Um jeito para começar é admitir o óbvio que esquecemos: a economia global é, em grande parte, um gigantesco sistema de informação disfarçado de “mercado”. Dinheiro é informação. Preço é informação. Juros são informação.
#Economy #economia #sistemas #techology #tecnologia #cloudcomputing #softwareengineer #SoftwareEngineering #engenhariadesoftware #algoritmos #mercado #Fintech #produtividade #startups #opensource
https://www.moprius.com/2026/01/o-desenvolvimento-da-tecnologia-e.html
Have you watched Cory Doctorow @pluralistic speech about:
A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (a speech at 39C3 in Hamburg on Dec 28, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39jsstmmUUs
It's about the high risk of being dependent on US #techology & why other countries should get rid of the anti-circumvention laws (that they were forced to implement with threat of #tariffs) that prop up US #tech companies.
Worth watching.
Interesting Video Courses
#ai #3dmodeling #animation #3dprinting #techology #wittystore
Day 12: Tech
A college student who tried his best to draw a thumbnail sketch-type model sheet for college technology.
#sketchbookapp #indigenovember #tech #techology #navajo #myart #navajoart #navajoartist #indigenouspeople
Setting up an AD test lab for fun and profit
https://www.twitch.tv/jacensekai
#Windows #Microsoft #ActiveDirectory #Techology #Livestream #Twitch
Sobsobsob! I like my Unspoken sounds. I just updated #NVDA, and both my Dectalk addon and my Unspoken addon have been disabld. Are there later versions of this addon anywhere? #Boind #Screenreade3 #Techology
When I was 10 (this takes us back to 1986 - you can do the math) or so, the computer hobbyist underground was a buzz about a new computing machine.
A machine that didn't come with any sort of CRT monitor. In fact it plugged right into your television, you know that thing that was attached to a mini antenna that sat on top and it only got three channels (if you were lucky)?
That machine went on to be one of the most popular computing devices today known affectionately as the C64 or Commodore 64.
Now, being that I came from a family with modest means (barely middle class at the time) my single parent dad wasn't about to fork over hundreds if not thousands of dollars for this marvel.
Instead he allowed my grandmother buy me my first computer. No, it wasn't the C64. It was a cheap knock off, she bought me an Aquarius.
Same blue screen interface.
Same single keyboard design.
Totally different level of masochism.
(Should I include a part 2 to this story?)
EPISODE 16 - Scott and Mark Learn To… Feedback with Scott Hanselman & Mark Russinovich.
How (and Why) a Reverse Engineer 3D-Printed an iPhone.
Scotty Allen reverse-engineered the interior case of an iPhone and has released the files to people wanting to make their own.
https://www.404media.co/how-and-why-a-reverse-engineer-3d-printed-an-iphone/ #reverseengineering #iPhone #techology #3DPrinting
Pick your #AI article:
- AI will eliminate [industry] jobs (NOTE: bonus points if you don't mention a time frame)
- Check out this cool new (ChatGPT/Claude/etc.) feature! (...that is kinda cool but overall useless).
- Use these # prompts to [task]
- AI models steal [asset type] from [industry]
- We made AI say [insert phrase], which can harm [people group]
This is really something —
"A Peterson Institute study found that spending on the construction of US computer and electronics manufacturing facilities had 'skyrocketed' in the last two years, with more electronics construction proceeding in 2024 than in the two previous decades."
Uncertainty over the future direction of the US under the next administration may jeopardize all that.
https://www.ft.com/content/e478dd6c-6dad-4795-9610-1098c2d33d88
#ChipsAct #tech #techology #USeconomy #economy #USpol #USpolitics #USelections #election
If you have an e-reader and you side load (manually add) books to your device, which of the following do you do?
Just curious about people's habits with their ereaders. If you have some reasons or logic for what you do, please comment below!
(resubmitted poll with more precise options)
#Bookstodon #Book #Books #Reading #AmReading #ReadingCommunity #ReadingNow #Ebook #Ebooks #Ereader #Kindle #Kobo #Nook #OnyxBoox #Boox #Techology #Library #Libraries #Poll #Polls
If you’ve read me for a while you know that – when it comes to tech reporting/talking about tech – I have been around the block a few times. Talked about some hypes, cut some supposedly magic technologies down to size. Sometimes even defending or advocating for certain tech.
After a while the patterns seem to repeat (which is what lead to my talk on Empty Innovation). Narrative structures keep coming up again and again just with certain keywords replaced or updated. And sometimes not even that. But I also keep repeating myself, trying to hopefully bring some clarity to certain technologies as a springboard towards a deeper, more contextualized understanding that does not try to strip all politics and history and social meaning from tech. It doesn’t always work but I have my moments.
But today – in another conversation on “AI” and what it can or will or might or might not do in the future – a radical idea came to me. Something truly shocking. Here’s the thing:
Things that do not exist (yet) do not exist.
