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Gustavo Ferreira

@gustavoferreira.bsky.social
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He/him. Brazilian, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at uoft.bsky.social . Audio Media, Culture, Music and (questions of) Recommender Systems and technology.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Among the hypotheses: - foreign degrees are seen as bought by the wealthy - Chinese uni quality has improved, perceived as more rigorous - overseas graduates often seen as “more difficult to manage”, “less likely to conform” and “have too many ideas” 😐 www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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In China’s tough job market, foreign degrees may be a hindrance, not a help
Top universities in the U.S. and U.K. still carry cachet, but lesser-known schools do not impress employers
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Sounds® @sound3vision.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ATENÇAO 👮‍♂️ Se o Nikolas Ferreira (PL-MG) vier a ser preso por conta do documento de IA teremos sorteio de 01 camiseta Sounds® (entre os RT) www.soundandvision.com.br
duas fotos do Nikolas fugindo chorando apos discussao com o Janones
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Computer Rage Marinette, WI
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Arnaldo Branco @arnaldobranco.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eu quando era criança: no futuro vai ter paz no mundo e carro voador As crianças de hoje:
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Gustavo Ferreira @gustavoferreira.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Captain Obvious strikes again
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michael Swaim 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @michaelswaim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One day they will invent a Based Grandma and the walls will all come tumbling down, man. The Based Grandma Singularity has a 9% chance to kill over 91% of us, I would bet between 5k and 151k on that TODAY. I work at Grandma.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
lol there are a lot of people talking about AI who, frankly, shouldn't so here are people to listen to and then some: @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @alexhanna.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Guys, this is Bernie Sanders' guy for all things AI. Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, funded to the tune of $665m by crypto billionaires, that's of course, after all the Muskrat + friends' money. Their "seed funding" was from Musk. 🧵 www.politico.com/news/2024/03...
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The little-known AI group that got $660 million
Powered by a massive cash infusion from a cryptocurrency mogul, the Future of Life Institute is building a network to fixate governments on the AI apocalypse.
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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 02/09/2026
Seems obvious but yet
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Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸 @ojutel.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Guy DeBord called Marshall McLuhan 'the most convinced imbecile of the century'. What does that make his grandson writing for a16z about the iPhone making you a "nomadic hunter"
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 23/08/2026
don’t make me say nice things about the university of chicago!!
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 23/08/2026
On the face of it, this isn't exactly anything new for Latin America, but it's clear that the Western Hemisphere includes Canada and Greenland now. In fact you can look to what's been happening in Latin America as an example of what the US regime wanted for Canada with this unfair trade deal.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
As Maya Angelou said, when people show you who they are, believe them. I'd rather have a klan member clearly articulating his views of how I should be eliminated than these garbage people dressing up their racism in intellectualism. You can fuck all the way off.
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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Oh it wasn’t about studying Liberalism as an ideology, it was whether if certain religious people having children was compatible with Liberalism. He was hired to do eugenics.
The research project for which Nathan Cofnas was hired is titled The Birth Problem of Liberalism and is funded by the Special Research Fund (BOF) of Ghent University through the Starting Grant awarded to Bouke de Vries. The project description reads as follows:
"Across all Abrahamic religions, it has been found that the more religious people are, the more children they have. However, whereas political demographers such as Eric Kaufman have shown that the growth of religious fundamentalist groups that combine relatively high fertility with relatively high retention rates such as the Haredim, Laestadians, Salafi-Islamists, and Orthodox Calvinists poses (long-term) challenges to liberal democracies, philosophers have not considered what, if anything, states may or should do about this. Are there morally permissible/necessary ways of ensuring that there remain enough liberal-minded people to maintain liberal institutions, assuming, as sociologist Christian Joppke puts it bluntly, that 'you cannot run a liberal state that is filled up to the ceiling with illiberal people'?
This scholarly project is the first to provide an answer to this (understandably) sensitive question."
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 22/08/2026
makes ya think
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026
Think about the audacity of them telling Black people that we're subpar DEI hires and such and these students hiring Black people to do their work for them and pass it off as their own.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Americans simply hate big tech and they know the men who run big tech hate them.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
No I will not read your slop no matter how good you think it is
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Gustavo Mano @mano.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Os EUA sequestraram o presidente da Venezuela, se adonaram o petróleo e roubaram o ouro. E tudo é tratado com total naturalidade.
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Arjan @koparjan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Expecting a LLM to fold proteins is like letting an English undergrad run your chem lab. I think LLM’s have some use, but this is silly.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 25/07/2026
#Breaking: Federal government grounds Billy Bishop airport expansion
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Federal governent grounds Billy Bishop airport expansion
The just-concluded public survey suggested strong public opposition to the project, according to a federal government official.
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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
We have re-opened our search for a 3-year AI-research postdoc at NYU's Center for Social Media, AI, and Politics!! The position starts this **September 1st** (or as soon as possible thereafter) and is in person at NYU. If necessary, we will also consider a 1/1/27 start. 1/3
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Dr Bluesky @bostadevaca.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Vcs sabiam que o último álbum que o Ray Conniff gravou antes de morrer ao escorregar e bater a cabeça numa pia foi um disco de regravações de Roberto Carlos chamado "Do Ray Para o Rei"? A capa é medonha.
