Month: December 2025

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Libido

Fernando Kaskais

FERNANDO KASKAIS Há aquele tipo de homem que é de tal maneira amante das mulheres que chega ao ponto de só amar uma, e tentar fazer amor com todas as outras. Acaba por possuir corpos indiferentes, que tal como a membrana do tímpano, entram em movimento da mesma maneira, seja pelo ronronar de um frigorífico, ou por um chorus de John Coltrane. É essa a tragédia dos aspirantes a “Don Juan”, não distinguem um saxofone de um frigorífico. https://kaskaisphotos.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/libido/ F. Kaskais Web Guru Continue reading Libido

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The Generative AI Bubble Has Begun to Pop

Fernando Kaskais

Image Credit: Pippin – Adobe Stock From hype to hard realities in the age of artificial intelligence Jeffrey Funk  Generative AI has dominated the tech news over the last two years. More than 50% of venture capital funding goes to generative AI, which I distinguish from predictive AI, the older and, at one time, the more researched form of AI. Announcements and news from the big consulting firms and top business schools are also dominated by generative AI. The profit figures suggest that they are the most profitable organizations within AI outside of Nvidia. Nirvana, doomsday or — bubble Much of … Continue reading The Generative AI Bubble Has Begun to Pop

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Your purpose isn’t something to find, it’s something you form

Fernando Kaskais

Photo by Justin Paget/Getty Images By Ross White is a professor of clinical psychology at Queen’s University Belfast and the founding director of Strive2Thrive, a clinical psychology consultancy firm providing interventions and training to help individuals and organisations thrive. He is the author of The Tree That Bends: How a Flexible Mind Can Help You Thrive (2024). In my therapy office, I’ve found that to live with greater purpose, we must think differently about where it comes from In my work as a clinical psychologist, I have supported numerous people who described feeling listless, apathetic, and lost in life. These clients often say … Continue reading Your purpose isn’t something to find, it’s something you form

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How Coca-Cola’s Calories-Out Myth Backfired Spectacularly

Fernando Kaskais

Adobe Stock The soda giant astroturfed a campaign meant to shift blame from sugar to sedentary lifestyles. Instead, it sparked a PR nightmare. By: Murray Carpenter In 2009, Rhona Applebaum had a problem. As more researchers were revealing the health risks of sugar-sweetened beverages, concerns about obesity were threatening the business model of her employer, Coca-Cola. Per-capita soda consumption had actually begun declining in the United States. Applebaum felt the diet side of the obesity equation had been getting too much attention, and the exercise side too little. Applebaum had a plan. What if Coca-Cola designed a program to emphasize … Continue reading How Coca-Cola’s Calories-Out Myth Backfired Spectacularly

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Has Orwell’s 1984 Become Reality?

Fernando Kaskais

Brownstone Journal By Bert Olivier   To some readers it may seem like a rhetorical question to ask whether the narrative of George Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984), first published in Britain in 1949, has somehow left its pages and settled, like an ominous miasma, over the contours of social reality. Yet, closer inspection – which means avoiding compromised mainstream news outlets – discloses a disquieting state of affairs.  Everywhere we look in Western countries, from the United Kingdom, through Europe to America (and even India, whose ‘Orwellian digital ID system’ was lavishly praised by British prime minister Keir Starmer recently), what meets the … Continue reading Has Orwell’s 1984 Become Reality?

Conspiracy, Manipulation, Media&Culture, Psychology, SpaceLeave a comment

What It’s Like to Be a Moon Landing Conspiracist

Fernando Kaskais

Getty Images Don’t Stop Denying Fifty years after Apollo 11, Moon landing conspiracists remain as staunchly skeptical as ever. But in 2019, does not believing in humanity’s greatest achievement mean the same thing it did back in 1969? By Eric Spitznagel Welcome to Apollo Week, celebrating 50 years since the Apollo 11 mission, explaining what it means today, and exploring how its legacy will shape the future of space exploration. As the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission arrives this weekend, Jarrah White is ready to catch the moon landing propagandists in another lie. There’s no shortage of ways to relive the historic … Continue reading What It’s Like to Be a Moon Landing Conspiracist

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America’s post-apocalyptic maps reveal eerily familiar fault lines

Fernando Kaskais

The common thread in post-apocalyptic fiction is balkanization, with the States dis-uniting into smaller, mutually hostile geopolitical fragments: confederacies, theocracies, city-states, tribal zones, no-man’s lands. (Credit: ThaDrummer/DeviantArt) In post-apocalyptic fiction, imagined futures turn today’s political and cultural tensions into geography. Key Takeaways By Frank Jacobs The United States has ended, but America continues. The question is: How? That’s the shortest possible summary for an entire genre of U.S.-centered, post-apocalyptic fiction. Call it “America after the Fall.” It’s a fertile genre, with plenty of maps to illustrate its dismal point. That point is not the future, but the present. Like other strands of … Continue reading America’s post-apocalyptic maps reveal eerily familiar fault lines

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Fractal

Fernando Kaskais

FERNANDO KASKAIS Nós humanos somos como fractais, de estruturas complexas na pujança da vida, vamo-nos repetindo com o avançar da idade, em escalas cada vez menores seguindo a regra da simplicidade. Rompemo-nos em partes, refazemo-nos outra vez, repetimo-nos novamente, enquanto o mundo segue indiferente aos nossos dramas euclidianos de dimensão finita, numa existência cheia de arestas vivas, que nos dilaceram a alma. https://kaskaisphotos.wordpress.com/2025/12/13/fractal/ F. Kaskais Web Guru Continue reading Fractal

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The Secret Universe Inside Your Head: How Your Brain Creates Entire Worlds From Nothing

Fernando Kaskais

Illustration of a man walking towards a huge shape of a person’s head overlaid with an image of the cosmos Your brain is hallucinating right now. Not in the clinical sense, but in a way that’s far more profound: everything you’re experiencing at this moment is a controlled hallucination your brain is generating from scratch. The colors you see, the sounds you hear, the feeling of your body in space—none of it exists “out there” in the way you think it does. According to neuroscience research published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, your brain doesn’t passively receive reality like a camera. Instead, it … Continue reading The Secret Universe Inside Your Head: How Your Brain Creates Entire Worlds From Nothing

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Can Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Affect Gender Identity?

Fernando Kaskais

Visual: Moment via Getty Images Some scientists see it as a question worth exploring. But others say it’s dubious — and fodder for right-wing prejudice. By Charles Schmidt Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was running for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination when he sat for an interview with Jordan B. Peterson, a controversial Canadian psychologist, during his eponymous podcast. About an hour into the conversation, which published in June 2023, Kennedy pivoted from answering a question about climate change to bringing up a very different subject: He stated that a lot of the sexual dysphoria seen in children, particularly in boys, “is coming from … Continue reading Can Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals Affect Gender Identity?