Antonio Barros
@antbarros.bsky.social
Professor de Teoria Literária na UFRGS. Editor do site Carbono: www.ufrgs.br/carbono - @carbonoufrgs.bsky.social
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I only met Asad Haider at a conference once, somewhat briefly. But seeing the devastation of my colleagues and comrades here at UC Santa Cruz, who knew him deeply, is an undeniable demonstration of his political and personal character and the impact he had on his friends.
December 6, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I only met Asad Haider at a conference once, somewhat briefly. But seeing the devastation of my colleagues and comrades here at UC Santa Cruz, who knew him deeply, is an undeniable demonstration of his political and personal character and the impact he had on his friends.
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Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
December 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for centuries, study finds. @swinda.bsky.social
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
That's an under-appreciated impact of #AMOC shutdown, of particular concern given the recent results showing much higher likelihood of this. 1/2
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
Que barbaridade isso. Trump perdeu o Brasileirão mas ganhou o Torneio Início
🇺🇸 Após perder o Nobel da Paz, Donald Trump é premiado com o "Prêmio da Paz" da FIFA.
FIFA criou o prêmio, que será anual, em meio à aproximação do americano com o presidente da entidade, Gianni Infantino.
FIFA criou o prêmio, que será anual, em meio à aproximação do americano com o presidente da entidade, Gianni Infantino.
December 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Que barbaridade isso. Trump perdeu o Brasileirão mas ganhou o Torneio Início
Que nojo essa adulação ao Trump, véi...
December 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Que nojo essa adulação ao Trump, véi...
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100 years of November sea surface temperature departures through this year. This is a lot of variability along with the long-term warming. For example, the La Niña signature for this year is becoming more prominent in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. 🌊
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at doi.org/10.7289/V5T7...
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at doi.org/10.7289/V5T7...
December 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
100 years of November sea surface temperature departures through this year. This is a lot of variability along with the long-term warming. For example, the La Niña signature for this year is becoming more prominent in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. 🌊
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at doi.org/10.7289/V5T7...
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at doi.org/10.7289/V5T7...
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Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.
First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
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Oh, look, another AI tutoring company did its own research and concluded that its own product is highly effective!
AI tutors, with a little human help, offer 'reliable' instruction, study finds. @gtoppo.bsky.social reports
AI Tutors, With a Little Human Help, Offer ‘Reliable’ Instruction, Study Finds
New UK research finds ‘extremely personalized’ AI math tutors don’t hallucinate or produce unsafe messages in sessions with kids
www.the74million.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Oh, look, another AI tutoring company did its own research and concluded that its own product is highly effective!
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DATA CENTERS 🤝 CRISE HÍDRICA | Em meio à uma crise de abastecimento em São Paulo, a instalação de novos data centers acende um alerta sobre o consumo de água e energia dos empreendimentos, que podem sobrecarregar ainda mais o sistema de distribuição. http://dlvr.it/TPcQtt
December 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
DATA CENTERS 🤝 CRISE HÍDRICA | Em meio à uma crise de abastecimento em São Paulo, a instalação de novos data centers acende um alerta sobre o consumo de água e energia dos empreendimentos, que podem sobrecarregar ainda mais o sistema de distribuição. http://dlvr.it/TPcQtt
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Na sua resenha ao filme "Folhas de Outono", de Aki Kaurismäki, Rafael Prudencio, escritor e doutor em Letras pela UFRGS, mostra como o realismo cotidiano do cineasta traduz a melancolia do capitalismo contemporâneo. Leia 👇
www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2025...
www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2025...
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Na sua resenha ao filme "Folhas de Outono", de Aki Kaurismäki, Rafael Prudencio, escritor e doutor em Letras pela UFRGS, mostra como o realismo cotidiano do cineasta traduz a melancolia do capitalismo contemporâneo. Leia 👇
www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2025...
www.ufrgs.br/carbono/2025...
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“The more we rely on algorithms, the more we normalize their values: automation, prediction, standardization, and corporate dependency. Eventually these priorities fade from view and come to seem natural—“just the way things are.””
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“The more we rely on algorithms, the more we normalize their values: automation, prediction, standardization, and corporate dependency. Eventually these priorities fade from view and come to seem natural—“just the way things are.””
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Last month was the 4th lowest #Antarctic sea ice extent on record for the month of November.
This was 1,320,000 km² below the 1981-2010 November average. Data from the @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
This was 1,320,000 km² below the 1981-2010 November average. Data from the @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
December 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Last month was the 4th lowest #Antarctic sea ice extent on record for the month of November.
This was 1,320,000 km² below the 1981-2010 November average. Data from the @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
This was 1,320,000 km² below the 1981-2010 November average. Data from the @nsidc.bsky.social: nsidc.org/data/seaice_...
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O caso reforça a necessidade de transparência no licenciamento, avaliação técnica rigorosa e prioridade ao uso humano diante da expansão de projetos que pressionam os recursos naturais do semiárido.💧
Saiba mais: climainfo.org.br/2025/11/30/c...
#CriseHídrica #LicenciamentoAmbiental
Saiba mais: climainfo.org.br/2025/11/30/c...
