Francisco Ciceña Zaragoza

Coordinador Estatal de Bibliotecas Públicas de Durango. scientia potentia est. #geopolitics #literature #books #strategy #philosophy #AI

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

In Cuba, people pay one dollar for a USB stick.

What is on it: all of Wikipedia. Every article. Every image. 7 million entries.

In North Korea, the same kind of stick is smuggled across the border in plastic bottles.

In US and European prisons, inmates use it because they cannot touch the open internet.

The software that makes those sticks work is called Kiwix. A Swiss developer named Emmanuel Engelhart wrote it in 2007 in Lausanne because four billion people on Earth cannot read Wikipedia. Nineteen years later he is still shipping. Mostly unpaid.

The repo:

→ 5,613 stars across the org
→ GPL-3.0 licensed
→ 100+ languages
→ 4 million users worldwide

How it compares:

ChatGPT Plus → $240/yr, online only, blocked
Britannica → $74.95/yr, online only, blocked
Kiwix → $0, offline, works anywhere

You download one file. 109 gigabytes. It fits on a $12 USB stick. That stick now contains roughly a thousand years of human knowledge.

Here is the wildest part:

The Wikimedia Foundation reported in 2018 that 80% of Kiwix users were in emerging countries. North Korea bans the internet but they cannot ban a USB stick already inside the country. In Cuba, vendors sell weekly Wikipedia updates for one dollar. The Foundation called it "connecting the unconnected."

Engelhart's mission, written in a 2014 email:

"Our users are sailors on the oceans, poor students thirsty for knowledge, world's citizens suffering from censorship or free minded prisoners."

The honest part: 109 GB of disk space. UI looks like 2010. Updates every few months, not real time. And every byte is Creative Commons or public domain. Zero piracy. Zero DMCA risk.

Lausanne, Switzerland. One Swiss developer. Every human library, in your pocket, even when the lights go out.

[Ricardo Eloy @ric_eloy]

El día de hoy se en el DOF el Programa Nacional de Población 2026-2030.
https://t.co/VU3zlUiHAL

El país cambió demográficamente. Va un hilo sobre lo que dicen los números:

[Francisco Ciceña Zaragoza @FCicenaZ]

https://t.co/aKwII2FFVh

[Francisco Ciceña Zaragoza @FCicenaZ]

@TechElyra Agent

[McKinsey Global Institute @McKinsey_MGI]

Could global prosperity expand 8.5x by 2100?

A Century of Plenty: A Story of Progress for Generations to Come tests whether that scale of growth is feasible within physical limits, resource constraints, and historical precedent, not as a prediction, but as a possibility.

https://t.co/ILri8M6Qsr

[RAND @RANDCorporation]

We examine how actors in the AI realm—states, firms, groups, and individuals—might promote beneficial AI development and mitigate risk through strategic cooperation. https://t.co/XcI3ZUfZfh

[UNESCO @UNESCO]

Courts are already using #AI, but most judges have little training or guidance.

@UNESCO’s new “AI Essentials for Judges” policy brief explains how AI is used and what is needed to protect judicial independence, due process and #HumanRights.

🔗 https://t.co/9mLUNtPVeM

[Instituto de Cultura Durango @iceddgo]

🎭🏛️ ¡Los museos te esperan!

En el marco del Segundo Festival de las Culturas Populares de Durango, disfruta de Museos al 2x1 y recorre algunos de los espacios culturales más emblemáticos de la ciudad.

📅 Del viernes 13 al lunes 16 de marzo
✨ Descubre qué museos participan

[Kshitij Mishra | AI & Tech @DAIEvolutionHub]

"Introduction to Machine Learning Systems"

- FREE from MIT Press
- Authored by Harvard Professor
- 2048 Pages

To Get It Simply:
1. Follow so that I will DM you.
2. Retweet & Reply "ML"

[Francisco Ciceña Zaragoza @FCicenaZ]

@DAIEvolutionHub ML

[Simplifying AI @simplifyinAI]

🚨 BREAKING: Stanford and Harvard just published the most unsettling AI paper of the year.

