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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Aug 13

Shame on you #JCYL regarding the the forest management, specially related to #wildfires. They made cuts and this is the consequence… tremendous losses, economical, natural and in people lives.

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Caos y turnos infinitos en la lucha contra el fuego en Castilla y León: “El operativo ha colapsado y están improvisando”

Bomberos y trabajadores de extinción de incendios denuncian jornadas de 15 y 16 horas sin descanso, problemas organizativos y falta de cuadrillas como consecuencia de un modelo en el que los funcionar...

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Aug 11

The situation in el #Bierzo regarding #wildfires is not really improving… #spain

🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Aug 11

AOL buries dial-up Internet in the USA - after 34 years www.galaxus.ch/en/page/aol-...
Who in their right mind was still accessing the #internet using dial-up???

AOL buries dial-up Internet in the USA - after 34 years

Internet access pioneer AOL has been offering dial-up connections in the USA since 1991. According to the company, Internet over the telephone line will come to an end at the end of September.

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Aug 11

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El fuego entra en Las Médulas, Patrimonio de la Humanidad, en un fin de semana aciago con nueve incendios en León y Zamora

Los incendios obligan a desalojar a 1.400 personas de varias localidades. En los municipios gallegos de Maceda y Chandrexa de Queixa se han quemado 1.000 hectáreas

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Aug 11

The #airquality situation is not really good either.

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Aug 11

The current situation is even worse and we have woken up like this… my working desk full of #ashes this morning.

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Aug 11

When we arrived on Sunday there were several wildfires declared and active in El #Bierzo and around creating several smoke columns. Sadly the situation worsened yesterday… Specially related to the #Yeres wildfire that it seems has gone over Las #Medulas already.

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Aug 11

The wildfire situation in #spain, specially in the northwest is not really good. #wildfires #forestry #cliamatechange

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Jun 9

Os puedo asegurar que yo no voy a ver ciertos contenidos simplemente por lo machaconamente que se nos han metido por las narices.

#rtveplay #rtve #España #tvOS #appleTV

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Jun 9

propios. Entiendo que RTVE quiera promocionar sus propios contenidos, pero no puedo entenderlo que quiera hacerlo cada 5' minutos, especialmente entre el público infantil. El ratio puede ser hasta de 7'30" a la hora. Por no decir que muchos se repiten y repiten hasta la nausea.

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Jun 9

Acabo de poner una queja en a @rtvecom.bsky.social en el defensor de la audiencia. Básicamente por el nivel de anuncios en la plataforma online cuando se están viendo algunos contenidos infantiles de corta duración (~5-10') en los cuales entre capitulo y capitulo se inserta anuncios sobre contenidos

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Jun 4

www.reddit.com/r/Switzerlan...
There is also a lot of people that are accusing them of a #scam. I don't think they are scam or anything else. It's a legitimate project that seems that is failing. Scaling something like that is not easy and it has a high probability of failing.

For Climeworks people from Reddit

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jun 3

Bridge Types

xkcd.com/3097/

Comic. Bridge Types: Plank, Rope, Truss, Trestle, Arch, Suspended Arch, Draw, Suspension, Filler [bridge over hole filled in with rocks], Budget Overrun [bridge suspended by cables and extras], Jump [two ends of bridge are disconnected ramps; person crossing in the air on a skateboard], Halfhearted [bridge slopes down into hole], Waterbed [squiggly bridge above water as people crossing shake], L’engle [the hole the bridge is covering is warped so opposite sides of the bridge meet at one point underneath], Fun [bridge loops like a roller coaster; person skateboarding up the loop], Repurposed Elevator [horizontal elevator].

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Jun 4

They are blaming the US political climate, but it's also true that if you are not able to meet your own targets (for whatever reason) the picture doesn't look good at all.

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Jun 4

Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions www.reddit.com/r/climate/co...
is it going down? it seems that they are failing targets and they are now downsizing a little bit www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business...
#sustainability #co2 #emissions #dac

From the climate community on Reddit: Climeworks’ capture fails to cover its own emissions

Explore this post and more from the climate community

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · May 11

DOGE says it has saved $160 billion. Those cuts have cost taxpayers $135 billion, one analysis says. - CBS News
www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-cu...

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · May 3

Taking off 🛫 see you in a couple of hours… in #Zurich. #SwissAir

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · May 3

I'm returning from #vacation in #Porto & #Aveiro. Quite nice place to be around and nice people. And of course incredible food… I didn't have such a nice vacation for awhile. #disconnection

🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · May 3

It's seems that #bsky doesn't have a proper #hashtag feature… just something very simple. I didn't know…

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · May 3

Surprise surprise… #AI seems not that is not going to steal our jobs, just shift them… the time I save using AI its going to be use for a more creative and traditional intelligence task I as putting off before. AI it's going to be a productivity increase
www.perplexity.ai/page/new-stu...

New study finds that AI adoption does not reduce overall workload

According to a 2025 study by the University of Chicago’s Becker Friedman Institute, while generative AI tools like chatbots are saving workers modest amounts...

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Feb 5

I'm starting to hate so much the culture of "only phone" apps…. what is that? it's the culture of quick and dirty stuff. I don't like.

🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Jan 28

#Python is driving me nuts with it's inability to differentiate between:
- `NaN`
- `NA`
- `NULL`
They are quite different and for me have different uses in the data stack and even can be key in some context. It's not the same that an operation or a table have a NULL than to have a NA… #datascience

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Diario Público @publico.es · Jan 28

ENTREVISTA | Renunciar a 1,5 millones de seguidores de X por tus principios, explicado por el codirector de 'El Mundo Today': "Debatir supone un esfuerzo y no cualquiera lo merece"

✍️Por Christian González (@dalequetepego.bsky.social)

Xavi Puig ('El Mundo Today'): "Elon Musk es un individuo aterradoramente inteligente pero un enfermo en gestión de las emociones"

El codirector de El Mundo Today considera que "Elon Musk es un individuo aterradoramente inteligente" y explica las razones del medio satírico para dejar de publicar contenido en X: "Debatir supone un esfuerzo y no cualquiera lo merece".

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WSL Umweltforschung @wslresearch.bsky.social · Nov 26

#SaveTheDate! "Geodata and Landscape Insights with R": The WinteR #Meetup of the #Zürich #R User Group takes place on Jan. 23th at WSL in Birmensdorf. More information and link to registration: wsl.ch/de/veranstal... #Geodata #Landscape

Zurich R User Group Meetup

We are pleased to announce that the next Zurich R User Group event will be hosted at WSL. This is a great opportunity for R enthusiasts to join us, share knowledge, and network with peers. WSL’s stron...

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🚀 Luis Puerto @luispuerto.net · Jan 6

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How Fascism Came - Read by Eunice Wong

America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price.

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