Sergio Barajas

En otra vida sí nací en Culiacán.
Muy probablemente ando cerca del mar.
Building @airtminc with hands & mind.

[Invictos @InvictosSomos]

Ufff, qué secuencia tan DESGARRADORA. Las lágrimas de Memo Ochoa después de la ELIMINACIÓN de la Selección Mexicana en su última Copa del Mundo. En cuanto terminó el partido ante Inglaterra, el mejor portero mexicano de toda la historia simplemente no pudo contener el llanto. Y es que hoy terminó su último viaje mundialista y también finalizó su carrera profesional.

Gracias, Memo. Gracias por todas las atajadas imposibles y momentos épicos que nos regalaste durante estas últimas décadas. Gracias por ser un ejemplo de valentía y profesionalismo. Gracias por ser una fuente de inspiración para generaciones enteras. Gracias por ser un líder ejemplar. Y gracias por, en esta Copa del Mundo, ser el compañero que siempre quisiste y mereciste tener.

Eres una leyenda total del fútbol mexicano.

ERES ETERNO, DON MEMO.

[Erik Lira @erik_lira]

Es HOY 🇲🇽 @miseleccionmx
Todos de verde 🟢
VAMOS!!

[Invictos @InvictosSomos]

Julián Quiñones mandando a callar a Moisés Caicedo en una noche de Copa del Mundo.

[Fut Azteca Shitposting @futaztecapostin]

Mira a Fidalgo llorando tras anotar su primer gol en Mundiales con México

[Invictos @InvictosSomos]

Mi selección. Tu selección. Nuestra selección.

[Airtm @airtminc]

Nuestras comisiones para recibir transferencias ACH en Bolivia. Siempre vamos a ser transparentes con nuestra comunidad y nuestros competidores.♥️

[Sergio Barajas @sergiob93]

The Sense of an Ending. Julian Barnes.

[Sergio Barajas @sergiob93]

@skymexico @skymexico seguimos igual. La cuenta fue desactivada desde febrero (!) y el acoso telefónico no para. Y no, por MD no ayudan.

[Sergio Barajas @sergiob93]

Cómo detiene uno el acoso telefónico de @skymexico de 30+ llamadas al día después de cancelar su servicio? Ayuda plix.

[Sergio Barajas @sergiob93]

@deniseurbanija Checa @airtminc mejor :) cobras usd igual, tienes tarjeta virtual usd y retiros directos en ARS a súper costo!

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Sergio Barajas @sergiob93]

🇨🇳🇻🇳🇭🇰

[Sergio Barajas @sergiob93]

Así 🤏🏼 de dejar @BBVA_Mex y irme a Revolut o algo así

[Sergio Barajas @sergiob93]

el libre mercado que le dicen

[Financial Times @FT]

Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia https://t.co/VNUxFjRufz

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

The United States has become the greatest source of political instability in the world.

[Sergio Barajas @sergiob93]

Let me watch you as close as a memory
Let me hold you above all the misery
Let me open my eyes and be glad that I got there

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Imperialism and racism are central to the capitalist world economy. The barbarism is a feature, not a bug.

Remember, capitalism is not defined by “markets and businesses and trade”. It is a system where production is controlled overwhelmingly by capital: the big banks, large corporations, and the 1% who own the majority of investable assets.

And for capital, the purpose of production is not to meet human needs, or to achieve social progress, but to maximize and accumulate profit. That is the overriding objective.

To maintain the process of perpetual accumulation requires massive quantities of cheap labour and cheap nature. You have to deny people control over their land, and deny workers access to the yields of their production.

This cannot be sustained for long within a bounded economy. If you intensify the exploitation of your domestic working class and resource base in this way, sooner or later you will face a revolution.

To avoid this outcome, you need some kind of “outside”, an external frontier, where you can exploit labour and nature with impunity, where you can externalize social and ecological costs, and where any rebellions can be destroyed with brute force.

This is where imperialism comes in. As Utsa Patnaik puts it, capitalism requires “an imperial arrangement” to maintain access to cheap labour and cheap nature, and thereby to stabilize accumulation.

Imperialism is not a side-gig, not an over-reach committed by greedy individuals, it is a structural feature of the capitalist world economy.

Beginning in the long 16th century, the regions of what today we call the global South were forcibly integrated into the Europe-centered capitalist world economy as providers of cheapened labour, resources and goods. This was an extraordinarily violent process, involving colonization, dispossession, mass enslavement, and genocide.

How could anyone possibly justify these horrors? Race. Discourses of white supremacy and racial hierarchy were fabricated by the European ruling classes to dehumanize the majority world, hiving them off from the realm of rights, to provide the ideological scaffolding necessary to justify apocalyptic levels of exploitation and bloodshed in the periphery.

And of course these very same discourses were deployed within the core itself, to justify paying lower wages to racialised people, and to deny them equal access to resources.

They used racial ideology to construct a global division of labour, a massively inequitable global division of wages, and a global hierarchy of rights. Racial ideology was promoted so aggressively that it developed its own momentum of hatred and violence.

Racism, like imperialism itself, is not a side-show to capitalism but a structurally necessary feature of it. It is not a standalone problem that can be addressed with a few liberal reforms here and there. It has always been central to capitalism and it remains that way today.

Overcoming capitalism - in other words, transitioning to a democratic socialist economy - is ultimately necessary to end structural racism and imperialist violence.

The struggle against racism must be anti-capitalist, and the struggle against capitalism must be anti-racist.

These arguments have been established by a long tradition of scholarship -- WEB du Bois, CLR James, Cedric Robinson, Angela Davis, Walter Rodney, Claudia Jones, Utsa Patnaik, Ali Kadri, Immanuel Wallerstein, Samir Amin and more -- and they remain as relevant today as ever.

[Máximo Ernesto Jaramillo Molina @rojo_neon]

Hoy publicamos el informe “¿Derechos o privilegios? Una mirada a la  ENIGH 2024 desde las desigualdades”, entre @oxfammexico y el @IndesigOrg , y hay resultados ultra mega relevantes que vale la pena que le echen un ojo por acá, y al informe completo: https://t.co/5tpVwhpgiO

A continuación listo algunas de las temáticas más importantes analizadas:

[The Beatles Earth @BeatlesEarth]

John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics for The Beatles song, “In My Life”:

[Airtm @airtminc]

Airtm 🤝 Shaip.

Label data, get paid, cash out in your currency.

Shaip x Airtm is live!