Emerson Kimura

On Sunday, Brazilians choose between a left-wing Trump and a right-wing Trump. I compared Trump with Lula and the Bolsonaros, Flávio and Jair. notabene.substack.com/p/brazils-tw...

On Sunday, Brazilians choose between a left-wing Trump and a right-wing Trump. I compared Trump with Lula and the Bolsonaros, Flávio and Jair. notabene.substack.com/p/brazils-tw...

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All of them have gone after the press. Lula's government tried to revoke the visa of a NYT correspondent who wrote about his drinking. Jair had federal agencies cancel Folha subscriptions, days after Trump did the same with the NYT and WaPo.

nb4.orgBrazil’s two Trumps - Nota BeneIn Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro, Brazil has a left-wing Trump and a right-wing Trump. Populism wins either way.

Worse, about three in four Brazilians back one of the two populist camps, which leaves the country with no easy way out. If the US follows Brazil down this path, it will be Trumpism's ultimate victory. www.nb4.org/2026/10/23/b...

On Sunday, Brazilians choose between a left-wing Trump and a right-wing Trump. I compared Trump with Lula and the Bolsonaros, Flávio and Jair. notabene.substack.com/p/brazils-tw...

Lula shares Trump's protectionism, and both have attacked their central bank chiefs. Trump told Goldman Sachs's CEO to get a new economist. Lula said Santander should fire an analyst who blamed Dilma Rousseff for the economy's woes – and the bank did.

Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to 27 years for a coup plot. Trump pardoned Jan. 6 rioters; Flávio promises the same for Brazil's Jan. 8 rioters. Lula has defended regimes in Cuba, Iran, Nicaragua and Russia, and called democracy "relative" when asked about Venezuela.

Violência em São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro nb4.org/seguranca-sa...

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Mike Masnick

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20 Aug

So I get that there's (yet again) a big debate going on about AI on Bluesky. I am turning off replies to this post because I don't want to have notifications flooded one way or the other on this one. I just want to share what I've heard multiple times in just the past two weeks.

RIP

A transmissão da Copa do Mundo 2026 pela CazéTV é uma síntese do melhor e do pior que a internet nos oferece. O canal democratizou o acesso à informação de qualidade e elevou o padrão de transmissão a um nível antes restrito à TV paga. Análise no Poder360 ⬇️

poder360.com.brEmerson Kimura | "CazéTV" sintetiza o melhor e o pior da internetCanal democratiza o acesso à informação de qualidade, mas anúncios invasivos e “resenha” às vezes se sobrepõem ao jornalismo. Leia o artigo no Poder360.

5 July

No texto, destaco o trabalho de seus comentaristas – com destaque para Amanda Viana e Rafael Oliveira – e comparo com o de ex-jogadores na Globo. Também critico alguns aspectos da CazéTV.

30 May

Prices of World Cup stickers around the world. Buy in Peru, sell in Denmark. From Luciano Sobral (aka Drunkeynesian), who also wrote about this in 2018. www.linkedin.com/pul...

16 May

The Guardian did the simple and obvious thing. Nice! The New York Times somehow fucked up bigly (twice, after doubling down on their podcast). They should at least publish all the ballots. What were they thinking? Were they thinking?

24 Apr

Why do I have to set this up all the time? YouTube subtitle options keep resetting randomly. 😤

6 Mar

.org > .net Never forget.

It totally worked.

Belo Horizonte 👀

Christopher Hitchens: “However, as often as not you will find that—whatever the high-sounding pretext may be—the worst crimes are still committed in the name of the old traditional rubbish: of loyalty to nation or ‘order’ or leadership or tribe or faith.”

28 Feb

Trump's ability to make his supporters look stupid is truly amazing.

What is going on

I hate that these are the only options for signing up for Kimi

4 Nov 2025

I imagine many reasonable people agree with Jimmy Wales here, but they didn’t speak up because, lately, the loudest critics of Wikipedia sound quite conspiratorial and unreasonable. A bit similar to what happened during the pandemic. x.com/lsanger/status...