#CriseHídrica #LicenciamentoAmbiental
Ceará autoriza data center do TikTok a usar 7 vezes mais água que o previsto no licenciamento - ClimaInfo
Especialistas veem risco de comprometimento da garantia de uso prioritário para abastecimento humano e animal; região tem histórico de seca.
climainfo.org.br
December 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
O caso reforça a necessidade de transparência no licenciamento, avaliação técnica rigorosa e prioridade ao uso humano diante da expansão de projetos que pressionam os recursos naturais do semiárido.💧
Saiba mais: climainfo.org.br/2025/11/30/c...
#CriseHídrica #LicenciamentoAmbiental
Saiba mais: climainfo.org.br/2025/11/30/c...
#CriseHídrica #LicenciamentoAmbiental
Acabei de ver uma propaganda da Gemini, a IA do Google, na qual uma pessoa aponta a câmera do celular para uma hortaliça e pergunta para a IA "é salsinha ou coentro?".
Um trilhão de dólares em data centeres para um energúmeno não precisar cheirar uma hortaliça...
Um trilhão de dólares em data centeres para um energúmeno não precisar cheirar uma hortaliça...
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Acabei de ver uma propaganda da Gemini, a IA do Google, na qual uma pessoa aponta a câmera do celular para uma hortaliça e pergunta para a IA "é salsinha ou coentro?".
Um trilhão de dólares em data centeres para um energúmeno não precisar cheirar uma hortaliça...
Um trilhão de dólares em data centeres para um energúmeno não precisar cheirar uma hortaliça...
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Join Verso and @haymarketbooks.org on Dec 19 @ 12pm (EST) for a virtual conversation about climate catastrophe and the left, featuring: Andreas Malm, Wim Carton,
@triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson.
RSVP at the link below!
@triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson.
RSVP at the link below!
December 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Join Verso and @haymarketbooks.org on Dec 19 @ 12pm (EST) for a virtual conversation about climate catastrophe and the left, featuring: Andreas Malm, Wim Carton,
@triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson.
RSVP at the link below!
@triofrancos.bsky.social, and Wen Stephenson.
RSVP at the link below!
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In A Defence of Pretence, Indira Ghose explores how the drama of Shakespeare’s time demonstrates the tensions within civility.
Now available! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#Literature #Shakespeare
Now available! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#Literature #Shakespeare
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
In A Defence of Pretence, Indira Ghose explores how the drama of Shakespeare’s time demonstrates the tensions within civility.
Now available! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#Literature #Shakespeare
Now available! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#Literature #Shakespeare
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still waiting for intelligent longform cultural criticism with psychomarxist explanation of the "everything is butthole" logorrhea in the AI space
December 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
still waiting for intelligent longform cultural criticism with psychomarxist explanation of the "everything is butthole" logorrhea in the AI space
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Aqui mais uma opinião de um analista, que é chamado assim porque tira as opiniões do ânus
Todo dia um economista que não viveria com um salário mínimo querendo acabar com o aumento do salário mínimo. Por isso querem o Tarcinico na presidência pra mais uma reforma trabalhista e da previdência.
December 2, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Aqui mais uma opinião de um analista, que é chamado assim porque tira as opiniões do ânus
A indústria de surto não para de crescer. E não é só a suína, não. Todo tipo de surto
Espanha luta para proteger a indústria suína de surto
Espanha tenta proteger indústria suína de surto de peste suína africana
Um terço das exportações do maior produtor de carne suína da Europa foram bloqueadas por países
www1.folha.uol.com.br
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
A indústria de surto não para de crescer. E não é só a suína, não. Todo tipo de surto
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eu vou ter 70 num pós apocalipse climatico tendo q usar meus 3 minutos de internet diaria racionada para votar NÃO no site do senado pq algum maluco tá votando pra suspender a lei aurea
December 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
eu vou ter 70 num pós apocalipse climatico tendo q usar meus 3 minutos de internet diaria racionada para votar NÃO no site do senado pq algum maluco tá votando pra suspender a lei aurea
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We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
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When your foundation shade is “nuclear sunset.”
November 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
When your foundation shade is “nuclear sunset.”
A lista completa tem esses e também "O Menino do Dedo Verde" e "Ruth Rocha conta a Odisseia"... Qual vcs acham que o Soluçonaro vai ler (se é que vai)?
rindo por 27 anos e três meses com a lista de livros que os golpistas precisam ler para reduzir a pena
g1.globo.com/df/distrito-...
g1.globo.com/df/distrito-...
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A lista completa tem esses e também "O Menino do Dedo Verde" e "Ruth Rocha conta a Odisseia"... Qual vcs acham que o Soluçonaro vai ler (se é que vai)?
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Now "browsing" means Netflix compiles your recent watch history and feeds you more of the exact same thing. Or Amazon analyzes your buy history and gives you a list of 15 books with basically the same title. You rarely stumble upon something new or different by chance. It's eroding our curiosity.
November 29, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Now "browsing" means Netflix compiles your recent watch history and feeds you more of the exact same thing. Or Amazon analyzes your buy history and gives you a list of 15 books with basically the same title. You rarely stumble upon something new or different by chance. It's eroding our curiosity.