Ricardo Almeida @rfpa

Ann Widdecombe’s posthumous verdict on the MPs who succeeded her. My latest monologue, on YouTube. youtube.com/watch?v=bSJZNR…

The Reason Our MPs Got So Bad. This week's Brazier, with @ColinBrazierTV. Only on @OutpostStudios.

NEW: U.S. ambassador says Portugal is poised to attract more than $40B in American technology investment by 2031, making it Europe’s largest hub for U.S. AI infrastructure.

Eleições ? Que coisa tão democrática, nada como uma ditadura comunista.

Happiness is not a goal.

Visegrad24 has released a new video on the Muslim Brotherhood and its efforts to infiltrate and subvert Western countries. Last year, France's Interior Ministry released a report in which France's intelligence services described the methods the Muslim Brotherhood uses to embed itself deeply in France's migrant communities. Likewise, worrying news are coming out of America where the Brotherhood has become increasingly active. Finally, the UK is also exposed to this threat. A man who supported Ayatollah Khomenei's fatwa against Salman Rushdie has been made an advisor for the UK government on how to tackle extremism in the country. The IRGC was recently terror-listed by the EU and the UK but European countries are still blind to the threat from the Muslim Brotherhood. Countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have banned the Muslim Brotherhood, but the West is still hesitant for some reason. In the meanwhile, the Brotherhood has built up its main global HQs in Turkey, Qatar and the UK.

@jasonfried @Tesla That's a level mentalisation that will be hard for an AI to understand _intuitively_, I would say.

When Ricardinho did THIS vs Serbia... #FutsalEURO

I’ve just finished reading Gad Saad’s book Suicidal Empathy. It ranks, along with Chris Rufo’s America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything and Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay’s Cynical Theories, as the best take-down of the lunacy at the heart of the wokeist philosophy. For Saad, empathy—in itself a perfectly decent trait—has become so grossly exaggerated that it threatens truth, reality, and justice. Cases in point abound: so they won’t feel bad about themselves, we’ll allow biological men to compete in women’s sports and crush the dreams of thousands of young women; so as not to undermine the self-esteem of minorities, we will permit unqualified candidates to have positions in universities and the corporate world; so that everyone might feel included, we will characterize the meritocracy as “white privilege,” etc. As I was making my way through Saad’s book, I kept remarking the sharp distinction between empathy and love. To empathize is to enter profoundly into the experience of another and to endeavor not to hurt that person’s feelings. But to love is, as Thomas Aquinas taught, “to will the good of the other.” As I said, in itself and all things being equal, empathy is a good thing. But it is not the same as love, which, depending on circumstances, can very much involve hurting someone’s feelings. When a professor gives a student a “C” as an honest reflection of his work, he might well be insulting him, but he’s also telling him the truth and perhaps even urging him to try harder. When, in the Confessional, a priest tells a murderer to turn himself in to the police, he’s undoubtedly making that person’s life more uncomfortable, but he’s also willing the man’s good. Any decent parent knows that showing real love for her children means engendering all kinds of bad feelings in them. In light of this distinction, we can understand why Jesus didn’t say, “have empathy for one another,” but rather “love one another.” And why St. John the Evangelist didn’t say, “God is empathy,” but rather “God is love.” It occurred to me as I was reading Saad’s book that one reason Wokeism has seized the consciousness of so many in the West is that Christianity has faded as a cultural force and Christians themselves have forgotten what stands at the heart of their faith.

O Professor António Barreto consegue explicar num minuto o que os ex-camaradas socialistas e comunistas não percebem há vários anos. Um Senhor.👑

"O homem mais extraordinário hoje vivo — ou, talvez, que alguma vez viveu." Um americano escreveu isto no início do século XIX. Falava de um abade nascido em Serpa em 1750. Houve quem o quisesse contar entre os Pais Fundadores dos Estados Unidos. Thomas Jefferson adiou deixar de ler jornais só pelo prazer de ver o nome dele impresso. Em Portugal, quase ninguém sabe quem foi. E o país que o produziu fê-lo fugir — não uma vez, duas. Começo hoje uma série sobre portugueses assombrosos que o mundo celebrou e nós esquecemos. Não sou historiador; sou apenas quem aponta. Primeiro episódio: José Correia da Serra.

