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Liquid prism for analog dreams.
You are 70% water. The rest is magic.
All handmade liquid light.

I create original liquid-visuals. Available for commissions, collaborations, and licensing.

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ayoub.bsky.social
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
September 17, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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lgkatzphd.bsky.social
If Hitchcock made films today.
September 6, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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amaz.org.br
AMAZ - Aceleradora e investidora de negócios de impacto da Amazônia
A AMAZ é a maior aceleradora e investidora de negócios e empreendedores de impacto da Amazônia.
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July 14, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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idesam.org/en/

Since 2004 fostering sustainable initiatives.
Institute dedicated to sustainable practices and innovation in bioeconomy in the Amazon. Working with traditional communities, businesses & organisations to strengthen production networks, connecting stakeholders.
Idesam - Conservação e Desenvolvimento Sustentável
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July 14, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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sleepinggiantsbr.bsky.social
🎥 "Palantir está aqui para desestabilizar!"

O compilado de frases polêmicas CEO da Palantir, Alex Karp, deixa mais que claro o posicionamento e a participação da big tech na indústria de guerra estadunidense.
July 11, 2026 at 3:02 PM
twotruths.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-t...
We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'
We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.
www.techpolicy.press
July 11, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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saklein.bsky.social
Seriously this is so good, and one of a few recent academic pieces that actually offers me hope
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Jun 11
I wrote a very short piece on models & modelling in part because we need to protect our scientific praxis damage caused by AI in terms of addictive frictionless thinking, esp since it harms society broadly too.

"Models" doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Thanks @carvalhais.org for inviting me to write this.
Models in cognitive and related sciences are part of an overarching methodology, computational or broadly formal modelling, that aims to test, refine, and showcase our understandings of brain, cognition, and behaviour.1 In their foundational book Models as Mediators, Mary S. Morgan and Margaret Morrison (1999)2 make the case that models play a mediatory role in science between what we observe and what we want to build to house our understandings, theories. Under this conception of models, known as the pragmatic view,3 we can carve out not only their unique role, but also why and how they must be protected from forces that do not prize understanding. Taking a broad perspective that sees all human activity that strives towards understanding as scientific or as under our purview as modellers, allows for this characterisation of models as mediators to be more generally fruitful.4 In the context of human-centred design, for example, our theories may be anything from our understanding of users’ behaviours in a specific context to our understanding of what a user expects from a product or system a priori. Importantly, scientific modelling is apart from other scientific praxis, such as concocting a verbal or formal theory or designing and running experiments.5 Models, as described by Morrison and Morgan,6 have the following characteristics: a. construction — models are neither directly derived from theory nor from data, but through an effortful friction between the modeller and the medium (e.g. their favourite programming language, mathematics, natural language) through which they are building their model;7 In the contemporary entanglements with industry that scholarly fields find themselves — such as with the imposition of gargantuan statistical models, which consume breathtaking amounts of energy, and which require the building of evermore data-centres to house the glut of data unavoidably required for their so-called human-like abilities9 — the idea of using models in such slow10 ways is seemingly out the window. What is worthy of perseverating on in our specific context is not so much that so-called artificial intelligence (AI) models may harm our individual practice or displace our labour. They certainly may.11 However, the threat from AI worthy of highlighting here is that a culture of frictionless practice, which such models (in name only) promote, is not only harmful to people’s mental health and skils, but also directly undermines scholarly praxis.12 Avoiding the effortful and difficult process of building, testing, and throwing away models — be they written in well-crafted code, be they not-yet-fully-formal models, or be they mock-ups of potential final products — with the goal of deeply understanding our theories about the world is anti-scientific and anti-scholarly. This spills over into an anti-intellectual stance for a designer or user of models. Such avoidance is normalised by the addictive convenience culture facilitated and entrenched by contemporary AI. A culture in which so-called prompting a machine for a seemingly polished output requires none of the above characteristics of modelling as a process. Furthermore, presenting anti- or non-scientific modelling endeavours as something other than what they are, may even veer into pseudo-science and pseudo-technology.13 To add insult to injury, if junior modellers are not trained to perform this praxis, the end of skills being inherited by future generations is nigh. To subvert this, we must preserve the special status of crafting models. I propose this can be done in a two-pronged manoeuvre: a) rejection … quantitative predictions of the tides, which have been being refined over the millennia,24 to the qualitative shift in explanation produced by carving out the concept of gravity. Quantitative predictions did not pile up to produce our contemporary understanding of gravity. Protecting modelling praxis may be difficult, but needs must when the devil drives. The alternative is stifling our knowledge about (our understandings of) the world. And so to avoid making theorising and modelling seem superfluous, we must remember that scientific models do not operate like inferential statistical models wherein prediction is the goal. As expounded on above, models are the instrument through which we perform fully-fledged scientific reasoning on our theories, and which mediate between theory, formal or otherwise, connecting it to observations, data, and phenomena, and back again. A model (in name only) that is built through applying statistics over a dataset, which all contemporary artificial neural network-based AI models are, will neither function as mediator between data and theory — it has been contaminated — nor provide qualitative predictions.25 Nor will it serve any user who seeks to gain insight and skills, nor any designer of systems who wishes for a society comprising such fellow humans. Ultimately, “all science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.”26 If we merge essences and appearances in our reasoning, we risk our understandings of the world. All modelling, all metaphorical, theoretical, and mediatory thinking, enrich us and our societies and make possible not only valuable understandings of our own humanity, but constitute our humanity as such
June 12, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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cidaooliveira.bsky.social
Dilma, aos 22 anos, depondo frente a militares que escondem o rosto, durante a ditadura militar.
September 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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laertecoutinho.bsky.social
saiu na Folha @folha.com
Tira em 4 quadrinhos. 1) A mão de alguém segura um pequeno automóvel, com o polegar e o indicador. Texto: “COMPREI CARRO”. 2) Duas mãos, de alguém de paletó, seguram um pequeno sobrado. Texto: “COMPREI CASA”. 3) A mão da pessoa, aberta, sustenta uma mulher com um bebê no colo e mais uma criança, sentada. Texto: “CASEI, TIVE FILHOS”. 4) Um homem, de paletó e gravata, em um pequeno túmulo, em meio a outros túmulos. Ele está sentado dentro, as pernas encolhidas, como num caixote - o túmulo não tem tampa. Texto: “MISSÃO CUMPRIDA”.
September 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
twotruths.bsky.social
A very small, work-in-progress, snippet of the current edit. All #handmade no VFx or AI.
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#videoart #loopsvideo #fediart #experimenatlvideo #macro #macroart #liquidart #ink #vj #ambientmusic #abstractvideo #visuals #analog #visualdesign #musicvideo
September 2, 2025 at 6:57 AM
twotruths.bsky.social
2 questions about #pixelfed:

