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• Entre Tetris e Chocolatinhos

  Uma manhã fria de julho. Café na xícara, pouco açúcar, barriga roncando, e a cabeça ainda presa entre duas noites: uma palestra sobre convivência que prometia mudança, e um silêncio estratégico num restaurante barulhento, quando alguém propôs um clube de leitura e alguém respondeu, sem querer, com o silêncio de quem espera que o assunto morra sozinho. Convido a todos a participarem dos grupos: Do Brasil e Em Português.

• Meu sexto sentido

  Fim de tarde, tevê, família na sala e uma ocorrência...

• A matemática e a Gentileza

  Uma frase, uma via, um pedestre, seu cachorro, alguns carros e... um cálculo.

• O dote não brilha sozinho

  O dote não brilha sozinho. Apaga, como lâmpada esquecida. E acende de novo, só quando alguém se lembra de apertar o interruptor — ou quando quem a possui decide, enfim, que a escuridão da sala já dura tempo demais.

• O teste da água

  E o homem? O homem não é fechado em si. Ele é jogado na água do tempo todos os dias. A manhã fria o dissolve um pouco...

• Areia Congelada

  Li, em algum prefácio, que a crônica nasce quando a gente não tem o que escrever...

• BIS Warns Stablecoins Could Threaten Financial Stability

  Stablecoins have experienced rapid growth over the past few years. What started as a niche tool for crypto traders has now become a major segment of the digital asset market, with a total valuation of around $316 billion

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• The Catalysts of Injustice: When the Pursuit of Justice Loses Sight of Truth. Justice was never intended to be perfect. It was designed to be principled.

  At its foundation, the justice system exists to distinguish right from wrong, to weigh evidence against allegation, and to ensure that truth, not power, popularity, or emotion, guides the outcome. Every safeguard within the legal process was established with a single purpose: to preserve fairness, even within the limits of human understanding.

• Do you have to miss your goals to get promoted?

  Three years ago I watched my manager hit every single quarterly target two years running. Clean dashboards. Green everywhere, all the time. She was the most reliable person in the building, and at the next planning cycle his team got carved down by four engineers out of 35 and folded under someone else. Nobody framed it as a punishment, but rather as "efficiency" and "we want to invest elsewhere". The lesson landed anyway, and not just on me. Sadly, never on my manager.

• Is Ayn Rand's philosophy far more destructive to America than we admit?

  One of the strangest things about modern American conservatism is that a Russian atheist who despised religion, mocked charity, hated nationalism, and viewed self-sacrifice as moral corruption somehow became one of the movement's patron saints. Not fully, obviously. Plenty of conservatives still reject her. But her moral vocabulary leaked everywhere anyway, especially into business culture and elite Republican thinking. You can hear it whenever someone talks as if the highest form of human…

• Were the Romans far more progressive than we give them credit for?

  There is a common trend of young men being interested in the Roman empire out of movies and populat history, and imagining it as a militaristic, right wing hyper-masculine empire that was great for men. Spartacus, Rome, Gladiator... to different degree all give a perception of Rome being a sort of warrior-culture, sometimes bogged down by decadence. Gladiator II takes this to a ridiculous extreme. For that particular movie, I recommend reading Brett's, from acoup.blog , critique:

• Are the rich actually socialists who will never admit it?

  Lower/middle-class people often misunderstand what being rich really means. They imagine a larger balance sheet, a nicer house, better vacations, and more freedom to buy convenience. That is part of it. But not even the most important part.

• Is rural resentment self-inflicted?

  Large parts of rural America depend heavily on federal spending through farm programs, highways, Medicare, Social Security, and infrastructure support while voting for politicians who perform anti-government identity politics. That is not simple hypocrisy. It is the contradiction the political product is built on. The mythology is anti-government. The economy is federally underwritten.

• Is simulation theory just theism with extra steps?

  One of the funniest intellectual developments of the last decade is watching aggressively secular people reinvent religion using computer terminology and then acting like this makes the idea more rational. Simulation theory is the clearest example. The basic concept is familiar by now, but I'll summarize: our universe might be an artificial simulation created by a vastly more advanced intelligence. Reality is likely programmed. Consciousness could exist inside a designed system. The laws of…

• Is regulation actually part of the market, not against it?

  Without rules that keep wealth from becoming political ownership and poverty from hollowing out participation, you do not get a freer market. You get an oligarchy that still calls itself one.

• Did Catholic monotheism make the universe safe to study?

  It is easy to tell the story of science as a clean break from religion. Enlightenment replaces superstition, observation replaces faith, reason replaces authority. It sounds tidy, and it flatters modern assumptions. But it misses something more interesting and, honestly, more uncomfortable for that narrative: the idea that the universe is intelligible in the first place is not self-evident. It is a metaphysical claim. And Catholic monotheism is one of the major historical reasons that claim…

• Does secular society still believe in original sin?

  One of the funniest things about modern secular culture is that it absolutely still believes in original sin. It just refuses to call it that because theological language makes educated people uncomfortable. Listen to how modern institutions describe human beings. We are governed by unconscious bias, shaped by childhood conditioning, manipulated by algorithms, trapped in dopamine loops, distorted by social incentives, blinded by ideology, and mostly incapable of seeing our own motivations…