Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira
@mausellmoli.bsky.social
PhD LatAm Cultural Studies @uniofmanchester.bsky.social “…and world peace” Neurodivergent. Tire suas próprias conclusões e os pratos secos do escorredor. Curiositas ducit.
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Edição 91
Contenções
almanaquesemanal.substack.com
Nesta edição: contenções policiais militarizadas na Penha, no Alemão e no mundo afora. O que prometem, o que fazem, o que não fazem, o que dizem, o que não dizem, quem faz, por que faz, e quanto custa fazer ou sofrer com uma.
O relator de um projeto de lei sobre segurança pública foi expulso da Rota por ser ruim pra segurança pública e que foi secretário estadual de segurança pública sem produzir resultado consistente em segurança pública.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
O relator de um projeto de lei sobre segurança pública foi expulso da Rota por ser ruim pra segurança pública e que foi secretário estadual de segurança pública sem produzir resultado consistente em segurança pública.
The unsustainable age of regurgitation: “Why pay a nominal fee to read a story if the guts of it can be displayed on your phone by someone who read it for you?”
How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider
We don’t know the minute when X started throttling links to news,...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The unsustainable age of regurgitation: “Why pay a nominal fee to read a story if the guts of it can be displayed on your phone by someone who read it for you?”
Nesta edição: conjuntos habitacionais em cavernas, igrejas no morro, brasileiros unidos, trabalhadores norte-americanos idem, comunidades contra o vento, cozinheiros a favor de comunidades, e amigos para uma vida longa.
Edição 92
Salve comunidade!
almanaquesemanal.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Nesta edição: conjuntos habitacionais em cavernas, igrejas no morro, brasileiros unidos, trabalhadores norte-americanos idem, comunidades contra o vento, cozinheiros a favor de comunidades, e amigos para uma vida longa.
Learn a language, age well: “Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found.”
Want a younger brain? Learn another language
A vast study suggests that being multilingual can slow down cognitive ageing.
www.nature.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Learn a language, age well: “Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found.”
F*ck Fahrenheit.
(Sorry, Ray.)
(Sorry, Ray.)
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
F*ck Fahrenheit.
(Sorry, Ray.)
(Sorry, Ray.)
Source: Chuck Schumer.
SCOOP: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
Scoop: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
"We let him know what we were doing," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Source: Chuck Schumer.
Na COP30, o governador da Bahia, estado da polícia mais letal, homenageia o óleo de peroba.
noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/thai...
noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/thai...
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Na COP30, o governador da Bahia, estado da polícia mais letal, homenageia o óleo de peroba.
noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/thai...
noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/thai...
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Democrats ready to resume their downward spiral after last week’s bump.
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Democrats ready to resume their downward spiral after last week’s bump.
O que é bom, nóis repete: an Ana Lima Cecilio recomendando novamente a Trilogia dos Gêmeos da Kristóf na newsletter dela.
A Lábia 40__Best-seller
"Porque mistérios sempre há de pintar por aí."
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
O que é bom, nóis repete: an Ana Lima Cecilio recomendando novamente a Trilogia dos Gêmeos da Kristóf na newsletter dela.
“I can’t call it a television show, because it isn’t one. Rather, it’s Instagram Reels at episode length, 45-minute collections of bedazzled moving images, targeted at the idly scrolling second-screen viewer.”
'All’s Fair' Is an Atrocity
Ryan Murphy’s new series is essentially the world inside your phone, made into a TV show.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
“I can’t call it a television show, because it isn’t one. Rather, it’s Instagram Reels at episode length, 45-minute collections of bedazzled moving images, targeted at the idly scrolling second-screen viewer.”
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“…embora 53,4% dos entrevistados acreditem que os brasileiros, em geral, preferem ser empreendedores, 56% dos que hoje são autônomos do setor privado e já tiveram experiência com o regime CLT afirmam que com certeza voltariam a ter a carteira assinada.”
Mais da metade dos brasileiros que abriram negócio próprio desejam voltar a ser CLT
56% dos trabalhadores que saíram do mercado formal para empreender consideram voltar à carteira assinada, segundo pesquisa
valor.globo.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
“…embora 53,4% dos entrevistados acreditem que os brasileiros, em geral, preferem ser empreendedores, 56% dos que hoje são autônomos do setor privado e já tiveram experiência com o regime CLT afirmam que com certeza voltariam a ter a carteira assinada.”
“…science deniers are problematic because they perpetuate misunderstandings that are no longer valuable. This typically occurs when there have been extensive and adequate corrective responses to misunderstandings.”
