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viernes, 1 de septiembre de 2023

XL de la Feria Internacional del Libro del IPN 2023.

Ciudad de México 1 de Septiembre de 2023 (Canal Once). Esta mañana fue inaugurada la edición 40 de la Feria Internacional del Libro del Instituto Politécnico Nacional. La ceremonia fue encabezada por el director del IPN, doctor Arturo Reyes Sandoval, acompañado de la embajadora de Israel, Einat Kranz Neiger, país invitado de honor. Durante la inauguración de la edición XL de la Feria Internacional del Libro del IPN, celebrada en el Centro Cultural “Jaime Torres Bodet”, fueron galardonados con el premio “FIL-IPN 2023” al físico e investigador del Cinvestav, Gerardo Antonio Herrera Corral, en la categoría “Ciencias” y al filósofo, sociólogo y catedrático universitario de la UAM, Armando Bartra Vergés, en la categoría “Humanística”.

Hasta el 10 de septiembre, en Zacatenco, esta fiesta del libro ofrece un programa con más de 700 actividades entre conferencias, presentaciones editoriales y espectáculos musicales, se espera la visita de poco más de medio millón de personas.

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jueves, 24 de agosto de 2023

First Republican Presidential Debate: FOX News 2023.

Milwaukee, WI August 24th, 2023 (AP). It’s almost time for the first debate among Republicans competing for their party’s 2024 presidential nomination. The Republican presidential candidates vying to be the leading alternative to front-runner Donald Trump fought sometimes bitterly over abortion rights, U.S. support for Ukraine and the type of experience needed to manage an expansive federal government during the first debate of the 2024 campaign.

But when it came to arguably the most consequential choice facing the party, virtually everyone on the debate stage in Milwaukee on Wednesday night lined up behind Trump, who declined to participate, citing his commanding lead. Most said they would support Trump as their nominee even if he is convicted in a series of cases that range from his handling of classified documents to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his role in making hush money payments to a porn actress and other women.

“Let’s just speak the truth,” said tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. “President Trump, I believe, was the best president of the 21st century. It’s a fact.” In the face of such an unprecedented moment in American politics, that sentiment was a reminder of the power Trump continues to wield in the party and the reluctance of most GOP White House hopefuls to directly confront him or his norm-breaking activity. And it spoke to the struggle of any single candidate in the crowded field to emerge as a credible counter to Trump with less than five months until the Iowa caucuses formally jumpstart the GOP presidential nomination process.

That challenge was particularly acute for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who announced his campaign in May to great fanfare but has since struggled to gain traction. He was sometimes eclipsed on Wednesday by lower-polling candidates, including former Vice President Mike Pence, a generally understated politician who demonstrated an aggressive side as he positioned himself as the most experienced candidate on stage.

Pence along with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie sparred frequently with Ramaswamy. The goal for almost every candidate was to use the event, hosted by Fox News, to displace DeSantis from his distant second-place standing and introduce themselves to viewers who are just tuning into the race. While the candidates repeatedly tangled — often talking over moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum — most refused to oppose Trump as the nominee, even if he becomes a convicted felon. The question came nearly an hour into the debate and a day before Trump is set to surrender in Georgia on charges of trying to overturn the state’s 2020 election.

The moderators appeared apologetic about even raising the issue of a potentially incarcerated nominee, saying they would spend just a “brief moment” discussing the man they called “the elephant not in the room,” which drew boos from the audience.

“Someone’s got to stop normalizing misconduct. Whether or not you believe that the criminal charges are right or wrong, the conduct is beneath the office of president of the United States,” said Christie, a onetime Trump ally who has since become a fierce critic. Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson was the only person who clearly refused to raise his hand, indicating he would not support Trump as the nominee if he was convicted.

DeSantis was among those who did raise his hand. He said Pence “did his duty” on Jan. 6, 2021, when he refused to go along with Trump’s unconstitutional scheme to overturn the vote, but nonetheless pressed the hosts to move on.

“This election is not about Jan. 6, 2021. It’s about Jan. 20 of 2025 when the next president is going to take office,” he said. For his part, Pence defended his decision not to overturn the election in Trump’s favor, a move that ended their strong partnership, saying he upheld his oath to defend the constitution.

