Jorge Masferrer

[Jorge Masferrer @masfe]

I don't lie to myself, and I don't hold on to a loser. The moment it doesn't feel right, I let it go, get away from it . -Billions

[Jorge Masferrer @masfe]

@santasofia532 @FGR_SV @josedavoviedo @PNCSV Llevaban un estilo de vida frugal

[Jorge Masferrer @masfe]

@Cinco_Zavala Ustedes no nacieron ayer, la persona que lo organizo contaba con que eso sucederia, genera mas vistas, interacciones y seguidores en sus redes sociales

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Pixar hired a chef with three Michelin stars to design the dish in Ratatouille. Then they built the scene around the neuroscience of how taste triggers memory, and got Peter O’Toole to deliver one of the great monologues in animation history.

What you call “taste” is mostly smell. When you eat, molecules rise up the back of your throat into your nose. From there, smell takes a unique route. Every other sense (sight, sound, touch, even the actual taste your tongue picks up) gets filtered through a kind of switchboard in your brain first. Smell skips it. The smell heads straight to the parts of your brain that handle memory and emotion. Which is why one bite of food can drop you back into a moment from 30 years ago.

Ratatouille’s director, Brad Bird, built the entire flashback around this. Anton Ego takes one bite, and Pixar zooms the camera through his pupil into a childhood kitchen. The dish itself was Thomas Keller’s. His restaurant The French Laundry in California has three Michelin stars. He took a 1976 recipe by French chef Michel Guérard called confit byaldi (paper-thin vegetables spiraled over a tomato-pepper sauce) and adapted it for the film. Keller even had Pixar’s producer intern in his kitchen for months to get the look right.

Anton Ego is voiced by Peter O’Toole, the lead in Lawrence of Arabia. He was nominated for Best Actor eight times. Never won. He holds the record (tied with Glenn Close) for most nominations without a win, and once called himself the Academy’s “Biggest Loser.” He was 75 when he recorded the Anton Ego monologue. He died six years later, and it became one of his signature performances.

The speech was Brad Bird’s. In the review he writes the next morning, Anton Ego turns on his own profession. Critics risk almost nothing, he writes. They thrive on tearing strangers apart. The only risk that matters, he writes, is defending new talent when no one else will. He ends with the line everyone still quotes: “a great artist can come from anywhere.”

Ratatouille won Best Animated Feature at the 2008 Oscars, plus a Best Original Screenplay nomination on the strength of Bird’s speech. The film grossed $624 million on a $150 million budget.

In 90 seconds, a cartoon rat and a fictional food critic turn that science into something you can feel. Your best memories live in your stomach.

[Jorge Masferrer @masfe]

@ITROriginal Eso ya se a visto anteriormente ⬇️

[Jorge Masferrer @masfe]

Why People Sometimes Care More About Dogs Than Humans | Psychology Today https://t.co/0gzS1zezLi

[Crazy Moments @Crazymoments01]

This balcony floor looks like the ocean

[Jorge Masferrer @masfe]

@videolib mejor repara el parabrisas

[Jorge Masferrer @masfe]

La app de @pedidosya no permite hacer órdenes

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

The Pill For Everything: Why Off-Label Gabapentin Prescriptions Are Soaring https://t.co/6K26HHITYI

[Jorge Masferrer @masfe]

After waiting four days for this book to arrive in El Salvador, I’m excited to start it. Too Big to Fail was another great read back in 2009 @andrewrsorkin

[Jorge Masferrer @masfe]

@andrewrsorkin

[CNBC @CNBC]

How digital price tags could change the future of grocery shopping https://t.co/Pgrns6kXSP

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This Community Resource Dog gets a burger every time he finds a missing person. This is Cruiser. He got to play his favorite game last week, which is finding people in need of assistance. Cruiser is trained as a Community Resource Dog in Wrentham, Massachusetts, where he helped locate an elderly resident with dementia who had wandered away from home. "Though many were searching for the gentleman, Cruiser cruised right to his location, tracking and locating him in the woods behind a school!" said local police chief Bill McGrath. Cruiser has also received hamburgers for locating two runaway children in March, and an elderly woman last summer, bringing a whole new meaning to the term hamburger helper. 14/10

[Mike Sharples @sharplm]

Extended version of my table on how generative AI can support teaching, learning and assessment. In UNESCO "Quick Start Guide to ChatGPT and AI in Higher Education". https://t.co/ebizJVDAk6

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

The burger scene in The Menu (2022) was nothing short of stunning.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

Bitfinex, after it's hack in 2016, and Thorchain, after its Thorfi lending mechanism blew up earlier this year, both pursued a novel path that is only possible in crypto.

They issued a token, granted to creditors, which was imbued with a share of future profits. This allowed creditors to either instantly get a material portion of their lost funds back, or hold the token for some time and potentially earn *more* than they lost.

See below chart of LEO since the hack... $1 debt token has risen by 8x in less than a decade.

As an alternative to a normal bankruptcy proceeding, it is far superior. Compare Bitfinex's result to Gox.

This method of using a crypto token deserves further study and exploration.

Earnest financial innovation, purely market based, among self-interested parties who don't know or trust each other.

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Sony dropped 250,000 colorful bouncy balls down the streets of San Francisco in 2005 to promote their TV

They are still being found to this day

[Jorge Masferrer @masfe]

@Armando21899676 @GilbertoEsc_ Ni Chalatenango has visitado

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Elizabeth Holmes is advising her husband’s AI medical testing startup, which can “conduct diagnostic tests using a small sample of blood” from prison.

We’re so back.

[Jorge Masferrer @masfe]

@LaHuellaSV Como al final de Point Break