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  "AT Protocol is not #Bluesky… The reason I draw your attention to this distinction is because #ATProto has interesting properties, notably in how it supports #pluggable #identity that doesn't depend on the server you use… This puts power in the hands of the #users and not in those of #serveradmins. It means that you can always guarantee credible exit, you cannot get locked in. By default, email-style federation is subject to capture, and indeed email is captured." https...

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  “I think the #forcedadoption of #AI on people’s devices might be the straw that’s breaking the camel’s back in some ways,” she said. “The awareness has been growing for a long time that these products and these companies that make them have an outsized influence over us, and that we’re not really using these products in the way that we would like to.” https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/librarians-are-hosting-viral-avoiding-ai-workshops-for-people-who-are-fed-up-with-big-tech/

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  "This article presents this phenomenon of #vanishingculture as a first-order #politicalcrisis. … #museums, #libraries, #archives must have #legalprotections to undertake four basic practices with #digital materials that they were previously allowed to do with physical ones: (1) collection (2) preservation (3) access, & (4) collaboration. #MemoryInstitutions should sign the Statement, join the movement, and work together to protect their critical role in the digital age.&quo...

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  "On #Mastodon, you can set your timeline to hide or block posts featuring certain words, phrases, hashtags or emoji. You can choose to block them completely, or hide them behind a warning that you can open manually. This isn’t just about offensive posts, it can be filtering for any reason. Some use filters to hide Wordle posts for example. Your filters are private, and they will apply in the apps as well as on the website. No one will know you have filtered their posts." https:...

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  "The fiscal ideologues who seem to like #nuclearpower the most don’t understand that #freemarket economics and nuclear generation go together like flame throwers and gas stations. It just doesn’t compute for them that the market sucks for some things, and #nuclearenergy is one of them. Building nuclear reactors requires a #NuclearNewDeal, and no government in the world seems interested in doing that." https://cleantechnica.com/2023/11/06/nuclear-energy-free-market-capitalism-arent-co...

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  O #WhatsApp no #Brasil é o símbolo do enclausuramento da vida privada pela BigTech, mas temos que admitir um sub-produto delicioso: corruptos grampeados em série. “Segundo investigações, Tuca operava como braço direito de #Cunha, ignorando fluxos formais para materializar as decisões do ex-deputado. Análises de mensagens telemáticas revelaram que Cunha coordenava diretamente a destinação de pelo menos 29 emendas da Comissão de Saúde, totalizando um valor de R$ 6.15 Mi.” https://www1.folha.uol....

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  #Enclausuramento dos #grupos: sob o domínio do #WhatsApp no #Brasil O grupo não é seu. É do WhatsApp. Presente em 99% dos celulares, o app tem um custo invisível: cada grupo de família, de bairro, de movimento—sua identidade, seu histórico, sua lista de membros—pertence à Meta, não à comunidade. Se o app mudar os termos, o grupo se curva. Se sair do ar, o grupo some. Sem protocolo aberto, toda comunidade que migrou sua vida para o digital virou inquilina na casa de outro. https://identitywoman.n...

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  #enshitification "…is not a story about bad people. It is a story about structure. #Platforms mediate two-sided markets, can reallocate value between sides at zero cost, and once both sides are locked in, the platform’s incentives shift from serving either of them to extracting from both. The diverging of platform interests from user interests is not a failure of the platform. It is the #businessmodel. “We just need a better platform” is not a #strategy." https://identitywoman.net/ensh...

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  " #RSS is one of the best examples we have of the #openweb, where we can design and customize how we experience the internet, not the other way around. RSS has come in and out of fashion, been declared dead, and has come back, every time. Open systems are the best way forward to a free, equitable internet, and the resilience and continued reinvention of RSS has shown just how creative the web community can be with #openprotocols." #Xemele https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate-algo...

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  “And now, inevitably, half of my #Bluesky timeline is like: oh, we need a service that’s resistant to this sort of shit, something that’s not beholden to capitalist pressure, something that’s queer-friendly…, quickly followed by but don’t say #Mastodon! Sorry, I’m saying it. We want fucking Mastodon. It’s run by an actual non-profit foundation, none of this “public benefit corporation” bullshit. It’s not subject to creeping network-wide puritanism. Mastodon. Goddammit.” https://giants-club.net/...

