As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

🚨 We are hiring! The University of Virginia’s Department of Media Studies invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Media Studies on the academic general faculty. This is a three-year, tenure-ineligible appointment with the possibility of renewal, though not guaranteed.

anyone who says people opposing data centers are just nimbys need to stop echoing industry propaganda and see what it’s actually like to live near one

Goodbye Orbán!

'Café com teu pai': influenciador da machosfera é policial e viola regras da PRF nas redes Breno Faria integra corporação desde 2019 e viralizou com vídeos e venda de cursos voltados às mulheres; leis proíbem que servidores federais da ativa façam comércio e se dediquem a outras carreiras

'Café com teu pai': influenciador da machosfera é policial e viola regras da PRF nas redes ⬇️

Breno Faria integra corporação desde 2019 e viralizou com vídeos e venda de cursos voltados às mulheres; leis proíbem que servidores federais da ativa façam comércio e se dediquem a outras carreiras

Learned yesterday that AI monitors Bluesky "Starter Packs" to determine who to cite for academic expertise.

So I'm starting one for Media History.

I'm too busy to search for every name. If you're a media historian nominate yourself in the comments and I'll add you.

Judas não descansa

“Financial Lives in a Networked Generation: How Finfluencers, Fin-Tech, and FOMO Shape Young Adults' Financial Well-being” Report Launch - DTD Lab

The FLiNG report drops tomorrow! Join us April 1 (1–3pm EDT) for the webinar. Hustles, memecoins, BNPL, finfluencers, gambling! Register to attend or get sent a link to video + report PDF dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/fling-...

Minha nova coluna, hoje, na Folha de São Paulo. Falo um pouco da minha pesquisa sobre os efeitos das BETs nas favelas.

www1.folha.uol.com.br/opiniao/2026...

Condenação de Meta e Google em caso de jovem nos EUA abre precedente para novos processos, diz antropólogo Em entrevista ao Estúdio CBN nesta quinta-feira (26), David Nemer, antropólogo da tecnologia e professor da Universidade da Virgínia, nos EUA, fala sobre a dimensão do julgamento e reverberação no Bra...

Condenação de Meta e Google em caso de jovem nos EUA abre precedente para novos processos

Em entrevista ao Estúdio CBN, David Nemer, antropólogo da tecnologia e professor da Universidade da Virgínia, nos EUA, fala sobre a dimensão do julgamento e reverberação no Brasil
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This is, in small part, why the fear of the Chinese hoovering up our data through TikTok was so stupid in the justification of the TikTok law.

If China wants our data they can just buy it cheap like everyone else.

We all knew this was their methodology, but still infuriating with each new example.

Não, a "Lei Felca" não proíbe o Linux. A desinformação sobre a Lei 15.211/2025 e o Linux no Brasil é um estudo de caso perfeito sobre como uma preocupação legítima vira pânico…

Isso sobre o software livre é uma basófia sem tamanho

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If children are likely to access a service, that service must now account for their protection. This isn't just a legal update; it's a structural transformation. The burden shifts from users & families to the platforms themselves, demanding accountability at the architectural level, not just policy.

from the very beginning: through default privacy settings, risk-based design choices, and proactive measures to prevent harm.

Importantly, the statute applies broadly across the digital ecosystem: social media, gaming platforms, betting apps, app stores, and operating systems. +

The ECA Digital represents a significant shift in how we think about platform responsibility. It moves beyond a model based on terms of service and reactive moderation, and instead requires protection by design. Platforms must now incorporate safeguards for children and teenagers +

"Earlier" today, I was on GloboNews discussing the new Digital Statute for Children & Adolescents (ECA Digital), a landmark piece of legislation that places Brazil back at the vanguard of global internet regulation. Instead of banning social media for children, Brazil chose protection & safeguards.+

Marseille far-right mayoral candidate tied with leftist incumbent, exit poll shows Marseille's leftist mayor and his far-right rival were tied in ​Sunday's first-round municipal election, an Ipsos exit poll showed, in a major boost for the ‌nationalist National Rally's once-unthinka...

Far-right RN has done well in the first round of the local elections, as expected. The real test, however, is the second round... has the party become so normalized among right-wing voters that they will choose it over a left-wing party in the run-off? Or will turn-out increase and hurt them?

Folks at the University of Virginia, please be safe and away from Shannon Library.

ALL data are “outdated.”

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“UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has shown that deep reading, defined as sustained immersion in a text, builds the cognitive circuits required for critical analysis, empathy and perspective-taking in ways that skimming, scrolling and short-form video simply cannot.”

David Nemer analisa a relação entre tecnologia e o ataque dos EUA e Israel ao Irã YouTube video by Instituto Conhecimento Liberta

Companhias de tecnologia dos EUA aprofundam a dependência tecnológica dos países periféricos, analisa o antropólogo David Nemer.

youtu.be/yPvI6VLMvi0

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Carnival Economics: Dispatches from Rio, Brasília and Salvador How Brazil's ‘Carnaval’ reveals what conventional economics misses about the public value of arts and culture

Just back from Rio, Brasília & Salvador launching @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Carnival Economics project w Brazil's Ministry of Culture.

Carnival isn’t a one-off event—it’s a year-round production economy. A case study on how culture, identity & joy sit at the centre of what a creative economy should be.

Thank you! Great article.

Masnick: "This is what so many of us kept pointing out throughout the 'Twitter Files' hysteria: the 'free speech' grift was never about protecting individuals from the state. It was about protecting a specific type of speaker from the social consequences of their speech."

A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

US Critical Mineral Aggression Abroad Connected to Data Center Fights at Home We must phase out fossil fuels—not endlessly reshuffle environmental sacrifice zones around the planet, write Hannah Lipstein and Tamara Kneese.

Data center fights are hyperlocal but depend on opaque global supply chains + geopolitical resource grabs. How do data centers connect with critical minerals and electronics manufacturing, and what makes these connections palpable? Hannah Lipstein + I wrote about this @techpolicypress.bsky.social