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viña bajo mega: correcto. ni fu ni fa.

Una de mis lecturas favs de este fin de semana. De mas está decir que en Latinoamérica los NNA (y los adultos, sobre todo) van y le cuentan todo a ChatGPT si hay necesidad de “hablar” con un “tercero” de salud mental o consejos sentimentales.

la gala de viña 2025 es lo más desordenado que he visto en televisión en años, desde la producción hasta la puesta al aire.

Este titular se cuenta solo

Back in my day (2019!!!) there was only one cryptocurrency called Libra, and it was created by Meta:

Mother’s (phone update from that iPhone 8/X/Xr/Xs/11/12/13 you gave her) day is coming next Wednesday.

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TIL:

minimis takes it all

I was really hoping to see this icon as the cover image for this post

I was really hoping to see this icon as the cover image for this post

Six engineers, all apparently between 19 and 24 years and linked to Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, are helping Musk gain control of federal infrastructure with DOGE (Vittoria Elliott/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

$21.17-20 MXN per dollar, at this time. Was $20.60-70 three hours ago.

What an incredibly stupid, childish way to talk about some of our closest allies

Getting real close to a billion posts

Again, as @kateconger.com and @rmac.bsky.social demonstrate quite clearly in their book, Elon did this playbook at Twitter AND IT FAILED MISERABLY. But he and his fans convinced themselves it worked wonders. And now they're trying to do the same thing to the federal gov't.

the AI Slop of the orange cat singing APT. (based on a short video of a little Asian girl singing it straight into a wired headphone/earphone) is the only decent AI Slop, ever

does ChatGPT Operator dream of DeepSeek sheeps?

ouch

Instagram and Facebook removed posts from two abortion pill providers; Instagram also suspended accounts; Meta confirmed and restored some of the accounts (New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

bUt sCIenCE is aPOliTiCaL www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy 29th birthday to The New York Times website www.nytimes.com/1996/01/22/b...

Movistar has partnered with Perplexity, and its fiber and mobile Spanish clients can now access a year of Perplexity Pro for up to five accounts.

Moderators for 50+ subreddits announce bans of X links in new posts and comments, with several citing Elon Musk's recent gesture that many saw as a Nazi salute (Kat Tenbarge/NBC News) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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yuge

Tremendo: perdonado el fundador de The Silk Road tras casi una década en prisión

as a tech writer who’s tested out a bunch of smartphones and laptops and all sorts of gadgets over the years, I’ve found that I apply the same level of scrutiny to… picking my next microwave. finally got to understand why Brian Lam went from editing Gizmodo to starting Wirecutter…

have you had a chance to listen to New Order today? not because *today* is Blue Monday, though I’d totally listen to the Orgy cover if I were feeling that way.

oh, mira tú, se acordaron de nosotros. habrá fact-checking de Meta en Latinoamérica y fuera de gringolandia “por ahora”.

Sources: the News Media Alliance has been assembling a copyright infringement case against a "major AI company" and will likely announce it in the coming weeks (Max Tani/Semafor) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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I'm told TikTok's host (Oracle) and CDN (Akamai) brought it back online today because Trump assured them they'd not be subject to penalties - something he can't entirely promise. Whatever one's feelings on the ban's merit, they're defying federal law based on a not-yet-president's word. Huge gamble

Trump me ganó por 12 horas. Dije que iba a durar 36, pero no, duró (aproximadamente) medio día el ban de TikTok en EEUU

TikTok is coming back online - super weird, as right this second Trump is not President and the app is banned. This is basically illegal? www.theverge.com/2025/1/19/24...

*pretends to be shocked*

@matamala.bsky.social la puso muy clara hoy. www.latercera.com/opinion/noti...