Cristobal Alvarez

Cada vez que me dicen que las personas son apáticas y no participan en la solución de los temas de su comunidad, respondo, con absoluta sinceridad, que esa no ha sido mi experiencia. Cuando desde TMX convocamos a las madres a vigilar las guarderías del IMSS, más de 100 mil madres y padres nos acompañaron. Y las guarderías mejoraron. Cuando convocamos a llevar una iniciativa ciudadana al Congreso, 634 mil personas sumaron su firma. Al invitar a las personas a votar para definir qué debía auditarse, se sumaron más de 350 mil personas. Pronto les compartiremos un ejercicio que ronda 920 mil participaciones. No hay secreto, ni fórmula mágica. Las personas participan siempre que la causa sea justa y la invitación honesta. Lo que nos aleja de lo público es la simulación, el mal diseño de los mecanismos de participación y que nos quiten horas valiosas para ganarnos el pan o tener un mínimo de ocio.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has just called to congratulate us on our victory.

The people in this photo aren't friendlier than you. Their apartments are just smaller. So small that Parisians basically gave up on living indoors and moved their living rooms onto the sidewalk. And that was the whole plan. In the 1850s, a city planner named Baron Haussmann tore apart medieval Paris and rebuilt it. He widened streets into boulevards, capped every building at five stories, and added one rule that explains this entire photo: the ground floor of every building had to be a café, a bakery, or a shop. The apartments above were intentionally tiny. Some were single rooms carved out of old mansions. No garden. Barely any sunlight. A private balcony was something most Parisians would never have. So the café became home. You ate breakfast there. Held meetings there. Received your mail there. By the late 1700s, Paris already had close to 2,000 of them. In 2002, there were still 1,907. Even now, after years of closures brought that number to about 1,410, the coverage is absurd: a 2020 city study found 94% of Parisians live within a five-minute walk of a bakery. When COVID shut indoor dining in 2020, Paris ripped out parking spaces, turned them into outdoor terraces, and let 9,800 cafés and restaurants keep them permanently. An American sociologist named Ray Oldenburg wrote a book in 1989 called The Great Good Place. He had a name for spots like the Parisian café: "third places." Not your home, not your office, but the casual in-between spots where you actually get to know people. Cafés, pubs, barbershops, the corner store where the owner knows your name. His whole argument was that American suburbs were built with only two zones, your house and your job, connected by a car. No sidewalk café, no place to bump into a neighbor by accident. The U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a national health epidemic in 2023. Being alone all the time is as bad for your body as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Half of American adults say they feel lonely. Weekly socializing dropped from 5.5 hours in 2003 to just 4 hours in 2023, and it never bounced back after COVID. Americans between 15 and 29 now spend 45% more time alone than they did in 2010. The scene in this tweet looks like a personality trait. It is a 170-year-old engineering project that works exactly as designed.

Si tu novio se fue hace 20 años, escuchó el canto de las sirenas, visitó el país de los lotófagos, agredió a un cíclope, y descendió al inframundo, para mí estás soltera.

More worrying signs for Mexico's economy: capital investment fell again in January, sinking to its lowest level since late 2022 As I wrote recently, Mexico urgently needs a private investment shock -- and fast ! @opinion bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

i genuinely feel like this is one of the most beautiful moments of humanity i’ll ever witness in my life

La ONU ya puso nombre a lo que los gobiernos niegan: en México existen “indicios bien fundados” de desapariciones generalizadas o sistemáticas; lo que califica como Crímenes de lesa humanidad. Se trata de una impunidad estructural que sostiene redes de macrocriminalidad estatal

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History in the making In this new image from our @NASAArtemis II crew, you can see Orientale basin on the right edge of the lunar disk. This mission marks the first time the entire basin has been seen with human eyes.

One last look at Earth before we reach the Moon. This view of the Earth was captured on April 5, the fourth day of the Artemis II mission, from inside the Orion spacecraft. The four astronauts will reach their closest approach of the Moon tomorrow, April 6.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965) Robert Wise Source: Blu-ray

how it feels to be Mexican on the beach with a JBL

México no necesitó saquear en el resto del mundo, pero un tema aparte sería hablar del saqueo que el Centro ha impuesto al resto del país.

che disculpame que no te contesté estaba con el google maps siguiendo un río enorme hasta su desembocadura

hay tintos de verano esperándote en terrazas al sol que ni siquiera conoces aún

Always "Psycho killer, Qu'est-ce que c'est", never "Psycho killer, comment ça va?"

Un Charro Mexicano, 1852, Edouard Pingret.

No tengo con quien hablar de esto

Imágenes cada vez más difíciles de ver porque todo ocio se liga al consumo y todo espacio público está privatizandose