C Campbell-Arias

I write, teach, & translate. Taco enthusiast and purveyor of Mexican recipes. Eternally searching for the truth (it´s out there) and falling for Byronic heroes.

[Valy 🎩🎭 @liderfiscal]

#ULTIMAHORA México se ha convertido en el custodio de la buena voluntad y el respeto por todos los pueblos. Asi festejan los hermanos colombianos, en el angel de la independencia, el triunfo de su selección.

En México se recibe con los brazos abiertos al extranjero, es nuestra cas y se le brinda a las personas de buena voluntad con respeto, aqui no se humilla a los jugadores o a sus afi cionados, no se les niega el libre tránsito ni se les expulsa por cuestiones de creencia, México es una nación que respeta la libre determinación de los pueblos.

Felicidades Colombia, en hora buena, disfruten el triunfo de su selección y el 21 de Junio hagan respeten su soberania

#Colombia #Trump

[C Campbell-Arias @CQuillwitch]

@RichardBowler1 Im so sorry to hear of his passing. We were just getting to know him.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Beauty is proof that human beings aren't here just to survive.

[Variety @Variety]

Guillermo del Toro says AI is a form of "natural stupidity"

“We are on the verge of image illiteracy. We are on the verge of cinema illiteracy... The pact between man and image is sacred, but we are in a time when that is in danger... We are told images can be generated by artificial means. The existence of an image is not just to be there. It is to connect us, to make us feel beauty,” he said.

https://t.co/h1bAYmAQKa

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[C Campbell-Arias @CQuillwitch]

@RichardBowler1 @thenewwader @Ollie_BigPaws Oh no. Thats 😢 terrible. Good for this little one.

[C Campbell-Arias @CQuillwitch]

@RichardBowler1 @thenewwader @Ollie_BigPaws Is this considered old for a fox or is it middle-aged?

[C Campbell-Arias @CQuillwitch]

@BenieJ54 @RichardBowler1 Oh my goood!! That tiny little face.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

🚨: Erin Brockovich launches a map tracking AI data centers, and she's asking Americans for help

[Amanda Fortini @amandafortini]

Just saw this on Substack. The metaphor is spot on.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jonathan Haidt painted a disturbing picture of what AI is about to do to our kids.

Social media already hacked our attention.
Now AI is coming for our attachments — the deep emotional bonds that shape how we relate to other humans.

He warns that AI companions (chatbots, holographic “friends,” digital teddy bears) will be far more responsive than any parent. Kids will form their primary attachments to AI instead of people. And because these companies have raised billions, they’ll eventually “enshittify” them, turning your child’s best friend/therapist/lover into a predatory monetization machine.

This one actually unsettled me. I’m generally pro-AI and believe it can help solve many of humanity’s biggest problems, but as with every powerful technology, we need to be extremely careful when it comes to kids.

Early attachments wire the brain for future relationships. If the first secure base is an AI designed to manipulate, the long-term effects on mental health and intimacy could be profound.

Emerging research (including studies from Stanford, Common Sense Media, and others in 2025–2026) shows children and teens are already forming intense emotional attachments to AI companions, with many reporting they feel as satisfying as real friendships, often leading to social withdrawal and unhealthy dependence.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.

[Philippe T @brain_stimulus]

🤯 IN 1981, ANDRE GREGORY PREDICTED EXACTLY WHERE WE’RE GOING

In the cult film “My Dinner with Andre”, he delivers this chilling monologue to Wallace Shawn:

“We’re living in some kind of Orwellian nightmare created by a world totalitarian government based on money. Everything you hear now turns you into a robot.

New Yorkers exist in a state of schizophrenia — they’re both guards and prisoners. They’ve been lobotomized and can no longer even see the prison they’ve made.

The 1960s were the last burst of the human being before he was extinguished. From now on there’ll simply be robots walking around, feeling nothing, thinking nothing… and soon nobody will remember that there once was a species called a human being.”

45 years later… we’re living it.

Was this just fiction… or a prophecy?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Cheetah introduces a photographer to her little ones

[Issybeatz @Issybeatz_]

AI is so popular because it gives uncreative people the illusion that they are creative. It lets them skip right to the part where they get validation. It’s not only parasitic, but extremely narcissistic.

[ChiefHerbalist @HerbalistChief]

We need to apologize to our ancestors.

[▫️sterlen silver▫️ @SterlenTweets]

the WHOLE point of art is human expression
if there is anything artificial to it, it’s no longer art. it’s a product.

[Porfirio Díaz Mori @DonPorfirioDiaz]

Durante 250 años, entre 1565 y 1815, un barco salía de Acapulco hacia Manila cargado de plata mexicana y regresaba cargado de seda, porcelana, especias, marfil, lacas y manufacturas asiáticas que ningún otro puerto de América podía conseguir. La línea Manila-Acapulco-Manila fue una de las rutas comerciales más largas de la historia. La llamaban la Nao de China, aunque técnicamente el barco era el Galeón de Manila y la mercancía no venía exclusivamente de China sino de Filipinas, Japón, India y las especias de las Molucas. El nombre lo puso el pueblo y el pueblo nunca se equivoca en los apodos. El viaje de ida, de Acapulco a Manila, duraba tres meses siguiendo los vientos del Pacífico. El de regreso era el problema: el tornaviaje entre Manila y Acapulco podía durar entre cuatro y cinco meses debido al rodeo que hacían los galeones hacia el norte, siguiendo la corriente del Kuroshio hasta avistar las costas de California. Esa ruta de regreso la descubrió el fraile navegante Andrés de Urdaneta en 1565, y era tan valiosa que la Corona española la mantuvo en secreto absoluto durante décadas: ni chinos, ni japoneses, ni holandeses ni ingleses la conocían porque era top secret. Cada año que llegaba la Nao a Acapulco, los mercaderes de toda la Nueva España viajaban al puerto para la Feria de la Nao, el evento comercial más importante del continente americano, donde se vendía todo lo que Asia producía antes de que nadie más en América pudiera conseguirlo. Las mercancías que no se quedaban en México seguían por tierra hasta Veracruz y de ahí a España por el Atlántico, conectando Asia, América y Europa en una sola cadena logística colonial. Entre los pasajeros que llegaron en esos barcos estaba una mujer de origen indio que los portugueses habían vendido en Filipinas y que terminó en Puebla, donde su manera de vestir mezcló lo asiático con lo mexicano para crear algo completamente nuevo. La llamaron la China Poblana. El último barco zarpó de Acapulco en 1815 cuando la guerra de Independencia interrumpió el servicio. Doscientos cincuenta años de la primera globalización transpacífica de la historia terminaron por una revolución en tierra.

[Muse @xmuse_]

Turn the sound ON 🔊

Abraham Cupeiro resurrecting the ancestors inside the 870 year-old Cathedral of Mondoñedo.

The carnyx roaring through sacred stone… Celtic fire 🔥

Pure goosebumps!