German naval commander Heinz-Wilhelm Eck was commander of U-852 and was tried, convicted, and executed (along with 2 others deemed responsible) after the war because on March 13, 1944 he ordered his crew to shoot at survivors who were clinging to rafts and wreckage of the Greek merchant ship SS […]

An 18-year-old Russian singer, Diana "Naoko" Loginova, who recently performed anti-war songs on Nevsky Prospect in Russia's St. Petersburg, has been brought to court, in handcuffs. She is charged with "discrediting the Russian armed forces" and with "organizing […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

See also: Betteridge's Law, examples of

Brasileiro só é solidário no zíper da mochila aberto na condução.

“People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built. It’s just the latest ICE-tracking initiative to be pulled by tech platforms in the past few days.”

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

Happening now in war ravaged Portland: the city's Parks and Recreation Department (the most subversive of all government entities, is giving away trees.

Descobri por que reunião da congregação da Poli vai até tão tarde. É para esperar o departamento de pessoal fechar. Senão todos saíam direto e pediam demissão.

Liquid glass, Apple OS 26… no big deal. Small cosmetic differences, a few deeply hidden improvements, fine with me.

The old web was decentralized: - Newsgroups - Personal Websites - Bulletin board - Email as a service, not a platform - Internet relay chat (IRC) - Early blogs Then corporations arrived with money and lock-in, turning the internet into centralized ad farms (Meta, X, TikTok). Users became […]

An accurate headline: "In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements" -- https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/in-win-for-infectious-diseases-florida-to-end-all-school-vaccine-requirements/

Very efficient UN organization Very efficient UN organization. Only took 18 years to find out. On the same day, the IAEA's Mohamed ElBaradei criticized the raid, saying that "to bomb first and then ask questions later [...] undermines the system and it doesn't lead to any solution to any […]

Escultura do cogumelo alucinógeno na USP Perguntei pro Grok: "Me conte onde fica o “cogumelo” no campus da USP no Butantã." Sei que Grok é um tipo Íbis do futebol pernambucano do mundo dos chatterbots, mas olhem a resposta: O "cogumelo" é uma escultura de cerâmica em forma de cogumelo […]

Perhaps it's time to tap the chart again. Left-handed people were once seen as sinister (the word sinister, from Latin, originally meant "left" or "on the left side") so kids were forced to be right-handed. However, with advances in science it became clear […] [Original post on mastodon.world]

Super smart visual tension and analogy.

Políticas Urbanas em São Paulo Às 6 da manhã, na região central de São Paulo os ônibus estão cheios de trabalhadores, há pouco trânsito de carros particulares, e os jornais trazem debates sobre como salvar os motoristas e as indústrias de automóveis das calamidades ambiental, econômica, e de […]

I propose replacing calories with watt-hours. - Almost same value (1 kilocalorie / Calorie is ~1.1 watt-hours) - more intuitive for people who use electricity - never the confusing between calories (science), Calories (food, which is technically kilocalories), kilocalories, and 'kilo Calories' […]

I wish I had known in my 20s that selling science fiction to venture capitalists was way more profitable than selling it to publishers of science fiction

Piadas do tempo do Brezhnev Pequena consolação pelas calamidades atuais é que as piadas russas do tempo do Brezhnev voltaram a ter graça. Brezhnev calls in the directors of the Soviet space agency and says, "Comrades, we were first in space with Gagarin, but now the Americans are on the moon […]

Yet another government department in a European nation dumps the shady US tech giants and goes free and open source! Danish Ministry of Digitalisation drops Microsoft Office/365 and moves to LibreOffice. Meanwhile, here in Britain Palantir has access to all our medical records, and police are […]

Chess and chatbots Before using an LLM chatbot, play a game of chess against it. It's instructive! Grok hallucinates early on in the game. The board doesn't reflect the moves made - pieces appear and disappear in random places, with a penchant to duplicating bishops in squares of the same color […]

It turns out that when you remove cars from city streets, many fewer people are injured or killed. https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2025/07/06/ip-2024-045571

A ajuda a países necessitados que a maldade do trump cortou são $40 bilhões. Nenhum outro país conseguiria tapar o buraco… sozinho. Mas juntando os países com economias grandes, não seria um esforço excessivo substituir essa ajuda. É falta de generosidade, inclusive do Brasil. A Europa do Leste […]

