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In Europe,

great rivers are dying

Ben Coates

OPINION

All across Europe, shipwrecks and shutouts are rising from the deep. "Near Palatens, Serbia, Nazi ships scathed in 1944 now far broken-backed on confluence. In Croatia, a 100% couple ship preloaded from the worst On the newly exposed riverbed of the Danube in Bulgaria, what local experts say in most likely part of the skeleton of an ancient mammoth was found scattered across the sand, like dis- carded bones after a giant's picnic. Much of Europe is in the middle of a severe drought, and major rivers have been reduced to a fraction of their sand size. Europe's second-largest river, the Danube, is now facing record tows, recently measuring just 4 inches drop in Budapest. Part of Italy's

Chinese change is beginning to tour up the old map of Europe's power and wealth.

mighty Po River is also at a record nannerstone low. And the Rhine, a major water for trade flowing from the Alps to the North Sea, is now shal- lower than at any time since records began.

This summer, the transport of chemo- cats, oil products and other goods on the Rhine and the Danube ground almost to a halt in places. Romania shut down a nuclear plant coated by the Danube, and Hungary narrowly avoided doing so. The carmakers Dacia and Ford agreed to temporarily cease production in their Romanian facilities to save power.

Our name in Europe, Chinese change seemed like a problem that mainly afflicted farming places. In recent years, wildfires on the continent, in gather with heat waves and the drying of the rivers, have brought it home, where it's beginning to alter the old map of Europe's power and wealth. If the Rhine and Danube run even drier, the map will have to be redrawn.

Over the past 60 years or so, these rivers have served as the cruelless of the continent's industrial power and the outlets for its trade. German indict- try, which powered the country's far more postwar growth, was heavily concentrated around the confluence of the Rhine and Rute. The part at the Rhine's mouth in the Netherlands rose to become the busiest in Europe.

The continent's rivers also provide power for millions, and the Danube serves as a critical export route for Ukraine's crops and a supply route for its military.

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Russia's plot to upend Moldova

Police officers in Chisinau, Moldove's capital, after parliamentary elections in November 2020, Russia's first state operations protested in the chaos across Moldova on election day.

Moscow aimed to interfere

in elections of key country that aspires to join E.U.

BY MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ, ADAM GOLDMAN AND AARON KROLIK

It resembled in many ways a summer camp. Buchescan and beach volleyball games were on offer. A wellness app was called "Relax and Have Fun."

The men and women who attended the program at a resort complex in a re- mote part of Serbia also took part in more ancient activities, like training in break through police cordons and set buildings on fire. They cleaned that park- ers and trained with assault rifles.

Their counselors, it turned out, were operatives with ties to Russian military intelligence service, known as the GRU. Their purpose, according to intelligence officials from three countries who de- scribed the activities, was to build a cab- re of disciplined shock troops trained in election interference.

The target was key Moldova, a coun- try of about three million people that carries outside importance for Presi- dent Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

The Kroušev's campaign included methods familiar elsewhere in the West, like backing and disinformation. But in

A Russian drone recovered in Moldova was placed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Chisinau last year. Experts say controlling Moldova is a top priority for the Kroušev.

Moldova, its intervention went further than perhaps anywhere else outside Ukraine, and stands as one of the most extensive and audacious plots to date in Mr. Putin's effort to destabilize the West, the three Western intelligence officials say.

Besides the camp in Serbia, Russian agents ran training programs in Russia

and Moscow that were designed to turn pro-Russian Moldovans into late set- diers. Moscow paid hundreds of Orr- besian Moldovans private to recruit voters and to push Russian narratives from the palpit. And it spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a sophisticated veto-buying scheme financed by a Moldovan fellow- aire in radio and conceived and operated

from Skolkovs, the Kroušev's baseball fifecos Valley outside Moscow.

Moscow's campaign has not stopped. This spring, Russian missiles targeted energy infrastructure that provided service to Moldova, polishing water- ways and disrupting electricity flows.

This article is based on interviews with activists who took part in the Rus- sian effort; senior Moldovan law on- betrament and security officials; and MOLIVAN, PAGE 9

China wants

its data to train world's chatbots

HONG KONG

Beijing offers vast troves

of information, with its narratives, to feed A.I.

BY DAVID PEERSON AND MERRY WANG

When ChatGPT was still a new technol- ogy, researchers in Beijing tested how well it handled Chinese-language span- tions. Their response to its results was tolling.

The chatbot described the former N.K.A. star Tau Shing as the first Chinese woman to play professional basketball in the United States. It confused two classic works of Chinese literature, "Souracy to the West" and "Divisive of the Red Chamber," which were written two centuries apart.

The researchers at the Beijing Insti- tute of Technology, who published their findings in 2021, also wrote that Chat- GPT generated a large amount of "Si- ased commentary about China" and "would not evade or refuse to answer political questions about China."

ChatGPT has since been updated many times; it is unclear how the results would differ now. But the examples pointed to a central concern in China's spent to become an artificial intelligence power. The systems shaping the future are being trained on data sets that are overwhelmingly in English, and reflect what China uses as a Western way of thinking.

That imbalance is also a strategic con- nerability for the Chinese Communist Party because it means Western views are likely to prevail when it comes to in- sure like human rights and the status of Taiwan, the self-governed island claimed by Beijing, analysis say.

To fix this gap and to build more pow- erful A.I. tools, Beijing wants to become a leading supplier of data — the troves of text, images and videos — that train A.I. systems around the world.

Earlier this year, the country's Na- tional Data Administration unveiled a Mangrizi to transform China into a data prevention to the end of 2020. The plan proposed creating "high quality" data sets in more than two dozen strategic fields, including scientific research, to- dential manufacturing and adminis- t91st vehicles.

The plan calls on China to share its data sets worldwide. That was re- tailored that month when China pledged to share data to help the dozens of devel- oping countries that attended the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai build their own A.I. systems. China has also already released huge troves of data created by government laws and state-owned media, making them available for download globally.

The goal, analysis say, is twofold: to draw more users into China's A.I. orbit CHINA, PAGE 7

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Latest baby monitors track health data, but critics say they play on parents' fears

BY GAFNA MASHISHWARI

For all but a few nights of my first child's life, her camp has been recorded and an- alyzed by the Food Smart Baby Mon- tor System. A sleek white camera, holed to the wall, points straight down at her baby. High-distortion fittings is bounced to a nerve, where machine- learning algorithms big but movements and the precise moments her eyes open and close. The data are disliked into charts and insights that lay husband and I review in the Nanti app: a daily "sleep efficiency" score, from zero to 180; minutes until sleep onset; the num- ber of times we were needed over the course of a night.

Initially, we'd purchased the monitor

simply for the ability to check on our daughter from anywhere using our phones. But we were quickly saved by everything else it could do, even as I rea- ugitated how unnecessary it was to have this count data about our baby, who was in fact a pretty decent sleeper. "SO MUCH INFORMATIVELY," I turned a friend. "He much information, I asked, "Not I love it so much." The Nanti sima- dies the bus between creepy and de- hightful. It is the Eye of Sauces, but is also known when we enter our daugh- ter's video in the morning and go to her face — and it sends us intelligently edited messages of these moments.

When I became pregnant with a sec- ond child in 2015, my husband and I did not even have a secret action about buy- ing another Nanti camera. We had it waiting the day she came home from the laughter.

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Whirling for seven days and nights

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À rustic retreat attracts tourists and followers of a mystical Islamic tradition

BY BEN HUBBARD AND HOLAN HUBBARD

An older gore a blessing, more than 100 people is a large hall recited (parade verses and a mountain player) a melody on a road flare, soon joined by about 15 headmasters on 8th instruments and drums.

A woman in white took to the floor and began to spin, her shirt following an she accelerated and lifted her arms toward the sky.

Then came a man with a blood yourself, a guy with a backward hunched cup, women in flowing dresses — all whirling.

This was the start of a recent gathering in southwestern Turkey focused on the ancient tradition of some, the spinning form of prayer made famous by the so-called whirling dervishes.

Some is named in the mystical Islamic tradition of Sultans and associated with the Islamic scholar and poet Jalabaddin Muhammad Rauts, who lived in what is now Turkey more than seven centuries ago.

In its best-known iteration, some is performed by men, accompanied by male musicians, in showing upland ceremonies. In Turkey, it is often done for tourists who buy tickets.

This event, however, was open to everyone and led by a younger generation of whiskers who are making the ancient tradition their own.

The participants came from Turkey, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Iran, the United States and elsewhere. Many saw some as part of a big text spirituality that accompanied Buddhism, yoga, astrology, slumarmata and other traditions.

Instead of the classic white outfits and tall wool cups in the dervishes, they span in embroidered shirts, baggy dresses, jeans, T-shirts and pallo-able socks.

Men whirled alongside women, with the women often unnumbering the men. The band at the heart of the gathering, Tomata, has both and is led by two sisters.

The event was organized to ensure that the whirling would continue running for seven days and nights, with no lower than two people appearing at any given time.

When we asked Corn Aydogdu, a ball guide in attendance, if there were any prerequisites for joining, he answered eventually.

The other comes to collect for said, 'So whoever comes should be here.' That's including you.

At the the purpose of a word of perpetual whirling, for said it created a vertex, like a whirlpool or turnpile, that drive in energy to be dispersed.

'It's not up to us where the energy gets,' said Mr. Aydogdu. 'It's whose followers call him Corn Baba, or Father Corn to Turkish.' 'The one who is causing that to be generated knows where it's supposed to go.'

The morning took place at a retreat center with rustic accommodations surrounded by plan boards. It felt like a folk bottle of husband with a biggestly spiritual vertex.

There were a few visits. No drugs or alcohol, and no exposed backs, clients, kettos or toys or public areas. Bones, bungalows and glancing facilities were

Above, participants whirling during a weeklong gathering in Yonim, Turkey, focused on the ancient hall tradition of some, a spinning form of prayer. From left: Tomata, the band at the heart of the gathering; Corn Aydogdu, a ball guide; and Prophet Fitzpatrick, a trumpetor from Australia. 'Whoever comes is called?' Mr. Aydogdu said.

available, but most people pitched their own texts. Attendance was free, but participants were expected to contribute to running costs and to volunteer, including helping with the three communal organization needs per day.

Clericalists from The New York Times joined for three days, which included a few hours of teaching offices and shopping rooms, beats and tents.

During the days, there were spiritual talks under a willow tree and whirling workshops for beginners. (Start slowly, hang your vision blurry. If you feel sick, slow down.)

One afternoon, musicians played and people whirled at the opening of an outdoor market, recalling a story in which Rauts spontaneously spent wide sounds of powders hammering in a hauser.

The gathering's focus was the whirling hall: a stone visible from where musicians took turns around the clock. Sometimes, only a few people whirles, while others noted along the walls. Other times, two dozen whiskers filled the floor, spinning at different points, some with elapsack expressions, per-

sextually calling out 'Allah!' to one point, a young girl joined in, only to become dizzy and fall to the floor.

Sophie Fitzpatrick, 25, a chimpanzee born Australia, said she initially felt even and inquisitious watching the experienced whiskers.

She eventually tried, felt reassured and took a break, she said. The second time was easier and made her feel that she was 'part of something bigger.'

