José García Cosavalente

Escritor y editor. Investigador enamorado de la literatura y el arte peruanos.

[Auteur House @auteurhouse]

Béla Tarr posing with the owner of a DVD store in Lima, Peru with his pirated movies.

[Ángel Páez @Angelpaezs]

Por negarse a pagar un cupo de 6 soles al día, la pareja de extorsionadores, "La China" y "Pimpollo", ordenó quemar el mototaxi cuyo fuego originó el incendio que terminó con la vida de cinco adultos y cinco niños en La Victoria.

https://t.co/WFoYPiNHXU

[Críticademónica @criticademonica]

José Antonio Chang era ministro cuando se compraron laptops de plástico sobrevaloradas, que fue chatarra en menos de un par de años. En un mundo paralelo está preso y llora por Alan. Hoy es ministrode edukazion de Keiko.

[Modesto Montoya @modestomontoya]

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[José García Cosavalente @joselima84]

Este 28 de julio en Perú será surrealista. Y no sé si la gente ha tomado conciencia de la gravedad de la situación.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

“Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read…”

— Werner Herzog

[José García Cosavalente @joselima84]

Cuando ocurrió el terremoto de Pisco (Perú) el pueblo venezolano fue uno de los primeros en prestar ayuda. Ahora nos toca a nosotros devolver el favor.
¡¡¡Fuerza, Venezuela!!!

[Alan Daitch @AlanDaitch]

El país que más invierte en inteligencia artificial del planeta acaba de sancionar una ley nacional para obligar a sus ciudades a abrir bibliotecas y volver a los libros de papel.

China era el candidato perfecto para enterrar el papel: pone más de cien mil millones de dólares al año en inteligencia artificial y es de los que más la incluyen en los currículos educativos. Si algún país iba a declarar que el libro ya no hace falta, que para eso está la máquina, era este.

Sin embargo, hizo exactamente lo contrario: en vez de mandar todo a la pantalla, está promoviendo el libro por ley. Desde el primero de febrero, rige una norma que obliga a cada gobierno local a poner dinero en bibliotecas, abrir espacios de lectura hasta en las zonas rurales y sostener una Semana Nacional de la Lectura. Desde ahora, es obligación del Estado.

¿Por qué un país que ya tiene la mejor tecnología se molesta en legislar la lectura? Porque separaron para qué sirve cada cosa. La inteligencia artificial te sirve para producir, competir, ir rápido: es la herramienta.

El libro te entrena en lo que ninguna máquina te da: atención sostenida y criterio propio. Es la cabeza la que después decide qué hacer con esa herramienta. Como lo resume uno de sus investigadores: solo a través de la lectura se llega a un pensamiento profundo e independiente.

El premier Li Qiang lo decretó dentro del mismo plan quinquenal donde está su apuesta de inteligencia artificial. Las dos cosas son estratégicas y van de la mano.

Mientras tanto, Estados Unidos hace el camino inverso: batió su récord de libros sacados de las escuelas (casi veintitrés mil desde 2021) y sus chicos sacaron las peores notas de lectura en más de veinte años, con cuatro de cada diez de cuarto grado que no llegan ni al nivel básico.

La inteligencia artificial la va a tener todo el mundo. La cabeza para saber qué hacer con ella, no. Usala para pensar CON vos y no POR vos.

[José García Cosavalente @joselima84]

En el Perú (1974-1977) se vivió una oleada de atentados terroristas. Era la transición entre el velasquismo y el gobierno de Morales Bermúdez.
Los atentados fueron obra de grupos derechistas.
Incluyeron acciones como la siguiente:
Bombas en el Callao contra barcos cubanos.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

"Science is about failure. We learn from the failures."

Even Nobel Prize laureates fail. Medicine laureate Craig Mello speaks about how the challenge of science goes hand in hand with encountering failure.

Mello shared the 2006 medicine prize with Andrew Fire “for their discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA.”

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Hace 61 años, Wednesday le enseñó a Lurch a bailar…

Un momento clásico de la televisión: 📺

Una combinación del arte de la música con el arte de la cinematografía 😎👌🏼

[Lucia M. @floresdejauja_]

Las organizaciones indígenas del Chambira llevan 3 meses buscando declaratoria de emergencia sanitaria. Más de 60 niños fallecidos, 1 solo centro de salud para 10 mil ciudadanos indígenas. Las vidas indígenas sí importan @pcmperu

[Qhapaq Ñan @QhapaqNanPeru]

El Qhapaq Ñan tenían una extraordinaria capacidad para difundir la construcción simbólica en la que se encontraba basada la autoridad inca, una autoridad en constante movimiento y capaz de aglutinar a un gran número de culturas, lenguas y diversas comunidades étnicas.

[Meech @MediumSizeMeech]

Anyway—a perfect example of the issue with the current state of reading is addressed by Fran Lebowitz in conversation with Toni Morrison—people use fiction as a mirror to see themselves instead of using it as a doorway, or a window, as a way out.

[El Búho🦉 @elbuho_pe]

“MI SUB, AQUÍ NO HAY NADA” | El sobreviviente de la masacre en Colcabamba rompió su silencio y relató el horror que vivió. Afirma que, al no encontrar drogas ni armamento, los propios militares ordenaron traer municiones para justificar la intervención.

[Mireya CH @mirecarhuas]

Comunidades se levantan. Por los 5 asesinatos del Ejército en falso operativo “narcoterrorista” comunidades se reúnen y pide justicia. Refieren que jóvenes asesinados eran inocentes, y revelan que antes de operativo se les comunicó que no son terroristas y FFAA no hicieron caso

[Chacotero @ChacoteroPeru]

Los únicos 3 candidatos que piden ELECCIONES COMPLEMENTARIAS :

Rafael Lopez Aliaga, Keiko Fujimori y Jorge Nieto. El tiempo juzgara de que lado de la historia te pones

[Manuel Bello @mbellod]

Repite conmigo: El Perú no necesita aviones de guerra. El Perú necesita hospitales equipados, centros de salud, escuelas dignas, viviendas con agua, desagüe, electricidad e internet para todos, carreteras y trenes para agilizar el transporte, caminos rurales para los campesinos.

[CabroNoticias @CabroNoticias]

Mi nuevo emprendimiento 🔥🔥🔥