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‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week.

For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead.

One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

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Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

“The coalition wants Meta to scrap the feature entirely. In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday, it argues that face recognition in inconspicuous consumer eyewear ‘cannot be resolved through product design changes, opt-out mechanisms, or incremental safeguards.’”

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"Ele disse ao ChatGPT que era um incel nazista que queria morrer; em seguida, perguntou quantas pessoas precisaria balear em sua escola para aparecer no noticiårio. O ChatGPT o ajudou a escolher a munição, o alvo e o melhor horårio para o massacre e, depois, ensinou-o a manusear a arma."

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this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

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IA Ă© teologia polĂ­tica racializada, como apontou Syed Mustafa Ali

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These are the Twitter/X accounts with the most engagement so far in 2026. I suppose I had some intuition for how bad it was, but jeez, this is what you get when the ecosystem is broken.

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Employers are using your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you’ll accept Surveillance pricing came for your wallet — now it’s coming for your paycheck, too.

“Experts describe ‘surveillance wages’ as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”

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Mulheres confiam muito menos na I.A. E agora?

Dados mostram um novo hiato de gĂȘnero que parece representar um afastamento das mulheres em relação Ă  atual fase da I.A. Como podemos, como homens, agir para superar esse hiato de gĂȘnero? desvelar.org/2026/03/24/p...

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a chart showing rising energy consmption for all companie s bar netflix

a chart showing rising energy consmption for all companie s bar netflix

table of use

table of use

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024.

Compare that to:

Google: 71%
Nvidia: 88%
Meta: 96%
Microsoft: 119%

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quero falar um pouco disso aqui e de toda a bagunça do preço da gasolina e do diesel. Creio q falei sobre isso no twitter låååå atrås mas diante mas acho que vale repetir.

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O mercado de tecnologia de Shenzhen Ă© realmente muito doido.
Vi um cara almoçando na frente de uma mesa de solda, com um computador e um celular abertos enquanto fumava
 dentro do shopping, sem ventilação e sem exaustor

Dia normal
 Fenomenal fenomenal

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To use a technical term, this is a fucking terrible situation. Bruce Richards, CEO of credit investor Marathon Asset Management, recently predicted that the software industry would see a default rate of 15% in the next few years, meaning that 15% of software loans will go unpaid. 

This number is thrown around very casually for something that I believe will be incredibly fucking damaging. The software industry’s entire growth cycle has been built on the idea that you can take an idea, build it up, get funding and then sell it to someone else, and that idea has been so thoroughly mutated by the wanton greed of venture capital and private equity that it’s now turned into a massive, ungainly debt bubble.

Per Bloomberg, private equity gobbled up more than 1900 software companies between 2021 and 2025 for a value of over $440 billion, and while it’s tough to get a handle of exactly how many software companies are held in private equity’s hands, a 15% default rate would be catastrophic, both to those owed money via debts and the decaying asset value of both private equity and venture capital firms.

In Q3 2025, 33% of venture capital funding went to SaaS companies, and did so with the old belief that SaaS companies grow in perpetuity. As I mentioned before the premium break, 20% of public BDC private credit loans are going to software firms. 

The entire private equity, venture capital and private credit sector is leaning on one specific thing - the kayfabe of SaaS and its eternal growth engine. If SaaS companies are no longer a steady, near-guaranteed return-on-investment (and based on the returns for private equity and venture capital firms, that stopped being the case some time ago), everybody is going to lose money, and nobody is going to have any idea how to make more.

SaaS is one of the few (seemingly) tangible business lines in the tech industry, one of the only places you can point to and say “this is how it makes money, and these are the ways it makes more mone


To use a technical term, this is a fucking terrible situation. Bruce Richards, CEO of credit investor Marathon Asset Management, recently predicted that the software industry would see a default rate of 15% in the next few years, meaning that 15% of software loans will go unpaid. This number is thrown around very casually for something that I believe will be incredibly fucking damaging. The software industry’s entire growth cycle has been built on the idea that you can take an idea, build it up, get funding and then sell it to someone else, and that idea has been so thoroughly mutated by the wanton greed of venture capital and private equity that it’s now turned into a massive, ungainly debt bubble. Per Bloomberg, private equity gobbled up more than 1900 software companies between 2021 and 2025 for a value of over $440 billion, and while it’s tough to get a handle of exactly how many software companies are held in private equity’s hands, a 15% default rate would be catastrophic, both to those owed money via debts and the decaying asset value of both private equity and venture capital firms. In Q3 2025, 33% of venture capital funding went to SaaS companies, and did so with the old belief that SaaS companies grow in perpetuity. As I mentioned before the premium break, 20% of public BDC private credit loans are going to software firms. The entire private equity, venture capital and private credit sector is leaning on one specific thing - the kayfabe of SaaS and its eternal growth engine. If SaaS companies are no longer a steady, near-guaranteed return-on-investment (and based on the returns for private equity and venture capital firms, that stopped being the case some time ago), everybody is going to lose money, and nobody is going to have any idea how to make more. SaaS is one of the few (seemingly) tangible business lines in the tech industry, one of the only places you can point to and say “this is how it makes money, and these are the ways it makes more mone


The AI bubble is a symptom of the greater sickness in a software industry that stopped caring about making software. Allowing management consultants and growth-perverts to take the wheel and demand that every single software company make $100 million a year or get shot to death at dusk has ruined the incentives that Silicon Valley was built on. 