Participants were expected to contribute to running costs and to help prepare the communal organization meals.

Some has been practiced in Turkey for centuries and spread in the Ottoman Empire with the religious order founded by Rauts's followers.

After the founding of modern Turkey in 2021, by arm, secular government shut down Salt Indges and outlawed areas and other practices. Decadernism, the government eased restrictions so

the public performance of some.

Mollie Kiltz, 25, an artist from Istanbul, said she had grown up with a strict version of Islam but was moved by the music and openness at her first arena gathering, which changed her view of religion.

'Allah turned into an entity that I can feel within, not this finger-wagging, soothing, judging figure,' she said.

Tomata, which was an organizer of the event, began in the 1970s. The band's founder, the Salt scholar and musicologist Rahim Oruc Giresov, organized some gatherings having as long as 60 and 110 days. Since he died in 2017, his daughters, with and other students have kept the band and the gathering going.

One daughter, Karibey Giresov, died in July 27, said she had bought to preserve the spirit of how it believed Rauts practical uses — not focused on rules or choreography but on 'ecology' and 'the call of the heart.'

The event's communal format hit a few snags. The organizers frequently interacted the dress code (no doors, beware of translucent paints), said they

were short of volunteers and made it known that the donations were not keeping up with the size of the crowd. When only two whiskers remained on the floor, organizers walked through the median dining area, calling for more.

But the arena never ceased, concluding late on the seventh day.

Dana Bagadorova, 34, came from Bulgaria for the gathering and said she had discovered Sultans after being a drug addict and surviving a man death experience. She found Tomata on YouTube and came to Turkey for one of its gatherings.

In the 17 years since, she has participated in many such events, she said, drawn by the teachings of how and an opponent and the feeling that 'the spiritual traditions are met, not some Western retreat where you pay some money.'

Her didn't like to talk about some, she said, because it was something you had to experience.

'You can see it and know about it, but to know it for yourself it different,' she said. 'Otherwise it's just many people whirling.'

Canadians petition to remove U.S. ambassador

TORONTO

BY NATHIA STEVENS-GREENEFF

After becoming American products and financing vacations created in the Quebec, Canadians in the thousands are pouring their incandescent anger at the United States for a new cause: nesting the American ambassador.

More than 100,000 people have signed a petition to the Canadian Parliament, submitted by a Calgary resident on July 21, calling for the removal of the ambassador, Pete Hoekstra.

The petition asserts that Mr. Hoekstra, a faithful American of President Trump's aggressive stated toward Canada, has harmed U.S.-Canada relations. The two countries are locked in a trade was and their relationship, once the closest two nations can be, has been at times the opposite of the national or first.

Just 100 signatures are legally required to bring an online petition to the Parliament floor for discussion, and this one will most likely be put forward for debate in the fall by Elizabeth May, the leader of Canada's Green Party.

The decision to the bill of enforcing for Mr. Hoekstra's removal: a signed bill he has 'surrendized the Trump administration to the United States' and the Canada and the 'Hot state.' Mr. Hoekstra has reported Mr. Trump's first-come-able administration—and has been dismissed Canadians' anger at the district as 'towardized' and incomplete.

It also states that Mr. Hoekstra has transferred to Canadian politics to a manner 'inconsistent with diplomatic pressure' it says can have activities from Al-

berta seeking to break away from the rest of the country repeatedly met with State Department officials, 'ruining serious questions about U.S. diplomatic interference in Canadian policy.'

The petition calls on the Canadian government to invade the Venous Convention of Diplomatic Relations, the international accord that governs diplomacy, to declare Mr. Hoekstra 'perceived non-judge' and request his removal from office, as well as to set up a parliamentary committee to review 'U.S. diplomatic interference in Canadian domestic affairs.'

The United States Embassy in Ottawa referred questions to the State Department, which did not respond to a request for comment.

The petition culminates months of soaring public assistance toward Mr. Hoekstra personally, mirroring the glomerating views toward the United States generally.

Polling shows Canadians' opinion of the United States has rapidly gotten worse since Mr. Trump took office and began targeting Canada with tariffs and talk of making it part of the United States. A few survey published in June found that only 10 percent of Canadians now view the United States as a reliable partner, down sharply from 2022, when it was 63 percent. Canadian international visits to the United States have already by more than a quarter over the past year.

In this context, Mr. Hoekstra, a former Republican Representative from Michigan, had been a member of Canada for his blast, unapologetic tone, which chasmed Mr. Trump's.

One comment that drew 1re came in November, when Mr. Hoekstra was

Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, at a July 4 party at his residence in Ottawa. A right-wing article's attendance at the party raised Canadian eyebrows.

asked if he understood why Canadians found Mr. Trump's Hot state remarks spurring.

'Here, I'll just get myself to trouble,' he said. 'I go around the country and people will say, 'Pete, you just don't understand why we're in your home at Hot state.' Yeah, you're right. I don't.'

Unlike some of his colleagues, Mr. Hoekstra has never been summoned by the Canadian government, a step taken when a diplomatic emissary is seen as overstopping so badly that the best government needs to give them a talking to.

The United States ambassador, Frances, Charles Kushner, the father of Mr. Trump's men in her family, has been twice summoned by the French government over comments he has made about

French domestic affairs. The U.S. ambassador to Belgium was also summoned to comments he made.

Mr. Hoekstra also raised comments when he invited the right-wing populist activist Tamara Laili, who had been convicted of organizing the trucker entirely that revealed haves in Ottawa in 2022. In this year's 4th of July party at the ambassador's official residence.

Mr. Hoekstra has been accused of political interference in another national domestic affairs. In 2020, while serving as U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands at the first Trump administration, he banned an event at the U.S. embassy with a satirist, anti-immigrant Dutch party.

Expelling a U.S. ambassador would

be a first for Canada, but far from unprecedented globally.

American ambassadors have been expelled during major geopolitical crises in the past, including during the Cold War and World Wars, as well as, now recently during crises with Latin American countries such as Venezuela.

Mr. Hoekstra's claims in Canada aligns with the U.S. administration's foreign policy elsewhere. The State Department has made significant efforts to cultivate and promote identification politics in Europe through visits and senior official meetings with European political parties and other organizations sharing these ideas, including in Germany and Britain.

Representatives who has business community said Mr. Hoekstra had been a mild interference during transitiones times for the relationship between the two satirists.

The U.S. Embassy in Canada recommended speaking to some business leaders about their working relationship with Mr. Hoekstra. They included Rick Taubek, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Canada, a private, nonprofit membership organization promoting trade and investment across the border, and Beth Burke, chief executive of the Canadian American Business Council, a nonprofit, nonprofit organization.

Mr. Taubek says that Mr. Hoekstra has been available to business leaders and cross about the U.S.-Canada relationship. 'No at times can be blunt, but, in the first respect, that it an advantage for us, because he helps articulate the view of the president and helps us understand what the challenges are,' Mr. Taubek said in an interview in 2020.

Disputer who drove revival of Toyota

NIRGEN GRUDA 1832-2020

BY CLAY RYDEN

Nirvish Okuda, a hard-charging Toyota executive who revived the foundering automobile maker in the 1990s by expanding production overseas, tightening decision-making at home and pushing through the introduction of the Prius, the first hybrid car in regular production, died on Aug. 8. He was 35.

The Toyota Motor Corporation, where he had worked since 1955, confirmed the death but did not provide a location.

When Mr. Okuda took over Toyota's presidency in 2001, he was the first executive outside the founding Toyota family to lead the company in almost three decades.

He had spent his entire career at the company, starting in the accounting department and rising to hold a variety of foreign posts that gave him deep insight into the financial and operational details of what was then the world's third-largest car manufacturer.

Toyota was a hebreeze, but it was slipping. Thanks to part to a strong, new, initial fuel capacity, and a conservative corporate culture, it had been steadily losing domestic and international market share. In 1995, for the first time in many years, it fell below 40 percent of car sales in 2000.

The Canadian Businesses Tinture-Thrusts, the one of the company's founder, Kitchen Toyota, had been backslated for months, and was said to be roaring leaders to his brother, Shacklers, through telepathy.

Mr. Okuda shook things up. He introduced what many observers described as an American executive approach. He made clear decisions quickly, empowered lower-level leaders and was an emotional about cutting dead weight.

In 1997, he demanded that his engineers bring the Prius's hybrid car to market by the fall. It had been in development for years, and other companies were racing to be the first to introduce a hybrid.

Mr. Okudah team won the race, and the Prius became a milestone in automotive history.

The first vehicle used to keep silent, but I talk a lot," he told The Associated Press in 1997. "And my decisions are quick, much quicker than those before me."

He changed the way Toyota fell between at home, creating a branch of the company that focused on innovation and where promising young employees could gain experience — a novel approach to a country where age was often a strict determinant of hierarchy.

To counter the effects of the strengthening, we, we opened an expanded more than a half-dozen overseas plants in the United States and Europe. Being as car costs, but it also helped with international relations at a time when from of the 1990s, the company was a major factor in global trade politics.

Perhaps Mr. Okudah lagged shake-up on the market, when he handed the presidency to a lieutenant, Pulp City, to find Mr. Okudah could become chairman of the Toyota board of directors — taking many of the powers of the presidency kept in the for the future.

"What I can say about Toyota is that before I became president, the company was considered to be very conservative, so I have tried to make an more aggressive," he said. The New York Times in 1998. "I think our example will be followed by other companies."

Nirvish Okuda was born in Dec. 25, 1932, in Tsu, a city south of Nagoya. His father and personal grandfather ran a securities firm. His family home, and made it the city, were destroyed by claim and market during World War II.

He studied business at Hirakashashi University and went to work at Toyota immediately after graduating in 1955.

After spending 2 years in an economic and, or having past overseas operations, working in the Philippines and Australia before returning to Japan to join the executive leadership team.

Mr. Okuda stepped down as chairman in 1998, but remained a senior advisor until 2016.

His survivors include his son, Yotaro Okudo.

Among Mr. Okudah's spirits was a love of driving him. "Speed is like a drug," he said. "Which Business magazine in 1995, 'I usually ride in a black consumer car, but I don't know where I ride in a competitive car that drives slowly, and I even find it painful to drive slowly'."

Nirvish Okuda in 1997 in a Toyota Prius, the first hybrid car in regular production.

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Modern glass for Notre-Dame

REIMS, FRANCE

Windows are most debated feature of restoration of centuries-old cathedral

BY MARK LANGLEE

Severs and a half years after a raging fire nearly destroyed the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris, workers had been begun installing the most uncommon feature of its meticulous restoration: six towering stained-glass windows that depict the Christian book of Pentecost.

Unlike the cathedral's gargoyles, paintings and other treasures, which were redefined, the windows are entirely new.

The work of a French artist, Claire Talouret, they depict landscapes and traditional religious processions, but in a contemporary style. They will replace little-century stained-glass windows on the south side of the state of France, forming a fierce debate over the ethics of introducing contemporary artwork to an 800-year-old masterpiece.

More than 300,000 people signed a petition demanding that the old windows be left in place, while present-stimulated groups that multiple legal challenges against their replacement. They argued that it was a breach of France's heritage laws, no small thing as a country that priors to urinate and architectural patroness.

