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Just hit 10k followers over at the other platform. Giving myself a victory lap.

I can write but not draw, so AI is useful when I need an image to go with my news analysis.

She was one of the great politicians and presidents of the modern era. QEPD

Daniel Noboa won reelection promising a hardline security agenda to tackle Ecuador’s security crisis. Now, voters expect him to deliver, even as his plans face two major challenges. Columnist James Bosworth (boz) writes: worldpoliticsreview.com/ecuador-noboa-…

Latin America has six presidential elections in the next 12 months. There is no definitive front-runner in any of them. Instead, there are messy groups of candidates. Most will fail to consolidate nicely before the first round. Coalitions and parties are broken.

Erick is taking off like a top on approach to Mexico. As of 5 PM ET Wednesday, it's now forecast to hit between Acapulco and Puerto Escondido as a borderline Category 4 hurricane. Never on record has a Cat 3+ struck Mexico so early in the year. 20+ inches rain also possible.

After the funerals of former President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, before the World's Refugee Day, hitmen kill Nicaraguan opponent Roberto Samcam in San José, #CostaRica. This is no coincidence, it's a brutal act of extraterritorial repression. 🇳🇮 reuters.com/world/americas…

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I have obtained new nonpublic data from ICE that shows that 2/3 of the people it had booked into detention facilities this fiscal year had no criminal convictions at all. Less than 7% have violent convictions. Most convictions were for immigration, traffic, and vice offenses.

El presidente Gustavo Petro ha beneficiado con puestos, contratos y cargos diplomáticos a familiares y amigos de quienes tuvieron un rol estratégico en su campaña. Así es el roscograma desde Armando Benedetti hasta Ricardo Roa Barragan. 📷 lasillavacia.com/silla-nacional…

Online: They missed the big white building. Analysts: That's not an important target. You have to assess the damage to the underground structures nearby. Online: But they missed the big white building. Next week: Fine, dammit, we'll hit the big white building

So I asked a different model. ChatGPT thinks my newsletter draft is unprofessional, lacks methodological consistency, and hates that I keep putting Uruguay into its own separate map category. The machines really don't like this one. I'm more excited for it now.

Still proud of the fact I made an evergreen meme years ago and it holds up.

FYI: Paying newsletter subscribers received a map in their inbox today.

Troubling given the current Kenyan police role in Haiti.

ChatGPT really struggled to make an 80-20 pie chart this morning. These wrong ones were after at least three times responding that it was wrong and instructing it how to do it correctly. I finally had Claude do the pie chart and ChatGPT do the graphic based on Claude's draft

Los asesinatos transnacionales de Ortega exigen una respuesta regional, por James Bosworth. Ortega ha convertido su brutal persecución contra críticos en una forma de violencia interestatal que también pone en la mira a los países vecinos confidencial.digital/opinion/los-as…