ruben
@rb3n.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Enseño sociología y a veces escribo toots a medianoche. Entretanto, vivo y bebo café.
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“What AI produces is not “thinking in language.” An AI condenses its training data and outputs syntactically correct sentences, but it cannot leap to the deeper stratum where meaning is formed, where a text imagines hidden contexts, expands, implies, connects to other texts, and is reanimated […]
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mastodon.social
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
“What AI produces is not “thinking in language.” An AI condenses its training data and outputs syntactically correct sentences, but it cannot leap to the deeper stratum where meaning is formed, where a text imagines hidden contexts, expands, implies, connects to other texts, and is reanimated […]
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America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
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Many people are cheering for the popping of the "AI" bubble. Maybe it's not that simple though
https://tante.cc/2025/11/23/desire-to-pop/
https://tante.cc/2025/11/23/desire-to-pop/
Desire to Pop
Abstractions are powerful tools. Given enough abstraction everything gets somewhat simple. Somewhat clear. Also somewhat wrong. Abstraction turns everything real, material, consequential into mostly nothing. The abstraction of “a relationship” hides all the love and care and desire it might entail. The abstraction of “the border” hides the violence its defense entails. Given enough abstraction […]
tante.cc
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Many people are cheering for the popping of the "AI" bubble. Maybe it's not that simple though
https://tante.cc/2025/11/23/desire-to-pop/
https://tante.cc/2025/11/23/desire-to-pop/
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I just do not have the time to write anything long-form about this but the ongoing Mozilla AI debacle is really indicative of a very, very troubling aspect of the broader AI debacle, which is that a strong majority of even the *actually* well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech have had their […]
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mastodon.social
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I just do not have the time to write anything long-form about this but the ongoing Mozilla AI debacle is really indicative of a very, very troubling aspect of the broader AI debacle, which is that a strong majority of even the *actually* well-intentioned, smart leaders in tech have had their […]
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Hubo un tiempo en el que daba vergüenza decir que eras fascista en España y esa vergüenza la provocó en gran medida el propio fascismo, brutal e incompetente como todo fascismo. Pero nunca ha dejado de haber fascistas: estaban en el fondo (o, a veces, detrás) de la barra en casi todos los bares […]
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journa.host
November 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Hubo un tiempo en el que daba vergüenza decir que eras fascista en España y esa vergüenza la provocó en gran medida el propio fascismo, brutal e incompetente como todo fascismo. Pero nunca ha dejado de haber fascistas: estaban en el fondo (o, a veces, detrás) de la barra en casi todos los bares […]
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De nuevo, lo importante es que tres cuartas partes de los jóvenes creen que la democracia es siempre el mejor régimen de Gobierno. ¿Qué es lo que estamos haciendo para justificar su fe y qué podemos hacer con ellos para defendernos del cuarto restante? […]
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journa.host
November 20, 2025 at 8:07 AM
De nuevo, lo importante es que tres cuartas partes de los jóvenes creen que la democracia es siempre el mejor régimen de Gobierno. ¿Qué es lo que estamos haciendo para justificar su fe y qué podemos hacer con ellos para defendernos del cuarto restante? […]
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Ah, sí, justo lo que necesitabamos, un puto ChatGPT para profesores, claro que sí, por qué no meterle el nitro a esta distopía de estupidez supina hasta que se nos derrita el cerebro del todo […]
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neopaquita.es
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Ah, sí, justo lo que necesitabamos, un puto ChatGPT para profesores, claro que sí, por qué no meterle el nitro a esta distopía de estupidez supina hasta que se nos derrita el cerebro del todo […]
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Aquí lo importante es: ¿cuánto me toca?
https://elpais.com/comunicacion/2025-11-20/meta-condenada-a-pagar-542-millones-de-euros-a-medios-espanoles-por-competencia-desleal.html
https://elpais.com/comunicacion/2025-11-20/meta-condenada-a-pagar-542-millones-de-euros-a-medios-espanoles-por-competencia-desleal.html
Meta, condenada a pagar 542 millones de euros a medios españoles por competencia desleal
Un juzgado mercantil de Madrid estima la demanda de más de 80 cabeceras contra el gigante tecnológico de Mark Zuckerberg
elpais.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Aquí lo importante es: ¿cuánto me toca?
