NYC’s Times Square tops shameful survey of world’s worst tourist traps: ‘Crowded, grimy and overrated’ They hate it here.

Será que DeFreitas já se perguntou porque Nova York não constrói outra Times Square? O novaiorquino odeia e a atração é considerada armadilha pra turista.

As consequências nefastas da poluição luminosa O excesso de iluminação artificial altera o comportamento de plantas e animais e está ligado à ocorrência de doenças em humanos. Diabetes, cânceres e depressão são algumas das complicações observadas

A excessiva iluminação noturna “não apenas pode ser uma possível causa de câncer, mas também um fator de risco para o desenvolvimento de doenças cardiovasculares, diabetes tipo 2, hipertensão, obesidade e depressão, entre outros problemas de saúde.”

A Times Square de Moscou.

Moscou tem a Vegas Crocus City, um shopping com réplica de Times Square. Outras cidades no Brasil que participam da corrida pra ter o seu próprio paredão de anúncios em LED: Curitiba, Balneário Camboriú, Niteroi, e Belo Horizonte, no mais nobre espírito de free shop de aeroporto.

Bulevares e Eiffel parisienses em Tianducheng, China.

A britânica Thames Town nos arredores de Xangai.

O Partenon de Nashville, EUA.

Torre de Pisa de Niles, Illinois.

“Esse estado ainda vai virar uma grande Loja da Havan.”

(Fado Tropical, de Chico Buarque e Ruy Guerra)

"Let's hand a government contract to that guy who published a manifesto!"

I hope John Logan got filthy rich writing this.

AI-Generated Interview With One Piece Actor Published By Esquire Esquire Singapore opted to run the Zoro actor's previous interviews through Copilot and Claude, as Mackenyu couldn't attend an in-person chat

When you publish an interview with AI Dario Amodei (acknowledging why you did it), form and content blend in a way that makes sense. When you fabricate an AI-generated interview with a pop star because schedules clash, good luck with that. Authenticity is still the name of the game.

“Gente cafona não pode guvernarr um ishtado!”

É com vocês, @medoedeliriobr.bsky.social

O cara vou Blade Runner, não entendeu a distopia, e saiu achando a merda toda maravilhosa. A Times Square do Tarcísio é o Torment Nexus dos pobres.

Uns anos atrás, São Paulo tava festejando o fim da poluição visual. Agora, o governador quer transformar parte da cidade numa cópia de outra estilo aquelas cidades dos cafundós da China com Torre Eiffel.

Se é pra ser Times Square, tem que ter Homem-Aranha brigando com boneco de Avatar no soco porque um roubou a gorjeta do outro. E rato, muito rato.

The strange politics of Pilates Podcast Episode · It's Been a Minute · April 20 · 25m

“Yes. Pilates has become the exercise for women who want to show to strangers online that they are well kept by a rich man.”

Tecnologia não é panaceia etc etc.

De volta ao lápis e papel: por que as escolas da Suécia estão reduzindo o ensino digital - BBC News Brasil Na Suécia, as salas de aula estão trocando os laptops por livros, lápis e papel, em uma medida questionada pelo setor de tecnologia do país.

“A mudança de abordagem se seguiu a uma consulta realizada em 2023, envolvendo pesquisadores acadêmicos, organizações de ensino, agências públicas e municipalidades.” E está sendo feita por um governo de coalizão de direita, algo impensável nesta terra de Tarcísios.

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Your soldier destroys a Jesus, the Hungarian PM will see you arrested, and Rahm Emanuel feels the wind blowing in the opposite direction.

A inteligência das gaivotas e a arte de roubar batatas fritas.

In Times of Trouble, the Maya Rejected Divine Kingship. This Newly Discovered Public Building Reveals How the Transition to Shared Power Unfolded Archaeologists in northern Guatemala unearthed a colonnaded open hall that may have served as a council house, where local leaders and everyday people met to discuss political issues

‘The Terminal Classic period ushered in a more “collaborative, consensus-based” form of government… Under Papmalil and other rulers of this era, everyday people in the southern Maya lowlands gained a voice in their community, with individual kings no longer ruling over city-states unchecked.’

