Pedro de las Heras Quirós

Gracias a @toni_mascaró y su blog impresionante de historia de la radio, he recuperado este artículo de #VazquezMontalbán , publicado el 9 de agosto del 99, una semana después de mi despido fulminante.

Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation. But a recent book argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

Welcome to the COMP2620/6262 Public Webpage This is the public webpage for the Australian National University course Logic, co-taught as COMP2620 and COMP6262.

Big introductory #Logic course at #ANU

comp.anu.edu.au/courses/comp...

‘Extortion’: Newsom Threatens to Sue After Trump Fines UCLA $1 Billion | KQED University of California President James Milliken said President Donald Trump’s proposal would “completely devastate” the system.

Trump keeps dismantling higher education through 'Extorsion' and 'Threats'.

UCLA:
www.kqed.org/news/1205152...

Harvard:
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Gaza and the End of History - Boston Review The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

“Why now? Why, after twenty-two months of complacency and complicity, have some European and American elites suddenly changed their tone? The conceit that the basic facts or circumstances have changed—that real alarm was inappropriate until now—defies all serious analysis.”

"AI models supposedly did well on International Math Olympiad problems, but how they got their answers reminds us why we still need people doing math"

Can AI really code? Study maps the roadblocks to autonomous software engineering Researchers led by computer scientists at MIT have mapped the challenges of AI in software development, and outlined a research agenda to move the field forward.

Very interesting insights about AI-assisted SW Engineering beyond code generation

“developers risk blindly trusting hallucinated logic that compiles, but collapses in production. Another critical aspect is having the AI know when to defer to the user for clarification”
news.mit.edu/2025/can-ai-...

Shifty is the new BBC documentary series created by the documentalist film maker Adam Curtis. He is the author, among others, of the HyperNormalisation documentary TV series

Both available in Youtube

Roots of the contemporary political crisis through the lens of British life in the Thatcher years

Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports | CNN Wright said the Trump administration is updating the National Climate Assessments that have been previously published, which the administration recently removed from government websites.

Energy chief suggests Trump administration is altering previously published climate reports

www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/c...

Spain shuns US F-35 jets as tensions grow with Washington Madrid to purchase European military aircraft in sign of deepening rift with Trump over defence and foreign policy

"Spain is opting to replace its ageing fighter jet fleet with European military aircraft rather than the US F-35, as tensions over defence and foreign policy strain Madrid’s relations with Washington."

www.ft.com/content/6578...

Aldabas / I battenti

youtu.be/VppOeksbU2U

Why claims about AI making engineers 10-100x more productive are vastly exaggerated and cause unnecessary anxiety for developers.

colton.dev/blog/curing-...

An analysis of the ways Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are investing in and dominating two thirds the cloud computing market.