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That is precisely why he is going to fire 40% of the staff.

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Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and current CEO of Block (which manages Square, Cash App and Tidal), has just done something that few CEOs dare to do: fire 40% of his employees at once, at a time when is making profits. The most curious thing is that its investors seem to agree with Dorsey’s decision and have celebrated it with a historic rise in the company’s shares. Thus, Block will go from having more than 10,000 workers to just under 6,000. That leaves a balance of more than 4,000 layoffs in a single day. Dorsey does not hide: the official reason is increased productivity What artificial intelligence offers. A 40% cut with benefits. Dorsey communicated his plans to lay off 40% of his staff through a post on Xand justified it as a proactive move, not a response to any financial problem. According to the CEO himself, the company is going through a good economic moment and is marking an upward path in profits. “We did not make this decision because we are in trouble. Our business is solid. Gross profits continue to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers and profitability is improving,” the CEO confirmed in his statement. That is precisely one of the keys that it is marking the latest rounds of layoffs and it makes a big difference in terms of the traditional reasons why companies fired their employees. As its CEO points out, the layoffs are not the result of a financial crisis, but rather are due to the increase (or the promise of that increase). in productivity that AI automation brings. This technology allows do the same with less staff. “We’re already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re building and using, along with smaller, flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working that fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a business. And that’s accelerating rapidly,” Dorsey wrote in his message. Those laid off do not stay stranded. The more than 4,000 employees affected by the unexpected layoff will receive 20 weeks of base salary plus one additional week for each year of seniority in the company. According to collect Business Insideremployees affected by staff cuts They will be able to keep their corporate devices and will be given an additional payment of $5,000. As Dorsey explained, they are aware that, in the short term, the layoffs were going to be irremediable, so instead of progressively reducing their workforce, they have chosen to cut short, avoiding smaller rounds of layoffs that damage the morale and focus of the staff and the trust of clients and shareholders. “I would rather take firm, clear action now and build from a position of belief than manage a slow downsizing toward the same outcome.” Why now and why so many. According what was published by WiredBlock has been applying personnel cuts in different departments for months. The company had already laid off 931 employees in March 2025 and nearly 1,000 more jobs in January 2024. One of the reasons behind these successive layoffs is the correction of overhiring during the pandemic, a correction that caused hundreds of thousands of layoffs among the main technology companies between 2022 and 2024. This is an argument that Dorsey has not deniedbut it does not stand out as the main trigger for layoffs, putting the target on the increase in productivity that AI provides. Block surpassed 12,000 employees in 2022, in a stage of accelerated expansion that now, with AI tools integrated into the workflow, is impossible to justify. Block CFO Amrita Ahuja was quite blunt about it, ensuring that the layoffs will allow the company to move faster “with smaller, highly talented teams that use AI to automate more work.” Investors applaud him. Block shares they were shot more than 24% after the announcement. This is the reflection of a dynamic that is becoming increasingly common in which investors reward with increases in share prices and massive layoffs as a sign of efficiency and modernization. Michael Blank, associate professor of finance at Stanford Business School, explained to Business Insider that this dynamic could unleash a competition between CEOs of large companies to convince investors that their companies are better prepared than their rivals, thus turning massive layoffs into a tool to improve capitalization figures. Block’s stock had been struggling for months before the announcement. According to data collected by Ad Hoc News In February, the stock was trading 21% below its start-of-year price and 37% below its 52-week high. In that context, Dorsey would have managed to kill two birds with one stone: reorganize his company towards a more AI-oriented model and relaunch investor confidence. Doing more with less: the key to layoffs. With his decision, Dorsey has left a message that goes far beyond Block’s management itself, and proposes a change in the relationship between the number of people a company needs to do a job. “It seems inevitable that this will spread to all publicly traded companies. We have to find a way for everyone to be an owner and have some exposure to the benefits, as the number of employees drops dramatically,” said Jessica Verrilli, CEO of the venture investment fund Adverb Ventures. in response to Dorsey’s post. In the presentation of Block’s results, the CEO assured that the increase in AI productivity It inevitably led to staff cuts because fewer hands were needed to do the job. “I don’t think we’re the first to realize this. I think most companies are late,” collected Business Insider. He’s not the only one who thinks so. Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski has been running a similar strategy for years and, in a recent interviewassured that by 2030 his company will be able to do without 30% of the 3,000 employees who currently make up the payment platform’s workforce due to the increase in productivity provided by AI. In Xataka | “The world is in danger”: Anthropic’s security manager leaves the company to write poetry Image … Read more

