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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · 27d

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.

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · 27d

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.

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · 27d

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.”

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Rick Anderson @rickanderson.bsky.social · Aug 18

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...

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

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · 28d

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

Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · 28d

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...

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...

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · 29d

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...

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Sep 8

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...

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Sep 8

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...

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Sep 8

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 …

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Sep 7

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

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Sep 7

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...

Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Sep 7

“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

Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Sep 6

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

Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Sep 5

Spotting Scams Based on Fake Profiles, by Alex Tray @alextray.bsky.social / BLOG@CACM cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/spo...

Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Sep 5

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.

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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Lorcan Dempsey @lorcand.bsky.social · Sep 5

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.

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Sep 4

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...

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Jose Afonso Furtado @jafurtado.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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