Paulo Cesar Siqueira, PhD.

Assistant professor at UFRRJ. Speech-language pathologist in Rio de Janeiro. Computational chemist specializing in inorganic and photochemistry. Blues player. Personal account; opinions are my own.

We have delegated the filtering of ideas to invisible algorithms, which show us a world tailored to our fears rather than our potential.
AI fanatics really remind me of the Bitcoin-obsessed "tech bros." Both are just technology; neither is a cure for cancer.
@flo-bit.dev blento.app is cool, but it makes no sense to have a scrollbar on the profiles, since they are short and don't exceed 300 characters.
Autistic children are up to 160x more likely to drown than their non-autistic peers.

Many are naturally drawn to water, making water safety especially important.

Practical tips to keep children safe:
theconversation.com/autistic-chi...
When you close your eyes and stop searching outward, the world does not vanish. Rather, it shifts register. Sounds recede, shapes dissolve into a dust of phosphenes, and the mind, relieved of the task of decoding the environment, turns toward a different landscape. (1)
Every so often the world stops working by the old rules. Not because the rules have changed, but because someone dared to look at the gaps everyone else had learned to ignore.
Today, silence is a luxury I can't afford. I have a tangle in my head like a ball of yarn after the cat's played with it. And I don't want to untangle it, I just want to sit and stare at it, without anyone saying a word to me.
When someone asks you to explain non-binary gender:
Q from Star Trek saying to Picard and a group of officers, "Not a he, not a she, not like anything you've ever seen before. An enhanced humanoid."
I'm not worried about a grammatical error if thinking is intelligent. A mistake can always be corrected, an idiot can't!
JUST IN: Judge Sullivan has ordered me to respond, on or before July 13th, to Todd Blanche's "I'm not turning anything over" move from last week in my lawsuit over the Epstein Files.

Then, Blanche has until July 20th to reply to what I file.
A shallow, biased article, yet I still see some truths.
The Telegraph @telegraph.co.uk
The progressive version of Twitter offers a world of vicious, sneering odium that only those who see themselves as kinder humans dish out

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Astronomy Picture Of the Day - APOD

Title: Three Galaxies in Pavo
Date: 2026-07-03
Image by: Mike Selby

#APOD #NASA
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The scarce metals locked inside millions of expiring EV batteries have become the latest flashpoint in a high-stakes race for resource independence between China and the U.S https://restofworld.org/2026/ev-battery-recycling-china-us/?utm_campaign=row-social
The image contains three labeled boxes about EV battery materials. The first box is "Nickel," highlighting its high value and recycling benefits in U.S. and European EVs. The second box is "Cobalt," described as scarce and expensive, mostly mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and a recycling priority. The third box is "Lithium," noted for storing charge, high value, and difficulty in extraction and processing.
Central Bulges of Spiral Galaxies (Hubble and Ground-Based Views)
Image date: 6 October 1999, 15:00


This image shows how the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1365 is feeding material into its central region, igniting massive star birth and probably causing its bulge of stars to grow. The material also ...
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