Mastodawn

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_org/115915708283055909

Spain could have been a scientific superpower; but the Reconquista brought them intellectual & infrastructural ruin.

did you know that after the fall of Granada in 1492, the inbred monarchy and royalty of Spain spent the next 406 years getting rid of the people who built the physical & intellectual infrastructure that made them an imperial power? the last big expulsión was in 1898, right before the break of the Spanish-American war.

xenophobia makes people, and whole nations, dumb.

Ricardo 16h ago

Francisco R. Villatoro 17h ago

#arXiv When spacetime vibrates: An introduction to gravitational waves https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22679
1916 - Einstein derived a formula for gravitational radiation. It contained a major error. The radiation was monopolar.

Ricardo 17h ago

Francisco R. Villatoro 17h ago

#arXiv A Re-Examination Of Foundational Elements Of Cosmology https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16934 A rigorous but accessible, elementary, and transparent derivation of the scalar-vector-tensor decomposition from the linearized Einstein equations.

Ricardo 1d ago

Project Gutenberg 1d ago

Before Newton: How the Islamic Golden Age Shaped the Physics We Know

Remarkable discoveries were made during the Islamic Golden Age, which laid the foundation for the study of physics as we know it.

by Matt Whittaker

https://www.thecollector.com/how-did-physics-begin-islamic-golden-age/

Books in Physics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/103

#books #science #physics #history

Ricardo 1d ago

Tuta 1d ago

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Ricardo 1d ago

nixCraft 🐧2d ago

curl, which is one of the most popular CLI/API tools for network requests and data transfer on Linux/Unix, is to discontinue its HackerOne bug bounty program due to "too strong incentives to find and make up 'problems' in bad faith that cause overload and abuse".

The authors simply cannot keep up with LLM-generated fake security reports created to collect money using bots. So, it now shuts down at the end of January 2026. This is why we can't have good things

https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20312

BUG-BOUNTY.md: we stop the bug-bounty end of Jan 2026 by bagder · Pull Request #20312 · curl/curl

Remove mentions of the bounty and hackerone. There will be more mentions, blog posts, timings etc in the coming weeks.

GitHub

Ricardo 2d ago

Lo único realmente sorprendente de esta cosa de bluesky es la cantidad de gente que parece sorprendida de lo que está pasando. A ver, tienes al fundador de Twitter aceptando financiación de los criptobros, ¿que esperabas? En fin, si quieres y no lo has hecho aún puedes cortar el puente al bar nazi bloqueando
@ bsky.brid.gy @ bsky.brid.gy
(borra los espacios alrededor de las @ para buscar la cuenta)

Ricardo 2d ago

The people behind #Kurzgesagt created a new channel, it's all about #history and the first video is really good!

The Most Powerful Pirate In History |
Nightshift – Kurzgesagt After Dark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2lkVlB96y4

The Most Powerful Pirate In History

YouTube

Ricardo 2d ago

Pedro J. Hdez 2d ago

"Under pressure to generate revenue and unconstrained by guardrails, a number of leading AI companies will adopt business models in 2026 that threaten social and political stability—following social media's destructive playbook, only faster and at greater scale."

From Eurasia Group's 2026 Top Risks Report

https://www.eurasiagroup.net/live-post/risk-8-ai-eats-its-users

#AI #RiskAssessment

AI eats its users: Eurasia Group's #8 Top Risk of 2026

Under pressure to generate revenue and justify sky-high valuations, some AI companies will adopt extractive business models that threaten social and political stability.

Ricardo 2d ago

Micro SF/F by O. Westin 2d ago

"Do you know where I can look up Frungal's Extractor?"

The magic school librarian sighed. "That grimoire is locked away."

"Why?"

"That spell extracts your anxieties and fears and turns them into a creature."

"Yes! To slay!"

"In theory. In practice, nobody can slay the new pet they created."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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