Works on gov reform, peace agreements, displacement + land rights + conflict in cities. Pseudoacademic. PhD @Cambridge_Uni
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Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
The National Museum of American History has an exhibit right now on Filipino American history. It includes the suits that Filipino immigrants bought using the money they earned as agricultural laborers. Photos from Mina Roces's article "These Guys Came Out Looking Like Movie Actors': Filipino Dress and Consumer Practices in the United States, 1920s-1930s"
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
You know how Brazil reversed deforestation.
It wasn’t a bunch of conservation tax incentives for farmers.
IBAMA (Brazil’s equivalent of the EPA) airdrops shock troops to firebomb illegal logging and mining camps.
Yanuni (2026)
UPDATED – Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022
✍️ By Orla Dwyer and Josh Gabbatiss
Read here: buff.ly/QqRBFfy
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
En Brasil están intentando concienciar a la gente de algo fundamental para entender la victoria de Lula: no interactuar absolutamente con nada de la derecha. Ni siquiera para criticarla. Cada interacción les da visibilidad. Ni difusión, ni respuestas, ni citas. Interacción cero.
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
Oh 1000% youre not playing a videogame
Ukrainian-developed FPV drone simulator “Remote Reaper: FPV Drone” has officially left Early Access, with version 1.0 now available on Steam.
Developed in collaboration with military pilots, the simulator focuses on combat FPV drone operations and introduces several features in its full release, including armored vehicles with modeled vulnerable zones, electronic warfare effects that can disrupt video feeds and control signals during the final stage of an attack, and a customizable drone editor.
Version 1.0 also adds configurable weather conditions, custom mission editing, real-time flights with other pilots and a racing mode.
Players can use FPV hardware or a gamepad with realistic flight physics, or opt for simplified controls using a keyboard and mouse.
#RemoteReaper #FPV #FPVDrone #DroneSimulator
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
People need to understand this: these billionaire tech bros teach their children Montessori and Waldorf methods which focuses on teaching kids the ability to focus for long periods, think critically, and be creative, while they push attention-destroying short form videos and AI onto the masses and pretend it’s for the good of humanity.
They understand that your ability to focus and be creative is the main factor of success in the future, yet design apps that degrade those crucial life skills. The average person must be aware of this and resist this at all costs.
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/e…
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
Fear of war seems set to save Europe’s most important ancient woodland. Poland is rewetting the priceless, but drying-out, Bialowieza Forest on its border with Belarus - home to lynx, wolves and European bison - to make it impenetrable to invaders.
news.mongabay.com/2026/10/ca…
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
This one goes out to all of the tumblr kids reblogging that “I’ll take care of you / it’s rotten work / not to me, not if it’s you” exchange from her Euripides translation
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
A French high school teacher suggests that a phone ban helped lead to riots legrandcontinent.eu/fr/diman…
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
Rodrigo Nunes @Equatormag provides one the best, broadly applicable descriptions of the rise of far right politics (in Brazil) that you will read. equator.org/articles/brazil-…
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
AMLC chief details 34 STRs on Sara
Private prosecutor Mae Divinagracia on Monday presented 34 Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) involving Vice President Sara Duterte on Day 33 of her impeachment trial.
Anti-Money Laundering Council Executive Director Ronel Buenaventura confirmed that 34 STRs involving Duterte were filed from 2019 to 2024.
He said the reports cited alleged graft and corruption, flood control issues, shabu importation, malversation of public funds, and drug trafficking.
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Drone footage of the alleged scam hub in Alicia, Zamboanga Sibugay, shows multiple makeshift tents and portable comfort rooms set up on a vacant seaside lot.
According to Philippine authorities, the site was allegedly used to house operations linked to various online scams, including love and investment scams. Around 120 foreign nationals, mostly Chinese, were apprehended during the operation on Friday morning, October 2.
The operation was part of simultaneous anti-scamming raids in the towns of Alicia and Siay, where authorities apprehended a total of 200 foreign nationals. | via Andrea Salve, Bilyonaryo News
Courtesy: AFP
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
Indonesia is burning: satellites have mapped 4.1m ha burned so far in 2026, including farmland and grassland (Copernicus GWIS)
That's:
>The entire landmass of Switzerland
>56x Singapore
A super El Niño left 90% of the country with little or no rain in early August. Fires lit to clear land for palm oil, pulp and farms spread into drained peat, which smoulders underground for weeks. So far:
>12.5m people in Indonesia exposed to haze, with smoke reaching Singapore and KL
>170k+ respiratory illness cases
>World's highest fire emissions in the first week of September (Copernicus)
Burning peat releases carbon stored over thousands of years. Stop draining the swamp!
(Map via Bloomberg)
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
Singapore's govt dating app runs on a Nobel Prize-winning game theory algorithm 👏
FirstDate uses Gale-Shapley, the 1962 stable marriage algorithm that won the 2012 Economics Nobel and still runs hospital residency matches and kidney exchanges today.
how it works:
1 | your preferences and dealbreakers build a ranked priority list
2 | proposers offer to their top pick. receivers hold their best offer and reject the rest. rejected proposers move down their list. rinse and repeat until locked
3 | the result is mathematically stable: no two people exist who would both prefer each other over their assigned matches. "the app never showed us each other" becomes impossible by design
the UX:
• one match per cycle, zero infinite scroll
• 72-hour decision window
• contact info revealed only on mutual yes
• Singpass-verified, so everyone is exactly who they claim (told my husband I'm annoyed I can't test it. his response: most people sneak onto dating apps, and here you are openly filing a product research request 🤣 )
commercial apps need you to keep swiping but this app is designed to get you off the platform. Singapore built the first dating app whose success metric is deleting its own users 💀
(fun game theory note: Gale-Shapley yields proposer-optimal outcomes - meaning proposers get their best possible stable match, receivers their worst 👀)
public servants aged 21-35 only for now. interesting to see if state-sponsored game theory beats the free market (or rather, all the tinders and hinges out there) 🍿
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
Notes from the Field | Hu Chao highlights the epistemic violence inherent in bilateral geopolitical media coverage that renders SE Asia in "terms that the machinery of geopolitical commentary can process" & "renders the region illegible on its own terms." criticalasianstudies.org/com…
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
I'm starting to get concerned that not a lot of folks (esp ones in power) are talking about our climate in the next few months.
From November onwards, a lot of the PH will receive way below normal rainfall. We're talking effectively no rain for months in some places.
Maria Carmen (Ica) Fernandez retweeted
READ #DFAStatement on Developments in the West Bank
Also available here:
dfa.gov.ph/dfa-statement-on-…
#DFAForgingAhead
