Reposted by Rogerio MarquesGhoulothy @landbeforetim.myatproto.social · 01/05/2026Bring back the ancient knowledge 56165087378
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 17/05/2025An AI agent won't tell you to buy this: www.mulebooks.com/store/gilly-...mulebooks.comGilly & Billy Enamel Pin — MULE BOOKS2″ of mighty soft enamel for your jacket, backpack, whatevs. Show your support for wealth distribution with this delightful pin designed by Adam Koford. Less talkin’, more loppin’! 3349
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Critical humanities discourse on AI will be doomed if it does not come up with better metaphors. Corporate AI is not a «cognitive entity» or some «other intelligence». It's a political project and a system of surveillance, extraction & exploitation 1/ 6443164
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025The «intelligence» that manifests itself in AI, i.e. large-scale data analysis & computational statistics, has nothing to do with how living beings experience the world. If anything, it can be compared to large socio-technical systems of domination such as bureaucracies & corporations 2/ 719440
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesLinguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 14/05/2025Spoken Mandarin Chinese doesn’t have gendered pronouns. The word tā can mean ‘he’, ‘she’, or ‘it’. However, *written* Chinese does distinguish gender: 他 ‘he’, 她 ‘she’, 它 ‘it’. 1/7 1141
Reposted by Rogerio Marqueszeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 13/05/2025OVERHEARD: “Does Pavlov, when he hears the bell, think about feeding the dogs?” 0175
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesMarcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 18/11/2024O El País de domingo perguntou ao Mujica se ele encontrou o sentido da vida. Ele: "Me dediqué a cambiar el mundo y no cambié un carajo, pero estuve entretenido. Y he generado muchos amigos y muchos aliados en esa locura de cambiar el mundo para mejorarlo. Y le di un sentido a mi vida." 141539473
Reposted by Rogerio Marqueszeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 04/05/2025“The punch card was invented at the end of the 19th century for the US Census Bureau, from which IBM stole the technology. The card was a people tracker from its inception.” 🧵 1/ 2179
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews. 246188186425
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesSimon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 02/05/2025Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n 521343621
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesLaélia Véron @laeliaveron.bsky.social · 14/04/2025En français, certaines variations de prononciation peuvent être sévèrement jugées (prononcer "domPter" est jugé plouc selon certains!) Mais ce n'est pas nouveau. Fil sur cinq querelles de prononciation dans l'histoire du français, grâce au livre "Paris-Babel" de Siouffi (actes Sud) ⬇️ 1114043
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesTypofonderie: fonts & typography @typofonderie.com · 12/04/2025Just discovered the parallel world of punctuations. 👍 @ellecordova.bsky.social 1132
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 22/10/2024 129994
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesEmily Carter @emilycurates.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Perspective changes everything. [Ars Mathermatica] 21769191165
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work. 363115792746
Reposted by Rogerio Marquesændra. @aendra.com · 23/01/2025📌 📰 News feeds • PINNED POST (Expand this thread for feed info) 155795630
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I was thinking that none of those numbers made sense, but holy fuck this is insane 649151645592
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 26/03/2025yeah i'm into OPSEC. Only Posting Super Excellent Content 1333674352
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesShore Patrol @shorepatrol.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Raymond Chandler started writing at 51. Laura Ingalls Wilder started at 70. Frank McCourt was 66 when first published. John LeCarre finished his last spy novel at 85. Age is trap, don't fall for it, the spirit is the engine of the arts. 191
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 27/02/2025them: but how can you be sure it's a midlife crisis me: 2829
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesLiterary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · 21/02/2025“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin 148206944565
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Could someone out there write a definitive guide on convenient alternatives to using Amazon.com for goods and books and whatnot? Asking for some folks who don’t want to see democracy die in darkness. 3403241684673
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesJodi Picoult @jodipicoult.bsky.social · 17/02/2025It’s almost like we should use human writers, huh www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...bbc.comGroundbreaking BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistantsConducted over a month, the study saw the BBC test four prominent, publicly available AI assistants 222444
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesLaura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Ok sociology, what do you think are genuine breakthroughs that our field has made. Contributions that might convince skeptical but sympathetic *academics* (not the public) of the value of our field? I'll brainstorm some of mine in the thread - I treat sociology very broadly 4111117
Reposted by Rogerio Marquesactioncookbook @actioncookbook.com · 13/02/2025looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount. 201351076136
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesRiley Cran @rileycran.bsky.social · 11/02/2025It's tempting to think that simpler letterforms = more legibility. But in my experience, that's not true. Typefaces are design systems too, and they need a certain level of complexity to work well. Here's why: (thread) 🧵 825057
