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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 4h

Hitler banned it in Germany but curiosity (and a 7.65mm Walther PPK) killed the Führer. A print was brought through Portugal. His reaction is lost to history but he had it screened in private. Twice.

NPR @npr.org · 13h

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film. n.pr/4n4s82s

How Charlie Chaplin used his uncanny resemblance to Hitler to fight fascism

It's been 85 years since The Great Dictator first dazzled audiences in 1940. It was a big risk for one of the world's most popular performers to take a stand against fascism on film.

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 4h

“Menos de um mês após a Operação Rejeito da PF revelar um esquema de corrupção no licenciamento ambiental de mineradoras em MG, o governador Romeu Zema (Novo) nomeou Edson de Resende, dono de um escritório de advocacia com três empresas do setor de mineração como clientes, para presidir a FEAM.”

Zema nomeia advogado de mineradoras para órgão ambiental

Aposentado do MPMG, Edson de Resende já atuou para três mineradoras. Promotor é o novo nomeado de Zema para chefia de órgão ambiental

reporterbrasil.org.br

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 5h

He does look like Barry Bostwick as the NYC Mayor in Spin City.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 5h

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, our most-read story was on the US Treasury secretary’s warning against Beijing’s policy on rare earths and critical minerals on.ft.com/4nPaO2B

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 5h

Os 300 de Angicos.

revista piauí @revistapiaui.bsky.social · 16h

No Dia do Professor, a história de um mestre. Há 62 anos, 300 pessoas foram alfabetizadas em 40 horas na primeira experiência em larga escala do método Paulo Freire.
Leia no acervo da piauí: piaui.co/3IW8M1D

Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 5h

“After the recent announcement of a ceasefire, Israeli soldiers posed in front of a wastewater treatment plant in Gaza City that had been set on fire. The damage came just before Israel's military withdrew from a position near this infrastructure.”

'Worse than starting from scratch': how big is the task of rebuilding Gaza?

BBC Verify investigates the damage done by two years of war, which could take $70bn and decades to repair.

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 5h

“The [ISG15] deficiency creates a state of persistent, low-level inflammation in the body that can lead to skin lesions, neurological complications, and adverse reactions to certain vaccines. But that inflammation also has an upside: It protects these patients against most viral infections.”

How a Rare Disease Could Yield a Pandemic Drug

How a Rare Disease Could Yield a Pandemic Drug:This autoimmune disorder protects those who have it from viruses of all kinds.

nautil.us

Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 5h

El País nailed it: a tale of two peaces.

english.elpais.com/internationa...

english.elpais.com/internationa...

Two articles:
Israel closes a dark chapter in its history as captives return: 'We can finally breathe'
The crowd gathered in Tel Aviv greeted the return of the hostages with tears of joy
TRINIDAD DEIROS BRONTE | Tel Aviv

Gazans view future with pessimism: 'Things will go back to the way they were or worse'

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 5h

“Even before a second Trump presidency, U.S. policy had turned inward. That isolationist mindset is now being reflected in America’s loss of passport power.”

U.S. Drops Out of Top 10 in Passport Power. Here’s Why

The U.S. passport is now tied with Malaysia for 12th place following Trump's crackdown on legal and illegal immigration.

time.com

Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 5h

Imagina a interpretação dele no audiobook.

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 5h

Cinquenta tons de STF.

Jairme @jairme.bsky.social · 5h

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 6h

A fila do TikTok anda.

Priscilla Alma Sebosa @orathiago.com · 6h

curou do câncer, já passou vários meses, já mudou de assunto bola pra frente com manu dias é assim

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 6h

O merchã com sequência depois do capítulo era o sketch cômico que faltava. #ValeTudo

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 13h

O sempre interessante Élvio Cotrim faz excelente análise da Vale Tudo de La Dias e de sua recepção pelo público.

(Em tempo: a novela está sendo tiktokizada? Sim. Precisa? Não. Como o Viva não cansa de mostrar, dá pra emplacar memes sem abdicar da qualidade.)

Quem matou Odete Roitman ressuscitou o debate da crítica literária

Viva Manu Dias, por tudo aquilo em que ela não pensou

elvio.substack.com

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 13h

Escrete campeão.

www1.folha.uol.com.br/ilustrada/20...

Conheça os principais autores da
Hungria, terra do Nobel de
Literatura de 2025
• László Krasznahorkai foi o segundo húngaro a vencer
o prêmio
• País tem literatura marcada pelas cicatrizes da
Segunda Guerra

Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 13h

“At one point, around 60 people were put in a small cage outdoors, in the middle of the sun, according to several participants of the flotilla… ‘When people fainted, we banged on the cages and asked for a doctor. Then the guards came and said, “We’re going to gas you.”’

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 13h

O sempre interessante Élvio Cotrim faz excelente análise da Vale Tudo de La Dias e de sua recepção pelo público.

(Em tempo: a novela está sendo tiktokizada? Sim. Precisa? Não. Como o Viva não cansa de mostrar, dá pra emplacar memes sem abdicar da qualidade.)

Quem matou Odete Roitman ressuscitou o debate da crítica literária

Viva Manu Dias, por tudo aquilo em que ela não pensou

elvio.substack.com

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 14h

De André Dahmer neste Dia dos Professores:

Quadrinhos dos anos 10

Painel 1: homem de costas diz “Sou o Professor Gonçalo.”

Painel 2: Ele suspende os braços e atira com um revólver em cada mão.

Painel
3: Com os braços abaixados novamente, ele diz “Vou dar aula de História Contemporânea”.

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 14h

The Chilean dictator and the Gestapo officer.

Pinochet and the Vans of Death | Ariel Dorfman

In 38 Londres Street Philippe Sands investigates a Nazi war criminal’s collaboration with the Chilean dictatorship’s system of repression, torture, and murder.

www.nybooks.com

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 15h

A beautiful paragraph by Daniel Oppenheimer:

danieloppenheimer.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

The powers arrayed against equality are strong, often overwhelmingly so, and when we lose, it's not always because the strategy was poor or poorly executed.
Usually you just lose, regardless. Where we've won, though, it is almost always because very smart, very courageous people saw a narrow, non-obvious path through a minefield of oppressive state power and social hierarchy and then developed and enforced a high degree of strategic discipline within their movement, developing the means to organize, inspire, and when necessary coerce people to move in coordination toward shared political objectives.

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 16h

“Para líderes e pessoas públicas de todo o mundo, a mensagem não poderia ser mais clara: Trump vê você como o inimigo, e ele usará empresas de tecnologia americanas para deixá-lo de joelhos se você não fizer o que ele mandar.”

Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 16h

Os casos de Karim Khan (TPP), do Canadá, das taxações punitivas do América First, e agora da pressão da Microsoft para que todos os usuários assinem o seu serviço online deveriam ser razão mais do que suficiente pra que outros países soltem a mão das techs americanas o mais rápido possível (ver UE).

Pluralistic: Microsoft, Tear Down That Wall! (15 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 1d

“The early internet was dominated by the English language and Western institutions, and this imbalance has hardened over time, leaving whole worlds of human knowledge and experience undigitised. Now with the rise of GenAI – which is trained on this corpus – that asymmetry [might] become entrenched.”

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

aeon.co

Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure where this is going.

A social media chat.

User 1: The safe level of lead in your food is ZERO
though

Reply:
there will always be lead in your food, and it's about perspective. you hear about leaded gasoline?

Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 1d

Rich, isn’t it?

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 1d

It’s that “jump the shark” moment.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

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