João Cancela
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João Cancela
@joaoc
Professor de ciência política e membro da direcção da @nova_fcsh. Passagens pela @UMinho_Oficial (2017-19) e @Georgetown (2024). Eleições e escapismo.


Reading into this "AI horror novel" scandal, I fear people in the publishing world may be massively, massively overestimating their ability to detect AI prose by eyeballing.




Eis a inspiradora história de como John Arrigo, antigo comerciante de automóveis em Palm Beach, se tornou embaixador dos EUA em Portugal.

The total number of smart people in the world has just peaked. And now it's about to crash.







The median age in China has rapidly caught up with the United Kingdom— In 1965, the median age in the United Kingdom was almost twice that of China. Half of the people in the UK were younger than 34 years, and half were older. In China, this midpoint was just 18 years. Within just a few generations, that age gap has closed. As you can see in the chart, the median age in both countries is now 40 years. Both populations have aged, but the increase was far faster in China. In the 1950s and early 1960s, China’s median age fell partly because of a fall in child mortality: birth rates remained high, and more children survived. After that, the rapid increase is largely explained by a steep fall in fertility, and therefore in births. Before then, high birth rates meant that large cohorts of children were continually entering the population, keeping it young. When births fell, fewer children were added each year, and the large, earlier generations grew older. China’s median age is expected to continue rising quickly: under the UN’s medium projections, it will be 10 years older than the UK's by 2050. (This Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie.)






Saiu o novo relatório do V-Dem de 2025. Brasil está passando por um processo de democratização, os EUA de autocratização, os 2 ainda são considerados democracias eleitorais, mas EUA está perto de transicionar para uma autocracia eleitoral enquanto BR para uma democracia liberal.
















