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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez
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Too economist to be a historian. Too historian to be an economist.
My expressed ideas here are usually the slaves of some defunct economist, and my employer is alive and not an economist.
Missing home, wherever that is.
Araújo, man…
November 25, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence.
Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality
Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…
retractionwatch.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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«Si vous êtes éligible à la vaccination, n’attendez pas» : cet hiver, la grippe est précoce

Alors que l’épidémie sévit déjà au Royaume-Uni, les autorités européennes lancent un appel à la vaccination
«Si vous êtes éligible à la vaccination, n’attendez pas» : cet hiver, la grippe est précoce
Une arrivée anticipée du virus pourrait devancer le développement de la campagne vaccinale et accélérer la transmission de la maladie.
www.liberation.fr
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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🔴 La Justicia europea dicta que todos los países de la UE deben reconocer un matrimonio homosexual celebrado en otro Estado miembro social.elpais.com/a5jpg4
La Justicia de la UE obliga a todos los países de la Unión a reconocer un matrimonio homosexual celebrado en otro Estado miembro
El TJUE dicta que las uniones igualitarias deben ser reconocidas, aunque no exista normativa nacional al respecto
social.elpais.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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This one better captures where I'm coming from: lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-mo...
A Mole in MAGA’s Midst | Los Angeles Review of Books
Alexandre Lefebvre reads “Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right” by Laura K. Field.
lareviewofbooks.org
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Stanley Payne outdoing himself. Painful to read.
Artículo de un “think tanker” conservador estadounidense defendiendo a Franco, en el Wall Street Journal.
El problema no son los jóvenes españoles.
@marujatorres.bsky.social
@mariaramirez.bsky.social
@robiols.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
My sabbatical keeps being incredibly productive at collecting journal rejections
November 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Reading the article about the free-birth cult, and I’m gonna take a long break to recover from this paragraph
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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En México las diferencias enormes entre clases sociales se convierten en deshumanización. No compartes prácticamente nada con tu jefe o un subalterno. Ni el transporte, ni el ocio, ni comes o tomas el café en el mismo sitio. Estáis aislados el 90% del tiempo.
El otro es un total extraño.
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Wait a second, a Union officer was called "Don Carlos" (literally, "Mister Charles")?!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Car...
Don Carlos Buell - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Cuando se glorifica y mitifica el pasado (¡ay, la nostalgia de los 90!), conviene recordar que era una época en la que no sólo se ignoraba el maltrato machista, sino que se glorificaba al maltratador y se hundía (aún más) a la víctima.
Y vaya papelón, Ana Rosa. Otro más.
El despido de Lecquio, aunque aún no lo sabíamos, fue el día que Antonia Dell'Atte levantó el teléfono. Después, la entrevista. Y luego reuniones, documentos y la resistencia de Ana Rosa Quintana. Pero aún así. Aquí, cómo se gestó esa salida histórica, e inédita.

elpais.com/sociedad/202...
Cómo se gestó el despido de Lecquio, un hito televisivo contra el machismo
La entrevista de dell’Atte en EL PAÍS denunciando el maltrato de su exmarido provocó la caída del tertuliano, un hito en el reconocimiento de la violencia machista en la cultura popular
elpais.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:06 AM
As suspected, it’s Utah
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
To whomever cut the cable and cause an outage at Stamford Bridge: bravo. I was literally thinking Barça Femení needed a timeout.
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Abusos en la universidad: por qué persiste la impunidad y qué reformas pueden cambiarla, por Aina Gallego www.eldiario.es/132_c306cd?u...
Abusos en la universidad: por qué persiste la impunidad y qué reformas pueden cambiarla
Las universidades españolas arrastran casos de acoso laboral y sexual que rara vez se sancionan, en un ecosistema marcado por la protección reputacional y la endogamia. Romper estas dinámicas con movi...
www.eldiario.es
November 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.
November 20, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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The White House just blasted this out under the headline "Good News You May Have Missed"
November 19, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Cannot adequately express to outsiders how insane it is to think the UK is characterised by "Islamoleftism". Just, absolutely, not a thing, not at all representative of our governing ideology, nor of the ideology of the left factions that exist as any serious presence within our politics.
Noah Smith is doing Judeo-Bolshevism but about Muslims and Arabs
November 19, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Entire, annoying day fighting against a (long) code that was not doing what it should.

Around 11 pm, I discovered the issue was one (1) missing “s.”
After running everything, the result was a spectacular NOTHING FOUND.

Going to bed sobbing quietly to avoid waking my wife up.
November 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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The latest trend in Facebook’s ever downward spiral down the AI slop toilet are AI deportation videos. And the Facebook algorithm is rewarding creators for it. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports.

Full story: www.404media.co/ai-generated...
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM