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Alisson Soares

@alissonmasoares.bsky.social
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Computational social scientist; PhD in Sociology at UFMG, former postdoc researcher in political sciences at UFPE-Brazil #Disinformation; conspiracy theories; #rstats #python, text mining, #text-as-data My open projects github.com/SoaresAlisson

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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Isso nos faz pensar que tem coisa muito pior do Kássio para sair dos celulares do Vorcaro para ele estar apostando todas as fichas na vitória do Flávio.
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Falou de SP, mas apenas menciounou que houve também em outras capitais x.com/forumeplay/s...
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eplay (@forumeplay) on X
O #Fantástico mostrando os atos pró-Lula hoje na Avenida Paulista.
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Corregedor do TSE suspende preliminarmente decisão de Nunes Marques e libera canal 'Exército do Lula'; decisão final será do plenário. g1.globo.com/politica/not...
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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AI Companions for Seniors: Best Apps & Setup Guide (2026)
Best AI companion apps for seniors in 2026. I tested Replika, Pi, and more with older adults. Setup guide, safety tips, and honest recommendations.
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Na cidade de Tiros-MG, foram bem coerentes
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
O jornal Nexo tem este interessante mapa interativo das eleições de ontem. #dataviz www.nexojornal.com.br/grafico/2026...
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Vocês inventaram a "censura reversa".
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jev? Laya! Laya is not the open-source version of Jev;Jev is the closed version of Laya. Two papers appeared in 2025 — in March and September — about the technology behind Laya, and then Jev appeared one year later github.com/NandhaKishor... To understand dev.to/nandakishor_... #LLM #AI
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GitHub - NandhaKishorM/laya
Contribute to NandhaKishorM/laya development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Day 2 of #dataviz in #rstats giving a try to #htmx and htmxr (he R package) checking its capacity to build dashboards. The server is plumber2.
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For those interested in #dataviz dashboards and web apps in #rstats, have you tried htmxr? It relies on htmx and can serve as an alternative to Shiny — faster and way more customizable. This is my first try and looks promising. github.com/hyperverse-r...
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Descobri hoje que Renato Bolsonaro, irmão do Jair, é candidato a deputado federal pelo PL. Gostaria de lembrá-los que há 10 anos atrás o mesmo Renato foi pego em reportagem do SBT por ser funcionário fantasma na ALESP, levando 17k mês, valores da época. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMgQ...
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SBT Brasil (07/04/16) Exclusivo: Irmão de Jair Bolsonaro é demitido da Assembleia Legislativa de SP
YouTube video by SBT News
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Tired of being afraid AI agents deleting your files by accident? There is some fixes, but this one is pretty simple: add `alias rm='trash'` to your .bashrc/.zshrc. `trash-cli` accepts the same flags as rm and your AI agent won't even notice it. No hooks, no config files, no agent-side setup.
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ACH @ach.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Just over a week left to register for #ACH2026! Join us virtually June 24–26 for 70+ presentations on DH, transnationalism, and solidarity, with keynotes by Laura Gonzales and Maria José Afanador-Llach. Registration closes June 21: buff.ly/uXOU1lR Program: buff.ly/cs2h5pm
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ACH 2026 – ACH Membership
ACH 2026 explores how we create and collaborate through moments of exigency in a bilingual, virtual conference. In Spanish, emergencia can mean both "emergence" and "emergency." This dual meaning…
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Interesting. It looks similar to "baião de dois", a brazilian dish. A common origin or a convergent evolution? duckduckgo.com?q=brazilian+...
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
O FLISoL, Festival Latino-americano de Instalação de Software Livre ocorre em várias cidades do Brasil e América Latina. Consulte a programação no site flisol.info/FLISOL2026/B... clicando no estado desejado. Discussões sobre segurança. criptografia, Python/R e mais. #opensource #softwareLivre
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FLISOL2026/Brasil - FLISOL
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Israel ignora cessar-fogo e ataca Líbano matando 300 pessoas. De novo, péssimo dia para este texto, Tábata. bsky.app/profile/folh...
