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Pedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨

@pjorge.bsky.social

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I have a degree in Physics and a master’s in philosophy. Starting my PhD in Philosophy. Interests: philosophy of science and technology, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of color. I have a YouTube channel about ideas I find fascinating. Luddite

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Pedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨 @pjorge.bsky.social · Nov 13

There is no need to follow me back. I am just a freshly minted PhD student, trying to find a philosophical topic to write my dissertation on (while harboring a passion for Japan). I follow you because I find what you do interesting. That’s all.

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SayItToMyFace🚫👑 @sayittomyface.bsky.social · 11h

Love this! So talented and creative. It’s the soundtrack to the scientific apocalypse we are living in! I follow @ellecordova.bsky.social here but this wasn’t posted. This was from TikTok! Enjoy!

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Pedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨 @pjorge.bsky.social · 18h

La respuesta es siempre Kobayashi Maru

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18h

kobayashi maru y'all

👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 19h

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!

Altered Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

First panel. Calvin's dad says, "what story would you like to read tonight? Anything except..."

Calvin: "The Voynich Manuscript?"

Second panel. Calvin's dad, exasperated: "No! No Voynich Manuscript tonight!"

Calvin: "I want the Voynich Manuscript !"

Third panel. Calvin's sad: "Look, you know how the story goes! You've memorized the whole thing! It's completely unreadable!"

Calvin: "I want mysterious glyphs and symbols!"

Fourth panel. Calvin: "Wow! The story was different thatvtime!"

Hobbes: indecipherable squiggles

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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 1d

someone rescue her!

Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 1d

Bit niche I think, but apparently this parking spot is reserved for female rock climbers.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 1d

I find it strangely beautiful and freeing that (even if just a few cases, and with a struggle) we've made it possible for peoples to be 'voluntarily isolated' & it is incredibly telling about the grossest side of humanity that there are others whose immediate instinct is to try to violate that right

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

So, not content with John Allen Chau forcing his obnoxious, law-breaking and likely disease-ridden self into the midst of the North Sentinelese and getting himself killed, now there is a movie making a saint of this man?

Colonizers gonna colonize, I suppose.

The poster for the movie Last Days showing the actor playing John Allen Chau looking beatifically up into the light while green ocean water swirls around him. The general effect is one of him as a saint. To the right of the poster, a North Sentinelese man rows himself in a boat. The text reads Based on a True Story, Last Days,

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 1d

We have to all learn Navajo so we can talk without AI unserstanding

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 1d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

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Becinator @artdragon86.bsky.social · 1d

*walks into cafe*
Me: Hey, can I have a sandwich?
Server: Yes, it comes with lettuce, tomato and dogshit.
Me: I don't WANT dogshit on my sandwich!
Server: My manager measures my performance based on how many dogshit sandwiches I sell, so if you don't want one, this conversation is not interesting.

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

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> Lol the timing; I work in IT for a large publishing company - and my god the meetings with microsoft sales team is all AI AI AI COPILOT COPILOT COPILOT.
> I had to flat out tell their VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO

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Casket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg is obviously a heroic person by any measure, she is quite obviously the kind of person who any decent society would hope they see their reflection in. It is remarkable how cruelty is so common place that people will openly hate her, and in really vicious ways, with no shame.

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Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social · 2d

I am so sick of everything just coming in bland ass "neutral" tones. It is not neutral, they suck. Even if colours are offered they are often muted. Just so tired of it. I want some colours and joy and fun.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”

Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.

Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim

A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.

futurism.com

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 2d

The media continue to present this woman as a child because at 22-years old she presents a degree of moral clarity, rhetorical potency and profound understanding of the connection between one's politics and one's actions that her detractors, many more than twice her age, not ony lack, but defile.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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Javier Peláez @irreductible.bsky.social · 2d

El Nobel de la Paz se anuncia este viernes 10 de octubre y solo por joder a muchos cafres, yo sé lo daría a Greta Thumberg

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 2d

Why do ppl always do things like this when they buy islands? There are 1,000s of possibilities better than creating a "network state" (whatever that is). Build a bunch of houses made for cats and give them the island. Walk around naked except for a top hat and coat with tails. You could do anything!