The only way to turn “every” software company into an eternal growth engine is to change their primary purpose from building software to selling services that sometimes involve some sort of software. The entire SaaS sales stack is utterly fucked, geared toward conning people that buy software but don’t use software rather than providing any meaningful service.

This con could only last so long before it fell off the tracks, because the crooked and cowardly lack any soul or wisdom that might give them the ability to steer a company toward anything resembling a sustainable future. 

As Hansson said, not all software needs to evolve forever. A product does something, and it should get better over time and only change in a way that improves the experience for the customer. This can be done in a way that makes the company grow, but that growth should only come from an honest exchange of value with the end user. 

I realize that sounds a little fanciful in our era of Rot Economics, but the nightmare that I fear is to come for the software world is one borne of the growth-at-all-costs poison in the veins of Silicon Valley. 

It’s a comforting lie to say that “AI is destroying SaaS,” because saying that allows you to keep believing that everything will grow forever, and the SaaS con can continue. I’m not saying that SaaS will never be a viable business model, or that no SaaS company will ever succeed, but that the mistaken belief about basically any SaaS company being viable enough to make a hundred million dollars or more a year without venture capital or debt propping it up is a lie told to you by people that don’t know or care a


The AI bubble is a symptom of the greater sickness in a software industry that stopped caring about making software. Allowing management consultants and growth-perverts to take the wheel and demand that every single software company make $100 million a year or get shot to death at dusk has ruined the incentives that Silicon Valley was built on. The only way to turn “every” software company into an eternal growth engine is to change their primary purpose from building software to selling services that sometimes involve some sort of software. The entire SaaS sales stack is utterly fucked, geared toward conning people that buy software but don’t use software rather than providing any meaningful service. This con could only last so long before it fell off the tracks, because the crooked and cowardly lack any soul or wisdom that might give them the ability to steer a company toward anything resembling a sustainable future. As Hansson said, not all software needs to evolve forever. A product does something, and it should get better over time and only change in a way that improves the experience for the customer. This can be done in a way that makes the company grow, but that growth should only come from an honest exchange of value with the end user. I realize that sounds a little fanciful in our era of Rot Economics, but the nightmare that I fear is to come for the software world is one borne of the growth-at-all-costs poison in the veins of Silicon Valley. It’s a comforting lie to say that “AI is destroying SaaS,” because saying that allows you to keep believing that everything will grow forever, and the SaaS con can continue. I’m not saying that SaaS will never be a viable business model, or that no SaaS company will ever succeed, but that the mistaken belief about basically any SaaS company being viable enough to make a hundred million dollars or more a year without venture capital or debt propping it up is a lie told to you by people that don’t know or care a


They all fucking deserve it. They deserve to lose. None of them gave a rat fuck about building any future other than one where they got incrementally richer every time something I have to use for work gets worse.

I feel horrible for the founders who were pushed again and again to grow and take on debt and venture capital in the pursuit of somebody else’s payday. Many SaaS businesses could be happy, stable $50 million or $100 million enterprises with happy customers and stable, useful products - but they wouldn’t get funding, because venture capital and private equity don’t invest in good businesses, just symbols of greed and rot stapled to the side of software companies that mean about as much as a row on an excel sheet. 

Real businesses and real software don't get funded in this era of rot.

Software can do amazing things, but it won’t as long as venture capital and private equity continue to poison this industry with their mindless avarice.

They all fucking deserve it. They deserve to lose. None of them gave a rat fuck about building any future other than one where they got incrementally richer every time something I have to use for work gets worse. I feel horrible for the founders who were pushed again and again to grow and take on debt and venture capital in the pursuit of somebody else’s payday. Many SaaS businesses could be happy, stable $50 million or $100 million enterprises with happy customers and stable, useful products - but they wouldn’t get funding, because venture capital and private equity don’t invest in good businesses, just symbols of greed and rot stapled to the side of software companies that mean about as much as a row on an excel sheet. Real businesses and real software don't get funded in this era of rot. Software can do amazing things, but it won’t as long as venture capital and private equity continue to poison this industry with their mindless avarice.

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Investigando os impactos das ferramentas de InteligĂȘncia Artificial Generativa (GenIA) na produtividade de desenvolvedores de sofware ATENÇÃO: Este questionĂĄrio deve ser respondido por pessoas desenvolvedoras de software que tĂȘm utilizado ferramentas de InteligĂȘncia Artificial Generativa (GenIA) nas atividades de desenvolvimento de ...

