Sebastián Auyanet

Esto promete. Arrancó Liminal y aquellos hilazos de Martín van a tener mucho más a partir de ahora. A suscribirse.

In Uruguay, families co-own and co-build their homes through housing cooperatives. Some chip in savings, others swing hammers.

The result? Affordable, dignified housing that stays off the private market, and a blueprint the world can learn from.

tcnv.link/tfgDHec

Public media is very different from state-run news. Here’s why. In many ways, public media remains the last broadly shared civic commons.

"In many ways, public media remains the last broadly shared civic commons. It is both commercial-free and independently edited." www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/publ...

Journalism Needs Government Funding to Survive The recent cuts to public media are part of a broader attack on public welfare.

'El periodismo necesita fondos del gobierno para sobrevivir', dicen en Estados Unidos. En Uruguay se toman turnos para quejarse de quiénes son los dueños de los medios pero nadie hace mucho por facilitar el desarrollo de un ecosistema más diverso. www.cjr.org/analysis/jou...

Hace meses que intento hacer un trámite llamado “inscripción de partida de nacimiento extranjera” en Uruguay. Se supone que dan números martes y jueves a la noche, pero *nunca* los hay. No entiendo que el Ministerio del
interior complique tanto un trámite tan simple.

Hmm, me llamaría la atención, no creo. Yo fui Fulbrighter y hasta donde yo sé, no he visto apoyo a proyectos así planteados.

Che yo le di like a todo porque fan de este intercambio, estoy aprendiendo pila escuchándolos a los dos. Acá hay tema como para que se siga averiguando.

Camp Mystic Cabins Stood in an ‘Extremely Hazardous’ Floodway (Gift Article) An analysis of flood maps shows that several buildings, including those where children were sleeping, were in known hazard zones. A $5 million expansion in 2019 did nothing to alleviate the problem.

Excellent Times reporting by Mike Baker, Malika Khurana, Harry Stevens, Marco Hernandez.
The bastards built cabins in harm's way. The bastards in Texas & local government let them.
Camp Mystic Cabins Stood in an ‘Extremely Hazardous’ Floodway
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Pero además, a menos que arreglen con los países y ellos reviertan, no les va a quedar otra, ¿verdad?

Es tremendo esto eh

El legado invisible de los mastodontes: científicos explican cómo su extinción aún afecta a la vegetación chilena | ENTREVISTA La extinción de los mastodontes sudamericanos en Chile, hace más de 10 000 años, interrumpió la dispersión de semillas de plantas nativas.

🇨🇱😰 Los mastodontes sudamericanos, conocidos como gonfoterios, desaparecieron de Chile hace más de 10 mil años. Estudio revela que las consecuencias de su extinción aún afectan a los ecosistemas. Hablamos con la investigadora Andrea Loayza sobre el tema. tinyurl.com/nwtb64ww

How We Survived Extreme Heat in Prison Incarcerated journalists detail the first signs of a heat wave in prison — and how they’ve coped with record-breaking temperatures.

What I liked about this @themarshallproject.org story is that the people suffering from the issue are who tell the story. I assume that having a pipeline to get these testimonies –and to dispute them with the prison's comms teams is not easy to build. www.themarshallproject.org/2024/09/19/p...

The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel There’s a lack of footage from the conflict and AI-generated content is filling the void.

Seguir una guerra en tiempos de IA: cómo líderes de gobiernos también la usan para mentir sobre eventos del conflicto. Gran reportería de 404 media, de los medios que más estoy leyendo en estos tiempos www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-...

AI Models And Parents Don’t Understand ‘Let Him Cook’ LLMs are not familiar with “ate that up,” “secure the bag,” and “sigma,” showing that training data is not yet updated to Gen Alpha terminology.

Parents Don’t Understand ‘Let Him Cook’

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-models-an...

Civic space is closing: How local journalism can open it up Imagine a city where on any given evening, community spaces buzz with activity — book clubs in coffee shops, workshops in the library, and…

A hugely inspiring piece. medium.com/we-are-heark...

Swing state journalists were trained to avoid the worst kinds of political coverage. Did it work? “None of this transformed content really matters much if newsrooms can’t get it in front of all kinds of audience groups.”

“We must figure out a way to talk across our differences so that we can govern together using a shared set of facts,” she added. “We are very far from that right now.”

www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/swin...

Yo tengo experiencia casi tendiendo a cero con programar más allá de algunos cursos. Para cosas muy superficiales tipo armar una web, la IA de Hugging Face me ayudó mucho. Pero si querés algo complejo que vaya más allá de un prototipo o un MVP realmente no sé. ¿Supongo que en eso mejorará?

Employee owned!

Es importante incorporar y no demonizar pero a la vez también hay que tener prudencia. La IA es un muy buen asistente para organizar proyectos y formatear documentos pero requiere que verifiques cada cosa en la que que te ayuda a ser más rápido. Y es muy floja en cualquier actividad creativa.

Right wing creators are dominating Lively-Baldoni coverage Conservative commentators are leveraging the case to dismantle support for #MeToo and amass unprecedented audience growth.

Los creadores de contenido conservadores de EEUU sacan provecho de la batalla entre una estrella de Hollywood y un actor sin talento que se cuelga a la antipatía contra el Me Too para hacerse una carrera (y la tendrá). Buenísimo análisis de @taylorlorenz.bsky.social www.usermag.co/p/right-wing...

