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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · 7d

2015 during a visit she did to Colombia to contrinue spreading the message of the Roots & Shoots program. What a human being! inspiring in so many ways. Rest in Peace #janegoodall

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Sep 2

It is that feeling in the stomach that I have been feeling for the last 25 years hours before my first class of the semester. This time at this campus that has always welcomed us

Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Aug 22

Listas las 10 primeras unidades gracias a un esfuerzo de equipo liderado por @coreecon.bsky.social
Montones de recursos para instructores para facilitar la transición de otros textos desactualizados

CORE Econ @coreecon.bsky.social · Aug 20

🇪🇸 La economía 2.0: microeconomía is now fully available on the CORE website. Thanks to our translators Jose Izquierdo, Dulcinea Otero-Piñeiro, & editors Luz Marina Arias, Antonio Cabrales, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Humberto Llavador, and Francesc Trillas.

All units of The Economy 2.0 Microeconomics Spanish translation are now available on the CORE website.

Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Aug 15

So, there are call centers dedicated to evaluate the calls from other call centers. Is this a productive use of humans? not sure.

Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Jul 12

speaking of cognitive dissonance

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 12

The same people who deny that releasing 40+ billion tonnes of chemicals annually into the atmosphere changes our climate think that an airplane spraying a few tonnes of chemicals into the atmosphere definitely does. I want the world to be less stupid, as well as less evil.

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Jun 28

This is just 0,21% of the solution!! Is it scalable? Should be scaled?

"All the carbon credits sold last year claimed to offset a combined 84mn tonnes of CO₂ emissions. Compare that with last year’s global CO₂ emissions of more than 40bn tonnes." www.ft.com/content/199d...

Governments will be key to fixing the carbon credit market

New intergovernmental initiative should boost spirits in a sector that has taken a battering

www.ft.com

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LeifH @lhdinton.bsky.social · Jun 22

And this:

Huxley @huxleymorgan.bsky.social · Jun 22

Black and white image of Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, smoking a cigarette. "The world is not divided between east and west. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same."

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Bradley Busch @bradleybusch.bsky.social · Jun 18

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · May 19

Competition among predatory journals is getting tougher I guess

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · May 13

They probably both rested in peace, in the very meaninig of the RIP idea. Mission accomplished, gave much of their lives, with mistakes and steps back, to the common good.

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · May 13

Pepe Mujica and Pope Francesco rested on 2025, ten years later the SDGs/Agenda 2030 and the Laudato Si encyclical were presented to the world. Both of these people had dignity and simplicity of human life as important core concepts. Muchas gracias a los dos.

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · May 10

Hopefully @bsky.app can help build a public sphere www.noemamag.com/all-that-is-...

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · May 3

Si esa demanda es inelástica (por ej industrias que aumentan su contratación en horas laborales diurnas), se contratan menos horas extras, se libera tiempo de esos trabajadores que podría asignarse a la economía de cuidado o a educación y eso no lo estamos estimando tampoco.

Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · May 3

Suponga que la demanda laboral es inelástica y se generan estos costos para las pymes. En ese caso se deberían aumentar ingresos y gasto de trabajadores (formales, claro) porque les toca contratar a esta gente (por ej. bares y restaurantes). Ese aumeento en consumo se debería agregar a la ecuación.

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · May 3

Escucho reacciones: No será que tenemos que también estimar los beneficios del lado de la oferta laboral y el consumo? (sigo...) www.larepublica.co/economia/hor...

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · Apr 30

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.

Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Apr 22

Ya llega pronto, la edición 2.0 de La Economía en español con muchísimas adiciones después dela edición 1.0. Mucho mas de este proyecto aquí: www.core-econ.org

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John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · Apr 6

Good morning with good news: Solar generated 26.32% of Pakistan's electricity in February 2025! The solar share is up ~10.5X since 2019.

February Solar Share

2025: 26.32%
2024: 15.13%
2023: 10.13%
2022: 6.97%
2021: 5.89%
2020: 4.16%
2019: 2.51%
#energysky #greensky ember-energy.org/data/electri...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Apr 5

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company

IG 3sixteen

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Mar 29

Hablando sobre la relación entre el poder y la confianza. Confiar es entregar poder, es ejercer la libertad de exponerse al otro y que juntos podamos crear valor en la sociedad open.spotify.com/show/3x1x9E6...

EL PODER

Podcast · Juan David Aristizábal · Este podcast es una serie de charlas con las que queremos explorar la dimensión del poder, este concepto que ha acompañado a la humanidad desde su inicio. Lehemos pr...

open.spotify.com

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Mar 25

Gold prices are breaking the USD$3.000/oz level. Countries like Colombia, Perú, Brazil, Venezuela are seeing devastating consequences from these incentives that push illegal mining with no caution in the use of mercury, dregdes and violence when accessing rivers and mountains.

Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Mar 8

Si este día se quiere para celebrar a la mujer, hablemos de los otros 364 en que las mujeres contunan enfrentando serias desigualdades. Desde el CODS seguimos mirando las brechas de los ODS
www.linkedin.com/posts/centro...

Centro ODS on LinkedIn: Día Internacional de la mujer

📊🔍 En el Día Internacional de la Mujer, queremos mostrar la lucha y resistencias de las mujeres Afro en Colombia. Conoce esta realidad y las acciones…

www.linkedin.com

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Mar 4

"I voted for him because I didn't think he would do exactly what he repeatedly promised to do."

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Juan-Camilo Cardenas @jccarden.bsky.social · Mar 4

Just hoping someone is starting to collect the data to replicate this one, almost a century later

this graph shows a spiral starting in january 1929 of the contraction of world imports until 1933, month by month

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Elizabeth Leitman @wxliz.bsky.social · Mar 1

That little black spec on the right hand side of this infographic is the total budget of the NWS. How is eliminating positions that exponentially increase economic dividends through enhancing commerce and mitigating/preventing disasters saving money or eliminating waste/fraud?

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