Infosec person here: AI...especially GenAI...is nothing more than a sophisticated super-fast predictive engine that's been fed terabytes of prepped data.

It is not conscious. It does not have agency. It is at its core a computer program and the sooner everyone realizes this, the better.

Esp so since the bathrobe in this one is a local journalist:

So many ideas in this book developed over coffee and conversation with you!

The vision of worker citizenship dependent on resource extraction that these mining families created in struggles with and against the Bolivian state has never disappeared. Every popular political project since 1952 has had to reckon with it. Even the centrist Paz cannot escape its legacy today.

In bar fights, domestic disputes, and arguments at the company store, these worker citizens insisted on their right to a better life long after the government they helped install in power fell to a military coup.

Using court cases, union papers, and municipal records for a small copper mining city in La Paz province, I show how women and men made meaning out of the spoils of a revolutionary welfare state in Bolivia's nationalized mines.

The Limits of Revolution tells the story of the mining families who brought the Bolivian National Revolution of 1952 into their homes and neighborhoods and fought defend its vision of social and economic transformation in the face of a reluctant state.

Omg this is so good I missed this! VERY intentional shot lingering on two men grinding on each other

Throughout his career Benito has been an ally to the LGBTQ community and has tried to push back against the machismo prevalent in Latin music