mylawcitrus

[mylawcitrus]

No country for old shit

A bullet travels,

almost hits the face,

orange and yellow,

fecal mouth misplaced.

The moment missed,

bosses breathe a sigh,

civilization grieves,

for it's bound to hopeless fights.

We almost had,

with that one CEO,

the chance to get back

to where it all unfolds:

a crime is portrayed

with highlight on our sins,

while 34 counts

are the highest of deeds.

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Um...

Why do the kids not know what a USB-C is? I'm a supply teacher and they will come up to me and say their chromebook is dead and look so confused when I ask them what charger they need. Behold an example:

Student: *Walks up to the desk and says nothing*

Me: Hi, how's if going? Do you have any questions?

Student: My chromebook's dead.

Me: Do you have a charger?

Student: *Shakes their head*

Me: Is there another chromebook in the bin you can use?

Student: I don't know.

Me: Go check.

Student: *Goes to check*

Me: *Checks the teacher's desk for an extra charger*

*There's a USB-C charger in the desk*

Student: *Comes back*

Me: What charger does your chromebook use?

Student: Huh? *confused face*

Me: What kind of charger do you need? Is it a USB-C charger or something else?

Student: It's the round one.

Me: *Resists the urge to tell them that narrows it down to pretty much every laptop charger in existence*

Me: *Pulls out the space USB-C charger* does it look like this?

Student: Yes.

Me: Okay so this is a USB-C charger. It's important to know what kind of charger you need in case you need to buy a replacement.

Student: *Walks off. I know they weren't listening.*

This is nothing to say about when I tried to get a class of 7th graders (12-13 years old) to open a new google doc in google drive. None of them could do it without help. I'm so genuinely concerned about the tech skills of the kids (I'm in my early 20s for reference).

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Live AI monitoring: the naturalization of the police state

Imagine that you’re having a conversation with someone on the internet. It could be on any given platform: Snapchat, Messenger, Discord, WhatsApp, Skype, Zoom, Meets, and so on. Some of them, of course, are taken more or less seriously than others. Although it’s not my job to report, I’m starting to think nobody else will. But the scenario here is nothing like what you might expect: for example,…

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O que a cultura da avaliação fez com nossos jovens?

Universidades Federais, FATECs, USP, Unicamp, ou até mesmo centros de profissionalização e escolas com um curso bacana, presencial ou online: existe uma demanda por conhecimento (knowledge, mas pode chamar de skills se não for postar no LinkedIn sobre a diferença entre os dois termos pra ganhar likezinho) e também uma pressão, enorme, sobre os jovens que estão nos anos finais do ensino médio, a…

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I could write a long text, but some people would be bothered, inevitably.

I'm referencing the Brazilian movie, because I'm Brazilian. But only the title. From what I've read, some people think it's a "softened version", while Fernanda Torres has narrated scenes of people "hugging each other after the film as if they were in a mass".

All I can say is that I know what it's like when a story is not being told.

And there's many people who would probably like to comment on that.

Are we gonna be able to enjoy the internet in 2025?

I hope so.

My focus is work, but sometimes I act like I'm still a kid.

Apologies for that. There's a chance I'll go back to ssongwriting. My most recent work has been ignored, and it addressed war. The other song has also been ignored, and it addressed dangerous cities, a recurrent topic for me.

My profile has links to Bandcamp, Spotify and Soundcloud, where you can find most of my work.

There's also the writing -- I'm currently working on a short story in Portuguese, and it's taking me a lot of effort, because I know what people expect and I know some people will freak the fuck out.

But that can be a good thing?

I'm actually considering a lot of stuff in my professional life.

But I hope art has breathing room, and to be very honest, living like a crazy artist is the kind of thing that pumps my blood.

Thanks for the support, Tumblr. And if you never supported me, ouch.

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Everybody wants to know: how to get bitches on the web

Oh, the days when journalistic integrity was the most acclaimed skill set of the democratic world! Do you wanna look at democracy, really? What a joke. This post will be short. Not confusing politics with personal life or diving into the public health concerns over how social media shaped young people’s realities, and skipping also the debates around security and privacy, here’s what you need to…

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December is here. Beware of hugs and fireworks.

We’re almost in 2025. The year of the “project”. They won. Here in Brazil, the interests of the food industry mixed with a weird enthusiasm for Chinese deals are not even making headlines, but it’s a matter of paying attention. We saw the Minister for Human Rights get fired after accusations of sexual harassment. I’m not sure if that was a smoke curtain, because he’s an intellectual. If it was,…

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Something weird happened on X which reveals a social media pathology. The debate was reduced to fit Bluesky.

As many news vehicles are starting to report, Bluesky has gained a lot of popularity recently and people are still figuring out what this will lead to. But I don’t want to make a bigger analysis here. Instead, I wanna point to a case which made me think about how users behave, and how unpredictable networks can be: the story circulated that an American lady supported the Madison Square Garden…

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Apparently, I've liked 250 posts.

I remember when I found out Tumblr had a stalking tool, basically, which was a standard URL for knowing what the other person had liked. It might still have it. Then I went into my crush's profile, and saw over 40k likes. And it was majorly porn. I still haven't recovered from that relationship.

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I had a dream with her today.

At this hearing, I stand before my fellow members of The Tortured Poets Department with a summary of my findings. 

Album tonight. 

Fortnight music video tomorrow at 8pm et.

https://taylor.lnk.to/thetorturedpoetsdepartment

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There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand adventure, but a series of small, insignificant moments, that love is not a fairy tale, but a fragile, fleeting emotion, that happiness is not a permanent state, but a rare, fleeting glimpse of something we can never hold onto. And in that understanding, there is a profound loneliness, a sense of being cut off from the world, from other people, from oneself.

Virginia Woolf

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Polarization

It's a nightmare that will soon be over

But as a Halloween treat,

Make the clock tick slower!

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This is where we gossip, right?

Remember Emma?

Dude, this bitch is crazy.

Not only did she go on a trip to Montana with money from her grandmother all by herself renting a car with a backpack and sat on top of a hill or whatever, but she called me while doing it.

And I took the call and she was trying to be normal... what an embarrassment.

The day I find out just how this chick lives her life, I'm not sure if I'm gonna pity her or myself, but one thing is certain: we were not made for each other.

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The "opportunity economy" is designed for American middle class, not for low income Brazilians.

As you may have noticed, I have strong ties with the United Stated. Relationships, tech, media, artists, even academia: everything in my life has a connection with the American development of strategies and resources to live in the 21st century reasonably well. But is that a promise that can’t be fulfilled? Let’s look at the facts. I chose to work as a teacher. I have 2 other jobs: I’m a…

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Sala de Espera - Signos Possíveis

A collaboration with Madeleine Alves. In Portuguese. You may translate.