https://elpais.com/comunicacion/2025-11-20/meta-condenada-a-pagar-542-millones-de-euros-a-medios-espanoles-por-competencia-desleal.html
https://elpais.com/comunicacion/2025-11-20/meta-condenada-a-pagar-542-millones-de-euros-a-medios-espanoles-por-competencia-desleal.html
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protestar sirve, crear un tejido cultural fuerte que no esté en manos de un par de monopolios sirve, los sindicatos sirven, denunciar y visibilizar sirve, etc etc etc
November 20, 2025 at 11:08 AM
protestar sirve, crear un tejido cultural fuerte que no esté en manos de un par de monopolios sirve, los sindicatos sirven, denunciar y visibilizar sirve, etc etc etc
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el boicot al festival de cómic más importante de Europa tiene efecto: Angoulême no se celebrará el año que viene por las protestas contra los abusos laborales y sexuales en su organización […]
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mastodon.social
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
el boicot al festival de cómic más importante de Europa tiene efecto: Angoulême no se celebrará el año que viene por las protestas contra los abusos laborales y sexuales en su organización […]
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No tengo pruebas pero tampoco dudas de que el título de este informe de @greenpeace hace un juego de palabras entre Shein y 'shame' (y estoy completamente a favor). Lo podéis leer aquí: https://es.greenpeace.org/es/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/11/20251120_Report_FastFashion_esp_V3.pdf
November 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
No tengo pruebas pero tampoco dudas de que el título de este informe de @greenpeace hace un juego de palabras entre Shein y 'shame' (y estoy completamente a favor). Lo podéis leer aquí: https://es.greenpeace.org/es/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/11/20251120_Report_FastFashion_esp_V3.pdf
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GitHub is not your friend. They're also not on your side.
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
GitHub is not your friend. They're also not on your side.
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Os propongo hacer una cosita súper rápida de activismo profediverso: ir a Google Play y dejar una buena reseña a la app oficial de Mastodon. Vale con poner 5⭐ .
(Sí, no nos gusta Google, hay mejores opciones, etc, pero pensad en gente no-techie que escucha que existe Mastodon y le da curiosidad […]
(Sí, no nos gusta Google, hay mejores opciones, etc, pero pensad en gente no-techie que escucha que existe Mastodon y le da curiosidad […]
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hortensia.social
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Os propongo hacer una cosita súper rápida de activismo profediverso: ir a Google Play y dejar una buena reseña a la app oficial de Mastodon. Vale con poner 5⭐ .
(Sí, no nos gusta Google, hay mejores opciones, etc, pero pensad en gente no-techie que escucha que existe Mastodon y le da curiosidad […]
(Sí, no nos gusta Google, hay mejores opciones, etc, pero pensad en gente no-techie que escucha que existe Mastodon y le da curiosidad […]
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En un siglo y pico, Castilla y León se ha mudado a Chamartín.
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
En un siglo y pico, Castilla y León se ha mudado a Chamartín.
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"things happen"
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
"things happen"
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A former Palantir exec just published an extortion letter in the Washington Post: Democrats must fund tech oligarchs, abandon antitrust, and create 15 deregulated corporate zones—or “lose.”
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
Silicon Valley’s Extortion Letter to Democrats
Ex-Palantir Exec Warns Democrats to Bow Down or Lose the Future
www.thenerdreich.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A former Palantir exec just published an extortion letter in the Washington Post: Democrats must fund tech oligarchs, abandon antitrust, and create 15 deregulated corporate zones—or “lose.”
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
When I challenged her, she blocked me.
Tech’s moral rot, exposed:
www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...
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@briankrebs
My translation is that control and operation of the Internet through single chokepoints is a terrible idea, antithetical to the original purpose of the Internet: a means of communication which could survive nuclear attack.
