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The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it

The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it

By Luke Barnes, On April 10, the house of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was attacked with a Molotov cocktail by 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama. The suspect, who was arrested the same day, had written a manifesto warning of the existential threat of artificial intelligence. In...

Los Choneros gang leader to be extradited to the U.S.

Los Choneros gang leader to be extradited to the U.S.

Ecuador's Constitutional Court on Wednesday approved the extradition to the United States of a high-ranking lieutenant of the Los Choneros criminal gang. Dario Penafiel, known as "Topo," was arrested in September in Ecuador's Amazon, where he is believed to have been...

The story of the Amazon Mural Project

The story of the Amazon Mural Project

By Garry Vatcher Some projects begin with a plan. Others begin with a moment. The Amazon Fundraising Mural Project began with many moments - walking jungle trails, traveling rivers by canoe, sitting with community leaders, listening to mothers, watching children, and...

Do you have too much stuff? It’s time to declutter

Do you have too much stuff? It’s time to declutter

By Panashe Matemba-Mutasa At 80, Leni Siegel’s rich life is visible throughout the Berkeley home she’s lived in for 20 years — in family photos, old theater programs from performances she attended and books she’s collected over the years. Now, feeling overwhelmed by...

A brief history of time, South American edition

A brief history of time, South American edition

From time to time, an article or column surfaces or resurfaces warning expatriates that they will have to learn the hard way, that time works differently in Latin America. The warning is often delivered with the authority of someone who has just been embarrassed by...

The Gray Tide: Latin America’s demographic transformation

The Gray Tide: Latin America’s demographic transformation

By Laurence Blair For more than 25 years, Jardín Sonrisitas (“Little Smiles Kindergarten”) taught kids their ABCs in Villa del Cerro, a working-class portside district in Uruguay’s capital. But in December, the beloved kindergarten closed: one of three local creches...

My travels with Smokey and Toko

My travels with Smokey and Toko

Feeling heartbroken, in the fall of 1980, after breaking up with Gwen, my Vermont girlfriend, and with nothing to keep me there, I traveled west to try to reconcile with her. She had returned to her job in the oil fields of southwest Wyoming. My friends, Tom from New...

The expat who won a Nobel Prize for writing about his travels

The expat who won a Nobel Prize for writing about his travels

When V. S. Naipaul sat down to write The Enigma of Arrival, he was already some distance from where he began. Born in Trinidad, of Indian descent, he left his island and moved to England on the strength of a scholarship to Oxford University, and much later was awarded...

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Week of May 03

Ecuador’s press freedom ranking sinks as violence against journalists grows.

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Ecuador plans more mega-prisons as gangs test security with drones.

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Regulator warns of unauthorized lenders and deposit schemes.

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