Esto, mil veces. ⬇️

Hugo Martínez Abarca 🇪🇺🇵🇸@martinezabarca.net · last wk.

Dos de los incendios tienen su origen en agricultores (esos que “ellos son los que saben”) que se saltan las normas (esa burocracia ecologista que “no permite coger piñas”) y usan maquinaria que ahora está prohibida. Odian el conocimiento científico y es un odio suicida.

Dos de los incendios tienen su origen en agricultores (esos que “ellos son los que saben”) que se saltan las normas (esa burocracia ecologista que “no permite coger piñas”) y usan maquinaria que ahora está prohibida. Odian el conocimiento científico y es un odio suicida.

Vale, a mitad de año estamos ante el mayor incendio de la historia de España, llega la cuarta ola de calor, el Mediterráneo está a 30 °C y el calor ha matado a unas 3.800 personas, PERO al menos Repsol ha ganado 2.201 millones en este primer semestre, un 265% más que en el mismo periodo de 2025.

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

usa.streetsblog.org

I hate summer (here in Spain) so much 🥵🥵🥵

🔵 "My I[M]DEA Software: Poster Competition" 👤 Last week we celebrated our annual gathering, where our youngest researchers showcased their scientific progress and took on the challenge of explaining it in under-a-minute pitches. Want to find out who this year's winners are? 🔗https://c.madrid/j3usl

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

Elon Musk accused of fuelling unrest after Belfast knife attack

The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...

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I enjoyed this essay about the death of truth and repsect for expertise and how it has paved the way for the popularity of AI youtu.be/sETvPBVKBAY?...

The truth is dead, and I blame Air Bud. An essay about AI.

YouTube video by josh (with parentheses)

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Y además esto. www.lavanguardia.com/economia/202...

Chocolates Valor sube el 20% el sueldo de la plantilla en el estado de alarma

La empresa Chocolates Valor ha anunciado que aumentará el 20% el sueldo de la plantilla que opera en las fábricas de Villajoyosa (Alicante) y Ateca (Zaragoza) mientras du...

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En vez de indicar marcas a las que boicotear (todas las de grandes grupos internacionales son malas y no solo por el sionismo sino por sus prácticas depredadoras) voy a recomendar marcas medianas de perfumería y limpieza que me gustan y no pertenecen a estos grupos.

“Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what AI tells them without question…Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80% of the time—a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”

Urban Truth Collective@urbantruth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history. A recent analysis conducted at the behest of The New York Times found that the AI-generated summaries, which appear above Google search results, are accurate around 91% of the time.”

> AI integration is frequently justified on efficiency grounds: in principle, by automating routine tasks, AI should free academics to focus on higher-value activities. However, rather than reducing workload, AI tools often contribute to work intensification and shape overall wellbeing.

1946: Freedom is being able to drive anywhere. 2026: Freedom is not having to drive everywhere. (above text suggested to us by @harrisongibbons.bsky.social)

Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. What about painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

usa.streetsblog.org

Cualquier persona con acceso a cualquier tipo de información del mundo exterior es un pirata en potencia, según LaLiga. Lee la noticia completa en El Mundo Today: www.elmundotoday.com/2026/02/lali...

what's always striking to me is how little the culture (and by reflection its news) cares about the actual engineers doing the often droll work of innovation under bright halogen lights like we talk endlessly about our love of innovation, but couldn't give two fleeting shits about actual innovtaors

Esto no es una victoria contra la piratería. Es una derrota para la neutralidad de Internet y la privacidad. Que LaLiga y Telefónica consigan que se obligue a NordVPN y ProtonVPN a bloquear IPs sin garantías es un precedente que debería preocuparnos a todos, incluso aunque no veas fútbol.

One of the most successful pedestrian streets in the world, the Strøget in Copenhagen, was filled with cars until a 2 year pedestrianization pilot project in 1962. The opposition argued “no cars means no business,” but the street has been a massive retail success, the city’s busiest shopping street.

Have you seen this? This recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips that are by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

Sigue siendo muchísimo má peligroso ir en coche ue ir en tren, pero los trenes ahora van medio vacíos y la gente seguirá no solo usando el coche sino, muchos, seguirán conduciendo sin ningún cuidado. En fin...

Los fabricantes ganan más dinero con los SUV, por eso es en ese segmento donde concentran sus esfuerzos de marketing, y... la mitad de los eléctricos del mercado son SUV.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

AI has only made the world a worse place. Basically going to start boycotting any organization that uses AI for customer service.

For those who actually care about evidence-based city-making, there’s a ton of evidence that decongestion pricing has been a massive success in New York City, by every measure of success, and many ways that can’t be measured.

Mark D. Levine@marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

The PAIN of learning. Jeez... Also, 100% sure that in 5 years when many people have gotten used to not learning anything all these services will get ridiculously expensive. Enshittification 101.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

Cuando leo que la crisis de vivienda se arregla construyendo más.

“If we cannot even in principle be free from external manipulation and anti-scientific claims — and instead remain passive … and welcome corrosive industry frames into our computer systems, our scientific literature, and our classrooms — then we have failed as scientists and as educators.” 5/🧵