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MiguelAfonsoCaetano
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Senior Technical Writer @ https://t.co/Ryejhm8bmU. PhD in Communication Sciences (ISCTE-IUL). Past: technology journalist, blogger & communication researcher.
Odivelas, Portugal Beigetreten Şubat 2008
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Documents: OpenAI and Anthropic have projected profitability to investors with and without training costs, and report inference costs exceeding half of revenue (Wall Street Journal)
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⚡️NEW from @DropSiteNews: Gulf Funds Recalibrating American Investments, Including Backing for Paramount Merger, as Iran War Rages On
Financing underpinning the artificial intelligence bubble is also on the table for reconsideration, sources told Drop Site.
Story by @ryagrim
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"Two decades ago, a president embraced information that turned out to be wrong, and disaster followed. Today, a president disregards assessments that proved to be right, and the predictable comes to pass. There's a failure of intelligence there too—just not the kind we’re used to seeing." theatlantic.com/national-secur…
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Satellite firm Planet Labs to indefinitely withhold Iran war images reuters.com/business/media…
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OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar expenditures significantly outstrip its revenue.
To plug its financial hole, the company is attempting to solidify its connection with one of the richest user bases possible: the US military. jacobin.com/2026/04/openai…
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"Thinking hurts, so why not surrender to AI?", my article on @Medium
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Make no mistake: destroying world-class universities, like the US just did with Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, isn't just an attack on Iran but it's literally an attack on all of us, on all of humanity.
It's not Iran that "won" when Maryam Mirzakhani made her discoveries that won her a Fields Medal: it's all of mathematics, and everything mathematics is used for. Human progress won, technology won, we all won.
It's the same type of stuff the Mongols did during the sack of Baghdad and their destruction of the House of Wisdom: we ALL lost something irreplaceable back then, entire fields of human knowledge set back.
That's what bombing a university does. It doesn't just destroy buildings. It destroys us, all of us.
Sandhya Ramesh@sandygrains
Alma mater of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the mathematics Fields Medal.
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It's incredible that Trump would admit to this because the "Iran killed peaceful protesters" narrative was pretty much the only moral fig leaf the pro-war camp could still hide behind.
In effect he's confirming: "no, I assure you, my war is 100% indefensible. Zero moral basis whatsoever."
It's also yet another immensely depressing illustration of the extent to which we're still all manipulated by the media.
Which mainstream outlet, globally, questioned the "peaceful protesters" framing? The Iranian government kept saying this wasn't true, but which outlet even entertained the possibility they were telling the truth?
Not one, as far as I could see: this was universally dismissed as Iranian propaganda. As is sadly almost always the case, the media just ran the US State Department script: the Iranian "regime" is massacring innocent civilians for wanting "freedom". The ridiculously cartoonish narrative that women just want to show their hair and get killed for that...
Except we now have the President of the United States confirming that the protesters were in fact sent "a lot of guns," making them actual US-armed insurgents🤷
Hopefully it finally shames the media into doing the bare minimum, i.e. their actual job: treat Western government claims with the same skepticism they reflexively apply to official enemies. But I'm not holding my breath...
Trey Yingst@TreyYingst
NEW: The United States sent guns to the Iranian protesters through the Kurds, President Trump told Fox News. "We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them," President Trump told me. "And I think the Kurds took the guns."
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This underscores the central dilemma in trying to get Iran to a deal: "Iranian officials made clear to the mediators they don't want to be caught in a Gaza or Lebanon situation where there is a ceasefire on paper, but the US and Israel can attack again whenever they want to."
For now, Iran believes its control of Hormuz is the thing that will prevent such an outcome: that the ability to cause chaos in the global economy will serve as a deterrent in the future. Plus it wants to use the strait as a revenue stream.
Yet for America (and Gulf states) there is no acceptable deal in which Iran retains such control.
