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Rodrigo Messias

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tante @tante.cc · 21/04/2026
In which I argue that "AI" as we understand it today is a structurally fascist artifact. tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist…
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AI as a Fascist Artifact
(This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. I added some shots of the slides I used as a structure for the text which […]
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Caio @mrcaio.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Eu estou em um lento processo de mudança de serviços para fora dos Estados Unidos e posso garantir aqui: não é tão difícil não, pessoal. A tarefa parece muito mais colossal do que realmente é. Real só ter calma e ir um a um, dando tempo de se acostumar.
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Tecnologia e Classe @tecnologiaeclasse.com.br · 23/02/2026
Hoje tem estréia do nosso primeiro vídeo ensaio em formato longo do canal! Nos vemos ao meio dia! youtu.be/5WlyZjo2lKw
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COMO AS BIG TECHS ROUBARAM NOSSA IMAGEM [TECLAS.DOC #1]
YouTube video by Tecnologia e Classe (TeClas)
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Werner Herzog falando Honey BooBoo @castilho.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
PUTAQUEPARIU! Os caras da Open AI sabiam que a pessoa estava usando o chatgpt pra preparar um massacre, debateram internamente se deviam denunciar pra autoridade ou nao. NAO FIZERAM NADA e a pessoa pouco tempo depois cometeu um tiroteio na escola matando 8 pessoas
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13/02/2026
they’re talking about the decision to add facial recognition to the camera glasses. this company needs to be shut down.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 07/02/2026
“Within two hours of subscribing to NatSocToday for the purposes of this investigation, the Substack algorithm directed the Guardian’s account to 21 other profiles featuring similar content.” substack continues to be a cesspool that should be abandoned just like x
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Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters
Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 23/01/2026
US-owned TikTok is a greater threat than Chinese-owned TikTok.
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tante @tante.cc · 06/01/2026
"In 2025 I have spend some time to untangle my digital life from billionaire/fascist run platforms. So at the beginning of 2026 maybe it makes sense to talk a bit about what I did, why I went certain ways and what works and what doesn’t." Exiting the Billionaire Castle
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/01/2026
Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories. I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 14/10/2025
Now that Chinese companies are actually competitive, the West no longer believes in free markets and free trade.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 14/10/2025
I’m on the latest Second Thought video talking about Palantir and the pressure to roll out AI in the military.
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The AI Manhattan Project
YouTube video by Second Thought
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chappell roan contra a torcida do flamengo @viuvadoexaltasamba.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
o negócio é que a galera vê o veganismo como uma dieta ou estilo de vida e não como um movimento político e social que luta pela libertação humana e animal da exploração
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/10/2025
twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2025
if you don't like the mod situation on bluesky boy do I have bad news about mastodon admins literally cutting off entire parts of the network over personal grudges
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
*The AI boom = one of the costliest building sprees in world history * Past 3 years' commitments are greater than the cost of building the U.S. interstate highway system * Consumers must spend $800 billion on AI within a few years, to justify investment from 2023-24 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...
This week, consultants at Bain & Co. estimated the wave of AI infrastructure spending will require $2 trillion in annual AI revenue by 2030. By comparison, that is more than the combined 2024 revenue of Amazon, Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta and Nvidia, and more than five times the size of the entire global subscription software market.

Morgan Stanley estimates that last year there was around $45 billion of revenue for AI products. The sector makes money from a combination of subscription fees for chatbots such as ChatGPT and money paid to use these companies’ data centers.

