Marco Almada
@marcoalmada.com
I have always depended on the kindness of otters. Postdoc in cyber policy @ Uni of Luxembourg. Skeets about work (public & EU law, regulation & AI, academia), hobbies (Warhammer 40k, sci-fi more generally, football), life, and bad puns.
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Watched Miss Congeniality with the family last night. It is still amazing. But now it appears to have been a documentary!
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Arrest warrants issued for Miss Universe co-owners in latest twist in pageant saga
Raúl Rocha Cantú is under investigation for drug, gun and fuel trafficking while Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip is accused of fraud
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November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Watched Miss Congeniality with the family last night. It is still amazing. But now it appears to have been a documentary!
m.imdb.com/title/tt0212...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
m.imdb.com/title/tt0212...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
November 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I know most of the focus is on RFK Jr.'s weird horny texts, but the news that he used to spam Bill Nye with anti-vax weirdness and Bill was like, "Dude, you're you're confusing correlation for causation" is the only RFK text-message news I will ever need.
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Even if this were true I’m not sure it even… matters? In the sense that U.S. troops were, for a hot second, greeted as liberators by a good number of civilians in Iraq because the Saddam dictatorship was so traumatizing for millions, but that - for good reason — evaporated very quickly
"One guy, it doesn't matter who, swears there's a poll out there that says people want to be invaded." What kind of sourcing is this lol
November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Even if this were true I’m not sure it even… matters? In the sense that U.S. troops were, for a hot second, greeted as liberators by a good number of civilians in Iraq because the Saddam dictatorship was so traumatizing for millions, but that - for good reason — evaporated very quickly
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Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration.
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Once again; you can't moderate your way to neutralizing an issue like immigration.
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
It's fundamentally just racist reaction. Nothing is ever enough because what's demanded—ethnonationalist homogeneity—is completely unavailable in modern conditions. There will *always* be a basis for more demagoguery
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Mas se reduzir 30% do cigarro queima o dedo
Reduzir 30% de cigarro evitaria 139 mil mortes no Brasil
Redução de 30% do consumo de cigarro poderia evitar 139 mil mortes no Brasil em 10 anos, diz estudo
Levantamento aponta que preço mais alto do tabaco também reduziria doenças e pouparia R$ 136 bilhões
www1.folha.uol.com.br
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Mas se reduzir 30% do cigarro queima o dedo
Pelo menos não foi o 222
Após corte no home office, Nubank aluga prédio para acomodar equipes -> https://bit.ly/4pswS3E
Foi escolhido o edifício Capote 210, em Pinheiros, que pertence à HSI e à Idea Zarvos
Foi escolhido o edifício Capote 210, em Pinheiros, que pertence à HSI e à Idea Zarvos
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Pelo menos não foi o 222
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por isso que eu não entendi O Sétimo Selo, não sabia que tinha outros 6 antes
Assista "O Quinto Selo" na FILMICCA
Uma assustadora e brilhante obra do cinema húngaro do diretor Zoltán Fábri. Budapeste de 1944, durante os dias mais sombrios da Segunda Guerra.
Uma assustadora e brilhante obra do cinema húngaro do diretor Zoltán Fábri. Budapeste de 1944, durante os dias mais sombrios da Segunda Guerra.
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
por isso que eu não entendi O Sétimo Selo, não sabia que tinha outros 6 antes
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In relation to that last repost re: Nvidia desperately trying to stave off the bursting of the AI bubble, I have to admit an interest in wanting it to pop - I was hoping to build myself a new gaming PC this Christmas/new year, but the price of RAM these days is literally insane.
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In relation to that last repost re: Nvidia desperately trying to stave off the bursting of the AI bubble, I have to admit an interest in wanting it to pop - I was hoping to build myself a new gaming PC this Christmas/new year, but the price of RAM these days is literally insane.
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The hardest part about Trump pardoning the turkeys isn’t the names but finding birds that were there on Jan. 6.
Polling is open to help name two turkeys who will be pardoned by President Donald Trump ahead of Thanksgiving, and you can help choose.
You can choose the names of turkeys to get a presidential pardon. Here's how.
Polling is open to help name two turkeys who will be pardoned by President Donald Trump ahead of Thanksgiving, and you can help choose.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The hardest part about Trump pardoning the turkeys isn’t the names but finding birds that were there on Jan. 6.
