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I have in me all the dreams of the world.
A série The Witcher da Netflix prometia trazer ao ecrã a complexidade do universo criado por Andrzej Sapkowski,(…). Após três temporadas com Henry Cavill e uma quarta com Liam Hemsworth, é momento de analisar esta adaptação que gerou tanto entusiasmo quanto controvérsia.
The Witcher: Uma Jornada Turbulenta pela Adaptação da Netflix.
A série The Witcher da Netflix prometia trazer ao ecrã a complexidade do universo criado por Andrzej Sapkowski, um mundo repleto de monstros, magia e dilemas morais.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A série The Witcher da Netflix prometia trazer ao ecrã a complexidade do universo criado por Andrzej Sapkowski,(…). Após três temporadas com Henry Cavill e uma quarta com Liam Hemsworth, é momento de analisar esta adaptação que gerou tanto entusiasmo quanto controvérsia.
TBT 80’s.
Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies
Adrienne Salinger’s cult photography book from the nineties makes a comeback.
www.newyorker.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
TBT 80’s.
The release of the DeepSeek model in January sparked a frenzied debate in Silicon Valley about whether better resourced US AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, could defend their technical edge.
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says China ‘will win’ AI race with US
CEO criticises western ‘cynicism’ while Beijing loosens regulations and cuts energy costs for data centres
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November 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The release of the DeepSeek model in January sparked a frenzied debate in Silicon Valley about whether better resourced US AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, could defend their technical edge.
(…) Memes of Christian Bale’s character from The Big Short, squinting in disbelief at his computer monitor. If tech stocks fall because of AI companies failing to deliver on their promises, the highly leveraged hedge funds that are invested in these companies could be forced into fire sales.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
(…) Memes of Christian Bale’s character from The Big Short, squinting in disbelief at his computer monitor. If tech stocks fall because of AI companies failing to deliver on their promises, the highly leveraged hedge funds that are invested in these companies could be forced into fire sales.
But Amazon sells cloud computing and also sells cereal. Apple has hardware and software. Meta and Alphabet are in communications. They’re not just AI companies. The theme tying them all together is that they are seen as being leaders in harnessing new technology for the benefit of their businesses.
Big Tech’s market dominance is becoming ever more extreme
In a week when Nvidia’s value reached $5tn, investors in even the broadest index of global companies are now heavily exposed to the AI boom
on.ft.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
But Amazon sells cloud computing and also sells cereal. Apple has hardware and software. Meta and Alphabet are in communications. They’re not just AI companies. The theme tying them all together is that they are seen as being leaders in harnessing new technology for the benefit of their businesses.
“None of that means that AI can’t eventually be every bit as transformative as its biggest boosters claim it will be,” Karma continues. “But ‘eventually’ could turn out to be a long time.”
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.
www.theatlantic.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“None of that means that AI can’t eventually be every bit as transformative as its biggest boosters claim it will be,” Karma continues. “But ‘eventually’ could turn out to be a long time.”
Martine got laid off by a government contractor in April. She applied to dozens of roles at nonprofits, law firms, consultancies, and universities, but she never came close to being hired. “I have 10 years of experience,” she told Lowrey. “I would be happy if a person told me no at this point.”
The Job Market Is Hell
Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.
www.theatlantic.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Martine got laid off by a government contractor in April. She applied to dozens of roles at nonprofits, law firms, consultancies, and universities, but she never came close to being hired. “I have 10 years of experience,” she told Lowrey. “I would be happy if a person told me no at this point.”
Lavrov reportedly that Putin listened to the late Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. Trump consults Roy Cohn, an infamous New York mob lawyer and key figure in the McCarthyite red scare. Is from Cohn that Trump learnt that when someone comes at you, hit back twice as hard.
The Trump Supremacy
Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order
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October 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Lavrov reportedly that Putin listened to the late Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. Trump consults Roy Cohn, an infamous New York mob lawyer and key figure in the McCarthyite red scare. Is from Cohn that Trump learnt that when someone comes at you, hit back twice as hard.
When Binance accepted a $2bn transaction from an Emirati investment fund earlier this year, it agreed to have the funds be paid in a cryptocurrency developed by World Liberty Financial – a move that legitimized the Trump family’s digital currency and was highly lucrative for the firm.
Trump pardons founder of Binance, world’s largest crypto exchange
Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to failing to stop money laundering in 2023 and was sentenced to four months
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
When Binance accepted a $2bn transaction from an Emirati investment fund earlier this year, it agreed to have the funds be paid in a cryptocurrency developed by World Liberty Financial – a move that legitimized the Trump family’s digital currency and was highly lucrative for the firm.
