Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yes! Daily Sun is amazing and has been for a very long time 001
Reposted by PlatilloPlatillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This isn't a Cornell problem, or an Ivy League problem. It's not even a rich kids problem. It's a societal problem. Women are abused everywhere since they are girls and men/boys get away with it. Even all the way to the White House. We need a good hard look at ourselves. 052
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This isn't a Cornell problem, or an Ivy League problem. It's not even a rich kids problem. It's a societal problem. Women are abused everywhere since they are girls and men/boys get away with it. Even all the way to the White House. We need a good hard look at ourselves. 052
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026go big red thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 001
Reposted by PlatilloPlatillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 28/09/2026They're nearly to their goal! Throw a few bucks to independent journalism. 012
Reposted by PlatilloKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructurestatic.klipy.comIronic Star Wars MomentAlt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic." 521464312
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 28/09/2026They're nearly to their goal! Throw a few bucks to independent journalism. 012
Reposted by PlatilloAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9652933270
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The AI bot review process described by an applicant to a @ukri.org funded call is so depressing. How about weeding out Ai produced applications? If they are flooding the calls, treat them like the problem. Use the bots to identify and reject. It's not rocket science. 100
Reposted by PlatilloJohn Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky 40434238
Reposted by PlatilloHoward Beck @howardbeck.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Cornell's student journalists broke a big story over the weekend and (like most student newspapers) could use your support. Link:cornellsun.comSupport the Sun! - The Cornell Daily SunThe Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880. 04318
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 27/09/202625 years after I worked there, the Cornell Daily Sun continues to make me so proud 171
Reposted by PlatilloTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain. 52530660
Reposted by PlatilloXero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick. 2119203373
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Weimar vibes.nytimes.comThe Fuel That Feeds Europe’s Far Right: Nostalgia and Lost Pride (Gift Article)The populist emphasis on national identity and threats to it, real and imagined, finds a deep response in voters adrift in a world they no longer understand. 053
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is a beautiful, sad, powerful and ultimately deeply truthful story of what it means to experience systemic racism in America. It mirrors so many personal experiences. 000
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Proud to see Barbados and UWI'S osn Sir Hilary Beckles leading the way on reparations.theguardian.comCaribbean nations draft action plan to push UK to redress reparations over slaveryLeaders hope UK will agree to targeted discussions around reparatory justice, but could consider legal options if Britain resists 011
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 19/09/2026''Others are drawing a much harder line, like the University of Chicago’s school of law, which announced it was banning the use of phones, tablets, and even laptops in class for first-year courses earlier this year." OMG yes 000
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Elections? What elections? Interim government for life! 000
Reposted by PlatilloNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 180140606475
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“Mass literacy is a recent phenomenon,” Marriott writes. “So is mass democracy. We simply don’t know whether one can survive without the other.”theguardian.comWarning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John HarrisWhile fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris 020
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This will make the people profiting off of Venezuelan heavy crude very happy. 000
Reposted by PlatilloBenjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 08/09/2026RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. 4200124
Reposted by PlatilloMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/08/2026The easiest path for Dems to turn Texas blue *by far* is only two steps: 1) Don't piss off Black voters 2) Make sure that all the Black people in Harris that want to vote, can actually vote But we don't want to do that. So instead we try: 1) Piss off Black voters🤡 2) Hope the GOP lets them vote🤡 15313
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Tiranía, soberbia y abuso. Éso es lo que vivimos los Venezolanos. Estamos hartos. 000
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I'm reading this having just filled out forms here in Belgium for my kids' vaccination status to be double checked and updated for free via the school. If they opt out, the local health services follow up with the parents and the doc. Easy as pie and reassuring. Access in the US is dying. 110
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Sharing distressed eye contact with the other introverts in the quiet car. Chatting people, speakerphone conversations, videos with the sound up. It's chaos! 110
Reposted by PlatilloPLOS @plos.org · 20/08/2026Discover @plosglobalpublichealth.org Welcoming qualitative and quantitative primary research in a range of topics from maternal and child health, global health security, and evidence use and policy, to infectious and non-communicable diseases and environmental health. 🔗 Learn more: plos.io/4eeOb5x 053
Reposted by PlatilloAnna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Once again and over and over until it gets through: archives and libraries scanning something for preservation is an entirely different story than private citizens and companies doing it, because there are strict ethical standards for the former and the latter consider them annoyances. 5940244
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I really dislike reviewing work that has been written with AI, even as a grammar checking tool. It is obvious. The style is dry, choppy, and boring. Bring back spelling mistakes and small grammar errors, but give me your voice! 010
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I did my university at an Ivy League in the US as an immigrant from South America. It started even in high school, the people who would tell me I got in because of my race. Other parents, friends, even my teachers. While there, every day I had to prove my worth. 120
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 08/08/2026"Greenland Energy has retained Phil McGraw, better known as Dr Phil, a prominent rightwing former chatshow host who served on Trump’s religious freedom commission, to make a documentary series that will “capture the mission of these modern-day wildcatters”.' Wait, what??theguardian.comGreenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drillIsland’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling 010
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 31/07/2026A sad accounting of what happens when surveillance and reporting systems are absent in one of the most vulnerable communities in the world. 154
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 06/07/2026One of the most extraordinarily beautiful paintings in the Mauritshuis and the world. 120
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Last week's heatwave in Belgium caused the highest peak of excess mortality since the pandemic. Terrible. And it will only get worse.rtl.beLes chiffres de la canicule tombent : 1.222 morts et une surmortalité inédite de 39 % constatée lors des fortes chaleursLa récente vague de chaleur en Belgique a provoqué une surmortalité provisoire de 39 %, selon les données du Risk Management Group, mettant en évidence les conséquences sanitaires des températures ext... 000
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 25/06/2026There are always tears left to cry for Venezuela. Tanto dolor, mi gente. Que Díos los ampare. 000
Reposted by PlatilloLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up 122497783
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Dr. Tedros is humanizing this epidemic. It is not about fear, stigma, phobia. It's about showing up and helping people. Exemplary to see him there in person. Bravo @who.int 0326
Reposted by PlatilloRT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology: 431526456
Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 25/05/2026There are too many true and powerful statements in this reporting to just choose one. But fundamentally, Africans are experts in disease response. If there are gaps it is the result of a profound and deliberate social injustice. #ebolanytimes.comEbola Outbreak Opens Old Wounds About ‘Saving Africans’ 093
Reposted by PlatilloMadhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Amidst hantavirus & Ebola outbreaks, the world has not paid much attention to this devastating (and totally preventable) outbreak of measles in Bangladesh Since mid-March, the country has seen more than 60,000 suspected cases and 528 suspected measles-related deaths!! www.npr.org/2026/05/24/g... 35939