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  "A campanha #Fedigov (ou Governo no Fediverso) que começou na Europa, e foi adaptada para o Brasil pela Associação #Alquimídia, visa diminuir a terceirização da comunicação pública institucional para as plataformas das grandes empresas de tecnologia (Meta, X, YouTube), seu modelo de negócios e seus algoritmos opacos. O Núcleo de Desenvolvimento da Criatividade da #Unicamp (#Nudecri) se soma no esforço para fortalecer essa estratégia pela soberania digital do país." https://www....

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  Instagram como entrada para o museu... Me fez pensar em uma promoção dos "#museus pela #soberaniadigital" oferecendo conta do Fediverso nos eventos da SENSACIONAL Semana Nacional de Museus, a 24ª (18 a 24 de maio) O tema este ano é "Museus Unindo um Mundo Dividido", e são milhares de eventos espalhados pelo Brasil. A conta @VisiteMuseus, ainda em fase de testes, irá divulgar a maravilhosa diversidade de possibilidades que emergem dos museus brasileiros. Vale...

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  "…as tempting as it might be to ridicule the #Trump regime’s #stupidity — and there is no shortage of material for that — it is worth stepping back and asking: Who #benefits from the madness? The world’s richest 500 people made a quarter trillion dollars in a single day when Trump threatened Iran with genocide and then abruptly about-faced and agreed to a ceasefire." https://jacobin.com/2026/05/iran-war-trump-profits-class

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  "#Apple understands #browser choice is a threat to its rentier model. The #DMA holds the potential for developers to finally access the safe, open, and #interoperable web technologies that power most desktop computing today. Keeping capable, stable, high-quality #browsers away from #iOS is necessary to maintain the App Store's monopoly on the features every app needs." https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/

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  "t’s time to stop focusing merely on making #BigTech safer… …rather than trying to make the intrinsically harmful environment of #monopoly platforms better, we should make our first area of focus evacuating the tech #platforms —that is, a managed retreat to smaller forums run by and for their communities, made possible through #interoperability." @pluralistic https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/01/1081939/big-questions-problem-solving-bill-gates-jennifer-doudna-lina-khan/

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  Após 2 anos de reflexões e ensaios, ficou evidente para o Ibram-Museus que #arquitetura e #autogestão são conceitos chave para ação institucional no Fediverso. Os #museus precisam de #redessociais para cumprir sua missão de difundir e preservar o patrimônio cultural e histórico #natodigital. É "modelar o uso para o segmento", como diz @tiagojferreira @skarnio @helio @cochise @divulga @rede

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  "#Decentralizing the governance of social computing systems to #communities promises to empower them to make independent decisions, with nuance and in context. Yet, communities do not govern in isolation. Many problems communities face are common, or move across their boundaries. We propose designing for #intercommunity governance: mechanisms that support relationships between communities toward coordinating on #governance issues." https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3772318.379085...

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  "Many #gov organizations & politicians to this day seem to prefer #BigTech platforms (X, Facebook, Instagram) and Bluesky for their communications. #Bluesky is based on an open protocol (ATProto) that allows data portability, but 98% of its accounts are still centralized on the Bluesky main server. I have been highly skeptical of Bluesky (even if I've been an early adopter of it) because to me it replicates many of the toxic, problematic behaviors of Big Tech platforms.&...

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  "#Facebook…the company, would constantly #bundle and unbundle services like Messenger and Photos. I mean, even Poke was unbundled at one point. This expanded beyond Facebook with #WhatsApp becoming another attempt to create one-app-to-rule-them all after Mark Zuckerberg clearly saw the success of the "super apps" in various Asian markets with products such as China’s WeChat, Japan’s Line, and South Korea’s KakaoTalk. But it never really worked. Or at least, hasn&#3...

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  1st question to Google's CEO, by @nilaypatel: "Do you think language is the same as intelligence?" Sets the tone for a good interview on Google's #AI prospects on #search: "If AI chatbots and AI-powered search results are summarizing everything for you, why would you go to a website?" Check out the CEO's answers: https://www.theverge.com/24158374/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-ai-search-gemini-future-of-the-internet-web-openai-decoder-intervi...

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  #RonaldoLemos mostra como Habermas pensa os #modelosdelinguagem: "#Habermas notou que o mundo da vida estava sendo colonizado. Seus colonizadores são o dinheiro e o poder, que ele chamava de "#imperativosdeslinguistizados". Eles não precisam da #linguagem para atuar; e faz todo sentido. Se uma pessoa recebe 100 milhões de outra, quem dá o dinheiro não precisa argumentar nada. Quem recebe se alinha com as ideias e objetivos da pessoa, seja sua argumentação boa ou ruim." https:...

