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@drewcrawford_ 100% agree!!!!

Eu podia morar em qualquer lugar do mundo... Nova York. Miami. Lisboa. Dubai. Escolhi o Brasil 🇧🇷 Moro em Florianópolis. Passei os últimos 12 anos indo e voltando entre os Estados Unidos e o Brasil. Cada vez que voltava pros EUA, a contagem regressiva pra voltar começava no aeroporto. Aqui eu janto com amigos às 22h numa terça-feira e ninguém olha o relógio. Aqui o desconhecido no elevador puxa conversa de verdade, não só "how are you" com resposta automática. Aqui o churrasquinho de calçada às 18h com um guaraná gelado tem mais qualidade de vida do que qualquer restaurante de US$200 em Manhattan. Aqui eu saio de casa de chinelo, tomo um café na padaria da esquina, e volto caminhando pela mar. Aqui a natureza não é um parque que você visita no fim de semana. É a sua vida. Praia, montanha, trilha, cachoeira... tudo a 20 minutos. Nos Estados Unidos, as pessoas vivem pra trabalhar. Aqui, as pessoas trabalham pra viver. E ninguém pede desculpa por isso. O Brasil tem seus problemas. Eu sei. Eu vivo eles todo dia. Mas nenhum problema apaga o fato de que as pessoas aqui sabem viver. Sabem rir. Sabem acolher. Sabem transformar qualquer momento num momento bom. Isso não se compra. Não se exporta. Não se replica. É por isso que eu estou aqui.

@AnthropicAI I have a personal and business account sharing the same email. I want to delete the personal account and use platform.claude.com for a business API key but I can’t. I’m stuck in an endless loop where the portal shows contact support to delete the email - helpppp

Things Americans believe about Brazil that are completely wrong: "Brazil is dangerous." São Paulo's murder rate is approximately 6 per 100,000. St. Louis, Baltimore, New Orleans, and Detroit all exceed 40. Latin America's largest city (the place most Americans picture when they think "dangerous Brazil") is safer per capita than St. Louis, Baltimore, New Orleans, Detroit, Memphis, and Cleveland. "Brazil is poor." 8th largest economy on earth. 7th by purchasing power. GDP larger than Italy's. Unemployment at 5.3% (the lowest since 2012). 108.2 million tonnes of soybeans exported in 2025 ($43.5 billion). $18 billion in beef exports. $86 billion in revenue from a single meat company (JBS). $7.6 billion from a single airplane manufacturer (Embraer). "Brazil only exports raw materials." Embraer is the third-largest aircraft manufacturer on earth. Half the regional jets in America are Brazilian. WEG is a $40 billion industrial manufacturer that exports to 135+ countries. Nubank serves 110 million customers and is worth $85 billion. The Manaus Free Trade Zone assembles Samsung phones, Honda motorcycles, and LG electronics inside the Amazon. "Brazil's financial system is backwards." Pix processes 6-7 billion transactions per month. 170 million users. 93% of the adult population. The Fed launched FedNow nearly three years after Pix. Adoption: minimal. Brazil has Open Finance with 60+ million active consents. The US does not. Brazil has an active CBDC pilot (Drex). The US does not. "The currency is unstable." Brazil's Central Bank raised rates to 13.75% before the Fed started hiking. It fought inflation faster and harder than most major central banks in the 2021-2023 cycle. BCB independence was formalized by law in 2021 with fixed four-year terms. The dollar touched R$5.00 for the first time in two years. The Ibovespa hit 16 all-time records in 2026 and is up 22% YTD. "Nobody invests in Brazil." Chinese FDI grew 113% in 2024. The US committed $565 million to critical minerals. The EU just signed its largest trade deal ever (720 million consumers, 90%+ tariffs eliminated). BTG Pactual reported "enormous increase in interest from large pension funds and sovereign funds." The Ibovespa gained 30%+ in dollar terms in 2025. "The Amazon is being destroyed." Brazil still holds 60% of the Amazon rainforest. It has a higher share of renewable electricity than any major economy on earth (87%). The EU-Mercosul deal requires deforestation-free certification for all agricultural exports starting late 2026. Brazil powers itself with water while exporting oil. Very few countries on earth can say the same. The gap between what Americans think they know about Brazil and what is actually true is wider than any valuation gap in financial markets. That gap is the opportunity. Next time someone tells you Brazil is "risky," ask them what they actually know about it. Most of the time, the answer is nothing.

@drewcrawford_ I think about it quite a lot :) I love Brazil

Things you used today that were probably made in Brazil: The coffee you drank this morning. Brazil has been the world's #1 producer for over 150 years. It grows more than the next two countries combined. The orange juice at breakfast. Brazil supplies about 75% of the world's oranges used for orange juice. Florida's production has declined 92% in two decades. The chicken in your lunch. Brazil is the world's largest chicken exporter. Approximately one out of every three pieces of chicken traded internationally comes from a Brazilian processing plant. The steak at dinner. Brazil is the world's largest beef exporter. $18 billion in revenue in 2025. Up 40% in a single year. The sugar in your drink. Brazil is the world's largest sugar exporter. It also converts that sugar into ethanol and blends it into fuel. The paper towel you threw away. Suzano, headquartered in São Paulo, is the world's largest pulp producer. Brazilian eucalyptus grows to harvest in 7 years. Scandinavian pine takes 25. The leather in your shoes. Brazil has approximately 232 million head of cattle. More cattle than people in every country in Europe. The iron in the steel frame of the building you're sitting in. Brazil is one of the largest iron ore exporters on earth. It shipped over 400 million tonnes in 2025. The niobium in the alloy that makes your car lighter and stronger. Brazil controls 94% of global niobium reserves. Primarily from Minas Gerais. The soy meal that fed the animal you ate. Brazil exported 108.2 million tonnes of soybeans in 2025. More than any country in history has ever exported in a single year. The airplane you flew on last week. Embraer E-Jets make up about half of all regional jets flying for American, Delta, United, and Alaska. Built in São José dos Campos, Brazil. The phone in your pocket might have been assembled in Manaus, where Samsung, LG, and Panasonic operate factories inside the Amazon rainforest. Brazil is in your morning coffee. Your lunch. Your dinner. Your clothes. Your buildings. Your car. Your airplane. Your phone. It touches your life a dozen times a day. You just never see the label. The most influential country in your daily life is the one you think about the least.

