@ev

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HAPPIE · BREATHE · Song · 2026

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For aspiring writers: Your ultimate goal isn't building a writing habit. It's falling so in love with interesting ideas that you can’t help but tell the world about them. Writing is the medium—not the objective.
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The New York Times story: nytimes.com/2024/12/12/techn…

Ev Williams Was Lonely. He Doesn’t Want You to Be. (Published 2024)

The serial internet entrepreneur, who co-founded Twitter and created Medium, was turning 50 and feeling detached from friends. Maybe a new start-up could fix that.

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And with a🌋💥⚡️ @ClimacticVC has launched!!! We will continue to back the next generation of unstoppable founders of all backgrounds seeking to help to decarbonize the enterprise with smart software. My fabulopus co-founder, @Rajil, and I will apply everything we have learned in our careers to date as serial founders and VCs to help our founders accelerate their businesses. We are beyond fortunate to be joined by @PaulHawken @VanJones68 and our founding associate Peter Sun on this journey. Thank you to all of our portfolio cos, LPs and other supporters who we have relied on to achieve this BIG day. Now the fun begins and we are counting on all of you to help! techcrunch.com/2023/12/14/cl…
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Update: "By 15 votes to 3, a congressional committee approved draft legislation that would strip the environment ministry of control of the rural environmental registry..." 😕 theguardian.com/world/2023/m…

Outcry as Brazil congress moves to gut environment and Indigenous ministries

Plan to drastically dilute bodies’ powers would deal severe blow to Lula’s attempt to reverse Bolsonaro’s era of Amazon devastation

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I'd rather risk the downside of looking foolish than the downside of this catastrophe. Again, even if our chance of affecting it is slight the equation is a no-brainer.
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Maybe I'm misinformed. Maybe @LeoDiCaprio was misinformed. But maybe we weren't.
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It's not plausible that more people aren't talking about this. That you're hearing it from me. There is an explanation for why that is. I happened to be in the right place 24 hours ago to learn this before most people, and I was asked to help.
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I don't think there are many sensible person that would say no to that. If they truly believed. But how can we be so sure? It doesn't sound very implausible.
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And that by sending some messages and clicking some links you could actually lower its chances?
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But indulge me in a thought experiment. What if you truly believed that the pin was about to be pulled out of the grenade? That the worst thing to happen in our lifetimes for the future of humanity was very likely to happen soon?
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And I know it feels risky to retweet something that sounds over the top. Sounding like a climate alarmist is not cool.
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I know it's tiresome to hear about the world burning—on Memorial Day, no less. I know it's hard to believe that signing an online petition about a political situation happening in (likely) a different part of the world is going to make any difference whatsoever.
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I understand why. My message was very uncharacteristic. It sounded alarmist. And it was full of links to click. But I was not hacked. I wrote those messages. They were meant to be uncharacteristic. They were meant to be an alarm.
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Again, this bill has majority support. You may be wondering, why will a petition signed by people who don't live in Brazil make any difference? I'm not an expert on this, but I have it on very good authority that it will help, via political influence.
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"What’s more, the Bill also allows the Brazilian government to find energy resources, set up military bases, develop strategic roads, and implement commercial agriculture on protected Indigenous tribal lands, without any prior discussion with the affected peoples."
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Here's another source: earthrefuge.org/brazil-490-2…

Brazil’s 490/2007 Bill: Stripping Indigenous Communities of Their Land Rights | Earth Refuge

Brazil's President has recently proposed several controversial laws. One of these is Bill 490/2007, which could be devastating for Indigenous communities.

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The best description of the situation is also the link to do something about it, which is to sign a petition: change.org/p/to-federal-cong…

Sign the Petition

GLOBAL CALL FOR THE URGENT PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN BRAZIL

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There is a piece of legislation which decimates the rights of Indigenous people of Brazil, who have been protecting the rainforest. It's unfathomably bad. It has majority support. And they're voting tomorrow.
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