Rodrigo Messias @messias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I use RSS to follow specific people/projects, and for more general major news I watch "open source news recap for the week" style youtube creators like the linux experiment, savyynick and brodie robertson 010
Reposted by Rodrigo Messiastante @tante.cc · 21/04/2026In which I argue that "AI" as we understand it today is a structurally fascist artifact. tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist…tante.ccAI 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 […] 15703254
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasCaio @mrcaio.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Eu 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. 2408
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasTecnologia e Classe @tecnologiaeclasse.com.br · 23/02/2026Hoje tem estréia do nosso primeiro vídeo ensaio em formato longo do canal! Nos vemos ao meio dia! youtu.be/5WlyZjo2lKwyoutu.beCOMO AS BIG TECHS ROUBARAM NOSSA IMAGEM [TECLAS.DOC #1]YouTube video by Tecnologia e Classe (TeClas) 28726
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasWerner Herzog falando Honey BooBoo @castilho.bsky.social · 24/02/2026PUTAQUEPARIU! 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 4779332
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasParis Marx @parismarx.com · 13/02/2026they’re talking about the decision to add facial recognition to the camera glasses. this company needs to be shut down. 718840
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasParis 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 xtheguardian.comRevealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newslettersExclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 3233104
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasParis Marx @parismarx.com · 23/01/2026US-owned TikTok is a greater threat than Chinese-owned TikTok. 11629202
Reposted by Rodrigo Messiastante @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 45312
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasParis Marx @parismarx.com · 04/01/2026Given 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! 251377679
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 14/10/2025Now that Chinese companies are actually competitive, the West no longer believes in free markets and free trade. 4751221
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasParis Marx @parismarx.com · 14/10/2025I’m on the latest Second Thought video talking about Palantir and the pressure to roll out AI in the military.youtube.comThe AI Manhattan ProjectYouTube video by Second Thought 04513
Reposted by Rodrigo Messiaschappell roan contra a torcida do flamengo @viuvadoexaltasamba.bsky.social · 12/10/2025o 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 2193
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/10/2025twice 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 18687912764
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasMicah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2025if 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 1342058
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasNovelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 01/10/2025now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired" 251874500
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2025The 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. 5448811022
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasSonja 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. 172270760
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasChristopher 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... 981739609
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasGil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/20251/ 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 8773103370
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasBIANA @bianaaf.bsky.social · 21/09/2025TEXTO NOVO!!!!! bianaaf.medium.com/furar-a-bolh...bianaaf.medium.com“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… 641182
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasIndivisible Georgia District 10 @indivisiblega10.bsky.social · 15/09/2025 152775662
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasRyan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 18/09/2025In 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. 6190962919
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasTiago Perrart @perr.art.br · 17/09/2025o 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 6480158
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasERIKA HILTON @erikahilton.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Em 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. +👇🏽 392816877
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasLetícia Oliveira @bicicreta.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Cês 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 251220204
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/09/2025This 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 12811233
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasHypervisible @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.”fastcompany.comLLMs are the users nowTech companies have shifted focus from designing for people to prioritizing algorithms. 412323
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasLudmila Azevedo @ludmila.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Uma perspectiva importante (e pouco abordada no jornalismo de entretenimento) 05211
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasItomon @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." 0102
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasBIANA @bianaaf.bsky.social · 07/09/2025TEXTO 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...bianaaf.medium.comCiberlibertarianismo e descentralização: X/Twitter, Bluesky, Nostr e o FediversoEm 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… 25492146
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasBIANA @bianaaf.bsky.social · 31/08/2025TEXTO 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...bianaaf.medium.comNão dá mais para adiar: é hora de sair do XEu não queria ser a pessoa a estragar a festa, causando desconforto generalizado. Mas, já que não vejo muitos na esquerda dispostos a… 501049308
Reposted by Rodrigo Messiasderek van vliet @derek.bike · 31/08/2025here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road 902596997
Reposted by Rodrigo Messiaseleitora de Luladroid 4️⃣ @bebelecologia.bsky.social · 30/08/2025urge 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. 0918
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasParis Marx @parismarx.com · 31/08/2025its 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. 111910
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasParis Marx @parismarx.com · 31/08/2025there’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 528226
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/08/2025This 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 16456138
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasBinho @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 0343
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasEvan 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 3573810415040
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasLula com preenchimento labial e unhas acrigel @paulo.pfmj.me · 22/08/2025Aliás, o episódio de hoje do @techwontsave.us menciona exatamente o caso mencionado acima (e várias outras coisas bem interessantes) 075
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasLula com preenchimento labial e unhas acrigel @paulo.pfmj.me · 22/08/2025Mais 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... 1137
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasMichael Chasin @chasin.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Showing children of the future the unacceptable hair rendering on the left to explain why we had to get rid of the rainforest. 7553691311
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasBIANA @bianaaf.bsky.social · 21/08/2025já assistiram a última pedrada da maria isabel da silva? youtu.be/BayCTa7ZOUMyoutu.beOS PARADOXOS DA EFICIÊNCIAYouTube video by Bebel Ecologia 46512
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasNaomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 19/08/2025having 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'. 322614856
Reposted by Rodrigo Messias🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · 16/08/2025I drew this on my lunch break your excuses are fucking pathetic 89221787837
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasZezinho @zezinhodudu.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Eduardo 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 04917
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasTech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 14/08/2025The 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_... 0288
Reposted by Rodrigo MessiasFábio 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". 06122
