Sérgio Nunes

Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.

Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/

Dutch public broadcaster NOS quits X over disinformation Dutch public broadcaster NOS on Tuesday said it had stopped posting on Elon Musk's social media platform X, as it said it did not want to facilitate the spreading of disinformation.

Dutch public broadcaster NOS quits X over disinformation reut.rs/3KpybRU

Cory Doctorow na #WebSummit:

A Internet está uma m*rda. Que fazer? "Juntem-se a grupos de defesa de direitos digitais".
A Gália não está toda ocupada, apenas parece. Muitos ainda resistem. 💪

«“Merdificação” em curso: porque é que a Internet está pior?»
www.publico.pt/2025/11/19/p...

📣 If you are a researcher interested in studying the risks of online platforms, this is for you!

🧐 Check the FAQ here: algorithmic-transparency.ec.europa.eu/news/faqs-ds...

✍️Apply here: data-access.dsa.ec.europa.eu/home

#DSA #Article40 #DataAccess

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

YouTube video by Lisa O'Neill Lisa O'Neill - The Wind Doesn't Blow This Far Right

The wind doesn’t blow this far right
Some terrors are born out of nature
Some terrors are born overnight
Some terrors are born out of leaders
With their eye on a different prize

Qual será o custo real? Neste momento o dumping parece ser muito forte.

Page from March 1997 Scientific American featuring Brewster Kahle’s article 'Preserving the Internet.' Text describes the Internet Archive’s mission to save digital information. Includes a photo of a Smithsonian exhibit with 1996 U.S. election web memorabilia.

In 1996, Brewster Kahle wrote "Preserving the Internet" for Scientific American. Nearly 30 years later, it’s striking how many of his predictions about digital preservation came true—and how many challenges remain.

Let’s compare 1996 vs 2025 🧵

I thought something seemed off about the the image posted below: it's a photo that's been edited and colorized by AI. Please don't do that.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

In January, Asia Biega (MPI), Georgina Born (UCL), Mary Gray (MSR), Rida Qadri (G), and I ran a Dagstuhl Seminar bringing together folks from CS and the broader social sciences to discuss questions around AI and culture. Dagstuhl has just posted our report, 1/3

drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/04da...

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

Hello, World!

WIRED's The Politics Issue

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley?

In our new politics issue, we're getting into it.

Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

Published at #IRRJ: "Evaluating Dense Model-based Approaches for Multimodal Medical Case Retrieval" by Catarina Pires, Sérgio Nunes, and Luís Teixeira.
#MedicalSearch, #MultimodalRetrieval, #DenseRetrieval

https://doi.org/10.54195/irrj.19769

from the guys who brought you "what's behind the mona lisa?"

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

INESC TEC vence Prémio Arquivo.pt com portal que recupera 50 anos de dados autárquicos Imagine que conseguia aceder, de forma estruturada e intuitiva, a dados eleitorais autárquicos portugueses desde 1976 até à atualidade. Esta

🎖️A Minha Região - O teu portal autárquico, a platform developed by researchers at #INESCTEC, was the big winner of the Arquivo.pt award.

The platform allows users to consult data on electoral processes, news related to their parish, and local leaders 🗺️

Congratulations!

📌 Find out more: t.ly/-2wsz

Is a recording of the session available? Thanks!

Based on the Informatics Europe Higher Education Data Portal, the first pan-European report on bachelor-level Informatics retention and graduation (2010–2023) has been published.

🌍 #InformaticsEurope & @acm.org Europe release the first pan-European report on bachelor-level Informatics retention & graduation (2010–2023), covering 13 countries across #Europe.

📖 Read and share: tinyurl.com/4uadrtma
#Informatics #HigherEducation #DigitalFuture

🌟Really excited to share the fourth Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval (SWIRL) report published in SIGIR Forum!

Paper 👉🏻 www.johannetrippas.com/papers/tripp...

More info 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/swirl20...

#SWIRL2025 #SIGIR2026 #IR #GenAI #Research #CHIIR2026

Details needed, but ...

If fine is pulled as part of EU-US trade negotiations this is very impactful and very bad.

www.mlex.com/mlex/article...

The targeting of journalists by Israel is a feature, not a bug.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Banir smartphones das escolas tem pouco ou nenhum impacto no bem-estar Banir a utilização de smartphones por crianças e adolescentes é ignorar que estas têm acesso a diversos tipos de dispositivos, tanto na escola como em casa.

Sem palavras pra descrever esta baixeza:

1. é citado um único estudo baseado em testemunhos de alunos (ficam de fora pais e profs), um estudo qualitativo por isso não generalizável. Mm assim, os autores do artigo copiam as conclusões do estudo, e o Público tb parece estar ok com artigos decalcados

Google’s decision to de-prioritise fact checks will make it harder for users to access accurate information designed to help them make informed choices. It’s a disappointing decision from a company that has until very recently been a global fact checking champion.

Google has announced that it is de-prioritising fact checks.

This means reliable fact checks from credible organisations might get buried deeper in your search results.

Our blog on this: fullfact.org/technology/t...

Idem.

ECAT Research Workshop 2025: Call for Contributions ECAT is hosting a workshop in Seville on 12 November 2025, and we are inviting researchers to submit contributions on systemic risks.

📣 Call for research contributions 📣
ECAT Research Workshop 2025

Submission deadline: 20 August 2025

The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency #ECAT is inviting researchers to submit proposals for its 2025 workshop.

Details here:
algorithmic-transparency.ec.europa.eu/ecat-researc...

Un ataque israelí mata a Yaqeen Hammad, la niña influencer que daba consejos en redes para sobrevivir en Gaza Yaqeen, de 11 años, y su hermano mayor entregaban alimentos, juguetes y ropa a familias desplazadas

Un ataque israelí mata a Yaqeen Hammad, la niña influencer que daba consejos en redes para sobrevivir en Gaza

It's been a long journey...

#codinglife #fridayvibes #programmingjokes