Tiago Dias

Nintendo warns Japanese players not to play Switch 2 in extreme temperatures Nintendo has warned Switch owners in Japan not to let their consoles get too hot or too cold.

Spurred by the high temperatures in some parts of Japan, Nintendo posted a statement to Japanese social media informing players that by playing in "high-temperature environments", the device's temperature, too, may rise, potentially causing "malfunctions".

The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losse...

Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1·5 trillion annually

On Meet the Press today, a US official clearly stated that tariffs on Brazil were imposed in response to “lawfare”

The new “values-based” foreign policy in action. Trump officials disparage “liberal interventionism” but can’t quit the rhetoric or actions of it - just targeted at political enemies

Acceptable names for a dog:
Biff
Speedy
Jennifer

Acceptable names for a cat:
Mork
Potato
Arturo Perez-Reverte

Acceptable names for a horse:
Pulchritude
The Securities and Exchange Commission
A Single Man in Possession of a Good Fortune

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army Weapons smuggled from Florida are empowering the country’s militias and enabling them to challenge a fragile government

Fuelling the bloodshed is the gangs’ growing arsenal of military-style weaponry, much of which originates with purchases from US gun shops and ends in the slums of Haiti.

“The problem is that in the USA, anyone can buy a weapon. Then they are shipped in [cargo] boxes from the Miami River.”

We are starving My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid.

"I am so hungry.

I’ve never meant those words in the way I do now. They carry a kind of humiliation that I can’t fully describe. Every moment, I find myself wishing: If only this were just a nightmare. If only I could wake up and it would all be over."

Rod Stewart really making an effort to go down in a blaze of shame

Chega aposta em empresária ousada para líder Com uma imagem irreverente nas redes sociais, Sara Godinho é o novo rosto do partido de André Ventura em Moura.

Sara Godinho é candidata do Chega à Junta de Freguesia de Safara, no concelho de Moura, distrito de Beja. Com 35 anos, empresária e massagista de profissão, a candidata apresenta-se como uma alternativa ao Partido Socialista, que lidera a freguesia desde 2017.

quando isto não só é recorrente como abrangente é um pouco justiça de taberna. Mas que sei eu

Sendo certo que uma junta de freguesia antecipar o fogo de artifício para fugir ao estado de alerta é uma chico-espertice, há que ter em conta que devem ter sido umas dezenas as que fizeram isto. Só não ficaram virais. Querer ir pedir satisfações com archotes na mão a uns

Presidente-mecânico (Nuno Veiga/Lusa)

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

Israeli forces kill at least 27 at food site while minister’s al-Aqsa visit causes outrage Six more people die from malnutrition, while Itamar Ben-Gvir is first minister to publicly pray at sensitive site

At least 27 people were killed by Israeli forces while trying to get food and six others died from starvation or malnutrition in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials said, amid a regional outcry over an Israeli minister’s visit to Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site.

reactionary centrism transcends time and place

Only 29% would back Brexit now

Na cmtv a entrevista ao vice de Sabrosa foi ótima.
- queria chamar a sua atenção para aquelas chamas
- o que é que quer que lhe diga?

Noutro momento, pergunta ao homem por São Martinho estar cercada.
- não está nada, isto são duas frentes.

(Também adoro o jornalista a quem isto aconteceu, o que faz com que tenha ainda mais graça)

- …esses em Lisboa que não fazem um caralho…
- peço desculpa, estamos em direto para a RTP
- …esses cabroes…

Adoro tanto este momento.

The Intifada That Hasn’t Arrived Why have Israel’s recent wars led to little terrorism and no mass uprising?

"In seeking to protect itself from terrorism, Israel will be creating costly occupations and forever wars that will drain its economy, worsen social divisions, and deepen the country’s international isolation"

August 1, 2025 AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION Committee on Economic Statistics and Committee on Government Relations Statement from the American Economic Association on the Dismissal of the BLS Commissioner Leaders of the American Economic Association express their grave concern over the dismissal of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today. The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions. Undermining the independence or credibility of these agencies threatens the integrity of the information that markets, institutions, and the public rely on every day. Measuring the vast and dynamic U.S. economy in real time is inherently challenging. It is standard practice for statistical estimates to be revised as more complete and higher-quality data become available. These revisions reflect the commitment of statistical agencies to accuracy, transparency, and methodological rigor-not failure or bias. The BLS has long had a well-deserved reputation for professional excellence and nonpartisan integrity. Safeguarding this tradition is vital for the continued health of the U.S. economy and public trust in our institutions. We call upon elected officials to respect and preserve the independence of the nation's statistical infrastructure. Lawrence Katz President, American Economic Association Katharine Abraham President-Elect, American Economic Association Karen Dynan Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Economic Statistics Kenneth Troske Chair, American Economic Association Committee on Government Relations

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing

As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements

This is a big deal

Yes, Sydney Sweeney Is A Registered Republican There we have it...

buzzfeed reporting sydney sweeney has been registered as a republican voter in florida since last summer

Mega festival de fogo de artifício aqui para as minhas bandas, precisamente pelas 23:30, antes da entrada em vigor do estado de alerta. Portugal, meus senhores e minhas senhoras.

Vi num post no Linkedin, mas depois encontrei em notícias e no próprio ppt do Governo:

Poll: More than half of Israelis want Gaza resettlement Thousands march near the Strip's northern border calling for a return to the enclave, which was cleared of Israeli communities in 2005.

52% of Israelis now support Jewish settlements in Gaza, though only 29% of those who identify as secular Jews do.

www.jns.org/over-half-of...

Claro que não. Fica para ver como será continuado o trabalho de uma e outra entidade diluídas num instituto com muitas outras responsabilidades.

UNCASVILLE, Conn. (AP) — A group led by Celtics minority owner Steve Pagliuca has reached a deal to buy the Connecticut Sun for a record $325 million and move the team to Boston, according to a person familiar with the sale.

What Gaza City looks like. (Heidi Levine/For The Washington Post) www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Unmasked: the man behind one of the fastest growing far-right YouTube channels Chris Booth’s channel – rife with neo-Nazi ideology, antisemitism and racism – garnered 2.3m views and likely thousands of dollars from YouTube in about two months

New: I identified Johnathan Christopher (Chris) Booth as the man behind the openly neo-Nazi Shameless Sperg YouTube channel. He had gained 52,000 followers in just two months; YouTube shut the channel down after we contacted them for comment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...