Photos reveal dire situation unfolding in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

but LGBTQ people have no access to many legal rights such as marriage and discrimination protection.

not to mention our own—and a current of love and energy so strong that love and energy welled up inside of me.and oh! How Id love to hug Vicente Pereira and have one more Santo Daime with Strazzer and one more trip to Rio with Nelson Pujol Yamamoto.

1994—Translated from the Portuguese by Ed MorenoOne of the most influential and original Brazilian writers of short fiction of the eighties and nineties.I think theyll be able to carry this letter beyond the walls I see separating these barred windows here from those cold.Sometimes they look like Cláudia Abreu (both of them—my brave sister and the Gilberto Braga actress).

on Hebe; I attend Gabriel Vilellas The Deceased at the Teatro São Pedro; Maria Padilha tells me previously undisclosed stories about Vicente Pereira; I split sushi with the Antônia Bivar actress Yolanda Cardoso; I pray for Cuba; I listen to Bola de Neve; I burst out laughing with Déa Martins; I use all four hands to draw with Laurinha; I read Zuenir Ventura to understand Rio; I wear the red star of the Workers Party on my chest (Who knows?); I open the I Ching at random: Shêng.with wires and plastic tubes attached to needles inserted into veins inside which flow liquids they say will save me.

Then there was the round spaceship-like machine where they stuck my brain to see everything that was going on inside it.

The only thing I care about is writing these words (and every word hurts) so that later I can slip them into the pocket of one of my afternoon visitors.and Kate Crawfords recent book on the extractive nature of the AI industry.

the human partner is one or more invisible microtask workers being paid tiny amounts to label images.Phil Jones sets these workers in a larger global context.

 We have seen these workers lives documented before -- for example.hipper competitorSocial Warming.