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@reinaldojlopes.bsky.social

Science writer, Tolkien translator, Darwinian Catholic. I bow not yet before the Iron Crown.

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Cocoricó japonês be like

Julio Nagaita

05.03.2026 14:25 — 👍 156    🔁 45    💬 5    📌 5
Cena do filme Moonlight em que o protagonista criança olha pra frente na primeira imagem e na segunda encara a câmera 

At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be.Can't let nobody make that decision for you.

Cena do filme Moonlight em que o protagonista criança olha pra frente na primeira imagem e na segunda encara a câmera At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be.Can't let nobody make that decision for you.

E quanto mais tempo se demora para decidir mais se vive no automático, à maré

05.03.2026 14:15 — 👍 147    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 0

The people who study the history of the fossil fuel industry's justifications for itself are like

05.03.2026 12:56 — 👍 113    🔁 16    💬 3    📌 0
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🧵 NOVO EPISÓDIO: O REINO PERIGOSO DA FEÉRIA

Já imaginou encontrar um elfo na floresta? Esqueça a imagem de fadinha fofa com asinhas. No podcast de hoje, @reinaldojlopes.bsky.social explica por que, na visão de Tolkien, adentrar a Feéria é um ato de coragem

#PassosPelaTerraMédia #Tolkien #valinor

05.03.2026 12:36 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

"I asked Chat GPT and -" ok, I asked the exhumed corpse of Pope Formosus during the Cadaver Synod and he went "... ... ..." and then his jaw fell off and it was still a better answer

27.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 694    🔁 224    💬 4    📌 1

This, and only this, is what really matters.

27.02.2026 17:33 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@jamesdfmellor.bsky.social

10.02.2026 22:50 — 👍 26    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 0
26.02.2026 09:45 — 👍 11204    🔁 3161    💬 62    📌 42
Quadrinho em 4 quadros: 

Q1 : Moça com as mãos no rosto, parece frustrada. texto: Estou sempre fugindo do fracasso 

Q2: Moça correndo. Texto: Nunca realmente perseguindo o sucesso...

Q3: Moça continua correndo, dessa vez estende a mão como se quisesse agarrar algo. Texto: Só fugindo 

Q4: Moça agachada, um olhar distante e pensativo. Texto: Pela simples teimosia em admitir que eles estão certos.

Quadrinho em 4 quadros: Q1 : Moça com as mãos no rosto, parece frustrada. texto: Estou sempre fugindo do fracasso Q2: Moça correndo. Texto: Nunca realmente perseguindo o sucesso... Q3: Moça continua correndo, dessa vez estende a mão como se quisesse agarrar algo. Texto: Só fugindo Q4: Moça agachada, um olhar distante e pensativo. Texto: Pela simples teimosia em admitir que eles estão certos.

24.02.2026 11:13 — 👍 457    🔁 111    💬 11    📌 7

Ok, consegui garantir o pagamento da luz e da internet (tá certo que ainda tenho que pagar o gás antes de cortarem), mas agora preciso garantir a comida primeiro. Tem pra hoje, não terá pra amanhã
Quem puder ajude no pix e/ou compartilhando
m.flexa@gmail.com

23.02.2026 11:33 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

Tô precisando muito dessa força mesmo pq o trem aperto muito, quem puder compartilhar, agradeço viu.

19.02.2026 22:21 — 👍 43    🔁 45    💬 0    📌 1
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The Washington Post’s Owner Really Doesn’t Want You to Know His Effective Tax Rate If you did, you wouldn’t be buying what the Post’s editorial board is selling.

inequality.org/article/the-...

20.02.2026 21:55 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Reportagem minha hoje na piauí sobre as capas de revista sobre o Trump.

piaui.folha.uol.com.br/trump-um-pes...

20.02.2026 12:06 — 👍 202    🔁 43    💬 8    📌 6

É no mínimo curioso o cara que cunhou o termo "enshitification" chamar o desprezo por LLMs como "sinalização de virtude neoliberal", sendo que o produto oferecido é o pináculo da enshitification. Não ficaria surpresa se descobrissem que há outros interesses misturados nessa fala dele.

20.02.2026 17:29 — 👍 95    🔁 21    💬 5    📌 0

Desanimei um pouco de postar o podcast pq parece que não tem ninguém assistindo/ouvindo no YouTube, mas vou tentar de novo.

20.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Estou com problemas pra me organizar aqui. Em breve volto a postar os faltantes. Desculpe o inconveniente.

20.02.2026 12:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

19.02.2026 18:57 — 👍 6409    🔁 3195    💬 159    📌 399
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Inteligência artificial é um assunto merda para gente insípida Um instrumento do massivo enshittification que o mundo atravessa nesse instante

Inteligência artificial é um assunto merda para gente insípida
open.substack.com/pub/matheusm...

19.02.2026 18:42 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

18.02.2026 13:07 — 👍 10988    🔁 2799    💬 148    📌 95
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😆😅😂🤣

18.02.2026 12:35 — 👍 100    🔁 30    💬 0    📌 1

O famoso "Respeito a sua opinião, mas claramente é uma opinião burra" :P

18.02.2026 12:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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eu ri TANTO com esse livro infantil do tolkien!! fazia mto tempo que eu nao me divertia assim kkkkkkk

17.02.2026 17:21 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Mark Parisi
@offthemarkparisi.bsky.social

15.02.2026 21:18 — 👍 61    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Falo isso há tempos. As redes sociais tornaram o cinismo cool, mas não é. É um caminho fácil. Qualquer idiota pode ser cínico (até o Pondé consegue).

Acreditar numa ideia, se dedicar ao que acredita e ao que gosta, amar profundamente algo ou alguém, essas são coisas que exigem coragem,

15.02.2026 19:05 — 👍 492    🔁 136    💬 8    📌 1
Annunciation

Annunciation

Annunciation https://www.wikiart.org/en/filippo-lippi/annunciation-1469

15.02.2026 17:28 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

se inspirar no Aves do Brasil pra fazer fantasias de carnaval

15.02.2026 15:25 — 👍 55    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Onça parda só de dia, de noite é só pintada

15.02.2026 12:35 — 👍 372    🔁 105    💬 2    📌 0
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New study maps where wheat, barley and rye grew before the first farmers found them Using advanced machine learning and climate models, researchers have shown that the ancestors of crops like wheat, barley, and rye probably were much less widespread in the Middle East 12,000 years ag...

New study maps where wheat, barley and rye grew before the first farmers found them. #Archaeology
phys.org/news/2026-02...

13.02.2026 16:58 — 👍 42    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 4
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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

11.02.2026 23:50 — 👍 13561    🔁 4810    💬 244    📌 276