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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 2d

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Matt the outlaw
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Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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Atalo Ilces @italoalves.com · 1d

Nos aproximando do fim do longo século XIX

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

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Atalo Ilces @italoalves.com · 1d

Tiny Desk Coral de Queixas de Teutônia

Bethânia Pereira @betsoretorno.bsky.social · 1d

Tiny Desk Rosa e Rosinha

menções horrorosas @marcio.bsky.social · 1d

Tiny Desk Getúlio Abelha

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Atalo Ilces @italoalves.com · 1d

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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social · 2d

pro writing tip: always start the day by addressing a minor administrative task so that you’re in a bad mood when you begin your actual work

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Atalo Ilces @italoalves.com · 2d

Normal

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has broadened the CIA's powers to conduct lethal targeting and covert operations in Latin America, CNN reports.

A former senior intelligence official told CNN that there is a presidential directive, known as a "finding" for CIA covert action related to the counternarcotics mission that dates back to the 1980s. That finding, howeve is largely considered "open-ended" as far as defining actions the CIA can take, the former official added, noting it has been the subject of significant debate inside the administration since Trump's second term began.
The administration had been working to update that finding to provide further clarity to CIA on the specific actions the agency needs to take in the region to further Trump's counter-cartel campaign, the former official said.
The expansion of CIA's authorities to include lethal targeting against cartel actors, however, is also fraught with risk. In Latin America, there are, comparatively, far more US-born citizens and green card holders — people who might have the standing to sue the US government if they are harmed.
And that is a novel problem for the CIA, CNN has reported.

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Atalo Ilces @italoalves.com · 4d

Assim hoje

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 5d

increasingly convinced preventing americans from getting their little packages is the thing that will take this government down

Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 5d

How bad are tariffs going?

I paid for $32 of shaving cream from Canada. Unique stuff I’ve used for years, nothing like it in US. Small family business.

UPS guy came to my door today with box and said I have to pay additional $120 before he can hand it to me.

That makes it 5x more expensive!!! 🤯

Screenshot of message from UPS:

Hi Adam,
All import fees must be paid prior to delivery.
Save time - prepay online for your FREIGHTCOM shipment. If import fees are not paid before delivery, an additional surcharge will be applied.
Total Amount Due
119.20 USD
Additional charges may have been applied based on recent tariff policy changes.
Pay Now ›

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Atalo Ilces @italoalves.com · 5d

Porto Alegre é muito noir

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Atalo Ilces @italoalves.com · 5d

"Culture is increasingly traversed by a displaced and distorted class struggle in the realm of consumption."

Dylan Riley, Post-Mass Culture — Sidecar

Reading the symptoms.

newleftreview.org

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Atalo Ilces @italoalves.com · 6d

Hockney foi o único que conseguiu fazer arte de museu com iPad. Pior que são bons trabalhos.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

David Hockney iPad drawings of Yorkshire Wolds to be sold at auction

Seventeen prints from The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate are largest group of Hockney’s iPad works to come to market When David Hockney moved from working in the blazing sunshine of Beverly Hills to the more intermittent sunshine of Bridlington he had a problem: how to paint outdoors in the East Riding of Yorkshire in January when you’re in your 70s and you feel the cold. He planned to paint the gradual arrival of spring at an easel en plein air but he realised it was “a bit difficult when you are stood out there in the winter”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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islas resonantes @sanguecorsario.bsky.social · 6d

percebi uma coisa

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Atalo Ilces @italoalves.com · 6d

Não suporto editar artigo para acomodar comentário de parecerista. É a coisa que eu mais odeio fazer em pesquisa. Fico empurrando com a barriga até não dar mais, e depois faço contra a minha vontade.

(Nenhuma conclusão sobre políticas de publicação aqui--apenas uma expressão de estado subjetivo).

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bitopia 💌 @bitopia.bsky.social · 7d

to com dois umidificadores ligados

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Sherazade belicosa @todalanhada.bsky.social · 7d

Então quer dizer que finalmente o que votamos na plenária da Câmara de vereadores durante a ocupação de 2013 virou lei e podemos dizer que os ricos paguem a conta com gostinho de quero mais kkkkkkk

Camarote da República @camarotedacpi.bsky.social · 7d

📑 COMO FICA A COMPENSAÇÃO DA ISENÇÃO
✍️ Pelo texto aprovado hoje na Câmara

▶️ Tributação mínima de 10% para super-ricos (rendimentos anuais acima de R$ 600 mil)

▶️ Retenção de 10% na fonte sobre lucros e dividendos mensais acima de R$ 50 mil

Camarote da República @camarotedacpi.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 AGORA

ISENÇÃO DO IMPOSTO DE RENDA É APROVADA EM UNANIMIDADE PELA CÂMARA DOS DEPUTADOS

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Elysia Tatsu @elysiatatsu.bsky.social · 12d

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sundog ☉∇ ☣ 🏜️ 🔜 BLFC @coyote.tel · 7d

nobody talking about sacred machines is talking about telephony equipment and they ought to be, like all of this metal was directly connecting your ear to someone's gaping maw and into literal orbit and back while simultaneously handling hundreds more. and it sounds like this it's like a critter

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Palestina Reports 🇵🇸 🇧🇷 🇱🇧 @palestinareports.bsky.social · 7d

🇩🇪 Manifestantes fecham a estação central de trem na capital alemã Berlim, denunciando o ataque israelense à Flotilha Global Sumud.

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Palestina Reports 🇵🇸 🇧🇷 🇱🇧 @palestinareports.bsky.social · 7d

🔻Manifestação em Londres chega à residência do Primeiro-Ministro.

#FreePalestine
#flotilhaglobalsumud

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Palestina Reports 🇵🇸 🇧🇷 🇱🇧 @palestinareports.bsky.social · 7d

🇪🇸 Barcelona se levanta condenando o ataque à Flotilha Global Sumud.

#FreePalestine

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 7d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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Atalo Ilces @italoalves.com · 7d

Essas vírgulas antes e depois de "The Paris Review" também estão me irritando mais do que eu queria

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Atalo Ilces @italoalves.com · 7d

O combo pessoa insuportável

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