EUCommission em um processo crucial para o futuro da interoperabilidade e do software livre.
Muito obrigado @ansol pela coordenação dessa coluna!
https://www.pressreader.com/portugal/pc-guia/20251031/page/31 (with sign up)
November 17, 2025 at 9:44 AM
É hora de aplicar a lei contra #apple!
A @fsfe tem ajudado a @EUCommission em um processo crucial para o futuro da interoperabilidade e do software livre.
Muito obrigado @ansol pela coordenação dessa coluna!
https://www.pressreader.com/portugal/pc-guia/20251031/page/31 (with sign up)
A @fsfe tem ajudado a @EUCommission em um processo crucial para o futuro da interoperabilidade e do software livre.
Muito obrigado @ansol pela coordenação dessa coluna!
https://www.pressreader.com/portugal/pc-guia/20251031/page/31 (with sign up)
O Gerador e o Direito de Autor por @edsantos.eu
#Jornalismo #DireitoDeAutor
edsantos.eu/o-gerador-e-...
#Jornalismo #DireitoDeAutor
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O Gerador e o Direito de Autor
Recentemente tenho visto uns quantos anúncios de eventos na área do jornalismo e Direito de Autor, claramente impulsionados pela questão da IA. Sendo organizados pela Visapress ou afins, pouco liguei....
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November 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
O Gerador e o Direito de Autor por @edsantos.eu
#Jornalismo #DireitoDeAutor
edsantos.eu/o-gerador-e-...
#Jornalismo #DireitoDeAutor
edsantos.eu/o-gerador-e-...
Sunday #ReadingSpot ready
* Tea ✓* Blanket ✓* Comfy armchair ✓* 16th November entry of A Nature Diary by Richard Adams read ✓* The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope ready ✓ We got a few minutes of sun, which was a bit eerie, we're still under storm Claudia, and the setting in the photo turned quite…
* Tea ✓* Blanket ✓* Comfy armchair ✓* 16th November entry of A Nature Diary by Richard Adams read ✓* The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope ready ✓ We got a few minutes of sun, which was a bit eerie, we're still under storm Claudia, and the setting in the photo turned quite…
Sunday #ReadingSpot ready
* Tea ✓* Blanket ✓* Comfy armchair ✓* 16th November entry of A Nature Diary by Richard Adams read ✓* The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope ready ✓ We got a few minutes of sun, which was a bit eerie, we're still under storm Claudia, and the setting in the photo turned quite dark quickly after. So dark in fact that it is as impossible to read without a light.
paulasimoesblog.wordpress.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Sunday #ReadingSpot ready
* Tea ✓* Blanket ✓* Comfy armchair ✓* 16th November entry of A Nature Diary by Richard Adams read ✓* The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope ready ✓ We got a few minutes of sun, which was a bit eerie, we're still under storm Claudia, and the setting in the photo turned quite…
* Tea ✓* Blanket ✓* Comfy armchair ✓* 16th November entry of A Nature Diary by Richard Adams read ✓* The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope ready ✓ We got a few minutes of sun, which was a bit eerie, we're still under storm Claudia, and the setting in the photo turned quite…
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Mas mesmo não sindicalizados podem e devem aderir à greve geral de dia 11 de Dezembro. Há quem ache que por não ser sindicalizado não pode aderir
www.cgtp.pt/sitio-dos-di...
www.cgtp.pt/sitio-dos-di...
November 15, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Mas mesmo não sindicalizados podem e devem aderir à greve geral de dia 11 de Dezembro. Há quem ache que por não ser sindicalizado não pode aderir
www.cgtp.pt/sitio-dos-di...
www.cgtp.pt/sitio-dos-di...