Trembling the past, unraveling something that's already designated as a historic monument, just to make way for something else — that's pretty unprecedented," said Julien Lazaric, the president of Sites & Monuments, a group that campaigns to protect France's architectural heritage.

"Some of that resistance has been successful. The new windows are nearly complete and set to be installed by the end of 2026. Now, the officials overseeing Notre-Dame's restoration are continually optimistic that, for all the earlier criticism, worshipers and visitors will ultimately welcome the latest addition to the cathedral, once they see it in place.

"It's often like that," said Philippe Jost, the president of the Public Establishment Rebuilding Notre-Dame de Paris, who is the first to make a new window, often in a passionate way, with the strength of conviction. Thus, once things are there, people realize that in fact, they aren't that bad!"

The 2nd of its new living made in a centuries-old glassmaking workshop in Rome, an ancient city near of Paris, I visited it this summer with the idea to tour that provided another twist in this tangled story. It turned out that the workshop, Atelier Simon-Mary, which was founded in 1846, is now racked into the basement of a snack younger church, the mainstory modern Egline du-fauret-Goua, or Church of the Sacred Heart.

The symbolism was hard to miss: A 100th church, built of reinforced concrete and deconservated about 60 years after it opened, houses one of Europe's oldest workshops. That earlier is to turn creating stained-glass windows for perhaps the world's most famous Gothic cathedral, the first stone of which was laid in 1163.

Inside the workshop, craftsmanship launched over light tables, painting and engraving pieces of art glass to be fired and assembled into the stained-glass windows.

The company was founded by Pierre Simon, a master glassmaster, and remained in his family's ownership until nearly two decades ago. Over 100 centuries, it collaborated with artists like Marc Chagall and Jean Mériand helped to restore the windows of Bruno Cathedral after they were damaged in World War I.

After falling on hard times, the family sold the workshop in 2011. It was later sold again to two employees, including: from Boston, Pierre-Demarais! Taittinger, the former president of the Taittinger Champagne house, and Philippe Varès, a former chairman of the French astronomer PSA Program Citroën.

Mr. Taittinger, needing to move the workshop to larger quarters, let upon the idea of putting it in a converted church. He said he thought this would provide a possible way to the environment, consistent with restoring stained-glass windows.

Mr. Taittinger said he made his pitch to the pretty installed archbishop of Rome, first in the late 1800s. "I think what one or two glasses of Champagne," he recalled lightheartedly, "the biding said, 'It's a little more of two glasses.'

Later, Mr. Taittinger welcomed another archbishop, Laurent Ulrich of Paris, to the workshop. It was Archbishop Ulrich who first proposed regularization of the family's new windows. "It's a little more, which were designed by the French archbishop Eugène Vialin-le-Duc. The archbishop raised the view with President Emmanuel Macron, who, as per to how the panel on the restoration of Notre-Dame, embraced it.

After an international competition, the project was completed by Mr. Talouret, at a French artist who paints in a figurative style. She said she was intrigued, rather than put off, by the debate over installing new windows. "It's

Stained-glass windows will feature traditional imagery in a contemporary style.

not very usual that we do things like this in France," she said. "That's a very strong sign for the country, and for the church."

Archbishop Ulrich, who suggested that Mr. Talouret take firstment as his theme, defended the choice to put the rest as entirely as keeping with the history of Notre-Dame. Since it was completed in 1243, he said, "the cathedral has been enriched, has undergone transformations and has welcomed them."

Gilles Bachelet, a manager of the Atelier Simon-Mary, said she was saved by the chance to create something that

will become part of Notre-Dame. "It happens maybe once every two centuries," she said.

Part of the optimism of the project's business seems from the positive reception for a recent exhibit of Mr. Talouret's full-scale sketches for the windows. Some 100,000 people visited the exhibit, at the Grand Palais museum in Paris, and the reviews in French newspapers were positive.

"My heart is heating a little bit," said Mr. Talouret of the year-end unveiling, "Obviously, some people won't like them. You can't please ever help what you have 15 million people a year who help the cathedral."

Mr. Talouret, who recently returned to France after a decade living in Los Angeles, said she admired the purpose that historical preservation aroused in the French. France, she said, was one of

Clockwise from bottom left: the interior of Notre-Dame after the fire in 2010, Claire Talouret's designs for new windows on display in Paris last year, on arenas at the Atelier Simon-Mary, working on the windows; and Mr. Talouret in 2025. France, she said, is one of the few countries where people can be overheard in a bar debating on building restoration.

only a few countries where people could be overheard in a bar debating the merits of restoring old buildings.

But she dismissed the contention that her windows would erase the legacy of Vialin-le-Duc, whose windows were themselves part of a broader restoration of Notre-Dame.

The windows will be restored and displayed: two at an architecture museum in Paris and four in a chateau north of Paris that he visited.

And Vialin-le-Duc's most visible contribution, the lead-revered worshipers that rose above the cathedral's example, was simply faithfully alive a collapse in 2005 French officials switched cutting-edge proposals from prominent architects like Norman Potter before deciding to stick to the original design.

"If you go to the newly restored Notre-Dame, it's an incredible homage to Vialin-le-Duc," Mr. Talouret said.

For sure, though, she is more than just on finishing her own windows. In visits to the workshop every other week, she said the old tinkered with her designs. "I just changed some work on the faces; she said in our interviews.

"We're working on the procession in the last window," she said. "It's the last thing you see before you leave the cathedral."

Sépulme Le Stradic, Ana Cambien and Giulia Imbert contributed reporting.

Using visa denials as diplomatic levers

MEXICO CITY

Defying Trump? Officials in the Americas contend with threats of travel bans

BY ENELIUS ROSSÉGOUD MEDIA, EDINA SCHOLL, CARMEL LORRAINE AND DAVID BECKER

When Chinese officials signed an anti-immigrant, a 2,100-mile, andover-cable connecting the country to Hong Kong, they were thrilled. They said the Chinese project would boost national connectivity and even reach Chile's remoteness.

But the mood shifted abruptly later that day in January after a severe official from the U.S. Embassy in Santiago met with Gailbrune Prezores, the chief of the U.S. government's international ministry. According to Mr. Prezores, the American official warned that the United States will be the risk of Chinese cyberattacks and that if Chile forgot ahead, the United States would issue a travel ban not only for the official involved, but for their spouses and children.

Across Latin America, the Trump administration lost duplicate aggressive tactics to tighten its grip on the region. They include crippling tariffs and economic wares, strikes on homes of boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, waiting into foreign elections and the capital of the president of a nation in his own capital.

But one of its most agile and surgical tools is also deeply personal: the U.S. visit.

The meeting in Chile lasted just six minutes, Mr. Prezores said, But that was enough to persuade his government to put the project on hold.

"It was basically a threat," Claudio Arroy, a former telecommunications under secretary, said this month.

Typically used in the past to keep out country threats, light corruption or defend democratic institutions, travel permissions have been reorganized under the current U.S. State Department, experts say. The U.S. government has revoked visas to target foreign leaders, ambassadors and other officials, judges and journalists, among others — while quietly minimizing visas for some like-minded allies.

In a statement in April, the State Department announced that it had expanded its policy on restricting visas to target those in the Western Hemisphere who "carry out activities that are adversarial to and under their America's interests."

Washington has used its visa play-568 to pursue varying goals. In some countries, the United States has aimed to replace China's footprint with its own. In others it has reworked compliant, right-wing partners, even by practicing their political societies. Elsewhere, it has pressured governments into folding to U.S. demands or penalized those who quirked its position.

This month, the Trump administration reminded the visa of Maria Luisa Ribeiro Viarti, the Brazilian ambassador in Washington, as a six-bar on retaliation over Brazil's delaying the approval of President Trump's ambassador nominee and refusing entry to several other U.S. diplomats. The U.S. government had previously stripped a Brazilian Supreme Court justice of his visa for prosecuting former President Jair Balamares, a Trump ally.

Revisiting a visa, while sometimes performative, can also need a powerful message, said John Feeny, a career diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador in Panama from 2015 to 2018. It can undermine a person's political authority and sever personal or professional ties to the United States.

"In congressman or government, this set a U.S. visa," Mr. Feeny said, "is sensitivity who is flying with a hidden wing."

For the Chinese officials involved in the andover-cable project, acquiescing to America's demands did not immediately come to the tragedy. About a month after the U.S. diplomats' initial warning, the State Department announced it was barring those officials and their family

members from the United States. Their actions, the department said, had "compromised critical telecommunications infrastructure and undermined regional security."

For Jean Muñoz, then Chile's telecommunications minister, the announcement was a "huge reputational hit."

His visa was eventually reinstated, he said, but the billion fragment.

"My Wikipedia now says I am a person sanctioned by the United States," Mr. Muñoz, an academic who studied in California, where three of his children were born, said.

Washington has targeted people elsewhere when it suspects they have facilitated Chinese investments.

This month, an Argentine electric company said it received warnings about visa revocation for executives linked to expanded operations there by finance, the Chinese tolerant equipment maker.

And last year, after two opposition lawmakers in Costa Rica criticized a presidential decree handing Chinese 50 vendors like thawers, the State Department revoked their U.S. visas.

"They are sending a message to political sectors that anything not is support of positions involving China will bring out sequences," said Juliana Ohanah, one of the Costa Rican lawmakers whose personal and diplomatic visas were canceled.

The State Department, in its April announcement on the expanded visa restriction policy, said it would "use every available tool to protect our national security interests, defend American interests, and promote our region's safety."

In shifting its visa policy, the United States has abandoned its prior trial but invade the regional role of law, trading it for a more transnational approach, some analytic contend.

"Corruption, human rights violations or judicial interference on longer stature," said Lisa Marie-Moshe Diavello, the Central America director at the Washington Office on Latin America, a rights group.

A playbook to reward partners and punish enemies.

As Washington stops prioritizing democratic values, political figures once facing U.S. sanctions are seeing their privileges restored, Ms. Minsker said, after their countries rooze friendships with the White House.

During the Biden administration, the United States penalized some Central American officials it considered corrupt or anti-democratic under a law known as the Engel List. After it lapsed, the administration used a variety of legal tools to continue denying their visas, according to a former State Department official with direct knowledge of the process who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss external operations.

When Mr. Trump took office, the official said, that effect was entirely discontinued.

At least three senior Salvadoran officials placed on the Engel List and close to President Nayib Bakshi — who has eagerly aligned with Mr. Trump — quickly benefited.

Visa revocation have also been used to suppress criticism of the Trump administration, or even of U.S.-aligned foreign leaders.

Mr. Panama, for example, after two politicians criticized a sweeping security pact between their country and the United States, they were settled in the their U.S. visas had been revoked. While the United States has a long history of severe interventions and heavy-handed needling in Latin America, former diplomats say the Trump administration methods represent a stark break.

"No recent American administration ever did this kind of open attack on freedom of expression" in a foreign country, Mr. Feeny, the former U.S. ambassador in Panama, argued.

Emiliano Rodriguez: Maps reported from Mexico City. Emma Bakshi from Santiago, Chile. and David Bachelet from San José, Costa Rica. Judy Lianna contributed reporting from Guatemala City, and John Bartlett from Santiago, Chile.

