Charlie Brown Senior @OGuello

The Portuguese knew America was there (at least Brazil) & treated it as something of a state secret. The Spanish knew also but couldn't reveal their sources; Columbus was convenient & denialable. From the very beginning, the history of this place was one of intelligence agencies.

Aurochs @CoelingAurochs

a week ago

What's your most esoteric history theory?

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As a teenager reading about the decline of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires, I couldn't understand why they mostly just let it happen. Why not reform urgently, slash the bureaucracy, race to adopt the new technologies? Much less confused these days.

sempre q lembro que o dono da primeira carteira de trabalho do brasil se suicidou no exercício de sua função eu penso q o roterista do brasil nunca brincou em serviço

@preah__ Eu achei que era uma pintura. Até pq é se for ver.. incrível

Scorsese is pro-AI for the same reason so many middle aged and older people in creative industries are, and the same reason all those college administrators we saw getting booed were: they are being lied to about something they don’t really understand by enthusiastic rich people.

gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi

a month ago

It’s not surprising that Scorsese is pro-AI given how much he recycles his own movies

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books are amazing because a stranger from 200 years ago can still ruin your afternoon emotionally.

"ah pq não dá pra fazer ficção científica ambientada no brasil" ai um gay do interior do leste do parana entrega uma narrativa consistente sobre nave alienígena no meio de um sitio que desbanca qualquer filme estadunidense aclamado

His books were readily available to read in USSR. They were studied as any ideologies would be studied. There is a great story Michael Parenti used to tell about a trip he took to USSR. He was with a bunch of American academics, who had been talking down on the Soviets and the censorship they guessed they had been under. When one of them asked a Soviet academic which western theorists he’d read, he rattled off a long list, which both Friedman and Hayek were on. The Soviet then asked the American which Soviet theorists he’d been able to read. And the American couldn’t list a single one. That story is a perfect encapsulation of how real, effective censorship works. You’re not outright forbidden to read. You are, instead, gaslit into it with billions of dollars worth of propaganda, information marginalization, distortion, and lies. This is why you still find people today who believe in cartoons, rather than simply opening their eyes and looking at the real world, who retreat into safe abstractions rather than face the cold, hard reality that we are the most propagandized, socially engineered, and brain washed people in history.

Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW

a month ago

Milton Friedman on Hayek’s contributions: “There is no figure who had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the Iron Curtain than Friedrich Hayek.” “His books were translated and published by the underground and black market editions, read widely, and undoubtedly

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quem tem medo de passar vergonha, morrerá na comodidade do silêncio do que poderia ter sido alarido de vitória

Eu tenho a mesma impressão sobre duas personalidades do cenário institucional brasileiro: André Mendonça e Tarcísio de Freitas são duas figuras que parecem ter consciência de que não têm competência para ocupar os cargos que ocupam. Seus discursos e posicionamentos são sempre de alguém que deve algum favor a um outro alguém; de alguém que precisa ser grato, eternamente grato pelo "privilégio" de estarem aonde estão. O bolsonarismo não produz lideranças, produz seguidores fiéis e temerosos, que vivem e agem sob o temor do linchamento e abandono.

being a high functioning stoner is WILD because I’m not trying to “escape reality” - I simply want to soften the sharp edges of existing inside a brain that never stops fucking thinking.

Viajar pelo interior do Brasil é assim. Quando você está na BR, a impressão é de que está cruzando os prados celestiais. Aí você passa por uma rotatória (onde tem uma Bíblia e uma placa do Rotary), dobra uma esquina e entra num lugar que parece Belgrado após o bombardeio da OTAN.

O funk do rio a galera mexe mais a parte de baixo do corpo O funk de sp mexe mais a parte de cima do corpo

Everyone is always rooting for you. Your parents want you to be a great son. Wife wants you to be a great husband. Your boss wants you to be a slam dunk hire. Every first date you’ve ever been on they’ve been rooting for you to get laid. Every time you started to tell a joke people hoped it would have a hilarious punch line. Your proximity to anyone is a reflection of themself, meaning the deck is never stacked against you, and your failures are completely your own

Bambulu @Bqmbulu

2 months ago

What’s the harshest truth every young man must eventually learn?

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@barbarartes São desenhos completamente diferentes. Ambos incríveis

Isso é muito bem explorado na trilogia O Problema de Três Corpos do Cixin Liu. Livraço

Shobhit Shrivastava @shri_shobhit

2 months ago

Octopuses are highly intelligent animals with 9(!) distributed brains. But they never evolved into a dominant species primarily because they are born orphans and don't recieve any knowledge from family. The father dies after mating and the mother dies after the eggs hatch.

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Psychologist Erich Fromm who defined the term malignant narcissist called people like Andreessen necrophiles—not as a sexual fetish but the obsessive desire to turn the world into a lifeless machine that’s easier for them to understand.

The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow

2 months ago

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Explains Why He Believes AI Is Better Than Human Workers: "[AI] never gets drunk. Never gets sick. Never gets depressed because his girlfriend broke up with him. Never files HR complaints." x.com/Overlap_Tech/s…

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oh to be loved to the point of invention

The World R🅰️nking @worldranking_

2 months ago

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This app is a hellhole but unlike the alternatives it's a hellhole where people manage to say interesting things frequently

@_MichaelOswell_ é que essa distorções absurda é um efeito analógico conhecido pra quem mora aqui. É o som que vem da rua e de carros com sistema de som mais potente do que os falantes e a reverberação seca que as janelas e portas de alumínio da sua casa daz quando esse carro passada na rua