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  #OpenSocial #Awards "These awards showcase leading projects by those seeking to develop alternatives to Big Tech products and platforms, leveraging any of the open social protocols.    Applications are due by 11:59pm Pacific Time on Friday May 1, 2026. They will be awarded during the PublicSpaces Conference 2026, held in Amsterdam June 4-6, with an in-person ceremony on June 5th." https://newpublic.org/OSA

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  "#Domesticar a selvageria das plataformas é #urgente, mas país hesita em dar um passo a mais. Alternativas livres como #Fediverso, com apoio do Estado, estão disponíveis. No Fediverso, onde não existem algoritmos de recomendação que buscam capturar a atenção dos usuários a qualquer custo, cabem às comunidades definir o que é apropriado ou não. É #apropriaçãotecnológica na prática, não só no discurso." Marteladas de @r_evangelista https://outraspalavras.net/tecnologiaemdisput...

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  "Every single time you mandate #ageverification, you are mandating the creation of a centralized database of extraordinarily sensitive personal information. Government IDs. #Biometric facial data. The kind of data that, once breached, cannot be “changed” like a password. You get one face. You get one #government ID number. When those leak—and they will leak—the damage is permanent." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside...

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  "…a damning new study could put #AI companies on the defensive. In it, #Stanford and #Yale researchers found compelling evidence that #AImodels are actually copying all that data, not “learning” from it. Specifically, four prominent LLMs — OpenAI’s GPT-4.1, Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro, xAI’s Grok 3, and Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet — happily #reproduced lengthy excerpts from #popular — and #protected — #works, with a stunning degree of #accuracy." https://futurism.com/artificial-...

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  #WebDesign em #Brasília? A equipe do Labdev (Desenvolvimento e Suporte em #Tainacan) no Ibram-Museus, precisa de WebDesigner! #vaga #trabalho “O LabDev é composto por jovens profissionais da Ciência da Informação—Museologia, Biblioteconomia, Arquivologia—que participaram nas equipes de desenvolvimento do Tainacan nos últimos anos. É perceptível o entusiasmo com o trabalho realizado na iniciativa, que propõe novas trilhas para os especialistas em instituições de memória.” https://josemurilo.com/2...

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  What ‘Get #AgeCategoryAPI’ Really Means for Your Device: Proposed laws would embed persistent identity verification directly into operating systems…These bills mandate #OSlevelAPIs that apps can query for age data—creating a permanent identity layer baked into your phone. Here’s where the #lobbying gets surgical. The proposed laws hammer #Apple’s App Store and #Google Play with compliance requirements but reportedly spare #socialmedia platforms—#Meta’s core business." https://www.gadget...

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  Para quem está chegando no #Fediverso, é bom saber que os museus brasileiros, impulsionados pelo Ibram-#Museus, realizam reflexões e experimentos no tema das redes sociais descentralizadas. Afinal, como garantir a preservação do nosso patrimônio cultural, sem desenvolver músculos digitais?! Neste link, você poderá conhecer um pouco do que estamos fazendo. É o governo federal colocando um pé (um dedo, vai..:) no Fediverso. Vamo junto!? https://josemurilo.com/2025/12/05/museus-no-fediverso-aprese...

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  "O fato de a #ComissãoEuropeia ter uma instância no Mastodon é também uma expressão de #SoberaniaDigital sobretudo, observando as “dificuldades recentes”, afirma Marie Pupo Jeammet. … Para as pessoas na linha de frente das iniciativas apresentadas, elas demonstram que #instituiçõespúblicas podem organizar, governar e inovar digitalmente em alinhamento com seus próprios valores, em vez de terceirizar essa responsabilidade para grandes plataformas comerciais." @Dam https://www....

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  RE: https://mastodon.nudecri.unicamp.br/@oxigenio/116216718045108846 A turma do #Labjor e do @nudecri mandou muito bem! Explicar o Fediverso, demonstrar que o ambiente tem como base um protocolo aberto e a cultura do #softwarelivre, e indicar como a política pública pode explorar esta alquimidia cultural para a promoção da #SoberaniaDigital, tudo isso em 40mins.?! Parabéns para @Damny e @rgbd pela ótima produção. Honrado em participar! #podcast