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I post about news, humor, tech, etc. I'm an Argentine writer and Lawyer. I follow back, even Eggs, except accounts with exclusive promotional purposes.

Joined November 2014
If a genie offered me three wishes, I’d ask for unlimited wishes first. If that clause were somehow blocked by a particularly hostile genie, I’d ask for Borges’s Aleph. 212fahrenheitdegrees.blogspo…
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What if unfiltered reality were not clearer, but unusable? Perception turns overwhelming simultaneous process into things: tree, river, food, cold, self. Perhaps compression is not the obstacle to knowledge. It is what makes knowledge possible. 212fahrenheitdegrees.blogspo…
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Optimism and pessimism about AI are not just irrational sentiments. They are often wallet checks. For some, AI looks like leverage. For others, it looks like exposure. That gap may explain more of the debate than temperament does. hotembersnews.blogspot.com/2…
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An Apron & An Admission is about immigration, children, national identity, and the historical continuity that binds a country not only to its achievements, but also to its shortcomings. hotembersnews.blogspot.com/2…
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What if democracy worked a little more like open-source software? Not just: Yes or No? But: Why no? What would you change? What’s your alternative? Democracy shouldn’t require a second job. But it could make statesmanship available in our idle time. hotembersnews.blogspot.com/2…
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You wouldn’t buy a $600 television without knowing the price. American health care asks you to schedule surgery that way. Providers bluff high. Insurers defend harder. Patients pay twice. How does a bluff become a price? gabrielaarellano.com/hot-emb…
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What if doing the right thing is also the smartest thing to do? “Right Is Smart” is an essay on cooperation, productivity, greed, and the limits of extraction. 212fahrenheitdegrees.blogspo…
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Godhead. Second Coming. Antichrist. Prometheus. Pandora. AI may be acquiring something more than power: a belief system. The Rise of PrometheanAIsm™
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AI is often described as a Wild West. Usually, that means chaos, recklessness and weak regulation. But frontiers are also where discovery happens. 212fahrenheitdegrees.blogspo…
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Software was supposed to save users time. Instead, subscription services increasingly turn them into unpaid IT support. Software as a Burden (SaaB): the hidden cost of logins, verification loops, billing issues, DNS records, and “effortless” software. 212fahrenheitdegrees.blogspo…
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If fundamental reality contains relations but no self-standing objects, what distinguishes physics from mathematics? Take Away the Objects: What Is Left of Physics? 212fahrenheitdegrees.blogspo…
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When does concentrated power make conspiratorial explanations less absurd? The Fluid Frontiers of Conspiracism explores complex systems, elite coordination, Silicon Valley, and the point at which skepticism may need to update. 212fahrenheitdegrees.blogspo…
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We keep demanding better politicians. What if the machinery is the problem? The Limits of Band-Aid Politics explores why democracies are better at managing symptoms than solving root causes. hotembersnews.blogspot.com/2…
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The real moat between humans and AI may not be intelligence. It may be territory. A human thought can hide, hurt, cost something, and belong to a life. Humans and AI Why the interface is not the self. 212fahrenheitdegrees.blogspo……
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Maybe we should question whether our society still has a scarcity problem, or whether it has become bad at managing abundance. And if abundance is the problem, we should ask what we are actually accomplishing by making sure people cannot afford to say no. hotembersnews.blogspot.com/2…
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What if time does not carry reality forward? Perhaps reality presents distinct states that can be distinguished and sequenced—and time is the measure that makes that comparison possible. Maybe we have mistaken the measure for the reality it measures. 212fahrenheitdegrees.blogspo…
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You know that moment when something is not even that funny, but your body refuses to stop laughing? That tiny collapse may say more about the self than we want to admit. An essay on laughter, self-censorship, failed recovery, and the body’s veto power. 212fahrenheitdegrees.blogspo…
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AI promises a future of access, productivity, and creativity. But not everyone arrives at that future from the same place. In this essay, I explore how the AI revolution is shaped by the unequal capacity to adapt when the future keeps moving fast. hotembersnews.blogspot.com/2…
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Meritocracy sounds like fairness. But when inherited advantage is converted into credibility before the contest even begins, the story becomes harder to defend. hotembersnews.blogspot.com/2…
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