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sola @sol2070.in · 12h

‘Admirável Mundo Novo’ ainda é relevante?
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‘Admirável Mundo Novo’ ainda é relevante?

Ao reler o clássico Admirável Mundo Novo (Brave New World, 1931, 312 pgs), de Aldous Huxley, fiquei dividido: ideias instigantes e…

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Letícia Oliveira @bicicreta.bsky.social · 15h

Doida pra ler a resposta do Alan Moore pra esse imbecil

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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sola @sol2070.in · 1d

This the making of I always wanted to know about of one my favourite movies.
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The Making of “Adaptation”

When your quirky book becomes a quirkier movie.

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sola @sol2070.in · 3d

Cheers!

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Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time

Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…

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Rodrigo Pontes @rodrigopontes.bsky.social · 4d

Eu estou tentando transformar o Confabulistas num amálgama de newsletter + blog + site pra escritores.

Dá uma fuçada na minha página: rodrigopontes.confabulistas.com.br

Vê os livros (os “Contos Soltos” tem textos públicos, dá uma navegada por eles pra ver como ficou). Ai tem blog e “Curadoria”

Rodrigo Pontes - Página do Autor

Escritor iniciante de ficção especulativa. Autor da ficção científica contemporânea As neurofiandeiras de Val (2023), finalista do Prêmio Odisseia da Literat...

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sola @sol2070.in · 4d

Imagining dystopias is becoming harder.
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Smart Appliances Are Showing Ads Now

YouTube video by Mental Outlaw

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 4d

A thing of beauty

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sola @sol2070.in · 5d

Minha nova novela (no meio entre conto e romance): "Extração" (67 pgs).
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Novela 'Extração'

Publiquei minha nova novela: Extração (67 pgs). Cronologicamente, é a primeira estória da série Ano Zero. Mas pode ser lida…

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 11d

There’s still a lot left that’s worth fighting for.

RIP Jane Goodall.

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PeterGelderloos @petergelderloos.bsky.social · 7d

It's out!
The whole audiobook of Hermetica read by Margaret Killjoy, the last part of the eco-revolution video trilogy from sub.media ways to support independent publishers and radical authors, all in the links!

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Exhaustion + Wings = Free Free Free!

interview with Margaret Killjoy, video with sub.media, and more!

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sola @sol2070.in · 8d

O futuro dos ecossistemas:
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#ambiente #mar

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no bonzo @nobonzo.bsky.social · 8d

our melody is louder than a shout

An illustration. In the foreground, two figures sit on a downed tree and embrace. There is a gasoline can and two spicy cocktails in the ferns surrounding them. They look down at a valley which has a prison on fire in it. There is a decorative leaf border around the whole illustration. Text at the bottom reads Our Melody is Louder than a Shout and has a circle a.

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Bernardo Kastrup @bernardokastrup.bsky.social · 9d

What if you are a pixel in a higher-level consciousness navigating through extra dimensions of time? Meet the ‘Nested Observer Window Model’ of Jonathan Schooler, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences UCSB.
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Understanding consciousness as a fractal

What if you are a pixel in a higher-level consciousness navigating through extra dimensions of time? Meet the 'Nested Observer Window Model' of Jonathan Schooler, PhD, who is Distinguished Professor o...

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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 10d

Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91.

“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference,” she told audiences. Those words remain her truest epitaph.

Jane Goodall (1934–2025): primatologist, conservationist, and messenger of hope

Jane Goodall, who revealed the intimate lives of chimpanzees and gave the modern world a language of hope, has died at the age of 91. Over the course of six decades, she moved from an unlikely young…

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sola @sol2070.in · 11d

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Two Years After Cormac McCarthy's Death, Rare Access to His Personal Library Reveals the Man Behind the Myth

The famously reclusive novelist amassed a collection of thousands of books ranging in topics from philosophical treatises to advanced mathematics to the naked mole-rat

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 11d

Jane Goodall was not only a pioneering primatologist, she also campaigned more relentlessly and selflessly for the natural world than anyone I know.

A great soul if ever there was one
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Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91

Jane Goodall Institute says ‘tireless advocate’ for natural world died in California during US speaking tour

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sola @sol2070.in · 11d

Um clássico da FC ainda atual: "As Crônicas Marcianas", Ray Bradbury.
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As Crônicas Marcianas

Como Fahrenheit 4511, outra clássica ficção do mestre Ray Bradbury que consegue permanecer atual é As Crônicas Marcianas (The Martian…

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Mayim Bialik @mayimbialik.bsky.social · 12d

What even IS reality?

In this mind-expanding episode of Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, Dr. Bernardo Kastrup (@bernardokastrup.bsky.social) explores the BIGGEST questions humans have ever asked ▶️ linktw.in/vhAtQu 🧠💥 #BialikBreakdown #mayimbialik #bialikbreakdown #consciousness #science

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Elfa Dos Insetos 🐛🦋 @elfadosinsetos.bsky.social · 13d

Você sabia que os piolhos-de-cobra acasalam de frente um para o outro? Eles se esfregam, se enrolam e se "acariciam" com as perninhas por um tempão. O macho então crava seus gonópodes (estrutura com esperma) na fêmea e a fertiliza

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 14d

They're really trying to throw every dystopia at us at once.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

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sola @sol2070.in · 14d

"Uma Batalha Após a Outra" é um dos melhores filmes dos últimos tempos.
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Uma Batalha Após a Outra

Fui conferir no cinema Uma Batalha Após a Outra (One Battle After Another, 2025), de Paul Thomas Anderson, e superou…

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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 16d

"“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @adiod.bsky.social , a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

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How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

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sola @sol2070.in · 16d

Boa! Tem essa introdução já clássica também: sol2070.in/2024/03/prin...