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Pedro de las Heras Quirós

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Distributed systems, computer networks, formal methods, ethical CS, free/libre software, world history. Fediverse/Mastodon: @pheras@fosstodon.org

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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 15h
Nuevas imágenes de Google Maps muestran cómo ha quedado Gaza arrasada por Israel
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Nuevas imágenes de Google Maps muestran cómo ha quedado Gaza arrasada por Israel
Las fotografías constatan la destrucción sistemática de ciudades como Rafah, donde vivían 300.000 personas y que ha quedado completamente destruida
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 8h
The proof is in the spec What AI-driven verification gets right, what it skips, and how we do it with maintainers. runtimeverification.com/blog/the-pro...
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The proof is in the spec
AI-written formal proofs find real bugs. But a checked proof only verifies its own model and spec — here's what that means, and how to get it right.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 15h
Can we have reachability properties in TLA⁺? By Andrew Helwer ahelwer.ca/post/2026-09...
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Can we have reachability properties in TLA⁺?
I was reading Hillel Wayne’s new post TLA+ Won’t Solve Everything and became fixated on one of the things he says cannot be expressed in TLA⁺: Possibility and reachability properties: that it’s alway...
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 19h
This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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Russia sends nuclear warning to NATO as tensions rise in the Baltic
Russia has warned NATO it would be ready to resort to nuclear ​weapons if the Western alliance attempted to cut off Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave that borders the Baltic Sea.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 22h
Las casitas de la Puerta de Alcalá elpais.com/opinion/2026... Las casitas de la Puerta del Sol www.elmundo.es/madrid/2026/...
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Aumenta la preocupación del Ejecutivo de Ayuso por el "absoluto descontrol" de la acampada y el cerco a la sede de la Comunidad: "Teníamos gente subida a las ventanas"
La paciencia del equipo de Isabel Díaz Ayuso duró exactamente 62 horas y media. Tres noches después de que acamparan las primeras tiendas en la Puerta del Sol, la Comunidad de...
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Mythology Of Conscious AI Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea. By Anil Seth www.noemamag.com/the-mytholog...
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The Mythology Of Conscious AI | NOEMA
Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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RTVE Noticias @rtvenoticias.rtve.es · 28/09/2026
"Aquí fue desahuciada Maricarmen, de 87 años, vecina de esta casa desde 1955. Gracias a Ricardo Alonso Fernández y Fernando Alonso Fuentes, dueños de Urbagestión". Este es el mensaje que se puede leer en el edificio de la calle Sainz de Baranda, de Madrid.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
> No hay que indignarse, hay que indignar > Ante la crisis de la vivienda hay que poner sobre la mesa propuestas que la derecha califique de intolerables. Limitar el precio de los alquileres. Expropiar a grandes tenedores. Prohibir que los fondos buitre operen en España
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Gerardo Tecé @gerardotece.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"No hay que indignarse, hay que indignar". Tras remolonear durante unas décadas, el PSOE tendrá que responder: ¿es la vivienda bien de mercado o derecho de la gente? Ya no vale responder que ambas, ni pedirle bondad a los fondos buitre. Mi columna en CTXT: ctxt.es/es/20260901/...
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No hay que indignarse, hay que indignar
Ante la crisis de la vivienda hay que poner sobre la mesa propuestas que la derecha califique de intolerables. Limitar el precio de los alquileres. Expropiar a grandes tenedores. Prohibir que los fond...
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
El Gobierno ultima un decreto que seguirá permitiendo a los grandes tenedores de viviendas seguir acaparándolas www.eldiario.es/politica/gob...
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El Gobierno ultima un decreto de vivienda que evite desahucios, blinde alquileres y recoja ayudas para propietarios e inquilinos
El Ministerio de Vivienda trabaja contra reloj para cerrar un texto que debe convencer a la vez a Junts y a Podemos. El Sindicato de Inquilinos, que suma su segunda noche de acampada en la Puerta del ...
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Commission President von der Leyen wants to reduce social and environmental safeguards: - Making it harder to introduce new progressive EU regulations. - Creating exemptions that allow companies to avoid certain regulations. - Restricting or complicating new regulations at the national level.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Capitalism with Chinese characteristics www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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China’s Tax Grab Squeezes Rich Elite Harder Than Ever
Hefty bills, vague calculations and squads targeting individual billionaires are rattling the country’s wealthy.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
> Maricarmen, una marca internacional que inspira a 20 asociaciones europeas por una vivienda digna: “Esto trasciende fronteras” elpais.com/espana/madri...
