Feb 27, 2021

February

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"The report serves to translate the current state of scientific knowledge into crisp, clear and digestible facts-based messages that t...
Feb 18, 2021

February

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  «In this picture, commercial surveillance is not merely an unfortunate accident or occasional lapse. It is neither a necessary development...
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Feb 17, 2021

The right to sanctuary

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  «The human need for a space of inviolable refuge has persisted in civilized societies from ancient time but it is now under attack as surv...
Feb 14, 2021

February

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  “Home is where we know and are known, where we love and are beloved. Home is mastery, voice, relationship, and sanctuary; part freedom, pa...
Feb 6, 2021

plantorium

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Surveillance : "Technological progress in the last few decades have made monitoring, tracking and profiling techniques easier, cheaper ...
Feb 5, 2021

Fevereiro

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Fui uma grande entusiasta, no final do século XX e no início do século XXI, de diversas ferramentas, tecnologias e produtos com base na inte...
Feb 1, 2021

This is not the Wild West

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  “ [I]n Europe the internet has long since ceased to be the wild west. Articles 7 and 8 of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights [ le...
Jan 29, 2021

January

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“Our ways of thinking and the paths we take in life are hard to fathom, much less forecast using a reductive formula”, like an algorithm. ...
Jan 26, 2021

January

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“Intimacy, innovative thinking, teamwork, and humor all come to those who free themselves from the need to control the narrative and have th...
Jan 15, 2021

January

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 Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
Jan 13, 2021

January

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"Amidst global inequality and ecological crises, it is questionable whether the virtuous circle of the welfare states is in fact virtuo...
Jan 3, 2021

January

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«If you are aware of a state you call is , or reality, or life, this implies a different state called isn't . Human consciousness is at ...
Dec 24, 2020

December

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The Secret Random Acts of Kindness Society  Purpose: Increase kindness and wellbeing in the planet, doing little (or bigger) things, accordi...
Dec 21, 2020

December

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“(…) she no longer felt she was there simply to serve the dreams of other people. She no longer felt like she had to find sole fulfilment as...
Dec 13, 2020

Underland

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“We find speaking of the Anthropocene, even in Anthropocene, difficult. It is, perhaps, best imagined as an epoch of loss – of spe...
Dec 12, 2020

December

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“If the composition of the air we breath depends on living beings, the atmosphere is no longer simply the environment in which living beings...
Dec 7, 2020

December

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“Buddhism. Stoicism. Epicureanism. Christianity. Hinduism. It’s all but impossible to find a philosophical school or religion that does not ...
Nov 20, 2020

November

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I have been hacked. Still trying to figure out the extension and number of hacked accounts.  I have changed my passwords a couple of times, ...
Nov 18, 2020

November

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  My computer does not allow me to uninstall Xbox Network and it connects by itself. Microsoft does not let users decide what games they wan...
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Nov 16, 2020

Systemic risks

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"The first generation of AI-enabled offensive tools is already emerging and there is growing evidence of AI being used by attackers. De...

Cyber criminals

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"Attackers will often use a tool called a ‘web inject’ to monitor the internet browsing of an infected user. When the victim attempts ...
Nov 9, 2020

November

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IP 89.40.182.187
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Nov 2, 2020

November

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Sep 22, 2020

September

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"Stillness presents a break or pause in the flow of habitual events, whilst illuminating temporal gaps and fissures within which altern...
Aug 20, 2020

August

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" The stories illustrate that biodiversity, climate and inequality are inseparable agendas. (...) The biodiversity community needs to m...
Jun 28, 2020

June

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"A certain conception of «nature» has allowed the Moderns to occupy the Earth in such a way that it forbids others to occupy their own...
Jun 20, 2020

June

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Resilience "is a passive process, implying the ability to absorb blows and get back up. Regeneration, on the other hand is active: ...
Jun 8, 2020

June

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Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA ( CC ).
May 29, 2020

May

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“The information society is like a tree that has been growing its far-reaching branches much more widely, hastily, and chaotically than its...
May 24, 2020

May

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“Growing our connections to nature will allow us to push past mere intellect to embrace sensory experiences, emotions, intuition. (…) For t...
May 22, 2020

May

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“(…) whenever suitable conditions to move demand and supply closer can be identified by reducing the number of technological and human i...
May 14, 2020

May

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   «The new Earth 2.0 that will emerge after COVID‑19 will be a “new normal”, but many fundamental challenges will still exist. Chief a...
May 13, 2020

(re)growth

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  Define growth: the process of increasing in size. the upward growth of plants. the process of developing physically, mentally, or spi...

mobility

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 Image by Monica Pinheiro, license CC BY-NC-SA (CC).
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May 8, 2020

May

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“We are nature. When we stand firm on that undeniable fact, shedding the long-standing illusion that there’s nature “out there” and the...
May 7, 2020

May

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“Expectation, fantasy and reality are intermingled on the surface of our skin, a stage on which our life is played out. (…) Touch is e...