@Jorganes Lo leí hace años y coincido al 100% con lo que dices. No soy ni vegetariano ni vegano pero sí que me ayudó a hacer mi dieta más equilibrada.
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Intento leer todo lo que puedo pero nunca es suficiente. Hay tanto que leer y tan poco tiempo...
Aficionado principalmente a los cómics y a la literatura de género (CiFi, fantasía, terror) pero no le hago ascos a nada.
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Nacho started reading Utopia by Thomas More

Utopia by Thomas More
Un texto capital del Renacimiento que nos recuerda que imaginar la libertad es más urgente que nunca.
Más de quinientos …
Nacho finished reading Una órbita cerrada y compartida by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #2)

Una órbita cerrada y compartida by Becky Chambers, Alexander Páez García, Antonio Rivas Gonzalvo (Wayfarers #2)
Lovelace era la inteligencia artificial de la peregrina, una nave tuneladora. Tras despertar se en un nuevo cuerpo sintético después …
Nacho reviewed Una órbita cerrada y compartida by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #2)
Pequeño bajón
3 stars
Sin llegar a poder decir que me haya decepcionado sí que me he encontrado aquí a una Chambers que se aleja de la estructura que más me gustaba de sus obras: un grupo de gente encerrada en un espacio constreñido donde las relaciones entre los personajes es lo más importante. Aquí ya no hay un único escenario ni un único grupo y eso ha provocado que el interés que despertó en mí este libro haya sido menor que con los anteriores. Aún así sigue teniendo ideas muy buenas y leerlo te deja un poso de optimismo que nunca viene mal.
Nacho wants to read Cómo hablar de los hechos que no han ocurrido by Pierre Bayard

Cómo hablar de los hechos que no han ocurrido by Pierre Bayard
La fabulación es tan antigua como la humanidad, y su práctica, inherente a nuestra naturaleza, merece ser valorada. Pierre Bayard, …

Inside Facebook
5 stars
( em português → sol2070.in/2025/06/livro-careless-people/ )
In Careless People (2025, 400 pages), Sarah Wynn-Williams recounts the years between 2011 and 2018 when she worked closely with Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook leaders. The book is captivating and fascinating because it gets up close and personal with the kind of people who influence the world so much, showing glimpses of how extremely different they are from most people, in terms of their lack of humanity, as well as some of the company's most shady operations, which we only hear about when their spokespeople appear to deny everything.
The book's success could be one of the comedies of errors recounted in the book itself. The corporation tried to legally ban the circulation of the work. The result: it went straight to the bestseller list on the day of its release.
The narrative begins slowly, with Sarah joining the company. But the revelations …
( em português → sol2070.in/2025/06/livro-careless-people/ )
In Careless People (2025, 400 pages), Sarah Wynn-Williams recounts the years between 2011 and 2018 when she worked closely with Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook leaders. The book is captivating and fascinating because it gets up close and personal with the kind of people who influence the world so much, showing glimpses of how extremely different they are from most people, in terms of their lack of humanity, as well as some of the company's most shady operations, which we only hear about when their spokespeople appear to deny everything.
The book's success could be one of the comedies of errors recounted in the book itself. The corporation tried to legally ban the circulation of the work. The result: it went straight to the bestseller list on the day of its release.
The narrative begins slowly, with Sarah joining the company. But the revelations become more serious as she gets closer to the leaders. For example, Zuckerberg's obsession with cornering the Chinese market, and all kinds of privacy invasions and espionage he offered the Chinese Communist Party to close a deal.
Coming from New Zealand, with experience in diplomacy, she worked with FB policies in countries outside the US. It is only towards the end that she decides to leave, disgusted by what she repeatedly witnessed and by personal abuse. For most of the book, she tries to convince herself that the corporation could still have a positive effect on the world, admitting her own careerism. In other words, she is no Edward Snowden-type whistleblower; she just wanted the company to make humane decisions, sacrificing profits minimally, but still generating billions for shareholders and a good salary for herself.
Perhaps that is why the title of the book is so neutral: “Careless People”. The author saw no evil conspiracy, only executives who were extremely irresponsible and negligent with anything that did not quickly translate into profits for shareholders. But the consequences of this, as in other companies of this size, are disastrous for people and the world.
Genocide in Myanmar
One example, in the most shocking chapter, is what happened in Myanmar between 2015 and 2017. It was one of the few countries that joined the company's project to help provide internet to the population, as long as the internet was limited to Facebook (brazilian president Dilma Rousseff appears in the book giving Zuckerberg the cold shoulder when he tries to sell the scheme to Brazil). A large part of the population started using FB, which came pre-installed on cell phones, with unlimited minutes, without ever having used the internet on a desktop computer.
The country has a Buddhist majority and an Islamic minority, and has been ruled by a dictatorship since a coup in 1962 (with failed attempts at democratization in recent years). Stimulated by fake news and hatred on Facebook, radical groups began to lynch and rape Muslims, aided or allowed by police and military personnel. The massacre escalated into genocide (recognized by the UN), with more than 6,000 dead and the forced displacement of 700,000 Muslims to Bangladesh.
From the first signs of the catastrophe, the company's leadership had been warned and pressured, but did nothing because the country was not on the priority list — what mattered there were only the millions of new users to fatten the global sum that gives value to the corporation. There was only one person employed to moderate fake news (based in Ireland), and she was sympathetic to the military and opposed to human rights. The official FB app did not work, and people ended up using third-party programs, which did not have the ability to report crimes online. There was even an implementation error in the encoding of Burmese characters, which prevented people outside the country from viewing the content correctly — for example, for someone who understood the language to evaluate it in the US (at the time, automatic translators did not translate Burmese).
The team trying to monitor the situation had to do so unofficially, contacting NGOs, since the company did nothing. Facebook only took action too late, after the ethnic-religious massacre had reached massive proportions, adding to the official list of crimes against humanity.
Hacking human vulnerabilities
Another striking example of this negligence on the part of administrators was when a report in Australia revealed that ad sellers were widely exploiting one of Facebook's capabilities: commercially exploiting moments when teenagers felt “emotionally vulnerable.”
Research has already proven that, at times like these, people spend money more compulsively. The platform detected, for example, when a teenager deleted a selfie (a sign of dissatisfaction with her appearance) and then displayed an advertisement for a cosmetic or weight loss product.
The company was quick to deny and condemn any such practice. Then, people in the sales department began to protest internally, saying that publicly condemning this practice, as if it were something nefarious, was hurting sales. Everyone, in every office of the company around the world, used it. In fact, it was what made the difference in commissions. Salespeople wanted the company to own up to what it was doing so that sales would not be affected.
Abuse
Sarah also reports several instances of abuse she suffered, such as having to participate in online meetings during maternity leave, or constant sexual insinuations from bosses. She details how silence about abuse is part of the toxic culture of the workplace. When she reported her boss's harassment, she ended up being fired.
Reacting publicly to the accusations in the book, executives referred to the author as a troubled and resentful former employee. Denying, as always, any possible illegality or wrongdoing.
Nacho wants to read La distinción by Tiphaine Rivière