So for the American negotiators, Hormuz looks like a point of leverage that Iran should trade for security and economic benefits; for the Iranians, Hormuz itself is a security and economic benefit. axios.com/2026/04/06/ira…
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Habermas defendeu como ninguém a ideia de modernidade ocidental quando os ataques se intensificavam e as rachaduras mais sérias apareciam. Na minha visão, sua Teoria da Ação Comunicativa é um legado monumental, que ajuda a compreender o desafio da IA.
www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/ronald…
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Ars Technica coverage: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/res…
Hedgie@HedgieMarkets
🦔Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania studied what they call cognitive surrender, the tendency to accept AI outputs without critical evaluation. Across 1,372 participants and over 9,500 trials, subjects accepted faulty AI reasoning 73.2% of the time and only overruled it 19.7% of the time. When the AI was wrong, users still accepted its answer 80% of the time. Subjects who used AI scored 11.7% higher on confidence in their answers despite the AI being wrong half the time. Adding time pressure made people 12 percentage points less likely to catch AI errors. Adding financial incentives and immediate feedback made them 19 points more likely to catch them. My Take The time pressure finding matters enormously for how AI is actually being deployed in workplaces. Companies are using AI to justify faster turnaround times, which means employees are using it under exactly the conditions that make them least likely to catch mistakes. When you're rushed, your internal monitor for detecting errors essentially stops firing, so you get AI output, no time to review it, high confidence it's correct, and a meaningful chance it's wrong. People using a system that was wrong half the time still felt more confident in their answers than people who weren't using AI at all. That is a system actively making people worse at knowing what they don't know, which is one of the most dangerous things you can do to human judgment at scale. The companies pushing AI hardest into employee workflows should be reading this research carefully. Hedgie🤗 Link to research for those interested: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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“It was a perverse consequence of concern over the violations of the Bush years: a replacement of black sites and Gitmo detentions w/ ghostly assassinations by airborne machines, and the particulars would remain far from view-and from the conscience.”
nytimes.com/2026/04/04/mag…
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Link to source: bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/…
Hedgie@HedgieMarkets
🦔LinkedIn has been injecting a JavaScript fingerprinting script into every page load that scans visitors' browsers for 6,236 installed Chrome extensions and collects hardware data including CPU core count, available memory, screen resolution, time zone, battery status, and storage capabilities. The script targets extensions from competing sales intelligence products like Apollo, Lusha, and ZoomInfo, along with over 200 other competing tools. Because LinkedIn accounts are tied to real names, employers, and job titles, the extension and device data can be linked back to identify specific individuals. LinkedIn says the scanning is used to detect extensions that scrape data in violation of its terms of service. My Take LinkedIn's explanation that this is about detecting scraping tools is technically plausible for some of the 6,236 extensions being scanned. It is less convincing for the grammar tools, tax professional software, and other categories with no obvious connection to data scraping that are also in the list. Scanning for 200 competing sales intelligence products specifically looks less like platform protection and more like competitive intelligence gathering on your own users. What I'd want people to understand is what the hardware fingerprinting actually means in practice. CPU count, memory, screen resolution, battery status, and timezone combined with a real name and employer creates a device profile that follows you across the web even if you log out. LinkedIn is a platform most people use because they feel professionally obligated to. That captive audience dynamic makes the aggressive data collection harder to push back against than it would be on a platform you could simply stop using. Hedgie🤗
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How the war in the Gulf is becoming Asia's crisis:
- globally, petrol prices are up 14%; in southeast Asia, it's 42%
- food prices might climb by more than 5% this year, double what had been expected before the war
- countries like Vietnam and Thailand only have enough oil supplies to meet a few weeks of demand
- jet-fuel shortages are already forcing airlines to reduce their schedules: around half of the flight cancellations last week were in Asia economist.com/asia/2026/04/0…
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What if the whole LLM thing is a false start? If the flaws are inherent systemic problems - if the compounding of hallucinations/errors can't be sorted out? If the capex build out is one of the biggest misallocations of capital ever? Then what? bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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First the US claimed it could easily overthrow Iran's government by assassinating top leaders. That failed.
Then the US bombed Iran's main military sites. That failed.
So now the US empire wants to destroy all of Iran's civilian infrastructure.
This is state terrorism.
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
Officials say hitting power plants and roadways is necessary to cripple Iran’s weapons programs. on.wsj.com/4dvdqAv
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The question "Does Israel have a right to exist?" isn't a real inquiry about the rights of nations.
It's a manipulation of discourse, a litmus test that forces Palestinians to offer theoretical assurances before their real political grievances can even be heard. jacobin.com/2026/04/israel…
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The window to avert a massive global hunger crisis is rapidly closing. Must-read from the @guardian on the food security timebomb that will go off if fertiliser cannot pass through the Strait of Hormuz:
theguardian.com/world/2026/apr…
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