Trump, who had long said he felt it would be foolish to participate in the debate given his dominant lead in the race, followed through with his threat to skip the Fox event in a blow to the network. Instead, Trump pre-recorded an interview with ex-Fox host Tucker Carlson that was posted to the platform formerly known as Twitter right before the debate kicked off. “Do I sit there for an hour or two hours, whatever it’s going to be, and get harassed by people that shouldn’t even be running for president? Should I be doing that at a network that isn’t particularly friendly to me?” Trump said.

But even without Trump, the debate demonstrated sharp divisions within the party that he has stoked on issues including the war between Russia and Ukraine after Russia’s invasion nearly 18-months ago. Both DeSantis and Ramaswamy said they opposed more funding to Ukraine, arguing the money should be spent securing the U.S. border against drug and human trafficking.

“As president of the United States, your first obligation is to defend our country and its people,” DeSantis said.

Ramaswamy compared support for Ukraine to the ill-fated U.S. military interventions in Iraq and Vietnam.

Christie, Pence and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley cast support for Ukraine as a moral obligation and a national security imperative, warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin will continue his aggression if he succeeds in Ukraine, potentially threatening U.S. allies.

“Anybody who thinks we can’t solve problems here in the United States and be the leader of the free world has a small view of the greatest nation on earth,” Pence said.

The candidates also tangled on abortion, underscoring the party’s challenges on the issue after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. All of the candidates identified as “pro-life,” but they differed on when restrictions should kick in after the court ended the constitutional right to an abortion, leading to a wave of restrictions in Republican-led states.

DeSantis refused again to say whether he supports a federal ban.

“I’m going to stand on the side of life. Look, I understand Wisconsin is going to do it different than Texas. I understand Iowa and New Hampshire are going to be different, but I will support the cause of life as governor and as president,” he said.

Haley, who has said she would “absolutely” sign a 15-week federal ban, argued for consensus, saying that barring the procedure nationwide would be highly unlikely without more Republicans in Congress.

“Consensus is the opposite of leadership,” rebutted Pence, who has made his opposition to abortion rights a central tenet of his campaign. Pence supports a federal ban on abortion at six weeks, before many women even know they’re pregnant, and has called on the field to back a 15-week national ban as a minimum.

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott also countered those who argued the issue should be left to the states. “We cannot let states like California, New York, Illinois have abortions on demand up until the day of birth. That is immoral, it is unethical, it is wrong,” he said.

While DeSantis had expected to be the top target as the front-runner on the stage, the candidates focused many of their attacks on Ramaswamy, who has been rising in the polls and espouses many of Trump’s positions.

“Now is not the time for on-the-job training. We don’t need to bring in a rookie. We don’t need to bring in people without experience,” quipped Pence.

Christie also laced into Ramaswamy.

“I’ve had enough already tonight of a guy who sounds like ChatGPT standing up here,” he said, referencing the artificial intelligence chat program, and calling him an “amateur.”

“Give me a hug just like you did to Obama,” Ramaswamy shot back a reference to Christie’s embrace of the former president after a storm ravaged his state.

Haley, the only woman on stage in a sea of men wearing red ties, tried to rise above the fray.

“I think this is exactly why Margaret Thatcher said, ’If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman,” she said.

Colvin reported from Washington and Cooper from Phoenix. Associated Press writers Steve Peoples and Michelle Price in New York contributed to this report.

lunes, 31 de julio de 2023

Twitter is called “X”.

New York City August 31st, 2023 (TechRadar). Twitter's famous blue bird is dead; on July 23, Elon Musk decided to rebrand the social network simply as X, and we're frankly still getting used to it.But why, exactly, is your Twitter app now a mysterious, confusing X? What other changes (or catastrophic blunders) does Elon Musk have in the pipeline? And what metaphorical rugs will be pulled from beneath our feet next?.

The change from Twitter to X is more than just a knee-jerk rebrand, even if it feels that way. It's already changing the way Twitter works, and Elon Musk has laid out a grand vision that could see it become more like an 'everything' app in the vein of China's WeChat. Whether that's actually feasible in reality is another matter, but for now Twitter is changing more than just its name. Here are the changes that X has delivered beyond a new logo, and where it's likely to go next. Hold on, this could be a rocky ride. witter's abrupt rebrand to X came out of the blue on July 23, causing widespread confusion among its 240 million global users. But the reasons, which Elon Musk had hinted at last year, eventually came to the surface.