Mind. Blown. I know.
And of course my brain having soaked in way to much philosophical reading wants to pull it apart (What even does “to exist” mean? Don’t you believe that dreams or goals exist and have an impact on the world? etc. etc.) but bear with me for a second. And let’s just use a very simple understanding of existing. Like the things you can see or touch or actually explore in a defined shape that others experience similarly to you exist. This laptop. This blog. Others do not. Like the chocolate bar I’d love to have right now but does not exist.
Sure. Great job stating trivialities, sugar addict. Why should I care?
Well. It’s been a long time since we talked about technologies, innovations etc. as things that exist. And it’s hurting us and the discourse.
Let’s just stick to AI, the hype du jour: You can of course talk about these systems and what they do. About some marginal improvement on some benchmark that a new model has bought with a billion dollars in energy spending or something. But that’s barely ever the discourse.
A few days ago I commented on Meta’s open letter to the EU asking to be allowed to use all the data without paying or obeying the law. For innovation and because it might raise GDP. And while Meta’s letter is a blatant example of propaganda and lobbying the way it argues isn’t limited to the shady area of the digital city.
We are constantly asked to keep talking about things as potential. To judge things based on promises of what they might do that go way beyond the actual realities of the thing. Like OpenAI and others can’t make any money with their machine learning models. But their text and image generators might bring a 10% GDP increase as Meta’s open letter claims? You sure about that? Sounds like that requires a lot of magic thinking between 1) “OpenAI builds stochastic parrots” and 3) “GDP goes up by 10%”. How exactly is 2) shaped in this chain of reasoning and does it actually exist?
Sure I can argue that if you all give me 100 bucks right now you will all be millionaires in 10 years. But what exactly is the rational connective tissue between those statements? Or might they be the ramblings of a person either not very smart or very much a con artist?
In the tech discourse we need to stop thinking and talking about things that do not exist.
When someone tries to sell their tech (step 1 in the chain of reasoning) with massively large claims (step 3 in the chain) look at whether step 2 actually exists in reality. Because if it doesn’t that’d not “disruptive innovation” or “a breakthrough” or “a unicorn”. That is bullshit. It’s not just a waste of your time, it’s a way to infantilize you.
If you allow any jump (giving tante 100 bucks now makes you a millionaire in a year) no argument matters anymore. Sure massively wasteful “AI” systems could somehow solve the climate crisis but they probably most definitely absolutely won’t. But it’s possible under the “any promise about the future is allowed” rule. Because that rule makes all analysis, all prediction, all hopes and goals irrelevant. Anything is possible and you can just pick whose random string of word salad you follow. Maybe ask the rich dude who claims to be a stochastic parrot himself and who runs OpenAI? Take a bigger swing and go to the “our machine god will save/kill us all” folks. You already accepted that nothing means anything anyways.
I’m tired of arguing with word salat. I’m taking a radical stand. I just want to talk about what is real when it comes to tech. Fuck your visions, come back when you have some proof.
Is there any way to control how windows 11 decides to connect to displays?? First on my laptop it would always Extend displays, annoying because my docked laptop is constantly powering a 4k TV that is usually off, but managable.
NOW, despite no change from me, it defaults to ONLY the second screen (not main display mind you) with the laptop screen blank. Every time I change it to First Screen Only but it forgets.
Listening to the latest Epic and Apple app store machinations on episode 595 of @atpfm
I’d missed it as I don’t read Apple new sites much these days.
Listening to Better Offline (How Shareholders Are Destroying The Tech Industry): https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/how-shareholders-are-destroying-the-tech-industry
In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how [a] destructive mindset has created an entirely new kind of manager - one disconnected from labor and creation - and how the dark hand of shareholder supremacy is behind everything strange and bad in tech in the last few years.
In this episode of the Plutopia podcast, hosts Scoop Sweeney, Wendy Grossman, and Jon Lebkowsky have an open discussion without a guest, considering what’s buzzing at the moment. The conversation touches on various topics, including being a dilettante versus a specialist, the misuse of AI in solving policy problems, and the influence of technology on participatory medicine. They also discuss the anti-vax movement, the effects of misinformation, and the political landscape, including voter suppression and the influence of venture capital on job security. The episode concludes with reflections on the current state of democracy and the challenges posed by disinformation and authoritarianism.
https://media.blubrry.com/plutopia_news_network/plutopia.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PNN-Podcast-for-June-10.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
https://plutopia.io/the-plutopian-buzz/
#ai #disinformation #misinformation #participatoryMedicine #techology #ventureCapital #voterSuppression
We see the word #quantum everywhere, but what's it all about? A physicist explains in plain language everything from the basic meanings of the term and the surprising number of everyday uses to its more exotic future potential. the #science and #techology of #quantumphysics
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