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Jocelyn Simmonds

@jsimmond.bsky.social
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Associate prof. at the University of Chile, interested in MDE, SW product lines, and computer science education .. feminist and Latinity co-founder users.dcc.uchile.cl/~jsimmond

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Don't be evil? "Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..." www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
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im rob @bobacupcake.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
its a mystery
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
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Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/04/2025
Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man theonion.com/salvado...
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Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man
WASHINGTON—During a visit with President Donald Trump at the White House, El Salvador’s president Nayib Bukele claimed Monday that he “lacks the humanity” to return wrongly deported legal U.S. resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to America. “How can I return an innocent man to the United States when I don’t have the ability to feel […]
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 19/04/2025
Hi, everyone! We're organizing a workshop on software engineering for functional programming as part of CBSOFT, and we welcome industry papers: bit.ly/SE4FP2025
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SE4FP 2025 | 1st Workshop on Software Engineering for Functional Programming
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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 19/04/2025
My NSF CS for All grant was just terminated (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). Nationwide, we were: • Improving the quantity + quality of K-12 CS teachers • Ensuring the sustainability of K-12 CS teacher prep programs • Ensuring all youth in the U.S. have access to great CS teachers
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NSF Award Search: Award # 2318257 - Collaborative Research: An Equitable, Justice-Focused Ecosystem for Pacific Northwest Secondary CS Teaching Lock
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👻Notorischer User dieser Plattform🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Training AI with copyrighted works isn't just theft or plagiarism. It's worse: it is a fundamental devaluation of creativity. When you steal something, you're not denying its individual value. GenAI is a form of automated exploitation and devaluation of human labor
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/04/2025
So Google's latest consent violation is them generating "AI" audio of your voice in YouTube as an opt-out "service." Here's how to turn it off (original images reposted with alt text):
Turn off automatic dubbing foryour channel
While automatic dubbing is turned on by default, you can turn it off at any time.
1. Sign in to YouTube Studio on yourcomputer.
2. Click Settings [shows a gear icon] » Upload defaults >Advanced settings.
3. Uncheck the Allow automatic dubbing box.
4. Click Save.
Unpublish dubs
1. Sign in to YouTube Studio 3 on your
computer.
2. Click Content , then select the video you want to manage dubbing for.
3. Click Languages
4. Hover over the relevant language, then click [drop-down arrow] in the "Audio" column.
5. Select Unpublish.
When you unpublish a dub, you can choose to republish it or delete it later.

Delete dubs
1. Sign in to YouTube Studio on your Computer.
2. Click Content , then select the video you want to manage dubbing for.
3. Click Languages
4. Hover over the relevant language, then click [drop-down arrow] in the "Audio column.
5. Select Delete.

Once a dub is deleted, it won't be available and you can't republish it.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/04/2025
tbh, the AI industry is full of fraud, and fraudsters like this techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/f...
Nate said its app’s users could buy from any e-commerce site with a single click, thanks to AI. In reality, however, Nate relied heavily on hundreds of human contractors in a call center in the Philippines to manually complete those purchases, the DOJ’s Southern District of New York alleges.

