Microblogging (@mato.social/@josemurilo)
- "…it is important to be clear about what the #WaybackMachine is:It is built for human readers. We use rate limiting, filtering, & monitoring to prevent abusive access, and we watch for new scraping patterns as they emerge.When #libraries are blocked from archiving the web, the public loses access to history. #Journalists lose tools for accountability. Researchers lose evidence. The web becomes more fragile and more fragmented, and #history becomes easier to rewrite."https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/preserving-the-web-is-not-the-problem-losing-it-is/
- "If #news is the first draft of history, the loss of #localnews #archives means a loss of #memory, culture, identity and, sometimes, reality.“The public should be able to access these archives in a way that helps them and helps us document history".In most places, though, that’s not the case…most newsrooms are so focused on the present that they’re neglecting the past and how vital it is to understanding the future."https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2026/saving-local-news-also-means-saving-the-archives/
- Over 100 journalists including Rachel Maddow, Cory Doctorow, and Ellen Nakashima have signed a letter to the Internet Archive celebrating the #WaybackMachine as a crucial resource for their work.https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04-13-100-journalists-applaud-the-internet-archives-role-in-preserving-the-public-record/
- "Many #libraries and #archives have begun digitizing their collections; whether that be manuscripts, periodicals, rare books, or private archives. Below you’ll find a list of #digitizedcollections, categorized by country, that contain material related to the study of #NorthAfrica, the #MiddleEast, the #Caucasus, and #SouthAsia."#DigitalHumanitieshttps://www.arsheef.org/digitized-collections
- "#Lula has successfully transformed #Brazil. David speaks to Andre Pagliarini, professor at Louisiana State University and a contributor to Jacobin and Catalyst, about the history of Lula, what's next for the #left in Brazil, and what lesson we can all take from Lula's political project."https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AkgEuNNAry8&pp=iggCQAE%3D
- "Whether you’re famous or not, the way to get a following for your #code is to solve a real problem better than anyone else. It’s true that #distribution platforms can be kingmakers, but starting small by building real #relationships with #people you’re trying to help in ways that don’t scale is still a good way to get off the ground. That means building something genuinely differentiated rather than something that’s a few degrees off from what everyone else is doing."https://werd.io/the-bottleneck-shifts-to-distribution/
- #Satoshi: "Hearing that someone else might have finally identified the shadowy figure who had revolutionized finance, spawned a $2.4trillion industry & amassed one of the biggest fortunes in one stroke of staggering genius aroused in me a mixture of admiration & envy.Having encountered my share of liars and developed something of an expertise in their tells, Mr. Back’s demeanor—his shifty eyes, his awkward chuckle, the jerky movement of his left hand—struck me as fishy."https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZlA.nh-4.nXGyH7XLhSE6&smid=nytcore-ios-share
- "Ever since consumer rights advocates began pushing for #righttorepair legislation, hardware manufacturers have been fear mongering to lawmakers by telling them that it would introduce security threats by requiring them to reveal proprietary information about their products. In practice, the exact opposite has happened, because greater access to repair parts and repair guides means that broken equipment that could potentially be more vulnerable can be fixed more quickly."https://www.404media.co/data-center-tech-lobbyists-fearmonger-in-attempt-to-retroactively-roll-back-right-to-repair-law/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
- "At #Decidim, we believe that #participatory democratic #infrastructures must be developed in a transparent, open and democratic manner. The principles of transparency, participation, and #openness…must be equally applied to the development of technology.The exercise of #technologicalsovereignty is an active principle, based on the real ability to control the technology you use and not be at the mercy of private corporations."@decidim https://decidim.org/blog/2026-04-07-nos-infrastructures-democratiques-ne-peuvent-pas-etre-proprietaires-a-propos-de-l-acquisition-d-open-source-politics/
- #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://web.archive.org/web/20260405141904/https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/ronaldolemos/2026/04/habermas-e-a-inteligencia-artificial.shtml
- "…#theweb is not dominating #mobile the way it does desktop because it hasn't been allowed to compete. From Apple explicitly suppressing competing browsers & breaking critical features OSwide on the regular, to Google's history of discouraging internal teams from writing mobile web apps and denying competing browsers access to critical PWA features, the fix has been in for 15 yrs.This grounding in #Apple & #Google proprietary #APIs is the root of the #duopolist's power."https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/
- "…while Facebook is now almost completely irrelevant to the political discourse, that isn’t quite true for Twitter.But what does that remaining traffic consist of? I recently came across a bubble chart depicting the Twitter accounts that had received the most “engagement” in February 2026. It was depressing: most of the top accounts were extremely low-quality and highly partisan. I hadn’t even heard of many of them and only follow a handful of the top accounts." https://www.natesilver.net/p/social-media-has-become-a-freak-show
- "Antes, a #IA respondia o que você perguntava…agora, ela sempre propõe novas interações: "quer saber mais sobre esse tema?", "quer que eu adapte para as redes sociais?".A bajulação te faz querer ficar, enquanto o design de interação garante que você fique.Já vimos com as #redessociais…ninguém tinha noção dos efeitos da tecnologia na sociedade. Aos poucos, os #algoritmos aprenderam que raiva e indignação geram #engajamento e passaram a privilegiar esses conteúdos."https://www.uol.com.br/tilt/colunas/diogo-cortiz/2026/04/05/ia-sempre-muito-bajuladora-repete-o-erro-das-redes-sociais-so-que-pior.htm
- "What is the holdfast in this #ecosystem, right now? Is it the protocol itself? Is it #Bluesky, the company that built the protocol and runs its dominant application? Is it the #community of independent developers building tools on top of it? Is it the #socialbonds between all the people in the room? These are not the same thing, and they do not always pull in the same direction."#ATmosphereConf #atproto https://connectedplaces.online/reflections-on-atmosphereconf/
- RE: https://eupolicy.social/@openfuture/116334604542398780"The brief makes the case that the forthcoming #Cloud and #AI Development Act and the Digital Leadership window of the European Competitiveness Fund offer concrete opportunities to embed #publicdatastorage within the EU’s #digitalpolicy framework—not as a time-limited project, but as durable #publicinfrastructure deserving sustained public investment."#digitalinfrastructure
- RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116325852395653023"Now it is fun to look at the currently hyped product striped bare and showing its pathetic quality but that is the future of software if we let those companies continue to undermine every good practice software engineering has tried establishing."
- "…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-intelligence/ai-industry-recall-copyright-books
- Sobre as estratégias do camarada Trump: "Today, America's #media & #software industries are dying, and Trump is holding a pillow over their faces.Meanwhile, there's a #globalculturalmarket that's sweeping away American media: from K-pop (and K-zombies) to Heated Rivalry to #Brazilfunk.Now, thanks to Trump [and #Brazil], there are just a couple of years until America's wilting cultural exports will face high tariffs from markets where international media is surging."https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/01/minilateralism/
- Mais que regular, #Estado tem papel central na #descolonizaçãodigital, desde que aposte na esperança pragmática:"O lado positivo do desastre em que nos encontramos é que as crises provocam mudanças, e aquilo que parecia impensável torna-se inevitável… Vou insistir nesta ideia: em tempos de grandes crises, aquilo que parecia impensável pode se tornar inevitável. E Donald #Trump é uma série contínua de crises. Esta é a nossa #oportunidade." @pluralistic https://outraspalavras.net/tecnologiaemdisputa/a-possivel-internet-pos-corporacoes/
- #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