In 2009 Stephen Hawking hosted “the party of the century.” No one came precisely because Stephen Hawking organized it

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Bottles of the best French Champagne, tables full of canapés and cucumber sandwiches, balloons, banners and music. Stephen Hawkingthe famous theoretical physicist from the University of Cambridge, had everything ready to give the party of the century in June 2009. “I was waiting for a long time, but no one came,” explained a couple of years later. He wasn’t too surprised, especially since he only sent out the invitations after the party was already over. And not by mistake: Hawking’s party was the first major celebration dedicated specifically to time travelers. In 1992, Hawking had already proposed that time travel was impossible. So that afternoon party in the swamps of the River Cam was half an experiment to prove that the timetravelers They did not exist, half “trolling” all those theorists who thought that this type of trips could exist. In reality, it was a joke that is inserted into the historical controversy of time travel. For all we know, all the time travelers could be in the pub across the street laughing at poor Hawking and his old anti-travel ideas. It is not likely, there I agree with Hawking; but, today, we cannot rule out that working hypothesis. Everything (not) is on the internet I suppose that, therefore, that of the English physicist has not been the only attempt to search for time travelers. A few years later, in 2014, a team of physicists from the Michigan Institute of Technology used the internet and social networks to look for clues about possible trips. It was not about looking for people who defined themselves as “time travelers“, but to look for the trace of clairvoyance. That is, signs of people who knew things before they happened. The idea was to look for unequivocal messages, about things not previously known and significant enough to be recorded in the history books of the future. They chose two facts that met these three characteristics: Comet ISON and the name that Jorge Bergoglio would choose during his papacy, Francisco. The search, needless to say, was fruitless. Only in the case of Pope Francis did they find a prior reference to the choice of the name, but after analyzing it they discovered that it was a merely speculative text. Can you travel in time? The short answer is that we don’t know. The long answer is that, although it seems something banaldebates about the possibility of time travel continue to be a very controversial topic even today. And they remain so for a very simple reason: there is nothing in our scientific theories about the universe that prohibits per se this type of trips. Hence it is an exciting field full of theories, objections and counter-objections. Someday we will have to return to the topic and talk about the current controversies in time travel. But today, since it’s Sunday, I just wanted to remind you that if you ever pass through Cambridge on June 28, 2009, there is a party to which you are invited. Toast us. In Xataka | The most transformative event in modern cosmology is just around the corner, according to these physicists’ hypothesis In Xataka | Stephen Hawking made a prediction about black holes in 1971. A new signal has proven him overwhelmingly right

LG wanted to be different from all the others with its mobile phones. That was precisely what condemned it: Crossover 1×29

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It’s been more than four years since LG closed its mobile divisiona decision that made financial sense—they kept losing money—but that left some users, including myself, shaken. And it is that LG had its particular golden era in this segment. At the beginning of the 2010s, the company was an absolute benchmark: it was not in vain that Google chose it two years in a row to develop and manufacture the Nexus 4 and Nexus 5. But LG also had, as we say, some fantastic years after launching the LG G2a terminal that seemed almost gigantic to us with its 5.2 inches and that posed an ambitious and notable bet. Especially because among other things it “hid” the physical buttons and placed them behind the screen. He LG G3 It was also going in the right direction, but from there the stumbles and that erratic line of movement began. some terminals that were unpredictable: The firm surprised us every year with different decisions that seemed more intended to attract attention and cause a “wow” effect than to solve real problems. This is what we saw in that synthetic leather back cover of the LG G4 and especially in that modular design of the LG G5 that did not finish curdling. Along the way, other ranges such as the V were left behind and of course their attempts to sell their mid-ranges, which had a very difficult time due to the push of Samsung and Chinese manufacturers. Since then, things continued not to go well with their terminals. LG was still brave and originalbut time and time again the market responded with indifference: the world seemed to want more “boring” mobile phones. Crazy models like the LG Wing ended up condemning a company that ended up surrendering to the evidence to focus on other divisions that are an absolute success, such as the one in charge of develop OLED panels for their TVs but also for various manufacturers such as Apple. On YouTube | Crossover In Xataka | 15 brave LG phones that tried to change the world (and failed)

On this island in Japan there is a traffic light that only turns green once a year, and not precisely to control traffic

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On the small Japanese island of Himakajima there is a traffic light which remains flashing amber or red all year round. Only during one day in May does it change its usual behavior and activate its green light (or blue, as they insist in Japan). This is not a fault. It was designed this way for a reason that goes beyond traffic control. An educational traffic light. The traffic light was installed in 1994 at the Himakajima East Port intersection, but not to regulate traffic. The island barely has 2,000 inhabitants and few vehicles circulate on its roads. The traffic light exists solely to teach children of the place how the urban signals work before they leave the island for larger cities. One less problem. According to explains the Himaka Road Safety Association, which promoted its installation, minors grew up without real experience with traffic lights. Before, they used small models in traffic safety classes, but the children themselves asked “what does a real traffic light look like?” account Kazuo Sugiura, former president of the association, to the local media Asahi. One day a year to learn. Every May, the traffic light is activated for a full day. Third and fifth grade students from the local school go to the crossing accompanied by teachers, parents and authorities. There they practice how to cross correctly: they wait for the color to change, look both ways and cross the zebra crossing with their arm raised, just as they would in any city in Japan. More difficult than expected. The children also discover that calculating the time they have to cross the pass is not as simple as it seems. “It was complicated because it turned red when I was trying to cross,” explained a third-grade student after practicing with her bicycle. The exercise helps them understand the real times of light change and develop security reflexes that they cannot acquire in their daily life on the island. An unexpected tourist curiosity. This little anecdote has gained notoriety beyond Japan. Every year videos and photos circulate on social networks showing the peculiar educational ritual. Some users even consult the local government website to find out the exact date of “green day” and witness the event, although it varies slightly each season. It is already part of the island’s identity. Once the annual training is completed, the traffic light returns to its flashing lights routine. It does not serve any practical function in traffic control, but it has ended up becoming a small symbol of how the community of this island prepares its children for the urban world. The rest of the year, Himakajima remains a quiet place known for its beaches and octopus dishes, with a traffic light that counts down the days until it can turn green again. Cover image | Google Maps In Xataka | Convenience stores were an emblem of Japan. Until the demographic crisis has revealed the dark side of opening 24 hours

The Earth is headed for a new ice age, according to a Science study. And it is precisely because of global warming

