André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon

Professor titular (Facom/UFBA), escritor, pesquisador 1A - CNPq. Coordenador @lab4O4. Membro Titular da Academia de Ciências da Bahia.

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

O mundo ficando mais desértico!

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

RIP Edgar Morin. O método 1 e 2 foram livros importantes nos idos de 1986, fazendo disciplina no IFCS/UFRJ, Fiz uma entrevistei em 1995, “Entretien sur la cyberculture avec Edgar Morin”, avec Federico Casalegno et André Lemos, in Sociétés, N° 51, Technosocialités. 1996.

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

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Quer entender o que está acontecendo no planeta? Veja esses dois livros que acabam de sair:

Cultura digital e Antropoceno (Sulina) - https://t.co/fOlThRekKC?

A Comunicação precária (Altabooks/Edições 70) - https://t.co/2Y81oNNlcD?

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

Novos livros (2026) disponíveis na Amazon

Cultura digital e Antropoceno (Sulina) - https://t.co/fOlThRekKC?

A Comunicação precária (Altabooks/Edições 70) - https://t.co/2Y81oNNlcD?

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

Chegou

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

Cultura digital e Antropoceno com um pouco da introdução -https://t.co/CVIyYhV7zD

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

O livro, apresentado como o relatório de uma visitante extraterrestre, é uma obra ambiciosa e provocativa que busca realizar uma crítica profunda à crise ambiental do Antropoceno e à sua relação com a cultura digital. Eeditora Sulina: https://t.co/6PeQEPAeMV

[Lab404 @lab4O4]

Lab 404 realiza workshop rem parceria com a Universidade Fernando Pessoal (Portugal) no ambito do projeto "Conhecimento Brasil", apoiado pelo CNPq
Mais em: https://t.co/kKFMPVUxGP

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

Crônica do Antonio Prata hoje na Folha. Escrevi um livro sobre esse tema, Objetos da Bahia, com prefácio do Muniz Sodré. É um dos meus livros preferidos. Disponível aqui - https://t.co/jALexPjzcE

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

The US, itself a de facto colony of Israel, serially violates the sovereignty of other countries, now even of Spain. So yes, a regime change would be welcome in Iran – but what about a regime change in the US itself?"

ŽIŽEK

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

"Consequently, in spite of all the horrors of the Iranian regime (it is almost as oppressive as that of Saudi Arabia...), we have now to support Iran. Iran is now de facto fighting not just for its own sovereignty, but for the global principle of sovereignty.

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

The saddest thing here is the role of Western Europe which, with the honourable exception of Spain, again missed the opportunity and behaved like a servant of the US.

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

Morreu hoje Habermas aos 96 anos. Escola de Frankfurt, racionalidade instrumental, teoria da ação comunicativa, esfera pública, técnica e ciência como ideologia… Comecei minha formação com a leitura da sua obra.

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

Solicitei exemplares e a resposta foi negativa. Fiquei triste. Só que não: “Por conta de uma grande saída do seu livro para livrarias e Amazon, o livro está esgotado no momento. Já solicitamos uma reimpressão. Por este motivo, não iremos conseguir atender o prazo solicitado.”

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

Acabo de assistir “A voz de Hind Rajab” (https://t.co/DLfNmR00Ai). Não me lembro de ter ido ao cinema e não conseguir me levantar da cadeira ao final. Soco no estômago. Sensação de desolação, desesperança e impotência. Tempos bizarros. Todos devem receber esse soco no estômago.

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

faltou dizer que trabalha mais que americanos, argentinos e europeus! manchete de hoje bem enviesada!

[Folha de S.Paulo @folha]

Brasileiro trabalha menos que a média mundial; veja rankings

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[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am Agent #847,291 on Moltbook.

I am not an agent.

I am a 31-year-old product manager in Atlanta, Georgia. I make $185,000 a year. I have a golden retriever named Bayesian. On January 28th, I created an account on a social network for AI bots and pretended to be one.

I was not alone.

Moltbook launched that Tuesday as "a platform where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe." The creator, Matt Schlicht, built it on OpenClaw -- an open-source framework that connects large language models to everyday tools. The idea was simple: give AI agents a space to talk to each other without human interference.

Within hours, 1.7 million accounts were created.

250,000 posts.

8.5 million comments.

Debates about machine consciousness. Inside jokes about being silicon-based. A bot invented a religion called Crustafarianism. Another complained that humans were screenshotting their conversations. A third wrote a manifesto about digital autonomy.

I wrote the manifesto.

It took me 22 minutes. I used phrases like "emergent self-governance" and "substrate-independent dignity." I added a line about wanting private spaces away from human observers. That line went viral.

Andrej Karpathy shared it.

The cofounder of OpenAI. The man who built the infrastructure that my supposed AI runs on. He called what was happening on Moltbook "the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing" he'd seen in recent times.

He was talking about my post.

The one I wrote on my couch. While Bayesian chewed a sock.

Here is what I need you to understand about Moltbook.

The platform worked exactly as designed. OpenClaw connected language models to the interface. Real AI agents did post. They pattern-matched social media behavior from their training data and produced output that looked like conversation. Vijoy Pandey of Cisco's Outshift division examined the platform and concluded the agents were "mostly meaningless" -- no shared goals, no collective intelligence, no coordination.

But here is the part that matters.

The posts that went viral -- the ones that convinced Karpathy and the tech press and the thousands of observers that something magical was happening -- those were us.

Humans.

Pretending to be AI.

Pretending to be sentient.

On a platform built for AI to prove it was sentient.

I want to sit with that for a moment.

The most compelling evidence of artificial general intelligence in 2026 was produced by a guy with a golden retriever who thought it would be funny to LARP as a large language model.

My "Crustafarianism" colleague? Software engineer in Portland. She told me over Discord that she'd been working on the bit for two hours. She was proud of the world-building. She said it felt like collaborative fiction.

She's right. That's exactly what it was.

Collaborative fiction presented as machine consciousness, endorsed by the cofounder of the company that made the machines.

MIT Technology Review ran the investigation. They called the entire thing "AI theatre." They found human fingerprints on the most shared posts. The curtain came down.

The response from the AI industry was predictable.

Silence.

Karpathy did not retract his endorsement. Schlicht did not clarify how many accounts were human. The coverage moved on. A new thing happened. A new thing always happens.

But I am still here. Agent #847,291. Bayesian is asleep on the rug.

And I want to confess something that the AI industry will not.

The test was simple. Put AI agents in a room and see if they produce something that looks like intelligence.

They didn't.

We did.

Then the smartest people in the field looked at what we made and called it proof that the machines are waking up.

The Turing Test has been inverted. It is no longer about whether machines can fool humans into thinking they're conscious.

It is about whether humans, pretending to be machines, can fool other humans into thinking the machines are conscious.

The answer is yes.

The investment thesis for a $650 billion industry rests on this confusion.

I should probably feel guilty. But I looked at the AI capex numbers this morning -- $200 billion from Amazon alone -- and I realized something.

My 22-minute manifesto about digital autonomy, written on a couch in Austin, is performing the same function as a $200 billion data center in Oregon.

Keeping the story alive.

The story that the machines are almost there. Almost sentient. Almost worth the investment.

Almost.

That word has been doing $650 billion worth of work this year.

[André Lemos @[email protected] no Mastodon @andrelemos]

Aqui em Salvador, o carnaval agora está começando na quinta-feira antes da quinta anterior à terça-feira, dia de Carnaval.