josemanuel @josemanuel@qoto.org
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
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Charles Dickens ya se mofó de la cultura woke (escribió una 'Cenicienta' políticamente correcta)
El escritor se quejó de los intentos por modificar los cuentos infantiles en un artículo de 1853, recogido en una recopilación de sus escritos periodísticos que ahora publica Gatopardo bajo el título 'Pasiones públicas, emociones privadas'
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#libros #books #Booktodon #Bookstodon #literaverso #literatura
One day, we will all be just pictures on a phone.
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Luis Martín-Santos, el psiquiatra rojo que cambió para siempre la literatura española: "Es nuestro Joyce"
Este 21 de enero se cumplen 60 años de la muerte en un accidente de coche del autor de 'Tiempo de silencio'
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#libros #books #Booktodon #Bookstodon #literaverso #literatura
https://www.elmundo.es/cultura/literatura/2024/01/20/65aa9381fc6c832d058b458d.html
Usenet was much better than forums. Forums are the Slacks and Discords of the people who used newsgroups.
It's time to ditch the chaos of Slack and Discord communities and make a return to the organised, focused world of forums. They aren't obsolete. ...
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Just remind me again, who is winning the "War on the motorist"?
This is just one zebra crossing in Bradford, but the "war" is on every street...
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En Alemania creen que mirar para otro lado con el genocidio palestino es haber aprendido una lección. No se dan cuenta de que, en realidad, es REINCIDIR.
First World problems:
World Economic Forum study identifies mis/disinformation as the most severe global risk in the next 2 years. #AI #misinformation #journalism http...
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Most of the innovation under capitalism is about a minority of the population devising new ways of capturing the value created by the majority. 
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Watch with us today at 20:00 UTC
The Killing (1956)
English with English subtitle
Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.
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Hopelessness isn’t natural. It needs to be produced. If we really want to understand this situa- tion, we have to begin by understanding that the last thirty years have seen the construction of a vast bureaucratic apparatus for the creation and maintenance of hopelessness, a kind of giant machine that is designed, first and foremost, to destroy any sense of possible alternative futures.
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To be honest, I wouldn't want to invest in a country that has a tendency to shut its borders for years, or even centuries, for the darndest reasons. Call me weird, but I don't find that trustworthy, business- or otherwise.
Some of the places I stayed in when I was there years ago were forced to close due to the pandemic. 赦せない.
Tokyo’s reemergence as a investment destination was one of the more surprising trends of last year. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/01...
I like to repost job offers because I was unemployed for a long time years ago, and I don't want anyone to have to go through that. Recently, I decided to make a rule of reposting requests for meetups, too, because I know how hard it is to make friends online and I want to make the process as easy and painless as possible for everyone.
Sad news indeed. I learned to program using Modula-2. The language itself was awful in many ways, but it was perfect for learning. I will always be grateful for his work. RIP.
Sad news – Niklaus Wirth passed away on January 1st 😢. RIP. https://twitter.com/Bertrand_Meyer/status/1742613897675178347 #oberon #modula2 #retroc...
Most people think the Y2K scare was a scam because they were sort of forced into buying new, “Y2K ready” computers when computers themselves didn't need fixing.
I personally owned a Unysys 486 from 1991 that worked fine many years after 2000, and I bet my MSX2 would have worked fine, too.
If anything, it was a software problem, but computer and software manufacturers made it everybody's problem. That was the scam and the disinfo.
Should software engineers be treated as heroes because they had to solve a problem that they created themselves? That's the real question.
The hardest part about refuting Y2K disinfo is how many problems were fixed quietly, in part to mitigate risk of ligitation (negligence, etc.). Peo...
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non abbiamo solo il problema dei pistoleri di #FdI che ritengono Mussolini statista, abbiamo anche il problema di una classe giornalistica che crede nella #guerra e nella forza del #potereMilitare invece che nella diplomazia, nella forza della #pace
I have to be honest: I have received more abuse here than I ever did on Twitter, and it's getting increasingly common, which goes to prove what I said a few years ago: it's not the platform, it's the people.
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Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and our people rediscover their identity and thereby increase their self respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.
-- Malcolm X
My sentiments exactly, except I don't think 2024 will be any better, at least in the short term. This decade has been FUBAR from the very start.
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When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood -- a truly free society.
-- Emma Goldman
I am, without a doubt, the most interesting person I know.
Joined Sep 2020
