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João Proença

@jrosaproenca.bsky.social
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Quality Engineer. Conference Speaker on all things Software Quality. Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 Benfica ⚽️ Musician 🎸

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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A parte mais interessante deste artigo é que em Paris, onde as plataformas de trotinetes foram banidas, o resultado foi um aumento da circulação de trotinetes privadas, que andam muito mais depressa. E depois passaram a ter mais mortes e acidentes com estes veiculos. expresso.pt/sociedade/20...
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Mais de metade das mortes foram em trotinetas particulares: “São quase motos sem assento”
Estatísticas da PSP e GNR relativas aos últimos sete anos e meio deixam alerta para trotinetas particulares, algumas ilegais. Proposta do Governo para alteração ao Código da Estrada vai incluir medida...
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KWSQA @kwsqa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Really fantastic insights from @jrosaproenca.bsky.social today as he discussed the paradox of choice and how it applies to both our personal and, especially, our professional lives. We love choice, and yet too much choice can paralyze us. Constraints allow us to move forward! #TQ2026
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research, including the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Quietly funded high school band programs We lost an incredible person.
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Amadi Lovelace @amaditalks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Remember that if you got the Moderna Covid vaccine, you have Dolly Parton to thank, she gave the largest individual contribution toward their research to make it possible.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
NEW: I can't get this story out of my head. And I know I'm not alone. The attempt to cover up the complicity of the UK media's role in Jason Arday's death may be its sickest move yet. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-...
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The Jason Arday Reckoning
The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet
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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 19/08/2026
with all apologies for the title of this episode... @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com means that 2026 is the year it stopped being possible to be skeptical about whether AI is going to change the way we build software, not that we should stop being skeptical about AI. 😉
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026
I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I left Twitter in 2023, when I realized that Elon's changes had made the site useless for me. I had a half million followers, but his new algorithm drove my engagement numbers down to nothing. I wasn't actually reaching anyone. I was just providing cover for Nazis. So I left. You can too. Honest!
I haven’t been blind to the steady enshittification of Elon’s Twitter, but I’ve been telling myself that I still had a big platform — just under a half million followers — and the growing strength of misinformation on the platform meant I had a duty to stay and push back against it.
Except, as I slowly realized, I don’t have a big platform anymore. Engagement on all my posts is down dramatically under the new system, and a post that would’ve racked up a thousand RTs immediately is now lingering for days with a dozen or so.
I think my fellow (former) big accounts there need to realize that we’re experiencing a bit of a phantom limb syndrome. We still have a big number of followers, but they’re not actually seeing what we post and we’re not remotely having the impact that we once did (or at least thought we did).
Again, all we’re doing is giving our personal seal of approval and a sense of legitimacy to a place that’s rapidly becoming an alt-right hangout of grifters and grievance artists.
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
During the pandemic lockdown, this happened to us. Except it wasn't a heartwarming drawing! Not crayons, not colored pencils... actual felt pen ink! But there's a solution: bleach.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 31/07/2026
“No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation.” Bars.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026
it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/07/2026
Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.
DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/07/2026
Woman Who Doesn’t Use Facebook Completely Out Of Touch With Friends’ Prejudices theonion.com/woman-who-doesn-t-use-…
Woman Who Doesn’t Use Facebook Completely Out Of Touch With Friends’ Prejudices
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Até que enfim acordam para a vida. No ano passado aconteceu-me no Alive e por muito que reclamasse não fui compensado de forma alguma. observador.pt/2026/07/13/d...
observador.pt
DECO pede revisão da lei dos espetáculos e alerta para falhas na proteção dos consumidores em festivais de música
Caso dos Megadeth no Evil Live serve de exemplo. Associação enviou propostas à ministra da Cultura e aponta "zonas cinzentas" que prejudicam consumidores.
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A Gonçalo Ramos header off a fabulous ball in from Rafael Leão gives Portugal the lead in stoppage time
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This is happening. Again, but in larger form! Join us!
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Respondi a uma sondagem de uma daquelas empresas conhecidas, se eu estaria a favor de um referendo para proibir trotinetes na via pública. Está-se mesmo a ver o que o lobby está a preparar.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
what i find fascinating is that these people genuinely consider themselves religious
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Watch this.
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Pepe Díaz @josediaz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A scam text empties a retiree's savings. A 14-year-old gets a message no parent ever sees. A group chat turns cruel overnight. These don't get stopped today. They get delivered. KindChat changes that. Protect your family → KindChat.app #onlinesafety #scamprevention #childsafety #cybersecurity
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
And it's why the biggest internet safety advice I give parents of teenagers is to make crystal clear that they will never blame their kid for being the victim, because that is the ONLY way they will ever know there's a problem. bsky.app/profile/raha...
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Dimitra Rizou @ahoyuniverse.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Protecting women #cartoon
A cartoon of two protestors with English flags who are shouting at an injured woman entering a victim support centre with the caption 'was it an immigrant or did you deserve it?'
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
While I hope 🇵🇹's play in 2030 is to mostly reuse existing infrastructure (so minimum investment), I'm also wondering if Lisbon and Porto need more "exposure" than what they already have...
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
So... who's gonna tell him?
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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 03/06/2026
i wrote a post about the growing divide between AI skeptics and AI enthusiasts. wins and costs are both real, but too often fall on different groups of people. when you're only experiencing half the story, it's too easy to write each other off. charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-enthusi...
