jfredys

Ninja educando robots.

[darren @darrenjr]

nothing like a github outage to start the week!

[Félix de Bedout @fdbedout]

Un ministro de vivienda de vacaciones en la playa en medio de los efectos de un terremoto, en el que la crisis de vivienda es una de las mayores angustias de miles de personas

Esta debe ser una de las mayores desconexiones con la realidad que se hayan visto.

Mejor dicho: una total hijueputez.

[Brian Scanlan @brian_scanlan]

Counts of "load-bearing" references in pull requests in the intercom rails monolith:

2011–2023: 0
2024: 1
2025: 1

2026:
Jan: 0
Feb: 0
March: 2
April: 36
May: 63
June: 122
July: 188

[EL PAÍS @el_pais]

Colombia rechaza el apoyo de personal internacional de rescate para atender el terremoto

El recién posesionado Abelardo de la Espriella no activa un llamado a otros países, a pesar de los múltiples ofrecimientos https://t.co/Vn5jqXYd7Y

[Malaparte @JMalaparte]

Ustedes eran muy jóvenes, pero a raíz de la tragedia de Armero muchos creímos que la solidaridad que hubo, toneladas de ayuda, iba a solucionar la vida de las víctimas sobrevivientes. Pero ocurrió lo predecible: SE ROBARON TODO.

No olviden donde estamos parados.

[Rafael Noguera @ranoguera]

Thoughts, prayers and kisses.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Inflation has long beleaguered Argentina. Javier Milei hopes to change that by trying to bind his—and future—governments from indulging in money printing. The plan is laudable. But it has wrinkles https://t.co/yagQKmfblS

[@levelsio @levelsio]

This finally stopped Claude's crazy pursuit of talking more and more unintelligible every passing day

> Save in memory to always use ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English when you talk to me

Thank god!

[jfredys @jfredys]

@GergelyOrosz Probably Google is right, just let Anthropic and OpenAI race against each other. Why burn so much resources in a race with so little moat.

[Adam C Palmer @ac_palmer]

Must-read article for anyone whose job involves *thinking*

https://t.co/88ezsrjMgz

"The problem with writing with A.I. is that it’s mentally enfeebling...
What, uniquely, does writing do? ... It compels thinking in ways that silent contemplation or spoken language rarely can."

[Alex Hirsch @_AlexHirsch]

@sama What if you just talked to your children

[César Olse @cesarolse]

Uno de los mejores comerciales de la televisión colombiana se lo adjudicó @Bancolombia por allá en 2008

[Shayan Sardarizadeh @Shayan86]

Google Earth has launched a new AI tool which allows users to create fake satellite images.

A collapsed Eiffel Tower, a sinkhole swallowing the Great Pyramid of Giza and Russian tanks in Kyiv were among images BBC Verify created when testing the feature.

https://t.co/62j0we0YDB

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

We have a standing meeting about this word twice a week, every two weeks.

[jfredys @jfredys]

@Borgghese @lucianocarvaIho Yes, because it works! left-wing people will repost their videos to make fun of them. Making them popular and relevant for free, instead of posting about their own candidate.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[jfredys @jfredys]

No tiene ninguna justificación que haya notarías en pleno 2026.

[MAURICIO A. FRANCO H. @FRANCOBATEROABO]

@MariaA_PardoJ @DIANColombia No tiene ninguna justificación que las notarías en pleno 2026 no garantizan transferencias bancarias o reciban tarjetas.

[jfredys @jfredys]

Hey @googlephotos 🤨

[Emantec💛🩵 @Ianmonzon10]

REVIVELO DICE y es la foto de mí gato fallecido 😭😭😭😭

[jfredys @jfredys]

@CyberPunkCortes https://t.co/L9J4JSjCCZ

[CBC @CBC]

A wildfire and the spectacular aurora light up the night sky in Yukon. Jason Gendron stayed up late to capture the two incredible forces of nature.

[NewsWire 🇱🇰 @NewsWireLK]

Kylian Mbappé on why he refuses to promote sports betting:

“Sports betting is destructive. It has ruined the lives of some people I know. That's why I refused to appear in sports betting advertisements. Many of us come from the suburbs, and it destroys the lives of countless people there.”

A powerful stance from one of football's biggest stars.