How the tech sector will cover the gap is “the trillion dollar question,” said Mark Moerdler, an analyst at Bernstein.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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BIANA @bianaaf.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
TEXTO NOVO!!!!! bianaaf.medium.com/furar-a-bolh...
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“Furar a bolha”? Boa sorte com isso.
A expressão “furar a bolha” ganhou espaço no vocabulário político e midiático como se fosse uma solução em si mesma. No uso comum, o termo…
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Indivisible Georgia District 10 @indivisiblega10.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
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Tiago Perrart @perr.art.br · 17/09/2025
o tabu sobre o assunto "salário" entre colegas foi criado e alimentado pela turminha do RH e empresariado pilantra. eles dizem que falar sobre quanto você ganha gera inveja, que pode fazer alguém puxar seu tapete, queima sua imagem... mas a verdade é que só querem impedir a união dos trabalhadores
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ERIKA HILTON @erikahilton.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Em uma noite VERGONHOSA, a Câmara dos Deputados aprovou, em dois turnos, a PEC DA BANDIDAGEM. Essa PEC determina que deputados só poderão ser investigados e presos, inclusive por corrupção ou assassinato, com autorização do Plenário da Câmara dos Deputados em votação secreta. +👇🏽
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Letícia Oliveira @bicicreta.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Cês tem noção que desde o dia 11 a principal pauta aqui no Brasil ta sendo o assassinato do Charlie Kirk? Tudo isso porque um deputado resolveu usar isso para atacar e perseguir a esquerda no Brasil. Estão perseguindo influenciadores, jornalistas e vazando dados de pessoas comuns por comentarios
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more
A photo from Jamie Keller Davis for the NYT: a color photo of a Chicago skyline showing three buildings photographed from street level. The one in the center has brown brick-like walls, and a very large poster advertising ChatGPT. The poster shows a conversation between a hypothetical student and ChatGPT: "Can you quiz me on the muscles of the leg?" "Can you build me a first time marathon training plan?" The text at the bottom of the poster reads: "ChatGPT Plus is free during finals.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2025
“Today’s design trajectory aims to erase the interface altogether, replacing it with conversation under surveillance—mechanized eavesdropping dressed up as dialogue.”
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LLMs are the users now
Tech companies have shifted focus from designing for people to prioritizing algorithms.
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Ludmila Azevedo @ludmila.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Uma perspectiva importante (e pouco abordada no jornalismo de entretenimento)
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Itomon @itomon.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"(...)A tecnologia, nesse caso, é subordinada ao capital: o potencial comunicativo da internet é adaptado para servir aos interesses de acumulação, transformando a comunicação em mercadoria e o usuário em força de trabalho não paga que gera dados e valor para as plataformas."
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BIANA @bianaaf.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
TEXTO NOVO Provavelmente o texto mais difícil que já escrevi, porque me fez colocar no papel ideias que até então estavam só vagando na minha cabeça Mas fiquei muito feliz com o resultado e esse é o blueet bianaaf.medium.com/ciberliberta...
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Ciberlibertarianismo e descentralização: X/Twitter, Bluesky, Nostr e o Fediverso
Em março de 2025, ao subir ao palco para falar sobre o futuro da rede Bluesky, a CEO Jay Graber usou uma camiseta preta com a frase latina…
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BIANA @bianaaf.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
TEXTO NOVO! Há exatamente 1 ano, o X (antigo Twitter) foi bloqueado no Brasil por descumprir decisões judiciais, incluindo a retirada de perfis que espalhavam desinformação. Já passou da hora de encararmos esse debate. bianaaf.medium.com/n%C3%A3o-d%C...
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Não dá mais para adiar: é hora de sair do X
Eu não queria ser a pessoa a estragar a festa, causando desconforto generalizado. Mas, já que não vejo muitos na esquerda dispostos a…
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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 31/08/2025
here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road
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eleitora de Luladroid 4️⃣ @bebelecologia.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
urge que nós de esquerda treinemos o olho pra separar influencer de militante. URGE. porque são coisas cada vez mais distintas entre si, tanto pelos fins quanto pelos meios.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 31/08/2025
its adherents claim to be a counter to the extreme right, but in practice they cement right-wing power by defending the structures that enable it. some really believe it or fall into it because of the pervasiveness of certain right-wing ideas, but others know it’s a career-building compromise.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 31/08/2025
there’s left politics, and then there’s the form of left politics that takes on certain right-wing elements to become appealing and profitable in a right-wing (social) media landscape
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/08/2025
This is what I mean when I talk about how Google is actively deciding to bake energy-intensive text generation into the basic infrastructure of the internet. They are *choosing* to make the digital world absurdly, eye-wateringly more energy hungry whether you request it or not. And it'll get worse
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Binho @safabinho.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
“As últimas lideranças da direita saíram da rede social” Mas é claro, a quantidade de dinheiro que usam pra impulsionar e defender os interesses das big techs Pessoal tá muito ingênuo achando que vão deixar a máquina de opinião pública deles se contaminar com discurso anticapitalista
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
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Lula com preenchimento labial e unhas acrigel @paulo.pfmj.me · 22/08/2025
Aliás, o episódio de hoje do @techwontsave.us menciona exatamente o caso mencionado acima (e várias outras coisas bem interessantes)
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Lula com preenchimento labial e unhas acrigel @paulo.pfmj.me · 22/08/2025
Mais um motivo para pensar muito na questão de soberania digital: segundo a MS, dados de cidadãos de outros países armazenados em datacenters da empresa fora dos EUA podem ser enviados para o governo dos EUA mesmo sem autorização explícita dos países www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science...
On June 10, 2025, France’s Senate held a hearing as part of its study on the role of procurement in promoting data sovereignty. Microsoft France’s Director of Public and Legal Affairs, Mr. Anton Carniaux, was invited to provide testimony and answer questions from Senators. During the hearing, Mr. Carniaux was asked if he could guarantee that data from French citizens could not be transmitted to United States authorities without the explicit authorization of French authorities.

