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«I have found myself wondering if we’d be better off thinking less about educational value in children’s media and more about real pleasure, both for us and for our kids. “The best kids’ TV feels very bespoke,” Susan Kim told me. “If you’re a child, it feels like it was made for you. It feels intense and absorbing, imaginative and free and wonderful and scary and funny.” It can feel like this even on the days that you cling to screen time like a raft in a thrashing ocean. Recently, all four people in my household got the stomach flu simultaneously. We lay on the floor of the living room and watched “Classical Baby” on repeat—all six episodes, three times in a row. I felt delight, even then, and dimly recalled one of the conclusions about screen time which is most strongly backed by research: the TV that is best for kids is whatever a parent will sit down and watch with them.

I often feel that the anxiety I have about my kids’ screen time comes mainly from sublimated disappointment in myself. The most frightening studies I’ve seen found that parents, when using smartphones, respond to their children’s needs less, play with them less, and show decreased sensitivity and warmth. Parental device usage correlates strongly with children’s device usage; the average adult spends some four and a half hours each day looking at her phone. When it comes to the shows we allow our children to watch, we are afraid of—what, exactly? That our kids’ capacity for deep thought will be blunted by compulsive screen use? That they’ll lose their ability to sit with the plain fact of existence, to pay attention to the world as it is, to conceive of new possibilities? That they’ll grow up to be just like us, only worse?”

Fragmento de este artículo: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/06/17/cocomelon-children-television-youtube-netflix

“Una queja común que escucho entre los padres es que es casi imposible crear un sentido colectivo de cualquier cosa. Esta queja se centra principalmente en los teléfonos: los padres no quieren que sus hijos los tengan, pero se sienten impotentes para poner esta prohibición en práctica debido a las extremas presiones sociales que enfrentan sus hijos. Si los amigos de sus hijos se comunican principalmente a través de teléfonos inteligentes, los padres temen que cualquier niño sin teléfono se sienta aislado. La única solución, parece, es contrarrestar estas presiones con una fuerza social opuesta. (El grupo Wait Until 8th, por ejemplo, anima a los padres a firmar un compromiso de no darles teléfonos inteligentes a sus hijos antes del final del octavo grado). El problema, como señaló Jessica Winter en una reseña del reciente libro de Jonathan Haidt, “The Anxious Generation,” es que los padres hoy en día tienen poca capacidad o fe en la acción colectiva. Después de todo, los niños no son los únicos que están aislados, ansiosos y adictos a sus teléfonos, y nosotros, los padres, no tenemos a nadie que nos quite los dispositivos de las manos.

Me encantó está crónica del New Yorker de la hija de Jack McCloskey, el coach de los Pistones de Detroit, cuando el equipo era conocido como los bad boys y Dennis Rodman era peleonero pero no glamoroso. Acá la pueden leer:

Yo: Would you say ChatGPT 4.0 developed the probabilistic feature of Markov Chain Bots? In which sense could we say that?

Chat GPT: Yes, we can say that ChatGPT-4.0 developed and significantly advanced the probabilistic features that were foundational in Markov Chain Bots. Here’s how we can understand this progression:

«The dunes sagebrush lizard burrows its coarse, spiny body to cool down and sometimes conserve heat way deep beneath the sand dunes in the Mescalero-Monahans ecosystem 30 miles west of this West Texas city.

But the 2.5-inch-long lizard’s home — sandy mounds studded with low-lying shinnery oak trees — is being disrupted as the oil and gas industry expands, posing a grave threat to its survival, federal regulators and scientists said.

After four decades of warnings by biologists about the existential threat that oil and gas exploration and development poses on the reptile’s habitat, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declared the rare lizard endangered last week.»

Texas lizard added to endangered species list over the oil and gas industry’s objections

“Making worlds is not limited to humans. We know that beavers reshape streams as they make dams, canals, and lodges; in fact, all organisms make ecological living places, altering earth, air, and water. Without the ability to make workable living arrangements, species would die out. In the process, each organism changes everyone’s world. Bacteria made our oxygen atmosphere, and plants help maintain it. Plants live on land because fungi made soil by digesting rocks. As these examples suggest, world-making projects can overlap, allowing room for more than one species. Humans, too, have always been involved in multispecies world making. Fire was a tool for early humans not just to cook but also to burn the landscape, encouraging edible bulbs and grasses that attracted animals for hunting. Humans shape multispecies worlds when our living arrangements make room for other species. This is not just a matter of crops, livestock, and pets. Pines, with their associated fungal partners, often flourish in landscapes burned by humans; pines and fungi work together to take advantage of bright open spaces and exposed mineral soils. Humans, pines, and fungi make living arrangements simultaneously for themselves and for others: multispecies worlds.

Le pregunté a ChatGPT 3.5 ¿qué automóviles son mejores para el medio ambiente: los de combustión interna o los autos eléctricos? Esto me respondió: https://chatgpt.com/share/edb39eeb-b0b9-4942-ab02-7aea11612b18

Me dio muchísimo gusto encontrar este artículo, de Eduardo Aguirre, sobre la voz ficcional que opera en los distintos ensayos de «Kant y los extraterrestres». Me siento honrrado de que se haya interesado en los juegos con la autoría que están presentes en el texto: https://signosliterarios.izt.uam.mx/index.php/SL/article/view/304/267