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Alejandra Sota retweeted
🗳️El voto ya no se conquista con programas sociales
Alejandra Sota (@ASota) nos explica cómo la tecnología transformó las campañas: hoy las estrategias son multiplataforma y exigen respuestas inmediatas.
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Alejandra Sota retweeted
🗳️El voto ya no se conquista con programas sociales
Alejandra Sota (@ASota) nos explica cómo la tecnología transformó las campañas: hoy las estrategias son multiplataforma y exigen respuestas inmediatas.
Sigue infórmandote en #AgendaADN con @juanpadeleo
Alejandra Sota retweeted
Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci removing her chador during her tense 1979 interview with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Qom, Iran...
In October 1979, Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci traveled to Qom, Iran, to interview the Islamic Revolution's supreme leader. To get inside the room, Fallaci was forced to cover herself from head to toe in a heavy black chador, leaving only her face visible.
The conversation inside the room was tense from the very start. Fallaci did not hold back her questions.
She pushed the Ayatollah on political executions, the sudden shutdown of independent newspapers, and the sharp loss of rights for Iranian women under the new regime.
When she asked about the forced wearing of the veil, Khomeini dismissed her concerns and claimed the garment was meant to protect young and respectable women. He then added,
"If you do not like the Islamic dress, you are not obliged to wear it."
Fallaci took his words literally and replied, "Thank you, Mr. Imam. Since you tell me so, I am taking it off right now."
With a quick move, she pulled the chador off her head, leaving her hair completely exposed right in front of the Supreme Leader.
Khomeini was furious.
He stood up without saying another word and walked out of the room. The room fell silent, and the interview was abruptly stopped. However, Fallaci refused to leave Iran until he returned a day later to finish the conversation.
This confrontation became legendary in the history of journalism.
It showed a reporter refusing to bow down to authority, even in one of the most dangerous settings imaginable.
Fallaci proved that real journalism requires standing up to power, asking hard questions, and refusing to be silenced by fear or tradition.
When journalists trade raw courage for easy access and comfortable silence, we lose one of our strongest shields against tyranny.
In an era where true courage in reporting feels rare, her brave stand reminds us that honest journalism still has the power to light up the dark, giving a voice to the voiceless and inspiring future generations to speak truth without fear.
#archaeohistories
Alejandra Sota retweeted
Two economists mathematically proved that AI will destroy the economy.
Researchers from Wharton and Boston University published a terryfiying paper called "The AI Layoff Trap."
They mapped out the economic end-game of the AI transition, and it exposes a fatal flaw in competitive capitalism.
When a company replaces a worker with AI, it captures 100% of the wage savings.
But that displaced worker is also a consumer. When they lose their job, they stop buying things.
The company gets all the savings, but the loss of consumer demand is spread across the entire economy.
If there are 20 competitors in a market, a CEO only absorbs 1/20th of the economic damage their layoffs just created.
So every single rational CEO has a mathematical incentive to automate as fast as possible.
They can literally see the cliff approaching, and they still step on the gas.
It triggers an unavoidable Prisoner’s Dilemma. If you don't automate, your competitors will, and they will crush you on price.
It doesn't just hurt workers. It destroys the businesses, too.
The economy gets trapped in an automation arms race. Companies fire their workforce to stay competitive, until the entire consumer base is completely hollowed out.
At the limit, the paper concludes: “Firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand.”
And the scariest part?
The researchers mathematically tested every popular fix.
Universal Basic Income? Fails. It raises the living standard but doesn't change the corporate incentive to cut jobs. Retraining? Fails. Worker equity? Fails.
The paper proves that more competition actually makes the collapse happen faster. And "better" AI makes the damage worse.
The only thing that mathematically stops the collapse is a targeted automation tax, forcing companies to pay for the purchasing power they destroy before they automate the job.
Alejandra Sota retweeted
This has to be the best photo of the entire World Cup.
Look closely so you don’t miss @Erling 🤯
Does anyone know who took it?!