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Science is largely in agreement when it suggests that the Earth’s temperature it increases more and moreand logic could lead us to think that the world is going to become in a real desert like the one in Almería. But to everyone’s surprise, what can happen is a great ice agethat is, everything ends up covered in ice. And although it may seem illogical, science wanted to give light about this topic. They have been new models from the University of Bremen and the University of California Riverside, published in Sciencewho have located right there one of the great unexpected dangers of terrestrial geochemistry: under certain conditions, excess heat can activate “biological accelerators” that then cool the planet beyond its original state. Even to reach an ice age. Beyond the rocks. Something that may be unknown to many is that the Earth has a temperature control system like the thermostat in our home. The most accepted was regulation by the slow wear of silicate rocks. However, geological records show episodes in which this natural “thermostat” fails: the Earth freezes from pole to pole, as during the Precambrian glaciations. What is missing from the equation? The new study points to the decisive influence of marine biology and nutrient cycles, especially phosphorus and oxygen. An unexpected loop. When CO₂ emissions and global temperatures rise, the arrival of phosphorus into the oceans also increases, fertilizing the proliferation of algae. These remove CO₂ thanks to photosynthesis in the water, and when they die, they transport that carbon to marine sediments, where it can be trapped for millions of years. As if it were a dumping ground for carbon dioxide on the seabed.. But the key to the loop is oxygen: the explosion of algal productivity consumes the oxygen in the water, meaning that almost no living being can live here. Under these conditions, phosphorus stops being buried and instead of being eliminated it is recycled from the sediment. This fuels new “super blooms” and closes a vicious cycle: ‘More nutrients → more algae → less oxygen → more nutrient recycling → extreme cooling’. The result is that the biological thermostat goes crazy, sequestering carbon at a frenetic pace that the rocks’ slow thermostat cannot compensate for. The new model. The new model integrate these quick feedbacksadding sedimentary chemistry, the phosphorus cycle and the oxygenation state to the traditional silicate weathering models. Surprisingly, when predicting the effect of the “great human experiment” of releasing CO₂, he finds that the system does not always smoothly return to the previous statebut it can overcompensate and take the planet to colder times, in deep glaciations, for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years.​​ This only occurs when the atmosphere is less rich in oxygen, something common in Earth’s past, which may explain why ice ages coincide with intermediate periods of planetary oxygenation. Today, that same loop would make the “reward” much smoother, although there would still be the risk of long-term cooldown. If we continue burning fossils. In this way, other scientific studies already suggest that large inputs of phosphorus, whether due to massive mining or increased weathering induced by climate change, can increase the risk of anoxia and abrupt cooling events, although this scenario would take centuries or millennia to develop. This is why the acceleration of the phosphorus cycle together with the increase in CO₂ concentrations is conditioning us to the climate changes that we will see in a few million years. And although the Earth system may have the mission of stabilizing, the reality is that this system cannot always be trusted. Images | Denise Schuld In Xataka | We have just identified the oldest glaciers in the world. Where: under South Africa’s big gold mines

A man with paralysis has achieved it precisely thanks to AI

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Artificial intelligence has come to Being able to improve our day to dayand this is what a team from the University of California wanted Improve the quality of life of people with disabilities. Machine control with the mind. Something that a priori can be taken from a science fiction film, but that neurotechnology laboratories want to lead to reality. The problem is that precision and accessibility remain a real challenge for all engineers. In this way, the Cerebro-Order interfaces (BCI) right now they require very complex surgery for Be able to install electrodes in the brain To achieve great precision. But now this will change, According to a study Published in the prestigious magazine Nature Machine Intelligence which presents an advance that could change the rules of the game: an AI that acts as ‘co -pilot’ of a non -invasive BCI that improves its performance. A team that has already been tested. The system, developed by Jonathan Kao’s team at the University of California, has allowed a man with partial paralysis to control a robotic arm to perform complex tasks, something he could not do with conventional BCI technology. A co -pilot of AI to read the mind. Non -invasive BCIs, which are placed on the scalp to capture the electrical signals of the brain, are safer and more accessible, but also less precise. The “noise” and the weakness of the signals make it difficult for the system to decipher the user’s intentions exactly. This is where artificial intelligence enters. Instead of trying to decode each nuance of brain activity, Kao’s system Use an AI that collaborates with the user. And this is how Kao himself explains to Nature: These co -pilots are essentially collaborating with the user of the BCI and trying to infer the objectives you want to achieve, and then help complete those actions. In this way, artificial intelligence learns to integrate the intention of the user himself, needing less direct brain information to execute a precise command. This creates a shared autonomy system, between the human and the machine itself. Results that speak for themselves. To test this system, the researchers conducted two key experiments. First, they asked four participants (one of them with paralysis) to move a cursor on a screen to a goal. With the traditional BCI they were achieved most of the time. However, by activating the co -pilot of AI, they all completed the fastest task and with a much greater success rate, improving the performance up to four times. The fire test. This was done with a real robotic arm. The task was to take colored blocks and move them to specific points on a table. The participant with paralysis could not complete the task using the non -invasive BCI alone. However, after activating the AI, its success rate shot up to an amazing 93%. Participants without paralysis were also remarkably faster with the help of AI. A view to the future. This approach opens a promising door to improve the quality of life of people with motor disabilities, offering a powerful tool without going through the operating room. Zhengwu Liu, an engineer from Hong Kong University who did not participate in the study, qualifies the idea as “a good way to achieve a more powerful man-machine hybrid system.” There is an ethical challenge. The advance is not free of controversies, and as the neurologist Mark Cook of the University of Melbourne points, it is necessary that the shared autonomy does not occur “at the expense of the user’s autonomy”, since “there is a risk that the interventions of the AI ​​annul or misunderstand the intention of the user.” Kao himself recognizes this challenge. In fact, he reveals that the participants in the study did not like the versions of the system in which the AI ​​had too much control, such as when he could decide the trajectory of the robotic arm itself. Finding that right point where the AI ​​assists without dominating will be key to the future of this technology, which promises to continue evolving with more sophisticated co -drivers and, even, its possible integration into the BCIs surgically implanted. Images | Ubidium Beach In Xataka | Hong Kong faces a huge public health crisis by the Chikungunya virus. Its solution: an army of robot dogs