The most succinct explanation came from Musk himself in the Tweet (or is that Xeet) below. In it, he explains that X Corp (the company formerly known as Twitter) bought the social network "as an accelerant for X, the everything app." As Twitter moves towards that lofty goal, Musk says the Twitter name no longer makes sense particularly with X Corp planning to add "the ability to conduct your entire financial world" on the app "in the months to come". While Twitter's rebrand to X was more abrupt and, frankly, amateurish than anyone had expected, Musk previously hinted at the plans above in a Tweet (as they were known then) on October 4, 2022. In it, he stated simply that "buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app".

Given that Musk is known for making outlandish statements, those claims were understandably treated with skepticism and Twitter carried on in blissful ignorance, while absorbing some wild changes that ranged from scrapping legacy blue checkmarks to the overnight introduction of rate limits. But now Twitter has been given its most visible changes so far. The mobile app icons for iOS and Android are now X, while the browser version carries the same branding (despite still being at the usual twitter.com URL). Tweetdeck, the popular Twitter dashboard program, is now called XPro. Fujifilm could have some reservations about the name, considering its long-running X-Pro series.

All of these changes are pretty head-spinning, so here's a breakdown of everything that's changed on Twitter beyond its name and logo. The X app and website are still, on the surface, effectively Twitter in more boring clothes. It's still a horribly addictive place to spout opinions, observe flame wars, and get your hit of the latest news, memes and weird viral trends. But under the hood, there is almost constant change. Also, Elon Musk has turned Twitter's old verification system on its head. As you can see from X's official list of changes by month, there have been dozens of changes since November 2022. That's not including all of the many under-the-hood algorithm tweaks. Most recently, on July 25, X Blue subscribers (who pay from $8 / £9.60 / AU$13 per month or $84 / £100.80 / AU$135 per year), were given the ability to download videos from X (below). Hilariously, subscribers have also given the option to hide their blue verification ticks, suggesting that the ticks are far from a badge of honor.
This followed a sudden surge in revenue payouts to X Blue subscribers from July 13, which started rewarding some content creators based on the ad revenue created in replies to viral tweets.

There have also been big bumps on the road to X. On July 1, rate limits were temporarily introduced on the site to "address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation", according to Elon Musk. This limited the number posts you could read in a day, but has since been eased. Perhaps the biggest change that Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, and the X rebrand, has delivered is a complete upending of the social network's verification system. Previously, verification was a way to guarantee the authenticity of an accounts that were "notable and active", because it was subject to internal approval.

Fittingly, that all changed on April 1, when verification became a reward for paying Twitter's subscription fee. This sparked a wave of impersonations on Twitter, undermining overall trust in the platform and seemingly contributing to a loss of almost half of the social network's advertising revenue. Overall, Elon Musk has turned Twitter into something of a circus, and the X rebrand is just another bump on that ride. Even though the changes have been more devastating than we thought, they might pale in comparison to what's coming next...

MSH WorldWide Company By Marcelo Santiago Hernández.

martes, 6 de diciembre de 2022

2022 People's Choice Awards.

New York City December 06th, 2022 (Entretenimient Weekly).The 2022 People's Choice Awards honored some of the biggest stars of the year with Taylor Swift, , Harry Styles, Selena Gomez, Adam Sandler, and Lizzo taking home top prizes.

The annual fan-voted awards show — which spans 40 categories and honors numerous forms of entertainment across movies, television, music, and pop culture — aired on NBC and E! simultaneously from the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, Calif., with Kenan Thompson returning for his second year as host.

Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness won The Movie of 2022 with star Elizabeth Olsen taking home the awards for Female Movie Star and Action Movie Star. Sandler was named Comedy Movie Star and Styles Male Artist of 2022.

Gomez received the Comedy TV Star award for her work in Only Murders in the Building, as well as the award for Social Celebrity of the year. Meanwhile, gal pal Taylor Swift won the Female Artist, the Album of 2022 for Midnights, and the Music Video of the year for "Anti-Hero."

Sarah Michelle Gellar presented Selma Blair the award for Competition Contestant of the year for her inspiring turn(s) on Dancing With the Stars. "The last time I won an award was when I kissed you, Sarah. You're a good luck charm, for sure," Blair said during her acceptance speech, referring to the Best Kiss MTV Movie Award for Cruel Intentions she shared with Gellar in 2000.

domingo, 20 de noviembre de 2022

2022 American Music Awards.

Los Angeles , CA November 20th, 2022 (Rolling Stone Magazine). 2022 American Music Awards aired on ABC and Bad Bunny dominated the nominations with eight nods, closely followed by Beyonce, Drake, and Taylor Swift, who each received six nominations. Adele, Harry Styles, and the Weeknd each garnered five nods. In the end, Swift swept all six of the categories in which she was nominated.