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AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
Both sides are grappling with a real existential threat, and both sides feel like they are screaming into the void. Here's how to close the gap and get everyone pulling in the same direction.
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Jonasnuts @jonasnuts.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
As manifestações de protesto que isto devia ter causado……. Vamos sempre a tempo. Coisinhas já agendadas nesta quinta da Salmanha, é desmarcar (site em baixo, não sei se de propósito se por excesso de acessos). E quem está à procura de um espaço para eventos nesta região, é descartar esta opção.
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Sabem como sei que o sentimento anti-bicicleta cada vez mais cresce em Lisboa? Ontem um senhor de idade deu-me uma marrada com a bengala na roda traseira, em protesto comigo. O meu crime? estar parado na bicicleta, a espera num sinal vermelho de uma passadeira, em plena ciclovia. Está bonito.
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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@Mary-The-Cat.bsky.social ( I'm MaryPG Keating) @mary-the-cat.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Inside the Portuguese scam that exposed Europe’s largest VAT fraud www.ftm.eu/articles/big...
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Inside the Portuguese scam that exposed Europe’s largest VAT fraud
In the biggest VAT fraud ever, European countries lost around €2.9 billion. The search for the perpetrators began in Portugal, where it led to an IT specialist – with investigators later uncovering a ...
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Markdown is truly having a moment.
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Really nice one from @angryweasel.bsky.social angryweasel.substack.com/p/the-five-r...
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The Five Reasonable Mistakes
how leaders build low-quality systems without trying
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Easy
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a man pointing at the camera with the words " back to the future " behind him
ALT: a man pointing at the camera with the words " back to the future " behind him
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Stacy Cashmore @stacy-clouds.net · 22/04/2026
Google having a celebration of Earth day whilst building massive data centers for AI and wasting stupid amounts of eneergy and water is sick. And not in the good way.
Google logo for eath day 20206
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Patrick “Grumpy” Prill @testpappy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The new ThoughtWorks Tech Radar reads like a warning letter. Cognitive debt. Broken productivity metrics. Terms nobody agrees on. If you've been reading my posts, none of it will surprise you. It's always nice to get evidence that I'm not completely crazy and making all of this up.
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The Tech Radar is Blinking Red
ThoughtWorks just dropped Volume 34 of their Tech Radar, and it reads less like a technology map and more like a warning letter. Several signals on the same screen, all pointing the same way. If you've been following my posts, none of them will surprise you. What's new is that one of the most respected consultancies in our industry is now saying it out loud.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/04/2026
brilliant -- Morning Joe put together clips of Pete Hegseth reciting a fake Bible quote from Pulp Fiction, along with the Samuel L. Jackson scene from the movie
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
And here's our Feb story, which draws on 10+ individual cases we identified in which ChatGPT or another bot reinforced a user's delusional fixations on another person, leading to domestic abuse, harassment, and stalking: futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and abuse.
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Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Orban called. Tisza have won Margin too big for him to attempt to rig the vote Important day for Hungary - and Europe 🇪🇺🇭🇺💪🏾
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I just wrote about an unexpected AI story: a masked band from Quebec with a guitar built with a saw and seven million views. medium.com/p/seven-mill...
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Seven Million Views and Not a Single Algorithm Saw It Coming
In February, a video was uploaded to YouTube that had no business going where it went. It has since been watched more than seven million…
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 31/03/2026
I'm certified not a tech bro.
This is to certify that this participant has completed the Tech Bro Assessment (18 statements) and has been classified as: NOT A TECH BRO with a score of 6% agreement with tech bro ideas not a tech bro tendencies tech bro. amiatechbro.com
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/03/2026
gosh, this does make us sound pretty cool, doesn’t it
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Niv is both the calm and the storm 🖤 @lanooba.com · 27/03/2026
*Tapa sign..HARD
“ systems that demand immediate answers, linear progress and constant proof of usefulness will reliably produce one thing people who stop exploring” -Rachel Barr
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This video on running a company with AI agents is worth watching... for more reasons than it knows. 5:31 - agent gets a 403, silently skips the data it was supposed to get insights from, moves on. Nobody in the room seems to notice. The power and the risk. Same video. youtu.be/RBqT2PHWdBg?...
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Inside Ramp, the $32B Company Where AI Agents Run Everything | Geoff Charles
YouTube video by Peter Yang
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Fiona Charles @fionaccharles.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
“Whatever the problem looks like at first, it’s always a people problem.” (Gerald M. Weinberg) Fascinating article about the human decisions behind the US bombing of school children. Also about how modern management operates. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
If there was any doubt by now...
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João Proença @jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I get the impression that the LiteLLM incident we're seeing right now is the kind of mass-spread attack we'll se more of in the future.
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Eleanor Tyler @eleanortyler.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
We were remarking recently that nobody thinks AI can do their job - but so many seem certain it can do somebody else's. And that should be cluing them in, but it isn't.
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Patrick “Grumpy” Prill @testpappy.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
AI just ate the solution space for breakfast. Coding, testing, automation — all commodities now. The only skill left that matters? Understanding the actual problem.
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Are We Celebrating the Wrong Thing?
Last week, actually yesterday when writing this, SmartBear launched BearQ. An agentic QA system that autonomously explores and tests your application. About a year ago, the big news was that AI can write your code for you. So let me get this straight: AI writes the code, and now AI tests the code. What exactly are we still doing here?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30
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