Jordi Wild has the most controversial podcast in Spain. And precisely that is what waves have rewarded

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Jordi Wild, one of the undisputed stars of the podcastfera in Spanish, has won a wave In recognition of his career. Of course, Wild is not the first successful podcaster, born completely in the Internet sphere, self -produced outside the radio tradition, which wins the prize. But it is the first that has taken as references to iconic Anglo -Saxon names of the environment and has adapted them to its own style and very well, controversies included. Therefore, that waves is more than recognition of unquestionable success: it is also corroboration by the STABLISHMENT of the radio of one of the most peculiar personalities of the environment. Jordi Wild’s meteoric ascent. The YouTuber and Podcasts created its YouTube channel ‘in 2013The Rincón de Giorgio‘, which initially focused on a derivative and usual content by the time: gameplaysreaction and parodies videos. Soon he began to enter other issues, such as current debates and issues related to criminal psychology. In 2020 He started his podcast ‘The Wild Project‘. Although it is a bit complicated to calibrate its reach, On YouTube It approaches the 7 million subscribers, more almost 90,000 in podimo. His possible millions of listeners make him one of the most influential and followed podcasts in Spanish. Joe Rogan’s shadow. Jordi Wild has several times that One of its greatest influences To create and develop The Wild Project is Joe Rogan and his podcast ‘The Joe Rogan Experience‘. It was he who inspired him in the search for a format of long, deep interviews and without censorshipwhere the guest is the protagonist and all kinds of topics are addressed, not necessarily linked to its knowledge area. Other influences that Wild has cited in its programs, notoriously always American, are Howard Stern, David Letterman or Johnny Carson, of which he values his ability to face all kinds of guests. Podcasts in the waves. Since 2016 the podcasts have a presence in the waves, the awards to the media, programs and those responsible that since 1954 delivers the SER. That year The award for the best program, radio or radio online broadcast platform was given to Podium Podcast (hurry owned). Since then, programs such as ‘Xrey’, ‘Weekly deform’, ‘stretching the gum’, ‘Titania’ or ‘La Ruina’ this year have been awarded. But in addition, podcasts began to be specifically rewarded in Podcast Global Wave Wave Awards From 2022, an initiative in collaboration with Spotify to recognize and give visibility to the podcast industry in Spanish. The first delivery gala was held in May 2022 in Malaga. It is in this context that Jordi Wild has received a Special Recognition Prize for his career. Opening of sights. In this way, the waves open the door to a completely Anglo -Saxon style of influence, without equivalents in Spain at the level of success and scope, and that distances themselves from the winners so far, which enter into fields (audioficctions, humor and conversational, sound trials) that have always been present on the radio. The in -depth and uncensored interview style that Wild represents is Pure Podcasta land where There are no time limits and the programs They do not have thematic clippers and of format that does have traditional radio. The bleaching of Giorgio. But Jordi Wild’s program is not devoid of controversy, and has received abundant criticism, especially for the freedom of expression he presumes, and that has earned him criticism of both conservative and progressive sectors. He has been accused of giving voice to characters of controversial ideologies, which has generated debates about whether your whitish space extreme right speeches or spread Fake News under the appearance of open debate. Wild has always defended his decision to invite people of all ideologies and reject any attempt of external censorship or pressure. Some of his guests have given him controversies who have had a deep impact on his image, as was the Presence of former Villarejo Commissioner or the recent presence of A lifeguard Tiktoker which presumed to attract bathers to dangerous areas to get the hero. What waves wants. And this controversial image is the one that waves have rewarded, because it is what is most distant from the traditional radio. The search for the cut that is viralized in networks is what distance to programs such as The Wild Project of traditional radio, and it is what makes this prize especially relevant: the waves give visibility to a typology of podcast that until now had not had official recognition for being especially controversial and controversial. Podcast awards. In general, the prizes of the mainstream (In any field of creation) to their representatives less pigeonholed by traditional formats they usually reach the wrong (that’s why Jordi Wild receives an award for his career: he has been working for years: his style has been working for years). But they are always a sign that something moves within the traditional mass media: we cannot expect them to recognize the avant -garde, but it is still a warning that at least they are looking in the same direction as the public and the creators who carry the lead. Header | Chain ser In Xataka | The great surprise of the Pódcast is not that people are listening to them. Is that he is seeing them

We are asking Chatgpt to value how handsome we are precisely because of what gives us the most: the truth

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“Espejito, Espejito, who is the most beautiful in the kingdom?”, That famous question that was addressed to a enchanted mirror today is done to Chatgpt. The most curious thing about this “popular Prompt”It is the disposition of many people to follow the advice it can offer. Honesty. A 32 -year -old Australian woman, Ania Rucinski, Interviewed by The Washington PostHe said he asked Chatgpt how his partner could be more “attractive”, due to the lack of sincerity in his surroundings. The answer was direct and bluntly: curtain bangs. However, this is nothing new and is gaining popularity in social networks. A silent tendency. One of the videos that is gaining popularity in Tiktok is published by Marina (@marinagudov)which has reached more than half a million visits. It explained how chatbot has used to make a complete analysis of its style and aesthetics, from a selfie without makeup. The AI ​​indicated his ideal color palette, evaluated his hair tone, advised makeup changes with concrete marks and tones, and even designed a shadow look adapted to the shape of his eyes. The same did a journalist from Indy100which decided to follow the trend after watching multiple videos on social networks, and the same thing happened to influencer. The most surprising, as he recounts, was that the bot also offered a visually generated image with the result. Behind the virality. Why prefer the opinion of a bot rather than that of a human being? According to some users, AI is more honest without being cruel. Kayla Drew, too Interviewed by The Washington PostHe has claimed that he resorts to Chatgpt for everything, even beauty tips, because his direct way of speaking does not hurt as much as the criticism of a close person. For its part, for the same medium, the criticism of beauty Jessica Defined has offered a deeper explanation: “Humans have emotional ties that affect our perceptions. A bot, on the other hand, is not influenced by love, charisma or personality. Only analyzes data and gives their verdict. For those who seek clear answers about their appearance, that feels like an advantage.” There is something else. AI can contribute a more real future vision; It’s like launching a full pool. INDY100 journalist He has found In chatgpt a way of experiencing whether real consequences. The ability to prove, adjust and visualize before making a decision has become one of the main attractions of this trend. What do experts think? Some users interviewed by The Washington Post They have trusted In ChatGPT because it offers a “neutral” opinion, but specialists have warned that it is only an illusion. In the same medium, Emily Pfeiffer, an analyst at Forrester, stressed that “AI simply reflects what you see on the Internet, and much of that has been designed to make people feel bad about themselves and buy more products.” That is, their answers may be conditioned by a market logic that favors consumption, not necessarily the user’s well -being. For its part, Alex Hanna (Distributed AI Research Institute) and Emily Bender (computational linguist) go further by warning that training these models with content as forums that qualify the attractiveness (such as R/Rateme either Hot or Not) implies that we are “automating the male look.” Thus, the chatbot could perpetuate sexist beauty standards, instead of offering a fair or empathic evaluation. Along the same lines, as has detailed for the Argentine media writing Marzyeh Ghassemi, MIT teacher in computational medicine, her concern for how AI can offer harmful advice on sensitive issues. In a documented case, an AI recommended dangerous behaviors to people with eating disorders. This emphasizes that, without ethical supervision, these tools can cause damage even when they do not pretend it. The danger of digital culture. Beauty has always been changing, cultural and deeply subjective. However, artificial intelligence tends to reduce it to repeated and predictable patterns: skin without imperfections, thin bodies, Eurocentric features. That is, dominant standards that are not born from the individual, but from the market. As has pointed out The analyst Emily Pfeiffer, much of the content that trains these models has been designed to make us feel bad with ourselves and push ourselves to consumption. The AI, thus, not only offers advice: recommends products, suggests procedures, encourages spending. We convert the desire to feel better into a mathematical operation oriented to optimization. But optimization for what? To fit into an idealized image that others – or an algorithm – They have built? A study He has shown That systems such as Chatgpt reproduce systemic gender and race biases even in technical tasks such as personnel selection. If that happens in “neutral” contexts, what will not happen when IA evaluates something as culturally charged as physical attractiveness? Many of these models drink online forums and communities where the appearance, or darker spaces of the PERICA and The environments INCEL. These ecosystems not only normalize symbolic violence against bodies that do not fit in their canon, but now feed the databases with which we train artificial intelligences. Thus, what seems like an “objective” tool is, in fact, a deformed mirror: it returns not only idealized images, but the prejudices of an entire digital culture deeply marked by male desire, extreme individualism and the logic of competition. Image | Ecole Polytechnique Xataka | The Klarna CEO dismissed 700 employees to replace them with AI. Now he has replaced himself … with an avatar