All seven of them were nominated for the top prize: Artist of the Year. Bad Bunny could’ve tied with Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston’s records for most awards in a single year if he had taken all of his categories. Prior to the awards show airing, Taylor Swift led the pack with three wins, and Bad Bunny, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, and Morgan Wallen each nabbed two awards in the non-televised categories.

The fans have voted and spoken, and the list of winners are below. They will be updated throughout the night.

domingo, 13 de noviembre de 2022

2022 MTV EMA Winners

November 13rd, 2022 (MTV). This year's MTV EMA ceremony is certainly one for the books. Kicking off with a one-two punch of performances by Bebe Rexha and David Guetta — doing their nostalgic team-up "I'm Good (Blue)" — and Muse rocking the heck out, the show also promises tons of other unexpected performances, including the live debut of Spinall And Äyanna's "Power (Remember Who You Are)."

But there are also trophies to give away, of course. Harry Styles leads the nominations field with a total of seven, including Best Artist, Best Song, and Best Video. Taylor Swift follows behind with six nods, and she also earned a nom for Best Longform Video, a brand new category for the event. Nicki Minaj and Rosalía each earned five noms.

So, who took home the most from this year's ceremony, broadcasted live on MTV in more than 170 countries on November 13 from the PSD Bank Dome in Düsseldorf, Germany and co-hosted by Rita Ora and Taika Waititi.

miércoles, 9 de noviembre de 2022

2022 Midterms Elections.

New York City, USA. November 09th, 2022 (FOX News Channel). 9 ways Republicans can fix the disaster of the midterm elections. After the disappointing, for some of us shocking, 2022 election results, there must be a Republican effort to rethink what happened.

The danger is, with all the distractions and trivia of Washington, the effort could be the usual, surface-level review. Too often, hard problems and facts that challenge the institutional culture of Republican professionals are avoided. The bias against dealing with them is great because they seem impossible to solve. That scenario would be a disaster for Republicans in 2023.

Too often, Republicans try to understand the world through limited models of government and politics which simply don’t reflect reality. This failure to think through and master the real world of contemporary power is tragic, and it weakens America’s future.

Consider how big the gap between potential and reality currently is. There is a huge cultural majority that disapproves of Big Government Socialism and favors Free Market Capitalism (18% to 82%). Most Americans also reject woke lectures on race and believe that a person’s character is more important than his or her skin color (91% are with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on this point). A cultural majority also deeply disapproves of brainwashing young children with radical ideas about sex and gender (72% oppose teaching school children they can change their gender).

Republicans must learn why this massive cultural majority is not translating into a political majority. This will require sober self-reflection and serious analysis. It’s not a fluke that we can’t attract these people. We are simply failing to. In the politics of campaigning – and the act of governing – Republicans have not mastered the systems, principles, and patterns needed. Until we do that, we can’t win a landslide election and then govern effectively. A deep review of the Republican failure would look at things most post-election projects ignore – or facts from which they hide. Republicans must look at the real world, not the ideal world they imagine.

1. Real Fact-Finding

Republicans must gather the facts. Virtually everyone’s initial analysis of the election results mistook individual races for voter behavior and extrapolated based on the misconceptions. The fact is: Republicans won substantially more U.S. House votes than Democrats. Currently 50.7% of House races went for Republicans versus 47.7% that went for Democrats. This was a six-point turnaround from Democrats' 50.8% to Republicans’ 47.7% margin in 2020.

As Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report put it: "Democrats fell off a cliff in Florida and New York, where their House candidates underperformed Biden’s 2020 margins on average by 13 points. GOP mini waves also hit California and Oregon where Democrats underperformed by 7.6 points each." None of these facts fit the initial analysis. So, fact-finding means reviewing all the major polls and comparing them with what really happened with different groups in different states.

2. Close the Resource Gap

Republicans must account for the real resource imbalance. Analysts too often simply match Republican fundraising dollars up against Democrat fundraising dollars. This is a mistake we’ve repeated for decades. It profoundly understates the scale of the challenge in reaching voters. The truth is Democrats’ resources are legion and can’t neatly be listed on a spreadsheet.

