Rafael Ferreira
@rff.bsky.social
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I don't think the second line is true but it's canon to me anyway
January 15, 2026 at 7:13 AM
I don't think the second line is true but it's canon to me anyway
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UX design so focused on optimizing for a given user task, while completely ignoring:
- goal achieved, i want to get back to where i was
- i want to immediately do goal again
- i want to switch to different goal
Way too many times is 3-4 clicks/touches just to... do more stuff with the same app.
- goal achieved, i want to get back to where i was
- i want to immediately do goal again
- i want to switch to different goal
Way too many times is 3-4 clicks/touches just to... do more stuff with the same app.
January 15, 2026 at 11:44 AM
UX design so focused on optimizing for a given user task, while completely ignoring:
- goal achieved, i want to get back to where i was
- i want to immediately do goal again
- i want to switch to different goal
Way too many times is 3-4 clicks/touches just to... do more stuff with the same app.
- goal achieved, i want to get back to where i was
- i want to immediately do goal again
- i want to switch to different goal
Way too many times is 3-4 clicks/touches just to... do more stuff with the same app.
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> looking for a new schema language
> ask the compiler if their schema language is language agnostic or accidentally encodes the language semantics of the language used to first implement the compiler
> she laughs and says "it's a good schema language sir"
> use the schema language
> ask the compiler if their schema language is language agnostic or accidentally encodes the language semantics of the language used to first implement the compiler
> she laughs and says "it's a good schema language sir"
> use the schema language
January 14, 2026 at 4:18 PM
> looking for a new schema language
> ask the compiler if their schema language is language agnostic or accidentally encodes the language semantics of the language used to first implement the compiler
> she laughs and says "it's a good schema language sir"
> use the schema language
> ask the compiler if their schema language is language agnostic or accidentally encodes the language semantics of the language used to first implement the compiler
> she laughs and says "it's a good schema language sir"
> use the schema language
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There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.
Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This
If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.
www.theatlantic.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:27 AM
There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.
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ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
January 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
An MCP plugin to generate dynamic dialog windows on demand. Seems really cool even though I’m not totally sold on the latency argument they advance in the post.
January 14, 2026 at 1:51 PM
An MCP plugin to generate dynamic dialog windows on demand. Seems really cool even though I’m not totally sold on the latency argument they advance in the post.
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whatev, we're not going to quickly untangle this crazy knot of time-honored assumptions about "art" versus mere "reasoning," and the role originality and subjectivity ought to play in the two respectively!
I am content that the change has temporarily left people without a reflexive moral reaction.
I am content that the change has temporarily left people without a reflexive moral reaction.
January 13, 2026 at 5:32 PM
whatev, we're not going to quickly untangle this crazy knot of time-honored assumptions about "art" versus mere "reasoning," and the role originality and subjectivity ought to play in the two respectively!
I am content that the change has temporarily left people without a reflexive moral reaction.
I am content that the change has temporarily left people without a reflexive moral reaction.
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A big part of the "vibe shift." The way genAI was initially presented triggered ethical intuitions about "creativity" and "copying" that aren't triggered by Claude Code.
(With deep respect for Hayes personally), I think it's the same technology, and human ethical intuitions are just confused. But …
(With deep respect for Hayes personally), I think it's the same technology, and human ethical intuitions are just confused. But …
Seems to me there is a huge distinction between AI applications that are basically working towards full natural lanugage programming, task management etc and AI applications to *make new stuff*. The former seems both more promising as an actual useful tech and also way way less ethically dubious
January 13, 2026 at 5:27 PM
A big part of the "vibe shift." The way genAI was initially presented triggered ethical intuitions about "creativity" and "copying" that aren't triggered by Claude Code.
(With deep respect for Hayes personally), I think it's the same technology, and human ethical intuitions are just confused. But …
(With deep respect for Hayes personally), I think it's the same technology, and human ethical intuitions are just confused. But …
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the world is so annoying. i don't like war and yet i find myself advocating that EU have a decent army. i don't like central bank independence and yet find myself stanning jerome powell. i didn't like USAID and yet things are much worse now that it is gone. very annoying
January 13, 2026 at 11:02 AM
the world is so annoying. i don't like war and yet i find myself advocating that EU have a decent army. i don't like central bank independence and yet find myself stanning jerome powell. i didn't like USAID and yet things are much worse now that it is gone. very annoying
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They refused to probe a murder. The people with consciences walked out.
🚨 NEW: At least four leaders of the DOJ Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
🚨 NEW: At least four leaders of the DOJ Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
January 13, 2026 at 4:31 AM
They refused to probe a murder. The people with consciences walked out.
🚨 NEW: At least four leaders of the DOJ Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
🚨 NEW: At least four leaders of the DOJ Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
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I think partly they just hang round with the left more often. But more then this, they consider them to be equals in a way that they largely have contempt for right wingers. They fear the right but do not respect them. Different kinds of emotional response flow from this.
January 12, 2026 at 7:15 AM
I think partly they just hang round with the left more often. But more then this, they consider them to be equals in a way that they largely have contempt for right wingers. They fear the right but do not respect them. Different kinds of emotional response flow from this.
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"To our major newsrooms, the truth of the matter is a jump ball."
Read @froomkin.bsky.social on the "both sides" bias at the top.
No paywall. presswatchers.org/2026/01/why-...
Read @froomkin.bsky.social on the "both sides" bias at the top.
No paywall. presswatchers.org/2026/01/why-...
January 11, 2026 at 1:09 AM
"To our major newsrooms, the truth of the matter is a jump ball."
Read @froomkin.bsky.social on the "both sides" bias at the top.
No paywall. presswatchers.org/2026/01/why-...
