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João Proença

@jrosaproenca.bsky.social

Quality Engineer. Conference Speaker on all things Software Quality. Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹 Benfica ⚽️ Musician 🎸

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Charity Majors@charity.wtf · last wk.

with all apologies for the title of this episode... @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com means that 2026 is the year it stopped being possible to be skeptical about whether AI is going to change the way we build software, not that we should stop being skeptical about AI. 😉

Robby Russell@robbyonrails.com · 2w ago

Completely agree with @charity.wtf’s take on the recent @pragmaticengineer.com episode. Our generation might be the best at debugging shit. Why? Because 20+ years ago, we had to figure so much of it out manually. newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/stop-being...

Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · last wk.

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

bylinetimes.com

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.

I left Twitter in 2023, when I realized that Elon's changes had made the site useless for me. I had a half million followers, but his new algorithm drove my engagement numbers down to nothing. I wasn't actually reaching anyone. I was just providing cover for Nazis. So I left. You can too. Honest!

I haven’t been blind to the steady enshittification of Elon’s Twitter, but I’ve been telling myself that I still had a big platform — just under a half million followers — and the growing strength of misinformation on the platform meant I had a duty to stay and push back against it. Except, as I slowly realized, I don’t have a big platform anymore. Engagement on all my posts is down dramatically under the new system, and a post that would’ve racked up a thousand RTs immediately is now lingering for days with a dozen or so. I think my fellow (former) big accounts there need to realize that we’re experiencing a bit of a phantom limb syndrome. We still have a big number of followers, but they’re not actually seeing what we post and we’re not remotely having the impact that we once did (or at least thought we did). Again, all we’re doing is giving our personal seal of approval and a sense of legitimacy to a place that’s rapidly becoming an alt-right hangout of grifters and grievance artists.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · last wk.

"Musk’s meddling in the site’s algorithm to suppress certain kinds of posts and elevate others is well documented. So if your anti-fascist posts on X are still getting views, it’s either because these posts are so toothless as to escape Musk’s notice, or because they are in fact useful to him."

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 4w ago

it’s never a great sign for your society when all the competent people who believe in doing a good job for the sake of it conclude that they’re actively being punished for these qualities, while malignantly stupid criminals are making bank

Anil Dash@anildash.com · last mo.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.
João Proença@jrosaproenca.bsky.social · last mo.

Até que enfim acordam para a vida. No ano passado aconteceu-me no Alive e por muito que reclamasse não fui compensado de forma alguma. observador.pt/2026/07/13/d...

DECO pede revisão da lei dos espetáculos e alerta para falhas na proteção dos consumidores em festivais de música

Caso dos Megadeth no Evil Live serve de exemplo. Associação enviou propostas à ministra da Cultura e aponta "zonas cinzentas" que prejudicam consumidores.

observador.pt

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And it's why the biggest internet safety advice I give parents of teenagers is to make crystal clear that they will never blame their kid for being the victim, because that is the ONLY way they will ever know there's a problem. bsky.app/profile/raha...

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social · 2y ago

Related: People I know IRL who know what I do for a living often ask what they need to know about online safety for their about-to-be-teenagers, and there's a lot of answers, but the thing I always emphasize most is: under no circumstances should you ever threaten to take access away from them.

Charity Majors@charity.wtf · 3mo ago

i wrote a post about the growing divide between AI skeptics and AI enthusiasts. wins and costs are both real, but too often fall on different groups of people. when you're only experiencing half the story, it's too easy to write each other off. charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-enthusi...

AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy

Both sides are grappling with a real existential threat, and both sides feel like they are screaming into the void. Here's how to close the gap and get everyone pulling in the same direction.

charitydotwtf.substack.com

João Proença@jrosaproenca.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Sabem como sei que o sentimento anti-bicicleta cada vez mais cresce em Lisboa? Ontem um senhor de idade deu-me uma marrada com a bengala na roda traseira, em protesto comigo. O meu crime? estar parado na bicicleta, a espera num sinal vermelho de uma passadeira, em plena ciclovia. Está bonito.