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João Gaspar
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Jornalista.
Cybertruck das biclas
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Jun 12
Designed in a little over a year, Infinite Machine’s $3,495 Olto is meant to be a mass-market electric bike that doesn't look like any ebike that came before. It can carry two passengers, can reverse, and has a footrest that can transform into pedals—all designed to ride on the bike lane.
June 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Reposted by João Gaspar
But tech companies aren't the only ones preparing to be hit by big tariffs—spare a thought for the penguins. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
Trump Tariffs Hit Antarctic Islands Inhabited by Zero Humans and Many Penguins
The Heard and McDonald Islands are among the dozens of targets of President Donald Trump's latest round of tariffs. But they have no exports, because no one lives there.
www.wired.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
"The growth of regional inequality of opportunity is a real problem, and has little to do with land use regulation and everything to do with the deregulatory push from the 1970s to the 2020s and the resulting concentration of power and shift of resources from the real economy to the financial sector
An Abundance of Ambiguity | Washington Monthly
Klein and Thompson argue that a world of plenty awaits us if we reform zoning and environmental laws but that can’t be the whole plan, right?
washingtonmonthly.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Kae TEMPEST!!!
Kae Tempest - Statue In The Square (Official Video)
YouTube video by Kae Tempest
www.youtube.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"O líder deste comité [Comité de Acompanhamento Especializado] é Arlindo Oliveira, professor e antigo presidente do Instituto Superior Técnico, uma das instituições responsáveis pelo desenvolvimento do “ChatGPT português” e cujo fiscalizador é da casa"
Ao contrário do anunciado, a versão preliminar do Amália não será pública
Governo garante que primeira versão do “ChatGPT português” estará pronta até ao fim do mês. E confirma que a iniciativa é liderada pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa – depois de o ter negado ao PÚBLICO.
www.publico.pt
March 21, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Reposted by João Gaspar
NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.

It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy
Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story ...
propub.li
March 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Ganharam os Capitão Fausto da Madeira
March 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"A alienação das políticas progressistas e sua redução a pautas identitárias sem universalidade e efetividade têm permitido que o fascismo se aproprie da crítica legítima à ineficácia das instituições e a transforme em um clamor por um governo de mão forte"
Alguém falou em wokismo? A extrema-direita identitária e a naturalização do fascismo
Ainda que, historicamente, tenham estado na base de muitas lutas e conquistas emancipatórias, os movimentos progressistas, num contexto de crise, têm grande potencial de se tornarem reacionários.
www.publico.pt
March 8, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Reitor da Universidade de Coimbra queria dar o doutoramento honoris causa ao Cristiano Ronaldo.
March 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Electric Shocks and Tied Crucifixion-Style: The Life of a Scam-Mill Worker.
"Tens of thousands of people from dozens of nations have been trafficked to cyberfraud hubs in Myanmar, where they must con victims or endure brutal punishment."
Electric Shocks and Tied Crucifixion-Style: The Life of a Scam-Mill Worker
Tens of thousands of people from dozens of nations have been trafficked to cyberfraud hubs in Myanmar, where they must con victims or endure brutal punishment.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Tanta coisa estranha neste processo: como é que a empresa avisa dias e não meses antes do fim da operação e como é que o município ainda está a avaliar o que fazer.
February 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A partir de sábado, Viseu, capital de distrito, deixa de ter transportes públicos para oferecer à população.
Berrelhas deixa de fazer transporte de passageiros em Viseu a partir de sábado
Empresa explicou que tem de suportar “mensalmente, e tendo por referência o ano de 2024, o prejuízo médio de 146 mil euros”
www.diariocoimbra.pt
February 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Anyone who has sat through a third-grade science class knows there are three primary states of matter: solid, liquid and gas.

Microsoft now says it has created a new state of matter"
Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers
Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts did not think was possible.
www.nytimes.com
February 20, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Reposted by João Gaspar
I asked to see Ursula von der Leyen’s texts to Pfizer’s boss and she went to court to stop me. Why the secrecy? | Alexander Fanta
I asked to see Ursula von der Leyen’s texts to Pfizer’s boss and she went to court to stop me. Why the secrecy? | Alexander Fanta
Billions in EU Covid funding have gone unaccounted for. By hiding its business behind personal messaging, Brussels is dodging public scrutiny For weeks during the height of the Covid pandemic in early 2021, the European Commission president, Ursula von…
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
"she will accept
that wether or not it has been her choice, to be and feel nothing will
be all that has made life possible".
Que filha da mãe de livro.
February 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
"All they had to do was just continue making egregious promises because they didn't think anyone would dare compete, anyone would dare bring the price down. I don't think OpenAI believed anyone could do reasoning like this. I'm glad it happened because the jig is up" Ed Zitron
Brooke Talks AI With Ed Zitron | On the Media | WNYC Studios
How DeepSeek threatens to burst the American tech AI bubble. 
www.wnycstudios.org
February 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Sal e bagaço. Toda a mousse fica melhor com bagaço.
Trust us on this one and salt your chocolate mousse. nyti.ms/3CCYG2u
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Quando o GR estava em altas, passávamos a gritar "O teu pai é a minha avó" quando rematávamos. Resultava, apesar de acumularmos amarelos.
January 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
No meu tempo bola na cara do guarda redes era a primeira coisa que se fazia no jogo e não dava exclusão de dois minutos.
January 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Não tenho coração para isto.
January 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Que filha da mãe de livro.
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"Constantino, guardador de sonhos". Até 01 de fevereiro, no Teatrão, em Coimbra. Espetáculo com dramaturgia original a partir da obra de Alves Redol.
January 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Art Spiegelman, author of Maus and Joe Sacco, author of Palestine, are working together on a new graphic novel about Gaza
Art Spiegelman And Joe Sacco Working Together On New Comic About Gaza
Art Spiegelman, author of Maus and Joe Sacco, author of Palestine, are working together on a new graphic novel about Gaza.
bleedingcool.com
January 3, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The sinking of the Titanic é das melhores descobertas que fiz este ano. Que disco.
Um aprendiz ao sol — entrevista com Gavin Bryars, histórico da música experimental
O contrabaixista garantiu um lugar na história da música com Jesus’ blood never failed me yet e The sinking of the Titanic. Clássicos que revisita com o seu ensemble, em Braga e Espinho.
www.publico.pt
December 12, 2024 at 2:47 PM
"Um ex-professor universitário de Coimbra desafiou procuradora a teste de QI, questionou o gosto literário de uma juíza e considerou que magistradas atuavam por ódio contra homens"
Ex-professor universitário de Coimbra vai a julgamento por caluniar magistradas
O arguido começa a ser julgado na segunda-feira, às 9h45
www.diariocoimbra.pt
December 6, 2024 at 12:27 PM