Thursday, February 6, 2025

Ya no es chistoso lo de #PresidentMusk y hay que ser muy pendejo para no darse cuenta de lo que llaman "meritocracy"

The New Gaza Palm Beach

 

La pesadilla desatada por unos millones votantes en Estados Unidos, entre los que destacan los que votaron por Jill Stein no tiene fin a la vista, y las consecuencias se sabe serán terribles. (que no, que no mame Isolino Doval, nada bueno saldrá de esto)

Jill Stein 2024


Reddit community banned as user spat with Musk intensifies
Reddit has temporarily banned one of its communities - and removed another - after X owner Elon Musk claimed comments made by the site's users about his employees were breaking the law. The r/WhitePeopleTwitter subreddit, which typically invites people to share funny posts from X, has been banned for 72 hours after some users posted comments calling for violence against members of the Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
Jeremy Bowen: Trump's Gaza plan won't happen, but it will have consequences
Donald Trump's plan for the US to "take over" and "own" Gaza, resettling its population in the process, is not going to happen. It requires the co-operation of Arab states that have rejected it. They include Jordan and Egypt - countries that Trump wants to take in Gaza's Palestinians - and Saudi Arabia, which might be expected to foot the bill. Western allies of the US and Israel are also against the idea. Some - perhaps many - Palestinians in Gaza might be tempted to get out if they had the chance. But even if a million left, as many as 1.2m others would still be there. Presumably the United States - the new owners of Trump's "Riviera of the Middle East" - would have to use force to remove them.

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Hola

Qué absoluto desmadre 

LAFD Provides Mutual Aid on Hughes Fire in Castaic Area

¿Cómo estás? En este viejo mundo que agoniza y el nuevo que nace que nos ha traído a autoritarios, democracias iliberales, y gente pendeja que te dice "me parece que exageras" de verdad enero 2025 ha sido un suspiro y una pesadilla. 

El mojón naranja sí quiere cambiar el mundo, y aunque no es un gran negociador, tiene, lamentablemente la sartén por el mango, basta ver el papelón que hizo Gustavo Petro (al que no soporto), él sólito el día domingo 26 de enero de 2025

 Quien diga que no ha pasado nada vive atemorizado y deseando que así sea.

  Are we at a turning point in world history?

More generally, turning points or inflection points are major events in history that profoundly reshape our lives. One central characteristic of them is their irreversibility, as, afterwards, it seems impossible to return to the status quo ante. Unsurprisingly, political leaders, past and present, have also routinely invoked them, with some urgency, as ways to mobilize support for their cause. This has also allowed them to give their own time (and themselves, as actors or witnesses) historical significance.
Cruelty and Loyalty :On zone-flooding fatigue and the tenets of autocracy 

  Cruelty has long been part of the Trump brand. But last week saw cruelty etched (in Sharpie) into law and therefore made official policy of the US government.

 But Trump’s zone-flooding in his first week is not just about cruelty. It is also about rewarding—and requiring—loyalty. Of course, the appointments that Trump has made to key positions in his administration reward those who have stuck with him even if they otherwise have not met the minimal qualifications for office. But now that Trump is back in the presidency, his first week of governing make clear that he will now demand the loyalty of all those who work in the federal government writ large.

Sobre la inteligencia artificial, hasta hace unos días veníamos hablando de como los modelos comenzaban a estancarse, no podían dar un salto tan grande como hace un poco más de 24 meses cuando comenzábamos a hablar de chatgpt y dall-e, en la "inauguración" de Trump estaban un montón de broligarchs que a las pocas horas estaban enfrentados por el monto ridículo de la inversión que querían hacer, y esta semana, la china Deepseek destruyó la sexta parte de la valuación de nvidia.

En mi caso, yo ya no pude seguir en twitter, el cretino de elon lo arruinó, como TODO lo que toca. Me fui a Bluesky, pero la conversación ya no tiene la plaza central que era twitter hace 15 años, donde los periodistas y los traumados de la información estábamos todos en el mismo lugar, y no eramos obligados a ver un feed algorítmico, por ello después de mucho negarme, me convertí en un redditor, peor reddit desde hace un par de años también está por caer, primero como alimento para entrenar LLMs, y ahora con la implementación de IA en su navegación. 

Este es un año que empieza de la verga, ojalá mejore.


Is This How Reddit Ends?

But now even Reddit is becoming more artificial. The platform has quietly started beta-testing Reddit Answers, what it calls an “AI-powered conversational interface.” In function and design, the feature—which is so far available only for some users in the U.S.—is basically an AI chatbot. On a new search screen accessible from the homepage, Reddit Answers takes anyone’s queries, trawls the site for relevant discussions and debates, and composes them into a response. In other words, a site that sells itself as a home for “authentic human connection” is now giving humans the option to interact with an algorithm instead.