Senior Technical Writer @ UJET.cx. PhD in Communication Sciences (ISCTE-IUL). Past: technology journalist, blogger & communication researcher.
Joined February 2008
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My name is Miguel Afonso Caetano and I'm on #Mastodon at tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
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"Billionaire Elon Musk’s Grok AI violated Canada’s privacy laws and, at one point, generated more than 6,000 sexual deepfake images per hour, Canada’s privacy commissioner found."
globalnews.ca/news/11899687/…
#Canada #AI #GenerativeAI #Grok #DeepFakes #SocialMedia #Twitter
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For anyone who still uses Twitter/X regularly, here's a good reason to move to BlueSky or Mastodon: sill.social/. Elon Musk killed Nuzzel when he bought Twitter and totally enshittified this place with his lousy engagement-based and addictive algorithms. It now stinks.
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The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust: “Trump and Big Tech have fused into a new kind of threat” - Cory Doctorow (The Walrus)
thewalrus.ca/the-internet-ha…
#USA #BigTech #Trump #SocialMedia #DigitalRights #PoliticalEconomy #Monopolies #Oligopolies
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RT @lorenzofb@infosec.exchange
NEW: Instagram is notifying victims of the massive hacking campaign that relied on asking the Meta AI support chatbot to hand over control of accounts.
techcrunch.com/2026/06/03/in…
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RT @glynmoody@mastodon.social
#Google ordered to put clearer #links in #AI search and let UK publishers opt out - arstechnica.com/tech-policy/… " Google must change AI Overviews after claiming users don’t want “lots of sources.” yes we do, you lying bully
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RT @Mastodon@mastodon.social
The @EUCommission just released a statement positioning open source as central to #Europe’s #TechSovereignty.
We couldn’t agree more. #OpenSource is critical to a robust and independent society.
Here’s our full statement: blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/0…
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RT @brucelawson@vivaldi.net
Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor 404media.co/demand-is-boomin… "We have for years covered the frustration that farmers have felt as they have been locked out of their Deere tractors with digital rights management systems…”
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“The only reason to have an LLM emit sentences like “I understand” is to make it more appealing than a search engine and increase the likelihood that a user will return…”
theatlantic.com/philosophy/2…
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Consciousness #Chatbots #Ethics
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“Bottom line is I do know (well, roughly!) how LLMs work, but that doesn’t make them not useful. It does mean you have to be cautious, but I am being cautious, or as cautious as can be…”
medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-a…
#AI #LLMs #GenerativeAI #AICoding #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming
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AI Doesn't Have ROI - Ed Zitron (Where’s Your Ed At)
wheresyoured.at/ai-doesnt-ha…
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIHype #AIBubble #LLMs #OpenAI #Anthropic
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Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search - Jason Koebler (404 Media)
404media.co/companies-are-us…
#AI #AEO #GenerativeAI #Chatbots #Reddit #SocialMedia
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Nordic Media Giant Schibsted switches to “Pay or Okay” – complaint filed! (NOYB)
noyb.eu/en/nordic-media-gian…
#Norway #AdTracking #Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection
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Fash News!!!
“Companies are learning a very expensive lesson: AI is an incredible accelerator, but a catastrophic failure when used as a complete human replacement.”
emeraldbook.org/news/may-312…
#AI #Automation #Layoffs #JobMarket
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Google Is Quietly Buying Code From Play Store Developers to Train AI - Jason Koebler (404 Media)
404media.co/google-is-quietl…
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Google #Playstore #AICoding #Gemini
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MiguelAfonsoCaetano retweeted
I support the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. Read and sign the declaration: leidendeclaration.ai/
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RT @davidgerard@circumstances.run
oh boy can't wait for ubuntu 28.04 zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-26-…
no there was no 26.04 release, why do you ask
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RT @davidgerard@circumstances.run
this is another well-funded open source bug finding initiative, but note again that no part of the posited solution is applying this funding to paying these individual maintainers
devops.com/can-chainguard-sa…
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RT @mpe@hcommons.social
Today, the digital open edition of Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities has been published on Manifold! Hurrah! Congratulations to @ayliu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies.
Here's my chapter:
dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/c…
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RT @evacide@hachyderm.io
The future does not have to suck. Here I am at BSides Prague, talking about AI and telling folks "Do Not Build the Torment Nexus." youtube.com/watch?v=T3K-MWp4…
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MiguelAfonsoCaetano retweeted
New: Internal Microsoft planning documents say the company's goal is to "make people addicted" to its new Scout AI assistant
404media.co/microsoft-wants-…
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