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Juan Manuel

@limonta

Passionate about music, sports, and politics.

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Juan Manuel
@limonta Sep 3, 2026, 10:02 PM UTC

¡Samara Joy es real! [ES/EN]

Hace un tanto que no tengo mucho tiempo para estar al tanto de los charts de jazz ni para buscar todos los álbumes nominados a los Grammy en las categorías relacionadas con el género. Lo último que p…

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Juan Manuel
@limonta Sep 3, 2026, 3:48 AM UTC

The Challenge of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Cuban Higher Education

This is not a uniquely Cuban problem, but a universal one. Today, however, I want to briefly comment on the characteristics that are very particular to the context where I work as a faculty administr…

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Juan Manuel
@limonta Sep 2, 2026, 12:05 AM UTC

Three Tunes Tuesday: Extraordinarios covers de inolvidables canciones [ES/EN]

Hola, melómanos. Hoy les traigo tres versiones de canciones legendarias, inmortalizadas por músicos que figuran en el firmamento como grandes estrellas de todos los tiempos. La primera es "Unforgetta…

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Juan Manuel
@limonta Aug 29, 2026, 5:43 AM UTC

What Do Claude and Kimi Have to Say About a Recent Report on "Extreme Poverty" in Cuba?

Claiming that virtually everyone living in Cuba falls below the extreme poverty threshold strikes me as an assertion so outlandish that it doesn't deserve the slightest attention in a rational enviro…

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Juan Manuel
@limonta Aug 26, 2026, 12:19 AM UTC

Three Tunes Tuesday: Shoshana Bean, Pink, y Jon Batiste [ES/EN]

Si mal no recuerdo, durante mis inicios aquí en Hive les presenté a Shoshana Bean. Me parece una cantante descomunal que, sin embargo, tiende a pasar bastante inadvertida. De Sho destaco su expresivi…

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Juan Manuel
@limonta Aug 25, 2026, 5:49 AM UTC

From API Crawl to a 3.5 GB CSV Pipeline

Yesterday I worked on redesigning my ForeignAssistance.gov tracker. The version I showed you last month, which worked against this official platform's API, was absurdly slow—there was no other way. B…

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Juan Manuel
@limonta Aug 23, 2026, 9:24 PM UTC

Ascenso y caída de Orishas [ES/EN]

Recuerdo muy bien, por allá por el año 2001, cuando unos compañeros de la Secundaria Básica bailaron una coreografía sobre una pista cocinada con ingredientes cubanos muy específicos, raramente integ…

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Juan Manuel
@limonta Aug 22, 2026, 8:54 AM UTC

Upgrading my Cuba-related USASpending tracker

I'm conducting a thorough audit of all the applications I've been developing to feed my research, trying to integrate, link, and add functionality to them. Again, I rely heavily on solutions like Dee…

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Juan Manuel
@limonta Aug 21, 2026, 1:52 AM UTC

Promoted to Vice Dean for Academic Affairs!

This week, I was surprised by the proposal—or rather, the decided but carefully articulated assignment—to appoint me as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Educational Technologies at my…

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Juan Manuel
@limonta Aug 14, 2026, 7:21 PM UTC

A Look at the Recent Mathematics of Daily Life in Cuba

Yesterday, my wife and I pulled off quite a feat given the current context in Cuba. We left the house with only 600 pesos in cash—well under a dollar—and returned home with nearly half of that still.…

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