ebalsa

ebalsa

@ebalsa.net

... playing, breaking, fixing ...

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Em 1974 o cravo desarmou espingardas sem disparar um único tiro; hoje, ver um bastão esmagar essa mesma flor na mão de quem protesta em paz é ver a liberdade a ser espancada por quem jurou protegê-la.

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if anyone needs a very experienced video editor, I've been making documentaries for over a decade and I could really use some more work to help make ends meet! my DMs are open, hit me up if you wanna make cool stuff together

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Replying to @nikigrayson.com

right now the astronauts are calling houston because the computer on the spaceship is running two instances of microsoft outlook and they can't figure out why. nasa is about to remote into the computer

Achievement unlocked - Recapped Macintosh SE/30 and no magic smoke came out ! #retrocomputing

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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

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“In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about AI and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it.”

"O exterior parece terrivelmente inimigo. Como se nas ruas só passassem funerais. Como se nos roubassem a família, os amigos e quedássemos sós e desamparados. (...)

(...) A tragédia intensa do presente emprenha a visão do futuro de sombrias expectativas. Afigura-se a muitos que no futuro haverá sempre rostos empalidecidos e cheiro a pólvora e a sangue quente. Ontem parecia que o dia de hoje havia de ser risonho e acolhedor. (...)

(...) E agora, agora, que grande serenidade para poder crer no dia de amanhã!" ABC - Um Problema de Consciência, 1939