In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, it’s 2027 and Donald Trump is the only American not behind bars.
October 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In Barry Blitt’s latest Kvetchbook, it’s 2027 and Donald Trump is the only American not behind bars.
I was a long time waiting for the 3rd season of @onepunchmanbr.bsky.social
Finally we had the 1st episode, and the series promises a big development. In this episode the charismatic feeling exists in the season. Mixing great quality anime, with the strongest S class hero’s and Saitama. Is just🤩.
Finally we had the 1st episode, and the series promises a big development. In this episode the charismatic feeling exists in the season. Mixing great quality anime, with the strongest S class hero’s and Saitama. Is just🤩.
October 17, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I was a long time waiting for the 3rd season of @onepunchmanbr.bsky.social
Finally we had the 1st episode, and the series promises a big development. In this episode the charismatic feeling exists in the season. Mixing great quality anime, with the strongest S class hero’s and Saitama. Is just🤩.
Finally we had the 1st episode, and the series promises a big development. In this episode the charismatic feeling exists in the season. Mixing great quality anime, with the strongest S class hero’s and Saitama. Is just🤩.
The drink is a vivid and concrete way into a broader conversation about what import taxes actually do. “This is something that a lot of people have in their house. (…). “They’ve noticed that it’s more expensive. The cost of coffee really matters to people.”
The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight
Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.
www.theatlantic.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The drink is a vivid and concrete way into a broader conversation about what import taxes actually do. “This is something that a lot of people have in their house. (…). “They’ve noticed that it’s more expensive. The cost of coffee really matters to people.”
A friend ask if Forbes had a deal with the startup to republish its content. But there was no deal. He was shocked and furious and, well, perplexed. He wasn’t alone. Forbes, the New York Times, and Condé Nast have now all sent the company cease-and-desist orders. News Corp is suing for damages.
AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it
Despite fewer clicks, copyright fights, and sometimes iffy answers, AI could unlock new ways to summon all the world’s knowledge.
www.technologyreview.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
A friend ask if Forbes had a deal with the startup to republish its content. But there was no deal. He was shocked and furious and, well, perplexed. He wasn’t alone. Forbes, the New York Times, and Condé Nast have now all sent the company cease-and-desist orders. News Corp is suing for damages.
His 1841 essay “Self-Reliance,” about which I have written before, is a handbook for breaking free of collective illusions. Here’s my three-part summary.
1. Stop lying.
2. Reframe your independence.
3. Just walk away.
1. Stop lying.
2. Reframe your independence.
3. Just walk away.
The Happiness of Choosing to Walk Alone
Going along with an untruth for fear of disagreeing with others is a form of self-betrayal that will make you miserable.
www.theatlantic.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
His 1841 essay “Self-Reliance,” about which I have written before, is a handbook for breaking free of collective illusions. Here’s my three-part summary.
1. Stop lying.
2. Reframe your independence.
3. Just walk away.
1. Stop lying.
2. Reframe your independence.
3. Just walk away.
Este é o presente que James Gunn ofereceu ao universo DC: não salvação fácil. Mas algo mais raro e preciosa: a possibilidade genuína de mudança numa franquia que finalmente compreendeu que super-heróis não importam porque possuem poderes. Importam porque escolhem usar esses poderes.
Peacemaker. A Jornada de Redenção em Duas Temporadas e a visão de James Gunn para o Universo DC .
Christopher Smith confronta seus demônios internos em uma jornada de autodescoberta.
open.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Este é o presente que James Gunn ofereceu ao universo DC: não salvação fácil. Mas algo mais raro e preciosa: a possibilidade genuína de mudança numa franquia que finalmente compreendeu que super-heróis não importam porque possuem poderes. Importam porque escolhem usar esses poderes.
The erasure of generational diversity doesn’t make us more beautiful, it makes us look like freaks. (…). I wonder how Kim Kardashian felt when arriving front row with her new pixie cut, last weekend, and everyone mistook her for her mum?
Beware the forever 35-year-old face
In a ‘golden age’ of surgery, we’re all in danger of becoming freaks
on.ft.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The erasure of generational diversity doesn’t make us more beautiful, it makes us look like freaks. (…). I wonder how Kim Kardashian felt when arriving front row with her new pixie cut, last weekend, and everyone mistook her for her mum?
She saw an LG Cosmos slide phone in a corner (…). Her mom laughed at her, and so did the Verizon guy. But she used that phone for the rest of high school. She told me that she slept better and felt better, and got better grades: “I was so much healthier and less tired all the time, less groggy.”
Can Gen Z Get Rid of Its iPhones?
