Miguel Pires da Rosa

Cake or Death?

[Tiago Barbosa Ribeiro @tbribeiro]

Estes momentos definem quem está na linha da frente da defesa dos direitos cívicos e das liberdades individuais contra os abusos do Estado.

Por isso, estes momentos permitem perceber a fraude política em que consiste a Iniciativa Liberal e o seu propalado “amor” aos direitos individuais.

No essencial, são um conjunto de radicais anti-socialistas que rapidamente trocam a defesa do indivíduo pela tolerância ao bastão.

[Tnut @tnuttin1]

Don’t worry guys, the people who horde all of the wealth on the planet, despise the welfare state (and those who need it) and want to pay as few taxes as possible say everyone will be on UBI soon and it’s gonna be totally awesome

[Miguel Pires da Rosa @mpires]

@kikoperes_ Tal e qual

[Público @Publico]

Os membros do Governo e os deputados do PSD, Chega, IL e CDS-PP detêm 1039 imóveis. Vários são senhorios, outros são investidores do sector imobiliário, com participações em dezenas de empresas. https://t.co/EF2yQ2By1q

[Diogo @DiogoGTB]

Há anos que digo (e ficou provado com a spinumviva) que corrupção só é má se vier da esquerda

Se vier da direita dá direito a reeleição

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Our billionaires used to have a deep sense of civic responsibility, and through great acts of service and philanthropy established public goods to be enjoyed by all. Rockefeller bought 11k acres for Acadia National Park and built the carriage trail system. Carnegie helped build over 1,500 libraries in America.

But sure…invest the money in Super PACs and NGOs to “beat back Marxism”. GMAFB. Sorry. They did this to themselves. Not a statement on policy, just that they FAFO.

“There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.”

[Miguel Pires da Rosa @mpires]

@LMontenegro_PT toma notas

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Spain really is building the *best* social housing in the world right now.

And here’s a great example. 24 apartments in Ibiza by 08014 Architects.

A thread 🧵

[Sohrab Ahmari 🇺🇸 @SohrabAhmari]

The movie “Ratatouille” is the purest cinematic expression of neoliberal ideology ever made.

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

In case you missed it, here's something we worked on with Panavision

to show you how we got the BIG, BOLD COLOR of I Love Boosters

And why you MUST see it in theaters

[Pe. Rogério António Vieira @RogerioCasanova]

isto faz lembrar uma piada antiga sobre superstições numerológicas

[Miguel Pires da Rosa @mpires]

Very fun very chill nifty music tool, got instantly hooked with just playing around with the basics

[António Capelo @antoniocapelo]

I’ve spent years making beats on hardware, but I wanted a sampler that was as fast as opening a browser tab.

So I built Mezcla 🎛️

Minimalist, web-based, and built for the producer's workflow. No DAW bloat, just chops.

Try it here: https://t.co/SgT5zTY6VO

[Dr Milan Milanović @milan_milanovic]

Someone builds a project management tool with Claude Code over a weekend. Ships it. Tweets "just replaced Jira."

The app works. One user, happy path, localhost. Then two people edit the same record simultaneously, and the data is silently corrupted. They don't know what an optimistic lock is. They never needed to before.

The prototype is maybe 1% of what makes software actually work. The other 99% is what you find after real users show up: race conditions, failed transactions, sessions expiring at the wrong moment, a payment webhook that fires twice and charges someone double. AI didn't cover any of that. It built exactly what you asked for.

And the confidence is the worst part. "Just need to adjust a few things before we go live." The few things you need to adjust are the product. That's like laying a foundation and telling people you basically built the house.

Vibe coding works. For personal tools, throwaway scripts, and prototypes you'll never put in front of paying users, it's genuinely fast and good enough. I use it. But there's a hard ceiling, and it shows up the moment the stakes get real.

Agentic engineering is a different discipline. You're not prompting for code. You're decomposing problems, designing system boundaries, writing specs precise enough that the agent doesn't go sideways. You review everything it builds, because it will make mistakes that only look wrong if you know what correct looks like. You guide it. You catch what it misses.

If you don't know what a distributed transaction is, the agent won't save you. It'll generate something broken with complete confidence, and you won't know until production.

The hard part of software was never writing the first 200 lines.

It never was.

[╰┈➤ 🇮🇪 Brònzy 🇮🇪 @BronzyGuevara]

🔴 Just a wee reminder, if you don't like Iran's Islamic authoritarianism, it exists because the USA overthrew a secular socialist Iran in 1953 because BP was losing oil profits.

[Sam Rosenfeld @sam_rosenfeld]

the modern professor's feeling of warm relief and gratitude at encountering artisanal, human-crafted bad writing while grading papers

[❥ 𝑪𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒔 ❥ @tonyhawktruther]

If you tried to introduce public libraries and parks today they’d say it could never be done

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

They care for aging parents, work in small and large companies, and harvest the food on our tables. On weekends, they walk in our parks and play on the local amateur soccer team.

For me, the choice is clear.

Here is my article for @nytimes:
https://t.co/a0Mjxm8SSl

[Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman]

Sometimes you get a few minutes on live TV with a billionaire. I tried to make them count! 😅

[z @softqem]

la chimera

[Dane Knecht 🦭 @dok2001]

2026 prediction: an Ashley Madison-level breach from an AI app. Millions have handed their most personal thoughts, or all their corporate IP, to startups with 18 months of runway and a privacy policy nobody read.