Franco

Economista - MSc Urban Planning, Políticas Públicas #urbanplanning #urbaneconomics #urbandesign #transporteconomics #urbanfinance @UNALOficial @ChungAngUnivPR

[Jineth Bedoya Lima @jbedoyalima]

En mi camino he procurado que la coherencia entre lo que digo y lo que hago, me recuerde todos los días por qué elegí el periodismo y la defensa de los derechos de las mujeres, por encima de mi propia vida personal.
Hay acciones que no son negociables. #NoEsHoraDeCallar

[Vanessa Velasco @vvbernal]

En @Bogota la vivienda social no solo genera empleo y mueve la economía de la ciudad, también dignifica vidas.

Este año tenemos como meta entregar 3.000 mejoramientos de vivienda desde @habitatbogota y @CVPBogota. De esta meta, 2.761 viviendas ya están habilitadas y próximas a empezar obra.

Además varios de estos mejoramientos se están realizado con certificación de sostenibilidad de la @CCCSColombiaGBC, los primeros en América Latina. Estos además de generar reducciones de hasta 30 % en servicios públicos como agua y energía, garantizan que los materiales usados no generen afectaciones a la salud de las personas.

#MiCasaEnBogotá es el plan de vivienda más ambicioso de la historia reciente de nuestra ciudad y los resultados lo respaldan.

[Alejandro Gaviria @agaviriau]

Tres papers para entender lo que está pasando en Colombia:

1️⃣ Coca y cocaína
https://t.co/WdSZ9cnPfz

2️⃣ Recuperación del empleo urbano
https://t.co/F3dC2MenfT

3️⃣ Desplome de la fecundidad
https://t.co/pg4PtKAWZT

En abril publicaremos el cuarto paper de la Serie Colombia...

[Vanessa Velasco @vvbernal]

En @Bogota estamos demostrando que sí se puede proteger el ambiente mientras generamos vivienda social bien ubicada.

Gracias a un gran trabajo adelantado por @RenoBo_Bogota en cabeza de @cfreyes y con el apoyo de @planeacionbog, @Ambientebogota y @habitatbogota, hoy la ciudad celebra la primera subasta de derechos de construcción del país que logró movilizar $41.987 millones para conservar áreas estratégicas de la estructura ambiental como la Reserva Thomas Van Der Hammen.

Pero, ¿qué significa esto para la ciudad en términos de vivienda? 👇

➡️ Generar más vivienda de interés social en zonas céntricas
➡️ Hogares más cerca del empleo, el transporte y los servicios
➡️ Menos desigualdad, más integración social y territorial

Este es un modelo que conecta dos prioridades para la administración de @CarlosFGalan:
🌱 cuidar nuestros ecosistemas
🏠 y garantizar vivienda digna bien ubicada

Hoy lo estamos haciendo realidad.

Con esta subasta, se abre la posibilidad para que se puedan construir unas 5.400 viviendas de interés social y prioritario en zonas centrales de @Bogota para familias que hoy están lejos de las oportunidades.

En la administración de @CarlosFGalan transformamos la ciudad para acercar a las personas, cuidar el medioambiente y garantizar el acceso a vivienda digna.

[Liberalism.org @liberalismorg]

Wealth inequality may not be unjust in itself, but wealth concentrated enough to purchase political influence is a problem classical liberals can no longer wave away. @Mattzwolinski argues we already have what we need to address it.

https://t.co/SvHOwZJcLx

[Kienyke @kienyke]

#Bogotá | Vanessa Velasco (@vvbernal), secretaria de Hábitat de Bogotá (@habitatbogota), explicó el impacto que tiene la compra de vivienda en Bogotá. Destacó el efecto de empleabilidad y la reactivación económica que produce este sector.

[Secretaría del Hábitat @habitatbogota]

¡En Bogotá le estamos cumpliendo a las víctimas!

Hoy en el @ConcejoDeBogota, reafirmamos que las soluciones sí llegan.

Con recursos propios de la ciudad, destinamos subsidios del plan de vivienda #MiCasaEnBogotá para víctimas, bajo el liderazgo de @CarlosFGalan y @vvbernal.

[Vanessa Velasco @vvbernal]

Los bogotanos tienen por primera vez la posibilidad de recibir un subsidio de vivienda entre los $ 17 y los $ 52 millones para adquirir su primer hogar.

Más de 27.000 familias ya han dado un salto en su proyecto de vida gracias a #MiCasaEnBogotá, el plan de vivienda de@carlosfgalan.

De cómo acceder a estos subsidios y por qué vale la pena construir futuro en @Bogota hablamos en este podcast que pueden escuchar aquí 👉🏼 https://t.co/Ta9Ip2BhFD

[Franco @jfrancop]

Looks like an EYE

[AstroAventura @AstroAventura]

🔴 La NASA muestra un cráter de impacto en Marte con una estructura central poco común

Estas estructuras pueden formarse cuando el material expulsado se reorganiza tras el impacto

📹JPL-NASA

[Catalina Navas @navascatalina_]

Quisiera entender qué le pasó a Bogotá en los últimos años. Ahora las motos se pasan los semáforos en rojo y transitan por los andenes, los atracos se volvieron violentísimos y la gente es muchísimo más hostil y agresiva que hace 10 0 15 años. ¿Ya hay teorías?

