José Joaquín Blanco

@blancoj.bsky.social

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Para mí que a Guillermo Cabrera Infante le sale mejor ser Carlos Fuentes en Tres Tristes Tigres que al mismo Carlos Fuentes en La región más transparente.

¿Se han fijado en cómo la IA ha gringrificado el español? Ya era así, pero la velocidad del cambio ahora es vertiginosa. Ahora todo mundo suena como que estudió en Southern Nowhere University, escribió su texto en inglés y luego lo metió al Google translate de 2003.

🇪🇨Ecuador’s new adoption law entrenches discrimination against LGBT ppl and threatens families with trans children. Lawmakers passed sweeping restrictions without evidence, and without meaningful consultation with the people whose lives they will affect. www.hrw.org/news/2026/08...

Ecuador: New Adoption Law Entrenches Bias

A new adoption law in Ecuador contains discriminatory provisions targeting lesbian, gay, and bisexual people and threatens to strip many parents of transgender children of their parental rights.

hrw.org

Big Oil profits have skyrocketed since Trump launched his Iran War — leading to a $93B windfall for the eight biggest oil companies in Q2 2026 alone. Meanwhile, Trump himself has raked in up to $15.5M from his fossil fuel investments since January. Don't forget what this was really all about.

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In the 6 months since Trump launched his War on Iran: -Deaths: 7,900+, including 18 US troops -Military spending: $1B per day -Increase in gas prices: 38% -Big Oil profits: $93B+ -Strait of Hormuz: still closed He's losing his own war of choice — and we're paying for it.

Julián Posada, a professor at Yale University, speaks about AI data work that is outsourced to Venezuela. The workers, some of whom are paid as little as 50 cents per hour, “would not know who the employers were or what even the AI they were helping develop is.”

Dolly Parton is credited in at least 37 research papers on the COVID vaccine, including the first phase I trial results published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2020.