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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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Small ask, gift

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Sala de Espera - Signos Possíveis

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

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early autumn grass, bumblebees in their final leisures, slow as the day how many hours have passed through us until they became years, decades, suddenly the whole of a life? the roses turn brown in the shadow of my cottage, I remember sickness, defeat, lost stories, blurred dawns that felt infinite - before death, whose eyes will be in my eyes? no one has the time to speak with hatred anymore: war rages on, always beyond the horizon until it arrives, and elsewhere slow as beetles burrowing into work, my hands in the garden, quiet as trust, fragile as snow - for how long can I feign this?

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New song: "The Brown Truck"

Listen and check out the lyrics!

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A cidade de São Paulo me traz muitas memórias. Governá-la demanda competência e caráter.

Existe uma grande oposição entre as pessoas do mundo que enxergam as benesses de se cuidar dos relacionamentos empresariais ou ficar do lado do povo, que é constantemente explorado e tem uma condição de subsistência que muitos esquecem que apenas foi conquistada pelo movimento social. Lula, uma figura histórica, teve que assumir compromissos como ditar a política da Petrobras, nossa maior…

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The skill of management is learned through practice now, with social media. How can we guide new generations to avoid burnout?

Statista says that the average number of social media accounts for teenagers worldwide was over 9 up until 2019. Apps have grown, userbases gotten larger and habits as well as opinions have changed, drastically or not, because we navigated a pandemic. Obviously, we need more research, but now everybody talks about AI. It turns out that these systems are designed to keep the user hooked on apps…

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"20 or 50?" How American finance commentators manage to mislead the entire world on a daily basis

Imagine if you had a daughter who dated a guy who was into metal. You listened to English synth pop when you were young, so you were very reluctant to accept that this long haired dude was going to change her life for the better. But more on that: she was just 15. Never mind that he was younger, and didn’t smoke weed because he wasn’t cool. He learned how to drink, it might be a good fuck. You…

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Remember encyclopedias? With search improvements, everything's at thumb reach.

When I think about the school work that I had to do when I was in 4th grade, I remember going to the public library to study from other author’s books and collecting pieces of information that others didn’t have. It was confusing, but it made me realize I was exploring new territory, on my own, and actually digging up to look up for more details on a given subject. Of course, that was before the…