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No mundo sefardita do século XVI não era preciso dizer o nome dela. Bastava "La Señora" — e de Antuérpia a Constantinopla toda a gente sabia: a mulher mais rica da Europa, a banqueira a quem reis pediam dinheiro emprestado, a organizadora da maior rede clandestina de salvamento do seu século. Nasceu em Lisboa em 1510. Portugal deu-lhe uma conversão forçada, um massacre na cidade onde cresceu e um tribunal desenhado para a queimar — e é hoje o único lugar onde o nome dela continua escondido. Os Encobertos, episódio 2: Gracia Mendes Nasi, a Senhora.

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Happy to share our new pre-print "Attention reshapes the information dynamics of thalamic and cortical prediction-error learning" led by the great Juho Äijälä, with @happieheads, @Kai_J_Miller, @dora_hermes, @drrobinince, @ABlenkmann , @TrikBek, Max Garagnani. Thread below👇

Today, we're proud to announce the future home of Port Alpha: Brownsville, Texas. Our next-generation shipyard moves from vision to reality through a planned investment of more than $3 billion to establish one of the world's most advanced shipyards, built for software-defined shipbuilding and autonomous maritime systems. Port Alpha is expected to generate more than $160 billion in regional economic impact for Cameron County and $264.5 billion for the State of Texas, while creating up to 10,000 direct jobs — which makes it one of the largest economic development projects in modern Texas history. More than a shipyard, Port Alpha represents a new model for American shipbuilding — combining advanced manufacturing, software-defined production, and autonomy at unprecedented scale. We're proud to continue building in Texas. Learn more: medium.com/saronic-techno…

Here is a list of the Jewish holidays and observances Jesus celebrated: 1. Passover (Pesach) Matthew 26:17-19; Mark 14:12-16; Luke 22:7-15; John 2:13; John 13:1 2. Festival of Unleavened Bread (Chag HaMatzot) Luke 22:1; Matthew 26:17; Mark 14:12 3. Feast of Tabernacles / Booths (Sukkot) John 7:2-14, 37 4. Feast of Dedication (Hanukkah) John 10:22-23 5. Feast of Weeks (Shavuot / Pentecost) Implied in Acts 2:1 (celebrated by His disciples); John 5:1 possibly alludes to one of the pilgrimage feasts. 6. Sabbath (Shabbat) Luke 4:16; Mark 1:21; Luke 13:10; Matthew 12:9-12 6. Circumcision, Temple Dedication, and Pilgrimage Circumcision (Brit Milah) Luke 2:21. Jesus was circumcised on the eighth day, in accordance with the Law. To assume Jesus’ conflicts with “the Pharisees” meant he rejected Judaism wholesale is false.

These 5 countries practice Female Genital Mutilation: 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇬🇲 Gambia 🇪🇹 Ethiopia 🇮🇩 Indonesia These 5 countries sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council: 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇬🇲 Gambia 🇪🇹 Ethiopia 🇮🇩 Indonesia

💸 Um prémio até 5 mil Euros de um jogo de sorte ou azar, como a raspadinha, está isento de impostos. Já alguém que use esse dinheiro para poupar, seja através do mercado de acções ou até da compra de dívida pública portuguesa, paga uma taxa liberatória de 28% sobre mais-valias. A IL propôs a isenção de tributação de mais-valias de contas poupança até 20 mil Euros. Esta medida está, aliás, no programa eleitoral da AD. A AD chumbou aquilo que a própria AD propôs. Presume-se que preferem que os portugueses continuem a espatifar (este é o termo técnico) o seu dinheiro nas raspadinhas.

@Saronic Badass!

I built an app that turns "Diário da República" into plain language🇵🇹 See what changed, for whom, and when, without sifting through pages of legalese. Summaries run on Amalia, Portugal's new open LLM. arcada.naps.pt

Did you know that the U.N. General Assembly votes in opposition to the United States position nearly 95% of the time? According to UN Watch data, the UNGA last year only aligned with the 🇺🇸 position on 5.2% of the votes. By contrast, they aligned with 🇨🇳 on 87% of the votes.