Talita Pessoa

fico melancólico vendo o quanto diversidade sexual e temas lgbt eram relativamente comuns no cinema mainstream dos anos 20/30, pra daí o hays code chegar, proibir temas lgbt na marra, e assim criar uma memória histórica artificial de que "antigamente" homossexualidade era tabu

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Analysis | Are we in an AI bubble? Eight charts will help you decide. Soaring investment in artificial intelligence has triggered warnings about a risky financial bubble. These charts show reasons to be calm — or concerned.

"JP Morgan recently calculated that the tech industry must draw an extra $650 billion in revenue every year — nearly double Google’s total sales in 2024 — for AI investments forecast through 2030 to earn a modest 10 percent return."

I wouldn't be here today if not for the internet, the friendship, the spaces, the communities, I've needed it. The internet is a tool for us to come together, to find each other and ourselves.

Censorship will take it all away from everyone.

The only way we will win a better world is not only leftism for America, but internationalism. “Researchers who have anything to do with China should have their careers ended” is a bipartisan position, and it can’t be anymore. If we live in a fragmented world, it will burn in our lifetime

I know it's tedious to say at this point, but this is why we need to listen when porn artists and sex workers raise the alarm about this shit. Art and people that can be dismissed as "immoral" are ALWAYS the thin end of the wedge when the powers that be try and assert control over entire systems.

Treating facial recognition as a definitive ID is at odds with virtually every law enforcement agency in America that has policies & procedures for using the tech.
Don't treat a match as a defintive ID is perhaps the most basic rule of the tech, including by DHS. These actions violate agency rules:

Cornell (NYC and Ithaca) is recruiting AI postdocs, apply by Nov 20, 2025! If you're interested in working with me on technical approaches to responsible AI (e.g., personalization, fairness), please email me.

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30971

O Monbiot faz aqui uma crítica ao fato de que o UK não tem uma constituição escrita e como isso deixa seus cidadãos mais vulneráveis. Li o fio antes de abrir o artigo, pensando o tempo todo na nossa CRFB/1988. Quando cliquei no artigo pra ler:

OpenAI pitches, in order:
1) It's the beginning of a new age for mankind
2) It will replace human thought
3) You can make cool videos with it
4) You can pretend it's your girlfriend
5) Submit to the Master while you can

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

The world is becoming more dangerous for LGBTQ+ people, report warns An eye-opening report into the state of LGBTQ+ rights across the west has revealed how dangerous things are becoming for the community.

The world is becoming more dangerous for LGBTQ+ people, new report warns
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/22/lgbtq-rights-report/?utm_content=1761135601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

The dominance-masculinity theory of sexual value is one in which men gain status through sex *explicitly* by overcoming resistance.

more of this!

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

#onlinesafetyact #wtf #wetoldyouso

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/09/hack-age-verification-firm-discord-users-id-photos

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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

What a fantastic thread 👇

Yes! We need closure

I’m excited by the attention on free speech issues now. But we’d be remiss if we focused just on Kimmel. Or even the FCC chair Carr. The entire environment is retaliatory, affecting the most vulnerable who have the least infrastructure for support. That’s why speech for all matters more than ever.

He got an entire country running on clean energy. Can he do it again? Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources.

Uruguay, y'all. I been sayin.

WIRED global editorial director on tech's growing political power under Trump For the first time in its history, WIRED is dedicating an issue to politics, citing concerns about the tech industry's alignment with President Trump. Katie Drummond, the magazine's global editorial d...

"For the first time in its history, WIRED is dedicating an issue to politics, citing concerns about the tech industry's alignment with President Trump. @katie-drummond.bsky.social explains what this shift means for Silicon Valley and for readers."

Nintendo I will go out and pay $600 for a Switch 2 tomorrow if you let your copyright lawyers go feral on the US government the way they go after someone doing a fanmade Mario game.

I'm not the first to notice the reinvention of @wired.com from mouthpiece of tech ideology to showing everyone else how to do journalism today, but this cover is something else.

The inclusion of their own hagiographic covers in the back is a nod to that shift, which is beautiful. Also…

can we get colbert back instead

A bit of James Baldwin today:
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain"

Every single day of this administration, I have thought of my late professor Joe Nye and his work on soft power.

Every single day of this administration, Trump finds a new way to hemorrhage soft power from a country that once had more to spare than any in the world.

On the other hand, we should not go overboard fetishizing human decision-making. We suck, we are full of biases, we rubber stamp what the machines say. We get cranky right before lunch and make crueler choices than we will an hour later.

A "fun" issue my professional communities are dealing with recently is where to hold conferences, if non-US people can't safely enter the US, and foreigners in the US can't safely leave it.

There is no good answer, and the equilibrium is having fewer foreigners AND conferences in the US.