America will have its own Gulag Archipelago. Twenty-three concentration camps will soon come online, unless, together, we can find and pull the political handbrake.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers

I spent my education career pushing back against crap like this, so let me clue you in on something:

When a tech company invests in schools, it's never for the benefit of student learning. It's always, always for creating loyal customers out of the students and teachers.

(h/t @AAKL)

https://www.the74million.org/article/exclusive-new-google-partnership-a-sizable-investment-in-ai-for-teachers/

In the age of disinformation, this is the most important episode of Last Week Tonight yet.

John Oliver uncovers how Elon Musk took over Twitter and began funding accounts who spread disinformation, creating movements that cause serious trouble in the real world based on Twitter falsehoods — even causing the Trump regime to launch security operations based on conspiracy theories invented by random Twitter users.

https://youtu.be/p7ZG_xWYLzI?si=h_sQbBJzmI7rTqXF

Quem são os nove bilionários mais velhos do mundo; dois são centenários
https://economia.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2025/08/08/forbes-quem-sao-os-9-bilionarios-mais-velhos-do-mundo-2-sao-centenarios.htm?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Economia @economia-UOL

Fui dar uma olhada nas empresas que apoiaram e patrocinaram a ditadura militar brasileira. Uma delas é a marca de bicicleta Monark. Realmente o apelido "Monark" daquele indivíduo faz bastante sentido

https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2014/09/08/politica/1410204895_124898.html