Alejandra Sota retweeted
Hoje dói, mas uma derrota nunca vai definir quem tu és. Obrigado por me inspirares todos os dias com a tua força, dedicação e paixão pelo futebol.
Para mim, serás sempre o maior de todos os tempos.
Amo-te. ❤️🇵🇹
Alejandra Sota retweeted
The Round of 16 is set ✔️
#FIFAWorldCup
Alejandra Sota retweeted
🚨 David Beckham on Cape Verde’s elimination after pushing Argentina to extra time in the FIFA World Cup:
🗣️ “This is the cruelest side of football. Cape Verde have been eliminated, but they leave this tournament with something far more important than just a scoreline—they leave with the respect of the entire football world. They took the defending world champions all the way into extra time and made Argentina fight for every single minute. Nobody expected that before kick-off.
When I think about this performance, I think about Vozinha first. His saves kept Cape Verde alive when many teams would have collapsed. Then you have Deroy Duarte and Sydney Lopes, two players who will forever be remembered in their country’s football history. They scored against Argentina, they believed when so many people doubted them, and they gave millions of Cape Verdeans a night they will never forget.
People will only remember that Argentina qualified, but those who truly understand football will remember how close Cape Verde came to creating one of the greatest upsets in World Cup history. They never hid, they never stopped running, and they never accepted that they were supposed to lose. Every challenge, every tackle, every attack showed a team playing with pride, courage, and absolute belief.
This is not a story of failure. This is a story of a nation announcing itself to the football world. Cape Verde arrived at this World Cup as outsiders, but they leave having proven they belong on the biggest stage. They stretched the world champions to their absolute limit, forced them into extra time, and made them earn every second of their qualification.
Football can be incredibly unfair. Sometimes the team that captures the hearts of everyone watching is not the team that advances. But no whistle can erase what Cape Verde have achieved. Vozinha, Deroy Duarte, Sydney Lopes, and every player wearing that shirt have inspired a generation. Argentina continue their journey, but Cape Verde leave this World Cup as heroes.”
Alejandra Sota retweeted
Ecuador take their first win of #FIFAWorldCup 2026 🇪🇨
Alejandra Sota retweeted
One of our favourite moments of 2025 was seeing @_rebecca_paul and @maxjaderberg sit down with @Bloomberg’s @TomMackenzieTV to share how @IsomorphicLabs is building a generalisable drug design engine that can tackle any target, in any disease area.
Watch to see how we’re working to solve all disease with the help of cutting-edge AI.
bit.ly/47A7SSl
Alejandra Sota retweeted
In 2016 Norway gave every 5-year-old child an iPad.
Within a few years, Norway's reading scores plummeted and dropped below the OECD average.
They ranked dead last out of 65 countries.
Now Norway is spending millions of dollars to reverse this trend and get people reading.
Alejandra Sota retweeted
Un joven arriesgó su vida para rescatar a una gaviota que se encontraba en peligro en el malecón de La Paz, Baja California Sur. El hecho fue capturado por las personas que quedaron asombradas por el gesto. 🪶😱
📹: Especial.
Alejandra Sota retweeted
Las autoridades de Sonora buscan a Jesús Maximiano “N”, médico general que aplicó supuestos sueros “vitaminados” y dejó al menos 6 personas sin vida. #EnUnaHora con @karlaiberia | #nmásforo | #SiempreEnVivo | #SiempreContigo | Sigue la señal en vivo por nmas.com.mx/foro-tv
Alejandra Sota retweeted
🚨 UNITED PASSENGER CATCHES INSANE NASA ROCKET LAUNCH FROM PLANE WINDOW — FLIGHT ATTENDANT LOSES IT MID-AIR
A United flight just turned into a front-row seat to history.
A woman captures the exact moment NASA’s Artemis II rocket launches… straight from her window at 30,000 feet.
And then you hear the flight attendant:
“15 years of flying… I’ve been praying to see something like this.”
• Rocket blasting through the clouds
• Crew calling it a “once in a lifetime” moment
He said he flew to Florida multiple times just to see a launch…
Canceled. Every time.
And then this happens midair.
What are the chances you randomly look out your window… and see history taking off?