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Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · 7d

Utilidad Pública: La -probablemente- mejor radio del mundo está ahí, se llama @super45fm.bsky.social es gratis y se construye con solo voluntarios y voluntarias. Tu apoyo mensual es clave ↓ 🙏

super45.fm @super45fm.bsky.social · 7d

De nuestro servicio de utilidad pública y musical: si te gusta lo que escuchas en super45.fm, música programada por personas y no por algoritmos, te invitamos a apoyarnos, averigua cómo aquí 👇🏻

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✨🌈 Home of Digital Rights Defenders @teamcommunity.bsky.social · 18d

The digital rights movement faces a funding crisis, autocratic tech, and fragmentation. The antidote? Radically networking its resources and agenda. Great piece by @claudioruiz.com

Networks over organizations: An infrastructural revolution for digital rights

The digital rights movement faces a funding crisis, autocratic tech, and fragmentation. The antidote? Radically networking its resources and agenda.

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 12d

I have criticisms of ICEBlock, but this is authoritarian bullshit, and the fact that nearly all smartphone use one of two app stores controlled by US corporations does not bode well for the future

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12d

There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime.

With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone.

www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...

Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store

Apple on Thursday removed the immigration enforcement tracking app, ICEBlock, from the App Store, citing "safety risks."

www.businessinsider.com

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Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · 20d

Buenísima nota sobre la falta de entendimiento de normas sociales y culturales en los modelos de lenguaje. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/w...

When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette

New study examines how a helpful AI response could become a cultural disaster in Iran.

arstechnica.com

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 20d

My mom took Tylenol when she was pregnant with me and now I'm trantifa

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23d

The important thing to understand about TikTok is that it is not a social media platform that has shopping features, it is a shopping platform with hyper-optimized data tracking that has social media features. (This is, incidentally, why I’ve never had an account & don’t have the app on my phone,)

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23d

this is hell

www.theverge.com/tech/782540/...

Hit pause on the clip and something strange happens: a prompt reading “Find Similar” pops up. When a viewer clicks the prompt, TikTok automatically pulls videos that look visually close to the footage of the woman — and more disturbingly, it suggests products on TikTok Shop that look like what she is wearing in the video. Among the products suggested are a “Dubai Middle East Turkish Elegant Lace-Up Dress” and “Women’s Solid Color Knot Front Long Sleeve Dress.” The scanning feature also identified the head covering the woman is wearing and the beige handbag she carries as she shouts out for her family — and suggested similar-looking products on the TikTok shopping platform.

Screenshots that show the interface described.

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Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · 23d

We need an infrastructural revolution for supporting digital rights ↓ www.openglobalrights.org/networks-ove...

Networks over organizations: An infrastructural revolution for digital rights

The digital rights movement faces a funding crisis, autocratic tech, and fragmentation. The antidote? Radically networking its resources and agenda.

www.openglobalrights.org

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Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · 28d

El rector UC quiere usar el ejemplo del asesinato de un señor en un campus universitario (algo terrible) como resultado de una "cultura de cancelación". Eso dice. Es difícil de entender porque es una tontera y no tiene nada que ver.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · Sep 15

The meme aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death (1/2)

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Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · Sep 8

Vidangossi y Curimilla sí?

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Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · Sep 8

Obvio pos.

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Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · Aug 16

claudioruiz.com/posts/bauhaus/

Bauhaus

In this context, the fate of the original , like the fate of the Weimar Republic, reminds us that individual genius, small group...

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Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · Aug 13

www.404media.co/uk-asks-peop...

UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought

As Britain experiences one of its worst droughts in decades, its leaders suggest people get rid of old data to reduce stress on data centers.

www.404media.co

Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · Aug 6

La infraestructura de la internet al servicio del genocidio. En la misma nube donde guardas tus recetas, el ejército israelí almacena y analiza llamadas telefónicas en Gaza y Cisjordania para planificar ataques militares.

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Aug 6

Israel is using Microsoft Azure to store recordings of every phone call made by Palestinians in the occupied territories, then using AI to analyze the contents and select targets. Microsoft is (dubiously) claiming ignorance.

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

www.theguardian.com

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Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · Aug 4

¿Por qué querrías pedirle a una máquina que escriba tu manera de despedirte de alguien que quisiste mucho? www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

www.washingtonpost.com

Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · Aug 4

Fotos de dormitorios de adolescentes antes de los teléfonos www.newyorker.com/teen-agers-i...

Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies

Adrienne Salinger’s cult photography book from the nineties makes a comeback.

www.newyorker.com

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Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · Aug 2

Gracias a la ley de "protección a los niños" online en UK ahora Spotify te va a pedir datos biométricos. El capitalismo de la vigilancia galopando este 2025 www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content

Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.

www.404media.co

Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · Aug 1

¿Cómo ser un hombre? claudioruiz.com/posts/como-s...

Cómo ser un hombre

Cómo ser un hombre 01 Aug 2025 Una de las ideas más aterradoras sobre la adolescencia es la incertidumbre total acerca del futuro. A los...

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Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · Aug 1

Es, de hecho, muy interesante ver los mensajes que le han llegado al autor por esta red social tipo ”just don't be a weirdo” ”not a real problem”, etc. 🎯

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Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · Aug 1

La izquierda -ya, el progresismo, qué se yo, no habla de masculinidad. Los adolescentes de hoy solo encuentran respuestas en youtubers delirantes y en charlatanes de ultra derecha. Por eso es artículo de @iandunt.bsky.social es una joya iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...

How to be a man

The right's narrative about male attractiveness is grounded in Social Darwinism and free market economics. Can progressives tell a better story?

iandunt.substack.com

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Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org · Jul 31

Why yes there is leavesubstack.com

You Should Probably Leave Substack

You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.

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El bot motorizado @elbotmotorizado.bsky.social · Jul 31

Admiraré el desastre

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Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · Jul 31

Sure, publishing a 3838 characters essay in a glorious 66055 characters page source code 🤡

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Claudio Ruiz @claudioruiz.com · Jul 30

Para cuando estés a punto de elegir Substack para tu newsletter 👇

Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · Jul 29

The Substack app apparently push alert promoted a Nazi newsletter to several users. Users have complained about it on Substack Notes but the company hasn’t responded. Generally push alert promos are for content a user is likely to interact with

Screenshot of the blog called NatSocToday

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El bot motorizado @elbotmotorizado.bsky.social · Jul 28

El bot ha vuelto. Tuve miedo, pero ya se fue.

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