La distinción by Tiphaine Rivière
Cuando un joven e inseguro profesor decide introducir a su clase de último curso en la sociología mediante la lectura …
Nacho finished reading Más allá de las tierras de la Marca by Alex Damaceno (Más allá de las tierras de la Marca, #1)

Más allá de las tierras de la Marca by Alex Damaceno (Más allá de las tierras de la Marca, #1)
Más allá de las tierras de la Marca es una revista en la que se dan ideas y ayudas para …
Nacho reviewed Más allá de las tierras de la Marca by Alex Damaceno (Más allá de las tierras de la Marca, #1)
Preciosa decepción
3 stars
Después del hype que me produjo leer un par de manuales de Mausritter seguidos me ha dado por seguir dando salida a más material del mismo estilo que tenía esperando pacientemente su turno en la pila de pendientes. Y aquí desgraciadamente se me ha bajado un poco el suflé. Este manual que aunque agnóstico en cuanto a sistema ha sido publicado por La Marca del Este me ha parecido tan bonito en ilustraciones como vacío en contenido. Si leyendo Mausritter encontraba ganas de jugar a raudales entre sus parcos detalles aquí en cambio sentía que estaba leyendo descripciones sin alma acompañando a un diseño gráfico precioso. Decepcionante y una vez leído a la pila de manuales que jamás usaré. Está al lado de la pila de manuales que tampoco usaré pero que al menos me gustaría poder hacerlo, siendo realistas.
Nacho started reading Más allá de las tierras de la Marca by Alex Damaceno (Más allá de las tierras de la Marca, #1)

Más allá de las tierras de la Marca by Alex Damaceno (Más allá de las tierras de la Marca, #1)
Más allá de las tierras de la Marca es una revista en la que se dan ideas y ayudas para …
Nacho wants to read Tabernas en la frontera by W.F. Smith

Tabernas en la frontera by W.F. Smith
El reino de la humanidad se propaga y expande como una mala hierba invasora. La Fortaleza se alzaba antaño en …
Nacho wants to read Más allá de las tierras de la Marca by Alex Damaceno (Más allá de las tierras de la Marca, #1)

Más allá de las tierras de la Marca by Alex Damaceno (Más allá de las tierras de la Marca, #1)
Más allá de las tierras de la Marca es una revista en la que se dan ideas y ayudas para …
Nacho finished reading Veneno en la ciénaga by Tania Herrero

Veneno en la ciénaga by Tania Herrero, J. J. M. Veiga
Una campaña abierta para MAUSRITTER, de J. J. M. Veiga e ilustrada por Tania Herrero.
La comunidad de ratones del …
Nacho reviewed Veneno en la ciénaga by Tania Herrero
Pinceladas justas para construir una campaña
4 stars
Una virtud que no se le puede negar a Mausritter es su simplicidad bien entendida. Esta breve campaña se limita a describirte unos cuantos hexágonos de un mapa y deja los detalles a discreción del director de juego. La campaña huye de descripciones concretas y precisas y más que una carencia es una virtud que recupera una simplicidad y libertad que se estaba perdiendo en el rol moderno. Mención especial a las ilustraciones de Tania Herrero que está sacando últimamente unos materiales roleros para quitarse el sombrero.