Luís António Santos

Que boa malha, TSF!

The Board of Peace is bombing Iran.

YouTube video by Loud Numbers A Symphony of Bureaucracy

Data is not boring...
"The piece speaks to the diverse, pluralistic nature of the EU, and how it can come together into something much greater than the sum of its parts".
(via Loud Numbers)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_yi...

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

and this sadly...

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU A referendum on resuming membership talks had been expected in 2027, but could come as early as this August.

🚨🚨Biggest #EU news of today: #Iceland looks to fast-track vote on joining EU as referendum on EU accession could come as early as August, departing from original plan for 2027 ref. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/icel...

DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir “If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

This agreement allows DHS agencies like CBP & ICE to essentially skip the competitive bidding process.

Palantir's software is considered dangerous primarily because its technology facilitates mass surveillance & enables targeting which erodes civil liberties.

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Stellar 🌟

YouTube video by schmoyoho How Is The Dow - Auto-Tune The News, Wherein Pam Bondi Discovers An Unassailable Riposte That Canno

The Dow, the Dow right now...
(Humour saves us)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q71X...

Meanwhile...at clueless-land...

Information is / can be beautiful...
"By the time most teenage girls can wear women’s clothes — around age 15 — their options are seemingly endless. But the evolution in clothing sizes that followed girls throughout childhood abruptly stops there."

Simulated Flies: How Behavior Models Become Scientific Instruments “If the model appears to ‘care’ about a particular cue, can that cue be manipulated in a real fly and the predicted shift observed?”

"The challenge is not only building systems that can generate plausible behavior, but building the interpretive and experimental arrangements that make those systems answerable to the questions scientists actually care about."
datasociety.net/points/simul...

tweet from Polymarket: Polymarket & Substack We are excited to announce our exclusive partnership with Substack. Starting today Substack authors can natively integrate data from the world's largest prediction market. Journalism is better when it's backed by live markets.

Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.
Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.
Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.
Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.
Journalism is better when it’s backed—

The internet was a huge mistake.

YouTube video by U2 U2 - American Obituary (Lyric Video)

(New from U2)
"The worst can’t kill what’s best in us
But they can try
America will rise
Against the people of the lie"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3zi...

"(...) an approach to public education that treats AI not as a tool to be mastered, but as a domain of civic life where people have rights, responsibilities, and avenues for collective action."

Far-right character’s monologue prompts violent scenes at German theatre Actor shouted down and pelted with fruit during Catarina, or the Beauty of Killing Fascists

“The next wave of fascism, there will not be monsters. There will be normal, nice people”.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Yes!
(via @rbreich.bsky.social )

Humour saves us!

"His shameful stewardship of a once great title highlights how much we lose when private interest eclipses the public good".

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Pergunta para o @jornalexpresso.bsky.social ...
- Vai publicar textos de auto-promoção institucional escritos por Reitores ou por todos os outros (são centenas!) diretores de Escolas/Institutos/Faculdades do país?
[Por lei, a PUB deve estar devidamente identificada numa publicação jornalística]

UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

“Banning Palestine Action was always about appeasing pro-Israel lobby groups and weapons manufacturers, and nothing to do with terrorism … Today’s landmark ruling is a victory for freedom for all.”
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

YouTube video by April Ajoy Pam Bondi Crashing Out as a Waitress #pambondi #politicalhumor

I think y'all will enjoy this:

Alguém sabe onde anda o benemérito das garrafinhas de água (com chuva acrescentada ao vídeo)? O líder do partido que é contra a Regionalização e que acha que isso das alterações climáticas é mais uma 'coisa esquerdalha'? Alguém o viu? Dão-se alvíssaras...

Your AI doctor doesn't have to follow the same privacy rules as your real one AI apps are making their way into healthcare. It’s not clear that rigorous data security or privacy practices will be part of the package.

CDT’s Crawford: “And since it’s up to each company to set the rules for how health data is collected, used, shared, and stored, inadequate data protections and policies can put sensitive health information in real danger.”

The Epstein Emails Show How the Powerful Talk About Race The files reveal the disgraced financier’s interest in “race science.”

A great piece from @alibreland.bsky.social on Epstein's race science obsession—one he shares with much of the contemporary right wing elite www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

How Hate Groups Are Using Online Games to Recruit Kids Fringe movements are using games and other online platforms to draw growing numbers of children to their causes, new data and dozens of interviews show.

Hate groups and terrorist organizations are exploiting games like Minecraft and Roblox and other popular online platforms to recruit a new generation of extremists, researchers say.

Some of my favorite international political cartoons from @cartoonmovement.com this week, by Matthew Fuller, @milbrathdraws.bsky.social, @karikaturalv.bsky.social and Franco Juri.

More cartoons: www.cartoonmovement.com

#PoliticalCartoons #PoliticalSatire #EditorialCartoons #CartoonMovement

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show was the most-watched halftime performance of all time with over 135 million viewers.

O que fica destas eleições para lá do sonoro suspiro de alívio? - Renascença A noite da vitória esmagadora de Seguro deu-nos também sinais de mudanças em curso na vida política nacional, que podem ser determinantes nos próximos anos.

O que fica do que nos aconteceu ontem.
(Na @rr.pt )
rr.pt/artigo/luis-...

"The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden"