Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira
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PhD LatAm Cultural Studies @uniofmanchester.bsky.social “…and world peace” Neurodivergent. Tire suas próprias conclusões e os pratos secos do escorredor. Curiositas ducit. ENG: https://mausellmoli.substack.com PORT: https://almanaquesemanal.substack.com
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Nesta edição enooooorme: dando bananas por bom preço na política, na mitologia moderna, no seu jardim, no prato, no chão, na evolução e no samba-enredo, com os suspeitos de sempre Carmen Miranda, United Fruit Company, e Lucille Bluth, mais Pablo Neruda, Lygia Fagundes Telles, e grande elenco.
Edição Jumbo 86/87
Construindo bananas
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Não são os únicos, como mostra a bancada amazônica.
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#Opinião
📝 Vinicius Sassine | Negação do que é real. Na Amazônia, ignora-se o óbvio sobre uma rodovia e comunidades tradicionais
Opinião - Vinicius Sassine: Negação do que é real
Na Amazônia, ignora-se o óbvio sobre uma rodovia e comunidades tradicionais
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The Nobel committee has a spotted record.
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The helmeted hornbill looks like a post video effect straight from the 1980s.
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"More than 33,000 plant species are known to be initially mycoheterotrophic during germination and early development. Botanists have also identified about 600 species, nearly half of which are orchids, that have fully abandoned photosynthesis and depend on fungi throughout their lives."
These ‘ghost flowers’ thrive without photosynthesis. One scientist is learning how
Japanese botanist Kenji Suetsugu studies plants that steal carbon and nutrients from soil fungi
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"How can the claim that Plato is opposed to poets possibly survive the inconvenient celebration they are accorded here in what are surely among the most important moments in Socrates’s life? We can catch a glimpse of [the how] by consulting some of the dialogues’ most popular translations."
Plato and the Poets - Boston Review
The centuries-old debate should be settled: an intellectual world bereft of poetry is a damaged one.
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A Bancada do Boi insiste em dar um tiro no pé sabendo que está dando um tiro no pé porque o que importa é o lucro de hoje e se dane o amanhã.
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Em 27 de agosto, Nelson Ananias Filho, coordenador de Sustentabilidade da Confederação da Agricultura e Pecuária do Brasil, foi um dos convidados a falar numa audiência pública sobre o Plano Clima convocada pela Comissão de Agricultura e Reforma Agrária do Senado. Com um meio-sorriso, indicativo de ironia, ele olhou para um gráfico que mostrava as emissões de gases de efeito estufa no Brasil. O maior volume cabia à pecuária e à agricultura, incluindo o efeito do desmatamento para a abertura de pastos e plantações. “Só de batermos o olho num gráfico desses é encontrar os responsáveis pelo desmatamento no Brasil e, quem sabe, no mundo”, disse. “Essa realocação de emissões impacta diretamente no setor agropecuário em curto prazo, porque vamos entrar num período de conferência das partes [a COP30] na qual o setor agropecuário entra como o maior emissor do país e, quem sabe, do mundo”, repetiu. “Em curto prazo o impacto na imagem é muito grande”, queixou-se. De fato – e não há nada de irônico nisso –, Ananias Filho não estava errado: só seis países, incluindo o Brasil, superam as emissões do “agro” brasileiro.
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"...her odds jumped within minutes to 31.5 per cent and then 73.5 per cent despite Machado not having been tipped as a favourite — either by experts or by the media — ahead of the prize announcement at 11am."
Nobel Institute probes peace prize leak after Polymarket surge
María Corina Machado’s odds surged on online betting site hours before official announcement
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"Segundo levantamento, a maioria dos casos envolve preconceito contra religiões de matriz afro (33%) e imposição de trabalhadores a rituais religiosos (33%). Há ações também (22%) relacionadas a discriminação contra judeus e islâmicos."
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Not exactly a six-year-old but always a great actor. Here’s H.B. Warner’s poignant Mr. Gower from Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life.
It's a Wonderful Life - George and the druggist
YouTube video by Véronique G.
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“…more often than not, Thiel ends up with something that reads like Dan Brown.”

‘“I think Andreessen is not the antichrist. Because, you know, the antichrist is popular.” Respect where it’s due: that is a good line.’
Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher
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“Tokenized real estate doesn’t yet pose a significant risk to the overall market the way financialization of mortgages did in 2008… But that risk will grow as the asset class increases, and removing regulation from the equation juices the risk further, as past history illustrates.”
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Crypto bros have a great idea: "fractional real estate." Investors just buy a piece of a property, on the blockchain.
This is *how every property-related security already works*.
And given its history, securitization might not be something you want to reinvent!
From @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social:
Crypto Bros Want to Create Micro Landlords
Crypto executives are selling investors fractions of buildings in yet another scheme to reinvent an existing activity and say rules don’t apply because it’s on the blockchain.
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“Desde 2023, quando foi dissolvido o conselho curador e a função de escolha dos jurados passou a ser centralizada nas mãos de uma só pessoa, o que temos visto é a seleção de vários avaliadores sem experiência —seja prática ou teórica— naquela categoria que lhe compete examinar.”
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#OPINIÃO

📝 Marcelo Moutinho | Com muitos jurados sem preparo técnico, prêmio Jabuti subiu na árvore. Avaliadores sem experiência votaram em diversas categorias; perder ou ganhar é do jogo, mas júri precisa ter conhecimento.
Opinião: Com muitos jurados sem preparo técnico, prêmio Jabuti subiu na árvore
Avaliadores sem experiência votaram em diversas categorias
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Today obra merece ser reconhecida: veja como votou cada deputado na derrubada da medida provisória que tributava bancos e bets.
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“Lideranças das três bancadas mais extensas do Senado — PL, PSD e MDB — já indicam que o Congresso vai derrubar vetos caros aos ambientalistas e tornar lei a simplificação da licença por autodeclaração para empreendimentos de médio potencial poluidor, como barragens, por exemplo.”
Licenciamento ambiental: oposição articula derrubada de vetos de Lula após Alcolumbre anunciar sessão na semana que vem
Defensores da proposta original, criticada por entidades, afirmam que ela vai agilizar a fiscalização sem prejudicar o meio ambiente
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Beware paranoid Schmittian eugenicist Afrikaners with too much money.

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Why was Thiel, given his fixation on preventing a one-world state, building surveillance tools that a totalitarian dictator could use to seize power? Was he on the side of the katechon or the Antichrist?
Palaver told me he wasn't entirely sure.
"There's a tension between those two things, and in some ways he goes along with both of them," he told me. "It's a good strategy, if you have the means-to have something at stake on all the sides." In other words, maybe the billionaire is hedging his bets—investing heavily in both the katechon and the one-world, totalitarian Antichrist.
But to understand why Thiel may be willing to take that risk, Palaver says you need to first understand that he's human. "What I've observed are traces of deep fear," he told me.
"Fear of death, fear of terrorism." It all comes down to a lack of trust and a craving for security, Palaver suspects. "There are so many cases where he expresses fears and concerns and a need for protection," Palaver says. "And if your main thing is seeking protection, you play with fire."
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Someone’s being chewed out at the White House today.
August 26, 2024
WASHINGTON,g.C. - Today, Senator Rick Scott, joined by Senator Marco Rubio and Representatives Mario Díaz-Balart, María Elvira Salazar, Michael Waltz, Neal Dunn, Byron Donalds and Carlos Gimenez wrote a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee supporting Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado as a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. In
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“Palantir was founded in response to the September 11th terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, with funding from Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA. The company considers itself a defender of Western democracies.”

This is why, kids, you should never skip history class.
The West is superior and must always win. This is how Palantir views the world
Military AI software: Data company Palantir is one of the most influential, secretive, and controversial companies in the world. NRC visited the office in London. What is the worldview of the Palantir...
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And… snap!
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'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize