The Jqwik Anti-AI Affair
https://blog.johanneslink.net/2026/06/09/the-jqwik-anti-ai-affair/
“During the last two years of “AI” hype, it’s become obvious (at least to me) that the large corporations behind hyper-scaled GenAI don’t know any borders. They suck in everything, do not consider any legal boundaries and do not accept responsibility for the destruction they bring on everybody and every community that stands in their way. One of the things they’ve already destroyed with their push towards “agentic coding” is the FOSS world and the open sharing of knowledge in the software development community. ”
Why I’m Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass
https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/
(…) “With my moral and ethical principles, I cannot—explicitly or implicitly, directly or transitively—support the current and ongoing actions of the “Maximum lethality, not tepid legality” US Ministry of War. Given Google’s top-level management direction and recent doubling-down, this unfortunately leaves me with the only choice to resign.
On the other hand, this decision has been easy because it has become unavoidable. I am a pacifist, and have long ago decided that I will not personally work for militaries engaging in offensive warfare.”
Ignacio Calderon-Almendros (2016): Fracaso escolar y desventaja sociocultural. Una aproximación biográfica.
Editorial UOC. Available at https://hdl.handle.net/10609/154613
“En este sentido, Paul Willis (1981) argumentó cómo se generan culturas de resistencia entre el alumnado en el contexto escolar. Los chicos pertenecientes a colectivos desfavorecidos se resisten a la cultura que legitima la institución escolar, ya que no engarza con sus necesidades y posibilidades cotidianas. Por eso, muchos niños de clases desfavorecidas muestran su desatención y rechazo al proyecto que les propone la institución escolar. Según Giroux (2001), la escuela tiene el poder de transformar un problema social en individual. Por ello, el discurso de la «resistencia» rechaza las explicaciones tradicionales del fracaso escolar y las conductas de oposición y lleva el análisis del terreno de la desviación al de la indignación política y moral, de la psicología a la política y la sociología.”
Carlos Magro Mazo: La PAU y el teatro de la meritocracia.
https://ctxt.es/es/20260601/Firmas/53782/carlos-magro-mazo-pau-educacion-superior-desigualdad-universidad-statu-quo.htm
“(…) Fallamos a nuestros jóvenes, principalmente, al no invertir lo que habría que invertir en Educación, lo que provoca que no haya plazas públicas suficientes en la universidad y unas notas de corte inasumibles para muchos. Miramos con una mezcla de fascinación y admiración que la nota de corte en el doble Grado de Física y Matemáticas de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid sea 13,698 sobre 14 o 13,370 en la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona cuando lo que representan de verdad es un ejercicio vergonzoso de elitismo extremo que no debería estar permitido en unas universidades públicas. Que haya 40 grados o dobles grados en Madrid por encima del 12,5 sobre 14 es un verdadero disparate que debería sacarnos a la calle para pedir explicaciones. Significa, para quien no sea consciente, una media en los dos cursos de Bachillerato y en la PAU de 8,92 sobre 10. No hay margen para el error. (…)”
Peter Brown: The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200-1000
“Furthermore, modern insistence on the “Christian roots of Europe” has led to a subtle and dangerous slippage. Only too often, accounts of the Christianization of western Europe are written not as if Europe had “Christian roots,” but rather as if Christianity itself had only “European roots.” Despite the fact that the principal focus of this book is the slow emergence of a distinctive version of Christianity in western Europe, I trust that the reader will realize that the geographical spread of this book was intended to head the reader off from European chauvinism of this kind.”
“The story of the fall of Rome has always left in the back of our minds a heavy sediment of fear and regret. Such a narrative is calculated to be disturbing. It presents a complacent empire, a silent build-up of pressure from outside, a sudden breakthrough, a murderous rampage and then, silence … the extinction of civilization for many centuries. What is regrettable is that this narrative should erupt, from time to time, to serve the purposes of toxic political movements in contemporary Europe. For this reason it is particularly important to get the story right. What really happened in western Europe between 400 and 800 A.D.?”