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Sociólogo. Actualmente Profesor Universidad Autónoma de Chile. En un peregrino esfuerzo por una 'Historia de las Formas Institucionales' (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343470554_Esbozo_de_historia_global_de_las_formas_institucionales).
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Apareció nuevo artículo a propósito de un argumento sobre redes sociales, que está en el título: La materialidad de las interacciones. De la posible utilidad del análisis de conversación para el estudio de las redes sociales En awari.pro-metrics.org/index.php/a/...

Democracia: Que se repitan las elecciones sin parar hasta que gane yo y si aún así no gano que salga el ejercito con los tanques. Se trata de un principio básico heredado del derecho romano, el Mandatum de mis Huevus Moreniis, aunque la cultura popular le dio otro nombre. Golpe de estado.

I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."

I feel like this has kind of been my thing for a while? I should publish more 😭

Con VM20 aprendí que las salas se afinan. Hoy, además, supe que el estallido de los globos emite todas las frecuencias sonoras posibles y por eso se usaron en la afinación, que esta vez fue con público. Qué lindo será todo en esa sala ❤️ www.instagram.com/reel/DKzplr4...

Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]

Vicuña Mackenna 20 #VM20 😍

👇🎯 Even now, as the full mask-off nature of the fascism is revealed, our most prominent media outlets are completely unable and unwilling to stop following their totally broken playbook of “normal politics” theater criticism & framing. Entirely predictable, but no less sad for being so.

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

The media is going to BOTH SIDES us right into martial law

I blame the science reform movement <5% for this. Lots of people had incentives to hype the "crisis" in science - fed by lots of actual bullshit science. I don't see a plausible counterfactual where Trump does less actual harm because science reformers used different words in the past.

Si fuese otra gente, otro contexto, se le llamaría ataque terrorista.

El secretario de Salud de EE. UU. fulmina sin previo aviso al comité científico de vacunas del CDC. La purga sin precedentes reabre el debate sobre la politización de la ciencia y la legitimidad del asesoramiento médico en la era de la pospandemia.

“Transversal” en su acepción mercurial, que quiere decir”de derecha”.

40 años de Los GOONIES, y pocos directores amaron más esta película que el maestro del suspense, el genio de Providence, la saeta rubia, Alfred Hitch****. François Trufón pudo entrevistar a Hitch**** acerca de Los GOONIES, y aquella hoy ya legendaria entrevista se convirtió en un must cinéfilo

This isn't a stalled gender revolution. It's a gender counter-revolution. And the most troubling part is that it's younger men and boys the leading charge. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

El problema es que con la II República no podemos decir si a la larga fue mejor o no porque apenas tuvo 5 años de vida hasta que la derecha decidió que se había cansado y que ya no jugaba más tiempo al jueguito de la democracia, porque habían perdido las elecciones y no estaban en el poder.

Remember: If unions didn’t matter, powerful corporations wouldn’t spend millions of dollars every year to stop workers from organizing. Keep up the fight.

this story is just a great illustration of NIMBY nihilism. at core, these people have no vision for anything. they simply oppose change for the sake of opposition. (i also think there is an element of death denial here — if i can prevent all physical changes i can deny the reality of my mortality)

This study is of male Gen-Z voters is validating everything the left has been saying for years. Major L for the "post-material politics" crowd www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

The beginning of cooking official data?

The Washington Examiner (the conservative news outlet) reports that Stephen Miller screamed at ICE officials: "What do you mean you're going after criminals? Why aren't you at Home Depot? Why aren't you at 7-Eleven?" Kinda blows up the narrative that they care about public safety.

"American democracy is collapsing because idiot citizens expect the government to help them, which it can't" is probably one of the wrongest analyses I have ever seen. Congrats on the NYT op-ed though. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/o...

Indiana's governor fired all the elected members of Indiana University's Board of Trustees. Given a recent policy change, he'll be able to fill those seats with appointees. Which means he'll basically have unilateral control over IU decisions, including who gets hired, tenured, and fired.

"Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned."

Actions that do great immediate harm and have no credible path to making the world better, are not excused by someone shouting a slogan you like beforehand, or having some symbolic resonance with a sympathetic cause. All the sneering at consequentialist reasoning has driven some people off a cliff.

Lo q Gaukroger menciona de como Galileo construyó relación entre modelo matemático y realidad física es útil para distinguirla del 'es una idealización' q muchas veces usamos en ciencias sociales. (Gaukroger, The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility, Cap. 2, p. 60, 2010)

I sometimes find pol-sci takes on the Melian Dialogue odd because of how unmoored they can become from the very immediate context of it (not a swipe at @dburbach.bsky.social who is just describing takes!) Both the Athenians *and the Melians* are correct, and the Athenians are the 'bad guys.' 1/

SPACENEWS: NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands (But sets aside nearly $2 billion effectively earmarked for SpaceX) spacenews.com/nasa-budget-...

Hume also encountered a perennial type of guy in the humanities and also found them annoying.

I'm somewhat sympathetic to random voters about this issue. The media (including the NYTimes itself) often described the candidates' stance on immigration upside-down, even crediting Biden's "secure the border and go after gangs" policy to Trump, and hiding Trump's "go after random people" strategy

Economists talking about the welfare consequences of tariffs may very well be missing the point. But the totality of current US policies doesn't make any sense as geopolitical rivalry with China, either. The only thing that does make sense is xenophobic import substitution, of both goods & people

Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.

You cannot be working class if you have union representation, apparently.

Still seeing reviewers for sociology journals claiming that machine learning (like SVM style ML) is too "new" of a method. Sociology I'm begging you. Please, for everyone's sake.