It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.
Lula:
"We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world.
We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."
I spent 23 years of my life in Florida and the uniform flatness formed my brain so that, whenever I am at any sort of elevation, especially while driving, my brain becomes convinced that gravity no longer works and I am going to fly off the earth. which is a problem, because I live in California now
just discovered I havenβt been moisturizing my hands enough the absolute worst way: cutting jalapeΓ±os and having the entirety of my knuckles and nail beds feel like they have been dipped in an air fryer
I have finally finished the sun eater series. I am at last free of my torment. a new day has begun and my soul is now unburdened of obnoxious space jesus.
networking events are not speed dating opportunities, LinkedIn is not a dating app, and if you are standing on public transit you should be facing forward, not spread eagled with your junk shoved in the face of someone seated, especially when the seats in front of and behind them are open
Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them
One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton.
she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.
news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watsonβs claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. https://scim.ag/4rTKck8
I believe it is good to be polite to robots not because they have consciousness (they do not) but because it is bad for the soul to let oneself become a vehicle for cruelty, even if directed at inanimate objects.
A long time ago I decided to say please and thank you to Siri for no reason other than thinking itβs a good way to practice and reinforce a good habit
congrats to Hegemann, Deisseroth, and Nagel for winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Remarkably, I still have the photo of this amazing poster hanging outside the Hegemann lab in Berlin from 2016 @humboldtuni.bsky.social@nobelprize.org@jwietek.bsky.social "a new force awakened" β‘π§ π§ͺ
I am ~350 pages into a book and still have ~1000 pages left. it is the final book in a series of 7 and tbqh I have enjoyed maybe β¦ 1.5-2 of the previous books. and yet I am for some reason still reading it?? one must imagine sisyphus etc. etc.
it has all of my least favorite scifi tropes rolled into one. roman empire but in space. lovecraftian elder gods. time travel (+ extremely inconsistent rules of said time travel). one-dimensional female love interest. AND YET I am still punishing myself by continuing to read it.
Phillies Offseason Plans: A step-by-step guide to how the Phillies can turn this team around.
Step One - Everyone keeps all their blood inside their body for the whole offseason.
"but if people could call out any time there is a wave of rape on college campuses then no one would ever come to work" he said not addressing the problem
π Excited to share my latest work out now in @epilepsiajournal.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1002/epi....
We asked whether the ketogenic diet (KD), a well-established therapy for drug-resistant epilepsy, is also effective against infection-driven seizures. π§΅β¬οΈ
do I have any followers that are cetacean experts? I got a few shots today of a dolphin (looks bottlenose to me) that is either extremely well-fed or pregnant and would love some more informed opinions
do I have any followers that are cetacean experts? I got a few shots today of a dolphin (looks bottlenose to me) that is either extremely well-fed or pregnant and would love some more informed opinions
That means approaching pandemic prevention with a mix of evidence-based ecosystem interventions where we can support them, and investment in health systems. We could stop cutting down rainforest tomorrow, and the world's poor would still suffer from spillover as a health justice issue.
To thread the needle on the nuance here: we detect an unequivocal, but not universal, anthropogenic fingerprint. Human activities are contributing to the emergence of different diseases in different ways, and important drivers have much narrower effects than are often claimed.
What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(I could def do a deeper cut entry but this is based on a real life idiot moment I had in 7th grade, reading my ~80th EU book, where I went, βwhy the hell is everyone in this galaxy always at war????β closed the book, looked at the STAR WARS across the front, and went βohhhh.β)
explaining to cam skattebo that he wonβt be able to play with jaxson anymore using the same hand signals they used to tell koko the gorilla her cat died