josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
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Jobless growth
Softbank invested 30 out of its planned 40 billion dollar investment in OpenAI in 2025.
$30B invested in regular software startups would've created 30,000 software engineer jobs and at least that many sales, marketing, admin etc. jobs for others.
This is one VC's investment in one AI startup in 2025. I don't know the aggregate statistics but this by itself is staggering.
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Si Amazon no da trabajo en sus Centros de Datos, y despide en sus almacenes y oficinas.... ¿Qué hacen nuestros políticos lamiendoles las botas?
P.D. Aunque dieran trabajo, tampoco deberían permitirse estas corporaciones.
https://www.eldiario.es/tecnologia/amazon-plantea-ere-1-200-empleados-oficina-espana_1_12731343.html
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Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
@shinmera What's so wrong with having a type?
@kafkiana Para mí, la mejor de Ferrara junto con Teniente corrupto, pero no es Santillana, sino (George) Santayana.
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49 years ago
Patti Smith cuddling her Fender Duo-Sonic guitar, while napping backstage in October 1976.
Photo by Lynn Goldsmith
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #pattismith #fender #history #punkrockhistory
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Had seen these cartoons by Ron Cobb around for a while but never realized he also worked as a concept artist on a ton of blockbuster films including Back To the Future, star wars, alien etc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Cobb
Magnífico ejemplo de cómo despilfarrar dinero público para engordar las cuentas de empresas privadas. Alemania, como siempre, de cabeza hacia el futuro más distópico.
Alemania propone que los niños ahorren diez euros al mes para poder pagarse la pensión al jubilarse. El Gobierno alemán prepara recortes al estado ...
And that's why the 90s were the best decade!
37% of adults have sex weekly, and almost a quarter of people 18-29 had not had sex in the past year, twice as many in 2010, per the IFS: #news #...
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Do you love public transit? Nebula is looking for a contract researcher for a new show about public transportation.
We're looking for someone who really enjoys public transit and would love uncovering the best parts of transit systems around the world. Having direct experience riding international public transit systems is definitely a plus.
You should already be a freelancer, capable of invoicing for your work.
If that sounds interesting to you, fill out the form:
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Today, let’s remember Dennis M. Ritchie, who was born #OTD in 1941. Ritchie received the 1983 #ACMTuringAward with Ken Thompson, for their development of generic operating systems theory and specifically for the implementation of the UNIX operating system. More, here: https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/ritchie_1506389.cfm
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@bookstodon I love Tom Gauld's cartoons about books and book-lovers. This one hits a little close to home. https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2025/aug/31/tom-gauld-on-reading-to-survive-cartoon
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"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression"
@unusual_whales Isn't inflation higher than that?
@veer66 If you subscribe to the GNU Modula-2 mailing list, people there sometimes talk about their projects. It's mostly academic stuff, because most subscribers work at universities.
Here's an old link to some projects. I don't know if they're still maintained:
Modern software is the exact opposite of what made me fall in love with computers as a kid.
@LvNoctva Yo te recomendaría que salieses de Mastodon y explorases otras opciones del Fediverso, como Misskey, Pleroma, Akkoma, etc. Son mucho mejores tanto por funcionalidad como por buen rollo, aunque en términos de instancias hay de todo.
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#OnThisDay, 13 Aug 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal for her work on complex geometry. She was the first woman to win it since it began in 1936.
She died in 2017, aged just 40. Multiple awards and initiatives are named after her.
@prettygood I have no desire to argue _with_ computers. What does that make me?
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
