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Ministra Maria Elizabeth Rocha defende punição exemplar aos envolvidos nos atos golpistas de 8 de janeiro.

The post Entrevista: ‘É fundamental que haja despolitização das Forças Armadas’, diz ministra do STM appeared first on The Intercept.

For centuries, we’ve been assisting African Americans, Native Americans, Vietnamese people, and Iraqis and have never been thanked once.

The post Scott Adams Echoes White America’s Resentful History of “Helping” Others appeared first on The Intercept.

MOSS, the first large-scale conversational language model in China, will be made open source by the end of March, said the research and developing team on Sunday.

Named after the artificial intelligence featured in the Chinese Sci-fi movie The Wandering Earth II, MOSS became the first ChatGPT-like software unveiled in China when it was made available to the public for testing on Feb 21....

This debate in itself is not particularly significant (other than possibly showing up in internet MMT arguments), but it does provide another vantage point on the problematic nature of “money” in economic theory.…

In August 2017 I travelled to Dayuma, a small town on the Ecuadorian oil frontier. I was conducting research for my recent book on fantastical materialism and post-neoliberal state utopias, which was the focus of my previous post on literary techniques for the critique of political economy. But as I entered the town, I could see a demonstration taking place outside the production facilities of a multinational oil company. And within hours of my arrival I was caught up in a labour dispute, which quickly escalated into a more serious and generalized conflict, involving the detention of the strike organizers, the kidnapping of the company manager, the blockading of the production complex, the launch of a military operation to break the blockade, and the unleashing of a rapidly evolving battle against seemingly impossible odds that was destined to achieve a remarkable victory [...]

These bananas are perfect for making banana bread, so I will toss them in the freezer for a few months until I’m ready to pull them out and throw them straight into the trash can. In the meantime, they’ll take up a bunch of space, and I’ll look at them and think, These stupid bananas. I’d like to make a banana loaf because, man, are those delicious warmed up with butter, but I have never made one in my life, will never make one before my dying breath, and don’t even own a loaf pan.

Banana muffins seem like a great little snack for someone who’s a better person than me. I bet someone who comes home at the end of their workday and places their dirty clothes into the hamper rather than piling them on the chair in the corner of the bedroom for the next three weeks would whip up some mean banana muffins. Those little babies would be so soft and fluffy with whatever ingredients make them that way, including these rock-hard, freezer-burned bananas that I will never touch again.

An evolutionary biologist on the harm still being done by unsubstantiated beliefs.

The post The Misguided History of Racial Medicine appeared first on Nautilus.

The matter has gone to India’s Supreme Court via a public interest litigation seeking probe against Hindenburg “for exploiting innocent investors.” Interestingly, Hindenburg also holds short positions in Adani companies through US-traded bonds and non-Indian-traded derivative instruments.

Hindenburg’s actions have been controversial. The firm’s financial model involves identifying “bad” firms, investing to profit from the company’s price collapsing, and then publishing a negative report about the company....