Facho A Go Go.

Taiwan warned the world about COVID. China lied, silenced doctors, and let the virus spread. This week, for the 10th straight year, the UN’s global health body excluded Taiwan because Beijing demanded it. Taiwan told the truth. China covered it up. The UN rewards China anyway.

Putin has been summoned to China. (Short summary of this long-read in first comment, if you're pressed for time) Putin is heading to Beijing, which is positioning itself as the center of power. Formally, they will discuss “strategic partnership,” stability, and multipolarity. In reality, it’s about coordinating the authoritarian bloc that is gradually building an alternative system of power, trade, and security outside of American control. It is telling that the visits of Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Putin effectively frame Donald Trump’s visit to Beijing. This looks like a demonstrative signal to Washington: China is negotiating with the United States while simultaneously coordinating positions with Moscow and Tehran. Beijing is behaving like the center of its own geopolitical system. These talks will take place under conditions of a new asymmetry. Russia has lost its position as a relatively autonomous geopolitical pole and is sinking ever deeper into dependence on China. The Kremlin needs the Chinese market, technology, financial channels, components, logistics, and diplomatic cover. In return, China gets cheap resources, a politically and economically dependent Russia, and a permanent war in Europe that exhausts both Russia and the West while distracting the United States from the Indo-Pacific region. One of the main outcomes of the negotiations could be further progress on Power of Siberia 2. For Moscow, this is a matter of economic survival after losing the European gas market. For China, it is a possible element in preparing for a major confrontation with the United States. Beijing wants to reduce its dependence on sea routes that could be blocked in the event of a crisis around Taiwan. Russian pipeline gas gives China a land-based energy insurance policy. However, all the key terms - price, volumes, timelines, control - will be decided by China. At the same time, the parties will likely deepen financial and technological integration: settlements in yuan, sanctions evasion, dual-use supplies, and logistical and insurance schemes outside the Western system. This is no longer just about adapting to sanctions, but about gradually building an alternative economic infrastructure that is less dependent on the dollar and American control over global finance. In the broader architecture of this coalition, the roles are distributed quite clearly. Russia exhausts Europe through a protracted war and constant escalation. Iran destabilizes the Middle East, creates risks for the Strait of Hormuz, and supplies China with cheap sanctioned oil. North Korea maintains tension in Asia, providing Russia with ammunition, missiles, and personnel in exchange for money, technology, and combat experience. China, while formally remaining a “stabilizer,” gains strategic space for its own strengthening.

Many thanks @CaitrionaPerry for hosting me this evening @BBCWorld on a rapidly escalating and dangerous Ebola epidemic in DRC. Likely the number of cases and deaths in the region is an undercount given its vastness, remoteness, and armed insurgents, this is a very scary epidemic

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

I've got a bad feeling that this Ebola outbreak is already enormous and that the official figures are just the tip of the iceberg. Resources need to pour in ASAP and get a grip of this which means ramping up testing and setting up treatment units FAST

Uruguay: un país que usa la IA para programar y resolver la vida, y que se destaca en Latinoamérica 🌎 El gráfico muestra que el uso de Claude en Uruguay está dominado por trabajo técnico como desarrollo de software (19.9%), soporte IT (9.6%) y análisis de datos con SQL (5.2%) suman cerca de un tercio del total, seguido por tareas de conocimiento como escritura y traducción (6.9%), matemáticas y STEM (6.1%) y contenido creativo (5.7%). Lo más revelador es que el uso personal pesa bastante más de lo que sugiere el marketing corporativo de la IA: vida diaria (5.6%), finanzas y compras (5.2%) y salud mental y bienestar (4.4%) suman más del 15%, mientras que las tareas estrictamente de negocio y estrategia apenas alcanzan el 4.6%. En el contexto latinoamericano, Uruguay sobresale: con un Anthropic AI Usage Index (tomado sobre una muestra de un poco más de 500) de 1.21x usa Claude un 21% más de lo esperado por el tamaño de su población activa, lo que lo ubica en la categoría “Upper middle” (entre el 50% y 75% mejor del mundo) y en el puesto 47 de 116 países (muy por encima de gigantes regionales como Brasil, que pese a ser uno de los mayores usuarios en términos absolutos cae a 0.7x al ajustar por población). Es decir, en Uruguay Claude funciona principalmente como copiloto de ingenieros y asesor cotidiano, y, a diferencia del resto de la región, lo hace con una intensidad de adopción que se acerca más a la de economías desarrolladas que a la del promedio latinoamericano.

otro elemento que olvide sumar en la reflexión, todo lo positivo trabajar con jovenes frescos, dinámicos, divertidos, que tienen claro que no vivimos solo para trabajar, eso suma mucho en una empresa

