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99% Invisible @99pi.org · 1d

@romanmars.bsky.social and Ben Brock Johnson are answering YOUR questions on Reddit!

Come by to chat about video games, design, and our new series— Hidden Levels 🎮

Join the AMA 👉 www.reddit.com/r/podcasts/c...

From the podcasts community on Reddit: AMA: Roman Mars of 99% Invisible and Ben Brock Johnson of Endless Thread answers your questions about podcasting and their new series, Hidden Levels

Explore this post and more from the podcasts community

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Leonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · 1d

Alguém escreveu que é mais fácil oferecer tarifa zero do que transporte público de qualidade.
Texto ótimo e importante da Cecília Machado:
www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/ceci...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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Wojtek Kopczuk @wwwojtekk.bsky.social · 3d

It's always funny to read things like "anti-immigrant Czech-Japanese entrepreneur"

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 8d

My test of any new AI video model is whether it can make an otter using wifi on an airplane

Here is Sora 2 doing a nature documentary... 1980s music video... a thriller... 50s low budget SciFi film... a safety video.. a film noir... anime... 90s video game cutscene... a French arthouse film

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qntm @qntm.org · 7d

[start of the Hundred Years War] So, uh, what's with the name

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Leonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · 7d

Isto aqui é muito bom

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Leonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · 7d

Muito obrigado! ótimo fio. Não li um o estudo ainda, então vou abusar e perguntar para você: os autores consideraram a possibilidade de que o setembro amarelo diminua o subregistro de suicídios? A redução do estigma geraria o mesmo efeito

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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 7d

New estimates of the global cost of lead exposure due to reduced IQ range from $780 billion to $4.9 trillion

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 8d

Hungover Hegseth Struggling To Remember How He Ended Up In Room Full Of Generals

QUANTICO, VA—Racking his brain for answers as he gazed out at the high-ranking officers gathered before him, a visibly hungover Pete Hegseth reportedly struggled Tuesday to remember exactly how he end...

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demon core vidal (halloween style. bc demons are SPOOKY) @regretagarbo.rip · 9d

broccolini was invented in japan in 1994

Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 9d

Portobello/Portabella mushrooms are not Italian, they're not even a species, they're the mature form of the common button mushroom.

Previously just animal feed, farmers in the '80s rebranded it using an "Italianish" name from a London road and marketed it to high end restaurants

A photo of grilled Portobello mushrooms including sliced version on a plate.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 9d

There are only 41,000 coal miners in the United States. By way of comparison, there are 100,000 **registered** yoga teachers, 361,000 Starbucks baristas and 265,000 faculty and staff members working for the University of California system alone.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Folha de S.Paulo @folha.com · 10d

#OPINIÃO

📝 Ronaldo Lemos | Brasil toma surra do Vietnã em tecnologia, educação e agro. Os 10% piores estudantes do Vietnã têm desempenho similar aos 10% melhores alunos brasileiros; em 2024, o país exportou US$ 124 bilhões em produtos tecnológicos, enquanto no Brasil foram US$ 8 bi.

Opinião - Ronaldo Lemos: Brasil toma surra do Vietnã em tecnologia, educação e agro

Os 10% piores estudantes do Vietnã têm desempenho similar aos 10% melhores alunos brasileiros

mla.bs

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Leonardo Monasterio @lmonasterio.bsky.social · 11d

Sim!!!

M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 11d

I love walking around big airports, seeing where all the planes are going. I feel this spiritual appreciation for the infinite possibilities of life, each gate a portal to another potential universe. Why might I have taken any of these other flights? Where are all these other people going, and why?

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 11d

Some things never change!

4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian writing board with a student’s many spelling mistakes corrected in red ink by the teacher! 😂

📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

Met museum photo of an ancient Egyptian rectangular wooden white-washed writing board with an exercise written in black hieratic script. It was written by a student named Iny-su whose spelling mistakes are corrected in red ink by the teacher. Hieratic script is an ancient Egyptian cursive version of hieroglyphics. The board measures 19 cm long x 43 cm wide and has a horizontal crack half way down the left-hand side. The wooden board was painted with white gesso, which now appears cream-coloured. This allowed boards to be whitewashed for use over and again.

