William Butler

[Espíritu Curioso @EspirituCurioso]

¿Sabías que Tlacotalpan estuvo a punto de desaparecer por las inundaciones y, aun así, terminó convirtiéndose en Patrimonio de la Humanidad? 😱

Lo que la UNESCO protegió no fue solo un pueblo bonito, sino un ejemplo casi único de cómo las personas aprendieron a vivir junto a un gran río sin perder su identidad.

En 1998, la UNESCO inscribió a Tlacotalpan en la lista de Patrimonio Mundial porque conserva de manera excepcional el trazado urbano y la arquitectura de una ciudad portuaria colonial adaptada al clima tropical y a las crecidas del río Papaloapan. Sus calles amplias, sus casas de un solo nivel con portales, patios interiores y techos de teja no están construidas así por casualidad. Cada detalle respondió durante siglos al calor, la humedad y las inundaciones que marcaron la vida de sus habitantes.

Además, Tlacotalpan fue uno de los puertos fluviales más importantes de Veracruz. Desde aquí circulaban mercancías que conectaban el interior del estado con el Golfo de México, lo que impulsó el desarrollo de una ciudad donde se mezclaron influencias españolas, caribeñas y locales. Esa combinación es justamente una de las razones por las que su imagen sigue siendo tan distinta a la de otros pueblos históricos del país.

Caminar por sus calles es encontrarse con un lugar que ha cambiado muy poco desde el siglo XIX. Por eso, cuando ves esas fachadas de colores, los portales continuos y las cúpulas que sobresalen entre los techos de teja, no estás viendo una reconstrucción para turistas. Estás viendo un paisaje urbano que ha logrado conservarse durante generaciones y que hoy forma parte del patrimonio de toda la humanidad.

Espíritu Curioso, ¿sabías sobre este pueblo de Veracruz que es Patrimonio de la Humanidad ? 😀

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[Alessandro Palombo @thealepalombo]

30 million people visited Portugal last year. Most of them left thinking the same thing: could I live here?

My honest answer, after weeks on this thread, surprised even us. I live near Lisbon, and my wife has run a development company here for ten years, over a hundred residential and commercial units delivered.

I tried to do for Portugal what I did for Italy and Greece: find the interior areas where you'd buy a rural house.

We couldn't. We wouldn't live in the Portuguese interior ourselves, and I never advise what I wouldn't do myself.

Portugal, for us, is the coast: 11 places where you can buy an incredible house, live quietly, and keep the ocean at your door. Every one passes the same test: we would buy there ourselves. Where you'd overpay, including the most famous name in the country, I say it plainly.

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[Alessandro Palombo @thealepalombo]

Everyone who has stood on a Greek island in August has thought the same thing. I could live here.

You couldn't. Not that island, not the way it was that day.

The island you fall for in August is a different place in February. Half the tavernas shut, the fast ferry cancelled three days running, the nearest real hospital a helicopter ride away.

I'm Italian, and Greece has been my second country for years, summer and winter. So I asked the only question that matters if you want to move and not just visit: which Greek islands are real towns all year round?

8 islands where you can actually live all year. Work, raise kids, retire, and not feel trapped when the boats stop.

Parents always ask me one thing first: can any of them school the kids in English? That answer surprised me too.

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[William Butler @wbutlermd]

Laconia Motorcycle Rally, Weirs Beach, New Hampshire.

[William Butler @wbutlermd]

@antoniogm Total solar eclipse 12 Aug 2026 passing through Picos de Europa.

[Tom Hoefling @TomHoefling]

He's selling pardons. He built a crypto pipeline for foreign money to flow to his pockets. He's handed huge government contracts to his family and allies. He's stealing oil from countries he invaded & selling it. Now he's even monetizing the DOJ & looting the Treasury directly.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Mexico abolished slavery in 1829 and soon after, Enslaved people were escaping to Mexico. The U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty to return escapees but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting that enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil.

Did you know that Juneteenth is also celebrated in a part of Mexico?

Nacimiento Mexico was once home to thousands who escaped slavery in the US. As many as 10,000 slaves followed a clandestine Southern Underground Railroad to Mexico.

To date, many Black Mexicans from the Texas area retrace a portion of the same route their African American ancestors followed in 1850 when they escaped slavery.

Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions in the village of Nacimiento.

Slave hunters would patrol the southern border for escapees, led by the Texas Rangers but the Mexican army would be there waiting for them (the slave hunters) to turn them away.

[William Butler @wbutlermd]

@Chandra06891946 WLJS is actively maintained. https://t.co/yfXE8cztNi

[William Butler @wbutlermd]

@dasanaike @vanstriendaniel What might be the outlook for operating on a mesoamerican text such as the Mayan Dresden Codex?

[William Butler @wbutlermd]

@jianxliao Great essay on the topic by Leonardo de Moura creator of the Lean proof assistant: “The role of the engineer changes, but it does not shrink….The work becomes more creative, not less.” https://t.co/9nZjykPlh8

[William Butler @wbutlermd]

@thedarshakrana Hypothesis that Fibonacci patterns arise in biological morphogenesis as side effects of topological extension. https://t.co/B0AvqiDIFX

[William Butler @wbutlermd]

@cyantist https://t.co/ZOEzcUY0t2

[William Butler @wbutlermd]

@Kekius_Sage Beautiful question that is the topic of this book. https://t.co/iIvmKWP2tc.

[Vladyslav Heraskevych OLY @heraskevych]

I want to thank everyone for all the support we’re receiving. There really is an incredible amount of it.

For me, the sacrifice of the people depicted on the helmet means more than any medal ever could - because they gave the most precious thing they had.
And simple respect toward them is exactly what I want to give.

[William Butler @wbutlermd]

@Kekius_Sage This gives Wigner’s paradox. Where it remains unresolved we have that the axioms of quantum mechanics are incomplete.

[William Butler @wbutlermd]

@DSobrevivientes This approximates the thesis of: https://t.co/CqUgxWNlOl

[William Butler @wbutlermd]

@juliettekayyem https://t.co/li9xVcjFV6

[Rep. Veronica Escobar @RepEscobar]

After 6 months of oversight visits to Camp East Montana, the $1.24 billion immigration detention facility in El Paso, it's clear the company running it is defrauding taxpayers, preventing detainees from talking to lawyers, and DHS is assisting them by obstructing Congress.

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[Félix Márquez @felyxmarquez]

Desde #Yanga, #Veracruz, Daisy Vázquez, latina y originaria del primer pueblo Afro libre de América, participó como bailarina en la presentación de Bad Bunny en el #SuperBowlLX. Flow, raíz y representación en uno de los escenarios más vistos del mundo.

[William Butler @wbutlermd]

Kopi luwak (civet coffee), Ba LaLe Cafe, Khlong Lan National Park, Thailand.

[TORI Noticias @tori_noticias]

URGENTE🚨 La joven más inteligente del mundo es mexicana🇲🇽🏅💪🏻

Ella es Valeria Palacios Cruz, joven veracruzana que ganó una Medalla Mundial de Educación 2025 de la fundación HP, con proyectos de IA, robótica y drones.