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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 1h

Ya EEUU no está dentro del top 10 de pasaportes "más poderosos"

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U.S. Drops Out of Top 10 in Passport Power. Here’s Why

The U.S. passport is now tied with Malaysia for 12th place following Trump's crackdown on legal and illegal immigration.

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 3h

Mmmm.... 🤔
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🌹 Cristina La Veneno 🌹 @calikhaug.bsky.social · 21h

AH LA PUTA

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 4h

No, lo ví en una página de FB que parecía ser de memes.

Igual había un montón de comentarios de gente chavista indignada.

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 5h

Muy interesante esto de Cory Doctorow sobre la prohibición para evadir tecnologías anti-copia, que impulsó EEUU en sus tratados comerciales. Aquí habla sobre el CAFTA-DR en particular, y pafraseo, seriamos unos jaibos si seguimos respetando eso si nos ponen aranceles

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I used to occasionally guest-lecture at an international relations grad program at the Central European University in Budapest, and one summer, I had a student who had served as the information minister to a Central American country while the US was negotiating the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). This student described getting a phone call from their country's chief negotiator who said, "I know you told me not to budge on anticircumvention, but the USTR tells me that if we don't give them this, they will block our agricultural exports. I'm sorry." Country by country, the world fell into line.

When someone tells you, "You'd better do what I say or I'm going to burn your house down," and then they burn your house down, you'd be an absolute sucker if you kept up your part of the bargain.

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Karlis @karlillag.bsky.social · 8h

Ya me dio chicha pensar en todas las jetonadas que todavía falta por oírle en el resto de la campaña

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 18h

Este es el punto en el que estamos ahora.

Imagen de Walter White, con una leyenda "Sindico del PLN ,.principal sospechoso de colocar micrófono en oficina de Laura Fernández "

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🌹 Cristina La Veneno 🌹 @calikhaug.bsky.social · 21h

AH LA PUTA

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Divian Brenes @divianb.bsky.social · 23h

-Laura, ¿que tal si te acomodamos cerca de una mesita con un crucifijo e imágenes católicas?

-Claro. ¡Buena idea! Ya mismo deseolvo las reliquias de la virgen de mi abuelita. ¡Mas católica imposible!

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Timothy @landbeforetim.bsky.social · 21h

The homes Israeli hostages return to VS the homes Gazans return to

The is no going back to “normal” for them. They are now living in a rubble ridden hellscape while the western world moves on, pretending it didn’t fund and approve this.

On the left is a street in Tel Aviv, Israel. Pictured is beautiful green lush Mediterranean style cityscape.

On the right is an image of a young Palestinian girl walking the “streets” of Gaza City, now turned to rubble and ash. The buildings are demolished by bombs and war crimes while the streets are littered with debris, rubble, and broken concrete.

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fernandochavese.bsky.social @fernandochavese.bsky.social · 1d

Aquí se puede apreciar plenamente la contaminación de la “prueba” del “espionaje” “detectado” por el “equipo” de “seguridad” de “prestigio” “internacional”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Alvaro @junquillal.bsky.social · 1d

La bebida de los ticos!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · May 16

GenAI aesthetics is not only the aesthetics of fascism, but it is also the modern day version of nicotine-tar sticky walls and overflowing ashtrays everywhere from kindergartens to hospital rooms to airplanes.

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 1d

Me recordaste ese disco de Nirvana. Cuando salió a la gente no le gustó , todo el mundo esperaba (bueno yo también) algo más parecido a Nevermind y dicen que la disquera lo sacó a la carrera con b-sides. Pero tiene sus buenas piecillas (Sliver por ejemplo) y es un vistazo a su faceta punk.

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Serielizados @serielizados.bsky.social · 2d

Imagina entrevistar a David Simon, creador de THE WIRE, y soltarle que seguro que le hubiera gustado disponer de IA en su época😭

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 2d

¿Hay alguien que le diga Estadio Banorte al Azteca? Ni los propios empleados del banco le deben llamar así. Ni la FIFA en sus publicaciones.

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 2d

¿INS Estadio? Suena como INCESTADIO

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 2d

Cuando yo estaba carajillo me acuerdo que en radio sonaba como un medley de Alberto Vázquez que incluía esta estrofa en versión rock en inglés. No entendía qué decía, ni la mayoría de gente que la escuchaba. Lástima, porque es pura sabiduría para el pueblo.

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 2d

Además de que la carretera actual parte el Parque Nacional en dos, ahora peor con una autopista a 4 carriles. Existen otras propuestas para hacer una autopista a varios carriles por el lado de Turrialba, que si se hace bien sería igual o más rápida que la actual por el Zurquí.

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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 2d

Everyone worried about AGI killing us but nobody worried about mediocre AI making everything slightly worse forever

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 9d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 2d

Pero el de la foto es Biederman, eeh.

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Oscar @omvargas.bsky.social · 2d

Y que le tomen una foto a la papeleta con el voto y se la enseñen a los miembros de mesa, para que vean que tiene todo documentado y no traten de robarle el voto.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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