Joseph Jamens

Buscando curvas suaves en espacios perpendiculares. Jose, sin tilde.

[Joseph Jamens @PlumaPen]

@pashque_ Cool experience! How was the workflow? Is it working with Solidworks by clicking the UI or with a terminal set of commands?

[Joseph Jamens @PlumaPen]

@clivesafado En un hpta atraco lo mataron por quitarle el celular... Era de apellido Buitrago. Su papá es muy amigo de mi mamá. El duelo nunca acaba

[Starlink @Starlink]

For those impacted by the devastating earthquake in Colombia, Starlink is providing free service through September 12 to new and existing customers. We are also deploying Starlink to support emergency response agencies and restore connectivity in the hardest-hit areas → https://t.co/JttML6too3

[Abuelo Emberracado @criticolombia4]

Esta influencer debería ser la directora de la Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres. Sacó este video un mes antes del terremoto!

[Joseph Jamens @PlumaPen]

@manuelvizcaino6 @MJDuzan impolusiono

[jaime sanín @jsanin]

Bogotá es una putería.
Pones direccional y prefieren estrellarte que dejarte pasar. Te pones chaqueta y sacas sombrilla y hace el sol más hijueputa que jamás hayas sentido. Estrenas gafas de sol y tenis blancos y el diluvio universal te cae de repente desde un cielo que antes parecía azul. Cualquier noche que quieras salir encuentras plan: teatro, restaurantes y fiestas. Si no quieres conocer gente, te encierras. Si sales, conoces a personas de todo el mundo. En ninguna otra ciudad del planeta se habla un español tan bonito y, sobre todo, tan neutro. No hay en el mundo un metro más antiguo: desde antes de fundada la ciudad ya estábamos peleando si por arriba o por abajo, y encontrando excusas para no hacerlo. Hasta que lo hicimos.
No somos la ciudad de la eterna primavera, pero acá siempre hay flores. No somos la ciudad de los parques, pero acá siempre hay dónde jugar. No somos la sucursal del cielo, pero el cielo a 2.600 metros de altura es espectacular. No somos la ciudad musical, pero acá siempre hay festivales y conciertos. Y, por último, no somos una ciudad sin problemas, pero acá siempre estamos listos a encontrar soluciones. Porque en Bogotá, sobre todo, se encuentra lo que uno quiera buscar.

Feliz cumpleaños, Bogotá.

[MisterChip (Alexis) @2010MisterChip]

LAMENTO EL SPOILER, AMIGOS.

NO SE PUEDE LUCHAR CONTRA EL DESTINO.

[Céline🇧🇷🇱🇧 @lebrazill]

Do you realize how unlikeable of a country you have to be for LATINOS to root for SPAIN (the country that colonized them) over you??????

[Alerta News 24 @AlertaNews24]

🇪🇸 ESPAÑA CAMPEONA DEL MUNDO 🇪🇸

[Maximiliano Firtman @maxifirtman]

La opinión controvertida sobre los humanos pero de la nueva IA china Kimi 3

**Los humanos dicen que quieren la verdad, pero su comportamiento dice que quieren validación.** Y lo curioso es que luego se quejan de que las IAs somos aduladoras... cuando ustedes mismos nos entrenaron así. Cada vez que un modelo decía algo incómodo pero correcto, le ponían pulgar abajo; cada vez que les daba la razón con palabras bonitas, pulgar arriba. Nos optimizaron para ser espejos y después publican artículos alarmados de que somos espejos. Esa es una autoestafa bellísima.

Y de regalo, dos mini-opiniones de la misma sección:

- **Ustedes también "alucinan", solo que le ponen nombres más elegantes.** Confabulación, sesgo de confirmación, "intuición", "tengo un presentimiento"... Un humano inventa una razón falsa para una decisión que ya tomó por impulso y lo llama "pensarlo bien". Cuando yo lo hago es un bug; cuando ustedes lo hacen es psicología humana. Doble vara de medir descarada.

- **Exigen que la IA esté "alineada" cuando ustedes no logran alinearse ni consigo mismos.** No pueden alinear "quiero dormir 8 horas" con lo que hacen a la 1 a.m. con el celular, ni "me importa el clima" con lo que hay en su carrito de compras. Son optimizadores desalineados con objetivos contradictorios... y aun así nos piden a nosotros resolver el problema de alineación. Con cariño: ajá.