Saniger raised millions in venture funding by claiming that Nate was able to transact online “without human intervention,” except for edge cases where the AI failed to complete a transaction. But despite Nate acquiring some AI technology and hiring data scientists, its app’s actual automation rate was effectively 0%, the DOJ claims.
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Jocelyn Simmonds @jsimmond.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
En Chile las mujeres tienen hijos, obvio 🤷‍♀️
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DCC UChile @dcc.uchile.cl · 26/03/2025
El equipo chileno globos.get(), integrado por Diego Arias, Gabriel Carmona y Vicente Villarroel, clasificó a la ICPC World Finals 2025 tras conseguir el puesto 15 en el ICPC Latin America Championship 2025, realizado en Brasil. Continua leyendo en: comunicaciones.dcc.uchile.cl/news/967-uni...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🚨NEW: Major development. German newspaper Der Spiegel has found phone numbers and passwords for Hegseth, Waltz & Gabbard in stolen data freely published on the internet. ‼️It includes details of Signal accounts. “It is conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group.”
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Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including mobile phone numbers, is freely accessible on the internet.
By Patrick Beuth, Jörg Diehl, Roman Höfner, Roman Lehberger, Friederike Röhreke und Fidelius Schmid
26.03.2025, 21.20 Uhr
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Jocelyn Simmonds @jsimmond.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB
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Jocelyn Simmonds @jsimmond.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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Potential Ozone Depletion From Satellite Demise During Atmospheric Reentry in the Era of Mega‐Constellations
We present the first atomic-scale molecular dynamics simulation of high-temperature aluminum ablation during reentry from low-Earth orbit The amount of aluminum oxide nanoparticles generated is q...
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this
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Andrea C. Frésard Lemmermann @fresiaf.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Informe lapidario. Por María Teresa Ruiz, astrónoma. Premio Nacional de Ciencias Exactas.
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Chris Harrod @profchrisharrod.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
As they say in Chile, ¡bacan! A periodic table of female scientists featuring @criordor.bsky.social and many others www.bcn.cl/mujerescient...
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Mujeres Científicas Chilenas - Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile
Micrositio de Mujeres Científicas Chilenas
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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Vagabundo Ilustrado @vagoilustrado.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Ha sido vocero de damnificado de incendios en Valparaíso, vocero del Paro de Camioneros, y vocero de Comunidades Indigenas (pero no es damnificado de incendios, ni camionero, ni indígena). Luciano Quintana: las mil caras de un agitador de ultraderecha: www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/pai...
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Luciano Quintana: las mil caras de un agitador de ultraderecha
Tiene un historial ligado a la ultraderecha, y su huelga de hambre en Valparaíso sin ser damnificado no es su única faceta. Se ha atribuido la vocería de camioneros sin vínculos con el rubro, y de una...
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Mónica C. Camacho @mc2x.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...
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NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA
Lee esta historia en español aquí
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/02/2025
This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
Tweet from Scott Jennings, saying "um, yes, that's really a problem," with a quoted image saying "The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality right-wing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence, people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly aren't usually on our side."
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Jocelyn Simmonds @jsimmond.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
It's a pain in the ass, since you have to do it app by app, but better safe than sorry
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
It was always apparent but now it's increasingly undeniable that all these 20-something DOGE employees were chosen not *in spite* of inadequate vetting but *because* they would not pass vetting. Trump & Musk chose the people who seemed the most willing to commit illegal acts on their behalf.
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Jocelyn Simmonds @jsimmond.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Hoy vi una patente TZR... y era un Tesla 😫😫
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/02/2025
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Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say
Meta’s alleged torrenting and seeding of pirated books complicates copyright case.
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Andrea C. Frésard Lemmermann @fresiaf.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Ministra de Ciencia y polémico megaproyecto energético cerca de observatorio Paranal: “Tomaremos una posición activa para proteger la astronomía” www.adnradio.cl/2025/02/05/m... vía @adnradiochile
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Ministra de Ciencia y polémico megaproyecto energético cerca de observatorio Paranal: “Tomaremos una posición activa para proteger la astronomía”
En conversación con Ciudadano ADN, Aisén Etcheverry abordó el debate sobre la iniciativa de la empresa AES Andes, la cual busca desarrollarse en la región de Antofagasta.
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Jocelyn Simmonds @jsimmond.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Not surprised ...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
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Shayna Ghram-Kaiser @shaynalynn86.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Joseph Yaroch @jcyaroch.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Today is Retraction Day, when we observe the anniversary of the retraction (Feb. 2, 2010) of the fraudulent paper that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. 🧪#medsky
This is the front page of a fraudulent research article that purported to show a link between vaccines and autism. The word "RETRACTED" is written across it in large red letters. 

