Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
Conspiracy Theory Board Game
Among other things, this board game includes 250 Conspiracy Question Cards, 25 Cover-up Cards, and an instruction booklet, “unless the Illuminati took them.” What are you waiting for? Order yours here today!
Angeles National Forest
My father Don Francisco, my son Kleber Enrique, and I went off the beaten tourist path and visited the Angeles National Forest on Friday 12/16, one of the best places to visit in Los Angeles. Pictured below are some snapshots … Continue reading
The progress summit chronicles (part 2 of 2)
I mentioned in my previous post how no one at Derek Thompson’s Progress Summit, which took place earlier this week in Los Angeles, bothered to define what they meant by “progress”–no one but Astro Teller that is. Among other things, … Continue reading
The Progress Summit chronicles (part 1 of 2)
What is “progress”? I attended The Atlantic’s first-ever “Progress Summit” this week hoping to get a straight answer, but, ironically, no one at the conference made any attempt to actually define the concept of progress! Perhaps progress is synonymous with … Continue reading
Postcards from Hollywood
The Atlantic’s first-ever Progress Summit took place at the NeueHouse in Hollywood, where the original CBS Studios in Los Angeles were located. (The Neuehouse was also world’s first structure built intentionally for television broadcast.) I invited two of my college-age … Continue reading
AI art
One of my favorite parts of Derek Thompson’s Progress Summit was the session on “How Artificial Intelligence Can Revolutionize Art and Creativity“, where Don Allen Stevenson III (pictured below) demonstrated “DALL·E 2” (see here), a new AI platform that can … Continue reading
David versus Goliath: @ElonJet edition
According to this report via Business Insider (see also the Tweets posted below), it looks like Elon Musk has secretly attempted to “shadowban” (i.e. censor) a popular Twitter account called @ElonJet, which tracks the movements of Musk’s private jet in … Continue reading
Derek Thompson Progress Summit
Derek Thompson, a staff writer at The Atlantic (see here) and the host of the “Plain English” podcast (here), has assembled an eclectic group of scientists, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and artists to exchange ideas on a wide variety of topics at … Continue reading
Music Monday: Miriam Solis
Today 12/12 is the feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, so I am posting a brief ballad in her honor, the song “Indita”. The version posted below is sung by Miriam Solis, who was born in Guadalajara, the birthplace … Continue reading

