Patricia Bastos

I saw O Último Azul yesterday — such a refreshing film. Subtle, different, and deeply human. After years of Hollywood’s shallow, formulaic, self-centered storytelling, this felt like a breath of real cinema again — perception rather than performance.

Why Trump’s Attempt to Bully Brazil Is Falling Flat In solidarity with the recently imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump levied tariffs of 50 percent on Brazil. He is quickly learning that the US’s influence is weaker than he though...

Power and money reshape the brain, dull empathy, and breed delusional arrogance. The powerful start to believe they’re above consequence — but their delusion is our best chance to take power back.

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5/5 This is how elites and their think tanks work: they build narratives to normalize what’s harmful to the planet, society, and you. They wrap it in pseudo-science and pseudo-philosophy, confined to artists, writers, and academics they fund and control.

The Surprisingly Lifelike Behavior Of Mindless Material | NOEMA New ways of studying the origin of life are leading to a better understanding of consciousness and the mind.

4/5 Look at Noema’s latest example: a piece describing oil droplets that move on water as “mindless matter” turning lifelike — a trick of chemistry turned into a parable about consciousness.

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3/5 This narrative serves two purposes:
1️⃣ Give machines “living” status—so companies dodge accountability when AI harms people.
2️⃣ Redefine life itself through biotech, so only lab-made, patented life counts.

The Surprisingly Lifelike Behavior Of Mindless Material | NOEMA New ways of studying the origin of life are leading to a better understanding of consciousness and the mind.

2/5 Although The Berggruen Institute claims to be a space for debate, in Noema the message never changes: life is information. And since Silicon Valley owns the databanks, the goal is clear — to redefine life as something that can be owned.

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1/5 Silicon Valley doesn’t just sell tech — it bills you for it.You pay higher energy costs to keep their data centers running, subsidize their”research”and hand them tax breaks that drain public services.You even fund their propaganda.Their so-called “philanthropy”bankrolls outlets like Noema

“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.” That line should ring alarms. Stewart Brand bridged counterculture and Silicon Valley — now backing biotech and geoengineering that profit a few, align with monopolies like Monsanto, and gamble with nature itself.

#TechHubris

#SiliconCreed

Tucker Carlson calls Israel and Trump terrorists for killing innocent people…

The “AI boom” is built on subsidies and tax breaks—public money feeding private giants. These data centers drain jobs, brains, power, and water so billionaires can chase trillions while media celebrate GDP growth. This isn’t growth or innovation; it’s extraction. Wake up.

37 states now give data centers sales tax breaks — the same facilities that drain jobs, power, and water. A clear reminder: the state and both parties exist not to serve people, but to protect capital and keep workers subdued.

It’s not just Noema. Silicon Valley “philanthropy” — Berggruen Institute, Omidyar Network, Schmidt Futures, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Long Now Foundation — gets tax breaks to sell flawed science as salvation. Not ethics or rigor, just moralized marketing.

#TechPropaganda

#Philanthrocapitalism

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And when you call it what it is, they block you. They don’t want dialogue; they want belief. They don’t want to discuss anything; they want to sell you something — and get tax breaks for it.

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Noema operates under the Berggruen Institute, a foundation that enjoys charitable status while promoting the same “visionary” technologies its elite circle invests in. The result is not philosophy or journalism but ideological advertising — a tax-sheltered PR campaign for power.

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Noema frames hesitation as weakness and portrays reckless experimentation as courage. It uses the language of care and philosophy to make profit sound like duty. That is manipulation, not discussion.

#NoemaMagazine
#BerggruenInstitute
#TechPropaganda

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Why it matters
This is how techno-capitalist propaganda works now. You talk about moral responsibility and the climate crisis, but only as a setup to sell a product — in this case, risky genetic engineering. The real message is that any risk is fine if it serves “innovation.”
#TechnoCapitalism

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That’s dishonest. The research is still just theory, yet Noema treats it like a finished solution. They even admit it could harm entire ecosystems — but then say we have no choice and must take the risk. That’s not ethics; that’s a sales pitch.
#NoemaMagazine
#Greenwashing
#Philanthrocapitalism

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What’s wrong:
Their newest piece claims we can “edit nature to fix our failures.” It praises experiments on coral reefs that haven’t been peer-reviewed, haven’t been tested outside the lab, and may never work. Still, the magazine presents this as a breakthrough that could save the planet.

Editing Nature To Fix Our Failures | NOEMA Gene editing may enable us to prevent a species from ever becoming extinct in the first place. But should we?

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Blocked by Noema Magazine for an accurate critique. That’s how “open dialogue” works when you expose their faults. A glossy outlet posing as philosophy — really a propaganda mouthpiece for its owner’s bets on AI and synthetic biology.

#NoemaMagazine

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The Billionaire Hoarders: How the Wealthy Became Our Biggest Threat How a sick obsession is killing workers, democracy, and our planet.

Left or right, we must wake up: the real threat isn’t ideology, it’s the hoarders. The rich who built this rigged system through lobbying and think tanks—empty, self-serving gamblers turning the world into a mirror of their own misery. The world doesn’t need them. newrepublic.com/article/1958...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims As of the end of July there were 18,457 children named on the long official list of Palestinian victims of Israel’s war in Gaza. Over almost two years, that is equivalent to bombs, bullets and shells killing a boy or girl every hour of every day. In reality the deaths are not spaced out so evenly. Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say. Continue reading...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Ursula von der Pfizer? Nein — von der Lying? Ach genau: von der Leyen. Scan my messages, Madame. #Chatkontrolle

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Oh, just wait until the AI-run hospitals start optimizing for efficiency. Death rates will finally hit their quarterly targets.

#privatizatiiin #HealthcareForProfit
#HealthCrisis #CapitalismKills

Germany’s ruling CDU/CSU party made it clear today: there will be no #chatcontrol - as pushed for by other EU countries - with this German government.

40 Sekunden kurz und präzise: Mit der CDU/CSU wird es keine anlasslose #Chatkontrolle geben, wie sie von einigen Staaten in der EU gefordert wird.

Greta welcomed back in Europe

The Nobel Peace Prize should be awarded to Greta Thunberg & the participants of the Sumud Flotilla for being able to break the genocidal Israeli blockade after 19 years and for successfully promoting human rights and international law by putting their lives at risk. @nobelprize.bsky.social

Perfect—plenty of space for him to build his startup monarchy from scratch.

“Curtis Yarvin, the anti-American “Dark Enlightenment” guru credited as “the philosopher behind JD Vance,” believes the Trump administration is doomed to fail.” Some good news as,long as he doesn’t flee to Europe or Latin America. Where do you think he should go?
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Denmark wants to break the Council deadlock on the CSA Regulation, but are they genuinely trying? - European Digital Rights (EDRi) Denmark made the widely-criticised CSA Regulation a priority on the very first day of their Council presidency, but show little willingness to actually find a compromise that will break the three-year...

Für alle die sich gerade Fragen warum die Diskussion um die #Chatkontrolle gerade wieder so brennt.
Wir stehen kurz vor einer erneuten Abstimmung im Rat.
Der dänische Vorschlag ist das schlimmste von allen in einem (edri.org/our-work/den...)
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