Augusto Caringi

Computer Science Professor, Software Engineer, Freethinker

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

For four and a half centuries the world has been getting its geography from a Flemish mapmaker named Gerardus Mercator, who in 1569 produced a chart that was splendid for sailing ships and terrible for almost everything else. It made Greenland look roughly the size of Africa, which is a bit like drawing a house cat and a rhinoceros at the same scale, and it flattered any country that had the good fortune to sit far from the equator.

On Friday the UN General Assembly voted, 164 to one, to retire Mercator in favour of the Eckert IV projection, which shows continents at something close to their true size. Togo led the charge on behalf of the African Union, and France signed up before the ink was dry.

The lone dissenter was the United States, which also shrinks, and evidently minded.

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

Today I'm publishing a new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential. AI is progressing extremely fast—much faster than the policy process was built to handle. The essay lays out where I think the technology is now, and the action needed to close the gap: https://t.co/Lh6PWae178

[Drew Crawford @drewcrawford_]

Imagine a Brazil where you board a train in São Paulo and step off in Rio 105 minutes later.

Imagine every coastal capital linked, from Porto Alegre to Belém.

Imagine Brasília as the hub with 5 bullet train lines reaching across the country.

Even Manaus, the biggest city in the Amazon, on the grid.

That is the map I see.

16,600 km of track.

A real grid for a country of ~213 million people.

The São Paulo to Rio train has been on paper since the 1980s.

Almost 40 years of plans.

Zero track in the ground.

The drive between those two cities still takes 5 to 6 hours (depending on traffic).

50 million people live in that corridor.

About the size of South Korea.

China built 50,000 km of bullet trains in 17 years.

Brazil built 0 in 40.

At China's pace, the Brazilian network gets built in 20 years.

At Brazil's pace, 50.

The price tag is about $500 billion in today's dollars.

Closer to $1 trillion by the time the last track is laid.

Every dollar spent comes back as $2 to $3 in growth.

That is $2 to $3 trillion added to Brazil's GDP.

Land prices jump the moment the project becomes real.

Cities along the route gain value 20 years before the train arrives.

The corridor leads.

The train follows.

The biggest infrastructure project of the 21st century is not in China.

It is in Brazil.

It just has not been built yet.

[Sensacionalista @sensacionalista]

No dia da independência, patriotas lançam boné “MAKE BRAZIL COLONY AGAIN’

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Brazil offers a lesson in democracy to an America that is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian https://t.co/jS91bm6WnU

[Lafa @UltraLafa]

Israel bombardeia hospital. Espera os paramédicos e jornalistas chegarem e bombardeia novamente.

É tanto crime de guerra numa só notícia que fico até tonto.

[Caio Barbosa @caiomrb]

A pacificação do país não passa por anistia. Anistiar golpistas significa dar uma nova chance para tentarem de novo. Como se pacificou a Alemanha no pós-1945? Banindo o naz1smo e punindo exemplarmente todos que contribuíram para o regime. O mesmo deve se aplicar aqui. +

[Mônica Waldvogel @MonicaWaldvogel]

Estratégia do Ministro Geraldo Alckmin funcionou muito bem. Reuniu empresários dos diferentes setores, ouviu as big techs, teve uma dezena de conversas com o Secretário do Comércio dos EUA, estimulou as negociações com os importadores norte-americanos. Conseguiu, afinal, reduzir o dano do tarifaço que a oposição tramou junto à Casa Branca. Alguns setores ainda pagarão parte da conta, infelizmente. Eles sabem quem são os responsáveis por ela.

[BrianMier @BrianMteleSUR]

Under Jair Bolsonaro, the proportion of Brazil's population suffering from food insecurity reached 23%. Today, 19 months into the 3rd Lula administration, the UN has announced this proportion has dropped below 2.5%. Brazil has been removed from the FAO UN World Hunger Map+

[Bob Vylan @BobbyVylan]

Silence is not an option.

[Natalie F Danelishen @Chesschick01]

Just gonna leave this here.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Netanyahu started this war by attacking Iran.

He assassinated Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator, deliberately sabotaging US-Iran nuclear negotiations.

The US must not be dragged into another illegal Netanyahu war – either militarily or financially.

[BBC News Brasil @bbcbrasil]

'O que Israel faz em Gaza não tem precedentes no século 21', diz historiador israelense especialista em holocausto https://t.co/YrOzg5sEGe
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[Rogério Tomaz Jr. @rogeriotomazjr]

🇮🇱🇵🇸 Com menos de 48 horas dos ataques do Irã, a Globo News colocou uma jornalista brasileira que vive em Israel para dar um longo relato sobre o sofrimento de não encontrar húmus, tomate cereja e ovos num grande supermercado perto da sua residência. Não desdenho do sofrimento dela, que certamente é real. Mas é uma pena que, em 1 ano e 8 meses, a mesma emissora JAMAIS tenha colocado alguém que vive (ou viveu) na Faixa de Gaza para dar um relato com o mesmo espaço. Essa turma se autoproclama “imprensa profissional”. E ai de você se criticar...

[anna bea @axlsugar]

sinto que nunca vamos ter um papa tão querido e icônico quanto o nosso latino papa francisco

[Irene Vida Gala @IVG2909]

"A Europa vai ter que se libertar da obsessão de que vai ser invadida pela Rússia (...) quando vejo dizerem q a Rússia tem DNA expansionista, penso: foi Napoleão q invadiu a Rússia ou o contrário?" Celso Amorim.

https://t.co/cHXVi9Oq3A

[Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor]

What do you think would happen if there were a large established Military force sitting in Mexico that was armed trained and equipped by the Chinese or Russians with goal of taking Texas?

Now use that analogy and think of Russia's position from day 1.

To achieve peace this must be taken into consideration or there will be no deal.

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

🚨PROF. JEFFREY SACHS:

"How many wars has China🇨🇳 been in, in the last 40 years? Let me count them. That would be zero. Not one war in 40 years.”

The US🇺🇸 does not need to make an enemy out of China. While the US has been going around the world bombing and invading everything in sight, China focused on trade and business, including with the United States.

If the US goes on the path of cooperation and peaceful coexistence with China, the world will enter a golden age of prosperity in the multipolar world. If the US goes down the path of confrontation, the world will enter an age of darkness with no winners.

[Augusto Caringi @augustocaringi]

@hoje_no Parece que o tal do Mundo Militar quer ver a WW3, tudo pra ganhar likes e engajamento...