David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport www.economist.com/internationa...

Notícia da @folha.com "Alimentação escolar do Brasil é exemplo mundial" Link sem paywall ⬇️

buying into AI

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

Women in the UK take a lasting earnings hit when they become mothers, losing an average of more than £65,000 over five years following the birth of their first child. on.ft.com/3VND4GI

LLMs are not accountable. Who is?

I spoke with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social about Trump and the emerging post-colorblind racial order. Also, it's my Substack debut, so if you are over there, hit me up.

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

All this talk about rapture reminded me of this song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zE4...

What kind of "emotional" truth is that shared by Trump and Bolsonaro? We discuss this in our recente paper Occult enemies of the market order. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Huge crowds packed the squares and beaches of some of Brazil’s biggest cities to voice their opposition to rightwing endeavors to help Bolsonaro escape jail for his failed power grab”

Researchers found that Indigenous territories can effectively reduce the risk of vector-borne or zoonotic diseases if they’re located in municipalities with at least 40% forest cover.

saiu na Folha @folha.com

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

More than half of the Brazilians reject amnesty. These crimes are not subject to amnesty, although it is true that Bolsonaro supporters will try. But, hey, maybe they are sharing the news in volumes.

Clickbait headlines are a major source of misinformation and misrepresentation. Useful headlines would have been: 1. Young men support Reform less than other men. 2. Age is much more important for Reform support than sex. 3. Reform is most popular party among 50+ men and women.

Brésil : un verdict exemplaire pour la démocratie

Em uma semana, ao que tudo indica, Bolsonaro estará condenado por tentar dar um golpe. Seu maior crime – ouso dizer –, porém, segue impune. Muita gente que tem "covid-19" no atestado de óbvio poderia estar viva. Contamos essa história hoje na @apublica.org apublica.org/2025/09/pand...

Just spent a week in Paris. The most enjoyable big city experience I've EVER had. Cars are given as little room as possible. Parks EVERYWHERE and bikes are treated as equal users of the road. Never felt threatened by a car ONCE. The tree canopy is so impressive. I was blown away in every way.

Meta created celebrity romance chatbot replicas of Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson and Selena Gomez. Reuters found these "parody" bots would generate hyperrealistic images of the women in lingerie with their legs spread and invite users to the women's homes.

The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.

A Brazilian lawmaker said he would call for a parliamentary hearing after Mongabay’s shark meat investigation. Experts say the uncovered public tenders show greater extinction risk for sharks and urging stronger global protection. Industry groups called Mongabay’s investigation “alarmist."

Median total pay for S&P bosses rose to $19mn last year. on.ft.com/4mh9HYM

The city of Tulsa, home to one of the most horrifying racial-terror massacres in U.S. history and the people who tried to cover it up, has announced a $105 million reparations package.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

We will have a two-day JMS workshop in September at FGV EAESP (Sao Paulo, Brazil). Get in touch if you are interested. www.socadms.org.uk/journal-of-m...

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.

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I wrote about why the most important Oscar nominee is the movie about how living under authoritarian rule can feel surprisingly normal.

Um dos "estudos" que mais tem contribuído para envenenar a opinião pública contra a democracia.

A coluna é relativamente simples, mas importante por apontar algo que passa batido de muitos comentários sobre o câmbio. Não é meramente especulação de pessoas ruins ou apenas reação racional ao governo Lula. Pode ter um pouco de ambos, mas muito do movimento câmbial vem de fora. folha.com/vdn1c4gm

In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day

I loved the series, but after reading about a third of the book, I find that I’m not enjoying it as much. Something about the writing didn't hook me.

"If fascism should ever be fully assured of its final triumph, the world will choke in blood." Vasily Grossman - Life and Fate

Em breve, estrelando nas produções dos canais de direita.

You can dance around it as much as you want, but all this anti-DEI is ultimately just good old-fashioned RACISM!

I just finished two books that, although very differently and engaging diverse topics, deal with gender violence under oppressive environments: Milkman (Anna Burns) and En Finir Avec Eddy Bellenguelle (Édouard Louis). I bundled them together coincidentally, but it was very fortunate.

Paris definitely wasn’t always this way. And the change wasn’t magic, or even hard. This is very recent, and it just took vision and leadership. Your city could choose leadership too if it wanted to. Great pic via @JBPssx

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Como você é chamado um economista com uma previsão? Errado. Robert Kuttner

Essa é que é essa

After enduring its worst drought on record in 2024, Brazil closed the year with another alarming milestone: between January and December, 30.86m hectares of wilderness burned – an area larger than Italy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

So here's what's cool about my job: Yesterday morning I said, "We really ought to have TWIN PEAKS available." So then a bunch of people scrambled, worked really hard, and now you can watch every episode of David Lynch & Mark Frost's original series for free on Pluto TV: pluto.tv/us/on-demand...

Our research is out (again!) CEOs and elites often become celebrities to shape the public sphere. Their influence may not always help business directly but creates a climate favorable to their ideas. We are ongoingly witnessing the effects. #CEOactivism #Research journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Come study with me towards a PhD degree in political economy at the CEU, Vienna with good funding. dsps.ceu.edu/tracks/compa...