Claudio Pinhanez

Today the world lost a little of its ability to see itself. The great photographer Sebastião Salgado passed away, leaving a legacy of epic black and white imagery.

And 2 million trees of reforestation lands as a bonus.

Why would he say otherwise ? He sells machines that do AI computations....

Fascistifying is the right word.

That seems to be the mantra these days....

Simplistic solutions in education never seem to work, and so is the case of banning mobile phones in schools.

What interests me are the by-products of the AI race and the interesting and useful technologies that will appear. I could care less about who builds the largest computer or is the best in some stupid reductionist benchmark.

No single country won the space race if we considered what it was in fact about building ballistic missiles.There were many interesting and useful by-products, and that is what it is important.

5 years of Netflix US profit: $15.1 Billion

5 years of Netflix exec pay: $652M

5 years of taxes paid by Netflix: $236M

In a 5-year span after Trump's tax cuts, Netflix paid top execs 3x what it paid in federal income tax.

Yesterday, Netflix announced it was raising prices again.

The jig is up Global corporations are now ending the pretense that they’re socially responsible. That’s progress, in a way.

Since its inception, the Davos confab has justified itself — and thereby sought to justify global corporate capitalism — by embracing “corporate social responsibility.”

Guess what? It's all a lie.

The Ministry of Empowerment Fuck you Facebook. That was the first thought I had when I woke up this morning.

@zephoria.bsky.social nails it.
"This isn't about free speech. It's about allowing some people to harm others through vitriol - and providing the tools of amplification to help them."

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Just moved from Facebook (after 21 years) and have to find my friends here.

Same feeling from the time I moved from Orkut to Facebook.