Mafalda Dâmaso
@mafalda.bsky.social
EU cultural/audiovisual policy & cultural diplomacy scholar | Part-time Prof @eui-schuman.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social | Co-chair @forumukeu.bsky.social | Assembleia @partidolivre.pt | PT/UK | 📍London | https://mafalda-damaso.com | Views my own
And the same thing is beginning to happen with the threat posed by the US
Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 22h agoA decade on, British politics and society still doesn’t grasp the nature of the threat posed to it by Russia.
Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’
Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’
Nicolas Cage says he 'probably won't be working' with Amazon again after refusing to sign an AI waiver for 'Spider-Noir.'
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The backstory: Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex supercomputer facility in Vladimir, taking it out. Suddenly, bot activity in US social media fell by 49%, confirming suspicions that this was the site of a massive Russian influence operation targeting US social media—mostly targeting MAGA.
The exaggeration that drove critics to label minor infractions as a major cultural rot, or students protesting as akin to to Maoism, left then unable to respond to an actual authoritarian movement when it arrived. So they try to salvage their prior work by making bizarre comparisons. e.g. woke right
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
Political scientists who understand Portuguese, check what’s happening in Brazil. The bottom-up mobilization against Bolsonaro is remarkable. People are going to their local markets w chairs & free coffee to chat about politics w undecided voters, etc etc etc. If it works, it will become a new model
Unfortunately, that’s not where the UK is. Its approach continues to be negative, transactional, ill-informed and stubborn. 10 years after Brexit, and considering the quality of the British civil service, this is an achievement of sorts.
David Henig@davidheniguk.bsky.social · 5d agoHence why for the UK to achieve its aims in Brussels, whether that be on Made in Europe or even rejoin, it would need to be all over the Brussels bubble debate, well-informed, bringing positive ideas, arranging events, generally being positive. encompass-europe.com/comment/how-...
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
Another great piece by @samfr.bsky.social on the route back into the EU for the UK. That said, one thing that is massively underappreciated in the UK is the EU's own appetite to begin membership talks with the UK. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...
The route back into the EU
Back in 2022 I wrote about the long-term prospects for undoing Brexit and made two predictions.
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This is why you don’t allow authoritarian foreign states to put you in a position where blackmail is an option.
Premier League News@plnews.bsky.social · last wk.UAE warns Andy Burnham it may pull billions in investment for the UK's proposed Oxford-Cambridge tech hub—dubbed the UK's Silicon Valley—in retaliation over Manchester City's guilty verdict, per The Telegraph.
Remarkable shift in German industry thinking on China. From new BDI paper: “Even if de-risking entails costs, including in the form of counter-reactions, passivity would in the long term be economically considerably more costly & irresponsible from a security-policy perspective”
Can Europe compete in the global race for cultural influence? Drawing on evidence from @animamundieu.bsky.social and StreamSCAPES, @mafalda.bsky.social and Antonios Vlassis explore how the EU projects its soft power globally. 📥 More information: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... #EUCulture #SoftPower
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
The world is in flames but at least we can all go down against the soundtrack of Barack Obama's summer playlist
Oh hey, remember when I said you might be legally liable for feeding proprietary information to your LLM, when the levee breaks on the data lake? Claude remembers. Claude remembers *everything.*
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
The more I think about Carney's foreign policy decisions, the more I believe he views values as a luxury or a liability Values are at best, a nice-to-have, once economic fundamentals are secure. At worst, they're a risk and we get punished for them progressdevelopment.substack.com/p/that-davos...
That Davos Speech: What We Missed
Do countries earn the right to a principled foreign policy, only once they've reduced vulnerability to retaliation?
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This will also have repercussions on the European level - Morawiecki, who has just been expelled, is the head of the European Conservative and Reformer (ECR) party, the party that brings together PiS, Meloni's FdI and other national conversatives across the EU.
E usar a cidadania europeia como pretexto para acabar com a gratuitidade é o sentido completamente oposto daquilo que devia ser feito. A @mafalda.bsky.social explica melhor (neste vídeo que dava mais jeito que estivesse cá!): www.instagram.com/reel/Dax_tzF...
Mafalda Dâmaso on Instagram: "Sobre as declarações da ministra da cultura sobre a limitação da gratuitidade das entradas nos museus em Portugal e o que isso revela sobre a posição do governo quanto ao...
3,196 likes, 136 comments - mafaldadms on July 14, 2026: "Sobre as declarações da ministra da cultura sobre a limitação da gratuitidade das entradas nos museus em Portugal e o que isso revela sobre a ...
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Não quer cortar a entrada gratuita, mas faz questão de falar do “prejuízo” que deu, “prejuízo” esse que terá sido causado pelo baixo aproveitamento da medida… A Ministra do Que Lhe Puserem Em Cima entrou na rotunda e anda às voltas a ver que saída lhe convém mais.
Agência Lusa@lusa.pt · 3mo agoMinistra diz que "apenas 4% da população" usou programa de entrada gratuita nos museus
In the same fashion as Christian grace, liberal democracy demands something audacious and a bit unnatural of us. It asks us to put away our will to power and vindictiveness, to accept defeat routinely and peacefully. It asks us to consider the other and to live with them.
Comentário random: a forma como o Henrique Raposo usa obras de arte para ilustrar a sua análise política de forma totalmente desligada do contexto original dessas mesmas obras é um bom exemplo da reprodução de uma certa elite que instrumentaliza a cultura como forma de distinção. Bourdieu 101
He has a point here. Not because the EU's policies are always good for humanity; they aren't. But because the idea of European integration—uniting people of different countries as equal citizens of a joint supranational democracy—is more humanist than the opposing principle of national sovereignty.
European News@eunews.social · 4mo agoSpeaking in Madrid yesterday, Pope Leo XIV stated: "I encourage you to nurture the process of the European Union, which is not merely a counterweight to other powers, but a gift to humanity."
A maioria saberá que o @ruitavares.bsky.social tem um conhecimento profundo da situação húngara. Ontem à noite fez uma longa thread no twitter sobre o tema, como n me apetece linkar o twitter trago para aqui a coisa em imagens (ele vai desculpar-me o abuso, aposto)
Yet again, lefties have hled their nose and voted for a right-winger to save democracy from the far right. Contrast that to the large number of right-wingers who consistently chose far-right candidates over even centrists.
right I have wifi again - here was Budapest just now - at quarter past midnight!
Thank you, Hungary! After Artemis II, April is starting to save 2026