Carlos

Hierático anacoreta.

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

Matemáticos: un tensor es un objeto multilineal en un espacio vectorial, que…

Físicos: un tensor es un objeto que se transforma de forma covariante o contravariante, según…

Ingenieros:

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

Este es House (no Hugh Laurie) twiteando; ¡vamos!

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

@DanielRaisbeck Jajajaja, por favor incluirlo en tu propuesta como “Anexo A”

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

Estaba dudando de lo de “reducir el tamaño del Estado”, pero al ver este video, quedo súper convencido de que es, más que necesario, urgente.

[Mar Pizarro @delmarpizarro]

Dicen que es “reducir el Estado”. Pero cuando lees la letra pequeña, desaparecen ministerios, créditos, protección… y hasta lo que sí funciona. ¿Qué están planeando realmente?

#ADLE #abelardodelaespriella #elecciones2026 #cepedapresidente #ivancepeda

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

Yo, en cualquier reunión social

[🇲🇽 Wendy 3.1416 @wendoline3_1416]

Así yo, cuando logro platicar, pero en vez de física, con cualquier cantidad de temas ñoños

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

@jrestrp Vice, pero quedemos claros: solo a ud le aceptamos que la use por dentro del jean

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

@Rainmaker1973 @Domacick La edición de Farenheit 451 que tengo hace exactamente lo contrario: si le paso una llama, las páginas se ponen negras (eso sí, no vuelven a su estado original)

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

Excelente tuit del profesor JFV. Si te molestan los “males del capitalismo”, probablemente lo que te molesta es la modernidad, y el socialismo no es “la cura”, pues se basa en una visión del mundo similar.

[Jesús Fernández-Villaverde @JesusFerna7026]

Since today is May Day, it would be fun to show how modernity and capitalism are related yet distinct by analyzing the video of the Soviet Anthem that was broadcast twice a day on Soviet State TV around 1984. I do this exercise with my students at UPenn when we cover the economic history of the Soviet Union (yes, I spent too much time covering it every semester), and they always enjoy it quite a bit.

https://t.co/u0nSEB3mmX

The video loops twice over the Anthem, once with subtitles in Russian and English and once with subtitles in Russian and Spanish.

We open with a shot of the Kremlin in Moscow, and we are told that we have “An unbreakable union of free republics, The Great Rus’ has sealed forever.” There you have it: right off the bat, nationalism, a fundamental aspect of modernity. Yes, we are free republics, but the Russians are really in charge. If you are Georgian or Latvian, smile and accept your destiny. If the 20th century taught us anything, it is that Marx got it wrong: religion is not the opium of the masses; nationalism is the crack cocaine, much more powerful and addictive.

Then we switch to the ultimate symbols of modernity: a rocket about to launch (yes, a bit of a phallic symbol right there), a gigantic steelworks (nothing a good communist loves more than steel) with a manly man working on it (gendered forms of labor), and oil drills (fossil capital and CO2 emissions all around; wasn’t capitalism supposed to be about fossil fuels? Well, never mind).

We continue with more manly men, dirty from hard but very manly work, building pipelines, big dams that dominate nature, trains, and nuclear power plants. No tree-hugging here: socialism is about exploiting nature, and you should get the point!

Now that we have established that this business of the Soviet Union is a creation of the Russians to quickly industrialize the land and dominate nature, we move on to show what we get out of it. First, a hospital that gives strength to the people (picking a child delivery is not casual either), a cosmonaut, and the rocket, finally firing off! We are achieving, people!

A good moment to loop back into history: the October Revolution (shots from Eisenstein’s movie), our holy father, Lenin, and how he led to more factories, more dams, and our ultimate legitimizing instrument: victory over fascism in World War II.

This seems a good moment to pivot to the modern Soviet armed forces: jets, a Victor-class nuclear submarine, paratroopers, and frontier guards (do not think about leaving without a permit! The home of the free is, more than anything, home).

Well, it is time to go back to the farmers now. We start with a handsome Russian farmer, and then we have a couple of Central Asians (not many minorities so far in the video, so we need some diversity casting) with cotton and grain from the big plains of Asia (talking about ecological degradation, nothing beats what the Soviet Union did with cotton).

Next, some miscellaneous accomplishments: a nuclear icebreaker (I believe it is from the Arktika class; yes, a true communist loves nuclear power; renewables are for petit bourgeois professors of English in California who believe in silly “degrowth” ideas), health and education services for minorities, and rail tracks.