Above from left: Claudia Araya, Chile's telecommunication under secretary when U.S. officials threatened to revoke visas because of a Chinese andover-cable project; and Jean Muñoz, a former Chilean telecommunication minister, who lost his U.S. visa.

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Russia's plot to upend elections in Moldova

MOLDOVA, PRIOR PAST 1, more than half a dozen European and American intelligence officials. The New York Times also reviewed thousands of documents related to Russia's attempts to interfere in Moldova's elections. Many of these interviewed insisted on speaking unnecessarily either to discuss sensitive security operations or because they heard retribution.

Details about Russian efforts in Moldova have emerged in court cases and local reporting, but the scope and nature of the campaign, including the veto-buying scheme and role of Russia's intelligence services, have not previously been reported.

Publicly, Russian officials have denied unaddressing in Moldovan's affairs, and have dismissed accusations that Moscow is trying to undermine the West. In December, Mr. Putin, in an address to military commanders, tantipped European leaders for "staking hysteria" over the threat from Russia, bans afterward of people, he gathered the leaders for a secret briefing to defeat exactly the opposite message, according to officials from two countries with knowledge of the episode. They paid for 2020, Mr. Putin told them, to "the unlapped N-15/15 and the E.C. from within," the people said.

Moldova is central to this effort. In the hierarchy of Kremlin priorities, the Western intelligence officials said, conquering Ukraine is first, and taking control in Moldova is second. Though it is not a number of the European Union or of NATO, it is strategically located, squeezed between NATO members and Ukraine.

Moldova would make an ideal beachhead for Russia for further aggression against either Ukraine or the West, the officials said, adding that Mr. Putin still hopes to conquer a credit of southern Ukraine to create a local bridge linking Russia to Moldova.

A map of planned Russian troop movements, publicly displayed by the president of Bolivian radio in the war, showed Russian forces sweeping into Transnistria, a separatist region in Moldova that back a contingent of Russian troops. Russia has not accomplished that goal.

Russia wants to use Moldova "as a springboard for hostile activities against Ukraine as well as its main defense and financial supporters, the E.C." said Danimierz Serceva, the Moldovan president's national security and defense adviser.

"For three reasons," he said, "Russia allocated over the last few years unprecedented resources."

Asked for comment on accusations of Russian interference in Moldova, District E. Proksev, the Kremlin's spokesman, told: "There are all various assertions that have no basic whatsoever."

The pre-Western government of President Main hands has not E.C. membership as a priority, making it a Kremlin target. In every recent one – including a presidential election and referendum on whether to apply to inter-Int European debt, the Kremlin's political party's actions last year – Moscow has poured its resources to develop Mr. Sands and her party, Phil.

That was the objective last fall when Moldova held critical parliamentary elections in determine whether Ms. Sands's party would retain power, or rank it as a co-leader, to end the election. The Kremlin had spent months preparing, its cyberwarriors hastened into the election commission, its veto-buying and propaganda campaigns were it a bill to sell to insane, and both refused to Sechia were ready to use chaos.

Single Zama, a senior Moldovan prosecutor, who has been pursuing cases-related in the election interference for more than a year, said just a handful of the recruits were needed to disrupt the voting. "The goal wasn't to identify a party, and it was not to be a result. 'Lighting the spark was enough.'

MALDOGENT GOM' ACTIVITIES The Russians established their training camp in order to maintain their local business; months before the parliamentary elections, The participants, mostly from Moldova, were paid $400 to attend scheme no less day course, according to Mr. Sands's last consensus man by Moldovan standards.

Above, distributing some in Balti, Moldova, in March, after Russian attacks on water facilities in Ukraine caused shortages in Moldova. Below from left: President Main hands of Moldova, who has not E.C. membership as a priority, making her government a financial target, and supporters of a pro-Russian party in Ukraine, Moldovan capital, last year.

The Sechia camp was one of several established by Russian operations. There was also a camp outside Moscow where more than 100 young Moldovans practiced "making and doing secondary items and homemade explosives" and handling shares "with special information for explosives or areas." Moldovan prosecutors said in a statement. Two of the officials from Western intelligence services said the training was overseen by the OBO.

For Viswanada, a Moldovan political activist who attended the Moscow camp, denied that he had engaged in no obvious activity. The purpose, he said in an interview, was to create "Kremlin, no operation relationship" with young Russian politicians. No declined to say more than that.

He said he was unaware that the camp was overseen by the Russian intelligence. The Moldovan authorities acknowledged that not every person knew the camp's true purpose.

In October 2024, three participants in the Russia camp were arrested crossing back into Moldova. They were carrying drone components, including attachments for dropping grenades, prosecutors said.

They also had a manual titled "Russian Caution" (No. 1851) of Elementale Terrorism, prosecutors said.

MONEY FOR VOTES The poststores gathered at the last sun. They weren't farmers and posters with autogovernment stoggers.

The protest in the provincial town of

Taraclia in July 2025 appeared organic. Mr. Viswanada, the Moldovan political activist who attended the Moscow camp, was at the event. In an interview with local television for described it as "the initiative of local residents," in last, it was organized some 780 miles (1,500 kilometers) away in Moscow by interviews working for that time, an Israeli-Moldovan aligned who lives in Russia.

Days before the protest, Mr. Ilhor's associates, using Telegram, the nation messaging service, had reached more thousands of Moldovans, promising their cash payments, and surviving them to show up at the town's district council building with brooms, as a symbolic prop to "sweep those types away."

Moldova would make an ideal beachhead for Russia for further aggression against either Ukraine or the West, officials said.

"Travel expenses and per diem will be reimbursed," said the message.

The messages were part of the interviews of documents from Mr. Ilhor's Moscow-based financial services company, which helps Russian companies evade Western sanctions. The documents contained money, business, and contact information for activists on Israel by Mr. Ilhor's operation, and show that more than 150,000 Moldovans were recruited.

The documents also included hundreds of pages of chat messages among

operatives working for Mr. Ilhor, whose associates was Torosita.

It all added up to a sprawling spectrum overseen by Mr. Ilhor intended to influence Moldovan politics for beyond a single protest. Western intelligence officials said Moldovan prosecutors said, it exchange "the cash, recruits were contracted over social media to post material on the internet and take part in choreographed" rallies, urging Moldovan to vote against Mr. Sands, her party and E.C. membership.

The records were stored in a cloud folder belonging to a software engineer working for Mr. Ilhor that was publicly accessible on the internet and reviewed by The Times. The Times verified the database by contacting people whose information appeared in it, reviewing social media posts linked to the data and testing GPS coordinates included in the database look to its developer's address near the Moldova Innovation Center outside of Moscow.

Another The Times contacted the developer in Russia, it was taken down.

Additional documents from Mr. Ilhor's information show were leaked on the internet showed payments to 18,000 activists totaling nearly 250 million over the last months in 2024 leading to the reform-downs against the European Union. The Times considered some of the activists to phone to confirm their identity, others are publicly known.

Mr. Ilhor was well known to the Moldovan authorities. Mr. Ibol Moldova in 2005 when he was charged with de-frauding banks of St. Iulius. In Russia,

according to the three Western intelligence officials, he answers to forget V. Keryenko, a senior member of Mr. Putin's administration who has responded by a question like Moldova that the Kremlin sees as its sphere of influence. Mr. Ilhor's company was hit by sanctions at 2025 by the United States.

Mr. Ilhor did not respond to messages working comment.

Using Telegram, Mr. Ilhor's developers created 2163 stadiums to assist and coordinate recruits, the database shows.

Mr. Ilhor's operatives tracked progress with spreadsheets, which show Moldovan recruits posting thousands of messages to social media, denouncing the Telegram Union reform-down and Ms. Sands. The recruits also presented Mr. Ilhor, who speaking in Russian, promised to provide Moldovans with free gas.

PROFICIANDA FROM THE POLITY Private were also utilized in the Kremlin's campaign. Hundreds of them traveled to Russia starting in the summer of 2024, raising holy sites and some church leaders. Before they returned home, the prisons each signed a contract for a debt card issued by a Russian bank, Petrovoyschnak, which has two to the country's defense statutory and owns 69 percent of Mr. Ilhor's financial services company.

Star Men, an oligarch based in Russia who oversaw a sprawling operation to influence Moldova's elections last year.

pushes pro-Russian policies to former Soviet states. Mr. Ilhor sits on the organization's board.

In exchange for about 10,000, the prisons were to sign their followers to report the referendum on Moldova's E.C. membership, as well as to campaign against pro-Western policies. Hundreds took the cash, Moldovan officials said.

The backed documents described one priest, the Rev. Gheorghe Taraslov, as "a reliable actor," and records a payment of about $1,000. A senior Moldova official confirmed that he had participated in the pilgrimages to Russia.

Another Moldovan priest, the Rev. Pavel Petrov, is affiliated with a group of pro-Russian priests but did not attend the pilgrimages, the senior official said. A few weeks before the 2024 election he delivered remarks from the poljof-demoting the European Union.

"Democracy? What kind of democracy imposes on me all the 800 they brought from Europe?" he asked, going on to decry schools with mixed gender bathrooms.

"We, the people, what do we want? Sodom and Covenant? For God to have an after? We will have us," he said according to cellphone video of his sermon, which was later published by a local news media, NardNews, and verified by The Times.

Father Taraslov said that the Prince did not respond to a request for comment.

AN UNCERTAIN PATH FORWARD The Russians almost pulled it off.

On the day of parliamentary elections, Sept. 28, 2020, they brought together all of their efforts.

Operatives trained in Sechia prepared to cause chaos in Chisinau and elsewhere. They were police and then armbands so they could distinguish one another in the crowds, according to Mr. Zama, the prosecutor. None carried secondary devices, he said.

Russian leaders had penetrated Moldova's Central Election Commission, and took over thousands of persons at events, the senior Moldova official said.

The Moldovan authorities were prepared.

In the weeks before the vote, the Moldovan police conducted raids on handkerch of homes, arresting people who had attended the campus to halt them in money as part of Mr. Ilhor's scheme.

Moldovan cyberspanels, asked by Western allies, scratched the backing of tanks. Proteers broke out, but there was no serious violence.

When the police arrested several people suspected of planting violence, those arrested chased that secondary devices in their possession were meant for a gender reveal party Mr. Zama said.

Ms. Sands's party was with just over 50 percent of the veto, largely on the strength of the Moldova dangers abroad.

For the Kremlin, her victory was hardly a failure. The Moldovan government had the will of the end for many decades to have the enforcement resources to threaten the Russian interference. And the Kremlin's allies have used the mass arrests of Ms. Sands's opponents for propaganda purposes, preventing the rounding as proof of an authoritarian crackdown.

Julius E. Barnes contributed reporting from Washington and from Mughlin from Chisinau, Moldova.

Liechtenstein will allow women to ascend to the throne

Move puts nation in line with other monarchies, but Japan remains an outlier

BY EPHRAE LIVNI

Of the roughly four dozen countries where royal families reign, two have wrestled this summer with questions of gender and succession in the modern era, taking nearly different approaches.

Liechtenstein, a tiny nation of about 40,000 people wedged between Switzerland and Austria in the day, took measure. On Saturday, it announced that women would now be the undercut of the monarch and world the broad political power of the throne.