We need to put the Internet into the hands of the people […]
My translation is that control and operation of the Internet through single chokepoints is a terrible idea, antithetical to the original purpose of the Internet: a means of communication which could survive nuclear attack.
We need to put the Internet into the hands of the people […]
Original post on kolektiva.social
kolektiva.social
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
@briankrebs
My translation is that control and operation of the Internet through single chokepoints is a terrible idea, antithetical to the original purpose of the Internet: a means of communication which could survive nuclear attack.
We need to put the Internet into the hands of the people […]
My translation is that control and operation of the Internet through single chokepoints is a terrible idea, antithetical to the original purpose of the Internet: a means of communication which could survive nuclear attack.
We need to put the Internet into the hands of the people […]
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Can someone please explain what this means?
"A Cloudflare spokesperson said the "root cause" of the outage was an automatically generated configuration file used to manage threat traffic that "grew beyond an expected size of entries," which triggered a crash in the software system that handles […]
"A Cloudflare spokesperson said the "root cause" of the outage was an automatically generated configuration file used to manage threat traffic that "grew beyond an expected size of entries," which triggered a crash in the software system that handles […]
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infosec.exchange
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Can someone please explain what this means?
"A Cloudflare spokesperson said the "root cause" of the outage was an automatically generated configuration file used to manage threat traffic that "grew beyond an expected size of entries," which triggered a crash in the software system that handles […]
"A Cloudflare spokesperson said the "root cause" of the outage was an automatically generated configuration file used to manage threat traffic that "grew beyond an expected size of entries," which triggered a crash in the software system that handles […]
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Chatting with a friend about Cloudflare's intermittent outages today, they brought up an interesting point: How many organizations have started relying on Cloudflare to do basic security blocking and tackling stuff, like stopping SQL injection attacks at the edge? Maybe your devs were lazy at […]
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infosec.exchange
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Chatting with a friend about Cloudflare's intermittent outages today, they brought up an interesting point: How many organizations have started relying on Cloudflare to do basic security blocking and tackling stuff, like stopping SQL injection attacks at the edge? Maybe your devs were lazy at […]
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I blogged about my cute little open source computer, the #mntpocketreform, and how it is connected to the idea of #Permacomputing.
https://blog.johl.io/permacomputing/
https://blog.johl.io/permacomputing/
Permacomputing
I’m typing this blog post on a tiny, cute, but powerful purple ARM computer in the hope that I will never have have to buy a whole new machine to replace it. It’s called the MNT Pocket Reform, and it’s a compact 7-inch laptop with open hardware documentation and a modular internal architecture. It includes a clicky mechanical keyboard and a trackball within a portable form factor. My little computer was built by MNT Research GmbH, a Berlin-based hardware manufacturer with very nice people building open-source computing devices in small batches.
blog.johl.io
November 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I blogged about my cute little open source computer, the #mntpocketreform, and how it is connected to the idea of #Permacomputing.
https://blog.johl.io/permacomputing/
https://blog.johl.io/permacomputing/
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THE INTERNET IS DOWN, THE FEDIVERSE IS UP 💪
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 AM
THE INTERNET IS DOWN, THE FEDIVERSE IS UP 💪
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Hoy @Gargron ha anunciado que deja de ser CEO de Mastodon y que cede la marca a la organización sin ánimo de lucro que montaron. Su mensaje de despedida, exponiendo fallos y vulnerabilidades, demuestra que nos hemos venido a hacer comunidad al sitio adecuado. ❤️🩹 […]
Original post on hortensia.social
hortensia.social
November 18, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Hoy @Gargron ha anunciado que deja de ser CEO de Mastodon y que cede la marca a la organización sin ánimo de lucro que montaron. Su mensaje de despedida, exponiendo fallos y vulnerabilidades, demuestra que nos hemos venido a hacer comunidad al sitio adecuado. ❤️🩹 […]
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Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]
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mastodon.social
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]
