Lidiany Cerqueira, PhD
@lidianycs.bsky.social
Senior Software Engineer | PhD in Computer Science. I often post in English, but I'm Brazilian, so I will occasionally post in Portuguese as well. 🔗 https://lidianycs.site/
🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....
Reminder that, BY THEIR OWN REPORTING, Google's energy use increased by 37% in 2025, because of AI. A single year. Also, southern Europe is currently on literal fire and we're facing possibly the worst super El Niño on record. I hate it here.
That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...
Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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I can't understand the purpose of this. I heard a story today about the use of an AI edited imagine in a court case to remove a victim from the scene. I can't stop wondering what's possible to do with something like that.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 3w agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Why does it feel like every AI feature is designed to enable abuse? Just tear down every single one of these companies and start over with leadership that aren't nihilists and sociopaths. 😡
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 3w agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
I have a request for anyone who helps organize or leads an ACM SIG, conference, etc. I'm chairing a task force on publication integrity in CS (clear-computing.org). Part of that work is surveying the community on tools used. If you can help spread the word to SIG/conf leaders, please do.
CLEAR Survey: Tool Adoption For Ethics And Policy Violations
The CLEAR Task force is gathering information from conference and journal organizers about tools used or being developed to identify, investigate, or manage ethics and policy violations in peer review...
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You can submit your talk to ElixirConf BR Where: Curitiba-PR Brazil Date: 2027 #ElixirLang u7seo.share.hsforms.com/2ts-_mkkfQEu...
How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat
“Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics
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I'm always surprised that a lot of people in my network don't know that Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
For those of us in Brazil, the Kindle version is quite affordable here amzn.to/49tTyLf Unfortunately it seems to be the only place where I can buy using a Brazilian credit card
Podcasting as a Research Method: A Practical Guide (Creative Research Methods in Practice) (English Edition)
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Adolfo Neto@adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 3mo agoPodcasting as a Research Method: A Practical Guide (Creative Research Methods in Practice) Paperback – April 28, 2026 by Simone Eringfeld (Author) amzn.to/4ocQBVL h/t @lidianycs.bsky.social
Coming soon: Antarctica Calling An immersive podcast from Antarctic tourism fieldwork www.simoneeringfeld.com/antarctica-c...
Antarctica Calling
What does Antarctica sound like? Beyond the postcard image of pristine silence and untouched wilderness, visits to Antarctica are full of sound: ship engines cutting through sea ice, penguin colonies....
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Do you like podcasts? Have you ever thought about podcasts as a research method? You should check out Simone Eringfeld new book Podcasting as a Research Method. @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com and I had the pleasure of chatting her and highly recommend it! m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Simone Eringfeld - Podcasting as a Research Method - YouTube
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I noticed a work named Hephaestus: A Supervised Agent for AI-Driven Software Development in the SBES program. It immediately reminded me of Horizon. Not sure if I'd trust it. 😅
Aloy in Horizon Forbidden West
ALT: Aloy in Horizon Forbidden West
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NEW polling on AI in the workplace. Takeaway: workers aren't buying the hype: → 51% say AI will mostly benefit business owners & executives → Just 6% say most benefits will go to workers The benefits of AI in the workplace are not being split evenly.
AI at Work: Gains at the Top, Pressure for Everyone Else - Groundwork Collaborative
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No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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This story is unbelievable english.elpais.com/internationa...
The incredible story of the man who built a fake Roman theater in Italy and sold tickets to visit it
The fraudster, who charged up to €40 to visit a site built without permits on a hill in Vicenza and presented as a historical find, has been sent to prison
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Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives www.wxyz.com/news/voices/...
Que diferença ter um presidente no governo 🙏🏾 Brasil prepara nova fase de ajuda humanitária à Venezuela após terremotos | G1 g1.globo.com/politica/not...
Brasil prepara nova fase de ajuda humanitária à Venezuela após terremotos | G1
Governo aguarda indicações da Venezuela para definir novo plano de ação. Mais de 3.889 pessoas morreram em decorrência dos terremotos que atingiram o país no mês passado.
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The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/
Want to read about the harmful ideologies and marketing strategies behind AI? Read The AI Con by Emily Bender, the TESCREAL bundle by Timnit Gebru and Emile P Torres. Empire of AI by Karen Hao.
If you're new to AI ethics and want a starting point to read, I suggest Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin, Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia, and Unmasking AI by Joy Buolamwini
Not a single prompt can change the fact that these technologies destruct the environment and our institutions, concentrate power in the hands of a few technofacists, further marginalize already minoritizes communities and invisibilize the human labor and toxic supply chain that sustain the industry
Quem tiver alguma dúvida é só fazer psipsipsi
For $7 an hour, virtual assistants in the Philippines are using AI to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives, fueling a "thought leadership" content mill https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/?utm_campaign=row-social
The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn’s “thought leadership” content mill
For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.
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Bringing utopia to the world, one "super intelligent" machine at a time. I can't wait for all the new super wealthy people who are going to "make the world a better place" with the impending Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs 🥴 www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...
Mark Zuckerberg's AI data center linked to bacteria in city's water
Meta has come under fire after its data center contaminated a major US city's water system with a rare bacteria, months before the facility is set to go online.
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I'm happy to have visited the Faculty of Engineering FEUP in Porto 🇵🇹 last week! Grateful for the invitation, meeting researchers from around the world, and the opportunity to strengthen collaborations while learning more about the European research ecosystem! What an amazing city and food!
Many LLMs have already scanned the entire internet and are still hungry for more. Meta’s patented system would give it unprecedented access to the movements, moods, and interactions of its users. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. @mjgault.bsky.social story: www.404media.co/meta-patents...
"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...
These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech
Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.
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