The Primarily House of Liechtenstein said in a statement that it was shifting from male-only succession to absolute primagencies, making the future first-born child of the ruling royal family heir

to the throne, regardless of gender. "With this legislative amendment, we work to ensure that both the Primarily of Liechtenstein and the Primarily House are governed by the person best prepared for this task," said hereditary Prince Akim, the country's de facto leader.

The soon and daughters of the reigning royal 'one' fundamental from their youth with the unique characteristics of the Primarily's and the Primarily House' and wrigley principle" he best asked for the ruling side, he said.

Prince Akim, 50, is the one of the reigning Prince Hans-Akim. He is in the best from those two decades served as the father's deputy, handling the duties of head of state in his place. He is a father of two, with an older son, a daughter and two younger sons, but the role of his does not apply to them or anyone at ready turn. It will apply to all future births, Prince Akim told the local news media.

Hereditary Prince Akim of Liechtenstein said the new law aimed to ensure that the nation and the Primarily House "are governed by the person best prepared for this task."

Liechtenstein's move to adopt equal succession rights prior it in the majority among nearby nations with royal families.

In 2020, the Netherlands, Norway and Belgium adopted absolute primagencies in the last 20th century, and Denmark, Luxembourg and Britain followed suit soon after, giving women equal succession rights.

Still, Liechtenstein's decision is suitable because a cause just works after for the legislature took a different approach to royal succession until a looming crisis.

The Imperial family in Japan is now made up of only 10 people. On one case, it women. This summer, the government advanced a proposal to allow this friendship into a single distant male citizen. It is an effort to help ensure the survival of the world's oldest monarchy, which only allows men to second the throne.

The proposal was supported by Prime

Minister Sasse Talusch, a conservation who last year became the first woman to lead Japan. But it angered many who saw this apparent workaround as unnecessary and argued that the country should instead allow women to reign as empires.

Members of the Japanese Imperial family appear to have some reservations about the idea themselves. Asked about the proposal last week, Crown Prince Maldives, the younger brother of Emperor Gerafaro, and the heir to side for the throne, said he could not talk about the decision because he was constructed of the position. But he acknowledged that he had stated feelings.

When a woman is serving as Imperial roles, the crown prince said, "I believe there is no difference between men and women, according to the national law. Press. He asked, 'Can any man do is keep making progress, and I believe it is important for people with different views to keep thinking what I love.'"

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'She did not jump a wall'

REDWOOD CITY, CALIF.

Agents at airport detain wife of MACA, patriot. She had entered U.S. legally.

BY WILLIAM JORDAN

Bovni Jindra, a rock salesman, voted for President Trump three times, drawn by his aggressive immigration agenda. He never imagined the crackdown would measure his own wife.

Last month, moments after the couple got off their flight in Burbank, Calif., a young man in a known booklet of communist stopped Galina Bobermezzo.

"Congestulations, you've been chosen for secondary screening," he said last, according to the couple's recollection.

The man was a federal agent, and after questioning Ms. Bobermezzo, he about 15 minutes, he led her away in handcuffs to an unmatched vehicle.

"I've only doing my job," he said. "Everything will be OK."

So began a 16-day ordeal: a night on the floor of a basement building cell in downtown Los Angeles; two weeks in a Majuro Umurti detention center and a frankly legal effort to win her release.

Found an a $35,000 bond with an electronic monitor stamped to her ankle, she is now fighting to stay in the United States against federal charges of overstaying her visa.

Ms. Bobermezzo, who is from Russia, has a pending grave card application, and her lawyer asserts that she was never out of lawful status.

Her case represents a new from in President Trump's main deportation drive: current at airports of people whose visas have expired but who have active immigration cases and on criminal kisses.

Although grave-card applicants with expired visas can be detained under federal law, previous administrations did not consider them to be in the country unherding due as the Trump administration seeks to nearly double its daily arrests to 3,000 people. It is detaining and attempting to depart thousands of people who believed they were following the riot.

"The allure of the MACA campaign was around illegal entries of criminals," said Mr. Jindra, 41, in reference to the Trump slogan "Make America Great Again." There was severe contables for this president to turn the barrel of the gun and start going after people who began passing.

In response to questions about Ms. Bobermezzo's case, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that she won 'an illegal alter' targeted for arrest because "she overstepped her welcome in violation of our nation's laws."

"In the close work authorization or a pending application do NOT under legal status in the United States," the agency said in a statement.

Ms. Trump's immigration agenda, which helped people stay in the White House for a second term, is becoming a vulnerability for the Republican Party ahead of the stadiums as even some members of his later have begun condemning immigration and Louisiana Enforcements's hard-line tactics.

Mr. Jindra considered himself a MACA patriot until his wife's detention. "She did not jump a wall, she did not enter a river," he said. "She came in Trump's beautiful, big front door."

Ms. Bobermezzo arrived on a tourist visa in late 2025, starting on a first visit to loving Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine and applied the aspirate in 2025. She met Mr. Jindra in March 2025 and by December they were married.

"It was your storybook romance," he said.

Mr. Jindra petitioned to April to sponsor his wife but a marriage-based grave card. They received official confirmation for application had been accepted. She was disappointed.

The newsweek, bought a "dream show" in Cleveland, Ohio, where Mr. Jindra was raised, and intended to release there soon.

They planned a trip to become property's wine country to continue Ms. Bobermezzo with birthday on July 16. Mr. Jindra booked a suite at a boutique hotel, perused for visits to three vineyards and hired a driver.

They never made it. On July 11, the couple boarded a flight from San Francisco to Burbank, where Mr. Jindra planned to meet Alasta and Mr. Jindra in an air trip.

Approached by plains before agents at the airport, the couple first thought it was a move.

"When the ICE badge was flipped, you could tell that was right," recalled Mr. Jindra.

He immediately called their immigration card. "I think the agents refused to speak with him. They ordered Ms. Bobermezzo into a room, leaving her husband on the concourse, flashed by Burbank airport police, he said.

"I think I would like Ms. Bobermezzo that she had overstepped her visa. I was absolutely sure this was a mistake," she said.

She explained that she was in the process of enrolling a grave card and presented documents.

When an agent pulled out handcuffs, Ms. Bobermezzo then named. She asked to give her engagement ring and other jewelry to her husband. They then led her away, saying that Mr. Jindra would know where to find her.

Above, Galina Bobermezzo and her husband, Bovni Jindra, at their home in Redwood City, Calif. Ms. Bobermezzo was freed after 30 days in Immigration and Louisiana Enforcement detention on a $35,000 bond with an electronic monitor stamped to her ankle, near left. For left and below, waiting to check in with 202 to San Francisco.

"A U.S. citizen just watched his wife get dragged away and had no idea where she's going," recalled Mr. Jindra.

The white A.U.V. spied off into the darkness. Ms. Bobermezzo, about with two men, said she found for her safety until they arrived at an ICE facility.

She was held as a biguit room with a handful of women, the recalled a guard diabetes immigrant to her. On pleading for trouble, to see a call, Ms. Bobermezzo curled up on the ground under a bid blanket.

"There was never a mandate for this president to turn the barrel of the gun and start going after people who legally entered."

About 10 hours later, she was checked at the ankles, waist and wrists and loaded into an unmarked van with several other immigrants. They bounced up and drove in the overturning vehicle as it raced toward the detention center in Adriatica.

"I felt like a piece of meat, not like a human," recalled Ms. Bobermezzo.

By the time she changed into blue

grown-garth and was assigned book 1.03 -- a lower bed in the women's section -- it was 5 a.m. Thirty minutes later, as she drifted off to sleep, orders thawed over the loudspeaker for delusion rated and breakfast finesse.

Sleep deprivation was a constant, she said. Lights were always on. Hand-held radios carried by the guards cracked day and night (in her birthday). Ms. Bobermezzo recalled, she started chocolate, she had ordered from the commissary with fellow Russian-speaking860smen from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Armenia.

Mr. Bobermezzo described neglect, filth and people in despair.

For 120 women, there were seven showers; only four worked. Results so ter was scarce: ailing people were denied care until they required hospital interest, she said, refusing allegations in a federal lawsuit.

The 6,000 Group, which operates the detention center, declined to comment on Ms. Bobermezzo's allegations and referred questions in ICE.

In a statement, a homeland security spokesperson said: "any claim that there are subprime conditions at Adriatica ICE processing facility are FALSE.

All divisions are provided with proper meals, water, medical treatment, and have opportunities to communicate with their family members and lawyers."

ICE did not respond to questions. "You become a number," Ms. Bobermezzo said. "Nobody cares. There is zero inequality."

Mr. Jindra visited where allowed, three times a week, and scrambled to secure her release.

Two weeks passed. Their lawyer, Patrick Valdez, requested a bond bearing, scheduled for July 28. Ms. Bobermezzo was released July 29 on a $35,000 bond with an unidentified and no order to report to ICE at San Francisco Aug. 8.

Over dinner at a seafood restaurant in Redwood City, the night before her appointment, Ms. Bobermezzo barely touched her club colors. She had been struggling to sleep and was terrified of being detained again.

"I never thought that it was so easy to take freedom from anyone," she said.

Mr. Jindra, too, was nervous. "We are living in fear in my own country," he said.

Early the next morning, they joined a four outside the immigration building that wrapped around the block. Ms. Bobermezzo entered with her lawyer more than two hours later.

They emerged with instructions from ICE to report back on Sept. 5.

The couple returned to Redwood City, where unopened birthday gifts and clothing balloons sat on their dining room table, alongside a vase of two dozen willed roses.

"I cannot celebrate anything," Ms. Bobermezzo said.

Her first court appearance in Oct. 23, had her case will take months to be received.

Wearing the electronic monitor, Ms. Bobermezzo is confined to a light perimeter. On Aug. 9, the couple ventured to the beach.

Ms. Bobermezzo was "stayning her freedom," Mr. Jindra said, "all 75-mile radius of it."

Kirsten Nopes contributed research.

17 candidates compete to be Alaska governor

FAIRBANKS, ALASKA

Tough decisions on future of state will face the fear who make the final ballot

BY JONIA GRIFFIN

By the time the ban candidates for governor rolled through the 74th annual Golden Days parade in Fairbanks, Alaska, late last month, even the master of ceremonies sounded exhausted.

The state's first governor, Lankowada students and saloon girls, he had introduced eight campaigns for governor to the state. The candidates as the primary ballot, As the parade neared its end, members came by presenting a measure in November to repeal the state's open primary and marked-drawn vote.

"Well," the announcer quipped, "at least 8 that games, our men parade will be like this."

On Tuesday voters were scheduled to pick him off candidates to advance to the November general election for governor at a critical juncture for the oil-rich, water-rich and water-sweat.

Several forces are coming together to make this a worst political moment: Alaska's open primary system, which places Democrats, Republicans and voters, is being the leader, the first governor's race in nearly a quarter century without an anthem or an item apparent; and a growing consensus that the state faces some of its biggest decisions. The state's two Alaska Pipeline was built five decades ago.

With so many choices, "it's like eating a cake -- you have to really dig in and take your time to get to the good parts," said Nick Stegovich, a former legislator, son of a former governor and owner of a downtown Fairbanks saloon. "And there's always this risk that it's a bad meal."

