Novo "guia" para estudantes de história econômica, a partir de uma aula da pós em que mostro a alunos de economia como a área se desenvolveu no Brasil. osf.io/preprints/so...

Kurt Vonnegut: In my book I drew an asshole as a cautionary tale Anthropic: At long last, we have created the Vonnegut Asshole

jic floppy disks, print ad (1983) archive.org/details/loop...

the life and death of GameFAQS

#Onthisday in 1837, Queen Victoria ascended to the throne and so began the Victorian era. Of the vast amounts of Victorian content on our site, this is perhaps our favourite — a dictionary of Victorian slang: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-dictionary-of-victorian-slang-1909

The HPV vaccine outcome epi just keeps getting better and better. From England, a 100% mortality reduction in the most recent female adult cohort (20-24yo) that had proper high coverage at ~12yo. Still one of the greatest ID AND oncology successes ever observed. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I See You...

Wild West (repost)

As a postal carrier, I delivered a banana with the address written on the skin and the postage on a tag tied to the stem. It was still in good enough condition to eat.

Oops, I'm wrong - I DID get a pic. Been almost 15 years now, I forgot, but it was still in my photo albums.

Akai ad from the 1980s

This one still fuckin kills me

The time the UK told a user in northern ireland that the program was only available in the UK while apologizing for The Troubles is another Irish Twitter classic

Just remembered this incredible chain by @hooks.bsky.social and friends.

@lmonasterio.bsky.social "Se os alemães não conseguiram fazer o socialismo funcionar, então ninguém consegue" www.amazon.com.br/Politics-Eco...

microsoft developers using SteamOS running Windows-native games through compatibility layers AS A BENCHMARK for their new Windows K2 optimizations is one of the funniest fucking things to happen thus far in this current iteration of the OS war

Apples are one of the most common health pickups in beat 'em up games. Here's a mini collage of apples from various beat 'em ups.

After Alma Mahler married another man, the Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka hired a puppet maker to recreate her as a life-size doll, complete with “fine, curly horsehair” on her “parties honteuses”. What he got, instead, was a monster made of swan skin: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

Having lot of fun with @alice.averlong.com's Death Generator :3

The prophecy cannot be stopped

This wonderful 1805 book exposes the reality behind various tricks and illusions of the day, beginning with arguably the most enigmatic of the tricks listed, that of the “Learned Pig”, or as the excellent frontispiece refers to it “The Pig of Knowledge”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

good feeling when youre checking out some little guy on wikipedia and their infobox has the "least concern" circle

say yes ??

People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”

I’m so glad somebody directly estimated this. It’s even more extreme on a per capita basis. The average American retiree gets more than 10x more public spending than the average young person.

Bilingual joke? French Wikipedia says the Poisson distribution is "not to be confused with Fisher's distribution" (the F-distribution) fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_de_...

PSA: 1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly 2. If you are silly, you must stay silly 2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness

A new contender for best headline

Marantz PMS-6000 turntable boombox (1982)

print ad, imagery (1984) archive.org/details/bits...

both chronologically and spiritually

Ich finde ihr solltet das sehen

O economista Robert Mundell postulou a chamada trindade impossível, ou seja, que é impossível ter comida ao mesmo tempo deliciosa, vegana e saudável.

Kuba Komet entertainment centre (1957)

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