Ricardo Tavares

O parque da cidade do #Porto pode ser sitiado o verão inteiro até os animais aparecerem mortos, mas o Rivoli não pode ver à frente tendas em protesto por um direito constitucional? #Portugal, o nosso Estado todos os dias faz escolhas que não têm em mente os melhores interesses de todos.

If you spot any of these: a) Blind faith in a leader who claims to speak for the people and calls for action with no room for doubt. b) Appeals to fear or mainly disgust toward those marked as different while constructing enemies seen as both strong and weak.

The good news is that while modern democracies try to leverage capitalism without getting absorbed by it, this new face of the old fascism is practically guaranteed. This backlash shows we're moving in the right direction.

If you spot any of these: a) Blind faith in a leader who claims to speak for the people and calls for action with no room for doubt. b) Appeals to fear or mainly disgust toward those marked as different while constructing enemies seen as both strong and weak.

Good morning #php everybody cool? Hope we can all get the best day possible.

“It should be clear to everyone (but for those that profit otherwise) how #ai can be an opportunity if we keep our hands on the wheel, or a problem if we let it drive to wherever the owners of each road want to take us.” blog.viewfromtheweb.com/the-ai-doom-... 👈 On the AI #doom under our control ✊

And another one: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... Practical #AI harm beats its theoretical harm every single day.

“It should be clear to everyone (but for those that profit otherwise) how #ai can be an opportunity if we keep our hands on the wheel, or a problem if we let it drive to wherever the owners of each road want to take us.” blog.viewfromtheweb.com/the-ai-doom-... 👈 On the AI #doom under our control ✊

This is how AI kills people every day: gizmodo.com/pentagon-inv... Maybe we can't solve "the alignment problem", but in the case of humans aligning with humans, we have to keep trying.

One of the many advantages of having a social media account in some random mastodon instance ran by a hamster-powered toaster, is that your time and attention has zero chance of contributing to the wealth of an elite psychopath.

Hey #bloomscrolling have a nice weekend 🌺

Cyberbullying doesn't begin in schools. It begins in a society that can only go online if everyone has only one identity that has to match with your ID.

If you tie your kid to a very narrow identity online, you can expect them to take some big emotional hits when that gets attacked as an extension of who they are at school. They can't escape.

It's already friday and Portuguese media are still reporting on a cold slice of last week #AI news. This just in: ex-Anthropic employee says AI can kill us all. No mention of the renewed consensus from OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI. No mention of the official response from China. #Portugal

People keep saying that frameworks like #tailwind or even #stylex are good for agents, but are they working in our current reality where even frontier LLMs still suck at frontend and #CSS?

Meanwhile, if your #HTML is just mumbo-jumbo, you're forced to address everything visually by scribbling on screenshots, hoping that the agent gets what you mean and ignoring bad structural choices that contribute to lingering issues.

People keep saying that frameworks like #tailwind or even #stylex are good for agents, but are they working in our current reality where even frontier LLMs still suck at frontend and #CSS?

Whenever we can identify some way in which LLMs can't count Rs on the word strawberry, that's fixed now. Turns out that product managers can take over the world if we let them. Given infinite resources, language can be composed in infinite ways.