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Perito Moreno looked immovable: the stability that hides the fall
The glacier "in equilibrium" retreated 910 meters in 100 days. The lesson: the front is the last thing to go. What matters is the thickness, and the anchor holding you up.
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Medias Verdades — Page 2
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The Hot Wheels bouquet: when the algorithm tells you when to love
On September 30, people across Latin America hand out bouquets of Hot Wheels cars in reply to the yellow flowers of September 21. The gift isn't the problem. Letting a viral calendar decide when to show affection is.
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Policing yourself isn't oversight: it's a promise on letterhead
The biggest AI companies agreed to police themselves. Before you weigh in, look at your own promises: they have exactly the same structure.
Camino a la Soberanía
Choosing your own algorithm doesn't free you. It makes you the jailer
YouTube now lets you design your own feeds with AI. It looks like control. It's a habit you manage yourself, with your signature on it.
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Gambling by another name: the vice dressed up as analysis
New York's lawsuit against Polymarket isn't just a turf war between regulators. It's a portrait of a vice that learned to wear a suit and talk about probabilities.
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The Fraud of Asymmetric Loyalty
A PRAXMA essay on one-sided workplace loyalty, cutting losses, rebuilding, and using anger as fuel rather than a destination.
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The Lie Isn't Brighter. It's Just Closer
A lie doesn't survive because it's powerful. It survives because of where it sits. By filling your entire field of vision, it creates a cognitive bias that keeps you from seeing what's around you.
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The Tyranny of Consensus: When the Narrative Devours the Truth
We fall for the logical error of believing a fact is valid because enough people back it. It's the fallacy called argumentum ad populum: if everyone says it, it must be true.
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The Hero Scam: History Belongs to the Butchers Who Won
Seeing both sides of history is an act of violence against your own innocence. It strips away the comfort of "good guys" and "bad guys" and leaves you alone, knowing the world runs on one will imposing itself on another.