Notices by Personne (per_sonne@ciberlandia.pt)

"The internet and GPS were first developed through research backed by the Department of Defense, as was the quantum dot technology behind high-resolution QLED television screens. Well before they were useful or commercially relevant, the development of neural networks that underpin nearly all modern AI systems was substantially supported by the National Science Foundation. The decades-long drug discovery process that led to Ozempic was incubated by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Institutes of Health. Microchips. Self-driving cars. MRIs. The flu shot. The list goes on and on.

In her 2013 book The Entrepreneurial State, Mariana Mazzucato, a leading economist studying innovation at University College London, found that every major technological transformation in the US, from electric cars to Google to the iPhone, can trace its roots back to basic science research once funded by the federal government."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1112274/the-foundations-of-americas-prosperity-are-being-dismantled/

From Stacey Patton, journalism professor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Patton

"As a journalism professor, I have spent years watching students struggle to do what should be the most fundamental part of their job: THINK. Not just write. Not just report. THINK.
I watch them attend public meetings, take notes, and file stories that amount to little more than stenography. I ask them why they didn’t challenge an official statement, why they didn’t seek out other perspectives, why they didn’t connect this policy decision to its impact on real people. Their answers are almost always the same: “I didn’t think of that.”

That is what scares me. They aren’t lazy. They aren’t unwilling. They have been conditioned not to think critically, not to question authority, not to challenge narratives, and certainly not to connect the dots between POLICY and POWER.

And make no mistake about it, this didn’t happen by accident. It was engineered BY DESIGN.
For decades, our education system has been steadily chipping away at the very skills necessary for young people to engage meaningfully with the world. Schools have replaced critical thinking with standardized testing, rewarding students for regurgitating information rather than interrogating it. They have spent years sitting in classrooms where the goal is to find the right answer, not ask the right question.

By the time they reach college, they have learned that the safest path is to stay in their lane, follow the formula, and never challenge the system.
And then we throw them into journalism programs and tell them to do the exact opposite.
We ask them to question, investigate, and analyze when everything in their education has trained them to do the opposite.

@CStamp @tobie1 @GottaLaff

When Bush removed rights from prisoners and when the Patriot Act removed privacy from American citizens, the Left was screaming and warning everyone that this would be a slippery slope. Everyone then (and now) claimed this was an exaggeration.
* shrugs *

@Dave_Goldsmith @kahomono

This has been cultivated for many decades, with the slow takeover of SCOTUS, Ronald Reagan / Thatcher destruction of the welfare state, the Koch Brothers funding of the Tea Party extremists, Rupert Murdoch propaganda machine relentlessly changing "hearts and minds", the repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act, Fairness Doctrine...
This didn't happen overnight. The Tech Robber Barons are just the latest instalment of the Neoliberal path we've been taking in the destruction of democracy, since 1979.
Bernie Sanders was the last chance we had in avoiding it and it's gone.
There will be a large scale war (civil or global) in the next 5 to 10 years, to release all the social upheaval boiling beneath the surface.

@patrickleavy @pluralistic

...just leaving this here...

https://ibmandtheholocaust.com/

@RuiSeabra
É uma Constituição que contém direitos, liberdades e garantias, baseada numa concepção universalista de Direitos Humanos e sufrágio universal?
Extrema-esquerda woke!

@jt_rebelo @RuiSeabra

Eu concordo com a Direita de que a Constituição actual está obsoleta e precisa de profunda revisão.
Há anos que defendo a revogação do Artigo 62°.

@darnell
I would be extremely careful before quoting the Daily Mail. Rumours and disinformation are spreading like wildfire.
[Pun most definitely intended]

@jwildeboer

That's nice, but domain names are getting increasingly expensive year over year. For most of us, especially in countries where the cost of living outweighs salaries, it's an added expense. I feel there's a sort of feudalism growing in the medium, where you pay ransom to middlemen to be able to keep your digital ID. How do we get out of that loop? I don't know any domain name nonprofit cooperatives.

@Bruiserzinha Mas custa muito cozer um ovo?!?!

Algures, alguém achou uma excelente ideia criar esta aberração de embalagem individual de vários gramas de plástico PET, tintas, cartão e necessidade de refrigeração para transporte, para vender 4 ovos cozidos e frios. Sou só eu que sinto que estou na linha temporal errada?
#Lidl #wtf

Os ovos normais já vêm com uma embalagem natural de carbonato de cálcio, directamente do cu da galinha e preservam-se relativamente bem! Não entendo.

@aram
Provide a good service --> create a monopoly --> once the monopoly is set --> reduce features --> insert ads --> make them pay for basic features --> take the users and content creators hostage, since they can't move elsewhere --> extract all possible value for yourself. Karl Marx wrote about Spotify, in the 19th century, Cory Doctorow wrote about it today: Enshittification.
It stops when we boycott their arses.

@Daojoan
Men are just too emotional to be able to handle policy. Also, they have a natural inclination for woodworking and making poor quality furniture with power tools in their garages. They would be much more fulfilled and happy if they stayed in the garage doing God's carpentry work, as Jesus and his father did, and leave the rest to women. Western civilisation has declined ever since men abandoned their true vocation, for the illusion of power and emancipation through politics.
#TradHusband #embraceTradition