👉 Exigencias de ingresos muy por encima del salario más común. 👉 Cuotas casi de mercado. 👉 En algunos casos, hasta decenas de miles de euros por adelantado. Esta es una radiografía de cómo las políticas públicas de alquiler pueden acabar logrando lo contrario de lo que prometen.

🏠 “Vivienda protegida” suena a refugio, a alquiler asequible. Pero en España, muchas veces es otra cosa: un negocio para rentas medias y altas, dejando fuera a quienes más lo necesitan. 🔗 Investigación completa: civio.es/lo-publico/2...

Una cruz con ruedines, ¡Dios aprieta pero no ahoga!

Speaking of canceling your Disney+ subscription, my students occasionally think I’m going some sort of “Irish people invented everything” bit when I first tell them where the word “boycott” comes from.

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Pésimo titular, es una Proposición No de Ley, no se ha reformado nada

🚨 Histórico: El Supremo obliga al Gobierno a entregar el código fuente de BOSCO, el programa que decide quién accede al bono social eléctrico. Una victoria tras 7 años de litigio. civio.es/novedades/20...

Estamos muy contentos con la sentencia del Supremo sobre BOSCO: nos da la razón ¡con muy buenos argumentos! civio.es/novedades/20...

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incredible that people are writing long, brow-furrowing posts about "blueskyism" while the owner of x, the everything app whips up one hate-filled mob after the other

Elon sharing the name of 66 random not-famous people to his many millions of followers because this person said they said things she didn’t like about Charlie Kirk. I erased the names and employers from the screenshot but you can see their jobs. Nurses, teachers etc.

The owner of and absolute unquestionable algorithm controller of a preferred communications channel of the UK Government calling for violence and the overthrow of the Government. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

in the 23rd century historians are going to need have their Routledge Handbook of 21st-Century Internet Memes, their Cambridge Companion to 4Chan, and their Oxford Guidebook to Computer Gaming Culture handy to make sense of the rise of American fascism and the fall of the United States

You're going to see a lot of "he's a violent antifascist leftist" and "he's a groyper" but the core of Tyler Robinson's motivation is almost certainly that he's an online-poisoned idiot gamer.

It's more of a shitposting meme The bella ciao thing is explicitly about Money Heist, a netflix production about robbing banks. Because banks apparently control the world. On 4chan it the meme devolved into a an anti-semetic meme, because they think Jewish people control banks.

There are very, VERY few people who are equipped to talk about this shooter correctly given the brainrot written on the shell casing. You have to understand so much of online culture to get it and also understand how that culture is both connected to and separate from real world ideological spaces

A take: Too Online is a political ideology

BREVE ANATOMÍA DE UNA CHAPUZA ¿La peor limpieza posible de un grafiti en un monumento? Analicemos la que podría ser una de las acciones más mediáticas en la trayectoria de Banksy y su lamentable limpieza posterior. HILO 🧵

I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.

No había visto un tuit tan definitorio de esta Españita nuestra desde aquella joya del otro lado que ahora no encuentro: “España es un señor dando de comer a los patos, apoyado en el cartel de prohibido dar de comer a los patos, quejándose de lo gordos que están.”

Amazing account of JPMorgan's ties with Epstein: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Never forget that your probability of seeing an opinion is directly proportional to the poster's average screen time.

My theory is that the arrival of traffic measuring metrics supercharged distrust in media. Yeah, there's clickbait, but I think the real issue is that audiences actually get really tired of being given the thing they signal that they want. Even when its not a race to the bottom, it hurts trust

Sé que soy muy pesado con lo de que es estratégico ganar autonomía tecnológica con respecto a Estados Unidos. La cosa es teniendo en cuenta lo grave que es el tema seguramente no sea lo suficientemente pesado.

🚨HUGE! European Commission fines Google €2.95 billion over abusive practices in online advertising technology Here we go, waiting for Trump reaction. After massive criticism for delaying what was reported to be a minor fine earlier this week

Do I care about birdwatching? Not really. Did I just watch a two-hour documentary on it? Yes. Would I do it again? Absolutely!

This story about a venture capitalist who made it her mission to go after her surrogate after a miscarriage is horrifying. It sounds like the community of "intended parents" with whom she was sharing what was happening validated her throughout. And maybe ChatGPT too. www.wired.com/story/the-ba...

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "I'm working every day on using AI to figure out how to cure cancer or launch fusion energy or understand dark matter. Our Defense Department is trying to figure out how to keep America safe. God bless the First Lady. She of course is wiser than all of us."

In this piece for Aeon, I argue that, while nanotechnology is now a very real and mature field, a popular early vision of it was an example of what I am calling an "oneiric technology": a fantasy of the sort that Silicon Valley loves. aeon.co/essays/no-su...

They should do this to Stephen Miller when It Happens

Great article about Disney theme parks being emblematic of the loss of America's middle class (featuring my buddy @lentesta.bsky.social). Things like going to a ball game or a theme park used to be the same for everyone. Now the rich have totally different experiences www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...

⚠️ Recordatorio sobre la (in)eficiencia del Estado. En menos de una década se han gastado (al menos) 10.037 millones € públicos para cubrir sentencias judiciales contra el Estado debido a su mala praxis legislativa. Y se estiman más (mal)gastos por 12.515 millones € públicos‼️

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

Holy fucking shit

Adam's parents, Matt and Maria, printed out his ChatGPT transcript from September when he started using it, until April 11 when he died. They organized it chronologically by month. That huge stack is March, and the one next to it is the first 11 days of April.

The exchanges between Adam and ChatGPT are devastating. This, in my mind, is the worst one. One of his last messages was a photo of the noose hung in his bedroom closet, asking if it was "good." ChatGPT offered a technical analysis of the set up and told him it 'could potentially suspend a human."

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off

Un crimen de guerra retransmitido en directo. Israel acaba de asesinar a equipos de rescates que estaban actuando en el hospital Nasser en Khan Younis tras un ataque con drones contra un periodista.

rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

Hay muchísima tela que cortar, y tendría que repasarme los apuntes a fondo. Así cosas que recuerdo: 1- El alfabeto griego se escribía en ambas direcciones, primero de izquierda a derecha y luego de derecha a izquierda. Esto se llamaba Bustrofedon.

Estos días subrayan el contraste entre los efectos monstruosos del cambio climático (incendios, exceso de mortalidad, olas de calor perpetuas) y el ensordecedor silencio de los políticos españoles, tan locuaces en sus disputas sobre asuntos mucho menos urgentes