No industry is perfect. But the imbalance is hard to miss. One sector must prove its products are safe & effective. The other profits by avoiding that responsibility. If we care about transparency and accountability, scrutiny shouldn’t be one-sided. (Source: For The Greater Glory of Science) #EpiSky

Ontem foi um dia anormalmente cheio de participações nos media. Quem me quiser ouvir 90 segundos, aqui está. Há uma nova estirpe de gripe a circular que pode fazer com que esta época seja mais complicada. Resumindo, vacinem-se. É o que podemos fazer de momento. www.rtp.pt/noticias/pai...

In another year dedicated to fiction, it's interesting that I began with John Kay and Mervyn A. King's Radical Uncertainty and am almost finishing the year with @adamjkucharski.bsky.social 's Proof, two non-fiction books on some fictional assurances we collect through life and decision making.

Fucking nudge. Esta forma subrepticia de nos obrigar a participar e depender cada vez mais dos riscos do capitalismo financeiro sem as proteções do sistemas sociais publicos enerva-me.

The Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off #SPFBO Champions' League table is filling up! #SPFBOCL

It demands the Epstein files!

Samir Zitouni a Muslim Immigrant from Algeria left hospital today, 2 weeks after being the first person to try stop the attack in Huntingdon train attack. They won't want to talk about this immigrant.

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The special edition of APWOT 6 will feature a lenticular print affixed to the cover, allowing Astro to change expressions like he does in game! Art by @error403.bsky.social 🤖 ✨

Publiquei há umas semanas o livro (o meu primeiro!) “O Trabalho Forçado”, em co-autoria com a Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, o José Pedro Monteiro e o Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo. A apresentação terá lugar em Lisboa na próxima semana, mais detalhes na imagem

Governo insiste num caminho apesar de avisado consistentemente das consequências. Gente de esquerda e também de direita contra várias medidas. Só há uma forma de perceber isto, já o tenho dito, é uma mistura de ministra incompetente com governo cujo propósito é enfraquecer o SNS a qualquer custo.

Ministra da Saúde já se demitiu, mas está em lista de espera

Afinal esta era a solução de Montenegro. O problema do SNS acaba se acabarmos com o SNS. Fácil.

Só Lisboa é que parece ir na direção contrária……

I have one slight disagreement with this post. There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy. And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

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That's it! Congratulations winners and thank you for your contributions to such a beautiful SFFH landscape and community. #2025IgnyteAwards ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/2025-results/

Hoje viemos uma hora mais tarde e claro que já há fila, nas legislativas tinha 1, hoje tenho 15. Fico sempre contente com o "movimento", embora estas eleições me tenham transmitido muito menos entusiasmo que todas as recentes. Estou pessimista a nível local e "nacional".

🗳 É dia de eleições — vai votar! ⏰ Podes exercer o teu direito de voto entre as 8:00 e as 19:00. 👉 Consulta o teu local de voto em recenseamento.pt

We need to be honest on climate movement. We are failing. - The temperature keeps rising. - True problem is structural, NOT individual behavior! - Industry has masterfully marketed individual's fault. - Collective civic action to change policy - Say pollution, not emissions Prof. Katharine Hayhoe

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Why everyone is talking about food inflation www.ft.com/content/de31...

Awful. It's been altered in so many ways beyond "colourisation". The kid has an entirely different face! AI is being used in so many ways to undermine history, information, even reality.

This is perfect

O que os estudos acerca disto sugerem é que uma aproximação à direita radical não reduz o seu sucesso eleitoral. E o nosso trabalho sugere também que fazê-lo contribui ainda mais para a normalização da retórica de ultra direita. expresso.pt/politica/ele...

Dear Gods of all that is stupid... IT'S REAL.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

This guy is a performative sadist. The fact that he is where he is, is a truly terrible measure of how bad the judgement is of everyone around him.

"Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number— Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you— Ye are many—they are few." - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Interessante ver pessoas a ouvir o album da Taylor Swift lançado hoje - pouco estimulante no geral - e a dizer que ela faz sempre o mesmo. Não sou "swifty", ouço mais por companhia do que propósito. Mas dizer que ela faz sempre o mesmo é irreal. Basta comparar os primeiros álbuns com o TTPS.

To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

It is representative of a *profound* failure of a country that this group of people are up there talking about medicine and science at all

A special delivery for Bob Iger.

Watch this. I strive to be this clear and effective. Best line — “A temper tantrum disguised as an ideology.”

Só isto devia ser motivo para não receber nenhum voto e vindo de um ministro torna tudo pior.

I'm sorry, what?! Parem o mundo que eu quero sair.

The USA, "land of the free", with such an overwhelming "red scare" past, so much of the right libertarianism people living there, with freedom on their mouths constantly, is now an authoritarian state going on totalitarianism:

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

A Flotilha Global Sumud foi atacada e o silêncio das instituições europeias é ensurdecedor. Exigimos uma tomada de posição por parte de Roberta Metsola, Ursula Von Der Leyen e António Costa que vise proteger os cidadãos europeus que seguem corajosamente na flotilha.

its wild how slippery objective consensus reality is right now

Meta and "A.i." are garbage disinformation vectors.

Dada essa sondagem que por aí passeia vale a pena ir buscar este comentário de há um mês.

bürgerfest

This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight. nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

This is awful news! First, and foremost, for Kirk and his family. Second, for the political climate in the U.S. NOTHING good will come of this.

When I read LeGuin it is very clear that the process of making something is far more important than the final product. It's way closer to Buddhism than capitalism.

Um exemplo do que acontece quando o patrão tem empregados "garantidos": Em 2015 fui a concurso para ser médico de família no SNS. Em Lisboa havia muito mais vagas, muitas delas sendo a última opção de quase toda a gente. Fui a entrevista com a ARS LVT.