Gastón M. Ferreirós

🇦🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹Amo la ciencia, los animales, la astronomía, volar, navegar, informática y todo lo afín. Enemigo de los fanatismos, fanático del sentido común.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The teams currently remaining in the FIFA World Cup

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

fun fact nobody asked for: at 11:15 UTC today the sun shines on 99% of the world's population simultaneously. 8 billion people, one sunbeam. anyway good morning

[Gastón M. Ferreirós @Gasmart81]

Feliz día!!! 🇦🇷

Por si no lo sabían la mesa es la original donde se firmó la declaración de independencia, no así las sillas.

[Ramiro @ramirodiz3]

En un grupo mandaron esto ksjsjajajajajajajajaja GENIO

[Gregorio Naçu @gregnacu]

I write a SCSI CD Audio player for the #C64. It’s written in BASIC, but I’m planning on porting it to C64 OS soon. It’s pretty cool. Pretty fast too, considering it’s in BASIC.

[Poirot @Argenpoirot]

Mira como pasaban todos los ingleses y nada, en cambio Messi demostró porque es el numero 1 dentro y fuera de la cancha.

Enorme diferencia.

[Culture Updates @Cultureupdates_]

''How much money do you have 😂''

[ElBuni @therealbuni]

Un tipo compro WiFi para ver el Argentina vs Egipto en el avion

Y los 187 pasajeros terminaron arrimandose para escuhar el partido en vivo

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

Italian police just delivered a kidney for transplant like absolute legends. They covered about 300 miles in a Lamborghini Huracán in 2 hours to save a life. That's an average 152 mph on public roads, with a medical cooler in the front.

[Marcelo Piccardi (DrGenial en Reddit) @MNPicc]

Durísimo video de @LucasAbriata con @ChataSolidaria.

Es la clase de cosas que no me gusta ver pero me tomo el tiempo de hacerlo porque es importante.

Dejo link en comentario:

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

EVERYONE! Stop what you're doing and type "Erling Haaland" into Google and wait 2 seconds. 🤣

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

TRUMP: Putin said, "I'd love to meet in Moscow." I don’t know if Zelenskyy would go to Moscow. Maybe he would. Would you go to Moscow?

ZELENSKYY: It’s difficult. There are lot of Ukrainian drones there. (Audience laughs) It’s dangerous.

TRUMP: Yeah, it’s hard to go to Moscow.

[Commodore Computer Museum 🕹 @MuseumCommodore]

Tron turns 44 today — released on July 9, 1982.

The craziest part? This groundbreaking “computer movie” was snubbed by the Academy for Best Visual Effects. Why?

They ruled that using CGI was basically cheating and gave filmmakers an unfair advantage over traditional practical effects and hand animation.

That “cheating” technique is now the foundation of every major blockbuster for the past 20+ years. Well done, Tron. The future you predicted won. ⚡

Bonus wild fact:
The official Tron arcade game (released by Bally Midway right after the film) actually out-grossed the movie. While the film made about $33–50 million worldwide at the box office, the arcade cabinets sold around 10,000 units and raked in an estimated $100–200 million in quarters during its peak years.

It even won Coin-Operated Game of the Year.

What amazes me most is that there was never a proper Commodore 64 adaptation. Almost every other big 80s sci-fi movie got turned into a C64 game… but the one literally set inside a computer world with light cycle races? Nope. (There was a late, unrelated Tron-like game in 1989, but nothing official at the time.) Mind-blowing.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just said the one thing about America they made sure you’d never learn.

The one thing that should’ve made you proud, not ashamed.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation held a weapon no civilization had ever possessed.

Total monopoly on destruction. No rival. No consequence. No limit.

Every empire in history that held that kind of power did the only thing empires know how to do.

They took until there was nothing left to take.

America had a greater advantage than all of them combined.

And rebuilt the nations it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Not almost unprecedented.

It had never happened. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded civilization.

The nation with the power to take everything chose to rebuild instead.

Enemies became allies. Rubble became economies. Surrender became partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a single generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

Into the capital of the country that just tried to end the free world.

That decision reshaped every economy, every alliance, and every trade route on the planet.

Billions of people lifted out of poverty over the next half century trace back to one moment. One nation choosing restraint over domination.

No other country in history can make that claim. Not one.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has blood in its history.

But the measure of a nation was never its worst chapter.

It’s what it does when nobody can stop it.

When nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

You’re being told every day that this country is something to be ashamed of.

By people who have no idea what the world looks like without it.

Every free market. Every open border for trade. Every democracy that took root outside Europe stands in the shadow of that single decision.

The values that built this country didn’t just shape America.

They shaped the modern world.

AI is about to hand a small number of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look primitive.

1945 was the first test.

AI is the last.

That power is going to exist. The only question left is who holds it.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was having the power to take everything and choosing not to.

The people trying hardest to tear that story down have never built a single thing worth defending.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Intonation changes meaning.

[Álvaro J @jota_snchez]

Richard Feynman, Nobel de Física, lo dejó claro:
"La mayoría de personas saben muchas cosas. Pero no saben pensar."

Dio esta clase de 1 hora sobre física e imaginación.
Sus 12 lecciones de vida:

1. La imaginación le gana al conocimiento.

[🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @front_ukrainian]

❗️Zelenskyy was greeted with a standing ovation and applause at the NATO summit in Ankara

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

In 2019, Charlotte Lay walked onto a railway track believing she had reached the end of her life.

A train was approaching.

But the driver, Dave Lay, had been alerted to someone on the tracks. He slowed the train, stopped at a distance, and climbed out.

Charlotte expected anger. She thought she was about to be told off.

Instead, Dave calmly introduced himself and asked her one simple question.

“Hi, my name is Dave. Are you having a bad day?”

Then he sat near her.

He didn't lecture her. He didn't tell her how lucky she was. He simply stayed and talked.

For around 30 minutes, Dave treated Charlotte like a human being having the worst day of her life.

Eventually, she found the strength to leave the tracks.

The next day, Charlotte searched for the train driver who had saved her. She posted in a local social media group, hoping someone might know him.

Dave had been wondering if she was okay too.

They reconnected.

They started messaging.

About two months later, they met for coffee.

And somewhere between conversations, healing and ordinary days together, the stranger who sat beside Charlotte on the tracks became the man she fell in love with.

But their story wasn't finished.

In 2020, Dave began suffering from back pain. He thought it was nothing serious.

Charlotte kept telling him to see a doctor.

Eventually, he listened.

Dave was diagnosed with testicular cancer.

He later said doctors told him that if he had waited much longer to seek medical help, he might not have survived.

The man who once sat beside Charlotte when she wanted to leave this world was now alive because Charlotte refused to stop worrying about him.

In 2022, Charlotte and Dave got married.

Dave later put their story into words perfectly.

“Charlotte may say I saved her life... but she saved my life as well.”

Two strangers met on the worst day of one person's life.

Neither of them knew it yet.

But one simple conversation was about to save them both

[Z 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @MadeInArsenal6]

He was on the verge of a historic achievement but ruined it himself with poor substitutions and time management. Now, he is complaining because his team was not coached well enough to hold a 2-0 lead for over 20 minutes. Argentina won fair and square.

[ABC News @ABC]

A family dog pulled off an act of bravery over the weekend, leaping in between a charging bear and a young child. https://t.co/DGgvQyyKuV