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d

Balaji Srinivasan—a close ally of Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen—has “acquired a private island near Singapore as part of his…plan to create a ‘Network State’“ 7/5/25 … 1/ www.news18.com/business/who...

Who Is Balaji Srinivasan, Who Bought Island Near Singapore To Launch 'Network State'?

Tech entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan has acquired island to create 'Network State' — a decentralised, digital-first society focused on tech, innovation, and community-driven living.

www.news18.com

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 5d

I did not have "BlueSky CEO crashes out and begins posting accelerationism on my 2025 bingo card," though maybe I should've.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 5d

Extant decentralized solutions (Mastodon, etc.) demonstrate that the kinds of social problems that decentralized networks are supposed to resolve simply emerge in different forms due to the properties of the networks in question.

Decentralization isn't a bad thing, it's just not the silver bullet.

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Víctor R. Ruiz @rvr.bsky.social · 6d

Señores que hace 20 años se dejaron la piel en abrirlo en Europa… En fin, es el ciclo de la vida digital.

Microsiervos @microsiervos.bsky.social · 7d

TypePad :-( | #weblogs | por @alvy.bsky.social www.microsiervos.com/archivo/webl...

TypePad :-(

Tras 22 años, Typepad ya está cerrado para siempre.

www.microsiervos.com

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Pedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨 @pjorge.bsky.social · 7d

A mí también me cae bastante mal Mishima, pero efectivamente la reseña vale la pena

Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 7d

I very much dislike Mishima and what he stands for, but this is worth watching.

Cruz “BLEH” Flores @cruzflores.bsky.social · 7d

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is finally going to screen at the Tokyo Film Festival so I’m here is the greatest film review I have ever seen on TV from @annebillson.bsky.social youtu.be/JlExK0k3j-c?...

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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 7d

Oh good. I was really hoping the internet would get even worse.

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Patrick Kindig @pdkindig.bsky.social · 7d

Merriam-Webster does it again!

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Pedro Jorge Romero 🇮🇨 @pjorge.bsky.social · 8d

He empezado a leer Katabasis de R. F. Kuang y por ahora me estoy muriendo de la risa

Sí, va de gente que baja al infierno, pero por ahora es sobre todo una hilarante comedia sobre la vida de estudiantes de postgrado 😀

Portada de la novela Katabasis de R.F. Kuang que muestra una escalera tipo Escher dejando claro que la vida del estudiante de postgrado no acaba nunca y es una carrera sin fin...

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · Aug 18

It is sort of mind boggling how the science news of the last year or so has been software engineers saying “we’ve upgraded the torment nexus that might tear apart society to be 10% more efficient” while bio/pharma has been “we’re about to cure this disease that has plagued humanity for millenial

Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · Aug 17

A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells. For the first time, islet cells have been edited so they wouldn't be rejected by the patient, removing the need for immunosuppressant drugs.
www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its...

First-Of-Its-Kind Cell Transplant Brings a Cure For Diabetes Closer

A patient with type 1 diabetes has begun producing his own insulin after receiving a transplant of pancreatic cells.

www.sciencealert.com

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SKEETER Without A Pause @iamgregordeee.blacksky.app · 8d

Shoutout to every stupid MFer embracing & glazing AI but specifically Black people because this kind of technology is absolutely horrifying for us

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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The Ugly Machine @theuglymachine.bsky.social · Apr 10

Hello [autistic friend] I am your assigned ADHD extrovert for the day. Would you like me to order from the drive thru for you and play videogames for several hours in the dark or do you want to hang out while I practice one of my many energetic hobbies while you tell me about [your hyperfixation]?

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 9d

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now. Visit www.tomgauld.com for details

A group of scientists huddle excitedly around a monitor. One says:
"The program has detected a signal sent from another galaxy, but we need to upgrade to a paid version before we can reply."

The screen reads "Choose a plan To unlock replies: 1. Student 2. Basic 3. Pro 4. Expert "

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