Mr. Carniaux said that he could not guarantee this.

In other words, if the United States were to issue a legal request to Microsoft for the data of a French citizen hosted in the EU, Microsoft would comply regardless of French or EU law.We can assume that this is irrespective of country, as France and the EU have some of the strictest data protection laws in the world and the U.S. law they are talking about is the United States CLOUD Act.

As a result, the data of Canadians who use Microsoft or other products from US-based corporations could have their data provided to the United States government, and there is nothing they nor the Government of Canada can do.

Microsoft France’s response has been that they have strong, rigid legal processes to contest unfounded or potentially illegal or unconstitutional requests by the United States government.

However, this response to France’s concern amounts to little more than, “Trust us.” This removes the autonomy and sovereignty of France, Canada, and all other countries, allowing them to control the data used in their respective countries according to their practices and laws.
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Michael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Showing children of the future the unacceptable hair rendering on the left to explain why we had to get rid of the rainforest.
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BIANA @bianaaf.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
já assistiram a última pedrada da maria isabel da silva? youtu.be/BayCTa7ZOUM
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OS PARADOXOS DA EFICIÊNCIA
YouTube video by Bebel Ecologia
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
having thought about this for three days, my current status is: what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.
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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic
A decorative illustration of flowers with the caption “I don’t use ai I’m not a fucking loser” with a severed hand with too many fingers
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Zezinho @zezinhodudu.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Eduardo Leite, o político contra a polarização, mas que sempre está ao lado dos bolsonaristas. Se houvesse jornalismo na mídia hegemônica gaúcha ele seria perguntado sobre essa incoerência, mas só há assessoria de imprensa
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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 14/08/2025
The Roman Catholic Church has a new Pope, and one of his first statements was on AI’s impact on workers. This week @pbenanti.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how Pope Leo XIV might approach AI and how to think about the ethics of technology. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/289_...
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Fábio Frizzo @fabiofrizzo.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
"O fascismo, aqui, não é apenas uma ideologia explícita, mas uma lógica operacional (...) Por isso, dizer que 'as redes sociais de massa são apenas o meio' é ingenuidade. Elas são ferramentas políticas do fascismo".
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
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AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 08/08/2025
part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I'm presented with "you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more"
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