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
Bolsonaro had corrupt media on his side, Meta interference on his side, US propaganda operations, and his party's officials actively sabotaging public transport in Lula strongholds to prevent turnout. Yet he was still beaten by the power of voter turnout.
It worked and it will become a new model for democrats fighting the far-right. The campaign was bottom-up, distributed, rhizomatic. André Janones started it and then millions of people took the baton and ran for their lives in different directions. Beyond inspiring. Obrigada, Brasil! #Brazil
Mafalda Dâmaso@mafalda.bsky.social · 2w agoPolitical 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
When we were shooting in Belgrade it was amazing to get to know the crew, who often bragged about marching behind their kids. On our last weekend 150k marched. “We dreamed of leaving Serbia” one crew guy said, “Our kids dream of making it a place worth staying in.” What a great start.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2d agoRead: Serbia's long-serving strongman leader conceded defeat to a diverse, student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government
há 1 acção d intimação no tribunal administrativo sobre o direito à manifestação/concentração em causa nas acampadas. o tribunal administrativo aceitou-a e deu 48h ao mai e cml p responderem. a acção brutal desta madrugada é 1 desafio ao tribunal e portanto à ordem constitucional.
Tribunal dá 48 horas à Câmara de Lisboa e ao MAI para explicar atuação da polícia na acampada do Rossio
No documento, a que a Lusa teve acesso, o tribunal concede ao Estado português, representado pelo Ministério da Administração Interna, e à Câmara Municipal de Lisboa o “prazo de 48 horas” para se pron...
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O direito à manifestação está protegido pela constituição da república portuguesa. O direito à habitação também. Sabemos que o PSD quer rever a constituição com o apoio do Chega e da Iniciativa Liberal mas as regras do jogo continuam a ser essas. Aguardo as declarações do presidente da república
Cette nuit, les campements installés à Lisbonne et Porto dans le cadre des mobilisations pour le logement ont été démontés de manière violente - 37 blessés à Porto.
Mafalda Dâmaso@mafalda.bsky.social · 2d agoO direito à manifestação está protegido pela constituição da república portuguesa. O direito à habitação também. Sabemos que o PSD quer rever a constituição com o apoio do Chega e da Iniciativa Liberal mas as regras do jogo continuam a ser essas. Aguardo as declarações do presidente da república
O direito à manifestação está protegido pela constituição da república portuguesa. O direito à habitação também. Sabemos que o PSD quer rever a constituição com o apoio do Chega e da Iniciativa Liberal mas as regras do jogo continuam a ser essas. Aguardo as declarações do presidente da república
V niche but if you’re lucky enough to be considering visiting the Venice Biennale before it ends, I highly recommend it. Contemporary art feels increasingly derivative & performative. Not this time! The group show is gorgeous. Favourites: Ukraine, Latvia, Malta, Brazil. Moldova looks excellent too
I love this as a variation on a theme. Thelonius Monk once replied to someone who termed him a genius: "A genius is the one most like himself."
derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2w agoMy friend Bruce Boyer is fond of saying that "style is being yourself on purpose." Thus, to develop a wardrobe that lasts 10+ years, the first question isn't "Who makes quality clothes?" It's "Who am I?" In 2022, WSJ put Stephen Colbert on the cover of their magazine, styling him in trendy clothes.
And the same thing is beginning to happen with the threat posed by the US
Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · 2w 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 · 3w 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 · 4w agoUAE 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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