I have a good representation in Congress. https://open.substack.com/pub/jakeauch/p/simple-but-not-easy-9?r=5vo5s4&selection=f5745a69-4c0e-4de1-b6a6-a51a7ec1b505&utm_campaign=post-share-selection&utm_medium=web&aspectRatio=instagram&textColor=%23ffffff Plan for people, not cars. Walkable […]

When PISA classified kids around the world by how they approached math, it turned out that those who relied on memorization (vs. deeper understanding or relations among concepts) were the lowest achievers in every country. And rote learning of math facts predominated in the US […]

What's been lost... Entomologists from Krefeld, Germany, collected flying insects for two weeks in August 1994 (left) and—at the same site, with an identical trap— in August 2016 (right). Similar data from 63 German protected areas overall gave a shocking […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Artigo longo. Achei sensato. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opinion/harvard-university-trump-administration.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g&pvid=52368D06-817E-49F7-B9D0-9B92AAD0CC4B

If they dress in red, the color used by Hamas to symbolize their atrocities on October 7, it's to signify their support for genocide against Jews. Europeans and the Dutch in particular are apt to do that. They would have used a different color if they wanted to defend Palestinians rather than […]

Just learned that Nietzsche judged atomic theory “most refuted”, on the basis of philosophical considerations. Likewise Kant explained that space had to be Euclidean. Good reasons to be skeptical of philosophers. The parts I am not able to contradict, how right can they be?

Someone fixed this #dailytelegraph poster - via #trudialumni

Orientações de projetos de formatura Post apenas para meu uso pessoal, ninguém precisa ler. No presente século orientei os seguintes projetos de formatura. https://test0pait.wordpress.com/2025/04/18/orientacoes-de-projetos-de-formatura/

Paris Proves the Power of Pedals: How Cycling Helped Cut Pollution in Half "Over the past two decades, the French capital has undergone a remarkable transformation — and cyclists are riding at the heart of it. A recent report by Airparif, the independent […] [Original post on dmv.community]

NYTimes article about Apple falling behind. Phones and computers are mature products. I blame AI. Apple gave up on cars because self driving cars are not feasible. They could have done much better than Tesla just building cars, but were misled by fake promises of AI. The new phones and […]

Gerações de telefonia Significado dos ícones de sinal: 3G - 1a geração de telefonia celular digital, obsoleta. LTE - o mesmo que 3G, fingindo não ser obsoleta. 4G - 2a geração de telefonia digital. 5G - o mesmo que 4G, só que mais caro. Sem serviço - telefônica não fornece serviço no local. E - […]

Last year until December Google Maps was very useful for moving around São Paulo by public transportation. It barely works now, 3 months later. Stops, crashes, loses info, reloads slowly all the time. #enshittification #Embostificação

Guia completo de viagem Vá de bicicleta. Se não der, pegue um trem. Se não tem trem, verifique se é possível ir de barco. Senão, vá a pé. Não dá para ir a pé? Pegue um ônibus. Ônibus não funciona? Vá de avião. Se não for possível, reconsidere as alternativas anteriores. Se nenhuma funcionar, vá […]

Colação festiva da Poli em março de 2025 O que falei, espero que em não muito mais que 2 minutos, foi mais ou menos o seguinte. Hoje estamos aqui para celebrar as conquistas de cada um de vocês. Se vocês tivessem completado o colégio, e não tivessem prestado vestibular, para nós teria bastado […]

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

[email protected] On my last point, we have two clear examples. In Brazil, when the Supreme Court asked for information about the crimes of the extreme right, it was denied, resulting in X being banned throughout the country for a few weeks https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkmpe53l6jo […]

Looking for another reason to avoid Facebook? Chess problems in reels. 1 you can’t prevent damn reels from appearing when you scroll. 2 the chess problems are the ugliest, least inspiring problems imaginable. 3 it’s the worst medium for a chess problem. Someone who dumps those in your […]

Wow. The US Treasury Dept. today announced it is lifting sanctions on Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixing service that state-sponsored hackers from North Korea have been massively using to launder their stolen billions. "Based on the Administration’s review of the novel legal and policy […]

Well, being busy as an immigrant and outside of X makes you miss things like that. Open Knowledge Brasil already left X in October 2024, and its director tried to do the same to the international network of the Open Knowledge Foundation that started in […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

The scary thing is that I've watched a Trump/Musk style takeover of the government in my home country of Hungary a long time ago and it went great for them. Turns out the general population accepted every institution being gutted and stripped in obviously corrupt ways. They were simply […]