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Google sues Brazilian airline LATAM in the US, seeking a declaration that Brazilian courts can't force Google to take down a YouTube video outside Brazil (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/goo

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
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While the Brazilian government is selling off the Amazon Rainforest to fossil fuel companies, banks like Banco Santander are bankrolling them to further destroy the Amazon. Without money, fossil fuel giants can’t drill. Sign the petition and tell Santander, stop destroying the Amazon! https://act.350.org/sign/Santander-ama

Tell Santander: Stop destroying the Amazon!
While the Brazilian government is selling off the Amazon Rainforest to fossil fuel companies, banks like Banco Santander are bankrolling them to further destroy the Amazon. Without money, fossil fuel giants can’t drill. Sign the petition and tell Santander, stop destroying the Amazon!

Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?
https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?
Domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR and the U.S. government are being quietly eaten by AI slop.

How an AI assistant developed by Brazilian nonprofit NoHarm is helping pharmacists in remote Amazon clinics process prescriptions more quickly and catch errors (Pedro Nakamura/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-amazon-ai-healthcare-prescript…

AI is making health care safer in the remote Amazon
At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It’s frontier tech meets frontier medicine — with global implications.

«Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?»
For the same reason that the internet is drowning in "AI" slop left and right: SEO link farm spammers creep have for years crept into every crevice using half-automated spam.
https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

Trump demands Brazil drop charges against Bolsonaro, former president who tried to stay in office after election loss
Donald Trump’s enraged letterto his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inšcio Lula da Silva, announcing that
the US would impose a 50% tariff on imports from Brazil,
said that the move was motivated in part by the treatment of former president Jair Bolsonaro,
who was barred from running for office until 2030 and is on trial for allegedly plotting to remain in…

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

A spam marketing operation exploited some domains owned by NPR, Nvidia, Stanford, and the US CDC to host AI slop articles redirecting users to an SEO spam site (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?
Domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR and the U.S. government are being quietly eaten by AI slop.

Some domains of Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the CDC were exploited to host AI spam blogs redirecting users to a spam marketing site (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About 'Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games'?
Domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR and the U.S. government are being quietly eaten by AI slop.

The US holiday is a memory now, so time to check out today's Metacurity to get briefed on the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Italian cops arrest FBI-wanted Chinese hacker who tried to steal COVID-19 vaccine
--Brazilian cops bust IT worker connected to $100m banking systems hack,
--Call of Duty: WWII yanked offline after RCE rumors,
--OpenAI beefs up corporate spying protections,
--DragonForce battles RansomHub,
--Cambod…

Italian cops arrest FBI-wanted Chinese hacker who tried to steal the COVID-19 vaccine
Brazilian cops bust IT worker connected to $100m banking systems hack, Call of Duty: WWII yanked offline after RCE rumors, OpenAI beefs up corporate spying protections, DragonForce battles RansomHub, Cambodia accuses Thai hackers of attacks, Trump's tax bill contains cyber money, much more

I do some advisory work with #Nubank $NU which is a big (well over 100M customers), young and fast growing Brazilian based fintech that has some very cool and senior people working remotely from the US like Michael Nygard (author of Release It! - Chief Architect), and @…@…

I mean, nothing yet beats the Brazilian Institute of Oriental Studies bit the trend is there and it fits
https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes

@… I remember my old boss, who’s a white Brazilian, telling me:
“I didn’t know I wasn’t white until I moved to the UK.”
With an accent like that, you can’t really be “white” in the UK. I imagine a lot of US Americans think the same way.

"Inside Bolsonarists’ campaign to impose US sanctions on Brazilian judges
Former president's son and his allies are lobbying US government to punish judges investigating 2022 coup attempt"
https://www.

Brazilian police arrest IT worker over $100 million cyber theft https://therecord.media/brazil-police-arrest-worker-theft

Mother-daughter duo transforms beach waste into stunning eco-friendly home, inspiring sustainable living and creativity. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Mother-daughter duo turn beach waste into incredible seven-room home: 'So creative and so beautiful'
Brazilian builders Edna and Maria Gabrielly Dantas turned 8,000 discarded bottles from Itamaraca's beaches into the Salt House.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheCraigCharlesFunkAndSoulShow
GeeW:
🎵 Brazilian Freeez
#GeeW
https://geew.bandcamp.com/track/aa2-brazilian-freeez
https://open.spotify.com/track/00uLg8zuTT4y7JGgQfNuri

Is the Home Office so inhumane, or is it just some rogue, cynical (un)civil servant who made this judgement?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/18/uk-home-office-brazilian-family-children-return-alone?CMP…

Towards Human-in-the-Loop Onset Detection: A Transfer Learning Approach for Maracatu
Ant\'onio S\'a Pinto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04858 https://…

Towards Human-in-the-Loop Onset Detection: A Transfer Learning Approach for Maracatu
We explore transfer learning strategies for musical onset detection in the Afro-Brazilian Maracatu tradition, which features complex rhythmic patterns that challenge conventional models. We adapt two Temporal Convolutional Network architectures: one pre-trained for onset detection (intra-task) and another for beat tracking (inter-task). Using only 5-second annotated snippets per instrument, we fine-tune these models through layer-wise retraining strategies for five traditional percussion instru…