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Remake do filme "Como Se Fosse a Primeira Vez' em que o Bolsonaro precisa explicar todo dia pro General Heleno o porquê estão presos
November 26, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Remake do filme "Como Se Fosse a Primeira Vez' em que o Bolsonaro precisa explicar todo dia pro General Heleno o porquê estão presos
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É claro que uma pessoa chamada Luiza Posse ia ser crítica ao MST
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
É claro que uma pessoa chamada Luiza Posse ia ser crítica ao MST
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It is getting hard to track the advances of the far-right in the EP, they are coming so fast - here is the approval of a report by a 'Patriot for Europe' MEP on an EU institutional questions, the role of National Parliaments, getting a majority from the centre-right to the far-right:
📢Give national parliaments a stronger role in EU law-making, MEPs say
- Clearer definition & application of subsidiarity and proportionality
- Proposals for better involvement of national parliaments
ℹ️Read more: link.europa.eu/cvrKBR
📝Rapp: Marieke Ehlers (PfE 🇳🇱)
- Clearer definition & application of subsidiarity and proportionality
- Proposals for better involvement of national parliaments
ℹ️Read more: link.europa.eu/cvrKBR
📝Rapp: Marieke Ehlers (PfE 🇳🇱)
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It is getting hard to track the advances of the far-right in the EP, they are coming so fast - here is the approval of a report by a 'Patriot for Europe' MEP on an EU institutional questions, the role of National Parliaments, getting a majority from the centre-right to the far-right:
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"Dono da boca de fumo diz que você é 'insano' se não fumar crack e der para os seus filhos fumarem no café da manhã"
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"Dono da boca de fumo diz que você é 'insano' se não fumar crack e der para os seus filhos fumarem no café da manhã"
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Em santo de casa não entra mosca
November 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Em santo de casa não entra mosca
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👑 CALVO DE NEVE VS MADRASTA MÁ
A sucessão presidencial abriu uma crise no bolsonarismo. Eduardo Bolsonaro [PL-Texas] resiste à ideia de ceder espaço para Michelle e afirma, segundo aliados, que só os filhos têm legitimidade para continuar o legado político do pai.
A sucessão presidencial abriu uma crise no bolsonarismo. Eduardo Bolsonaro [PL-Texas] resiste à ideia de ceder espaço para Michelle e afirma, segundo aliados, que só os filhos têm legitimidade para continuar o legado político do pai.
November 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
👑 CALVO DE NEVE VS MADRASTA MÁ
A sucessão presidencial abriu uma crise no bolsonarismo. Eduardo Bolsonaro [PL-Texas] resiste à ideia de ceder espaço para Michelle e afirma, segundo aliados, que só os filhos têm legitimidade para continuar o legado político do pai.
A sucessão presidencial abriu uma crise no bolsonarismo. Eduardo Bolsonaro [PL-Texas] resiste à ideia de ceder espaço para Michelle e afirma, segundo aliados, que só os filhos têm legitimidade para continuar o legado político do pai.
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Not now Kate Beckinsale
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Not now Kate Beckinsale
Yay, my book proposal was accepted! 😃😃😃😃
a black and white photo of an otter walking on the ground .
Alt: an otter shakes its hind legs, as if dancing
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November 27, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Yay, my book proposal was accepted! 😃😃😃😃
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i’m so happy for him
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
i’m so happy for him
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« On the digital omnibus, absolutely no third country had an influence on our sovereign simplification agenda » says EU Commission, but regardless of whether is true this sounds so unplausible as its net effect is positive for US big tech #digitalomnibus
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
« On the digital omnibus, absolutely no third country had an influence on our sovereign simplification agenda » says EU Commission, but regardless of whether is true this sounds so unplausible as its net effect is positive for US big tech #digitalomnibus
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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Just a reminder that the people who run AI companies talk like this when amongst themselves and when you ask me if I'm anti-AI, well, I'm anti whatever the fuck this is
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Just a reminder that the people who run AI companies talk like this when amongst themselves and when you ask me if I'm anti-AI, well, I'm anti whatever the fuck this is
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One senior analyst at Langley just had his or her Thanksgiving ruined.
There has been a military coup in the African state of Guinea-Bissau — the army has removed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló from power.
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
One senior analyst at Langley just had his or her Thanksgiving ruined.
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se eu me candidato a alguma coisa e esses dois me apoiam, eu retiro a candidatura na hora
🇧🇷 Indicados por Bolsonaro, ministros Kassio Nunes Marques e André Mendonça têm ligado para senadores da oposição para pedir voto a favor de Jorge Messias.
De acordo com o jornal O Globo, Mendonça tem reforçado que o indicado de Lula ao STF “não é militante” e tem perfil técnico e religioso.
De acordo com o jornal O Globo, Mendonça tem reforçado que o indicado de Lula ao STF “não é militante” e tem perfil técnico e religioso.
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
se eu me candidato a alguma coisa e esses dois me apoiam, eu retiro a candidatura na hora