miguelddt.bsky.social
@miguelddt.bsky.social
Amateur aficionado of many things, never as knowledgeable on anything as I would like

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Uruguay passes law to legalize euthanasia
Uruguay passes law to legalize euthanasia
After a decade-long debate, Uruguay's Senate approved a 'Dignified Death' law, making the country one of the first in Latin America to legalize assisted suicide.
www.lemonde.fr
October 16, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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clicked this to check it was not, in fact, The Onion. It's not.
Neo-Confederacy planning moves.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
October 16, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” “even in its omissions, brims with strategic ingenuity and daring, cinematic and political—to fight other films’ empty fantasies with substantial ones,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes.
The Real Battle of “One Battle After Another”
Paul Thomas Anderson’s spectacular, exquisitely detailed fantasy of revolution and resistance, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, looks to history for visions of hope.
www.newyorker.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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“Fears of a permanent underclass reflect the fact that there is not yet a coherent vision for how a future A.I.-dominated society will be structured,” Kyle Chayka writes in his recent column.
Will A.I. Trap You in the “Permanent Underclass”?
An online joke reflects a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality.
www.newyorker.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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OpenAI’s ‘flatlining’ subs in Europe: The AI boom’s poster child may be struggling to recruit new subscribers, Deutsche Bank warns fortune.com/2025/10/14/o...
October 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Estão distribuídos os mandatos. O fim do bipartidarismo foi exagerado, mas há um infiel da balança. Agora é aproveitar, porque tão cedo não se volta a falar no poder local. Só se meter PJ e MP.
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Estão distribuídos os mandatos. O fim do bipartidarismo foi exagerado, mas há um infiel da balança. Agora é aproveitar, porque tão cedo não se volta a falar no poder local. Só se meter PJ e MP.
agoraaserio.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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A bit like Soccer Saturday but with more Markov chains.

on.ft.com/4hdMpl4
Alphaville’s Nobel Prize for economics live blog
Welcome to the FTAV hot take factory
on.ft.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Exclusive: Leaked U.S. documents reveal expanded security cooperation between Israel and key Arab states despite public condemnation of the Gaza war.

The collaboration, driven by concerns over Iran, includes military planning and training.
U.S. files reveal Israeli-Arab military cooperation, even as Gaza war raged
Documents from U.S. Central Command show a series of meetings over the past three years between Israeli and Arab military officials to coordinate on regional threats.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Nobel Institute probes leak of peace prize winner’s name on.ft.com/46Wq8TT
Nobel Institute probes leak of peace prize winner’s name
María Corina Machado’s odds surged on Polymarket hours before official announcement
on.ft.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Top notch post from Brad Setser & Stephen Paduano on Milei and the Trump bailout.

"... there are no atheists in foxholes. And there aren’t many libertarians in a financial crisis."

on.ft.com/3Iq4QpH
Other people’s money, and the problem with Mileism
The US Treasury needs to get Argentina on a better policy path before it blows through the Exchange Stabilization Fund
on.ft.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Crypto hoarders turn to share buybacks in push to boost falling stock prices - on.ft.com/4mtEYXS
a close up of a squirrel looking at the camera with a blue sky in the background .
ALT: a close up of a squirrel looking at the camera with a blue sky in the background .
media.tenor.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Dutch TV’s take on Disney trashing the First Amendment — by pulling Jimmy Kimmel to appease a thin-skinned autocrat — is something to behold.

🎬Arjen Lubach
September 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Riley Fanning. #NewYorkerCartoons
September 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Protesters chanted that President Donald Trump is the “Hitler of our time” while he dined at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab on Tuesday, a rare journey outside the White House to a D.C. restaurant. https://wapo.st/3V6st9v
September 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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More than a dozen Russian drones entered Poland overnight, prompting NATO to scramble fighter jets to shoot them down in what Western officials described on Wednesday as a dangerous escalation of the war in neighboring Ukraine.
Poland Says It Shot Down Russian Drones That Entered Its Airspace
The incursion marked the first time that NATO fighters engaged enemy targets in their own airspace. Poland’s leader called it “a large-scale provocation.”
nyti.ms
September 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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GHISLAINE MAXWELL: here we go, boss. a big book of letters from all of your horrible best friends

JEFF EPSTEIN: oh neat! look at this one from Donald

GHISLAINE: that one's fake actually
September 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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The U.S. economy probably added half as many jobs in the 12 months ending in March as previously reported, according to the preliminary benchmark revision data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday. #NumbersDay
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...
September 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!

www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
September 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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The world’s biggest oil and gas companies, including Chevron and BP, are cutting jobs, slashing costs and scaling back investments on.ft.com/48esUpI
September 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM