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Juan Manuel
@limonta
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Passionate about music, sports, and politics.
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2022-06-18 04:32
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StemSocial
2026-08-01 17:41
Published via Ecency
Helping a Friend Save the Day with TestDisk [EN/ES]
Recovering years of research after an accidental disk format, using Linux, TestDisk, and patience.
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StemSocial
2026-07-29 22:29
Published via Ecency
A proactive cache system for my CACR tracker
I explore here the evolution of my Cuban Assets Control Regulations Tracker beyond its original purpose. The focus is now on a resilient caching architecture based on immutable historical snapshots.
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Deep Dives
2026-07-27 21:35
Published via Ecency
The Latin American Report: Why Did Cuba End Up Alone?
I have a theory to explain our extreme economic isolation from the outside world.
limonta
Music
2026-07-22 05:03
Published via Ecency
Three Tunes "Tuesday": Take Cover! [ES/EN]
Tres excelentes pistas de "Take Cover!", lo último de Alfredo Rodríguez Jr. / Three quite good tracks from Alfredo Rodríguez Jr.'s "Take Cover!" album.
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StemSocial
2026-07-21 04:32
Published via Ecency
Counterfactuals vs. Material Conditions: What Makes an Economic Model Scientifically Useful?
Should economic science model ideal scenarios, or respond to the concrete constraints shaping the present?
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StemSocial
2026-07-18 21:49
Published via Ecency
Finding Cuba-Related Records with the ForeignAssistance.gov API
I found records associated with Cuba that were reported under other countries, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Venezuela.
limonta
StemSocial
2026-07-16 16:51
Published via Ecency
I earned my PhD! [EN/ES]
After years of work, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation this week.
limonta
StemSocial
2026-06-30 02:48
Published via Ecency
A New, LLM-Assisted Pipeline to Back My Research
Building a Cuba-Related Grants.gov pipeline with Python to feed my research agenda
limonta
StemSocial
2026-06-28 06:34
Published via Ecency
A Modular Python Pipeline to Track Specific Federal Apportionments — Part 2
The tale of an unintended second part.
limonta
StemSocial
2026-06-24 22:04
Published via Ecency
A Technical Deep Dive into Budget Apportionment Tracking Using the OpenOMB API
Following the task of developing tools to feed a specific technoscientific workflow, making public data simpler to read for common users.
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StemSocial
2026-06-22 19:51
Published via Ecency
Building a Python app with Claude to query the USASpending.gov API
With Claude´s assistance, I built a Python tool to query USASpending.gov for Cuba-related contracts and grants. The API had some quirks —500 errors, pagination limits, and not-so-visible endpoints. Here's
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StemSocial
2026-06-21 01:30
Published via Ecency
What I Think About Cuba's Turn Toward a "Socialist" Market Economy
Cuban authorities have announced a sweeping economic plan that will substantially reconfigure society. Here is my reading of it.
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StemSocial
2026-06-19 19:26
Published via Ecency
Building a Browser-Based Contextual Awareness Tool for a Politically Sponsored Information Ecosystem
Building upon the technoscientific workflow for analyzing U.S.-funded, Cuba-bound information operations I introduced recently here.
limonta
StemSocial
2026-06-17 19:00
Published via Ecency
A Technoscientific Workflow for Analyzing U.S.-funded, Cuba-bound Information Operations
A model for analyzing U.S.-funded cyberspace operations targeting Cuba while empowering users.
limonta
Music
2026-06-16 21:09
Published via Ecency
Three Tunes Tuesday: X [ES/EN]
Les propongo escuchar tres pistas del nuevo álbum del influyente cantautor cubano X Alfonso / I selected three tunes from the new album of Cuban musician X Alfonso
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Deep Dives
2026-06-13 20:57
Published via Ecency
Wealth, Dynasty, and the Limits of Latin American Democracy
This edition of the Latin American Report confronts the question that matters for democracy.
limonta
StemSocial
2026-06-12 21:39
Published via Ecency
Economics as a STEM Discipline and Its (Blocked) Contribution to Cuba's Future
Do economics belong within the STEM tradition? What about its potential —or blocked— contribution to Cuba's future? I relate these apparently separate issues in this post.
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StemSocial
2026-06-11 22:47
Published via Ecency
A Critical Assessment of Social Cybersecurity as a Technoscientific Enterprise
Cybersecurity today goes beyond protecting systems—it’s about understanding and countering influence and disinformation shaping society. This post explores one approach to that challenge.
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StemSocial
2026-06-11 04:00
Published via Ecency
Some "Intractable" Properties of Cyberspace in the Face of Censorship
In his classic text "Do Artifacts Have Politics?", Langdon Winner describes two ways in which technologies can embody values, interests, and political decisions. What about cyberspace and Cuba,
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StemSocial
2026-06-09 23:58
Published via Ecency
Marx and his complicated relationship with Hegel's dialectics
When I began studying Marx's "dialectical method," given its Hegelian foundations and my inclination to always go to the root of whatever I am investigating, I found myself obliged to study Hegel's
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