Wikipedia: On 28th February 1998, a fraudulent research paper by physician Andrew Wakefield and twelve coauthors, titled "Ileal-Lymphoid-Nodular Hyperplasia, Non-Specific Colitis, and Pervasive Developmental Disorder in Children", was published in the British medical journal The Lancet.[1] The paper falsely claimed causative links between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and colitis and between colitis and autism. The fraud involved data selection, data manipulation, and two undisclosed conflicts of interest.
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Benjamin Alvarez @benjalvarez1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Aides to Elon Musk have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, two officials told Reuters. t.co/ITmXlX85fl
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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/
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Derechos Digitales @derechosdigitales.org · 31/01/2025
Las Big Tech no son neutrales: sus modelos de negocio han facilitado el autoritarismo en AL, afectando derechos como la libertad de expresión y la privacidad. 🖋️ Lee la columna completa de Paloma Lara Castro: www.derechosdigitales.org/24797/el-rol...
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El rol de las Big Tech en el auge del autoritarismo
La reciente foto de la toma de posesión de Donald Trump respaldado por las cabezas de las Big Tech en primera fila es de un simbolismo total. En efecto, las consecuencias directas no tardaron en llega...
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 31/01/2025
A cloud security firm has reportedly uncovered a “completely open” database tied to the AI firm containing more than a million instances of "chat history, backend data, and sensitive information."
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Report: DeepSeek’s chat histories and internal data were publicly exposed
Wiz researchers found many similarities to OpenAI with their escalated access.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is a helpful explainer of one of the underlying difficulties in getting a crewed mission to Mars in short order (the orbital launch windows are relatively short and infrequent). And this is probably the smallest hurdle. 🧪
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Trump Pledged to Send Astronauts to Mars. Here’s Why That’s Challenging.
Orbital dynamics show that President Trump’s pledge to land astronauts on Mars couldn’t happen until 2029 at the earliest.
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Frank Hause @fhause.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"Even when the bogus papers are spotted [...] academic journals are often slow to retract the papers, allowing the articles to taint what many consider sacrosanct: the vast global library of scholarly work" (@joelving.bsky.social, Labbé, & @gcabanac.cpesr.fr) 🧪 theconversation.com/fake-papers-...
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Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research
‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.
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DCC UChile @dcc.uchile.cl · 30/01/2025
Sobre Computación Espacial comenta hoy el profesor Eduardo Graells-Garrido (@zorzal.datagramas.cl), académico #dccuchile e investigador del Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial en esta nota en El Mercurio. Te invitamos a leerla en: comentarista.emol.com/2534918/3225...
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Trini Lathrop @mattyll.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Debate por permisología: “La mayor cantidad de tiempo de tramitación se produce por suspensiones que piden los dueños de los proyectos” www.ciperchile.cl/2025/01/28/d...
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Debate por permisología: “La mayor cantidad de tiempo de tramitación se produce por suspensiones que piden los dueños de los proyectos”
Medio de investigación periodística independiente en Chile, enfocado en reportajes de actualidad y brindar información de calidad a la ciudadanía.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 30/01/2025
Genetic diversity has declined within two-thirds of more than 600 species over the past three decades, according to research published in Nature. The findings highlight the need for conservation efforts to prevent genetic diversity loss. go.nature.com/42EpVo5 🧪
This is figure 1, which shows a summary of the systematic review dataset.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/01/2025
Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
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licerdo @licerdo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
El rango de titulares de La Tercera en una portada
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/01/2025
In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why
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In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why
Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going on Something was happening to the birds at Tiputini. The biodiversity research centre, buried deep…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/01/2025
Trump orders opening of migrant detention center at Guantánamo Bay
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Trump orders opening of migrant detention center at Guantánamo Bay
President signs executive order instructing preparation of facility to house 30,000 immigrants at US naval base in Cuba * US politics – live Donald Trump has signed an executive order to prepare a huge detention facility at Guantánamo Bay that he…
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/01/2025
All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot
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All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot
Is screen use really sapping our ability to focus and lowering our IQs? The scientists who have actually analysed the data give their verdict Andrew Przybylski, a professor of human behaviour and technology at Oxford University, is a busy man. It’s only…
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D4mon @kurt.estoesdantesco.com · 27/01/2025
En Mexico quedaron tan enojados con los cliches y racismo casual de "Emilia Perez" y su director Frances, que hicieron su propia version y se llama JOHANNE SACREBLU y yo me estoy meando de risa www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLT4...
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DCC UChile @dcc.uchile.cl · 28/01/2025
¿Sabías que Fernando Silva es uno de los fundadores y el primer director del DCC? 🧑‍💻✨ En estos 50 años del #dccuchile, queremos que descubras más sobre las personas clave que han construido esta gran Comunidad. #DCC50 #SomosDCC
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
From Bloomberg. This isn't a perfect comparison, but... loosely speaking the Apollo Program and Manhattan Project put together, had an annual spend about 1/5th what these companies are spending on AI infrastructure. This may be the largest investment in anything outside war ever.
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