Chuck Norris held a 183-10-2 record and was a 6x world champion in full contact bare knuckle karate. On top of that, he beat heavyweight kickboxing world champion Joe Lewis 3 consecutive times and also had a brutal sparring match with undefeated kickboxing world champion, Bill Superfoot Wallace, that lasted an hour and a half. According to Wallace, they practically stalemated and "beat the crap out of each other". Chuck was trained in kickboxing/boxing by Benny The Jet Urquidez and was also trained in BJJ by the Gracies and Machados for 20 years. Even being able to submit Carlos Machado himself on occasion. Chuck had a 315 Ibs bench press at 180 lbs bodyweight and was said to have a grip back in the day that nobody could escape from because he was so strong. Even Jean Claude Van Damme said he'd never fight Chuck Norris, despite being a kickboxing world champion himself. Chuck held a 10th degree black belt in Chun Kuk Do, a 9th degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, an 8th degree black belt in Taekwondo, a 5th degree black belt in Karate, a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a black belt in Judo. Rest in peace, Chuck!

@RealProductGirl github.com/josh803316/how…

@josh803316 This is quite cool. I like the landing page and UI. Looking forward to seeing the deployment ❤️

I NEED my feed full of builders. What are you working on right now? I don't care if it's a startup or a weekend side project. If you're building something, I want you on my timeline. Reply and let's connect. 👇

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@Tonysmarkettips Calvin Johnson (Megatron) — Honestly there are tons more but he was just so fun to watch

Who is your favorite football player who never played for the 49ers?

From Brazil to the Bay, now here to stay 🤝 The Warriors have signed Gui Santos to a multi-year contract extension.

@ted_ryce I could not agree more!

I’ve been in Brazil for an entire year. When I first came, it wasn’t some romantic “move to paradise” decision. I’ve lived in 9 different countries over the years. The novelty of being foreign wears off fast. Eventually you’re just a guy trying to live your life somewhere. But something about Brazil is different. It’s the way people look you in the eye when they talk to you. The way a random conversation at a coffee shop turns into a real connection. The way strangers go out of their way to help you instead of brushing you off. Service feels human here. Not transactional like in the States. There’s a warmth that’s hard to explain until you experience it. It’s not perfect. No country is. But it feels alive. After bouncing around the world for years, this is the first place in a long time where I don’t feel like I’m “trying it out.” I just feel at home. And that’s something I didn’t realize I was looking for.

How long until we have an AI Olympics with the various models (and their agents) competing?

A Brazilian scientist worked in silence for 25 years on something medicine said was impossible: regenerating the spinal cord. Dr. Tatiana Sampaio extracted a protein from placentas that acts as "biological glue" — recreating the conditions that let embryonic neurons connect. Six patients with complete spinal cord injuries regained movement. Bruno Drummond was tetraplegic after a car accident. Two weeks after treatment, he moved his toe. Today he walks, climbs stairs, dances. Her quote when asked why she finally went public: "I no longer have the right to be conservative." 25 years. No social media. No self-promotion. Just the work. This is what real science looks like.

The guy who built Claude Code just dropped the customization playbook. Quick TLDR so you don’t have to scroll: 1. Terminal: /config for theme, /terminal-setup for shift+enter in IDE terminals 2. Effort level: /model to set Low, Medium, or High (he uses High for everything) 3. Plugins marketplace: LSPs, MCPs, skills, agents, custom hooks, all installable from Anthropic’s official marketplace or your company’s private one 4. Custom agents: drop .md files in .claude/agents with custom name, color, tool set, and model 5. Pre-approve permissions: /permissions to auto-approve safe commands so Claude stops asking 6. Sandboxing: /sandbox for file and network isolation, runs on your machine 7. Status line: /statusline to show model, directory, remaining context, cost, and time below the composer 8. Keybindings: /keybindings to remap any key, live reload 9. Hooks: deterministic lifecycle hooks that auto-route permission requests to Slack, nudge Claude to keep going, or kick off sub-agents 10.Spinner verbs: customize the loading spinner text, check it into git so your whole team gets Star Trek themed spinners 11.Output styles: /config to set explanatory mode when learning a new codebase 12.Settings.json: check it into git so your entire team inherits your config The buried lede here is #4 and #9. Custom agents with pre-set tool permissions and hooks that auto-continue turns means you can build specialized coding workflows that run with minimal human intervention. That’s the gap between “using Claude Code” and “having Claude Code work for you.”

This is the best and most reasonable "anti-LLM" take I've ever read.

So refreshing to see this light in the dark alleys of AI fear!

Thank you for another season of drawing the Niners ❤️💛 Wasn't the outcome we wanted but we fought till the end. I hope I continue to bring you some joy every day, specially when things don't go our way! Here's to the end of a season! Looking forward to the next one! Go Niners!🫡