*THIS* post perfectly encapsulates the decadence and degeneracy of the contemporary US foreign policy establishment. In this view, a US Secretary of State is only *supposed* to travel to NATO capitals because a successful US foreign policy is what makes diplomatic counterparts in Paris, Berlin, and Brussels raise a champagne toast to “shared values” while flinging open their borders, destroying their economies, and apologizing for Western civilization. God forbid a US Secretary of State show his face in Bogotá, Quito, or Lima because that’s where mere “Assistant Secretaries” are supposed to tread. This smug approach led not only to predictably catastrophic results in the Western Hemisphere but also in Europe itself, where the combination of moral vanity and strategic incoherence also proved toxic. But sure: keep holding your academic seminars, writing your unread articles, awarding each other meaningless prizes, and looking down your noses at Donald Trump and Marco Rubio.
El @INEGI_INFORMA actualizó series del PIB de 🇲🇽 al 2025
Así queda el PIB x sexenio 1982-2024, desagregado x act. primarias, secundarias y terciarias
PIB
1982-88: -0.02%
1989-94: 4.35%
1994-2000: 3.50%
2001-06: 1.90%
2007-12: 1.43%
2013-18: 2.04%
2019-24: 0.90%
2025: 0.66%
"No entiende a la gente. Es un auténtico oficial de la KGB soviética. Un tanto antisemita, un tanto fascista. No muy inteligente. Y no entiende que las personas tienen derechos. Es un presidente al que, sencillamente, le importan un bledo sus propios ciudadanos"--periodista Anna Politkóvskaya sobre Putin. Anna fue asesinada en Moscú hoy hace 20 años, el cumpleaños de Putin.
Fifth question on AI.
AI is currently viewed as a centralizing technology – with ever-larger models, trained on much of the world’s knowledge, running on massive, concentrated compute, overseen by a few companies, and aiming to control and deploy all of that knowledge
But many early computer scientists and pioneers thought of digital technologies as powerfully decentralizing, as Simon Johnson and I discuss in our book Power and Progress (https://t.co/WROlEDnvYx).
One such pioneer, Lee Felsenstein, wrote “The industrial approach is grim and doesn’t work: the design motto is Designed by Geniuses for Use by Idiots.” In the words of one of his collaborators, Bob Marsh, “We wanted to make the microcomputer accessible to all human beings.” And this wasn’t just an aspiration; they believed it was both feasible and natural that computers would empower individuals.
The first newsletter of People’s Computer Company also captures this optimism:
“Computers are mostly; used against people instead of for people; used to control people instead of to free them; time to change all that – we need a…PEOPLE’S COMPUTER COMPANY”.
Should we accept centralizing AI? Or is there a way in which the promise of artificial intelligence can be realized while data, capabilities and control are much more decentralized both across domains and across people? Wouldn’t decentralized AI be more consistent with human agency and control?
(Some of the ways in which greater decentralization can happen are discussed in my first post in this series.)
#Ahora En pleno 2026 la policía criminalizando por el derecho a la libre manifestación.
La izquierda criminalizando la protesta.
No se nos va a olvidar
@ClaraBrugadaM
🎞️:@Somoselmedio
México está de acuerdo en que los Nicaragüenses no puedan votar.
México avala la dictadura de sus socios ideológicos.
Y México considera que un pueblo que no puede votar se auto determina.
México da vergüenza en el mundo.
Differentiation gave mathematics a language for changing slopes.
Integration gave it a language for accumulating quantities and areas.
Together, they transformed the study of motion, change, and modern analysis.
Y a propósito del #2deOctubre que no se olvida, así ve Luis González de Alba, uno de los líderes e intelectuales más importantes del movimiento estudiantil de 1968 a las autodenominadas izquierdas actuales en México.
El reclamo del ahorro p/retiro de los +70, que hoy están en el Fondo de Pensiones del Bienestar, es -como era previsible-una pesadilla.
Las Afores, q antes tenían el💰, ya no hacen el trámite p/recuperarlo y hay q ir al @Tu_IMSS
Las personas +70 difícilmente recuperarán su 💰
Carmen Aristegui lee los lineamientos de Hitler para la propaganda, desde el nuevo libro de Jacobo Dayán, a propósito de las acusaciones "estúpidas" de AMLO y el 80 aniversario de Nüremberg:
"Toda propaganda debe ser popular, adaptando su nivel al menos inteligente..."
Reapareció el jefe de la mafia en el poder, el capo de los traficantes de influencias, el cacique de la mayoría rapaz, el líder del bloque conservador, el ideólogo del populismo totalitario.
Estimado Subsecretario Landau @DeputySecState,
Le envío un saludo y quisiera solicitarle ayuda para la senadora Jasmin Burgarin @JasminBugarin ella desea renunciar a la nacionalidad estadounidense que ostenta al haber nacido en Los Ángeles, California, la senadora no sabe a quién preguntarle y desconoce los pasos a seguir para dicho trámite; yo quisiera pedirle si fuera usted tan amable de ayudarla y guiarla para que a la brevedad renuncie a su ciudadanía que no quiere y de la cual al parecer no se siente orgullosa.
Como siempre gracias por su apoyo a nuestro país y ojalá haga más publicaciones de sus viajes internacionales, son muy interesantes.
Bonita noche
Dear followers,
Over the next few days, starting today, I will post a number of threads on AI. My focus will be on uncomfortable questions for our current AI discourse. I am doing this because I feel that the public conversation on AI is not tackling the big issues and dangers, and what I view as important questions are not being asked by industry insiders and the media.
I must preface these posts by saying that I am not an AI scientist, so my understanding of some of the issues may be faulty. And I do not claim to know the answers to these questions. My aim is to make a small contribution by emphasizing the questions that I believe are important but are being neglected.
Thank you
Reminder:
When Students cheat on Exams — using AI or by any other means — they do so because School Systems value Grades more than Students value Learning.