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“You Can See Everything”: Elizabeth Holmes and the art of living inside a story

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim got access to almost everything in Elizabeth Holmes’s life and turned it into a disorienting documentary about…

22 hrs ago • João Tomé

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Do controlo de pombos às touradas na RTP: o que revelam 2.891 propostas para o Orçamento

Com maioria ou sem ela, chegam quase as mesmas propostas ao Orçamento: 1.777 em média com maioria absoluta, 1.801 com governos minoritários. Em 2027 são…

Nov 8 • João Tomé

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October 2026

Digger: when exaggeration is the answer to catastrophe

I expected a more straightforward satire. What stayed with me was a reflection on humour, memory and how we deal with the consequences of a catastrophe.

Oct 27 • João Tomé

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Two weeks of earthquakes, Internet routes and fridges

Two unusual weeks, from an earthquake in Panama to Internet research and a conversation with Vint Cerf. A little bit of everything, driven by curiosity.

Oct 16 • João Tomé

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September 2026

How the Internet got 32-bit addresses, as explained by Vint Cerf

How the Internet ended up with 4.3 billion addresses. Vint Cerf (who actually replied with his two cents on this story!) picked a number in 1977. It had…

Sep 28 • João Tomé

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Silo and the impossible “dream” of programming humanity

Silo is a story about what happens when you try to design a society by controlling what people know and remember. The last season asks a harder…

Sep 17 • João Tomé

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What MEO’s outage looked like from the routing table

I’m trying to explain how the Internet works, one real-world example at a time. This week, a MEO outage offered a revealing look at BGP.

Sep 14 • João Tomé

We Really Are All Going to Die (Just Not Necessarily Because of AI)

AI deserves serious scrutiny. Apocalypse claims deserve serious and clear evidence (and a bit of more nuance).

Sep 14 • João Tomé

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“just” a library

moments.

Sep 9 • João Tomé

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Who's left to tell the billionaire he's wrong?

Tech CEOs are making decisions that could reshape how billions of us work and live. But being smart to build the future doesn’t necessarily make you…

Sep 7 • João Tomé

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August 2026

Europe’s nights were warmer this summer, especially after sunset

What a matched-season comparison across 38 European and North American locations shows about the summer of 2026.

Aug 31 • João Tomé

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Where Did the Stop Button Go? Raising a 10-Year-Old in 2026

Raising a 10-year-old in 2026 means figuring out where technology helps and where it gets in the way. Some thoughts on screens, AI, independence, and…

Aug 14 • João Tomé

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