So far, 2025 has felt like living inside a Hieronymus Bosch painting

The common denominator in every place where birth rates are dropping is women’s increased access to education.

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La voz indígena resurge en la literatura mexicana

Los libros que publica Héctor Martínez son bilingües, es decir, que en cada ejemplar aparece el texto en la lengua originaria y a la par la traducción al castellano dozz.es/hd3ez4

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

La IA está ejerciendo una presión cada vez mayor sobre los sistemas energéticos globales, los recursos hídricos y los minerales críticos. “Los consumidores no son conscientes de estos costes, y se ha hecho poco para educarles” social.elpais.com/r96br15

This story from @nirhasson.bsky.social demonstrates not only the scale of the carnage (at least 4% of Gaza's population) but the truly unprecedented targeting of civilians. Women and children account for 56% of those killed - more than twice their share in Sudan, Syria and Iraq.
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We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible.

I know this makes me a killjoy but we need to bring back having standards. It’s better to watch a good film than to consume ten hours of slop. It’s better to make your own art than to have a machine make it. It is better to chat with a friend than a bot. Have some self-respect.

The results from Germany's big 3-year UBI experiment are out!

122 people got €1200/mo for 3 years. All were age 21-40 and employed with incomes between €1100/mo to €2600/mo

They were happier, healthier, saved more, gave more, enjoyed more social time, and DID NOT WORK LESS than the control group.

St. Andrew’s University in Scotland has a centuries-old legend about a student who's struggling to write an essay when the actual devil appears and hands him the essay fully written, if you were wondering how people in the past would have felt about cheating with AI.

Letter from a Palestinian Political Prisoner in Louisiana:

"Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here. [...] Justice escapes the contours of this nation’s immigration facilities."

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#CuidadorasSinOportunidades | Mujeres dedican en promedio 39.7 horas al trabajo doméstico y de cuidados, casi una jornada laboral completa y más del doble que los hombres.

Mientras el Sistema Nacional de Cuidados es un pendiente sin resolver.
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

Hoy, Día Internacional de la Lengua Materna, es buen día para recordar que el español no está en peligro ni necesita que lo defiendan ni dejará de crecer en este siglo, y si te gusta «defender la lengua» hay un montón de lenguas marginadas que requieren tu energía 🤗

normalize re-visiting your favorite books from when you were young. C. S. Lewis wrote in a letter, “I don’t know any greater pleasure than returning to a world of the imagination which one has long forsaken and feeling, ‘after all this is my own.’”

in retrospect maybe it was a mistake to tell young people that reading, the arts, the humanities weren’t important and that “learning to code” was sufficient for a good life.