A Spam Scheme Is Filling University, Government, and Tech Giants’ Sites With AI Trash https://www.404media.co/spam-blogs-ai-slop-domains-wowlazy/

"Scientists’ Letter Urges Brazil’s President Lula to Reject New Amazon and Offshore Drilling"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #Environment

Scientists’ Letter Urges Brazil’s President Lula to Reject New Amazon and Offshore Drilling - Inside Climate News
The urgent message was delivered to Brazilian officials during annual U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, and includes new warnings about an Amazon rainforest tipping point.

escorts: Brazilian prostitution network (2010)
A bipartite network of escort and individuals who buy sex from them in Brazil, extracted from a Brazilian online community for such ratings. Edges represent a purchase of sexual intercourse with an escort, and the edge weight gives the buyer's rating of the escort: -1 (bad), 0 (neutral), or 1 (good). Other edge attributes are available. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 16730 nodes and 50632 edges.
Tags: Social, Publ…

Due to a recent post about #friction I've found out about #cinelinux.
Looks like a bilingual Brazilian blog/forum about #VFX and related topics and software solutions on Linux!
They aren'…

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/brazil-set-to-blast-35-km-river-rock-formation-for-new-amazon-shipping-route/

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route
The Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, approved a license to blast a natural rock barrier on the Tocantins River in Pará state to enable boats to pass during the dry season, as part of wider efforts to build a massive waterway for commodities.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Brazilian Girls:
🎵 Jique
#BrazilianGirls
https://open.spotify.com/track/15wA29bTYPOX5jDcrBLLI9

Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauš-Mirim! https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1305/brazil-protect-the-mangroves-and-tropical-forests-of-taua-mirim

#petition Brazil: Protect the mangroves and tropical forests of Tauá-Mirim!
The people of the Tauá-Mirim region in the Amazon are urgently calling on the Brazilian government to protect their land. The rivers, mangroves and tropical forests south of São Luís in the state of Maranhão are threatened by infrastructure, industrial, and agricultural projects. Please support our petition.

"‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal under fire as Amazon prosecutors seek repeal"
#CarbonCapture #Climate #ClimateChange

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal under fire as Amazon prosecutors seek repeal
A Brazilian state was set to close a massive $180 million carbon credit deal, but now faces an escalating legal battle, accused of violating national laws and Indigenous rights, potentially ruining the project.

Modeling Income Distribution with the Gause-Witt Population Ecology System
Marcelo B. Ribeiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20881 https://

Modeling Income Distribution with the Gause-Witt Population Ecology System
This paper presents an empirical application of the Gause-Witt model of population ecology and ecosystems to the income distribution competitive dynamics of social classes in economic systems. The Gause-Witt mathematical system of coupled nonlinear first-order ordinary differential equations employed to model population of species sharing the same ecological niche and competing for the same resources was applied to the income data of Brazil. Previous studies using Brazilian income data from 198…

Fishermen in Maceió, Brazil, found to have higher-than-average mercury levels #Brazil …

Fishermen in Maceió, Brazil, found to have higher-than-average mercury levels
Researchers from the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) and the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil have found high levels of mercury in the blood and urine of people living on the shores of the Mundaú Lagoon in Maceió, the capital of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. These levels are higher than those found in other populations within the same municipality that have a similar socioeconomic level but live far from the lagoon.

Analyzing Pension Fund Mortality with Gaussian Processes in a Sub Population Framework
Eduardo F. L. de Melo, Michael Ludkovski, Rodrigo S. Targino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03584

Analyzing Pension Fund Mortality with Gaussian Processes in a Sub Population Framework
Pension fund populations often have mortality experiences that are substantially different from the national benchmark. In a motivating case study of Brazilian corporate pension funds, pensioners are observed to have mortality that is 40-55% below the national average, due to the underlying socioeconomic disparities. Direct analysis of a pension fund population is challenging due to very sparse data, with age-specific annual death counts often in low single digits. We design and study a collect…

How does online shopping affect offline price sensitivity?
Shirsho Biswas, Hema Yoganarasimhan, Haonan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15103 https://

How does online shopping affect offline price sensitivity?
The rapid rise of e-commerce has transformed consumer behavior, prompting questions about how online adoption influences offline shopping. We examine whether consumers who adopt online shopping with a retailer become more price-sensitive in their subsequent offline purchases with that retailer. Using transaction-level data from a large Brazilian pet supplies retailer operating both online and offline, we compare ''adopters'' - customers who began shopping online after a period of offline-only p…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Brazilian Girls:
🎵 Let’s Make Love
#BrazilianGirls
https://braziliangirls.bandcamp.com/album/lets-make-love
https://open.spotify.com/track/1JXRCUZPk98Jh1WnZRK0w9

"New environmental licensing will build a power plant in the Cerrado and demolish a school|
#Brazil #Cerrado #Energy #Education

New environmental licensing will build a power plant in the Cerrado and demolish a school
The most deforested biome in Brazil, the Cerrado lost 700,000 hectares (1.7 million acres) of native vegetation in 2024. Now, it is about to receive a thermoelectric plant 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the National Congress, in Brasília, the country’s capital. The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA), responsible for federal environmental […]