From Taiwan to Brazil, a look at what NPB stars are joining which teams ahead of the World Baseball Classic starting on March 5 at Tokyo Dome. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/02/09/baseball/japanese-baseball/npb-players-wbc-rosters/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #baseball #japanesebaseball #samuraijapan #2026worldbaseballclassic #cuba #taiwan #brazil #panama
El caso Master, el escándalo financiero que agita al poder brasileño // France24
"Señalado de orquestar el quizás mayor fraude bancario de Brasil, el empresario Daniel Vorcaro se jactó ante la policía de tener "amigos" en el poder, un caso que incomoda cada vez más a las autoridades de la potencia sudamericana en año electoral"
Brazil has declared the acai berry a national fruit to stamp its ownership on the popular "superfood" as concerns grow about foreign companies staking claims to the Amazon's biological riches. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/03/world/brazil-acai-biopiracy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #food #fruit #brazil #environment #forests
I just met @boogheta, one of the founders of Regards Citoyens (https://www.regardscitoyens.org), at #FOSDEM by chance.
One of the organizations that inspired me to found @okbr in Brazil thirteen years ago.
Incredible things can happen when you attend an #OpenSource conference!
Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva returned to power vowing to revive South American political and economic unity. A regional event this week shows he’s now fighting to maintain clout in his own backyard. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/29/world/politics/davos-latin-america-lula/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #luizinacioluladasilva #brazil #latinamerica #panama
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Ross 🏳️🌈🏴
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on a different note 🎶💵 ...
"that was just the proposal put up at the 1944 conference...
There was another plan that didn't get up, put by JM (Lord) Keynes an economist rather than a politician, which would not have had the US as the predominant global financial power and would have led to an entirely different rule-based #worldorder.
#Keynes's idea was known as " #Bancor", named after the new currency that he proposed. It wouldn't be a unit of money that people could carry in their wallets or, these days, tap with their phones, but a "unit of account" that would be used for transactions between governments and central banks. Its value would be fixed to gold, but adjustable, and all other national #currencies would be pegged to it."
edit "There have already been a few attempts at doing something like what Keynes proposed.
The IMF has an existing reserve asset called the SDR (special drawing rights) and in 2009, the governor of the People's Bank of China called for the SDR to be transformed into a "super-sovereign reserve currency" modelled on Keynes's Bancor to replace the US dollar.
That was opposed by the US and didn't get up, and China didn't have the clout then that it has now."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-26/trump-us-dollar-keynes-bretton-woods-economy /106260832
PS: i just broke the link to remove his ugly face... just take out the nbsp/
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Today in Labor History January 24, 1835: Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, started a revolt, which helped lead to the end slavery there 50 years later. Muslim slaves and freedmen, inspired by Muslim teachers, launched the rebellion during Ramadan. They were also inspired by the Haitian Revolution (1791−1804) and wore necklaces bearing the image of President Dessalines, who had declared Haitian independence.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #brazil #revolt #independence #islam #ramadan #haiti #uprising #rebellion #BlackMastodon
![Painting of a slave market in Recife, Brazil, the first slave port in the Americas. Depicts crowds of enslaved Africans being inspected by noblemen in fancy hats and staffs. By Zacharias Wagenaer - [1], Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11627495](https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/951/150/479/399/760/original/1478c3b47da05a8a.jpg)
Today in Labor History January 24, 1835: Slaves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, started a revolt, which helped lead to the end slavery there 50 years later. Muslim slaves and freedmen, inspired by Muslim teachers, launched the rebellion during Ramadan. They were also inspired by the Haitian Revolution (1791−1804) and wore necklaces bearing the image of President Dessalines, who had declared Haitian independence.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #brazil #revolt #independence #islam #ramadan #haiti #uprising #rebellion #BlackMastodon
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#News: Your #retirement funds could be fueling #ecocide. US #banking giants are driving #landgrabbing and #deforestation in #Brazil’s Cerrado for industrial #soy. Justice for i#ndigenous communities now! 🧐🔥🌱 @palmoildetect.bsky.social
https://foe.org/news/land-grabbing-cerrado/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/brazilian-city-uses-tilapia-fish-skin-treat-burn-victims
#HackerNews #Doctors #BurnVictims #TilapiaFishSkin #Brazil #HealthInnovation #FishSkinTreatment
#News: Your #retirement funds could be fueling #ecocide. US #banking giants are driving #landgrabbing and #deforestation in #Brazil’s Cerrado for industrial #soy. Justice for i#ndigenous communities now! 🧐🔥🌱 @palmoildetect.bsky.social
https://foe.org/news/land-grabbing-cerrado/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
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Mike @mmasnick: " #Jack sort of vibe-coded over a weekend, I guess, a #mesh network system called #BitChat. I didn't realize it used #Nostr under the hood…"
@rabble: "It uses #Bluetooth as the primary messaging thing of discovering people. I'm a bit involved with it… We now know through looking at the App Store stuff for BitChat… we can see when a country is having a crisis because all of a sudden the BitChat installs spike up.
…today we were on a call where we were like, "What's going on in #Brazil?" Huh? Because two or three days ago, the installs spiked up and Brazil became the number one country for BitChat."
https://pca.st/ruhm1l6z?t=30m30s
Brazil to send medical supplies to dialysis center destroyed in U.S. bombing of Venezuela.
Oh fuck: that's ME determined never to fly on a Boeing 787!
Air India AI-171 crash: "Aircraft health data that had been transmitted via ACARS by VT-ANB about 15 minutes prior to the crash, indicated faults in the electrical system as well as in all Flight Control Modules (FCM). However, the flight crew never became aware of these faults or transmissions and therefore continued with the takeoff."
Whistleblower report. P100 Primary Power Panel caught fire repeatedly …
Some #Australian #Airlines operate #embraere190aircraft
These days I pick the flight time based on whether it's an Ebraere or a #boeing
This is where you are right now #america...
The dumpster burning bright atop the hill...
Brazil’s Supreme Court jailed ex-president Bolsonaro for plotting a coup — then upgraded his cell. The court may be defending its own power as much as defending democracy.
https://theconversation.com/what-triumphalist-narratives-about-brazils-high-court-and-bolsonaro-imprisonment-leave-out-266868 #Brazil #politics
@everton137 Agree to a certain point.
The Iranian activists and contacts use twitter. Yes, they could move, but they have bigger problems. How else do we hear from them?
About Europeans, Americans, and Brazilians, politicians and journalists specially, I agree.
@pait I hear you. Still, at some point, we must ask ourselves if "staying informed" has become a passive consumption of horror optimized for engagement rather than change.
For politicians and journalists in Europe, the US, or Brazil, staying on the platform feels less like a necessity and more like a convenience.