fred maia

[fred maia @fredmaia4]

A loved well learned educated person less likely will engage in acts of hate & bigotry using the power of fact&scientific data @NHM_London

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“I have never belonged to any place, or to any person. I have always been a guest passing through, even in my own life.”

- Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa was born in 1888 in Portugal. He was a poet, writer, and philosopher whose work explored identity, consciousness, solitude, and the complexity of the human mind. He became known for examining the many sides of the self, often writing through different literary personas to explore contrasting ways of experiencing and understanding the world. His work remains a major contribution to modern literature and philosophical thought.

“I have never belonged to any place, or to any person. I have always been a guest passing through, even in my own life.”

The quote captures a profound sense of loneliness and detachment. Pessoa describes what it feels like to never feel completely at home anywhere, not even among the people closest to you. To be a “guest passing through” suggests being present in a place or relationship without ever feeling fully rooted or connected to it.

You can have a home, friendships, relationships, and a life that appears to belong to you, yet still feel as though you are only temporarily passing through them. The most powerful part is “even in my own life.” Pessoa is expressing something deeper than simply feeling disconnected from people or places; he feels like a stranger to his own existence, almost as though he is observing his life rather than fully inhabiting it.

The quote captures the quiet feeling of being present everywhere while never feeling completely at home anywhere.

[Bart Mol @Bart_Mol]

Me explaining AI to friends

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

https://t.co/7hEKe81eCj

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

No.
That's a decade old. Bitcoin turned out to NOT be a currency.
It is an electronic tulip, perhaps; not a currency.

[fred maia @fredmaia4]

Bitcoin is the Detector of Imbeciles:
https://t.co/2B7n2U7p6d @nntaleb

[Ricardo Carvalho @rlmcarvalho]

Seus filhos da puta. Depois não se queixem

[fred maia @fredmaia4]

@rcarvalho79 @SportingCP Hahahaha

[fred maia @fredmaia4]

Today France, Spain and Portugal suffered a major grid failure. Good luck using bitcoin when everything fails! #BITCOIN has no intrinsic value. #bitcoinisworthless

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Did you know?

NASA only uses 15 digits of π for calculating interplanetary travel.

At 40 digits, you could calculate the circumference of a circle the size of the visible universe with an accuracy that'd fall off by less than the diameter of a hydrogen atom.

#piDay2025

[Kyla Scanlon @kylascan]

I tried to summarize everything that's going on (link in next post) from the "orchestrated economic downturn" (or whatever it's called) which encapsulates the market selloff, trade whiplash etc. I also think the bot issue (which feels increasingly pervasive and less understandable than ever) is absolutely shaping what policy decisions are being made. And this digital chaos allows for the construction of parallel 'MAGA economy' that aims to create a world where economic participation becomes an extension of identity politics. There is emotional investment in cultural division, meaning that there is appetite for consumer facing ventures that align politics with consumption. If you destabilize mainstream economic structures while simultaneously building alternative ones, you create perfect conditions for people to accept unfavorable terms. All this is happening with our social media-warped perception of time makes it impossible to process events coherently, or to sustain the patient, focused attention that once enabled America's greatest achievements. Information warfare and economic volatility are fundamentally reshaping American power, both domestically and globally. Link in next post!

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Today's Oval Office spectacle wasn't about showing strength, it was about surrendering to Putin. Trump and JD Vance have completely sold out America.

Watch @TherickWilson react: https://t.co/qohPKiOZeM

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Move over, DOGE. @jonstewart whips out his trusty calculator to identify where America's waste, fraud, and abuse really is

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

Every. Single. Word.
Bravo, Jan Böhmermann!

[Ricardo Carvalho @rlmcarvalho]

Gaza-a-Lago, soon, very soon...What a hell happened to this world? #FreePalestine

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Friends, feel free to post comments on this IQ piece:
"IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle" before I put it in article form.

https://t.co/sR5GJEI6Vy

[Out of Context Simpsons Treehouse of Horror 🎃 @OOCCouchGags]

RIP David Lynch

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

RIP to the legendary filmmaker David Lynch. Sad day for the arts.

“Death in my mind isn’t a finality. There’s a continuum: It’s like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it’s a new day.”

[Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru]

The two-state solution nobody is considering.

[fred maia @fredmaia4]

@volksvargas @ReferendoLX @Moedas é só pouco estúpido... acontece! Ele não se lembra, ou não sabe que quem vota não são os turistas. Ele vai descobrir, entretanto, que Lisboa tem que ter alguns lisboetas.