#Madrid (🇪🇸 #Spain) is the most liveable #city in the world, and the 9th best city in the world overall, according to the Mori Memorial Foundation's “Global Power City Index” 2021.
https://mori-m-foundation.or.jp/english/ius2/gpci2/index.shtml
[Antonio Escohotado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Escohotado), one of my dearest intellectual heroes, died today 😢
He was a true erudite, a polymath, and a free soul.
He devoured the classics, opposed dictator Franco, was the fiercest of Communists, pioneered the hippy revolution in #Ibiza, travelled the world, studied and experimented with most drugs known to mankind, changed his views, lectured #philosophy, taught himself a few languages, became the most articulate #liberal, wrote the definitive tomes on a variety of scientific subjects, changed his views again, and shared it all along the way.
What I admire the most, though, is that he read everything under the sun. Primary sources, secondary sources, biographies, commentary. And he seemed to remember it all. #Escohotado set out to deeply understand something — be it #theGreeks, #drugs, #economics, #ChaosTheory — and damned studied every single relevant page there is about the subject, tirelessly, for years, until he emerged with the most robust of opinions about the topic, and a comprehensive view in the form of a new #book.
I am very inspired by him to always freaking read the classics, and the sources.
And I have always lamented that his fame in the English-speaking world wasn't commensurate with his many merits.
His last months were the chronicle of a death foretold: he chose to leave, and did so in his own terms, with dignity, in his beloved Ibiza.
I went to see him at public events here in #Madrid a couple of times. He was a giant, some unfortunate views or quotations notwithstanding.
I miss him already.
For a long time I thought #programmers were unusually egocentric and annoying in our obsession with our own trade and tools: we dedicate inordinate attention to designing, rewriting and tweaking libraries, frameworks, plugins, etc _for our own, and our peers', usage_.
But most recently, I've realised that #journalists also love to discuss and criticise the #media; #musicians often write and sing about #songs and other #artists; so many #economists seem focused on #Economics and its tools (as opposed to their object of study); etc.
Perhaps we #technologists are not so unique after all…
This is more or less how I spend the #money I earn
Happy #InternationalMensDay! This year focused on “better relations between #men & #women”.
#CognitiveBias interactive taxonomy — very handy:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cognitive_bias_codex_en.svg
Al paso que cambia la noticia, el titular de mañana o de pasado, fijo:
In the 🇺🇸 #US, in 2021, #men represent only ~41% of #college students ([source](https://collegenews.org/women-outnumber-men-in-us-colleges-nearly-60-of-students-in-2020-21-were-women/)). #Women have been the majority of four-year college graduates ever since 1982.
Yet what is the debate and the media reaction (if any)? To denounce that **“men with college degrees have become so cocky that they’re ruining romance for their female counterparts”**.
(When in university, it was less than 20% females at my college, yet somehow at the time I missed all the headlines about those arrogant women playing hard to get…)
https://nypost.com/2021/11/02/men-with-golden-penis-syndrome-ruining-romance-for-women/
_Logan's Run_
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_The Running Man_
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_Cube_
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_Black Mirror_
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_The Hunger Games_
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#SquidGame
It's not that original, people!
No #Calibre at hand? Quick and easy online #epub format #converter for your non-sensitive #books:
_#Woke In Plain English_ by #PeterBoghossian:
* _#DEI_:
* _#Diversity_: people who look different but think alike.
* _#Equity_: making up for past #discrimination with current discrimination.
* _#Inclusion_: restricting #speech.
* _#Neoliberal_: a #capitalist and economically #conservative person.
* _#Relativist_: everything — like #culture, morality, art, and law — is subjective.