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Maricarmen, una marca internacional que inspira a 20 asociaciones europeas por una vivienda digna: “Esto trasciende fronteras”
La red que coordina movimientos sociales y sindicatos de inquilinos en todo el continente se une a la acampada de Sol y espera que el movimiento español se replique en ciudades de todo el mundo
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
College Is Coming Apart Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense. By Ian Bogost www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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College Is Coming Apart
Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
College Is Coming Apart Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense. By Ian Bogost www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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College Is Coming Apart
Successive, overlapping crises reveal that American higher education makes no sense.
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Pedro Vallín @pvallin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Un género nuevo del periodismo: Lo Que Le Cuento a La Psiquiatra Cuando Olvido Las Pastillas.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
> corporate debt powering the AI boom is growing riskier, driven by unproven AI revenue and costly construction delays finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...
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Oracle’s Collapse–$200 Billion In Data Center Shut Downs
Oracle's Project Jupiter is just one casualty in a growing wave of blocked and delayed data center construction that threatens to destabilize the entire AI infrastructure boom, and the warning signs p...
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
> Wunderspec is a Python DSL for writing and checking executable specifications. By @k0nn0v.bsky.social github.com/wunderspec/w...
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GitHub - wunderspec/wunderspec: Protocol specs in Python you can verify: test, simulate, model check, prove
Protocol specs in Python you can verify: test, simulate, model check, prove - wunderspec/wunderspec
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 17/06/2026
AI "rejection is possible and has historical precedent, to name just a few successful examples: Amsterdammers kicked out cars, rejecting that cycling through the Dutch capital should be deadly [...] and governments banned chlorofluorocarbons [...] to mitigate ozone depletion" doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., van Meerkerk, E., Oude Groote Beverborg, A., de Haan, R., Reyes Elizondo, A., Blokpoel, M., Scharfenberg, N., Kleinherenbrink, A., Camerino, I., Woensdregt, M., Monett, D., Brown, J., Avraamidou, L., Alenda-Demoutiez, J., Hermans, F., & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20082828
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
> tens of thousands of security incidents > Some of the testing is akin to "red-teaming" activity, where the companies are trying to get the models to misbehave in order to ensure that they are safe, sources said. tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurit...
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Scoop: Top AI companies probing tens of thousands of security incidents
OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told A...
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
> The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump’s war killed more than 150 people, mostly children. > Palantir’s Co-Founder Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Palantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strike
The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
> La indignación por la vivienda toma la calle y se planta en Sol > “Va por Maricarmen”, explicaba ayer Blanca Martínez, una de las personas acampadas, “pero va por todas, porque nos están axfisiando con los precios de alquiler, los fondos buitre y los rentistas” elpais.com/espana/2026-...
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La indignación por la vivienda toma la calle y se planta en Sol
Una marcha de protesta por el desahucio de Maricarmen congrega a decenas de miles de personas y desemboca en un movimiento que recuerda al 15-M
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
> A piece of advice > Say no to drugs. Kind of a metaphor, but not quite. The first step is to realize how dependent we you are on AI. A piece of technology that you don’t control, and which costs your employer (if not you) a fortune. blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/o...
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One month without AI
Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner. It’s not that it got a lot of contributions with AI — ...
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
> El paisaje de estos núcleos urbanos es más propio de la era Mad Max: redes cubriendo las avenidas, vehículos protegidos por rejas y pinchos, UAV surcando el cielo y robots, decenas de ellos, recorriendo las rutas que marchan hacia la zona de confrontación.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oct 28, 2025 www.gatesnotes.com/work/acceler... Sep 25, 2026 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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New Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generators
State regulator’s record fine for DataOne facility in Vineland follows Floodlight investigation with the Guardian
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
1988: Robert Morris: Prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act boingboing.net/2025/11/05/t... 2026: Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, said in a social media post on Friday that the company had “not been as fast as we would have liked” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1985 La clave: Las máquinas inteligentes www.rtve.es/play/videos/...
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La clave - Las máquinas inteligentes
José Luis Balbín modera el debate en torno a los ordenadores y a la inteligencia artificial.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In U.S. bonds, investors don't trust www.wsj.com/finance/u-s-...
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U.S. Treasury Yields Hit Multiyear Highs on Economic Data, Fed Rate-Boost Expectations
The 10-year Treasury yield rose to its highest level since 2007 and the 30-year yield hit its highest since 2004 amid increasing expectations the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at its Octob...
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
LLMs promote the use of formal methods in software development. Programmer of Claude Code: x.com/bcherny/stat...
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A(I)theists Cory Doctorow ( @doctorow.pluralistic.net ): > I think it's impossible to build a chatbot using the techniques we're presently calling "AI" that doesn't "hallucinate." However, it's both possible and necessary for us to stop hallucinating about AI pluralistic.net/2026/09/21/s...
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Pluralistic: The Claude Delusion (21 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
> Mathematics Isn’t Just a Game to Let A.I. Solve. History Shows Why. > In our field of applied mathematics, the long, human process of trial and error — not just the solutions themselves — is often what has led to progress. By @stevenstrogatz.com and Alex Townsend www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/s...
