José Antonio Meade @JoseAMeadeK será el nuevo presidente de Grupo Gigante . Meade se rediseña: de haber sido 5 veces secretario de Estado, ahora será presidente de Gigante. Y permanecerá como presidente de Consejo de @HSBC
Meade sustituirá a Angel Losada, quien deja la presidencia del Consejo de Gigante después de décadas, y haber reconvertido el grupo: vendió tiendas comerciales Gigante pero se quedó con el negocio inmobiliario. Y vinieron los Office Depot, Radio Shack, Petco, obviamente se modernizaron los Toks, y se trajeron los Panda Express y Shake Shack
Neither Cartier-Bresson, Banksy nor Cold War Steve could have come up with such an image. Absolutely perfect composition and lighting (even the road signs are perfect)! 😍
Columbus documented the trafficking of Indigenous girls. In a 1500-letter preserved in the Spanish Navarrete archives, Columbus wrote:
“There are many dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand.”
And:
“I have ordered that a girl of that age be given to each of the men who asked for one.”
Activists didn't ruin his legacy. His own words revealed who he was.
The first historical figure America taught its children to celebrate, was a human trafficker.
Así se ve el trafico en la Cuauhtémoc.
El punto más extremos es San Cosme y Circuito Interior: que pasa de 21 km/h a las 4 a. m. a 8 km/h a las 6 p. m.
Más rápido llegarías caminando.
En Circuito baja de 56 a 21. Las avenidas pierden más de un TERCIO de su velocidad.
Crucé casi un millón de velocidades de Mapbox con las calles de OSM👇
Mi tesis es que las nuevas generaciones son más conservadoras porque no leen, han perdido gran capacidad de análisis y pensamiento crítico porque la mayor parte de sus ideas las genera la IA.
The fortress of Brest was hit in the first minutes of the Nazi invasion.
Outnumbered more than four to one, its Soviet garrison held out for over four weeks. On the fortress walls they wrote: "I am dying, but I will not surrender."
From " The Unknown War " (1978).
Shazam could name any song back in 2002, on flip phones, with zero AI. You dialed the number 2580, held your phone up to the speaker, and hung up. 15 seconds later, a text came back with the song name. That same core trick still runs the app today.
The inventor was Avery Wang, a Stanford PhD in audio signal processing. His problem was brutal. Match a short clip recorded on a 2002 cell phone mic, in a noisy bar, against a database of a million songs, in seconds, over a phone call.
His solution treated music as geometry instead of sound.
The algorithm converts audio into a spectrogram, a picture of the song, then throws almost all of it away. It keeps only the peaks, the loudest frequency points at each moment in time. Bar chatter and blown-out speakers can wreck most of a recording. The peaks survive. Shazam only ever needed the peaks.
Those surviving points form what Wang called a constellation map, because it looks like a star field. Pairs of peaks get converted into hash numbers, and identifying a song becomes a dictionary lookup rather than an audio comparison. That made it fast enough to search a million tracks on 2002 hardware.
Wang published the full method openly in 2003 in a paper called "An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm." Anyone could read exactly how the magic worked. The moat was the database and the deals with carriers, never the secret.
Apple bought the company in 2018 for a reported $400 million. People have tagged over 100 billion songs since the very first one, Jeepster by T. Rex, during the beta in April 2002.
One deterministic signal-processing trick, written before most people had heard the phrase machine learning, and it's still so good that in 2026 everyone assumes it must be AI.
🚨La mafia que trafica animales MUTILA las extremidades de los ajolotes para incentivar su compra en los mercados públicos.
La UNAM detectó que los traficantes los ofrecen sin una pata para que la gente los compre y vea cómo se regenera.
Miserables.
La CIA trajo a los evangélicos a América Latina.
Los evangélicos llegaron a la región en los años 70. La CIA envió iglesias pentecostales conservadoras para contrarrestar tendencias católicas que consideraba comunistas.
La idea era que los pobres buscaran su salvación personal en lugar de revoluciones sociales. Desde entonces, las diferentes denominaciones evangélicas (bautistas, pentecostales, etc.) han crecido.
En América Central, los evangélicos ya son el grupo religioso más grande, con más de la mitad de la población en países como Costa Rica y Panamá. En donde menos evangélicos hay es en Argentina, Uruguay y México.
Son iglesias que en gran parte se han basado en el televangelismo de los Estados Unidos Han hecho telenovelas basadas en la Biblia, sobre todo en Brasil y actualmente saben sacar provecho de las redes como nadie.
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