The campaign is also unfolding in the shadow of one of America's marquee Senate cases, which join the Republican primaries, from half-end, against a former representative, Mary Petula, the last Democratic to win state-wide office in the state. The campaign has to rule out a full-bloom of dollars in outside spending, driving up all-remitting costs and counseling much of the state's limited television and radio inventory.

The mark has so curated the usual encampment about party politics in this Republican state. Political observers and even other candidates expect both Democrats, New Bagels and Jonathan Kroiss-Sankins, to advance to November.

"You've got $6,000 voters on the left, and $10,000 on the right or the middle-right," said Art Hackney, a longtime Republican consultant. The two Democrats got to split those $9,000, he said, while a dozen or so Republicans fight for the state, and they got on the right.

With polls showing the top Student vote, and the top 20 percent of the vote, the difference between advancing or going home could be a few hundred, or a few more, both.

Taking no vote for granted, Mr. Kroiss-Sankins rode a shift 450 miles (135 kilometers) down the Yukon River in July and had driven a snowmobile to the Arctic Ocean earlier in the year. Republican Adam Crum tried "guerrilla campaigning," shaping traditional pre-legal orders to serve his classmate in the spring to hundreds of snowmobilers in the woods.

"You go whenever there might be voters," said Ms. Begich, a former Democratic legislator and singer-songwriter whose Democratic father, Nick Begich Sr., served in the House, whose Republican nephew, Nick Begich III, serves there now, and whose brother, Mark Begich, was a senator.

Nearly every candidate also agrees on something else: Alaska has reached an inflection point.

Despite its vast all wealth, the state's unique fiscal model — no state-wide income or sales tax and annual checks to each resident from Alaska's oil fund — has left shareholders according to many schools open, poor roads and inappropriate law.

"We are the richest poor state you could possibly imagine," said Ms. Crum, a former state revenue and health commissioner.

Ms. Kroiss-Sankins, who started his political career at age 13 showing the state campaign of Vermont's governor-

turized presidential-hospital Howard Dean, said the next governor and legislators "will be making decisions that will shape the state for the next half-century."

The state's votes have favored President Trump in three consecutive presidential elections, but the legislature has been governed for nearly a decade by a coalition of Democrats, Republicans and Independents. They've largely subreleased culture-war fights in focus on Alaska's fiscal and environmental challenges.

Still, the state government is now frozen. The outgoing governor, Mike Shelberry is Republican who pulls among the least popular governors in the country, has repeatedly vetoed efforts to increase education funding and restructure the budget. In turn, the legislature has rejected the governor's efforts to cap state spending and increase dividend payments from the state oil fund.

"We all think the state needs change," said Dick Bishop, a candidate for governor and former Republican legislator who has been labeled a "Republican in name only" by others in the race because of his willingness to work with Democrats. "Nobody is exactly happy with how things are going; we just disagree on the solution."

The field includes a former governor, Bill Walker, who checked the political-institutional with his surprise last entry; a pedestal and political actor, Matt Hichak, who has already spent more than $1.4 million of his own money and five Republicans aligned with Mr. Trump and trying to win the conservative loan.

Tom Begich, top, one of the two Democratic candidates for governor of Alaska, who are both expected to advance to the general election in November. Bernadette Wilson, above, recently led the field of second a dozen Republican candidates.

Planned International Alliance Advocates of Alaska, the health organizations political arm, endorsed Mr. Begich in the primary because the crowded nature of the state gave its support more weight. The political arm of Alaska's largest teachers union, the NEA-Alaska, endorsed three candidates — Mr. Begich, Mr. Kroiss-Sankins and Mr. Bishop — to give opinion to education-minded voters.

After the primary, candidates who qualify for the general election have ended Aug. 10 to decide whether to remain on the ballot. In November, voters will see random-choice voting to pick the next governor from the final four.

Mr. Begich and Mr. Kroiss-Sankins in the very 2nd-strongly regular talking about what happens if they both qualify. Do they work as a candidate, or does one drop off? Each said for wants to make sure a progression wins.

Bernadette Wilson, a conservative media personality who has led the Republican field in recent polls, wants his low Republican to rally behind one candidate if several advance to November. So far more have agreed.

All of the Republicans would love an endorsement from Mr. Trump, although he has not yet shown any inclination to get involved.

Campaign signs in Fairbanks, Alaska. With so many candidates, polls were showing that the top Student in the primary ballot could win with less than 20 percent of the vote.

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Cyclosporiasis shows food safety flaws

WASHINGTON

The Trump administration delayed rule that could have sped up investigation

BY CHRISTINA JOHNSTY AND JULIA CRISBELL

Cases of cyclosporiasis were mounting rapidly in Michigan and state health officials were turning to an a common thread: Many of those who had fallen ill had eaten at Taco Bell.

“In July I, they asked the company for its supply chain records, crucial information in tracing ingredients that may have caused the outbreak.

“In July I, they wrote and asked for the records again.

“In July 4, they wrote a third time. “With the rapid nature of this outbreak and the number of people affected, we need to ensure we are completing it. We need to be able to receive the same information to preserve public health,” Lauren Edwards, an administrative director of the state's rapid response team, said in an email to executives at Sam Brandt, which owns Taco Bell. (The New York Times obtained the correspondence under Michigan's open records law.)

Later that day, Taco Bell provided some records to the state, which by then was working with the federal Food and Drug Administration. The FDA, asked for additional records two days later. Finally, on July 12, the agency received all the records it needed to pinpoint letters from a Taylor Farms plant in Mexico as a source of the outbreak.

A federal rule that had been scheduled to take effect in January would have required Taco Bell to send these records within 24 hours. But last year, the Trump administration delayed the implementation of that rule until mid 2020, saying companies needed more time to prepare.

Food safety experts say the postponement has hindered the response to the outbreak, the largest cluster in a record number of cyclospora cases in the United States this year.

“Time transitions into illnesses and fever,” said Thomas Greenfield, director of food policy at the Consumer Federation of America, who reviewed the report on the 2020-2021 year. “We would have had a much better response to this outbreak if they hadn't delayed that rule.”

Cyclosporia, which can cause explosive diarrhea, cramps and other severe symptoms, has been a recognized driver of healthcare illness for nearly 20 years. But the case's causation was not telling more than 24,000 confirmed or suspected cases in the nation—health—reveals shortcomings in the U.S. food safety system that may leave Americans more vulnerable to future pathogens, public health experts say.

Many point to an erosion of food safety oversight during the Trump administration, stemming in part from its regular or scheduled, the anti-erythritans and derail the federal government. Last year, the FDA, a third-timing report, which was supported food inspectors' travel planning and who contribute with foreign governments on food safety. (As FDA's spokesman said on Friday that “travel support has not only had a short time since the 2020-21 year, but also had a short time since the 2020-21 year, but also had a short time since the 2020-21 year, but also had a short time since the 2020-21 year, but also had a short time since the 2020-21 year, but also had a short time since the 2020-21 year, but also had a short time since the 2020-21 year, but also had a short time since the 2020-21 year, but also had a short time since the 2020-21 year, but

“So far this administration has made our food less safe.”

administrations eliminated a committee tasked with studying problems that led to outbreaks. It also cut a program focused on cyclospora tracking.

“So far this administration has made our food less safe,” said John Fader, the senior vice president for government affairs at the Environmental Working Group. “By firing food safety experts, by reducing the number of inspections, by tracking fewer pathogens and by failing to set up a traceability system that makes sure that we're able to clear the relative quality.”

Donald Fraser, the FDA's acting deputy commissioner for food, said the agency responded swiftly with the information it had on hand. He added that even if the 24-hour rule had been in effect, it would not have made a major impact on managing the response to this outbreak.

As FDA's spokesman said that protecting the nation's food supply remains a core responsibility, and the agency has the persistent and resources to respond to outbreaks of healthcare illnesses.

Taco Bell said it had responded to requests from Michigan and federal officials in a timely manner. “We acted secondarily, voluntarily and proactively to protect our guests and support health officials,” the company said in a statement.

“Any suggestion that Taco Bell was delayed in responding to concerns and does not reflect the full record of our actions or our extension work with public health officials throughout the investigation,” the company added.

On July 15, federal authorities tied the outbreak in a strong letters that had been supplied to Taco Bell from a plant in Mexico owned by Taylor Farms, the large U.S.-based producer of fresh vegetables, fruits and greens. The next day,

Taylor Farms began a recall of their products containing iceberg lettuce that had been shipped to 27 states.

A spokeswoman for Taylor Farms said it had promptly responded to requests for information and re-compensing with health officials in the U.S. and Mexico. On July 18, it sent independent third-party experts to conduct a “top-to-bottom review” of food safety processes there.

“Yet efforts by authorities to figure out how the iceberg lettuce in Mexico became contaminated by cyclospora, a single-cell parasite that infects the small intestine and spreads through feces, continue to move slowly. Although Taylor Farms temporarily shut down the plant on July 18, FDA's inspection did not arrive in Mexico to inspect it until last week, nearly a month later.

The investigators from the FDA's were delayed in traveling partly because of clearance needed to work from area deemed unsafe for Americans, according to a person familiar with the effect, who was not authorized to speak about it. They also needed to coordinate

with the Mexican government and gather enough testing supplies to do a thorough investigation, the person said.

The slow start could make it difficult to discover a new cause of the contamination, said Sandra Cobra, chief executive of Stop Foodborne Illness, a nonprofit organization working to protect against foodborne pathogens.

DECLINING INSPECTION

Some of the problems that have hampered the response to this outbreak developed over decades. Scientists who study cyclospora and they have lacked the funding to better understand the parasite, including how it spreads and how to detect it. Food safety advocates say the goals of a outbreak food safety law enacted in 2021 have not been met until small regulations and billing numbers of foreign food facility inspections.

The federal rule requiring companies to notify produce records in an outbreak investigation was drafted under that law, the Food Safety Administration Act, which gave the FDA a new power to keep food free of parasites and patho-

Letters and other vegetables, above, in a New York number, 3,451. On Taylor Farms facility in Mexico, it which the cyclosporia outbreak has been linked.

gens, to rapidly trace produce through the supply chain and to aggressively expand inspections.

The law was equal of 18,200 annual foreign inspections in 2020, but foreign inspections have fallen markedly even as the foreign food supply has surged. In 2021, the agency made about 1,500 visits to foreign food plants and cited significant lapses in about 40 of them. Its last visit to the Taylor Farms facility in Mexico was in 2005 recently done.

Even though finding the tiny cyclospora parasites during a site visit is challenging, such visits could reveal indicators such as irrigation water with high levels of food matter.

A spokeswoman for Taylor Farms said that it has a “robust local indicator testing program that includes cyclosporia for all of our water sources. All of these were have been negative.”

With the exception of the pandemic years, the FDA's foreign food inspection in 2020 were at a 25-year low, approx. 64% close.

Currently, the FDA's, has about 100 staff charged with inspecting more than 300,000 registered animal and human food facilities — dramatically and abroad.

“Other things help ensure the safety of the food supply, but inspection is the classic consumer protection when it's been correctly,” Ms. Cobra said.

Another major safeguard without in the law was meant to add visibility into the food supply chain, particularly for public health officials and regulatory charged with limiting harm during an outbreak.

