Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli

Utopian who’d love to be a polymath but ends up knowing as much as Socrates and Jon Snow. Delves in storytelling, legal and philosophical debates, & life as art

[Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli @NicolasCS]

These dark times a new publication seems almost irrelevant. But in this piece, I argue that the arts -including literature- can expose the inhumane ways in which authority and the law are instrumentalized, and highlight the need for empathy & solidarity https://t.co/c8QPyU53eq

[Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli @NicolasCS]

Deeply troubling if true

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

In the first few weeks of the war in Gaza, the use of captured Palestinians to clear areas of improvised explosive devices was seen as an obvious solution to a lack of sniffer dogs, a former Israeli soldier told 1843 https://t.co/glqJ3mcLr7

[The Associated Press @AP]

The U.S. energy blockage on Cuba is affecting all parts of daily life, including trash collection. Now trash left piled on the streets is causing sanitary issues for the island's people.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The Kennedy Center ordered employees to remove President Trump’s name from the performing arts venue, strip all references from signs, brochures, the website and other materials — and to update email signatures and letterhead immediately. https://t.co/1J2FEPH33q

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthleticFC: The price of watching live sport in the U.S. has ballooned — and the World Cup is taking full advantage of the landscape. “In chasing maximum revenue, FIFA risks shrinking the very audience that made the World Cup seemingly priceless.” https://t.co/byJqj1jBUY

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

AI oligarchs have stolen the creative work of millions of people — writers, artists, musicians, journalists, teachers, scientists and ordinary citizens.

It’s time for us to reclaim it.

[Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli @NicolasCS]

They *are* illegal under international law (and immoral).
Not merely *deemed* as. The correction is still insufficient

[Reuters @Reuters]

CORRECTION: Israel plans major settlement push across occupied West Bank https://t.co/1MGC3gNXdo

We will delete a post that referenced Israel’s latest settlement push as being seen by many as illegal; Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank are deemed illegal under international law

[The Associated Press @AP]

Pope Leo XIV has issued a manifesto calling for robust regulation of artificial intelligence. His first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” has sparked widespread online reactions. Many young people appreciate his stance, seeing few leaders addressing AI's rapid rise.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

The administration saved pennies with its Doge lunacy and other public health cuts. Now we will lose lives and billions fighting Ebola, measles and screwworm, and consumers will pay more for beef. #SelfInflictedWounds

[CNN @CNN]

More than 100 years ago, German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment for chimpanzees that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous problem-solving. Now, a study published in the journal Science suggests that bumblebees possess insight. https://t.co/aPR9kTsFRl

[literland @literlandweb1]

"El tacto tiene memoria".
John Keats

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

HORRIFIC: Israeli settler terrorists are attacking the village of Shouqba right now — setting fields and vehicles on fire, storming a soccer field, and beating children.

Residents are pleading for help from neighboring villages.

[literland @literlandweb1]

"Tengo apenas una vida y en ella solo tengo una oportunidad de hacer lo que quiero. Tengo suficiente felicidad para hacerla dulce, dificultades para hacerla fuerte, tristeza para hacerla humana y suficiente esperanza para ser feliz".
Clarice Lispector

[EL PAÍS América @elpais_america]

¿Cómo va a cambiar el tiempo este verano por el fenómeno de ‘El Niño’? La Organización Meteorológica Mundial (OMM) ha instado este martes a estar preparados para su llegada, ya que calcula que existe un 80% de posibilidades de que se instaure ya entre junio y agosto

[Nicolás Carrillo-Santarelli @NicolasCS]

Access to water is a human right. Human rights are rooted in dignity. Actions as those entail treating others as if they were less valuable and worthy, which is both immoral and false

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israeli settlers vandalised the primary and only water pipeline supplying the Arab al-Tabana Bedouin community, cutting off its sole water source near Khan al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/H3lVjN20om

[john milbank @johnmilbank3]

This seems to me unfair. Most of the dangers of AI it mentions are in fact indicated by Leo. Above all he does in fact insist that it must be subordinated at every stage to human judgement and labour. Abstaining from AI is way more implausible than ditto from human cloning.

[literland @literlandweb1]

Calles que son caminos.

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Goya / Manet / Picasso

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

The appointment of Siemens’ chairman as a European Commission adviser to Ursula Von der Leyen on industrial AI is triggering a backlash in Brussels.

It comes just weeks after the German engineering giant helped secure a rollback of the EU’s AI rules.

https://t.co/y7ylQ6Nvdq

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Trump uses government buildings as a stage set, and in D.C. the theatrical symbols of his dominance have only grown more ambitious. https://t.co/fpxEeq6wKY

[UN Human Rights @UNHumanRights]

New EU rules on return need to respect international and EU human rights standards. Creating offshore return hubs with limited safeguards, expanded use of detention - including of children, and weakened protections that risk refoulement, all warrant careful reconsideration. Reforms must genuinely reflect the EU's commitment to fair, sustainable and human rights-based migration governance - @volker_turk