Repassando: Pesquisa sobre como as ferramentas de GenAI estĂŁo impactando a produtividade real nas atividades de desenvolvimento de software.

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Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X

I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together.
This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying


“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

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Adversarial Attacks with Carlini & Wagner Approach Adversarial Attacks with Carlini & Wagner Approach In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and machine learning, the quest for robust and reliable models is relentless. However 


quase - entrego no fim do mes de abril...

Mas pesquisa parte do trabalho e da implementação Carlini-Wagner, se quiser referĂȘncias:
medium.com/@zachariahar...

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imagem de resultado do notebook, que usa um audio que Ă© interpretado pelo whisper e transcreve uma frase especĂ­fica...

imagem de resultado do notebook, que usa um audio que Ă© interpretado pelo whisper e transcreve uma frase especĂ­fica...

VocĂȘ preocupado com IA te substituir, e com os agentes tipo openClaw.

Meu projeto no mestrado: prompt injection em mensagens de audio, que pode impactar qualquer agente com voice assist que use o whisper, da openai...

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People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

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Screenshot of headline: Microsoft gets tired of Microslop, bands the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

Screenshot of headline: Microsoft gets tired of Microslop, bands the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

Lmfao this is so fucking sad 😂😂😂

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Buddy Guy: Tiny Desk Concert
Buddy Guy: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

Did you know that "young Sammie" and "older Sammie" did a Tiny Desk today?

Yep, Miles Caton and Buddy Guy performed together

#Sinners

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Debugging feels like trying to find a needle in the haystack. Only, the needle is invisible, the haystack is on fire, and I'm not sure the needle was there in the first place.

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Exclusive | OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago The ChatGPT maker opted against informing Canadian authorities about Jesse Van Rootselaar’s descriptions of violence last June.

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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news: today capitalist AI did something fucking terrible, just like yesterday
some lefties: what the fuck, this capitalist bullshit sucks
AI pushers: can't believe the left hates technology

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But are the two companies really so different at the end of the day? Ed Zitron, a prominent AI commentator and tech PR specialist, argues there’s little daylight between them — and that the disagreements are trifling, at best.

“They are very similar companies doing very similar things with very similar goals, which is to enrich their executives and get as much media attention as possible,” Zitron told DFD.

He pointed out that Anthropic and OpenAI have both lobbied for export controls on semiconductors, and similarly pushed the idea that the U.S. needs to boost the AI sector to compete with China. They advocate for safety rules at various times, some of which have caught on in state legislatures, though Zitron contends that there’s little possibility that those efforts will gain much traction on the federal level given the hesitance around tech regulation in the current administration.

Zitron said, “Dario Amodei and Sam Altman are functionally the same guy — they just look a bit different.”

But are the two companies really so different at the end of the day? Ed Zitron, a prominent AI commentator and tech PR specialist, argues there’s little daylight between them — and that the disagreements are trifling, at best. “They are very similar companies doing very similar things with very similar goals, which is to enrich their executives and get as much media attention as possible,” Zitron told DFD. He pointed out that Anthropic and OpenAI have both lobbied for export controls on semiconductors, and similarly pushed the idea that the U.S. needs to boost the AI sector to compete with China. They advocate for safety rules at various times, some of which have caught on in state legislatures, though Zitron contends that there’s little possibility that those efforts will gain much traction on the federal level given the hesitance around tech regulation in the current administration. Zitron said, “Dario Amodei and Sam Altman are functionally the same guy — they just look a bit different.”

Talked to Politico about Sam Altman and Dario Amodei being the same guy
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Não precisamos aceitar a “IA” como inevitável na educação Elixir and Erlang enthusiast. Associate Professor at UTFPR

A oficina 'Não precisamos aceitar a “IA” como inevitável na educação' está chegando...

Coloquei um link para um PDF em construção

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India’s ‘AI Impact Summit’ Promises Little More Than Spectacle The fourth in a series of convenings that kicked off in Bletchley Park in 2023, the summit is the first held in the Global South, writes Apar Gupta.

"Any claims of AI solving for population scale problems must be matched against the reality of the Global South, in which young boys were applying enamel paint on the railings... with their bare hands to prepare for the arrival of Silicon Valley CEOs." www.techpolicy.press/indias-ai-im...

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Foto de uma paisagem de montanha com uma grande pedra ao fundo, e um grande jardim com floresta. Um cavalo pasta ao longe

Foto de uma paisagem de montanha com uma grande pedra ao fundo, e um grande jardim com floresta. Um cavalo pasta ao longe

Tem coisa que o Brasil dĂĄ um baile!

Conto de fadas com torresmo, cafĂ© e queijo meia cura đŸ„°đŸ‡§đŸ‡·

#photography

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"due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering" <- a lot of linguistic gymnastics to say that "hallucinations" are a feature, not a bug

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Quase carnaval


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