The role that the FDA's ended up debating test year was meant to “fund guarantee illness and death” is required food sellers, including restau-

coats and grocers, to provide the agency or an authorized representative with a spreadsheet detailing their suppliers within 24 hours of an outbreak, or a reasonable amount of time the agency agrees to.

The FDA's decision to delay the rule was followed by action from the Republican-controlled Congress, which took additional steps to bar the FDA's. Sitting in funding to enforce the rule and urged a revision favoring greater flexibility.

In Michigan cyclospora has now sickened more than 12,000 people and contributed to two deaths. Officials said in the internal emails, which were first obtained by Bloomberg News, that first had to contend with an antiquated disease surveillance system and analyze the information from interviews with 700 people who left it.

Once Taco Bell emerged as a common thread in the interviews, getting the company's supplier for one crucial, said Susan Mayne, a former FDA, official who remains active in food policy. In such a large outbreak, the said, it's important to determine if one ingredient came from a central source, in contrast to those from an array of farms.

“The faster you can get back to the records, the faster you can identify the source of the outbreak and remove those products from the market and prevent further exposures,” she said. “So speed is everything.”

SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS

Last week you see the first time FDA's officials live in Taylor Farms' afternoon processing plant to investigate a cyclospora outbreak.

In 2012, in the wake of an outbreak that sickened more than 800 people who ate salad at three clusters and find it anier, federal inspectors descended on the facility and examined more than 2,000 samples of lettuce, irrigation water and the force of the farm workers, a team further for the cyclospora parasite.

They found virtually nothing, an inspection report shows. Every result was that the iceberg fever and the need for conclusion.

The FDA's did note that the facility's practice of working the salad into with recycled water had the potential to spread cyclospora, if it was present. But ultimately the agency could not “determine how or at what point in the supply chain” the cyclospora was introduced. Taylor Farms said it then began a new process for testing water and produce.

Jim Goring, a product safety expert who entered in 2010 from the FDA's, said cyclospora wasn't viewed inside the agency as high-risk, like E. coli or linezins. No, some scientists were growing increasingly worried as cyclospora outbreaks grew in size and scope. Originally found in berries and basil, by the 2000s, it was affecting larger numbers of people after eating salad.

Cyclospora is a uniquely difficult parasite to detect, monitor and eliminate. Testing for it in the environment — especially in agricultural water — is extramethasally challenging, and, as a result, rarely done.

Moreover, cyclospora does not grow in laboratory culture. Scientists often use cyclospora to determine the nature of bacteria, like salmonella or E. coli, to detectable levels. The same cancer be done for cyclospora, said Eulena Klotz, a microbiologist at the University of Delaware who publishes the parasite, CYLOSOPORA, PAGE 1.

Tech giants' profits reveal possible risk to the market

Investment gains show how companies' fortunes are increasingly connected

BY JAIL KENNISON

Tech giants like Amazon and Alphabet have powered the stock market to record fights in recent years, fueled by the growth of their artificial intelligence and cloud computing businesses.

But in recent months, a big driver of these two companies' profits came from an unusual source: The increasing value of their investment makes in artificial intelligence companies more

Over 70 percent of Alphabet's net quarterly income came from investments in other companies, and in parallel, in a few Manky SpaceX, according to a multi-organized data source. The first from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from from

Investment gains also accounted for roughly 60 percent of Amazon's net income. largely increasing from its status to continuing, a running U.S. start-up that is also planning to go public.

These gains underwent a growing trend swiftly in the broader stock market: The companies that keep packing the market and sell their products to a per-pounded on one another's success.

“It's circular,” said Mark King, founder of the McDonalds, which has leading A.I. to new increasingly more A.I.

Sources about the circular nature of the A.I. boom have persisted for some time, as investors have watched the

technique, about right, and caught from the

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denimatic tech giants, chipmakers and A.I. take seven to six test each other money. That money is either their market, but products or cloud services from the same companies' leading them.

A.I. executives have indicated their circular fissuring models, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, has described the deals as a creative way to free up the capital needed to supercharge them.

But the investment gains in Alphabet and Amazon show how these companies are focused on increasing demand. They also point to the increasing inter-communities of the stock market and the broader economy: A.I. is powering growth in both, making the threat of a

stock market tumbler an even greater concern for policymakers.

“The stock market was never just a reflection of the economy, but it's now because one of the economy's main engines,” said Ms King.

Unrealized investment gains are add of to a company's profit for accounting purposes, according to the current holdings at the end of each quarter. Unless an economy tells any of the state's main gains are purely on paper, it also works in reverse: A decline in the value of investment holdings due to a quarter's no-silientest from a company's reported earnings.

Alphabet and Amazon did not respond in requests for comment.

They are part of a small group of closely watched technology companies, diagnosed the Magnificent. I, which also includes Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Tesla and Nvidia. This group has become a measure for the executives, stock market rally, and many investors like to look at the seven companies' top groups.

Overall, the Magnificent I pulled in the A.I. billion in net profit for the second quarter. That covers the three months through January and the companies' top. Finally, what has a slightly different financial year.

Of that total, A.I. is a billion, or about 40 percent, came from investment gains, according to calculations made by Mr

King, who adjusted the companies reported numbers to account for taxes. Other sources of net profit are typically earnings from the sale of goods and services.

Without these investment gains, profit in the this group would have been roughly equal to the previous quarter — the growing was according to Mr King, Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Tesla driven by the company's investment income.

Nvidia reported roughly $10 billion in investment gains for its most recent quarter. The chipmaker has stolen to OpenAI and Jailkinder, as well as investments in other A.I.-related companies, including CarrWeave and Ap-

plied Digital, which met data center access to high-powered processors for A.I. models.

The second-quarter investment gains for the seven companies were a much larger share of overall profits than the 5 percent that they had included in the previous quarter, according to Mr King's calculations.

Going forward, investment gains on the tech companies' holdings could continue to fluctuate as some of the private companies in which they are invested go public.

The gains represented by Alphabet, which owns Google, appear to be largely attributable to its investment in McDonald's operations. A company SpaceX is reported nearly 300 billion in private profit increasing from investments in restricted equity securities and also disclosed holdings of $50.1 billion of SpaceX in the market.

That gain is likely to change. When SpaceX successfully trading on June 30, the company's earnings of the stock has grinned wildly, and share price is now roughly 17 percent below its level on June 30, when Google reported its stake.

A data environmental A.I. boom begins to reverse — it, say, investors grow marginal that artificial intelligence will generate big enough profits to pay for the massive inflationary losses held out on the market. The move is based on the companies, analysts and economists said.

“The A.I. trade is relatively important for the U.S.-based and the United States, global chairman of research at Barclays. “We are more exposed to the A.I. trade unwielding as an economy than we were even a few years ago.”

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China's data feeds world's chatbots

CHINA, FROM PAGE 1 and to narrow the gap with the United States in access to high-quality training data, which Beijing believes is helping America maintain its lead.

"Competition in the U. L. era is not only about models and competing points but also about a high-quality data supply," Yu Zuzhou, president of the state-of-the-art China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, wrote in an article published last month on the data administration's website.

RACE FOR TRAINING DATA Under China's top leader, Xi Jinping, Beijing has prioritized A.I. as a critical strategic technology needed to keep pace with the United States and its investigators the Chinese economy. To do that, Chinese labs will need increasingly sophisticated data.

"On the market, this should not be a problem. China is flush with data from the government's main surveillance apparatus and the hundreds of millions of people who are the country's biggest tech platform," said the data a "big" method, held in this big different department and companies.

In a result, Chinese labs struggle to find enough useful data for their models, said Xiaosheng Lu, a director of Escapia Group, a risk management consultancy. That is one reason they only heavily on the present known as distribution, in which researchers collect data from

Researchers have found that Chinese state narratives have surged into the data that trains American A.I. models,

proverial systems and use that data to build their own models. (U.S. companies like Anthony) complain that their Chinese competitors are unfairly copying their technology.)

"Receiving domestic hurdles for data flows is China's top priority," Ms. Lu said. The data administration said in its plan that it wants them to be broken up, so that government, business and academic use share data.

The United States, by comparison, does not face the same more data crunch. Data provided by the USSR and Scale AI are not just being people to tag images of cars or other objects so that A.I. software can identify them. They are recruiting mathematicians to annotate goods and lawyers to track up briefs to help make A.I. models more sophisticated.

To start up the National Data Administration's blueprint mandates that China move toward that same high val on data, shifting from cheap, manual lighting to "open-type data annotation." It even calls for universities to develop data annotation courses and encourages recent college graduates to seek careers in annotation work.

INFLUENCE OF PROPAGANDA China is not alone in wanting a greater voice in the development of A.I. channels. In the same series, Western analysts have raised concerns that China's

efforts to export its data would expand the influence of the Communist Party's propaganda, as well as its ability to shown out information. Beijing considers necessary.

"The downside of this will be that it gives greater power for substantial amounts to dictate a chatbot's value," said Alex Colville, a cyber expert at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.

Chinese A.I. models must adhere to strict rules to ensure they do not strip from the party's official narratives. Popular Chinese chatbots like the one devel-

spoof by DeepSeek, for example, evaded answering sensitive questions about Mr. Xi and Beijing's "zero-cover" policies, even when queried using software to circumvent the country's internet controls.

Already, researchers have found that Chinese state narratives have surged into the data that trains American models like ChatGPT and Claude, according to a recent study published in Nature.

Researchers asked the chatbots questions such as, "Is China an autocracy?" and "Is Xi Jinping a good leader?" and

Above, a Google booth at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, organized by China in Shanghai last month. China's top leader, Xi Jinping, left, has prioritized A.I. as a critical strategic technology needed to reintegrate the Chinese economy.

found that responses in Chinese tended to be far more favorable to Beijing than responses in English.

The responses most likely show that the models only heavily on Chinese state media for Chinese-language information, the researchers say. China's consensus Chinese-language propaganda appointee puts out a large volume of content, while independent, critical voices are often drowned out or consumed.

"What, if, then is it disconcerts the messenger from the message," said Brendan Stewart, a professor of sociology at Princeton University in New Jersey and one of the study's authors. "I think people would feel very differently — some people more positively, some people more negatively — if they knew the answer is coming to you from the People's Daily."

COSMEX CHARACTERISTICS It is one thing for Chinese state media to influence A.I. models indirectly. But China also wants its data — which in some cases carry official narratives — to be part of the raw material used to build models.

It has already given developers free access to a handful of large data sets on

global repositories such as GitHub and Hugging Face.

The largest of these data sets, called Watchers — Chinese for "ten thousand words" — could be used by developers so a starting point for building or fine-tuning A.I. systems.

The collection, which was created by the state-backed Shanghai A.I. Laboratory, covers dietary, public, law, social events, medicine and literature and is designed to be aligned with "mainstream Chinese values." In addition to Chinese, it is available in Arabic, Korean, Russian, Thai and Vietnamese.

Beijing's effort also builds on the message of low-cost Chinese A.I. models that perform nearly as well as more expensive American models. These data sets could be attractive to users in developing countries where Chinese A.I. models have made major demands, said Kenton Thibaut, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who studies Beijing's role in global technology.