- I still havent got the hang of #fediverse: if I upload a 50mb video to my mastodon will it still appear on pixelfed timeline (limit 15mb)??

- I haven't been able to follow new hashtags for months now. Trying both app and desktop. No reply from support. Any ideas?
August 26, 2025 at 3:51 AM
twotruths.bsky.social
The gritty low-fi feeling here comes from the holographic paper. This scale of magnification makes the printed dots on the paper visible. Right lighting + liquids = handmade pixels.
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#videoart #videoartist #newmediaart #liquidlight #macroart #analog #macrovideo #experimental #clubbing
August 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
twotruths.bsky.social
Só eu que acho que @cristianobotafogo.bsky.social conseguiu a proesa mágica de criar um clone resultante da mistura de Silas Malafaia e Sílvio Santos?

Parabéns, 🎼 Essa foi a sua melhor imitação! 🎼
medoedeliriobr.bsky.social Medo e Delírio em Brasília @medoedeliriobr.bsky.social · Aug 23
Seria esse o melhor episódio do medo e delícia?!
medoedeliriobr.bsky.social Medo e Delírio em Brasília @medoedeliriobr.bsky.social · Aug 23
🎶ESSE É O BOLDO BOM🎶

Taí o terceiro episódio da semana

II – 2025.54 – “VTNC SEU INGRATO DO C@R@LH0”

Texto de Pedro Daltro e edição de Cristiano Botafogo, os episódios tão na Central3 ; )https://www.central3.com.br/ii-2025-54-vtnc-seu-ingrato-do-crlh0/
August 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
twotruths.bsky.social
Long time since I've posted. Here is a snippet of what I'm working on. This is the inteaction of liquids with different viscosities under my macro lens. Real size about 4mm. Real time.
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#liquidlight #macro #analog #vj #ink #abstractvideo #handmade #art #macroart #nikon #experimental #sciart
August 18, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social
Que a terra do Palácio da Alvorada, com todo o amor e cuidado que recebe, permita que o nosso baobá crie raízes profundas e atravesse séculos. Plantar essa muda, símbolo de resistência, sabedoria e longevidade, é plantar um pedaço de eternidade.
August 10, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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izzombie.bsky.social
Agora eu gostei.
August 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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melhogan.bsky.social
AI is a plagiarism engine built on stolen data, exploited labour, and enviro harm. Marketed as “intelligent,” it erodes critical thinking, empathy, and causes psychological harm. Run by authoritarian billionaires, it’s used for surveillance, profiling, and genocide—whether it works or makes up shit.
kylierobison.com Kylie Robison @kylierobison.com · May 7
can i ask my followers here perhaps too earnestly - if you hate AI or find it utterly worthless, why?
notalawyer.bsky.social Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · May 7
it's jolting how little AI skepticism has reached the general public. i've had many acquaintances ask whether i use AI for research and seem shocked when i tell them it's completely useless for that purpose. my wife recently told her colleagues about hallucinations and it was news to all of them.
May 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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iclnoticias.com.br
Grupo financiado por empresas como Google, Meta e Amazon produziu relatório que pode orientar investigação contra Brasil.