Time to return to manly men building manly things like trucks and ships, to introduce Andropov, addressing all of us under Lenin’s statue (a fantastic shot), and to the May Day parade (this is why I am showing this video today), with a final close-up of the Lenin banner. We wrap by returning to the very beginning: the Kremlin.

As a piece of propaganda, this is magnificent work. The music by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov is moving, classical but not stuffy; the lyrics (1977 version) get all the messages across, and the selection of visual themes has been curated with incredible care.

I like to show propaganda videos of regimes (including those from other totalitarian regimes) because they document how the regime wanted to be seen. I am not the one selecting the message; the Soviet Union leadership is.

And it is selecting a message of modernity: big factories, rockets, hospitals, nuclear power, and oil wells.

If your analytic framework cannot distinguish between modernity and capitalism, as most social theory cannot today, you are at a deep loss when trying to understand the Soviet Union. You are even more at a loss to understand why socialism was so attractive in the 20th century. Socialism promised underdeveloped countries a faster route to modernity. If you were a young Honduran in 1960 or a young Egyptian in 1962, you fell in love with socialism because you thought it could deliver modernity faster and better. Socialism was the ultimate engine of modernity. “Degrowth” is only for sociology lecturers with bad hairdos. Nobody with half a brain takes it seriously.

But most contemporary social theorists, which are activists, not scholars any longer, are only interested in criticizing capitalism, so they pile onto it a list of flaws, including nationalism, fossil fuel consumption, the use of nuclear power, the gendered division of labor, bureaucratic gigantism, inequality of income, wealth, and power, and many other phenomena that, at their very core, are about modernity, not about capitalism per se.

Their own ideological narrowness leads to a lack of nuance and theoretical blind alleys that are driving most of social theory to absolute irrelevance. It is a pity, because we need social theory more than ever.

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

@felipilla1 @Danielbricen ¡Qué tranquilidad saber que Fecode no está adoctrinando niños, ni politizando la educación!

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

@therealbuni En la oficina, le dicen “Mateo 13, 9”

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

@damagofe @ECOPETROL_SA @usofrenteobrero ¿Cuántas veces habrá qué decirlo? Ustedes son iguales al árbol que votó por el hacha

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

@amarillalatina Si no hablan de matemáticas cuánticas, no voy

[USO Colombia @usofrenteobrero]

🚨 ¡Atención! Decimos NO a la cumbre que amenaza la soberanía energética de Colombia.

Escuche las declaraciones de nuestro presidente, Martin Ravelo: "Transición energética sí, pero no de esta manera".
¡La defensa de Ecopetrol es la defensa del país!

#SomosUSO #AtenciónColombia #UnidosPorElFuturoEnergéticoDelPaís

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

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@petrogustavo @IreneVelezT @VidaColombia1 @ECOPETROL_SA @EspinosaRadio @CaracolRadio @NoticiasRCN @rcnradio @UltimaHoraBLU @BluRadioCo @ValoraAnalitik @larepublica_co @BogotaET @ELTIEMPO @elespectador @Portafolioco @RevistaSemana @RevistaDinero

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

https://t.co/ROCW4MgQfC

[USO Colombia @usofrenteobrero]

#SomosUSO #Alerta #UnidosPorElFuturoEnergeticoDelPais

☝️No a la Cumbre Contra la Soberanía Energética de los Colombianos.

La Unión Sindical Obrera, sostiene que es un error ponerse de espalda a la necesidad de garantizar la autosuficiencia del país. La transición no debe comprometer la capacidad de Colombia para producir su propia energía. #TransicionEnergetica

@petrogustavo @IreneVelezT @MinAmbienteCo @ECOPETROL_SA @Vidapresidencia

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

@petrogustavo No, gracias

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

Lo interesante sería conocer a alguien que haya sido encuestado y le haya caído un rayo, cuya probabilidad es como de 1 en 20 millones

[David @DavidRoldanP]

A mí no me han caído rayos ni conozco a nadie al que le hayan caído. ¿Y ustedes?

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

@0xleegenz And we even may call it “moon-like calendar” or something like that

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

@DavidRoldanP CarpinterIA

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

@ranoguera El candidato, durante el debate, buscando la respuesta a la pregunta que le acaban de hacer

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

@fan_ingenieria “No había tantas tutelas”

[Carlos @Nabla_Mat]

@azogueray ¿El cálculo infinitesimal? 🤔