Maurício Pitta

the purpose of a system is what it does

Meme do Godzilla adaptado de um videogame 16 bits, representando o monstro ao lado de um prédio e, abaixo, uma caixa de texto com o rosto de uma mulher como avatar. No texto, lê-se: "Go ahead and destroy AI data centers Irão. Make the people happy" (em tradução livre: "Vá em frente e destrua datacenters de IA, Irão. Deixe as pessoas contentes").

Vou divulgar essa campanha apenas aqui, pois no X é hate mesmo com ações solidárias. Quem puder colaborar. Quem não puder, ajude compartilhando.

It's fascinating how there are apparently some PhDs who are like "wow, I could've just skipped the whole learning portion of my PhD, the entire point of the process!"

It's not a bug, it's a feature

I think it's important to give full credit to the original idiom here.

"The US has its arse lined with noodles"

This episode is just another example (of many) why I think this is one of the best podcasts going right now and why I think @parismarx.com is a great interviewer and host. If you've not listed Tech Won't Save Us yet, this is a great episode to start with.

10/10 rating from me.

"As temperaturas globais vêm aumentando há décadas. Mas muitos cientistas afirmam que agora elas estão subindo mais rápido do que nunca."

"...sycophantic AI serves as a personal echo chamber that can actually keep you from finding good ideas."

IMO, the majority of pro-AI arguments made by academics are about the economics of working in a neoliberal university. The constant call is to do more with less--less time, less funding, less peace of mind. AI promises to "solve" these problems, but I'd argue it'll actually intrench them further.

Wish I had time to write this up but - whataboutism basically never makes any sense???

Eg: 'Data centre water concerns are silly because alfalfa farms are bigger water users'

So......there's a massive industry sucking up water and that justifies making the problem worse with an extra new thing??

I’ll never get over the way someone will call a self-organizing bowl of alphabet soup “she” but not a trans woman.

O Fukuyama arranjou uma namorada chatbot?

Quem ganha com a privatização da Celepar? Venda da Celepar levanta dúvidas sobre soberania digital, coordenação estatal e impactos reais ao cidadão paranaense

Bem equivocado o editorial da Folha de hj, que adere de olhos fechados aos argumentos do governo do PR para privatizar a empresa de TI pública. Minimiza o tema da proteção de dados e diz que é um fardo pro contribuinte. Muito melhor este artigo da Maria Alexandra Cunha: www.jota.info/opiniao-e-an...

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

O cara acha que feminismo passa no sangue

Even military drone pilots experienced PTSD symptoms. Autonomous weapons solve this and other problems for the military. Moral and legal culpability are dispersed throughout the whole system. Murder becomes a function; murder of the innocent becomes a glitch. No one is to blame.

Why The Secret Agent should win the best picture Oscar Kicking off this year’s series in which our writers advocate for one Academy Award nominee, our chief critic on why the Brazilian drama-thriller is the most audacious and fully realised film in the race

Why The Secret Agent should win the best picture Oscar

One of Alan Wake 2's tittle card, picturing a large word, "CASEY", written in all caps and a bold lettering, with the words "Initiation 2" written in little letters at the bottom. It is superposed upon a dark scene of Alan Wake, dressed in a suit, rumbling around New York City at night, in a thriller-esque vibe.

Alan Wake 2 did it a bunch and I'm here for it!

your enemies fighting each other can be useful but it doesn't make them your friends. anthropic doesn't want to help with hegseth's apocalyptic fantasy *because they have their own*

you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them

okay real quick 🧵: why AI is definitely going to explode and die, because of the last two times this happened: the dot-com bubble, and enron.

people say these events are complicated, but they're actually pretty simple

this place already forgot how mad it was at Anthropic when it pirated all those books and songs huh

Essa thread tá

Desembargador de MG 'esquece' prompt de IA em decisão que absolveu homem por estupro de criança Voto de Magid Nauef Láuar continha comando para resumir parágrafo e o texto modificado

Quando tu acha que não pode piorar. Desembargador usa IA para fundamentar decisão que absolveu homem que estuprou criança de 12 anos em MG.

nucleo.jor.br/curtas/2026-...

Pronto, agora quem sabe dá pra entender.

now thats a response
David Noble, The Religion of Technology

Everything dreams. The play of form, of being, is the dreaming of substance.

Ecofascist crap

Três rios brasileiros por um fio. Por Célio Turino - Combate Racismo Ambiental Madeira, Tapajós e Tocantins são artérias de água e vida. Nutrem a biodiversidade e os povos da Amazônia. A privatização pode reduzi-los a rotas mortas, para escoar soja e minérios. Os indígenas resis...

"A resistência indígena que acontece agora em Santarém, sobre a qual busco migalhas de informação, uma vez que a chamada grande imprensa impõe censura sobre os fatos, é, neste momento, o fato mais relevante de luta popular em 2026." racismoambiental.net.br/2026/02/21/t...