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For US voters, think about how big the Democrats won yesterday (about 13 points nationally).
Venezuela's opposition won their 2024 election by a margin about 3x larger than that. Then it was stolen. That's why Venezuelans remain angry and frustrated with the dictatorship there.
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Hoy, al cumplir 11 años, AlumnUSB lanza el Fondo USB 2050: el primer endowment para una universidad pública venezolana.
La autonomía financiera de la USB se siembra hoy. 🌱
alumnusb.org/fondo-2050
#UniVE
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My close friend Marilú Paredes, 63, from Cabimas, Venezuela, was detained by US immigration on August 25 and deported to the Central African Republic, a country she had never set foot in and whose language she doesn't speak.
She left behind her husband, who has a chronic illness and depended on her care, plus her 3 daughters and 4 grandchildren. Her family still doesn't know why she was sent there or how to bring her home.
She's not the only one. Since 2025 the US has sent nearly 28,000 people to "third countries" that aren't their own, 536 of them to African nations, Venezuelans included. Many had no ties to those places, and some even had legal protection from removal.
Her daughter Mariu started a fundraiser to cover lawyers and basic needs. Every donation helps bring Marilú closer to her family, and if you can't give, a repost helps a lot 🙏
How to donate 👇
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Digital minimalism
vitalik.eth.limo/general/202…
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New from me: Bryan Caplan is Wrong About Pedagogy
I read The Case Against Education. I was not impressed. Caplan provides a superficial and often wrong treatment of pedagogy in the book, a stark contrast to his seriousness about economics.
news.educationprogress.org/p…
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""I think it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support within or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman, but she doesn't have the respect."
DJT, January 3 2026
Subordinate tech to your goals
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💥 Acabamos de llegar a 105 de 127 postulados con fotografía (83%) y 119 con información (94%).
+1.300 aportes ciudadanos y respaldados por 237 fuentes.
Gracias a todos, esto ha sido agotador pero increíble.
cpj.macedoniadelnorte.com
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Did digital cameras remove the “soul” from photography, and will AI remove the “soul” from many arts?
luca-dellanna.com/posts/soul…
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The devastation caused by recent earthquakes in Venezuela cannot be described without understanding the deep institutional fragility caused by 30 years of government mismanagement and neglect. We discuss it in this viewpoint @LancetRH_Americ
sciencedirect.com/science/ar……
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little known fact but John Lennon’s Imagine was actually about Twitter after you obliterate Russia’s data center capacity
Love this example of building in public, especially doing away with “user” in favor of “family”
Sundrop reception has been wonderful (and metrics auspicious) - thank you all!
This said, yesterday's traffic exposed some scenarios (old phones, large libraries, person density patterns) that were not handled well by the app.
If you encountered any bugs – or worse, a stalled onboarding – I'm very sorry!
We just submitted a new build that addresses ~80% of these issues. We'll be working hard over the next week to ensure we handle "non-standard" paths more gracefully.
Why would anyone buy a Whop subscription if you can get a new Apple Watch every year for the same money?