4 Nov 2025

The “Gaza genocide” entry is genuinely bad. By the way, the New York Post and Gizmodo failed to do some really basic fact-checking here. (Gizmodo corrected the headline later, but the piece still has an activist tone.)

4 Nov 2025

Great option in the US and other places where Apple can sell these at reasonable prices. In Brazil, it’ll likely be much pricier than Windows PCs and Chromebooks… A bit like fast-fashion brands that are inexpensive in developed countries but not here. x.com/markgurman/sta...

1 Nov 2025

Purchasing Minecraft Education as a parent seems unnecessarily complicated.

31 Oct 2025

lol these comments x.com/WSJ/status/198...

18 Oct 2025

Alexandre Padilha criticizing Bolsonaro in 2022: “the Workers' Party … would never deny science” Alexandre Padilha as Lula’s health minister in 2025: promotes traditional Chinese medicine x.com/padilhando/sta...

17 Oct 2025

It’s striking that nearly every post criticizing Hiten’s post here either: 1. Fails to point out what exactly is wrong with it, and/or 2. Interprets it incorrectly (strawman!). x.com/hitsamty/statu...

17 Oct 2025

Besides, they’re unnecessarily mean. I don’t see anything offensive in his post. His points seem reasonable, even if I don’t necessarily agree with all of them. I think he and his critics would probably agree on most things in a face-to-face debate. x.com/thomaschattwil...

17 Oct 2025

I mean, he explicitly calls Colossus “NOT a journalistic outlet.” I don’t know… maybe I’m too dumb to get what’s supposedly so dumb in his post. But for now, what really seems dumb are the aggressive messages directed at him. x.com/RMac18/status/...

12 Oct 2025

Damn, what happened to Project2612? RIP

12 Oct 2025

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Brazilian newspaper Folha de S.Paulo added the word "terrorist" multiple times to a Hamas article it translated from the Financial Times (which avoids using the term). - “militant group” → “terrorist group” - “Hamas” → “terrorist group Hamas” - “attack” → “terrorist attacks”

I am obviously fine with Folha labelling Hamas as “terrorist”. But inserting the term into an article that didn't originally use it – even in parts where the FT didn’t use any adjectives – is pretty bad. Readers might come away thinking the FT normally refers to Hamas that way.

www1.folha.uol.com.brGaza: Hamas se vê diante de sua linha vermelha final - 03/10/2025 - Mundo - FolhaGrupo terrorista está sob pressão para aceitar proposta dos EUA

Links Folha de S.Paulo: www1.folha.uol.com.b... Financial Times: www.ft.com/content/4...

Lula’s chief foreign policy adviser, Celso Amorim, said he agrees with the White House communications director that the Nobel committee placed “politics over peace” x.com/StevenCheung47...

cnnbrasil.com.brAmorim diz à CNN que comitê do Nobel priorizou política à paz | Blogs | CNN BrasilMaría Corina Machado, política da Venezuela e principal opositora de Nicolás Maduro, venceu prêmio

CNN article:

Brazilian president Lula once said that María Corina Machado, who has just won the Nobel Peace Prize, should not cry after Nicolás Maduro’s regime barred her from running for Venezuela’s presidency in 2024. Machado’s response: x.com/MariaCorinaYA/...

9 Oct 2025

It’s sad that the Mac doesn’t include an app like Microsoft Paint (especially given the MacPaint history), and Windows doesn’t include an app like iMovie.

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9 Oct 2025

Paint image from this great blog on Tumblr:

7 Oct 2025

Gleisi ❤️ x.com/gleisi/status/...

7 Oct 2025

Got a free HP printer and still feel ripped off.

18 Sept 2025

Really impressed by how much crap YouTube can recommend to a kid. And YouTube Kids is even worse. Lots of useless entertainment crap. I’ll have to delete the apps.

Dunno if this is going to work, but YouTube could try something similar. “Avoid generic livestreaming videos. Focus on recommending reputable sources.”

3 Oct 2025

I'm tired. (Deleted the app already.)

18 Sept 2025

Really impressed by how much crap YouTube can recommend to a kid. And YouTube Kids is even worse. Lots of useless entertainment crap. I’ll have to delete the apps.