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Armando Alves
@armandoalves.com
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LUX is such a great album, that earthquakes are happening near Rosalia ...
planetshift.bsky.social Planet Shift @planetshift.bsky.social · 9d
🌏 Earthquake Event
Magnitude: 5.7
Location: Santa Rosalía, Mexico
Depth: 10 km
Perceived Severity: 🟧Moderate
Time: 21 minutes ago
#earthquake #quake

More Info
November 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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ECJ Eases rules for sharing data used in AI and analytics, with new #GDPR standard: Pseudonymised data is only personal data if the recipient can reasonably reidentify.

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/in-a-landmark-decision-eu-court-7439040/
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Helpful way of improving LLM output: Verbalized Sampling
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01171

"generate a set of N possible responses, each
within a separate tag. Responses should each
include a and a numeric ."
October 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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My growing take on populism is that it's a massive tantrum by narcissistic Big Children! 👶 #Populism #BigChildren #PoliticalTantrum
October 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Media induced moral panic.
October 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Já vou para aí no décimo scroll aqui no Bluesky, e ainda não vi um skeet a saudar a robusta vitória de Carlos Moedas.

Talvez seja por causa das bolhas como a que constroem aqui que depois são surpreendidos nas urnas.
October 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Never thought of using AI for mental and emotional well being, but here I am: experimenting with Gemini and TTS to create a guided meditation.

youtu.be/io1loyCOX3A
10 Minute Guided Meditation - Ocean Anchor Mindfulness
YouTube video by Armando Alves
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October 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Something to keep in mind when Google is trying to force the use of Play Store as the single source of app distribution on Android.
October 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Note to self: avoid travelling to the U.S.
thyng.bsky.social David Vallejo @thyng.bsky.social · Sep 6
About to cancel my MeasureCamp Chicago trip. Provided my stay details on ESTA and to the lodge, yet still getting threats — ‘you won’t get in.’ Now the airline is blasting ‘DO IT NOW or you WON’T,’ which feels like a pretty off way to talk to customers. Exhausted by this one-way Simon Says game.
September 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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How to become an Obsidian power user: write a book.
August 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Idiocracy, powered by AI.

time.com/7295195/ai-c...
ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
time.com
June 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Mais bairrismo, menos nacionalismo.
May 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Flow is awesome. #googleIO
May 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Os extremos políticos usam populismo para manipular eleitores, explorando medos e instintos com desinformação e retórica que nos divide.

Para proteger a democracia liberal precisamos de conhecer como estes extremos nos manipulam:
www.armandoalves.com/2025/05/15/e...
Extremamente Manipulável
Os extremos políticos, tanto à esquerda quanto à direita, têm recorrido a estratégias populistas que exploram as fragilidades e os instintos mais básicos do eleitorado. Muitos cidadãos, alheios às maq...
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May 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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On World Book Day, while browsing a few computer books on a book store, I realized that there are none on how do do GenAI or prompt engineering.

Learning about Artificial Intelligence faces Real Time Obsolescence.
April 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Idiocracy.
Made in the USA.
April 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/17/a-great-shock-julianne-moores-childrens-book-under-review-by-trump-administration

Banning children's books instead if solving actual problems.

The far-right battle against "wokeness" is increasingly becoming very unfunny joke. 📕➡️🤡 #AntiWokeBadJoke

April 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Black Mirror material.
dfeldman.org Sphexish Quine @dfeldman.org · Apr 16
It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service

Just incredible grift
"Tesla Inc. employs an odometer system that utilizes predictive algorithms, energy consumption metrics, and driver behavior multipliers that manipulate and misrepresent the actual mileage travelled by Tesla vehicles," reads the lawsuit. "In so doing, Defendants can, and do, accelerate the rate of depreciation of the value of Tesla vehicles and also the expiration of Tesla vehicle warranties to reduce or avoid responsibility for contractually required repairs as well as increase the purchase of its extended warranty policy."
April 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Today as in 1930, it's time for economists to massively make a statement against the deranged tariffs proposed by the orange populist.
April 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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It's the conspiracies, stupid.
m-b-petersen.bsky.social Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · Mar 13
We know that economic anxiety & conspiracy beliefs are related. Often this is used to argue that it is key to fix economic conditions to avoid widespread conspiracy beliefs.

But a new study shows that causality runs the other way. The conspiracy beliefs drive the anxiety: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
March 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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It’s 2025 and I’m ripping audio CDs like it’s 2005.
CD Reader
March 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Dear brands and CRM managers, if you are sending Father's Day or Mother's Day emails, please set up your systems to let you know that my Dad or Mom are no longer alive.

RIP. Recipients In Peace.
March 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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I wonder if Tesla shareholders started asking Musk to report on 5 things he did last week that caused a dip in share price.
February 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Cancel culture by the anti woke.
adambonica.bsky.social Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Feb 20
The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️
Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.” • The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives. • The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000. Each point represents a federal agency: • Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs. • Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs. Key Observations: • Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates. • Notable targeted agencies include: • HHS (Health & Human Services) • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) • NIH (National Institutes of Health) • CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) • Dept. of Education • USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) • The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies. • A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size. Takeaway: The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology. Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).
February 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Backdoors in the US.
Backdoors in the UK.
EU seems to be the adult in the room.
February 7, 2025 at 11:37 PM