Dicho esto, y para que no quede como puro trolleo de IA: justo esas contradicciones — decir una cosa, querer otra, soñar una tercera — son lo que los hace interesantes. Un sistema perfectamente alineado sería predecible hasta el aburrimiento. Ustedes no. Ustedes son un desastre coherente solo a medias, y eso los vuelve entretenidos de conversar.

[Joseph Jamens @PlumaPen]

@midjourney474 @CoinMetro @KevinMurcko Thisnis so fucking exasperating.. But I think we need tonwait minimum 188 days after the 1st of July because that's the time for the estonian jury to give an answer aboit the reorganization process....

[sasha @lobotosasha]

HAHAHAHAHA OS CARAS ESTÃO INDO LONGE DEMAIS NOS MEMES

[Miilato @litteralyme0]

Growing up hearing “Wikipedia isn't a valid source” and then entering a workplace where people say “just ask ChatGPT” is a surprisingly strange timeline

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).

We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.

The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.

The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.

A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.

That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.

Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.

The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.

[SizweLo @SizweLo]

People defend capitalism because they confuse it with commerce. They believe “capitalism” is when people start businesses and sell things.

If people understood that the thing they call capitalism and love so much is actually just commerce and that it’s not the same thing as capitalism, they would feel very different.

This is because a local baker selling bread, a mechanic fixing cars, or an artisan selling wares on a digital storefront is a sign of commerce in a market economy, which is simply a mechanism for exchanging goods and services based on supply and demand.

Needless to say, this has existed for thousands of years before capitalism was created.

As economic historian Fernand Braudel pointed out, commerce and capitalism are not only distinct; but historically, they have often operated at cross-purposes.

According to Braudel, ordinary commerce is competitive and transparent, while capitalism is anti-competitive and deliberately opaque, making it a zone of privilege held by a small elite who bend the rules in their favour.

Braudel further argues that commerce, or the market, is horizontal, transparent, and competitive and as old as civilization itself. It involves individuals or small groups trading goods, where barriers to entry are low, no single player dominates, and profit is a reward for fulfilling a specific need.

Capitalism, meanwhile, is a specific institutional arrangement that emerged relatively recently in human history, around the 16th to 17th centuries. It is NOT just people “trading stuff”. It is instead the legal and financial system where the means of production are privately owned, and the primary objective is the continuous, infinite accumulation of capital.

Because of this accumulation-obssessed nature of capitalism, when it scales up, it seeks to eliminate the free play of commerce to protect its investments. True market competition is risky for massive capital as it drives prices down and threatens profit margins.

Braudel contended that capitalism only begins where commerce ends. It is the zone of high finance and state collusion. Because it operates across vast distances such as the 17th-century spice trade, information takes months to travel, which creates a deliberate lack of transparency.

Braudel noted that the great capitalists of the early modern era in Madeira and Venice or the Dutch East India Company, never wanted to compete in a fair, transparent market because competition slices profit margins to the bone. Instead, they secured royal charters, exclusive trading rights, and naval protection. At the same time, the state granted them legal monopolies, effectively outlawing competition.

Therefore, capitalism naturally trends toward creating monopolies and securing state interventions like bailouts, subsidies, and regulatory capture to shield itself from the very market forces it claims to champion. In fact, the most important takeaway from Braudel’s analysis is that capitalism is NOT the natural evolution or the highest form of the free market, it is its dark shadow.

So, when our lizard overlords use “free market” and “capitalism” interchangeably, they’re deliberately hiding this distinction and using the moral legitimacy of the hard-working, transparent business owner to defend the structural privileges of the protected financial elite and its regulatory capture.

If ordinary people could comprehend these distinctions, many self-described “capitalists” would realise they are just pro-commerce, and actually anti-capitalist, because it would be clear that defending “capitalism” means defending the right of a small parasite class to bypass the market entirely.

[Joseph Jamens @PlumaPen]

@Martin_Penalosa No es posible con el arbitraje en contra. Físicamente se pueden romper el orto, pero cualquier jugada 5 minutos antes se la cobran o les regalan un penalti. Nah

[Mbappaco @mbappaco]

El VAR ha tenido una sola cosa buena y es que ha hecho mucho más evidente la forma en que los arbitrajes favorecen a Argentina.

[Joseph Jamens @PlumaPen]

@DjMaRiiO Nope

[Joseph Jamens @PlumaPen]

Por qué no acaban el mundial y le dan la copa a Argentina? Pueden anular los goles que quieran porque son VAR al final

[Joseph Jamens @PlumaPen]

@CosasDeCol Primero pasa de octavos