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesSteve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · 11/02/2025This is cool. What do you picture when you think of the first brain imaging experiment? An fMRI machine? A PET scanner? How about a wooden seesaw with a person lying on it? ...In 1884. 1/7 #NeuroSkyence #PsychSciSky 3327
Rogerio Marques @rogeriomarques.bsky.social · 10/02/2025www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/vot...mcsweeneys.netVoting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the CityIt’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against... 010
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesPresent & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 10/02/2025There’s now an interactive online version too sanzo-wada.dmbk.iosanzo-wada.dmbk.ioWADA SANZO | DICTIONARY OF COLOR COMBINATIONSWada Sanzo's Dictionary of Color Combinations. Published by Seigensha. 1215
Reposted by Rogerio Marquesamuro ray com saudade da roça @moara.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Quem postou isso na outra rede? rs 10930270
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesAmelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com · 04/02/2025sharing an old exploration that's been top of mind recently the future is... ✨ a shared artifact between humans and AI ✨ content at different levels of abstraction ✨ multimodal inputs and NL controls 7558
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesÉmilien Ruiz @mxli1.eurosky.social · 22/12/2024oh oh ! On apprend sur un autre réseau grâce a Florian Louis que l’on pourra lire @medieviz.bsky.social en janvier ! 37221
Reposted by Rogerio Marques🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/02/2025It's @george-lakoff.com's Truth Sandwich. An essential skill for anyone who does any communications. Yet, over and over, people start by privileging their opposition's message or just outright lies. Only way to deal with guys like Elon and Trump. 6336155
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesRJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 01/02/2025Lachlan Turczan, water & light artist www.lachlanturczan.com 1101
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesLingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 31/01/2025To celebrate our 100th Episodiversary we put together 100 of our favourite fun facts about linguistics, including this one about gesture. You can listen to the other 99 here: episodes.fm/1186056137/episode/dGFn… 0175
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesNeo Kim @systemdesign.one · 23/01/2025How @bsky.app Social Proof Works. I spent hours studying about it, so you don't have to. Here's a summary of what I learned: 2161
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Let’s talk about resistance after a conqueror takes power. Specifically let’s talk about this bendy yellow building, and what it shows us about the moment the Florentine Republic finally fell to its kleptocratic/proto-capitalist banking-fortune Medici conquerors 1/? 501109414
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 20/01/2025Bellingcat is currently working with universities to develop open source investigation courses in various fields and creating student-led investigative hubs at those universities, which seems well timed. 281521306
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesNadine Antoinette 🖤📚 @lilblackheart.bsky.social · 19/01/2025give me coffee for the things i can change and the ability to make people spontaneously combust for the things i can’t. 531800189
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesLitbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 17/01/2025I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI 7728431415
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/01/2025Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.eff.orgMad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal DataIf you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ... 722184108620
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesAysha U. Farah @ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 08/01/2025all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art 263164534380
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesPeter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 01/01/2025For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education 916248164691
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesCees Bassa @cbassa.bsky.social · 04/01/2025For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography 21859221
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesSimon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Striking images can make scientific ideas accessible to people from all walks of life. But some such pictures do more damage than good, seeding confusion & fueling widespread misconceptions of an essential topic. To illustrate, a thread about two iconic images & (mis)understanding evolution. 1/9 26330
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesKameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 04/01/2025As a PR pro, we used to tell people to get ahead of various online controversies by making statements that refute them. It turns out this is the absolute worst way to respond to criticism or correct errors of any kind. Social media has made this worse. When you respond, it kick-starts issues again. 36881250
Reposted by Rogerio MarquesSarah Connor @collapse2050.bsky.social · 22/12/2024"If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.” - Chris Rock theconversation.com/how-rich-are...theconversation.comHow rich are the rich? If only you knewIncome inequality, the most common way to measure the gap between the rich and the poor, only tells part of the story. Wealth inequality tells the rest. 514028
Rogerio Marques @rogeriomarques.bsky.social · 23/12/2024infowetrust.com/project/hist...infowetrust.comInteracting With History - Info We Trust300 years of information graphic milestones. 030