Tag: society
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Agentic Wars
Back in May 2023 I wrote this pensata I named “GPT Wars”, and it has pulled in a lot of views from various sources. This year we are facing a new type of war — and it seems that many are still to come in this arena — an agentic war, a war of agents.…
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Leave the Source for Later
Some people now enjoy starting their statements with a direct reference to a (more credible) source of information. It seems that everyone’s suspicious until proven otherwise. For that, along with exposing the broader context of the topic, people just go straight to disclosing the official source of what they are about to say. “According to…
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28 Milhões de Jovens Brasileiros Estão na Pobreza (2023)
https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2025/01/16/dados-melhoram-mas-brasil-ainda-tem-288-milhoes-de-criancas-e-adolescentes-na-pobreza-diz-unicef.ghtml
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Words and Maturity
Words are very powerful symbols. Sentences? Even more so. It takes courage to write in public when maturity arrives. Your words can provoke ideas and judgments from others. Judgments from others, if also made public, can test your maturity and your ability to accept them. Images and symbols are not as straightforward as words. At…
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Poverty in Brazil (2022)
The contingent of people with household per capita income lower than 497 reais per month became 62.9 million Brazilians in 2021, about 29.6% of the country’s total population. FGV Social (2022) Percentage of households per capita income lower than R$ 497 according to state. source: https://cps.fgv.br/MapaNovaPobreza