This Mercedes Class G costs the same as a Dacia Duster. Its price is precisely its biggest problem

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163,756.71 euros. That is the price that the configurator of the Mercedes class g When we enter to select all the details of our next great electric offset. It is, of course, the departure price. For example, if you want to add the comfort package, with systems as revolutionary as the opening of keyless doors or wireless recharge of the mobile phone for the front seats you can already add another 2,000 euros of extra. With four small details it is easy to go above 180,000 euros. A prohibitive price for most mortals and, of course, is far from the other Mercedes Class G Electric that you can find in the market. Yes, one for which just over 20,000 euros have been paid. One that, of course, is not an electric class G but imitates it with great detail. Too bad it is a golf cart And not a car, right? A $ 24,000 golf cart Because this Mercedes Class G can be bought at the price of a Dacia Duster, it is to anticipate that who has been done with him has enough money to buy a Mercedes class g of truth. The information is brought in The Drive who assure that a client has paid $ 24,000 for this golf cart converted to Mercedes G Class in Miniature, sold by Mecum auctionsspecialized in the auction of all types of special vehicles. On their website they explain that the supposed SUV is, in reality, a quadricycle (they call it golf cart) with a 10 kWh battery to cover up to 80 miles (about 120 kilometers). With a power of 15 kW (20 hp), the car is limited to 35 mph (56 km/h). That is, it is little more than in Europe we consider a light quadricycle. In the United States that Golf carts have become fashionable To do small daily errands. As with the Citroën Ami or the Fiat TopolinoThey are cars that cannot circulate on a highway or highway but are allowed to go to secondary roads and are widely used by older people who do not want to go far from home. That has promoted curious modifications such as this supposed electricity class G Class that perfectly mimics the body of the German car. Inside, the differences are more evident but has four disc brakes, assisted direction and rear camera to facilitate maneuvers. In addition, it carries a complete multimedia environment that with a screen for each passenger in the rear seats. In front of the information is distributed in A couple of twin screens which are integrated into the same frame. Of course, although disguised, with the images we can appreciate that what will be up to this Pseudo Mercedes Mercedes Electric Class will be the sum of many hard plastics. This imitation gives an idea that the grid market is dominated by purely practical models but that there is also a place for those who seek in them something of a fashion accessory. The pamper that Fiat has put to the tooline design It is a good example but also the irruption of Microlinoa reinterpretation of the BMW isetta that It is sold for 19,500 euros If we talk about the light quadricycle (it does not exceed 45 km/h) or 22,990 euros for the heavy grid. Photo | Mecum auctions In Xataka | The new fiat topolino is neither a Fiat nor is a car. It is something much better: extremely profitable

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