Science needs disagreement. What makes some disagreement useless? | Aeon Essays
Scientific progress depends on disagreement. So why are vaccine sceptics and other science critics not worth listening to?
aeon.co
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
“…science deniers are problematic because they perpetuate misunderstandings that are no longer valuable. This typically occurs when there have been extensive and adequate corrective responses to misunderstandings.”
“Travel abroad has no effect on creativity. But the people who had *lived* in another country scored higher on a creativity test. What’s more, the people who’d lived overseas longer scored higher.”
To Be More Creative, Immigrate
To Be More Creative, Immigrate: Creativity flourishes when people cross borders—and when those borders blur through deep, human connection.
nautil.us
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
“Travel abroad has no effect on creativity. But the people who had *lived* in another country scored higher on a creativity test. What’s more, the people who’d lived overseas longer scored higher.”
“Davie said his depature was his own, but comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way the broadcaster edited a Donald Trump speech.
Deborah Turness, head of BBC News, has also resigned. It follows claims by a former adviser to the broadcaster that it suffered from bias.”
Deborah Turness, head of BBC News, has also resigned. It follows claims by a former adviser to the broadcaster that it suffered from bias.”
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie tells staff departure was “my own decision” but it comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way it edited a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
“Davie said his depature was his own, but comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way the broadcaster edited a Donald Trump speech.
Deborah Turness, head of BBC News, has also resigned. It follows claims by a former adviser to the broadcaster that it suffered from bias.”
Deborah Turness, head of BBC News, has also resigned. It follows claims by a former adviser to the broadcaster that it suffered from bias.”
Site de empresa que funciona como repartição pública no fim de semana, isto é, não funciona.
November 9, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Site de empresa que funciona como repartição pública no fim de semana, isto é, não funciona.
“This new emphasis mirrors a shift in public opinion. In 2010, only around 6% of respondents in a national survey considered climate change the country’s most urgent environmental problem. A paper by Chinese and American scholars published in Nature found that by 2023 the share was more than 23%.”
Why climate change now threatens China’s future
Extreme weather is hurting its economy and worrying its leaders
economist.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“This new emphasis mirrors a shift in public opinion. In 2010, only around 6% of respondents in a national survey considered climate change the country’s most urgent environmental problem. A paper by Chinese and American scholars published in Nature found that by 2023 the share was more than 23%.”
The monkey business and the macaque revolt: “How forty-three monkeys united animal-rights activists and the right.”
The Runaway Monkeys Upending the Animal-Rights Movement
A troop of macaques escaped one of the largest primate-breeding facilities in America. Now a strange coalition of uncompromising activists and MAGA loyalists is demanding that all lab animals be set f...
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The monkey business and the macaque revolt: “How forty-three monkeys united animal-rights activists and the right.”
A James Watson obituary so good that even Larry Summers is burned on the side.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
A James Watson obituary so good that even Larry Summers is burned on the side.
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j...
Foi no Rodrigues Alves, né? Não levaram no Goeldi pra não ter que dizer que pode fechar por falta de verbas.
🇧🇷🇪🇺 A presidenta da União Europeia, Ursula von der Leyen tá amando Belém
November 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Foi no Rodrigues Alves, né? Não levaram no Goeldi pra não ter que dizer que pode fechar por falta de verbas.
Answer: "What's a pleonasm?"
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Answer: "What's a pleonasm?"
Utopia is literally 'no place'. Is there a more utopian site than the airport?
November 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Utopia is literally 'no place'. Is there a more utopian site than the airport?
"Mamdani é comunista!!!": a maioria das propostas dele se baseia em políticas já existentes na cidade. (abcnews.go.com/US/zohran-ma...)
"Vai ser ruim como De Blasio!": nem a Politico diz que de Blasio foi ruim; saiu-se melhor que o governador durante pandemia (www.politico.com/states/new-y...)
"Vai ser ruim como De Blasio!": nem a Politico diz que de Blasio foi ruim; saiu-se melhor que o governador durante pandemia (www.politico.com/states/new-y...)
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"Mamdani é comunista!!!": a maioria das propostas dele se baseia em políticas já existentes na cidade. (abcnews.go.com/US/zohran-ma...)
"Vai ser ruim como De Blasio!": nem a Politico diz que de Blasio foi ruim; saiu-se melhor que o governador durante pandemia (www.politico.com/states/new-y...)
"Vai ser ruim como De Blasio!": nem a Politico diz que de Blasio foi ruim; saiu-se melhor que o governador durante pandemia (www.politico.com/states/new-y...)
O bom e o ruim da mudança climática é que ela alcança inclusive quem não acredita nela.
November 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
O bom e o ruim da mudança climática é que ela alcança inclusive quem não acredita nela.