Me cuentan los psicólogos de mi equipo y lo veo cuando visito empresas.Cuantos jovenes renuncian antes de empezar su trabajo o no pueden tolerar los primeros meses . Preguntan ¿" es presencial"? No toleran viajar hasta su trabajo, o se angustian ante mínimos cambios. ¿Qué esta pasando? Lo que está en juego no es solo un puesto de trabajo. Es la pregunta por cómo estamos formando a la próxima generación de adultos. Veo en consulta personas inteligentes muy capaces, con títulos, con potencial, que se quiebran ante la primera frustración laboral. Tienen inteligencia de sobra. Lo que les cuesta es algo distinto, más difícil de enseñar: aguantar el malestar sin salir corriendo, soportar la incomodidad de una emoción. Poder discutir , discrepando con argumentos sin alzar la voz. Poder hacer una presentación con su propia voz, les cuesta convivir con quien piensa distinto. En "Educar sin culpa" lo planteamos, educar no es evitarle el sufrimiento al otro, es acompañarlo a sostenerlo cuando la vida se lo traiga igual. El padre que protege demasiado deja frágil. Lo que parece amor, a veces, es abandono disfrazado de cuidado. El sentido aparece donde algo nos exige, no donde todo es cómodo. El trabajo, bien entendido, es uno de esos lugares donde la voluntad de sentido se pone en juego cada mañana. Simil a la universidad, convivir, esperar, estudiar, pedir la palabra, estudiar, perder, dar de nuevo... Byung-Chul Han habla de la sociedad del cansancio. Una generación agotada no por trabajar mucho, sino por no encontrar para qué trabaja, el sentido de lo que hace... ¿Qué podemos hacer entonces? Como padres, sostener el "no". Permitir el aburrimiento, la espera, la frustración cotidiana. El hijo que nunca esperó nada después no soporta esperar nada, esto ayuda a la ansiedad y la depresión. Como líderes, dar contexto antes que bajar la vara. El joven que llega hoy a una empresa no necesita menos exigencia. Necesita entender para qué sirve lo que hace, por qué importa, a quién beneficia. Esa es la diferencia entre un trabajo y un sentido. Como sociedad, dejar de creer que cuidar la salud mental es eliminar todo malestar. La salud mental no se mide en angustia evitada. Se mide en vidas que vale la pena sostener, aunque cuesten. Tristeza no es depresión. ¿Y nosotros, qué estamos haciendo con eso? Ale De Barbieri, reflexion de lunes, los Leo... #jovenes #trabajo #saludmental #liderarhoy #liderarlento

And once again:

"There's a case of Ebola in Kinshasa, population 18 million "

Told you so

Era muy obvio. Un gobierno que en campaña electoral prometió “el oro y el moro” para ganar y ahora no cumple con ninguna de sus promesas: inseguridad, impuestos, educación, gente en situación de calle, pobreza infantil… Sigo??? La pregunta es cómo hacen para seguir? Faltan más de 3 años!! m.uy/uc962057 vía @portalmvd

Ebola has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern PHEIC An unfortunate acronym...too easy for the conspiracy theorists! But it's not fake it's very very real and I'm sure case numbers are already far higher than being reported

LA ESTRECHA RELACIÓN ENTRE LA MANO DERECHA DE LUSTEMBERG Y LA PEDIATRA HERMANA DE LA ANESTESISTA HOMICIDA Zaida Arteta, que fue designada por la ministra Lustemberg como Directora General de Coordinación del MSP, tiene una estrecha relación de años con la pediatra Matilde Miralles, hermana de la anestesista condenada por la muerte de la también pediatra Soledad Barrera, Inés Miralles, a quien en una decisión sin precedentes Lustemberg le bajó la sanción de cinco a tres años, generando la renuncia masiva de los prestigiosos integrantes de la Comisión Honoraria de Salud Pública. Aquí algunas de las pruebas👇

A year ago I warned what would happen if the U.S. tore down our disease detection system around the world With Hantavrirus and now a very concerning Ebola outbreak in DR Congo, we are seeing VERY clearly what we’ve lost. And why it matters. Read my @TheAtlantic piece from a year ago outlining what happened, and follow along as I continue to cover these issues in the coming days. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

@mafgaleano La verdá, no sé. Pero buscalos en cualquier lado menos en Cuba o Corea del Norte que seguro los encontrás.

Campaña de bien público Dónde están ?

@allenanalysis @NersFalco

Hantavirus = 3 deaths, all Westerners Media goes nuts Ebola : 85 deaths and rising RAPIDLY, all people in Central Africa Media : Meh

In 2023, RFK Jr said he was going to "pause" infectious disease research for 8 years Driven by his weird belief that germs don't cause disease. Monkeypox, measles, hantavirus and now Ebola outbreaks later..it's looking like a predictably foolish move

32 millones de dólares, para que 6 familias tengan tierra a mitad de precio. Y ojo, son 6 familias con espalda financiera para hacer andar un tambo desde cero. Lejos, la política de Estado más obsoleta e INVIABLE del Uruguay "moderno".