“People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days.”

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

@alfiekohn I have never heard of big business resisting against an attempt to destroy democracy, so the phenomenon doesn’t really require an explanation. If they stood up against the prospective dictator, that would be something to analyze.

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.

Descobri por que reunião da congregação da Poli vai até tão tarde.

É para esperar o departamento de pessoal fechar. Senão todos saíam direto e pediam demissão.

Liquid glass, Apple OS 26… no big deal. Small cosmetic differences, a few deeply hidden improvements, fine with me.

The old web was decentralized:

- Newsgroups
- Personal Websites
- Bulletin board
- Email as a service, not a platform
- Internet relay chat (IRC)
- Early blogs

Then corporations arrived with money and lock-in, turning the internet into centralized ad farms (Meta, X, TikTok). Users became […]

An accurate headline: "In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements" -- https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/in-win-for-infectious-diseases-florida-to-end-all-school-vaccine-requirements/

Very efficient UN organization

Very efficient UN organization. Only took 18 years to find out. On the same day, the IAEA's Mohamed ElBaradei criticized the raid, saying that "to bomb first and then ask questions later [...] undermines the system and it doesn't lead to any solution to any […]

Escultura do cogumelo alucinógeno na USP

Perguntei pro Grok: "Me conte onde fica o “cogumelo” no campus da USP no Butantã." Sei que Grok é um tipo Íbis do futebol pernambucano do mundo dos chatterbots, mas olhem a resposta: O "cogumelo" é uma escultura de cerâmica em forma de cogumelo […]

Perhaps it's time to tap the chart again. Left-handed people were once seen as sinister (the word sinister, from Latin, originally meant "left" or "on the left side") so kids were forced to be right-handed. However, with advances in science it became clear […]

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@johncarlosbaez Que coisa.

Super smart visual tension and analogy.

Políticas Urbanas em São Paulo

Às 6 da manhã, na região central de São Paulo os ônibus estão cheios de trabalhadores, há pouco trânsito de carros particulares, e os jornais trazem debates sobre como salvar os motoristas e as indústrias de automóveis das calamidades ambiental, econômica, e de […]

I propose replacing calories with watt-hours.

- Almost same value (1 kilocalorie / Calorie is ~1.1 watt-hours)
- more intuitive for people who use electricity
- never the confusing between calories (science), Calories (food, which is technically kilocalories), kilocalories, and 'kilo Calories' […]

@everton137 @zolke.bsky.social Americans and Europeans live well. The right and the left keep shouting about some unprecedented crisis but it’s just not true. There are problems that need to be dealt with, but the standard of living is good.

It’s not like during the Depression when ⅓ of workers […]

I wish I had known in my 20s that selling science fiction to venture capitalists was way more profitable than selling it to publishers of science fiction

Piadas do tempo do Brezhnev

Pequena consolação pelas calamidades atuais é que as piadas russas do tempo do Brezhnev voltaram a ter graça. Brezhnev calls in the directors of the Soviet space agency and says, "Comrades, we were first in space with Gagarin, but now the Americans are on the moon […]

Yet another government department in a European nation dumps the shady US tech giants and goes free and open source!

Danish Ministry of Digitalisation drops Microsoft Office/365 and moves to LibreOffice. Meanwhile, here in Britain Palantir has access to all our medical records, and police are […]

@dangillmor It's all illegal, with fraudulent pretexts, beyond presidential authority.

Courts, congress, and the press are complicit for not stopping him or pointing it out.

Chess and chatbots

Before using an LLM chatbot, play a game of chess against it. It's instructive! Grok hallucinates early on in the game. The board doesn't reflect the moves made - pieces appear and disappear in random places, with a penchant to duplicating bishops in squares of the same color […]

@heidilifeldman Yes, Columbia folded to the anti-semites, now it folds to trump equally. Shame on the admin-run university.

@alfiekohn Reminds one of Goodhart's law - turning the measurable behaviors into goals reconfigures education into a copy of the measurements.

@everton137 Especificamente quanto a pagamentos instantâneos, Brasil >> EUA. Democracia também funcionando melhor. País não enriqueceu subitamente…