Amon Barros

✍️ Ni tristesse, ni joie, ni soulagement : c’est secouée par une émotion indescriptible que la réalisatrice iranienne Sepideh Farsi regarde de loin son pays bombardé. Exilée en France depuis 1984, elle appelle à condamner à la fois cette agression et le gouvernement des mollahs ➡️ bit.ly/40JsQJE

Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought.

Breaking News: Scientists have been using methods that underestimated how high sea levels already are, a new study found. One result is that hundreds of millions more people are already living dangerously close to the rising ocean than Western scientists had previously estimated.

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What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

Guys, the Italian unemployment rate has just fallen below the UK's.

China’s Cheap Money Is Shaking $9.5 Trillion Global Loan Market Chinese banks, flush with low-cost funds, are reshaping parts of the global loan market, underscoring how deflationary pressures in the world’s second-largest economy are increasingly influencing comp...

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Very interesting Bloomberg article on one of my favorite topics – how, in a hyperglobalized world (i.e. one with very low transportation, communication, and financial-transaction costs), countries that control their external accounts effectively...
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Todos saúdam Tostex, o Deus ancestral nunca esquecido.

A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart". Horizontal axis categories: Contents purist: Must contain books Contents neutral: Must contain information Contents rebel: Can contain anything Vertical axis categories: Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody Examples represented on the grid: Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library

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Scientists: "Food gives you energy"

Me after eating:

People who moved to the UAE for tax purposes are now, I assume, closely examining a map of the region.

Detesto cartoons que tratam a audiência como inapta.
Antíteses de Laerte.
Encher um cartoon de texto, parece falta de habilidade em expressar com o desenho ou falta de confiança na comunicação com alguma ambiguidade.

Ma vie sans les réseaux sociaux (4/4) : «Je ne sais plus grand-chose de ce qu’il se passe en ligne et je m’en fous (ou presque)» Notre journaliste Loraine Bourget a décidé de se plier à l’exercice du «Off February», un défi qui invite ses participants à supprimer pendant un mois toutes les applications de réseaux sociaux de leur smartphone.

📵 Durant le «Off February», notre journaliste a passé un mois sans réseaux sociaux. Verdict : «Je ne sais plus rien de ce qui se passe en ligne (ou presque), je m’en fous (ou presque) et, mieux encore, ça me plaît (vraiment).»

Now out in the American Sociological Review

We present the first large-scale assessment of the structure and evolution of temporalities expressed in U.S. climate change news coverage (2000 to 2021). For this, we analyzed more than 23,000 statements about climate change effects and actions. 🧵 1/

Labour after Gorton and Denton It wasn't even close. While the pollsters kept coughing up the Gorton and Denton numbers that put the three parties inches from one another,...

"On the occasion of Labour's 126th birthday, Starmer's gift to the party has been a new historic low. One that, on its current trajectory, could be the first of many."

I finally found my spirit animal 🇲🇽💯

Não pode nem fazer comentários em tom jocoso, porque são grandes as chances de um comentário como esse ser o vencedor...

4 panel comic Panel 1: Purple Guy in sweatshirt addresses the reader. He says, “Sure, Twitter has a Nazi problem. But I’m staying to fix it” Panel 2: Purple Guy has gone full on Sitting Backwards On A Chair Mode. The chair has the X logo on it. He is wearing sunglasses and blue jeans. He is talking to some Nazis. He says “Listen Fellas, did you know that being a Nazi…” Panel 3: Close up on Purple Guy lowering his sunglasses for maximum effect. He continues “Is BAD?” Panel 4: The Nazis look flabbergasted by this revelation. They all go “WHUAAA??”

A man with Coprolaliac Tourette’s Syndrome (award-nominated for a film about his disorder) yelling the N-word at Black actors on stage, is an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. A trolley problem for a new era. It’s a Woke 2.0 cosmic test of some kind. Too on the nose to engage with.

é possível ver uma infinidade de ovas expostas sobre o solo, folhas e galhos, já fora da água e sem possibilidade de salvamento, abaixo da barragem da hidrelétrica de Belo Monte, no Pará, no trecho conhecido como Volta Grande do Xingu

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

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Humans aren't fungible resources being "trained" for productivity; we possess intrinsic worth beyond utility.

That a billionaire views twenty years of childhood as merely energy expenditure for worker creation reveals technocracy's dehumanizing endpoint.

SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

A foto é sensacional, a história dela é melhor ainda

Tesla U.S. Sales Fall for Fourth Straight Month in January Tesla's grip on the U.S.

Tesla sales in January were -17% lower than the same time last year. However its stock price is +22% higher.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the business performance of a company and its stock price diverge this much.

The question is how much longer can Elon’s cult prop up the stock?

PayPal Confirms Data Breach — Money Stolen, Passwords Reset PayPal has confirmed a breach that exposed personal information to a hacker. Are you affected? What data was exposed?

PayPal Confirms Data Breach — Money Stolen, Passwords Reset

I am extremely honored, and equally perplexed, that my book has received the Stein Rokkan Prize.

Thank you so much to everyone who helped out with this project along the way. So much of the book is the result of feedback by kind people who took the time to listen and read. Thank you.

This of course should not be a surprise. Reactionary/far-right politics are inherently elitist.

The only reason people like Goodwin have been able to successfully push this narrative is because we have given them the benefit of the doubt by calling them populist