lara mendonça 🇵🇸
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head of design. led design @tumblr @twitter @bumble. master of arts @ual.
rio de janeiro
Joined April 2009
hey friends! it’s been a while since i posted about myself here! i can’t believe i escaped the design hamster wheel… since starting my new job at a small company owned by founders and employees, i learned that work doesn’t have to give you anxiety or destroy the world 💗
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"History will be relentless with those who today think themselves the winners" — Dilma Rousseff in 2016, when she was impeached in a coup d'etat Bolsonaro justified his vote for her impeachment by celebrating the colonel that tortured her during Brazil's dictatorship
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Israel is forcibly displacing over 1 million Palestinians in Gaza City. “Displacement is not just moving from one place to another. It feels like a version of hell where you are split in two, your body in one place, your soul trapped somewhere else.” https://t.co/YZR32iTcAz
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Israel’s devastating assault on my city is forcing thousands to flee in search of ‘safety’ that we know doesn't exist, and at the cost of losing our homes forever.
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If your current smartphone is fully functional, I highly discourage purchasing this. Rechargeable batteries use cobalt mined by the men, women, and children of Congo working in horrific conditions and paid the equivalent of a few dollars a day.
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Phone and electric car batteries are made with cobalt mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cobalt Red author Siddharth Kara describes the conditions for workers as a "horror show."
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The real reason the AI bubble will burst is because transhumanism & tech accelerationism form a unified belief system that is anti-human. Deep down we sense this. Due to the arrogance and impatience of the accelerationists the adverse effects of their planned tech utopian future
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Sam Altman just admitted AI is similar to the dot-com bubble that caused the Nasdaq to collapse 80%. Now why would he admit it at this precise moment in time? I bet you can guess...
Half of $NVDA employees now have a net worth of $25 million. Sounds exactly like Nortel and Cisco employees back in 2000 when the parking lot was full of sports cars. Most refused to sell the entire way down. https://t.co/si3iYYONCD
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i spent 11 months at twitter and my team shipped ONE feature i thought was valuable (twitter circles) twitter was very broken, but elon managed to make it worse anyway
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seriously, i wish i could say what i think about this but i don't want to get sued 🙏
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wow i have no words except LMAO https://t.co/iJmCTQxfux
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trump is about to learn a lesson from brazil (again) https://t.co/0X7YfnIXuD
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Joseph E. Stiglitz applauds the country's refusal to kowtow to America's authoritarian leader.
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today might be a good day to read ‘the jakarta method’
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I don’t think it’s sufficiently appreciated how much the insular circles of the extremely online have fostered a generation of smart people talking about unworkable futures based on plausible but unhinged fan fictions about how the world actually works.
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a fanatical Zionist asks Chomsky if he believes Iran having a nuclear program is an existential threat. Chomsky replies: No, the existential threats to the region and humanity are Israel and the US
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This is the last image we have of the humanitarian crew aboard Madleen, from telegram.
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Let’s be clear: the world is watching Israel attack a civilian boat carrying no weapons—only humanitarian aid—flying a U.K. flag in international waters & carrying humanitarians of many nationalities. Israel has precisely zero authority to do so under any law. #AllEyesOnDeck
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Is Sweden not going to be pissed about Israel kidnapping gotta be a top 3 most famous Swedish citizen in the world?
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There is something so audaciously cruel about kidnapping a group of humanitarians, armed only with humanitarian aid, as they set out to break the siege of a people being exterminated by bombs and starvation. And then, on camera, offering them sandwiches and water — by the very
All the passengers of the ‘selfie yacht’ are safe and unharmed. They were provided with sandwiches and water. The show is over.
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it’s insane to read the responses here vs. on bluesky this place is infested with extreme right-wing crazies talking about conspiracy theories and the dangers of vaccines i rarely come here, but every time i get mad almost instantly it’s so chill over there
A Brazilian comedian has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for ‘bigoted’ jokes told in 2022. The decision marks the latest effort by Brazil to place limits on freedom of expression.
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BREAKING: Israel is firing on civilians near a US aid point in Gaza again Reports of dozens injured so far as quadcopter drones open fire on starving civilians West of the Rafah aid site. Teasing the hungry with aid then shooting them. Nothing is more sadistic.
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