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Mathematics Isn’t Just a Game to Let A.I. Solve. History Shows Why.
In our field of applied mathematics, the long, human process of trial and error — not just the solutions themselves — is often what has led to progress.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1/2 > It’s not just Bahrain. American bases in Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman and Jordan have been damaged by Iranian drone and missile strikes.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
> Stanford acknowledged in a statement on Tuesday that it had used artificial intelligence to change the original image www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...
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Marta Ramos González @martarg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
El Gobierno exige a Almeida y a Ayuso que frenen el desahucio de Maricarmen www.eldiario.es/1_ce6f8b?utm...
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El Gobierno exige a Almeida y a Ayuso que frenen el desahucio de Maricarmen
El Ministerio de Vivienda asegura que Urbagestión, empresa propietaria del piso, se niega a vender o a cualquier otra negociación
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI Nathalie Maréchal / Sep 17, 2026 www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...
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What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
> China seems to be engaging in a different AI race altogether. The Chinese government has already built a more extensive regulatory environment for governing how the technology interacts with users. restofworld.org/2026/america...
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America is in the wrong AI race with China
The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance.
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Javier Espinosa @javierespinosa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
El 1 de octubre, a las 19:00, en el Ateneo de Madrid, presentación del libro de @monicagprieto.bsky.social El Matadero, un estudio del plan sistemático que ha usado Israel en el genocidio de Gaza.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Two Key Gaps in Agentic Software Engineering Ion Stoica www.linkedin.com/pulse/two-ke...
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Two Key Gaps in Agentic Software Engineering
An AI agent was asked to speed up a key-value store. It delivered a 6× throughput gain and passed every correctness test.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
> Economies thrown into renewed turmoil as AI debt, Iran war and soaring government bond yields fuel alarm www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
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Are global stock markets heading for a crash?
Economies thrown into renewed turmoil as AI debt, Iran war and soaring government bond yields fuel alarm
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
> El conflicto entre Justicia y Ejecutivo es tan agudo y avanzado que la Justicia ya trabaja –caso único en Europa– para hacer un lulazo.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You can pre-order now this book: Deep Unlearning The Rise of AI and the Radicalization of a Tech Idealist By Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U...
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Deep Unlearning
Timnit Gebru, one of the fiercest voices in the world speaking truth to power, chronicles her journey as a refugee and Black woman in STEM—deliveri...
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Julio Lleonart @juliolleonart.com · 19/09/2026
Ser fascista ha dejado de dar vergüenza, son malos, actúan con total impunidad… no hay polarización, nunca la ha habido, yo no estoy polarizado, yo defiendo ser buena persona. Frente a la maldad. Y ellos no están crispados, han caído las caretas y se muestran como los lobos que siempre fueron.
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
> For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...
For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. How could we fight against tireless robots? But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly cutting-edge software still requires humans to think and work together, to maximize their skill sets and to practice their respective crafts. A.I. can write very good software, but it also makes it easy to do someone else’s job badly, which is part of why all those projects fail. Now that everyone can code, it’s become clearer why many shouldn’t.
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Lorena Fernández Álvarez @loretahur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#TalDíaComoHoy en 1930, nace Dina St Johnston. Fundó la primera empresa de software del Reino Unido en 1959 (Vaughan Programming Services) donde crearon software para empresas como BBC, Unilever, BAA, British Rail… #WomenInSTEM
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Reliability, availability, clouds and missiles > AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good > Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible www.theregister.com/off-prem/202...
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AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good
Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thinking About the ‘Tech Fascists’ and What to Do About Them > A review of Gil Durán’s The Nerd Reich (Avid Reader Press, 2026) and Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism (HarperCollins, 2026). www.techpolicy.press/thinking-abo...
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Thinking About the ‘Tech Fascists’ and What to Do About Them
Paul Barrett reviews Gil Durán’s The Nerd Reich (Avid Reader Press, 2026) and Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism (HarperCollins, 2026).
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Landposmo @landposmo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
El que pueda hacer que haga 👌
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pressure builds in Spain to deny US extradition request for leftwing donor Key government meeting this month will consider US bid to try James ‘Fergie’ Chambers over alleged support for Hamas www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Pressure builds in Spain to deny US extradition request for leftwing donor
Key government meeting this month will consider US bid to try James ‘Fergie’ Chambers over alleged support for Hamas
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Pedro de las Heras Quirós @pheras.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They shipped them laptops laptop.org to teach them how to program: web.archive.org/web/20200106... Now they ship them AIs through the same URL to teach them to forget how to program: code.org The deal is in both the shipping and the shaping
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Code.org - Learn Computer Science
Anyone can learn computer science. Make games, apps and art with code.
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