The focus is as always on the tourists: "Just as before, we are left to fend for ourselves.”
The increased inequality, exploitation, violence, forced disappearances, mass graves don't even get 5% of the resources & attention that the stupid Tren Maya got.
"As Mexico’s government pledges robust security, citizens and civil groups denounce the operation as a security spectacle designed to mask the systemic violence gripping the nation."
Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
Kurbs
As Mexico deploys nearly 100,000 security personnel ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, critics say the government is creating a tourist security bubble while ignoring disappearances, violence, and…
So they asked Claude to find “evidence,” and the LLM — trained to please — did what it was made to do. 🤦♂️ The admission of confirmation bias is so brazen it’s almost impressive
McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies
“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...
A reminder to academic, scientific, and activist organisations & groups which have recently launched (or plan to launch) newsletters via substack 👇🏽
Scholars who. When I am upset my Spanish shoots through and I use that instead of who.
Great, LLMs are being weaponised by non-historians to try to fill humanities research with garbage. This is so disrespectful to scholars that actually read & write. Critical fabulation & other creative speculative methods is not just making shit up. One needs to know the archive to fill in the gaps.
I suspect Kyle from Dallas (what a stereotype we have here!) would rate all the books in my library with one star, after stopping with reading by page 10.
Great way to start the day. EC working for their sugar daddies.
Me watching the game through text cause social event.
