…y por este tipo de idioteces no puedo llamarme yo «antiespecista».
Ningún animal no humano se va a sentir ofendido por usar el masculino genérico para referirse a él. Pista: no saben leer.
Las vidas de los animales (humanos o no) no son valores absolutos. Si hay que sacrificar a un señor de Murcia para evitar una hecatombe nuclear, lo correcto y moral es hacerlo. Si es muy conveniente (o sea: si las alternativas son enormemente caras o ineficaces) enviar a una perra (o a veinte) al espacio y dejar que muera allí para asegurarnos de que los primeros humanos que hagan lo mismo podrán volver a salvo, lo correcto y moral es hacerlo.
50 años después de la última misión a la luna, el ser humano volverá en las misiones Artemis I,II y III. La carrera espacial en deuda con Laika, H...
Happy #WoDES!
_World Day for the End of #Speciesism_
(I don't like “speciesism”: I suspect as an idea it is wrong, and a bad concept to try to rally people around. But I'm a #vegetarian/#vegan, and whatever draws attention to animal welfare is a push in the right direction.)
> _“**The core of effective altruism** is the [Drowning Child scenario](https://newint.org/features/1997/04/05/peter-singer-drowning-child-new-internationalist). The world is full of death and suffering. Your money (or time, or whatever resource you prefer to spend) could fix more of it than you think — one controversial analysis estimates $5,000 to save a life. You would go crazy if you tried to devote 100% of your time and money to helping others. But if you decide to just help when you feel like it or a situation comes up, you’ll probably forget. Is there some more systematic way to commit yourself to some amount between 0% and 100% of your effort (traditionally 10%)? And once you’ve done that, how do you make those resources go as far as possible? This is #EffectiveAltruism, the rest is just commentary.”_
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/effective-altruism-as-a-tower-of
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(Although I have some doubts about this increasingly popular format of very expensive public live sparring…)
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Turns out when you put 5 people from 3 continents in front of a pool table there are 125 different ways to play pool
qoto.org !
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Fantastic idea: generating a noise every time the browser sends data to google:
https://twitter.com/bert_hu_bert/status/1561466204602220544
@gasull I hadn't think of that, tbh 😃
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@gasull it's been around for a couple years now, but nobody noticed it wasn't human.
> _“If something must be sacred, let it be #math.”_
https://www.overcomingbias.com/2022/08/is-nothing-sacred.html
#MMM agrees with me, of course:
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2019/11/18/pizza-delivery-is-for-millionaires/
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Home-delivered meals have always bothered me. It looks like the perfect example of overlooked irresponsible #consumerism. You have a fridge where y...
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Our national ID card (“DNI”) is 78 years old. Mandatory ID cards are anathema in some places (US) and to some ideologies (libertarians) — but they're so convenient and solve many day-to-day problems. In #Spain, most people don't give it a second thought and can't even imagine red tape or mundane chores without the #DNI. I despise #surveillance as much as anyone, but I fail to see how an #IDcard makes things much worse, compared to the plethora of information governments have about us already…
https://qoto.org/@tripu/108817322350690142
In the same vein (more sophisticated, but still quite naïve):
I remember chatting with a classmate during our first (or second?) year of college (MSc in CS and Software Engineering) and suddenly realising that although we knew already a lot about the basics of programming, computer architecture, OS'es, etc we had no clue about how to make a computer do _two things at the same time_ (concurrency, multithreading, etc). We knew how to program linearly, and how to manipulate OS interruptions to respond to events such as the user pressing a key or a certain timer ticking — but we didn't know what parallelism even looked like.