Capa do disco com "Ray Conniff" escrito numa fonte serifada tudo em maiúsculo no topo, embaixo o título "do Ray para o Rei" numa fonte meio à mão horrenda, na diagonal pegando a capa inteira tem uma foto de uma rosa e na parte inferior o nome das músicas do disco: Amigo, Café da manhã, Detalhes, O amor e a moda, A distância, Emoções, Cama e mesa, Lembranças, Nossa Senhora, Lady Laura, Meu querido, meu velho, meu amigo.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
You don't own your baby. A child is not property. They have a right to live that eclipses your right to believe stupid shit
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Weirdy the Sad Bisexual Cat Dad @weirdybeardy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Matthew works in the US and things are already bad there; here in the UK we just got a new PM whose "Minister for AI" wants wholesale adoption of generative slop across all infrastructure, so that we can "catch up to, and overtake" the US. I know what's coming my way, and I hate it. #librarylife
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Honza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 16/07/2026
Same as crypto. Many of the same characters seamlessly transitioned from crypto scammers into AI scammers.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cognition cannot be measured
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Gustavo Ferreira @gustavoferreira.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
While I wholeheartedly support getting rid of Word, people who code tend to undermine how important WYSIWYG is to people. Not everyone wants to use coding language. And calling LaTeX documents “beautiful” is very debatable.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27/06/2026
Hmm... www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...
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Our Open-Plan Office Failed, So We’re Moving to a Towering Panopticon
“The panopticon is absolutely not a fad. It is an idea whose time in the tech world has come.” Feb 21, 2022 9/17/23 9/24/24
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Excellent news
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Gustavo Ferreira @gustavoferreira.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Comparar IA com uma vitória da manipulação e imposição da indústria automobilística sobre a sociedade é uma estratégia retórica digna de um LLM
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Gustavo Ferreira @gustavoferreira.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Stranger “has added you to the "Does not like AI/Crypto/Smart-glasses/NFTs/Bitcoin/VR" moderation list” OH NO! I’ve been outed! Whatever will I do?
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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/06/2026
As tech companies rush to build big A.I. data centers, some residents who live near them say a constant low-frequency vibration that can also be physically felt is ruining their health and homes.
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The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of the A.I. Boom
As tech giants rush to build big data centers, some residents who live near them say a constant low-frequency vibration is ruining their health and homes.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
AI is a fascist tool, and that has been obvious since day 1. That’s the utility of a tool that erases, minimizes, and smears everyone who isn’t a white guy. A tool that ultimately disadvantages everyone besides the white guys at the top.
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eu não me envolvo com policial 🇵🇸 @c0el.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
a cazé tv é o encontro com patrícia poeta masculino
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Gustavo Ferreira @gustavoferreira.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
O torcedor:
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H2di Cat: Ultra Relaxed Pose
ALT: H2di Cat: Ultra Relaxed Pose
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Camarote da República @camarotedacpi.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Dois já foram Faltam três Bora que vamo time
Selfie colorida em plano médio de Jair Bolsonaro e seus quatro filhos homens, reunidos em pé em um escritório. À esquerda, Flávio Bolsonaro segura a câmera em primeiro plano, vestindo terno preto, camisa branca e gravata azul clara texturizada, olhando e sorrindo discretamente para a lente. Logo atrás dele, Carlos Bolsonaro aparece de perfil parcial, com terno preto e camisa preta, de expressão séria. No centro, Jair Bolsonaro veste terno preto, camisa branca e gravata escura padronizada, sorrindo e olhando para a câmera. À direita dele, Eduardo Bolsonaro está de terno preto, camisa branca desabotoada no pescoço e uma arma curta visível no coldre na cintura sob o paletó, olhando para a câmera. Na extrema direita, Renan Bolsonaro veste terno preto, camisa branca desabotoada e um broche dourado na lapela, sorrindo abertamente para a câmera. O grupo está posicionado em frente a duas bandeiras do Brasil hasteadas com mastros prateados e uma parede revestida de madeira ao fundo, sob luz interna e com um vaso decorativo desfocado sobre um móvel à direita.
Jair e Eduardo Bolsonaro aparecem em preto e branco enquanto os demais estão em cores
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blair @blairaf.com · 28/01/2026
"AI will solve Canada's productivity crisis" "AI will solve the climate crisis" "AI will prevent the next pandemic" "AI will strengthen democracy" "AI will expand access to education" idk seems like it's usually doing the opposite so far?
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Gustavo Ferreira @gustavoferreira.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Whaaaa? Please, use Zotero!
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I hate to say it, but the colleagues positioning themselves to be pro AI in teaching and curriculum, are probably also positioning themselves to be administrators, and probably aren’t thinking about or don’t care how it will affect teaching, learning, or the careers of those around them.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Solving our problems requires vast social and economic change.
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Gustavo Ferreira @gustavoferreira.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I'm seeing the summary of the "new" Siri features and I'm struggling to see the utility of most of these
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 05/06/2026
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Future proofing? Hire librarians who can run their own systems, code their own ILSes, who have deep institutional knowledge of the collections across formats and repositories. Give them a good union. Pay them so well they want to stay.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 28/05/2026
it's been like a decade and i'm still not over the name "intellectual dark web." the teenage deviantart sonic fan character of racism
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Gustavo Ferreira @gustavoferreira.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I've been getting these notifications that I've been blocked by strangers and added to moderation lists by other strangers. I'm cool with that. (These strangers are mostly AI hype boosters, it seems)
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
models are not minds
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