Reinaldo José Lopes

Brasil sedia COP15 em Campo Grande (MS) e lidera debate global sobre proteção de espécies migratórias O encontro será realizado entre 23 e 29 de março de 2026 e reunirá governos, cientistas e representantes da sociedade civil para debater soluções de proteção às espécies migratórias, seus habitats e r...

Esse mês tem COP no brasil, acredita??

Ninguém falando sobre a coitada...

cop30.br/pt-br/brasil...

I wrote about this line of research a few years back, and I'm still in awe of all the little, hidden ways creatures on this planet have adapted to make use of the cues around them. And how cool is it that every day, scientists are pulling back that curtain? 🧪

“Upto 90% of Sub-Saharan Africa’s material cultural legacy is kept in Western museums and private collections outside of the continent.

In the absence of written sources, this material constitutes the principal historical source of many societies.”

www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-pictoria...

I could use your help for this year's

GLOBAL TOLKIEN READING DAY MAP 😃

That is, events from Tolkien societies & smials, libraries and cultural partners, who have Middle-earth in their hearts. Send me your links!

My email is open: marcel@thetolkienist.com

IG, FB, Bluesky - send them in!

maedhros 🤴

It is really weird to me when people don’t like reading and books.

I get not having enough time to read. I get wanting to read more, but there are just too many distractions around you. Obviously, I get having disabilities that make it difficult to read.

But just not liking books? Who are you?

There's that old question, which superpower would you want: flight or invisibility?

And there's always some asshole who says something like "Everybody who says they would take flight is lying because who wouldn't choose to get away with anything they wanted?"

Don't stay friends with that guy.

VIK MUNIZ'S POKÉMON RED & BLUE

move slow and repair things

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Green is hanging up laundry, while singing Cherubino's aria from the opera The Wedding of Figaro. Blue peeks from behind a bedsheet, startling Green badly enough to prompt Green to shoot straight up through the ceiling. Blue: You sing when you do laundry by yourself? Green: Iaaah! Taken aback, Blue looks apologetically up to the ceiling. Blue: I didn't mean to startle you. Green: It's okay.

I am OVER THE MOON to share this beautiful paperback special edition of No Friend to This House with you! Available exclusively from independent bookshops, she comes out in the UK on June 18. Contact your local indie bookshop to pre-order 💚🗡️

Capa do livro A Teia da Vida com montagem de seres híbridos humano-ave-planta

Pessoal, meu livro novo, chamado "A Teia da Vida", tá pronto. É uma parceria (sou sócio minoritário hehehe) com a Mila Massuda, dos Três Elementos, e a nossa ambição é explicar TUDO sobre relações ecológicas e as ameaças que a biosfera enfrenta. Tá no Catarse até abril:

www.catarse.me/teiadavida

Cocoricó japonês be like

Julio Nagaita

Cena do filme Moonlight em que o protagonista criança olha pra frente na primeira imagem e na segunda encara a câmera At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be.Can't let nobody make that decision for you.

E quanto mais tempo se demora para decidir mais se vive no automático, à maré

The people who study the history of the fossil fuel industry's justifications for itself are like

🧵 NOVO EPISÓDIO: O REINO PERIGOSO DA FEÉRIA

Já imaginou encontrar um elfo na floresta? Esqueça a imagem de fadinha fofa com asinhas. No podcast de hoje, @reinaldojlopes.bsky.social explica por que, na visão de Tolkien, adentrar a Feéria é um ato de coragem

#PassosPelaTerraMédia #Tolkien #valinor

"I asked Chat GPT and -" ok, I asked the exhumed corpse of Pope Formosus during the Cadaver Synod and he went "... ... ..." and then his jaw fell off and it was still a better answer

This, and only this, is what really matters.

@jamesdfmellor.bsky.social

Quadrinho em 4 quadros: Q1 : Moça com as mãos no rosto, parece frustrada. texto: Estou sempre fugindo do fracasso Q2: Moça correndo. Texto: Nunca realmente perseguindo o sucesso... Q3: Moça continua correndo, dessa vez estende a mão como se quisesse agarrar algo. Texto: Só fugindo Q4: Moça agachada, um olhar distante e pensativo. Texto: Pela simples teimosia em admitir que eles estão certos.

Ok, consegui garantir o pagamento da luz e da internet (tá certo que ainda tenho que pagar o gás antes de cortarem), mas agora preciso garantir a comida primeiro. Tem pra hoje, não terá pra amanhã
Quem puder ajude no pix e/ou compartilhando
m.flexa@gmail.com

Tô precisando muito dessa força mesmo pq o trem aperto muito, quem puder compartilhar, agradeço viu.

The Washington Post’s Owner Really Doesn’t Want You to Know His Effective Tax Rate If you did, you wouldn’t be buying what the Post’s editorial board is selling.

inequality.org/article/the-...

Reportagem minha hoje na piauí sobre as capas de revista sobre o Trump.

piaui.folha.uol.com.br/trump-um-pes...

É no mínimo curioso o cara que cunhou o termo "enshitification" chamar o desprezo por LLMs como "sinalização de virtude neoliberal", sendo que o produto oferecido é o pináculo da enshitification. Não ficaria surpresa se descobrissem que há outros interesses misturados nessa fala dele.

Desanimei um pouco de postar o podcast pq parece que não tem ninguém assistindo/ouvindo no YouTube, mas vou tentar de novo.

Estou com problemas pra me organizar aqui. Em breve volto a postar os faltantes. Desculpe o inconveniente.

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Inteligência artificial é um assunto merda para gente insípida Um instrumento do massivo enshittification que o mundo atravessa nesse instante

Inteligência artificial é um assunto merda para gente insípida
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