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  • May 29, 2025 12:14pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Coding

    Microposts

    Tldr: You can’t automate trust.

    Read “We Used ChatGPT to Write Tests. The QA Team Revolted.“ by Codepinion on Medium

  • May 19, 2025 11:26pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Microposts

    Well well well… The Windows Subsystem for #Linux is now open source

    #WSL

  • Conditions générales appliquées à la vérité, redéfinie par les algorithmes

    May 18, 2025 2:12am
    Reading Time: 2 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Politique

    Longform

    Réduire au silence par dessein : comment les algorithmes effacent la réalité Depuis quelque temps, mais surtout entre 2020 et 2025, nous assistons à une normalisation inquiétante de l’auto-censure collective. Non pas au nom de la sécurité ou de la sensibilité, mais pour apaiser des systèmes algorithmiques opaques—des systèmes qui suppriment la visibilité ou des mots, non parce qu’ils font du mal, mais parce qu’ils provoquent de l’inconfort, de la controverse, ou des risques juridiques. Continue reading →

  • Terms and Conditions Apply to Truth redefined by Algorithms

    May 18, 2025 2:04am
    Reading Time: 2 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Politics

    Longform

    Muted by Design: How Algorithms Erase Outcry Between 2020 and 2025, we witnessed the troubling normalization of self-censorship by design. Not in the name of safety or sensitivity, but to appease opaque algorithmic systems—systems that suppress certain words not because they cause harm, but because they trigger discomfort, controversy, or legal risk. Survivors, activists, educators, and creators were pushed to distort language: rape became “r@pe,” sexual assault became “SA,” trafficking became “tr@ff1cking. Continue reading →

  • May 18, 2025 12:27am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Music

    Microposts

    Chances are, you’re making music on a #DAW or with plugins born in #Germany. How did the country come to dominate the software used in electronic music production?

    #Ableton

  • May 17, 2025 6:43pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Thoughts

    Politique

    Microposts

    Une dérive sectaire à l’échelle sociétale se manifeste lorsque des événements aussi graves qu’un génocide peuvent se produire sans réaction collective, du fait d’un climat où toute critique devient risquée et peut être perçue comme une prise de position antisémite.

  • May 17, 2025 6:42pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Social

    Politique

    Microposts

    Quand une société sombre dans une dérive sectaire, elle finit par tolérer l’intolérable. Un génocide peut alors avoir lieu dans l’indifférence générale, car le dénoncer, c’est s’exposer à être cloué au pilori, accusé d’antisémitisme. Voilà le constat.

  • Dérives Sectaires, sociétales?

    May 17, 2025 6:41pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Social

    Politique

    Longform

    Il est des dérives sectaires qui ne s’épanouissent plus dans de petits cercles, mais dans l’entièreté d’une société. Elles anesthésient les consciences au point qu’un génocide peut se produire dans un silence feutré, presque consenti — car s’en indigner ouvertement expose aussitôt à l’accusation infamante d’antisémitisme Continue reading →

  • May 14, 2025 12:18am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    AI

    Microposts

    Damn, I gotta try this for judicial material

    Build Real-Time Knowledge Graph For Documents with LLM

    Pain : how to find meaning and key information on GB’s of trial documents.

  • May 13, 2025 11:13pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    AI

    Microposts

    “The future belongs not to developers who can be replaced by AI, but to those who master this collaborative dance between human creativity and machine capability.”

    boleary.dev/talks/vib…

  • May 13, 2025 8:48pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    AI

    Microposts

    Reading : Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site #Bellingcat

  • Podcast : Une enfance sous emprise

    May 12, 2025 5:51pm
    Reading Time: 2 minutes
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    OKCinfo

    Longform

    Archive 2021 : J’ai eu la chance de pouvoir raconter une partie de l’affaire OKC-Spatz à travers ma voix et celle de Sophie, un podcast sur Louie Media via la rubrique Passages. N’hésitez pas à partager, nous avons besoin de visibilité en France dans le cadre d’une instruction en cours qui va déboucher sur un procès qui on l’espère va permettre de juger certaines choses qui n’ont pas pu être jugé en Belgique. Continue reading →

  • May 11, 2025 6:45pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Politics

    Microposts

    Really interesting time travel

    Tax Revolt : this special four-part miniseries from the Lever Time podcast team traces the decades-long rise of the US anti-tax movement — a crusade that has now become one of the central missions of Donald #Trump’s administration.

  • May 11, 2025 4:51pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Microposts

    Whoops It’s Y2K all over again 😅

    On 2038-01-19 03:14:08 UTC, millions of sensitive embedded and industrial computer systems worldwide will suddenly start behaving in unpredictable ways, unless we take coordinated action now. epochalypse-project.org

  • May 6, 2025 11:57pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    AI

    Microposts

    Systemic Existential Risks from Incremental AI Development

    “no one has a concrete plausible plan for stopping gradual human disempowerment”

    #AI

  • May 5, 2025 3:36pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    News

    Politics

    Microposts

    Reading :

    Tony Schwartz’s Responsive Chord theory predicted the media war we’re in—and how we might still win it

    The Responsive Chord: the belief that the most effective messages don’t implant new ideas—they resonate with the feelings, memories, and beliefs people already carry. Read More

  • May 5, 2025 2:40pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    Politics

    Microposts

    Reading Micah Lee : TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with #Trump officials

  • May 5, 2025 1:58pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Tech

    AI

    Politics

    Microposts

    “Online, they find a community around collective crises and traumatic events, such as fear of migration or the war in Gaza, which they connect to their personal struggle.”

    “AI and the algorithms are partly doing that job of a charismatic recruiter, just a hundred times better.” Read More

  • May 5, 2025 10:12am
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Audio

    Microposts

    Ça m’a donné envie d’aller choper le bouquin

    Répliques: Les jeux du cirque médiatique

    Episode : www.radiofrance.fr/francecul…

  • May 4, 2025 7:52pm
    Ricardo Mendes Ricardo Mendes

    Music

    Microposts

    Anukari

    3D Physics Synthesizer Anukari is a software synthesizer and effects processor based on a fully interactive 3D physics simulation. Drag and drop physics components like masses and springs to design your own 3D instrument or effect. See and hear what you’ve built in real time.

    😳😃

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