If "Saturday Night Live" savages Herschel Walker three days before the runoff, what is that worth? If Mark Zuckerberg pours $419 million into turnout efforts in Democrat precincts, how do you record or counter that? If the FBI and Twitter block the New York Post from reaching millions with its story about Hunter Biden’s laptop just weeks before the election, are they helping Democrats get elected?

If Twitter kicks the incumbent president off its platform, is that an in-kind gift to the Biden campaign? If Google routinely blocks Republican fundraising appeals the last four days of the month, how much money are we losing? When the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban development organizes voter drives on the president’s order, are they serving Republican and Democrat voters equally? If famously liberal universities that actively punish conservative speech run voter registration operations, who do you think that helps? None of these efforts show up on traditional Federal Election Commission reports. Republicans must figure out how to codify and overcome them.

3. Compete in Modern Elections

The election calendar has changed, but Republicans don’t seem to understand the new requirements for effective competition. Voting starts in mid-September. Hoarding advertising money to mid-October doesn’t work anymore. Early voting is a fact. Republicans must learn to maximize it (and focus on non-voters more intensely). Shifting resources from late TV buys to early voting efforts may hurt consultants’ wallets, but it may win more elections. Republican nominees who come out of tough primaries with no money and stay off the air for six or seven weeks – while their Democrat opponents and the news media define them – become irrevocably damaged (see Mehmet Oz’s campaign in Pennsylvania). Republicans focus on campaigns. Democrats focus on elections. The difference is profound. Republicans must change.

4. Stop Hitting Yourself

Attacking our own candidates is harmful. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Super PAC spent $4 million against the GOP nominee in New Hampshire. It hurt. The McConnell Super PAC also publicly pulled out of Blake Masters’ race in Arizona in mid-October. That jarred the campaign and cost it momentum. While Republicans criticized our own candidates’ quality, the Democrats nominated a stroke victim who could barely talk in Pennsylvania and a radical who ultimately lost in Wisconsin. There is a grave danger that Trump vs. anti-Trump cannibalism in 2024 will lead to a 1964 Barry Goldwater vs. Nelson Rockefeller-style disaster. (We dropped to 140 seats in the House and 32 seats in the Senate). Republicans should all be interested in avoiding that.
5. Learn from Success

We need to study the clear, major GOP victories. The resounding victories in Florida, Ohio, Texas and Iowa should become the basis for a usable model. The House Republicans gained seats for the second election in a row (while the Senate Republicans were losing seats for the third election in a row). What can Republicans learn from our own successes?.

6. Get with the Times

The impact of university and college election efforts must be studied. The scale of the GOP defeat among the younger generation is a warning sign that we need profoundly new approaches if we are going to survive. If TikTok is legal, Republicans must learn to compete on it. The depth of younger Americans’ commitment to the environment and global warming requires a conservative climate solution. Debating whether the climate is an issue is a losing proposition. A modular nuclear power-hydrogen production system would be a conservative answer to carbon loading that would produce energy, jobs, a stronger economy, and virtually no carbon emissions. We need a fight over the best way to solve environmental problems rather than a pro-environment vs. anti-environment model. We know which side younger and college educated voters will pick.

7. See You in Court

Lawfare is a system Democrats understand and employ 365 days a year. Democrats routinely use the legal system to attack and delegitimize their opponents. They understand that the constant, subtle application of legal challenges can change the election environment – even if they don’t ultimately pass muster in court. Bombarding state legislatures and election officials with legal threats scare them into agreeing to radical election models that favor Democrats. This has become a niche legal industry for Democrats. In fact, there is a clear effort to drive Republican lawyers out of politics and leave the GOP defenseless against activist attacks.

8. Breaking ID Politics

We are now experiencing pure identity politics. Performance simply does not matter. How else do we explain New York re-electing the Democrat governor despite crime, inflation and the decay of New York City? How else do you explain the staunch Democrat control of Chicago – no matter how bad the city government performs? Breaking through on identity politics and figuring out what messages would get people to shift their votes would be a huge step toward turning the massive cultural majority into a political majority.

9. Learn Some Damn Empathy

The Democrats use symbols, fear, victimhood and emotions while Republicans tend to use facts, logic, reason, and rationality. The entire Democrat campaign on abortion was based on fear and potential victimization. For over half a century, the racial politics of the left have emphasized fear and emotion. The recent consolidation of the sexual politics vote has been based on fear of repression, elimination of the rights, and job discrimination.