Talita Pessoa

The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life

Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

God bless America 💛💙💚

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

I don’t think he code switched once, for real. Respect. 🫡

Sign me up for that america

Leave it like this! Fall of empire! Wabi sabi! Don't fix a damn thing.

This whole thing where billionaires snap up media properties so they can run them into the ground to make it harder for people to call them and their cronies to account is extremely obvious and very tiresome. It also limits our access to largr information about culture and the world, also by design.

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.

bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy

Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

Beyond the Hype: Making Sense of Generative AI’s Rapid Evolution

Join our livestream on Thurs, Feb 19th at 1pm ET for a conversation w/ authors Maggie Engler and Numa Dhamani.

We'll explore the evolving landscape of AI development, risk, and governance, and what it means to engage with these systems responsibly.

events.zoom.us/ev/Aq2Z31mYy...

‘Red team’ students stress-test NYC health department’s AI | Cornell Chronicle People usually strive to be their true, authentic selves, but this fall, five master’s students at Cornell Tech adopted not only alter egos but also “bad intent,” in an effort to make AI safer for hea...

Hello!

This is a reminder that @cornelltech.bsky.social runs a Red Team Clinic that provides a *free* safety consultation to nonprofits / public sector orgs that are developing a public-facing AI tool and want to stress-test it for possible abuse vectors.

Applications welcome on a rolling basis:

This image is strikingly similar to the famous photo of a young Dilma Rousseff in front of a Brazilian military court also too cowardly to show their faces.

How *should* age verification technologies balance risks to rights and important child safety goals? Here's what we think: #AgeVerifyFTC

One of the weirder dialogues since 2016 has been the “is it Fascism or not?” thing. It’s not like categorizing terrible shit activates some secret option to fight the terrible shit. I don’t know what the “technically not Fascism yet” crowd has been waiting for when *pre* Fascism *is* the *crisis*!

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...

Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

A mom who wrote poems, a preschooler with a Spider-Man backpack , a nurse who cared for veterans — these are the people they’re afraid of.

one thing about immigration reporting at this particular moment is many US news organizations actively do not interview or hire non-Americans and the ones who do, don't make it easy for them to stay in the country, don't understand the process or constant stress or consider it a "bias"

Woodblock snowscene of Tokyo about a century ago. Kawase Hasui, Evening Snow at Terashima Village, 1920, from Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûnidai)]

All this impending snow.
Reminds me that now we enter into the 24th of 24 micro-seasons: “Greater Cold” #大寒 - the coldest period of the year. Yet also, a period anticipating the beginning of spring and the warmth of the coming lunar new year.

[Kawase Hasui, Evening Snow at Terashima Village, 1920]

Und thus, modernity comes to a close just like it started, with a guy ranting at windmills

“Pillars of international law designed to regulate collective security, discipline world trade and promote human rights are being undermined all at once,” argues Celso Amorim. “The erosion, once begun, is hard to reverse” econ.st/4benDjP

Illustration: Dan Williams

Isabel Linzer (@isabelalinzer.bsky.social) Elections & democracy @ CDT. Probably posting about human rights, tech, authoritarianism, transnational repression, etc. Opinions my own.

The U.S.’s withdrawal from dozens of international multistakeholder fora is a serious misstep. In a new Lawfare op-ed, CDT’s Aliya Bhatia & I@isabelalinzer.bsky... warn it undermines human rights, global governance, and U.S. strategic interests. www.lawfaremedia.org...

"Researchers found that Yoti’s app and website are filled with trackers, so the fact that you’re verifying your age could be not only shared to Yoti, but leaked to third-party data brokers as well."

How Digital Sovereignty Will Lead to The Slow and Fast Erosion of The Internet Sovereignty is not a synonym for autonomy; it is instead the uncompromising authority to impose a single will upon others.

Stop whatever you're doing and read @farzdusa.bsky.social rejoinder to "digital sovereignty" at @futurefreespeech.org's Bedrock Principle:

YouTube video by Instrumental Sesc Brasil Banda de Pífanos de Caruaru | A briga do cachorro com a onça (Sebastião Biano) | Instrumental Sesc

I saw “The Secret Agent” last week and am still thinking about it. It’s an intricate and haunting meditation on life under an authoritarian regime. Wagner Moura is great (as always). And it lodged this banger in my head…

youtu.be/fVCMKeeBw-0?...

I'm just sitting here, trying to figure out how to threat model for armed, masked thugs who may kidnap you off the street, then steal, and possibly sell your phone.

It's all about this. Rampant impunity everywhere. Men who think rules are for other people. Because they are rich. Because they have nukes. Because they own the tech. Sometimes all three.

US urges its citizens to flee Venezuela amid reports of paramilitaries State department says armed ‘colectivos’ appear to be setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for Americans

Guardian reports "State department says armed ‘colectivos’ appear to be setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for Americans" in a sentence one could write about Venezuela or the United States

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI

Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United

America withdraws from the Freedom Online Coalition (among many other intl orgs) putting itself firmly on the side of lack of freedom online www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...