Daniel Santos
@danielsantos
Brazilian lifelong learner. Curiosity waves surfer. I will probably die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
Daniel Santos
danielsantos.org
we need to remind people that there is another side to the story: businesses wish to offer different ways to get products or services, some more data-driven than others, and it is first and foremost up to them to make an assessment as to which business models can work. Users should not be advocating circumvention measures - they should be urging re
... See morePeter Craddock • Op-Ed: "Pay or Data" Has Its Reasons - Even if You Disagree
“When it comes to community in particular, digital technology presents two interrelated dilemmas: (1) Digital technology has created the ability — and ensuing pressure — for us to “optimize” and be productive always, which often comes at the expense of time and energy spent building deep community. (2) Many digital technologies offer us the illusio... See more
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds--Not Crushes--Your Soul
Definimos a heurística de disponibilidade como o processo de julgar a frequência segundo a “facilidade com que as ocorrências vêm à mente”
Daniel Kahneman • Rápido E Devagar
A totally different language for a totally different culture. If you’d like to take on the difficult but rewarding challenge of learning Japanese, I recommend you start with Marc Bernabé’s books Japanese in Mangaland and Japanese in Mangaland 2, or Japanese for Manga People by Maria Ferrer. To learn kanji, you can start with Kanji De Manga by Glenn
... See moreHector Garcia • Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony (Geek In...guides)
A couple months ago, Oxford and Cambridge researchers illustrated the risk of homogeneity in a study of AI Generated content in Nature magazine. The risk increases as AI gets trained not only on human-created content, but on other AI-generated content.
As an example, the researchers studied an AI model trained on images of different breeds of dogs.
... See moretomfishburne • AI-Generated Homogeneity
Enshittification can be thought of as the result of a lack of consequences. Whether you are tempted by greed or pressured by people who have lower ethics than you, the more it costs to compromise, the fewer compromises you'll make.
In other words, to resist enshittification, you have to impose switching costs on yourself .
That's where federation com
... See moreCory Doctorow • Pluralistic: Bluesky and Enshittification
No conflict = no curiosity = no interest.
Akash Karia • TED Talks Storytelling
RTO advocates also claim that physical presence builds culture. Culture is built through everything we do – in person or online, through both spoken and written words. The real question is what kind of culture we build. Top-down RTO mandates are more likely to communicate cultures where control is more important than trust, where obedience is more ... See more