My dumbphone does what an app could never do.
www.theatlantic.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
She saw an LG Cosmos slide phone in a corner (…). Her mom laughed at her, and so did the Verizon guy. But she used that phone for the rest of high school. She told me that she slept better and felt better, and got better grades: “I was so much healthier and less tired all the time, less groggy.”
But if Trump is going to get it, he will have to wait at least another year: The 2025 prize was announced this morning, on the day the cease-fire went into effect in Gaza. It went to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, not to the American president.
How Trump Pushed Israel and Hamas to Yes
The president’s unconventional efforts have paid off in the Middle East, at least for now.
www.theatlantic.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
But if Trump is going to get it, he will have to wait at least another year: The 2025 prize was announced this morning, on the day the cease-fire went into effect in Gaza. It went to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, not to the American president.
METR team looked at actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20 percent slower when using AI than when working without it. The researchers were stunned. Nate Rush, one of the authors of the study, told me. “We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?
The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.
www.theatlantic.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
METR team looked at actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20 percent slower when using AI than when working without it. The researchers were stunned. Nate Rush, one of the authors of the study, told me. “We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.”
It would be a hugely welcome development to discover that we have not merely reached social media saturation point, but that the experience has been degraded to such an extent that it has shocked people out of their stupor and is causing them to pivot to healthier uses of their time.
Have we passed peak social media?
As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away
on.ft.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
It would be a hugely welcome development to discover that we have not merely reached social media saturation point, but that the experience has been degraded to such an extent that it has shocked people out of their stupor and is causing them to pivot to healthier uses of their time.
Still, the world’s biggest venture capitalists and tech conglomerates are willing to take that chance. Potential regulatory hurdles, implementation bottlenecks, bubble doomersayers, social backlash—none of that seems to matter, at least not yet.
The AI Money Vortex
OpenAI is worth $500 billion now. What are its investors getting back?
www.theatlantic.com
October 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Still, the world’s biggest venture capitalists and tech conglomerates are willing to take that chance. Potential regulatory hurdles, implementation bottlenecks, bubble doomersayers, social backlash—none of that seems to matter, at least not yet.
The pharmaceutical industry has shown itself to be a worthy opponent for Trump, but its lobbyists haven’t yet figured out how to fight back against a president who has been much more brazen in his second term than in his first. The rules of the game have changed
Pfizer Finally Gave Trump What He Wanted
The pharmaceutical giant has granted the president’s long-standing demands. Other drug companies could be next.
www.theatlantic.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:56 AM
The pharmaceutical industry has shown itself to be a worthy opponent for Trump, but its lobbyists haven’t yet figured out how to fight back against a president who has been much more brazen in his second term than in his first. The rules of the game have changed
“We’re now only talking about our security and about how to defend Poland against Russia, but Poland is also threatened by our very bad demographics, which will of course also impact negatively the health of our economy,” Grochowski told the Financial Times.
€2,000 bonuses and free parties: hotels enter Poland’s fertility fight
Perks for couples trying to conceive reflect concerns over one of lowest birth rates in EU
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October 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“We’re now only talking about our security and about how to defend Poland against Russia, but Poland is also threatened by our very bad demographics, which will of course also impact negatively the health of our economy,” Grochowski told the Financial Times.
Not that I blame them. “Recession indicators” are appealing like the 10-day weather forecast is appealing. We turn to them not because they are accurate, but because they offer the illusion of control.
Clues That a Recession Is Coming
Cardboard-box demand can be a legitimate indicator. Hemline length? Not so much.
www.theatlantic.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Not that I blame them. “Recession indicators” are appealing like the 10-day weather forecast is appealing. We turn to them not because they are accurate, but because they offer the illusion of control.
Críticos elogiaram, mas audiência dividiu-se. Alguns queriam redenção para Dexter, não execução. Outros argumentavam que romantizar serial killer, mesmo ficcional, tornara-se culturalmente problemático. “New Blood” respondeu matando seu anti-herói definitivamente.
Ou quase.
Ou quase.
Dexter: Resurrection - Entre o Legado e a Renovação.
Após o polêmico final de “Dexter: New Blood” (2021), que encerrou definitivamente a saga do serial killer favorito da televisão com a morte de Dexter Morgan, poucos imaginavam um retorno à franquia.
open.substack.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Críticos elogiaram, mas audiência dividiu-se. Alguns queriam redenção para Dexter, não execução. Outros argumentavam que romantizar serial killer, mesmo ficcional, tornara-se culturalmente problemático. “New Blood” respondeu matando seu anti-herói definitivamente.
Ou quase.
Ou quase.