MiguelAfonsoCaetano
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Senior Technical Writer @ Opplane. PhD in Communication Sciences (ISCTE-IUL). Past: technology journalist, blogger & communication researcher.
Odivelas, Portugal
Joined February 2008
My name is Miguel Afonso Caetano and I'm on #Mastodon at https://t.co/VfsgVtYvzp
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13.7K Posts, 666 Following, 3.11K Followers · Senior Technical Writer @ Opplane (Lisbon, Portugal). PhD in Communication Sciences (ISCTE-IUL). Past: technology journalist, blogger & communication...
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Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI’s chances best, but they need an advertising model to beat Google as an Aggregator. https://t.co/3Rk3smQ2WE
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OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI’s chances best, but they need an advertising model to beat Google as an Aggregator.
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At @theprospect we wanted to do something different about affordability. Instead of why this or that is unaffordable, we wanted to understand the drivers of the cost of living: physically, technologically, even culturally. So we did a whole issue about it. https://t.co/MppHYuMJtw
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⚡️ Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu The U.S. is pushing its colonialist plan, as Israel keeps killing. Mahmoud Abbas is changing election laws to ban Hamas. And a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause. New report by @JeremyScahill and Jawa Ahmad at
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The U.S. is pushing its colonialist plan, as Israel keeps killing. Mahmoud Abbas is changing election laws to ban Hamas. And a battle is brewing over who speaks for the Palestinian liberation cause.
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Sam Altman has declared a “Code Red” in an internal memo – The plan is to allocate more resources to improving ChatGPT, with teams concentrating on features that allow more personalized interaction with ChatGPT. – Other core priorities include: 1. advancing the
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Our "brain likes to conserve energy and will take available shortcuts to do so. 'It takes a lot of energy to do certain kinds of thought processes'" Thus, "using AI to write your emails isn’t laziness so much as it is a naturally adaptive behavior"
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Rise of the LLeMmings
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AI won’t make most human skills obsolete, but it will change how they’re used. Negotiation, problem solving, and leadership will matter more than ever as people work alongside agents and robots. Explore MGI’s new Skill Change Index: https://t.co/h1K56uPqPo
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with some thoughts on "One Battle After Another," John Wayne, and what we "want" from political violence
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In political violence, Americans see a future of order and control.
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The judge’s ordeal epitomising Europe’s disappeared values. Let us, for a moment, entertain the fanciful hypothesis that Europe cares about its values. Imagine a Europe where the principles so lavishly inscribed upon the banners of the European project – the rule of law, the
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Yanis Varoufakis recounts the Kafkaesque nightmare of Nicolas Guillou, a French magistrate in The Hague targeted by the US.
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#WolffBites: UK teachers quitting because of "crippling" working conditions. No "Labor gov't" plan for pay increases, more hires. Instead, plans to reduce teacher work-weeks. Capitalism's crisis deepens as it undereducated its own. https://t.co/hLmXXTXK51
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Advocacy group tells education secretary ‘working smarter’ can protect staff wellbeing and help students
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Today in Current Affairs, professor Ron Purser exposes how AI's destruction of the university is even worse than you think, and goes well beyond students cheating with ChatGPT: https://t.co/TAUD4R7gxK
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🦔AI adoption at work has fallen and now sits at 11% of Americans, according to Census Bureau data. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses employing over 250 people. Other surveys show stagnation too: one found AI use at work dropped from 46% in June to 37% in
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If you've been wondering how China was able to train its models without NVIDIA chips: they did it abroad. Chinese AI giants are routing around US chip controls by training their newest large language models in overseas data centers that still have access to Nvidia hardware.
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As I try to underline in this essay, fear of breakdown isn't just an individual psychic phenomenon; it can also be a mass sociological phenomenon with substantial political implications. https://t.co/Sjgc0prcbq
"As Winnicott observed, fear of breakdown is rarely a fear of a future catastrophe; it is instead the displaced anxiety of a breakdown already suffered but unacknowledged.” —Eric Reinhart
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Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer Microsoft triggered a viral furor when it revealed a Teams update to tell your company when you’re not at work. Now Google has done the same. Forget end-to-end encryption. A new Android update means your RCS and SMS
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Warning: What happens on your Android, doesn’t stay on your Android — not if it's a work phone.
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LINK TO THE ARTICLE: ainewshub. org/post/ai-inference-costs-tpu-vs-gpu-2025
🧮 A long and interesting article here. Key Takeaways: - TPUs deliver 4x better cost-performance than Nvidia GPUs for AI inference workloads - Inference costs 15x more than training over a model's lifetime and growing exponentially - By 2030, inference will consume 75% of
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Without oversight and transparency measures in place, the growing use of AI-powered tools in policing risks infringing on civil rights and civil liberties by amplifying bias and chilling free speech. Our new analysis details the risks and the needed safeguards needed to address
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New data fusion tools risk embedding biases and chilling free speech.
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🚨 New Android malware Albiriox is being sold as a service. It can remotely control phones, stream screens from banking apps, and fake updates to steal logins. It even bypasses Android’s screen protections. Read about it here → https://t.co/ayl1idDUFp Spread via fake Google
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