The problem with long term isolation is you become insane and weird and unpalatable and unrelatable and it’s seemingly impossible to ever forge meaningful connections with people ever again
In Mexico, when you get up to grab something from the kitchen, you ask if anyone wants anything.
Walk into a room, say buenos días.
Walk past someone eating, say provecho.
Each one struck me as refreshing when I first got here. Now they're just part of a normal Tuesday.
I used to call it Mexican warmth. Turns out it's just manners.
This has to be the video of the year. Bally Bagayoko who is the mayor of French city Saint-Denis shouts at police to “Stop!” and protects the student protesters.
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.