Javier de la Cueva

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A healthy civilisation draws a line around the sacred and refuses to price what's inside it. The line moves, but the line exists.

A civilisation in decay erases that line.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-prediction-markets-are-a-sure-sign-that-our-civilisation-is-in-decay/

Why prediction markets are a sure sign that our civilisation is in decay

Prediction markets are the clearest single sign our civilisation has entered a late and decadent stage. The reason isn't that they're new or sinister. It's that the case for them is defensible, the technology works, the outputs are useful, but the long-term effect is corrosive anyway.

Westenberg.

Update. While some Senators want the US to go backwards on the principle that the public should have free access to public law, yesterday's decision by the EU Court of Justice moved the EU forwards.

"If an EU directive…refers to international standards, individuals must be able to consult them…[The legally regulated maximum levels of tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide in EU cigarettes] have not been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. In its judgment, the Court of Justice confirms that the [Dutch plaintiff] must be able to verify whether cigarettes comply with the emission levels…Such access must be free, that is to say, it must be general, effective, without charge and non-discriminatory."
https://curia.europa.eu/site/upload/docs/application/pdf/2026-04/cp260060en.pdf

#Law #OpenAccess

Qué me dices. Que un invento que ya se sabía que no podía funcionar se ha probado y no funciona. No os puedo enseñar mi cara de asombro ahora mismo, pero os la podéis imaginar.

"A new survey by the SAP-owned software company WalkMe of 3,750 executives and employees found a major discontent growing in large companies across the globe. According to the findings, 54 percent of workers reported avoiding their company’s in-house AI tools in order to complete tasks themselves. A full third of workers reported never using AI at all.

The survey also identified a massive rift between workers and their bosses when it comes to AI. While 61 percent of executives surveyed said they trust the tech for complex, “business-critical” decisions, only nine percent of workers said the same.

A further 88 percent of corporate bigwigs expressed confidence that the AI tools they forced on their workers were adequate — while only 21 percent of workers agreed.

That cognitive disconnect isn’t just a sentiment issue. The WalkMe survey also found that, though 81 percent of executives think their AI deployments have “significantly improved productivity,” their workers are actually wasting eight hours per week cleaning up after AI’s messes, which is the equivalent of 51 work days a year."

https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-enterprise-workers-survey

There’s a Mass Rebellion Against AI in the Workplace

Only nine percent of office workers trust their company's AI tools with "business-critical" tasks, a new survey found.

Futurism

La primera vez que leí que la nave #Artemisa II iba a ir a la luna, pensé que, en efecto, iba a ir a la luna. Resultó que iba a orbitar por su cara oscura.

Ahora, ya sé que "ir a la luna" no significa "ir a la luna" sino a los alrededores. Ir a marte: ir a los alrededores de marte. Ir al bar: ir a los alrededores del bar. Ir a Madrid: pasearse por Segovia, Guadalajara, Cuenca, Toledo y Ávila.

Sin quitarle un ápice a tal maravillosa y fascinante aventura, qué importante es el lenguaje.

El Gobierno francés acelera la europeización de sus sistemas informáticos: lo más vistoso es el anuncio del abandono de #Windows en los ordenadores del Estado y su sustitución por #Linux🐧. Big news, pero era relativamente de esperar del país que inventó (y sostuvo) el Minitel. Habrá que ver si se sigue el ejemplo
#Francia🇫🇷 #informática #noticias
https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/
numerique.gouv.fr

Preparing documentation for the European Court of Human Rights: #orgmode #pdftk and #Latex to the rescue.

How I used org mode, pdftk and latex to produce the final documentation output.

https://derecho-internet.org/2026/03/31/preparing-documentation-for-the-echr.html

Derecho de Internet

El metro de Madrid hoy es un horror visual que va más allá de los límites de lo feo: un puré de degradación estética que dificulta distinguir información y propaganda. Es, simple y llanamente, una agresión al usuario. Una forma de hacerle peor el día a día. Como ese asco de banco

Mastodon (Bluesky/X/Instagram) is not the right platform for posting long-form content (a blog is) - 82MHz

http://82mhz.net/posts/2026/03/mastodon-bluesky-x-instagram-is-not-the-right-platform-for-posting-long-form-content-a-blog-is/
by @82mhz

Mastodon (Bluesky/X/Instagram) is not the right platform for posting long-form content (a blog is) - 82MHz

Vale, otra vez hemos hecho lo del cambio de hora. Conmemoramos la estulticia. Y siempre me pregunto, ahora que no sé bien si es pronto o ya tarde, dónde estará ese despacho donde unos sujetos sin duda abyectos se dan palmadas de felicitación por haber conseguido una vez más que toda Europa hagamos el gilipollas.

(Me voy a poner en hora el reloj del horno y el de la pared de la cocina y...)

The technology that needs to be restricted for the benefit of children is the car.