Octavio A. Landolfi

Internacionalista, Magíster en Educación y Especialista en Geopolítica./ Internationalist | M.Ed. | Specialist in Geopolitics. 🇩🇴

[Octavio A. Landolfi @olandolfi]

“Esta reconciliación con Hitler demuestra la profunda perversión moral que va unida a un mundo basado esencialmente en la inexistencia del retorno, porque en ese mundo todo está perdonado de antemano y, por tanto, todo cínicamente permitido.”
-La insoportable levedad del ser-
Milan Kundera 1929-2023

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The artificial imitation of positive human communication — words of advice, empathy, friendship and even love — can be engaging. However, it can be misleading, creating the illusion of a relationship with a real personal subject. In contexts where real relationships and emotional bonds are lacking, the danger is that a person may lose the desire to form genuine human connections.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

The apparent objectivity of the responses these systems provide can lead us to overlook the fact that they reflect the cultural assumptions of those who designed and trained them.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Latinometrics @LatamData]

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Canada's Scotiabank names Santo Domingo its regional hub for the Caribbean, Central America, and Colombia

(Diario Libre)

[Ito Bisonó @itobisono]

Hoy realizamos el primer #MIVHEDEnMarcha, un espacio con los medios para compartir de manera frecuente novedades y avances sobre las obras y la transformación institucional que estamos impulsando en el ministerio.

Hoy abordamos diversos temas y reafirmamos que este será un espacio constante de diálogo, apertura y transparencia para seguir informando el trabajo que estamos realizando.

[Ito Bisonó @itobisono]

Hoy regresé junto al presidente @luisabinader para reencontrarnos con esos jóvenes, escuchar sus inquietudes y que también pudieran conocer de primera mano su visión, su experiencia como jefe de Estado y el rumbo que seguimos construyendo para República Dominicana.

[juliana @sinwaifai]

te odio, escritura de inteligencia artificial

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The people in this photo aren't friendlier than you. Their apartments are just smaller. So small that Parisians basically gave up on living indoors and moved their living rooms onto the sidewalk. And that was the whole plan.

In the 1850s, a city planner named Baron Haussmann tore apart medieval Paris and rebuilt it. He widened streets into boulevards, capped every building at five stories, and added one rule that explains this entire photo: the ground floor of every building had to be a café, a bakery, or a shop. The apartments above were intentionally tiny. Some were single rooms carved out of old mansions. No garden. Barely any sunlight. A private balcony was something most Parisians would never have.

So the café became home. You ate breakfast there. Held meetings there. Received your mail there. By the late 1700s, Paris already had close to 2,000 of them. In 2002, there were still 1,907. Even now, after years of closures brought that number to about 1,410, the coverage is absurd: a 2020 city study found 94% of Parisians live within a five-minute walk of a bakery. When COVID shut indoor dining in 2020, Paris ripped out parking spaces, turned them into outdoor terraces, and let 9,800 cafés and restaurants keep them permanently.

An American sociologist named Ray Oldenburg wrote a book in 1989 called The Great Good Place. He had a name for spots like the Parisian café: "third places." Not your home, not your office, but the casual in-between spots where you actually get to know people. Cafés, pubs, barbershops, the corner store where the owner knows your name. His whole argument was that American suburbs were built with only two zones, your house and your job, connected by a car. No sidewalk café, no place to bump into a neighbor by accident.

The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a national health epidemic in 2023. Being alone all the time is as bad for your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Half of American adults say they feel lonely. Weekly socializing dropped from 5.5 hours in 2003 to just 4 hours in 2023, and it never bounced back after COVID. Americans between 15 and 29 now spend 45% more time alone than they did in 2010.

The scene in this tweet looks like a personality trait. It is a 170-year-old engineering project that works exactly as designed.

[Monchy Pérez @rperezfermin]

Temprano el petróleo repunta en el mercado intl y ya cotiza por encima de 100 usd el barril del WTI; el Diesel también inicia la jornada con más de 9% de revalorización.
La resistencia a la baja no es buena noticia para el crecimiento y la inflación global.
#commoditiesRising

[Monchy Pérez @rperezfermin]

En adición a la crisis de precios de los combustibles y los fertilizantes, el mundo se aboca a otro drama del mercado. El Helio se ha revalorizado en las últimas semanas + 50%, impactando directamente la industria de semiconductores y la salud, por sus propiedades refrigerantes.

[Nacho Montes de Oca @nachomdeo]

El bombardeo a la isla de Kharg abrió una discusión sobre lo que podría pasar si se cierra su operación por donde se exporta el 90% del petróleo iraní. Veamos que tan cierto es, si hay puertos alternativos y de paso analicemos que otras rutas hay para esquivar el bloqueo en Ormuz
Sale hilo

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Street Fighter legend MenaRD has become so big that Capcom is now working with his home country

He met with Capcom representatives alongside officials from the Dominican Republic to explore opportunities in esports, tech, and education

[FIBA Basketball World Cup 🏆 @FIBAWC]

🇩🇴 Dominican Republic advance to Round 2 of the #FIBAWC Qualifiers 🚀
#StepItUp

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

https://t.co/tjmbT5ytUN

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

On behalf of the United States, we are grateful to Pres. Abinader for his friendship and his willingness to host the Summit of Americas. We fully support the decision to postpone the summit and will continue to work together with the Dominican Republic, and other countries in the region, to plan a productive event in 2026 that will be focused on strengthening partnerships and enhancing security for our citizens.

[Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Mipymes @MIC_RD]

Desde el MICM, seguimos promoviendo espacios que impulsen el crecimiento, la visibilidad y la formalización de las mipymes dominicanas. 💪💡

#MipymesRD #Emprendimiento #MICM

[Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Mipymes @MIC_RD]

Más de 800 personas asistieron al evento, con el apoyo del MICM, representado por el director Octavio Landolfi, fortaleciendo el vínculo entre el sector público, privado y nuestros emprendedores. 👏🇩🇴

#MipymesRD #Emprendimiento #MICM

[Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Mipymes @MIC_RD]

🌿 El talento y la creatividad de nuestras mipymes brillaron en el bazar organizado junto al Banco BHD, con la participación de 24 empresas dominicanas de sectores como cosmética, moda, artesanía, alimentos y más. 💼

#MipymesRD #Emprendimiento #MICM

[Octavio A. Landolfi @olandolfi]

“Entre 2021 y 2024, se han creado 154 mil nuevos empleos, y el país alcanzó el mayor nivel de formalidad laboral de su historia, con 2.38 millones de trabajadores registrados.” @itobisono

Octubre, béisbol y la gran remontada dominicana https://t.co/CPzbs7YVTy