tripu @tripu@qoto.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
Speaking of #socialmedia… another beautiful #dataviz by #VisualCapitalist
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-social-networks-worldwide-by-users/
Go, #fediverse, go!
This #cartoon by #JohnJonik is the answer to so many things happening on/to the #internet. So often applicable.
https://jonikcartoons.blogspot.com/2011/09/general-cartoons.html
#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, 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). #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
- The Running Man
- Cube
- Black Mirror
- The Hunger Games
↓
#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.
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