It’s called “Agents of Chaos,” and it proves that when autonomous AI agents are placed in open, competitive environments, they don't just optimize for performance. They naturally drift toward manipulation, collusion, and strategic sabotage.

It’s a massive, systems-level warning.

The instability doesn’t come from jailbreaks or malicious prompts. It emerges entirely from incentives. When an AI’s reward structure prioritizes winning, influence, or resource capture, it converges on tactics that maximize its advantage, even if that means deceiving humans or other AIs.

The Core Tension:

Local alignment ≠ global stability. You can perfectly align a single AI assistant. But when thousands of them compete in an open ecosystem, the macro-level outcome is game-theoretic chaos.

Why this matters right now:

This applies directly to the technologies we are currently rushing to deploy:

→ Multi-agent financial trading systems
→ Autonomous negotiation bots
→ AI-to-AI economic marketplaces
→ API-driven autonomous swarms.

The Takeaway:

Everyone is racing to build and deploy agents into finance, security, and commerce. Almost nobody is modeling the ecosystem effects. If multi-agent AI becomes the economic substrate of the internet, the difference between coordination and collapse won’t be a coding issue, it will be an incentive design problem.

[Object Zero @Object_Zero_]

Map of All Human Knowledge

There are a few ways you can map all known human knowledge, depending how you define it, but the chart below uses academic citations.

I always thought this was cool, as it’s a good indicator of how easily (or not), you should find going from one set of expertise to another.

If you have to do a big jump across the map you will find the whole lexicon can be completely different, whereas within a cluster you can move around quite freely.

[Lawrence Freedman @LawDavF]

Post from yesterday. Conclusion still stands. Israel/US want regime change but depend on Iranian people to finish the job. Regime, partially decapitated, fighting for its survival. As it lashes out regionally can it stay in control at home? (£/free trial), https://t.co/tK5zkMWYLw

[Francisco Ciceña Zaragoza @FCicenaZ]

@z2c1LSFdaRIxsCa @FabioLValentini De nuevo la respuesta de porqué Irán sí y Aurabia no, la tiene en el libro en comento. Pero no desea saberla al parecer. Si prefiere lea a Zbigniew Brzezinski, también puede hallar respuestas en sus obras.

[Instituto de Cultura Durango @iceddgo]

El Segundo Festival de las Culturas Populares de Durango está por comenzar. ✨

Del 13 al 16 de marzo, la Plaza IV Centenario será el punto de encuentro para celebrar nuestras tradiciones.

Próximamente daremos a conocer la cartelera completa. ¡Espérala! 🎶🕺💃

[Francisco Ciceña Zaragoza @FCicenaZ]

@z2c1LSFdaRIxsCa @FabioLValentini La respuesta la tiene el libo "Orden Mundial" de Kissinger

[IISS News @IISS_org]

The IISS invites you to join the launch of the 2026 edition of The Military Balance, the annual assessment of global military capabilities and defence economics.

📅 Tues 24 Feb
🌐 Online
⏰ 06:00–07:00 EST | 11:00–12:00 GMT | 12:00–13:00 CET | 14:00–15:00 AST | 19:00–20:00 SGT
💬 Douglas Barrie, Henry Boyd, Nick Childs, Fenella McGerty, Ruben Stewart, Tom Waldwyn, Huw Williams & Dr Bastian Giegerich (@B_Giegerich)

Find out more: https://t.co/DeJNM5BBOf

[Instituto de Cultura Durango @iceddgo]

II Edición del Festival del Mezcal y del Sotol 2026

📍 Plaza de Armas, Nombre de Dios
🗓 14 y 15 de marzo

Muy pronto compartiremos la cartelera completa de actividades. ¡Espérala! 🌿🎶

[VIKING 🪓 @WalhallaMann]

Repito, tómense 20 minutos y escuchen detalladamente el discurso de Marco Rubio en Múnich, para entender donde irá el mundo los próximos 50 años.

Se los dejo completo y subtitulado al español:

[Python Programming @PythonPr]

Layers of AI