Andre Braga Reis @abreis

andre.brg.rs Joined March 2009

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roon @tszzl

2 weeks ago

do not let yourself be reduced to the status of audience at a magic show, uncomprehendingly clapping as machine intelligence creates parcels of astounding knowledge. all of this is for us, to be understood by us, to sate our own curiosities. it's all really happening

roon @tszzl

2 weeks ago

we are breathing rarefied air

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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand

11 months ago

In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe. Le Monde has a long article (lemonde.fr/international/…) describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza. Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction. He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands. That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are: - punishing a European citizen - for doing his job in Europe - applying laws Europe officially supports - at an institution based in Europe - that Europe helped create and fund and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil. Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations.

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Peter Hague @peterrhague

a year ago

A whole lot of BS political views basically amount to assuming that life in our hard won civilisations is just the way things are, and that you can simply remove the foundations. Only a society protected by vaccines produces anti-vaxxers. Only a society with a strong military produces pacifists. Only a society with large scale industrial farming produces organic foodies. Only societies with cheap energy produce degrowthers. You don’t get to enjoy the ends whilst condemning the means, and still be taken seriously.

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Scott Manley @DJSnM

5 years ago

I feel like I need to apologise to Astra for this.... but it was too good a joke to ignore.

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Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact

5 years ago

Article about the EU imposing a fuel tax on air travel but exempting private jets. argusmedia.com/en/news/223143… The best paragraph was this one:

INVESTMENT HULK @INVESTMENTSHULK

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DHH @dhh

6 years ago

The authoritarian hippie parent who finds their true calling in keeping the kids away from sugar, video games, tiktok, or whatever will not be raising the free-range, independent, self-regulating adults they imagine.

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Luke Legate @lukelegate

6 years ago

A helicopter running on fossil fuel spraying a chemical made from fossil fuels onto a wind turbine made with fossils fuels during an ice storm is awesome.

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Pedro Teixeira @pgte

6 years ago

From working for 9 months for the Portuguese regional government developing a web-based platform for the covid task force, here is what I learned (good and bad, but mostly bad): 👇