
UrbObscura
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UrbObscura
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Me gusta el sol, Alicia y las palomas, el buen cigarro y las malas señoras. - Latin, narcisistic, misogynistic, just like my mother, need therapy


> be Alexandra Elbakyan > be born in Kazakhstan in 1988 > start coding at 12 > hack your internet provider at 14 > hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford > get a CS degree from Satbayev University > intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech > speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces > notice researchers can't read the papers they need > notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper > notice peer reviewers worked for free > notice editors worked for free > notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money > build Sci-Hub in 2011 > upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published > give it away for free > get sued by Elsevier > get hit with a $15 million judgment > don't give a flying f*ck > keep Sci-Hub up > get domain after domain seized > register a new one > keep Sci-Hub up > get investigated by the US Department of Justice > don't give a flying f*ck > get accused of working for Russian intelligence > don't give a flying f*ck > have the FBI subpoena your iCloud > get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science > get a parasitoid wasp named after you > get a deep-sea snail named after you > get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge > become a legend






Really enjoyed the memoirs of Archpriest Avvakum— "founder" of the Old Believers, who refused to comply with church reforms in the late 1600s. Avvakum wrote it while exiled in the far north. You can feel his resoluteness and fury at those who easily bent to corrupt priests.

eu sacrificaria muita gente pra morar na zona sul do rj









Ailin Perez working in between UFC fights 💪





JUST IN: Kremlin announces Putin may travel to Miami for G-20 summit.


@thsouzareis Bom é que na capital, depois de comer, você pode ir até o shopping mais próximo e passear pelas lojas Renner, ver um filme em imax, comprar um "gelato" superfaturado ou ainda um café superfaturado na cafeterie vegane alternative e depois ser esfaqueado no centro histórico







