Una de las cosas más bonitas de aficionarse a cuidar plantas es que puedes recibir esquejes de plantas de otra gente y sentir que cuidas literalmente de un pedacito de esa relación.

Trailer for the demo of Light Descends! Darkness hurts you, torches are keys, and you must follow a trail into a misterious labyrinth governed by ancient gods. Play it for free now barquero.itch.io/light-descends. The development needs your feedback! #indiedev #solodev #indiegame

Today on the blog, I wrote about using technology to communicate with the dead: default.blog/p/what-hath-...

There are many problems with using the umbrella term Artificial Intelligence, but one I fear the most is the halo effect. I'm afraid people will interpret "AI will identify your age" as "your friendly neighbor ChatGPT, who you already trust, will discretely infer your age".

The year is 2025. I right click on an AI-generated comment on my YouTube video to delete it, only the "Remove" button has been shifted down to make way for a button that generates video ideas based on the AI-generated comment. This is hell.

In my on-going saga to migrate my Vigilante Game Framework to SFML 3.0 I encountered a problem. I used a library called Candle (written by @miguelmjdev.bsky.social) for 2D lighting. However, it was built for SFML 2.5.1 and never updated. Guess what I spent an evening doing?

We need to talk about the relevance of aesthetics associated with the different social movements. In a polarized and irrational world, debate is replaced by the projection of identity. Any movement with universal aspirations requires plural proposals of the highest aesthetic quality.

Recently I've seen a lot of Comic Sans. What is happening?

Soy atea practicante pero, cuando el papa dijo que se llamaría Leo porque le preocupaba la IA, me pareció uno de esos momentos ballardianos que reclama personalmente mi atención. Mi columna del hoy en @el_pais: ¿Para qué sirve un Papa? elpais.com/opinion/2025...

I had never thought about internet induced behavior as an adaptive response, but it makes a lot of sense comment.org/internet-ove...

Each time someone says XIX century people were crazy for how they used toxic, flammable or radioactive substances, I hope future generations will be there to laugh at us for how we use plastic.

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

Why are AI enthusiasts behaving like professional magicians who do not understand their own tricks? What's wrong with the dominant cognitive model of the mind? Neuroscientist Paul Cisek shares his thoughts with me here: open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...

Antes era un buen propósito pero se acaba de convertir en una necesidad estratégica: Europa necesita su propia infraestructura digital de manera urgente. Necesitamos una nube europea soberana.

Con el frenesí de ayer, olvidé compartir mi columna sobre algo cuya importancia será revelada cuando sea demasiado tarde: una infraestructura financiera dudosa al servicio del fascismo. Como cada lunes, en @elpais.com elpais.com/opinion/2025...

I'm really excited since I discovered Typst. I might write a blog post about all the things that I've already found to do that are much, much easier than with LaTeX.

No contaba con que la próxima gran crisis mundial fuera a ser tan estúpida. Me esperaba Las Guerras del Agua Potable, y no Tus Padres Han Sido Radicalizados Por Whatsapp Hasta Creer Que Entregar Al Xokas La Gestión De La Sanidad Pública Es Lo Único Que Puede Detener La Cultura De La Cancelación.

I've used #LaTeX for years to make lecture notes, software manuals and even a textbook. I've learnt and forgotten Tikz several times now. I switched to LuaLaTeX to start integrating scripts into my document generation pipelines. But, I'm one week into #Typst and I already wish it was the standard.

I find interesting the gesture we see in some works to represent extreme hatred or evil, of biting the enemy at the moment of one's own death and even after it. It makes us think that we must not relax even when the danger seems to be overcome.

After some time, the Candle documentation at miguelmj.dev/Candle is up again! Sorry for the inconveniences! #SFML

Este hilo me ha hecho aprender muchas cosas que no me había planteado. Leedlo porque merece la pena. Gracias, Galicia. ♥️

This year I want to move forward with the project of reading Mircea Eliade and Rudolf Otto to better understand collectively what I already know personally about the symbolic hole that religion used to fill and that now, if we do not fill correctly, will set us back decades of intellectual progress.

El pensamiento crítico no es seleccionar unas fuentes de información y rechazar otras. Es un grupo de competencias específicas sobre el uso del lenguaje, de las matemáticas y el contrastado de discursos y fuentes. Son competencias que hay que aprender y aplicar de manera agnóstica a todo lo demás.

Breve recordatorio para los chistes sobre la #loteria: Si vais a decir que "lo importante es que tenemos salud", acordaos primero de repasar mentalmente que de verdad los presentes la tengan. ¡Feliz Navidad!

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Tenía que ponerlo.

If you found NYT’s reporting on AI chatbots weirdly credulous, then our reporting found that, yeah, you were right!

These last few days I've been "surfing" the web. No social media or search engine. Quite an interesting experience inspired by this post about webrings: ramblinggit.com/2018/08/09/c... <<Web 1.0 users “surfed the Web” so they liked the idea of a curated grouping of websites they could surf to>>

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