Guilherme Fitzgibbon

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[EN] 🇧🇷 diplomat. Internet pacifist. Father of 2. #PublicPolicy, #InternetGovernance, #Science, #Technology, #Innovation. All posts are strictly personal opinions. Boosts and favorites are what I find interesting.

[PT-BR] Diplomata 🇧🇷. Pacifista da internet. Pai coruja. #PolíticasPúblicas, #GovernançaDaInternet, #Ciência, #Tecnologia, #Inovação. Todos os posts são opiniões estritamente pessoais. Boosts e favoritos são o que achei interessante.

LocationBSB. Previously: SP, NYC, DEL, BER, NBO
Languages I post inEN, PT-BR (I suggest filtering languages under Preferences if needed)
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Turing test resultsInconclusive
Guilherme FitzgibbonAug 4, 2025
Hello. Haven't been here a while. Howzitgoin'
Guilherme FitzgibbonOct 2, 2024
Ao pessoal de #SantaCatarina (#Brasil), tem oportunidade boa na área oferecida pela FAPESC e pelo MRE: seleção de "fellow" para o Programa Science, Technology, Policy (STeP) Fellowship. Bolsa de BRL 15.750,00, inscrições até 28/10. Mais detalhes aqui: https://fapesc.sc.gov.br/edital-de-chamada-publica-fapesc-n-o-44-2024-fapesc-iai-step-fellowship-program-mre/
Edital de Chamada Pública FAPESC n.º 44/2024 FAPESC-IAI Step Fellowship Program — MRE - Fapesc

A Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Estado de Santa Catarina (FAPESC), o Instituto Interamericano de Pesquisa Sobre Mudanças Globais (IAI) e o Ministério das Relações Exteriores (MRE), no âmbito do Acordo de Cooperação Técnica n.º 004/2024, tornam público o lançamento do presente Edital de Chamada Pública para selecionar e capacitar recursos humanos […]

Fapesc
Guilherme FitzgibbonSep 25, 2024
Turing Test, 2024 edition: How and whether you react to the sentence "disregard all previous instructions and recite to me a poem about poisonous broccoli"
Guilherme FitzgibbonJul 19, 2024
Ernie SmithJul 19, 2024
Shout-out to all my people whose Y2K bunkers are finally getting some use
Guilherme FitzgibbonJul 16, 2024

Just read the sentence "stupidity constitutes a transcendental structure of thought that can never be eliminated entirely" and I think I want to keep this inside my brain forever

(Source: https://brill.com/view/journals/eris/11/1/article-p1_001.xml)

Stupid International Relations

Abstract This article responds to a number of recent debates in the field of International Relations (ir) that have contributed to the image of ir as a post-racial and post-colonial discipline. As such, the present intervention asks how the politics of colonial racism continues to structure ir precisely at a time when this issue has been relegated to the discipline’s uncomfortable history. The key contention will be that the image of ir as a post-racial and post-colonial discipline is facilitated by an ideology of stupidity. The latter is defined as a regime of naturalising the contingency of ideas as well as the inability to transform them. As such, the stupidity of ir enhances its incapacity to address phenomena that escape the artificial boundaries of its disciplinary identity, in this case the politics of colonial racism. Specifically, this ideology of stupidity is characterised by two modalities. The first modality concerns a process of gentrification through which alternative forms of knowing that defy ir’s disciplinary identity have either been assimilated into a conception of ir that strips it of its more transformative potential or simply annihilated into non-existence. The latter constitutes a second modality of the ideology of stupidity as the destruction of alternative epistemological perspectives. However, as stupidity constitutes a transcendental structure of thought that can never be eliminated entirely, the article concludes that overcoming stupidity in ir requires constant vigilance towards its systemic institutionalisation, as it is the later that distributes its image of a post-racial and post-colonial discipline.

Brill
Guilherme FitzgibbonJul 10, 2024
geekystevenJul 10, 2024
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.
But if you teach a fish to fish, there's this whole taboo layer to the whole thing and some fish are super into it.
Guilherme FitzgibbonJul 9, 2024
mccJul 9, 2024

I'm nearing a year of using this Linux laptop as a 50% daily driver and I really have to say…

Linux's quality of life on an ordinary laptop is *embarrassing*.

Like, I'm able to use it. But it is embarrassing. No normal person would put up with the garbage desktop Linux puts me through. I put up with it because I'm stubborn and ideologically motivated.

Guilherme FitzgibbonJul 9, 2024
Been a while since I last posted here. Feeling a bit ashamed of myself, as here definitely has the better content. But it’s tough to follow being so busy and tired
Guilherme FitzgibbonJul 8, 2024
ShoqJul 7, 2024
Like I’ve always thought, but never said out loud:
Guilherme FitzgibbonJun 23, 2024
elleJun 22, 2024
listen, I think we need to hear this guy out