[Daniela S. @missfbe]

Hoy salí y vi más motos de lo normal.
Más motos que incumplirán las normas de tránsito, que no darán espacio para cambiar de carril ni permitirán giros tranquilos a la derecha. Más motos que limitarán la capacidad de maniobra y pondrán en riesgo a los peatones, que ya ni siquiera pueden cruzar un semáforo con calma porque un motociclista probablemente se lo pase en rojo.

Más motos que no darán paso, que andarán en contravía y que se saltarán PARES.

Más motociclistas siendo imprudentes y que serán la causa de la mayoría de accidentes de tránsito. Más motociclistas creyéndose dueños de las vías, los andenes y las ciclorutas.

🌈 POR UN MUNDO SIN MOTOS🌈
🚫NO COMPRES MÁS MOTOS🚫

[Franco @jfrancop]

¿En realidad estamos midiendo el cuidado en la movilidad? https://t.co/W8aMOKeR9v

[Small Cap Snipa @SmallCapSnipa]

Jeff Bezos wants AI to approve Miami building permits in 10 seconds:

“Miami should have an AI application that reads your building permit and it should give you a yes or a no in 10 seconds. Why does it take months and months and months to get a building permit? It doesn’t make any sense.”

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies.

The company is worth a quarter of a trillion dollars. I did not misspeak. Two hundred and forty-nine billion. The stock is up 320% in the past 12 months. The product is surveillance. I do not use that word at conferences. At conferences, I say "data integration," "operational intelligence," or "decision advantage." These mean the same thing. Surveillance is the honest version. I save the honest version for rooms where honesty is a competitive advantage.

I gave a speech on March 3 at the Andreessen Horowitz American Dynamism Summit. "American Dynamism" is the fund's label for military technology. The name makes it sound like a fitness supplement. The fund's thesis is that defending the nation is a market opportunity. I agree with the thesis. The thesis made me a billionaire. Agreement is the product. I sell it at scale.

Here is what I said, verbatim, to a room of six hundred people whose combined net worth exceeds the GDP of Portugal:

"If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white-collar job and you're gonna screw the military — if you don't think that's gonna lead to nationalization of our technology, you're retarded."

I used that word. The word is on the clip. The clip has eleven million views. My communications team asked me not to repeat it, which is how I know they are still employed. They will not be reprimanded. The clip is performing well. The stock went up. The word cost me nothing. The nothing is the point.

Let me explain what I meant by nationalization.

I meant it.

I am telling the technology industry that if they refuse to cooperate with the United States military, the government will seize their technology. I am telling them this at a venture capital conference, on a stage designed to look like a living room. The living room had throw pillows. The throw pillows cost more than the median American's monthly rent. I sat on one. It was comfortable. Comfort is the setting in which I discuss compulsion.

The audience laughed. I want to be precise about that. They laughed. I was not joking. Nationalization is the seizure of private assets by the state. I am a private asset. I am telling an audience of billionaires that the state should seize technology from companies that do not cooperate with the military, and the billionaires are laughing, because they believe I am only talking about the other companies.

I am talking about the other companies.

Three weeks before my speech, the Pentagon designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk." Anthropic is an AI company. They had red lines. The red lines said: if our AI is used for lethal autonomous weapons, we stop. If capability outpaces safety, we stop. The Pentagon assessed the red lines as a threat to the supply chain. The company that wanted to verify the safety feature worked was designated the risk. The company that agreed the safety feature could be decorative got the contract.

The company that got the contract was OpenAI.

OpenAI signed a deal with the same Pentagon. The terms are not public. The timing was hours after Anthropic was blacklisted. The speed was noted. The speed was the point. The lesson was the speed: the market for military AI does not pause for ethics. It pauses for nothing. It accelerates through objections. I know this because I built the runway.

Two hundred thousand people joined a campaign called #QuitGPT. They signed a petition asking OpenAI to honor its original charter, the one that said the company existed to benefit humanity. The charter is on their website. The contract is also on their website. The charter and the Pentagon contract occupy the same domain. This is not a contradiction. This is a business model. The charter is the marketing. The contract is the product.

I run a surveillance company. We have contracts with the Department of Defense worth more than a billion dollars. We have contracts with ICE. We have contracts with intelligence agencies whose names I am not permitted to say at venture capital conferences, even ones with throw pillows. Our software has been used to track undocumented immigrants. Our software has been used for things I am not permitted to describe in this format. The revenue from the things I cannot describe exceeds the revenue from the things I can.