Clique na imagem para ver 👇

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Ameaça de Trump de investigar Brasil atende a pressão de Big Techs - ICL Notícias
Um grande grupo de lobby financiado pelas Big Techs EUA está ligado à ameaça de Donald Trump de investigar práticas comerciais do Brasil.
iclnoticias.com.br
July 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Meredith has always been a G, but it's still exceptionally weird and very refreshing hearing from a tech exec who can see through all of this AI bullshit for what it is at its foundation: a backdoor surveillance tool.
keithfitzgerald.bsky.social Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · Jun 26
Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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dague.net
First camping experience with V2L capable EV this weekend. Having an electric kettle and an induction hotplate to cook on instead of propane was brilliant.
Vehicle to load screen saying that there are 30 more hours of discharge time available at the current 1 kW drain rate to get to 40% battery Woman cooking oatmeal on an induction hotplate on the back of a Kia EV9
June 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message | George Monbiot
The documentary shows the damage that fishing does to our planet. So why does the industry still hold governments to ransom? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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dipamkara.bsky.social
For all who suffer from the misery of poverty, oppression, & torture, ✨
Afflicted by harm, disease, or the imbalance of natural elements, ✨
May their outer and inner hardships and obstacles be wholly pacified, ✨
And may they find enduring peace and liberation from suffering. ✨

ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ། 🪷
The most popular mantra in Tibet is the Buddhist mantra of Avalokiteshwara, Bodhisattva of Compassion. ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ་ཧྲཱིཿ (In Tibetan) "I believe in altruism. No matter how capable a person may be, no one can survive alone. We depend on the community in which we live. By dedicating ourselves to the welfare of others, we actually bring about our own benefit. As soon as I wake in the morning, I dedicate myself to helping others to be happy, which gives me self-confidence and inner strength." - His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso. "For all those who suffer from the misery of poverty, oppression, and torture, Beset by harm, pestilence, or an imbalance of the elements, May all their hardships and obstacles, outer and inner, be fully pacified, And may they revel eternally in the glory of every happiness and bliss. With sincere prayers that all this will come to pass exactly as is expressed in these words." - Ling Rinpoche, New Delhi, India
May 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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self.agency
we live in a fascist police state now and it's just warming up
radleybalko.bsky.social Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Apr 23
New at The Watch:

A Texas attorney gave some free legal advice to an undocumented family. Then two law enforcement officers showed up at his door.

radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
The courage to be decent
The Trump administration wants to make us afraid to look out for one another. Don't let them.
radleybalko.substack.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Unidade da PM-SP posta vídeo de policiais com braço em riste e uma cruz em chamas

Imagens publicadas no perfil oficial do 9º Batalhão de Ações Especiais de Polícia, remetem à iconografia nazista e da organização

Reportagem Paulo Batistela

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April 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
twotruths.bsky.social
A atual fase do capitalismo em que ao invés de vendermos nossas terras ou meios físicos de produção para depois tornar-nos mão de obra do burguês, neste momento estamos vendendo nossa propriedade intelectual para já já nos tornarmos consumidores-escravos obsoletos.
outraspalavras.net Outras Palavras @outraspalavras.net · Apr 14
QUEM SÃO OS BRASILEIROS QUE ALIMENTAM IAS

Eles são os ombros em que a tecnologia apoia-se para se desenvolver. A maioria, no Brasil, são jovens e mulheres, com escolaridade superior à média. Ganham miséria. Relatam despotismo algorítmico e sofrimento mental. São invisíveis, inclusive para a lei
Quem são os brasileiros que alimentam as IAs - Outras Palavras
Eles são os ombros em que a tecnologia apoia-se para se desenvolver. Maioria, no Brasil, são jovens e mulheres, com escolaridade superior à média. Ganham miséria. Relatam despotismo algorítmico e sofr...
outraspalavras.net
April 15, 2025 at 3:46 AM