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
82% dos israelenses são favoráveis à expulsão de palestinos de suas terras. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... www.cnnbrasil.com.br/internaciona... Tribunal Penal Internacional emite mandado de prisão contra Netanyahu ... “fome como método de guerra”
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Yes to transfer: 82% of Jewish Israelis back expelling Gazans
Twenty Years Ago, Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, the Spiritual Father of the 'Hilltop Youth,' Sketched Out His Vision for Destroying Israel's Democratic Institutions and Establishing Jewish Supremacy. After October 7, It Seems That His Vision Is Coming to Fruition
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
De cada 3 mortes de jornalistas no mundo, 2 foram mortos por Israel cpj.org/special-repo... Recém-nascidos morrendo de fome em Gaza www.bbc.com/portuguese/a... Nações Unidas: Uma criança é morta a cada 10 minutos em Gaza 21 Novembro 2023 news.un.org/pt/story/202...
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Record 129 press members killed in 2025; Israel responsible for 2/3 of deaths - Committee to Protect Journalists
Key findings Introduction At a time when armed conflict has reached historic levels around the world, journalist killings also reached an all-time high primarily due to the actions of one government: ...
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Mas este pelo menos colocava sua marca nos vídeos. Facilitava o trabalho de checagem, mas enganava praticamente na mesma propoção das outras ferramentas, quase ninguém percebia o sora pulando no vídeo. Agora não faltam alternativas.
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Sleeping Giants Brasil @sleepinggiantsbr.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
📢 Muito legal essa ação que o TRE de Mato Grosso fez para combater as fake news e os golpes digitais contra pessoas idosas. O tribunal levou o projeto “Prosa e Verdade”, do TSE, para tirar dúvidas de mais de 50 idosos em Cuiabá.
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UKP Lab @ukplab.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🤔 𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 - 𝗼𝗿 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗶𝘁? 🧠 Machine unlearning aims to remove specific training data (e.g., private info) without full retraining. But does it actually 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹?
Three-panel diagram explaining an audit method for LLM unlearning.
Panel A, “LLM Unlearning,” shows a trained language model and a modified “unlearned” model, highlighting that output-based metrics may give a misleading sense of privacy.
Panel B, “Our Audit,” illustrates comparing the two models using a Venn diagram to decompose mutual information into unlearned information and residual information.
Panel C, “Practical Impact,” shows that residual information can correlate with vulnerability to adversarial attacks, and suggests inference-time privacy protection through abstention.
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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Accessible for all here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/02/2026
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
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Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 05/02/2026
🚀 dashboardr is out! An #rstats package for building interactive dashboards with tidyverse-style syntax. Launched with a fun hackathon at @ascor.bsky.social (🍕 included). 📦: favstats.github.io/dashboardr/ Big thanks to the dashboardr team, Digicomlab, and @vivifabrien.bsky.social for the logo 🎨
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Paula Gori @goripaula.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Together with Lisa Ginsborg we are happy to share that our edited volume on "Disinformation: A Multidisciplinary Analysis" is now published! A long journey which involved many esteemed authors, with whom it was a great pleasure to work and to which we are grateful link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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The Institute for Analytical Sociology @iasliu.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
✨ We’re excited to announce the Spring 2026 IAS Seminar Series, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers and thought-provoking talks. Open to all! #AcademicSky
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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 15/01/2026
Meet Netha, the Wikipedia editor who quietly debunks medical myths for millions #Wikipedia25
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
@carapanarana.bsky.social @bicicreta.bsky.social
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Étienne Ollion @eollion.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
🇫🇷 We are hiring 🇫🇷 Assistant or Associate Professor Position in Computational Sociology @crestsociology.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social Details here (please RT) www.shorturl.at/E57le
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/ian-... Me pareceu acertado trocar hemisfério de influência por lei da selva.
A política externa de Trump não opera em eixos tradicionais –aliados versus adversários, democracias versus autocracias, competição estratégica versus cooperação. Opera em um cálculo mais simples: Você consegue revidar com força suficiente para machucá-lo? Se a resposta for não, e você tem algo que ele quer, você é um alvo. Se for sim, ele fará um acordo.
