Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira
@mausellmoli
PhD LatAm Cultural Studies @uniofmanchester.bsky.social “…and world peace” Neurodivergent. Tire suas próprias conclusões e os pratos secos do escorredor. Curiositas ducit. ENG: PORT:
You’re Joanne Rowling. You once made children happy. Now you just make the world more miserable.
Revendo Desmundo (2002), do Alain Fresnot. Continua um filminho danado e um belo trabalho de adaptação.
Yes, they published it as The DOUBLE DEATH of Quincas Water-Bray, translated by the late Gregory Rabassa for Jorge Amado’s centennial in 2012. I was thinking about movies and TV adaptations in general. The last one is from 2010. It’s okay but it’s clearly a corpse on screen.
Pope Leo XIV at the Gateway of Europe monument in Lampedusa, Sicily. Photo by Alessandra Tarantino for AP.
Spencer Tracy and Kate Hepburn in George Stevens’s Woman of the Year. How many movies can claim to have turned a monologue about Pareto and Spengler into romantic comedy magic?
Indício inquestionável de masoquismo numa madrugada de domingo.
Uma merda de governo – literalmente. www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-st...
Speaking of which, Azor (Andreas Fontana, 2021) tells a story about looting, Swiss banks and the Argentinian junta dictatorship. And it’s one of the great films of the last 10 years.
Existe algo de ruim nesse país que não tenha sido ruminado em algum momento pelo Cunha? noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/dani...
This again. These studies do not differentiate between a glowing phone screen and an e-book reader, which happens to be a different sort of digital device. Samples are small too etc. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... (Also, audiobooks: just modern-day radio plays or Homers addressing a crowd.)
É isso o que mostra novo artigo dos autores da última edição da PLB (Pesquisa Legislativa Brasileira), levantamento sobre opinião dos congressistas, feito em todas as legislaturas desde 1990. noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/tiag...
Casa Branca ou salão greco-goiano de aluguel pra eventos?
Gustavo Miller no UOL: Um mundo filtrado. economia.uol.com.br/colunas/gust...
“No contrato, 16% do faturamento bruto da Academy fica com a CBF. Os demais 84%, com o IDP. Se os negócios forem bem, o lucro não será pequeno.” noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/thai...
Organized community works. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
E o trágico disso tudo é que dá pra ser objetivo sem muito esforço, como essa bola dentro de O Globo.
“Trouble is, both my image and my quote are AI-generated, built from patterns of photographs that do exist and from very similar words I’ve actually said and written elsewhere. In truth, I agree heartily with AI Naomi. But it’s still not me…” naomiklein.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
In the immortal words of Bill Shatner on SNL, get a life, people.
Baita especial no Estado de Minas sobre uma juventude formada no isolamento.
“So Dante, we’re at the First Circle, where those whose assistants and spouses refuse to say whether they’re alive or dead dwell. The one with the mouth perpetually agape over there is called McConnell.”