Read @froomkin.bsky.social on the "both sides" bias at the top.
No paywall. presswatchers.org/2026/01/why-...
Another evidence of my theory that the build-a-better-mousetrap model of commercial innovation is dying nightingaledvs.com/dark-sky-wea...
A Eulogy for Dark Sky, a Data Visualization Masterpiece
A deep look at how the Dark Sky weather app used simple but highly effective charts to report and contextualize the weather.
nightingaledvs.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Another evidence of my theory that the build-a-better-mousetrap model of commercial innovation is dying nightingaledvs.com/dark-sky-wea...
Has this reporting been corroborated by other sources? I’m not sure how trustworthy the daily mail is for White House/Pentagon insider leaks.
According to the sources, the President has asked the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to prepare the invasion plan, but it is being resisted by the joint chiefs of staff on the grounds that it would be illegal and would not be supported by Congress.
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I didn’t realize WW 3 was on the ballot
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I didn’t realize WW 3 was on the ballot
Trump 'orders US army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland'
Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Has this reporting been corroborated by other sources? I’m not sure how trustworthy the daily mail is for White House/Pentagon insider leaks.
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Very sad to find out that no, it's not just me, and Vodafone is now intentionally limiting traffic to GitHub's CDN (and other popular CDNs) to ~100 KB/s.
(Kommentare!)
(Kommentare!)
Vodafone Kabel: Massive Drosselung bei GitHub-Downloads? (Ende Nov. 2025) | Borns IT- und Windows-Blog
Kurze Frage in die Runde der Leser, die bei Vodafone einen Internetzugang über das Kabelnetzwerk haben. Ein Leser hat mich gestern kontaktiert, weil er seit mehreren Tagen massive Probleme mit…
borncity.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Very sad to find out that no, it's not just me, and Vodafone is now intentionally limiting traffic to GitHub's CDN (and other popular CDNs) to ~100 KB/s.
(Kommentare!)
(Kommentare!)
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Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?
Previously, several of these companies, like Apple, IBM, and Disney, have paused advertising on X in response to antisemitic content. But antisemitism on X never slowed, sexual abuse imagery increased, and all of these companies quietly resumed advertising anyways.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...
Why isn't there a bigger Grok boycott?
Advertisers, politicians, and investors are still all-in on X, despite a sexual abuse crisis.
spitfirenews.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?
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This job would be so fun. You would just put up one billboard that said "Buy Nvidia chips" and then at the end of the quarter send an email that says "great news! We sold 100 percent of our chips this quarter" and attach a picture of the billboard
Nvidia has hired Google Cloud VP of Marketing Alison Wagonfeld to be Nvidia's first CMO; source: Wagonfeld will report to CEO Jensen Huang (Patrick Coffee/Wall Street Journal)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
January 9, 2026 at 12:52 AM
This job would be so fun. You would just put up one billboard that said "Buy Nvidia chips" and then at the end of the quarter send an email that says "great news! We sold 100 percent of our chips this quarter" and attach a picture of the billboard
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I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...
Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been used to generate thousands of sexualized images of adults and apparent minors. Apple and Google have removed other “nudify” apps—but continue to host X and Grok.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:58 PM
I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...
Começando bem o ano
A primeira coluna do ano é uma lista de regras que gostaria que fossem respeitadas na próxima campanha eleitoral, sempre com o objetivo de não deixar a rapaziada falar merda.
www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/cels...
www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/cels...
www1.folha.uol.com.br
January 8, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Começando bem o ano
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If you care about such things -- this is also probably the first time I've seen a chinese startup do a demo i'm not sure a top american company (generalist or physical intelligence) could do.
Sharpa has a new vision-tactile-language-action model, and they demoed it live at CES. Video is autonomous and some of the most impressive dexterous manipulation I have ever seen.
January 8, 2026 at 3:19 PM
If you care about such things -- this is also probably the first time I've seen a chinese startup do a demo i'm not sure a top american company (generalist or physical intelligence) could do.
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Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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one take i've been noodling on for some time is that it's more or less impossible for fascism to be a coherent system. the whole point is that it wants to simultaneously embrace the power of modernity while also rejecting fundamentals of modernity in favor of an imagined past
January 8, 2026 at 1:32 PM
one take i've been noodling on for some time is that it's more or less impossible for fascism to be a coherent system. the whole point is that it wants to simultaneously embrace the power of modernity while also rejecting fundamentals of modernity in favor of an imagined past
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Those people are straight out of XIX century, what the actual fuck, who thinks like that
January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Those people are straight out of XIX century, what the actual fuck, who thinks like that
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I made a thing!
github.com/cv/pi-ssh-re... lets you run pi locally but makes all filesystem operations remote.
Useful when you want all your agent operations to happen in a container, or big box full of GPUs running in a cloud somewhere!
github.com/cv/pi-ssh-re... lets you run pi locally but makes all filesystem operations remote.
Useful when you want all your agent operations to happen in a container, or big box full of GPUs running in a cloud somewhere!
GitHub - cv/pi-ssh-remote: Pi extension that redirects all file operations and commands to a remote host via SSH
Pi extension that redirects all file operations and commands to a remote host via SSH - cv/pi-ssh-remote
github.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:07 AM
I made a thing!
github.com/cv/pi-ssh-re... lets you run pi locally but makes all filesystem operations remote.
Useful when you want all your agent operations to happen in a container, or big box full of GPUs running in a cloud somewhere!
github.com/cv/pi-ssh-re... lets you run pi locally but makes all filesystem operations remote.
Useful when you want all your agent operations to happen in a container, or big box full of GPUs running in a cloud somewhere!