No puedo esperar a ver la parodia de este discurso en 10-15 años, si es que sigue habiendo Planeta Tierra.

I'm sorry this is only in Spanish but hey @jeffjarvis.bsky.social @brizzyc.bsky.social, you might find this one (and the whole newsletter as it just has started) somewhat interesting 🍻

El inventor de la Web tiene un plan para devolver el control a la gente Una charla con Tim Berners-Lee sobre cómo trabaja para recuperar su creación de la captura de unos pocos (y qué puede significar para Latinoamérica).

"Hubo un tiempo donde la evolución de la tecnología no se medía solo por su capacidad de generar ganancias y donde hombres como Berners-Lee, a diferencia de los tecnoligarcas, estaban más ocupados en servir, en colaborar".
@simonajaz.bsky.social para @elsurti.com 👇 www.laprecisa.net/p/el-invento...

"That Feels Indefensible": MSNBC's New Direction Leads Rachel Maddow to Speak Out As Joy Reid and Alex Wagner lose their shows, Rachel Maddow uses her platform to challenge management's decisions.

"This isn't just another media reshuffling, but an example of how corporate decisions can undermine diversity while executives hide behind neutral-sounding business-speak".

"Neutral-sounding business-speak". That concept particularly resonates over here.

www.readtpa.com/p/that-feels...

#208: What is rotting, if not rest? An anatomy of the modern rot

“Rotting may have a particular posture, but I think what separates it from other activities that involve horizontal entertainment is its catalyst: avoidance—the avoidance of responsibility, pressure, uncertainty, anxiety, thoughts.” haleynahman.substack.com/p/208-what-i...

This isn't about China — it's so much fucking easier if we let it be about China — it's about how the American tech industry is incurious, lazy, entitled, directionless and irresponsible. OpenAi and Anthropic are the antithesis of Silicon Valley. They are incumbents, public companies wearing startup suits, unwilling to take on real challenges, more focused on optics and marketing than they are on solving problems, even the problems that they themselves created with their large language models. By making this "about China" we ignore the root of the problem — that the American tech industry is no longer interested in making good software that helps people. DeepSeek shouldn't be scary to them, because they should've come up with it first. It uses less memory, fewer resources, and uses several quirky workarounds to adapt to the limited compute resources available — all things that you'd previously associate with Silicon Valley, except Silicon Valley's only interest, like the rest of the American tech industry, is The Rot Economy. It cares about growth at all costs, even if said costs were readily mitigable, or if the costs are ultimately self-defeating. To be clear, if the alternative is that all of these companies simply didn't come up with this idea, that in and of itself is a damning indictment of the valley. Was nobody thinking about this stuff? If they were, why didn't Sam Altman, or Dario Amodei, or Satya Nadella, or anyone else put serious resources into efficiency? Was it because there was no reason to? Was it because there was, if we're honest, no real competition between any of these companies? Did anybody try anything other than throwing as much compute and training data at the model as possible? It's all so cynical and antithetical to innovation itself. Surely if any of this shit mattered — if generative AI truly was valid and viable in the eyes of these companies — they would have actively worked to do something like DeepSeek.

It appears DeepSeek employed all sorts of weird tricks to make this work, including taking advantage of distinct parts of both CPU and GPU to create a virtual Digital Processing Unit, essentially redefining how data is communicated within the servers running training and inference. It had to do things that a company with unrestrained access to capital and equipment wouldn’t have to do. Nevertheless, OpenAI and Anthropic both have enough money and hiring power to have tried — and succeeded — in creating a model this efficient and capable of running on older GPUs, except what they actually wanted was more rapacious growth and the chance to build even bigger data centers with even more compute. OpenAI has pledged $19 billion to fund the "Stargate" data center — an amount it is somehow going to raise through further debt and equity raises, despite the fact that it’s likely already in the process of raising another round as we speak just to keep the company afloat. OpenAI is as much a lazy, cumbersome incumbent as Google or Microsoft, and it’s just as innovative too. The launch of its "Operator" "agent" was a joke — a barely-functional product that is allegedly meant to control your computer and take distinct actions, but doesn't seem to work. Casey Newton, a man so gratingly credulous that it makes me want to scream, of course wrote that it was a "compelling demonstration" that "represented an extraordinary technological achievement" that also somehow was "significantly slower, more frustrating, and more expensive than simply doing any of these tasks yourself." Casey, of course, had some thoughts about DeepSeek — that there were reasons to be worried, but that "American AI labs [were] still in the lead," saying that DeepSeek was "only optimizing technology that OpenAI and others invented first," before saying that it was "only last week that OpenAI made available to Pro plan users a computer that can use itself," a statement bordering on factually incorrect.

By making DeepSeek “about China” we ignore the root of the problem — that the American tech industry is no longer interested in making good software that helps people. OpenAI's "agent" is a joke, and anyone who believes they're building the future is a mark.

www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/

Impresionante texto, vía el feed de @rodf.bsky.social

Hoy corté mi suscripción al NYT. No me interesa la cobertura de la política como entretenimiento. Sigo con The Athletic.

Today, I canceled my subscription to NYT. I’m not interested in political coverage as entertainment (especially not with this administration). I’ll stick with The Athletic.

Absoluto delirio

As in the case with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, fact checking rarely works when the platform where it operares is engineered for fostering lies. @jeffjarvis.bsky.social is 100% on point when he insists that as journalists we need to remember that “facts” will not be enough to stay relevant.