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I scraped a transcript of Trump, Rubio, etc. speech today about Maduro's arrest. It is freely available at this link. One curiosity: Trump’s speeches about Maduro’s arrest featured oil in 17 phrases and democracy in none. #rstats docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
semantic network of Trump's speeches today about Maduro's arrest.Example of Trump's phrases about oil: "Well, in terms of China and Russia, yeah, uh, well,  Russia, when we get things straightened out, but in terms of other countries that want oil, uh, we're in the oil 
business, we're gonna sell it to them."
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The great advantage of having multiple bathrooms is the variety of windows as entry points, as there is no door to enter the house.
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Para quem se interessa por #HumanidadesDigitais, está dias 26 e 27, o 3rd International Conference on Data & Digital Humanities (DDHUM2025), gratuito para assistir online, presencial em Braga, Portugal. A maioria das falas tem sido em português e algumas em inglês. ceh.elach.uminho.pt/ddhum
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DDHUM 25
3rd International Conference on Data & Digital Humanities
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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The merchants of doubt 💰 www.theguardian.com/environment/... The documents, which include copies of the actual cheques Exxon sent, consist of internal documents and years of correspondence between... Atlas Network, a US-based coalition of more than 500 free-market thinktanks... #disinformation
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Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I was analyzing data from X/Twitter from 2023 concerning #disinformation and #conspiracytheories and discovered the link to the Gab's AI "The One AI They Can't Control", "Our exclusive AI model trained to uphold Christian values and traditional principles in every interaction."
A screenshot from the Gab AI page advertising its AI tools as promoting Christian values and free thinking: “The One AI They Can’t Control.” They provide an example of responses from different AI models to the question “who is the biggest perpetrator of political violence in America,” with ChatGPT and Gemini answering “right-wing” and Gab’s Arya answering “left-wing.
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
If you frequently run #LLM models locally in Linux through the command line using #ollama, your life can be a little bit easier with ollama-run. This simple shellscript frees you from typing the name of the model and the possibility of misspelling it. github.com/SoaresAlisso...
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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
"U.S. President Donald Trump was the dominant source and spreader of #disinformation in our content analysis.... There is a correlation between the rise of Trumpism on one hand and the loss of trust in journalists as ‘watchdogs’/‘truth seekers’ on the other, " www.icfj.org/sites/defaul...
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Important point that I forgot to mention. The allegation that universities are producing drugs came from the former right-wing Brazilian education minister. exame.com/brasil/minis...
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Weintraub repete acusações contra universidades com base em reportagens
Ministro da Educação, convocado para Câmara, reiterou que universidades são usadas para produção de drogas sem apresentar novas provas
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
At least in Brazil, the far right began by criticizing the humanities and quickly moved on to claims that “universities are woke” and “public universities are drug factories,” cutting funding for all higher education. The humanities are the first step, then they go to biology, health sciences...
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
The "validate, validate, validate" (GRIMMER, 2014) principle of Text Analysis/NLP never gets old.
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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
If you feel uneasy using LLMs for data annotation, you are right (if not, you should). It offers new chances for research that is difficult with traditional #NLP/#textasdata methods, but the risk of false conclusions is high! Experiment + *evidence-based* mitigation strategies in this preprint 👇
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Transformers Models Timeline Interactive timeline to explore models supported by the Hugging Face Transformers library #transformers #LLM #bert #IA huggingface.co/spaces/yonig...
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
They've lost the 9yos
JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner 

Kiddo: that’s AI
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
"We define workslop as AI generated work content that masquerades as good work, but lacks the substance to meaningfully advance a given task." "The insidious effect... is that it shifts the burden of the work, requiring the receiver to interpret, correct, or redo the work." hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Discurso de Lula na Assembleia Geral da ONU. Palavras mais frequentes. #rstats
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Alisson Soares @alissonmasoares.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
... há performance. No entanto, ele funciona com fenômeno social, muito novato terá seu contato com estes assuntos através deste formato e seria problemático deixar falando sozinhos. Um caso interessante no Jubilee foi do Jordan Peterson www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrdO...
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How Jubilee Accidentally EXPOSED Jordan Peterson’s 1 Trick
YouTube video by Rationality Rules
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