Sam Harris: "We should meditate to relieve the suffering of the world and do good".
Also Sam Harris: "Let's go to war with Iran and kill inocent civilians".
These are your "contemporary intellectuals"?
Sam Harris: "We should meditate to relieve the suffering of the world and do good".
Also Sam Harris: "Let's go to war with Iran and kill inocent civilians".
These are your "contemporary intellectuals"?
Me:
-Oh, no! I can’t believe I sent my new manuscript to my editor… Now he’s going to read it and think it’s total dog shit!
Two weeks later:
-Oh, no! My editor liked the manuscript and is planning on actually publishing it! Now EVERYBODY is going to know it’s complete dog shit! What have I done?
"Les poissons de Caracas, est un livre qui se révèle être une véritable radioscopie sans compromis sur un pays en pleine déliquescence, plongeant dans les bas-fonds les plus répugnants, dans les écuries nauséabondes du pouvoir".
www.fnac.com/a19685696/Vi...
On Epstein and Language:
"Just as our money is based on a series of implied accords that are held together through common belief, our justice system is also held together with a series of bedrock certainties (Wittgenstein)."
vicenteulive.substack.com/p/its-time-t...
Whaaat? But Mister Musk said he'd never been to the island, I don't understand... Next thing you'll say is his hyperloop is a failure and that we're not going to Mars by 2035...
At this point, the movie "Eyes Wide Shut" is a documentary.
El rapero venezolano Ilan Frid partiéndola en el track "Polaco". Mientras los demás se ponen a hacer coritos con autotune, este pana le mete duro encima de bombo y plato. Pura técnica.
youtu.be/oGIvDDCZKiM?...
*New Post*
"let me reiterate my question: am I the only one tormenting himself to death when they write fiction? How do you handle this? What’s your strain of magic mushrooms? Do you meditate?
Let me know your thoughts, I’m really curious".
vicenteulive.substack.com/p/a-question...
No, this isn't Russia before the Bolchevique revolution, this is the world we live in...
Don't say I didn't warn you when the mob with pitchforks comes around.
Oh, no!
So it turns out Kanye West wasn't really the "Da Vinci of our generation", but was actually crazy?
Who could've guessed that...
If Maria Corina Machado gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize, I think it's only fair that #Trump gives her his prestigious FIFA Peace Prize in exchange, no?
[ENGLISH] BBC Interview on #Venezuela, #Maduro and #Trump.
Full interview:
youtu.be/dFCcYO1uZ0c
My most recent interview on #Venezuela, in English:
youtu.be/_VH0FMjcANo?...
Mon intervention chez France 5 sur le #Venezuela de #Maduro et #Trump
www.instagram.com/reel/DTKKgyC...
Friendly reminder, Maduro had multiple chances of:
Not stealing multiple elections
Not disappearing and torturing thousands of Venezuelans
Not barring opposition candidates from running
Not starving Venezuelans with his policies
Stop the plunder
Stop the drug trade
He took none of these chances
Some people were angry I was preaching caution in #Venezuela instead of celebrating. Yes, Maduro out is a relief; but Delcy & Gang with wartime powers to suspend rights is a terrifying perspective. I wasn't doing cartwheels because I fear we Venezuelans will be off worse.
My experience with A.I. has been deeply frustrating: I run into wrong answers, fabrications that don't work and blatant lies. Now this questionable tech is going to tell me I have cancer? Do we really want to put this in the hands of a hallucinogenic model?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/w...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't I get spammed with a "season finale" episode of Stranger Things that lasted like 2hrs, like 2 years ago? Wasn't that the finale? I didn't watch it (no one in their right mind would). What are we doing, here?
Give this man a trillion dollars compensation package!
So HR dumps this on managers and then reports to investors what fantastic KPI they achieved. Managers can't be bothered and try to find something quickly, passing the buck on to you. The employee is less productive, and quite frankly, pissed, nothing works, but the shares go UP. That's capitalism.
Basically, HR came up with this "project" to give us "training" and then forced the managers to sign us up for classes they chose. They didn't have time, so ended up choosing a whatever class that has little to no use for your actual job.
There's a new HR racket in town: LinkedIn Learning.
The company signs you up to these mandatory "courses" on a marketplace page where companies try to sell you products. I needed to buy Excel Pro and Copilot to do a class on A.I. But here's the thing: you HAVE TO do the classes. They're mandatory.
[ESPAÑOL]
"La neo-servidumbre existencial es el núcleo de la crisis de significado que está desgarrando nuestras sociedades. Puede que la gente no lo entienda conscientemente, pero en el fondo sabemos que no somos dueños de nuestra lista de reproducción de Spotify. Prueba a reproducir el álbum de Ne
[ESPAÑOL]
"Creo que muchas de las aflicciones que aquejan al hombre contemporáneo (ansiedad, miedo, soledad, arrepentimiento…) provienen de este cambio en la confusión modal de Fromm. ¿Cómo no sentir ansiedad cuando se espera que pagues cientos de dólares al mes en servicios de suscripción mientras
[ESPAÑOL] *Nuevo texto*
"Este es el modelo económico que se nos impone: pagar para siempre, no poseer nada y usar aplicaciones. Esto se está extendiendo incluso al sector inmobiliario, donde los grandes conglomerados intentan convencernos de que ser propietario de una vivienda es cosa del pasado. ¿
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"If I said I was a recovering alcoholic, and then proceeded to order a glass of wine, everyone would agree my recovery was going bad or was even nonexi
"Vista de Delft", de Jan Vermeer, es un cuadro central en la obra de Marcel Proust. En este post, retomamos el texto del autor francés para presentarlo con la obra de trasfondo (algo cruelmente ausente en las ediciones de Proust).
www.moebius77.com/blog2/2025/1...
#literatura #Proust
Sabes que eres venezolano, porque cuando lees que hubo un escándalo en España y que renunció el Fiscal General, crees que fue porque se robó unos reales... Después descubres que en otros países, no solo robar plata es un delito.
elpais.com/opinion/2025...