GrOyPers at last.

Both images: To THE EDITOR: I would like to take ex ception to the underlying as sumption of the “Friedman doctrine” (“The Social Respon sibility of Business Is to In crease Its Profits,” by Milton Friedman, Sept. 13) that the only demand upon the busi nessman by the stockholder “generally will be to make as much money as possible. . . .” I speak not only as an in vestor in American corpora tions, but also as a “stock holder” in other institutions: my Government, my commu nity, my family, my society. As multiple stockholders, we all make complex and some times conflicting demands upon these institutions. When we demand that automobiles be designed so as not to foul the air, we are weighing a 1 per cent reduction in corpo rate profits against a 10 per cent increase in the cost of remaining healthy. When we applaud efforts to hire the “hard ‐ core unemployed,” we are mindful as much of the staggering economic and social costs of welfare and urban renewal as we are of the hor rifying plight of many of these individuals. Stockholders seek not to incapacitate the corpo rate mechanism, but to maxi mize our over ‐ all economic and social portfolio. This I do not believe to be “pure un adulterated socialism.” TIMOTHY MELLON. Guilford, Conn.

In September 1970, Milton Friedman wrote an article for the New York Times laying out his "Friedman Doctrine" for corporations, his usual Gordon Gekko fare by now. What is striking is this rebuttal in the Letters section by one Timothy Mellon, who would become a major Trump 2 donor.

“Of course it was Soros! Her name is Mayan War Gamble!!!!”

The everything app is Musk’s dream since his hair follicles were native.

Both images: To THE EDITOR: I would like to take ex ception to the underlying as sumption of the “Friedman doctrine” (“The Social Respon sibility of Business Is to In crease Its Profits,” by Milton Friedman, Sept. 13) that the only demand upon the busi nessman by the stockholder “generally will be to make as much money as possible. . . .” I speak not only as an in vestor in American corpora tions, but also as a “stock holder” in other institutions: my Government, my commu nity, my family, my society. As multiple stockholders, we all make complex and some times conflicting demands upon these institutions. When we demand that automobiles be designed so as not to foul the air, we are weighing a 1 per cent reduction in corpo rate profits against a 10 per cent increase in the cost of remaining healthy. When we applaud efforts to hire the “hard ‐ core unemployed,” we are mindful as much of the staggering economic and social costs of welfare and urban renewal as we are of the hor rifying plight of many of these individuals. Stockholders seek not to incapacitate the corpo rate mechanism, but to maxi mize our over ‐ all economic and social portfolio. This I do not believe to be “pure un adulterated socialism.” TIMOTHY MELLON. Guilford, Conn.

In September 1970, Milton Friedman wrote an article for the New York Times laying out his "Friedman Doctrine" for corporations, his usual Gordon Gekko fare by now. What is striking is this rebuttal in the Letters section by one Timothy Mellon, who would become a major Trump 2 donor.

From ‘I was misled’ to ‘I misled’ in less than a week.

Edição 104 Influenciando

Nesta edição induzida: sob a influência do latim, da eminência parda, da grippe, dos lobistas, do Neymar e da Virgínia, do Mister Beast, da escala 5x2, da autenticidade de Rousseau, e de um mercado de trilhões.

He can hardly improve on Bob Gunton.

Edição 104 Influenciando

Nesta edição induzida: sob a influência do latim, da eminência parda, da grippe, dos lobistas, do Neymar e da Virgínia, do Mister Beast, da escala 5x2, da autenticidade de Rousseau, e de um mercado de trilhões.

Great episode by @mattseybold.bsky.social.

“While educators are right to be suspicious and even outraged by Open AI, it is mostly a cipher. It is the 2020s trendy tool for dismantling an infrastructure of public education, informational access, academic knowledge production, and most foundationally, literacy.”

The tragedy of Instructure “is that the thing its founders were guarding against from the very beginning, the corruption of design by capital, did eventually happen.
And on a scale they could not possibly have imagined at BYU in 2008, because the gravitational pull of finance changed so radically.”