The exercise is a practice in formal letter writing. The student Iny-su addresses the letter (presumably jokingly) to his brother Peh-ny-su, treating him like a wealthy authority figure. Wood, gesso, paint pigment. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, c. 1981–1802 BC.

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Glen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 12d

Well don't I feel stupid

A headline about the James Webb Telescope potentially finding a new stellar object dubbed a black hole star

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Reuters @reuters.com · 20d

Brazilian minister intervenes in JBS slave labor investigation reut.rs/46tW1D9

Brazilian minister intervenes in JBS slave labor investigation

Brazilian Labor Minister Luiz Marinho is carrying out an unusual final review of an investigation that could blacklist a poultry unit of meatpacker JBS SA for subjecting workers to "slavery-like conditions," according to documents seen by Reuters.

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Repórter Brasil @reporterbrasil.org.br · 13d

Renúncia coletiva é protesto contra medida do ministro Luiz Marinho de puxar para si próprio decisão final sobre a entrada da JBS Aves na Lista Suja do trabalho escravo. Em abril, a empresa foi responsabilizada por submeter dez pessoas a condições análogas à escravidão, no RS.

Contra decisão de Marinho sobre JBS, fiscais deixam cargos

Fiscais deixam cargos em protesto contra medida de Luiz Marinho de puxar para si decisão final sobre entrada da JBS Aves na Lista Suja

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 13d

BIG NEWS! We've updated the website of the Open Visualization Academy, where you can see all its contributors: openvisualizationacademy.org

This is the announcement in our newsletter: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/we-re-back...

#dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVis 📊

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Notícias Sem Paywall @nopaywall.bsky.social · 12d

Notícia da @folha.com

"Opinião - Deborah Bizarria: Fechar a porta para quem inova deixa os EUA para trás"

Link sem paywall ⬇️

Opinião - Deborah Bizarria: Fechar a porta para quem inova deixa os EUA para trás

Na corrida global por talentos, transformar visto em pedágio é entregar vantagem aos rivais

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 12d

Here's my new Cato post on Trump's executive order declaring a broad law enforcement crackdown on a range of speech and political activity by his opponents, much of it plainly protected by the First Amendment, on the pretext that it promotes, incites, or justifies violence. @cato.org /1

President Trump Plans To Investigate and "Disrupt" Opposition Speech

A new executive order signals the White House’s intent to use law enforcement to investigate and disrupt networks and organizations Donald Trump and allies consider responsible for encouraging politic...

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Oscar Lozada @oz-of-the-ancients.bsky.social · 12d

#FindsFriday A fabulous jet and bone necklace from the Bronze Age, found at Wind Low barrow in Derbyshire, England, from about 1500 BC

What kind of person would have worn this?

Now held in the Weston Park Museum in Sheffield

📸 Mine

#archaeology #ancientbluesky #museums #photooftheday

A necklace resting on a museum stand made of alternating black beads and pieces of patterned bone

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Folha de S.Paulo @folha.com · 12d

#OPINIÃO

📝 Deborah Bizarria | Fechar a porta para quem inova deixa os EUA para trás. Na corrida global por talentos, transformar visto em pedágio é entregar vantagem aos rivais; medida encarece a inovação e troca ganho político imediato por perda econômica duradoura.

Opinião - Deborah Bizarria: Fechar a porta para quem inova deixa os EUA para trás

Na corrida global por talentos, transformar visto em pedágio é entregar vantagem aos rivais

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 12d

Data of 48 US states and over 120 industries from 1880 to 2007 show strong unconditional convergence in manufacturing productivity. Poorer states grew faster, closing gaps at an average rate of 7.6% per year.
Alexander Klein, Miguel León-Ledesma, Nicholas Crafts
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky

Graph of unconditional convergence rates in US manufacturing by decade.

Economic historians have long debated whether lagging regions can catch up in productivity with industrial leaders. This column shows that, under the right conditions, such catch-up can be remarkably rapid. Using newly digitised US Census of Manufactures data covering 48 states and over 120 industries from 1880 to 2007, it finds strong unconditional convergence in manufacturing productivity: poorer states grew faster, closing gaps at an average rate of 7.6% per year. This far exceeds the 'iron law' of 2% conditional convergence often found in GDP per capita studies, and it accelerated dramatically in the 1940s.

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frde2059.bsky.social @frde2059.bsky.social · 12d

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

www.nytimes.com

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