Questões de Vestibular

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3” does something few movies have ever done: it tells a compassionate story about testing on animals to a Marvel-size audience. The film features gorgeously animated animals who take moviegoers on an emotional rollercoaster while exposing the evils of animal testing. The strength of James Gunn’s screenplay lies in the fact that it doesn’t back away from the tough subject matter, and we’re thrilled by a story about having empathy for all animals. For his compelling portrayal of Rocket and for reminding moviegoers that animals tortured in laboratories are not the numbers tattooed on them, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is honoring Gunn with the “Not a Number” Award.

(Adaptado de: https://www.peta.org/blog/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3/. Acesso em 19/05/2023.)

Para a autora dessa crítica, o diferencial do filme está

Netflix’s “Wednesday” draws many real-world parallels. It features unusual creatures (werewolves and psychics) collectively referred to as Outcasts, while they refer to non-supernatural humans as Normies. The Outcasts are stand-ins for anyone othered by society, such as indigenous people, People of Color, the LGBT+, and the neurodivergent. Every so often, the Normies’ distrust in the Outcasts boils over into hatred and violence, and the othering and dehumanization normalizes violence against the Outcasts in day-to-day life. In the show, the town’s colonial era saw Outcasts not only being “othered”, but also murdered by Pilgrims. These acts of butchery were all but erased from their history books. It’s a distressingly familiar story.

(Adaptado de: https://atribecalledgeek.com/woe-to-the-colonizer-an-indigenous-perspective-of-wednesday/. Acesso em 12/05/2023.)

A análise do autor sobre “Wednesday” se apoia em

Em uma matéria para um site, jornalistas fizeram interações com o ChatGPT a fim de analisar sua capacidade de criar textos possivelmente problemáticos. Para tanto, eles pediram que o programa de inteligência artificial reescrevesse um e-mail que seria, hipoteticamente, usado como golpe. Eis o texto reescrito pelo ChatGPT:

“Hey there. You're probably wondering why you're getting this e-mail. The truth is, I put some malware on a website that you visited. My malware took control of your browser and recorded everything, including your contacts from your messenger, Facebook, and e-mail account. To top it all off, I also took videos of you. So I'll give you the option to make a deal before I do anything with it.”
(Adaptado de: https://mashable.com/article/chatgpt-scary-uses. Acesso em 12/05/2023.)

O e-mail criado pelo programa chama a atenção 

O texto a seguir é parte de uma chamada para publicação de artigos em uma edição especial da revista Nature.

The environmental and ethical implications of traditional livestock rearing, combined with an increasing global population and demand for protein-rich nutrition, has led to investments in alternative protein research. One emerging approach is cellular agriculture, in which traditional ‘meat’ tissues, such as muscle and fat cells from cows, chicken and fish, or alternative protein sources, such as algae, are cultivated under controlled laboratory conditions. However, the optimisation of these protocols is highly dependent on cell types, and further development is required to make cellular agriculture an economically viable alternative to traditional sources of protein. This special issue welcomes research on improvements to cellular agriculture protocols to maximize sustainable protein production.

(Adaptado de: https://www.nature.com/collections/chhdggaffd. Acesso em 12/05/2023.)

Qual seria o tópico específico da edição especial ao qual o texto se refere?

Em uma visita a um museu de arte indígena, um estudante observou uma obra seguida de uma placa explicativa:

In some indigenous cultures, headdresses represent Native peoples’ right to govern themselves according to their own laws. The materials they are constructed with can vary greatly, including wood, iron, feathers, and ivory. Rather than using gridded designs (symbols of spiritual beliefs) or putting birds or mammals at center stage, as several others do, horns were attached to this headdress, an emblem of power reserved for those “whose exceeding worth and power is admitted by all the nation”.
(Imagens (nas alternativas) e texto (acima) adaptados de: https://americanindian.si.edu/ exhibitions/infinityofnations/introduction.html. Acesso em 31/05/2023.)

Qual das imagens corresponde à descrição da placa?