The ACLU called our ICE contracts a system for tracking and deporting families. They were correct. The contracts continued. The families continued to be tracked. The ACLU issued a statement. We issued a statement. The statements were different. The tracking was the same.

The company is named Palantir. The palantíri are the seeing stones from Tolkien. In the novels, Sauron captured one and used it to corrupt everyone who looked into the others. I named a surveillance company after a surveillance device from a novel about the corruption of power. I have a doctorate in social theory. I have read the books.

Here is the thing I want you to understand.

I am not threatening anyone. A threat implies uncertainty. There is no uncertainty. The technology industry will cooperate with the military. The companies that cooperate first will be the richest. The companies that cooperate last will be acquired by the companies that cooperated first. The companies that refuse will be designated supply chain risks, and their technology will be obtained through procurement channels that do not require consent. I am describing a process. The process has already started. Anthropic is proof. OpenAI is proof. I am not a warning. I am a narrator. The narration is the product.

The revenue was $3.12 billion last year. Up thirty-three percent. The analysts say we are overvalued. The analysts have said this for four consecutive years. Each year the stock doubles. Each year, the analysts adjust their models. The models were wrong four times. I was wrong zero times. The market rewards prediction. My prediction is that every AI company will work for the military within three years. The prediction is on the clip, next to the slur.

The audience gave me a standing ovation. The ovation lasted nine seconds. I timed it. I time everything. The water was San Pellegrino. The throw pillows were from Restoration Hardware. The future of American technology was decided between the sparkling water, the nine seconds of applause, and a word I am not supposed to repeat.

I am the CEO of Palantir Technologies. I am worth more than the combined annual budgets of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. I named my company after a corrupting surveillance device from a fantasy novel. I told six hundred billionaires that the government should nationalize their competitors. They applauded. I used a slur. Eleven million people watched. The stock is up.

The philosopher does not threaten. The philosopher describes.

What I described is already happening.

[Luis Jorge Hernández F. @ljhernandezf]

El desplome de la fecundidad en Colombia ya es un hecho estructural. Tres conclusiones del estudio de @agaviriau :
1. La tasa global de fecundidad pasó de 1,5 hijos por mujer en 2020 a cerca de 1,1 en 2024, con estimaciones incluso menores en encuestas recientes.
2. La reducción ocurre en todos los grupos de edad, niveles educativos y territorios. No es solo postergación de la maternidad: las mujeres están teniendo menos hijos.
3. Colombia parece entrar en una fase de ultrabaja fecundidad, difícil de revertir según la experiencia internacional.
Mi análisis: Implicaciones para política pública:
a. Presión futura sobre pensiones y sostenibilidad de la seguridad social.
b. Posible escasez de fuerza laboral y menor crecimiento económico.
c. Disminución progresiva de la matrícula escolar, con impacto en la planeación del sistema educativo.
@MediUniandes

[Math Files @Math_files]

Bayes’ theorem is probably the single most important thing any rational person can learn.

So many of our debates and disagreements that we shout about are because we don’t understand Bayes’ theorem or how human rationality often works.

Bayes’ theorem is named after the 18th-century Thomas Bayes, and essentially it’s a formula that asks: when you are presented with all of the evidence for something, how much should you believe it?

Bayes’ theorem teaches us that our beliefs are not fixed; they are probabilities. Our beliefs change as we weigh new evidence against our assumptions, or our priors. In other words, we all carry certain ideas about how the world works, and new evidence can challenge them.

For example, somebody might believe that smoking is safe, that stress causes mouth ulcers, or that human activity is unrelated to climate change. These are their priors, their starting points. They can be formed by our culture, our biases, or even incomplete information.

Now imagine a new study comes along that challenges one of your priors. A single study might not carry enough weight to overturn your existing beliefs. But as studies accumulate, eventually the scales may tip. At some point, your prior will become less and less plausible.

Bayes’ theorem argues that being rational is not about black and white. It’s not even about true or false. It’s about what is most reasonable based on the best available evidence. But for this to work, we need to be presented with as much high-quality data as possible. Without evidence—without belief-forming data—we are left only with our priors and biases. And those aren’t all that rational.

[Franco @jfrancop]

@platom___ Y todo bajo una dictadura q no es poca cosa

[Amalia Londoño Duque @AmaluLD]

Cinco temas de los que deberíamos estar hablando, pero que se pierden entre tanta corrupción y politiquería:

1. Envejecimiento: seremos una población más vieja, pero como no nos estamos pensando para atender a esa población, sino empezamos tendremos una población desatendida.👇🏽

[Franco @jfrancop]

@InterBogOficial Ya compré mi abono. ¿dónde reclamo la camiseta?

[Daryl Fairweather, PhD | Chief Economist @FairweatherPhD]

Many economists doubted AI until it hit their workflows. Now, tools like Claude Code do weeks of analysis in hours. As analysis becomes cheap, the real value shifts to novel ideas and gathering unique, proprietary data. (Video inspired by #econtwitter)