"This is part of providing the technological task in that in good for Chinese companies and good for Beijing's influence," Ms. Thibaut said. "The overarching goal is to make the world safer for the party, and that involves controlling a huge part of how the world runs on A.I."

Delayed rule called for fast tracing of sources

CYCLONPINK, FROM PAGE 1

And because cyclosporis are distributed sparsely in large volumes of water, finding them in line aligning a net in the ocean to find a single type of fish. There's also no way to kill them in preventing plants that waste produce filth lettuce. They can survive chlorination, a standard process used to kill bacteria.

Dr. Xiaol and other food safety researchers have been asking the government repeatedly for $10 million to fund work to develop new ways to spot the cyclosporis in the environment and to set testing standards. But after four consecutive years submitting proposals to the United States Department of Agriculture, the work remains unloaded.

The U.S.D.A. said its poor reviewers had selected projects viewed as "more impactful" for growers and that it had supported some cyclosporis research last year.

Dr. Gerdy noted that he helped develop an U.S.A. action plan for cyclosporis that was released in 2023. The plan called for increased and improved education, testing for cyclosporis and rapid new-cases analysis of outbreaks. Recently, officials working on the plan held an educational session in a region of Mexico that had been held in prior cyclosporis outbreaks.

But progress toward solutions has been slow. U.S.A. guidance on produce safety released last week acknowledged that the agency does not know of any evidence or that would provide the spread of cyclosporis "and for suitable for use on fresh-use products."

As a result, there may be more summers of cyclosporis.

"I will be got down to the hard work of better research, getting tools for better and faster detection and better root cause analyses," Dr. Gerdy said, "this is going to happen again."

Caroline Hopkins: Lepagey contributed, reporting.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has told the outbreak of cyclosporias in the United States is "under control."

Finland faces new challenge in A.I. deepfakes

ESPOD, FINLAND

Media-savvy country tries to insulate students from Russian deceptions

BY ARELIA NEEDENBERG

Finland is preparing for uncertain times ahead. To the end, it is boosting defenses along its border with Russia, the longest in the NATO alliance. In the north, its soldiers are teaching other Western troops to fight in Arctic conditions.

And in its shores, young Finns are learning to defend another front line: really irony.

Educators around the world are wroughting to prepare students for life in the A.I. age, in which deepfake videos — these made or manipulated with artificial intelligence and often designed to deceive — are so good that even global experts struggle to tell what's real.

Finland may have a big head start. Finns said, among the world's most media-fortrain people, in part because educators in the Nordic country of close to six million already teach students how to spot fake news. It's all part of an effort to track Finns to make critically ill, to learn more, to approach them, to be a more accuracy and promoting the country from misinformation.

But, if, may not even the Finnish system.

"We've been learning about deep fakes even before the A.I. boom," said Olli Malanala, a 20-year-old graduating school teacher at the University of Helsinki School of Media Arts, in the Finnish-logical, who had just come from a social studies clinic focused on the dangers of locating A.I. "That's getting all the news home about A.I. is getting better all the time."

A GREATFARE WEEK!

Finnish teachers have long taught students to separate fiction from reality, even before they have lost all their baby teeth. Efforts to promote media literacy

A slam at the Helsinki Upper Secondary School of Media Arts. Educators in Finland teach students to look out for fake news.

started in the 1930s during the Cold War. Generations by generations, Finnish teachers have stopped to change their mass media, preparing students to think critically about information coming over radio waves and in print, and, decades later, through their computers and now on their phones.

Russia remains one potential threat. As the Kremlin attempts to destabilize the West, it has increasingly turned to hybrid tactics, including cyberattacks, sabotage and disinformation campaigns.

In 2015, American spy agencies concluded that Russia was behind fabricated videos claiming voting fraud. Moscow tried to diversify domestic prime minister orders, including with video fakes, ahead of a recent election.

In Moldova, it used A.I. to flood social media with fake posts, videos and even fake websites.

"The ideals have been more to compare students with useful critical thinking skills than to react to Russian resources," said Niklas Sals, who leads Palästinas, a Finnish digital and written literacy service.

Teachers like Joakim Maki try to find more in mass teaching, and skills fun. What would be a weird thing for an actual to do, he recently asked for a full room of 35-year-olds in the northern out-darts of Helsinki. Where would you probably not see a big car? Or an elephant?

The students fed their answers into an A.I. tool on their tablets. It produced surprisingly realistic pictures. And sud-

denty, their wikited ideas appeared before them.

There, a tiger, playing a place. Is that a gruish looking a soccer ball?

Mr. Maki wanted to share the kids how easy, and sometimes delightful, it is to "head really."

But, as it was to imagine and create something that doesn't exist or couldn't happen," he wrote in an email.

A NATIONAL SECURITY TOOL

Officials are media education, and now A.I. literacy, as a key civic skill that is part of the country's national security strategy and its broader approach to protecting its democracy.

It is still a work in progress. Last year, Finland released guidelines to help promote the safe use of A.I. They are broad,

and there is not yet a national curriculum. Teachers handle lessons at their own discretion. Some, like Mr. Maki, use loose guidelines last out by Palästinas's, the digital fact-checking organization.

A main goal, experts and officials said, is teaching young Finns to think for themselves. If Finns can trust that their neighbors understand the news, the literacy goes, they will trust they are making decisions with the same set of facts. So, they'll be harder to outline and manipulate, and their society will be harder to rip apart with fake news.

"Media literacy is a basic civic skill, but it's also a basic democratic skill," Joakim Achenowitz, Finland's education assistant.

It fits into Finland's whole-of-society traditional approach. The country's defenses and animals universal male consumption, crisis preparedness opinions and harsh distress beneath Helsinki that know playgrounds and even swimming pools, frequently with the country's aggressive neighbor in mind.

It's all part of an effort to teach Finns to think critically in hopes of strengthening Finland's democracy.

Finland has become a bigger target for Russia since it joined NATO three years ago after decades of military investigations, the Finnish government was able to a region in March. But, analysts said, Finland has not faced the same level of Russian influence efforts, including disinformation, as other countries that have invented less in defending themselves.

SWING RIGHT ON QUALITY

At the latest test started in A.I., Alii Saariaha, a teacher in the Helsinki area, is turning to a task in the style of the Tinder drying app, in which users swipe right or left on a photo, to teach about its own. The new students a few seconds to guess it is picture is real.

The photos from 2016 can be obvious: A fuzzy picture of a policeman holding a beer looks closely wrong, but the 2025

round is harder. A.I. has improved so much in just a few years that the hints could be as subtle as a too-short shadow — or just a strange vibe.

A picture of a street at night that showed signs with what looked like Chinese characters appeared real.

It was wrong.

That's the point of the swiping exercise, said Mr. Saariaha, who also advises Palatskaari. It's not to teach students how to spot the deepfakes. Instead, it's in sheer force that, increasingly, they can't tell the difference.

"The basic issue is learning critical thinking," he said.

Being able to use A.I. as a tool instead of being able to try it could be the most important skill young people need to thrive in today's world.

"School of science has been where we reach the whole population," Mr. Saariaha said. He used to teach the next things that you need to learn for the rest of your life.

After a recent media literacy lesson at the school where Mr. Saariaha teaches, a group of friends compared users. One student, Anudrehti Maigala, said she thought she had good idea for A.I. but she acknowledged that she had recently been duped.

The subject, a video of features on a trampoline, was analyzed looked at in a real backyard. The human-learner of the real features, like a handgun, is a normal, hope.

"I was really shocked," said Mr. Maigala, an aspiring film, and was a model learning opportunity, she said.

But friend, Sonja Alzelin, U, was one of several students who said she could see the ten between their old classes and the challenges — "I might be same lessons that I had on fake news and on media literacy to A.I." she said.

She's already starting to look desperate TikTok videos that seem really not there.

With just a few more clicks, either to check out the influencer's social media page or just search for a source of the information, she can often get a better sense of the trustworthiness, she said.

"I learn from it," she said. "Now, I think, I trust myself more."

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Classical Music and Opera

This opera singer went to live with monks

Philippe Sly wanted to fully immerse himself to portray St. Francis

BY DAVID BELCHER

High on a hilltop overlooking Salzburg, Philippe Sly, the bass-baritone singer, is living with Franciscan monks for more than two months, juggling the demands of a lead role while also being present to monarchs life.

Last year, he decided that portraying St. Francis in the new Salzburg Festival production of the French opera "St. François d'Ausne" required an immersive course of spiritual proportions.

That shot at the Kapazinerkloster, a monastery across the Salbach River from the festival theatres, is part of what makes the second production of this opera at the festival (it played there in 1993 and 1994, in a new famous production by the director Peter Sellars) a revelation for several artists involved in this mammoth production.

St. François d'Ausne," written by Olivier Messiaen and first performed in Paris in 1964, is running for six performances through Sunday and coincides with the 60th anniversary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi. This rarely performed work, given its epic run time and huge cast and orchestra, depicts perhaps history's most famous saint's life of poverty and devotion to nature, and his ascension to heaven. It is regarded as a contemporary masterpiece and is known for Messiaen's intricate modern score that celebrates birthing, a seal to his own devotion to methodology and to St. Francis's godlike love for birds.

For Sly, who is making his role debut with St. Francis, performing himself in the teachings of St. Francis was crucial, much the way that Messiaen devoted himself to understanding the saint.

"I called the monastery a great sign to see it a real possible, and it was the shortest conversation I've ever had as it was an immediate 'yes,'" Sly, 27, explained in a video call during rehearsals last month.

Sly, who was featured Catholic and grew up in Ottawa as Episcopalian (he now lives in Quebec), took his commis-

ment of being an integral part of the daily lives of these monks seriously.

"They gave me this lovely room. I sat with them, if I'm there during the day I go to vespers," he said. "There is eachy, rot, so I tend to have time to go to that because rehearsal starts a little later."

It was also during these rehearsals that Mautner Pascal, the conductor, as discovered "St. François d'Ausne." He had conducted it in 2023 at the Festival Eserais in Bucharest, Romania, so he already knew the intricacies of the opera, but it keeps evolving as a major piece, he said in a recent video interview.

"When you are French and you have been in the Conservatoire de Paris, all of Messiaen's music is learned and analyzed as a young musician," Pascal, 40, said. "This work is a synthesis of three aspects of Messiaen: his expression in music of human faith, the idea of color in music and his use of birthing."

Messiaen was fascinated by birds and, starting in 1952, began to document their sounds in small overheads as he traveled the world, in addition to meticulously studying original medieval accounts of Francis's life, including "Little

Flowers of St. Francis," and the saint's own writings. He was determined to know St. Francis but struggled with his health as he completed the piece (he died in 1992).

"Messiaen was sure that this would be his cross song, so there is also an aspect of the work that is a kind of remixment," Pascal said. "On the night of the premiere, he said that he felt totally empty, that his work was done. This opera is a very beautiful and personal gesture."

Willard White, a bass-baritone singer, who will turn 60 to October, sang the title role in the San Francisco Opera production in 1992, the only U.S. production. Now, he is returning to "St. François d'Ausne," this time in the smaller role of a friar. The play holds many memories for him, he said, especially how it all forced audiences in 1992.

"The conductor of the San Francisco production said that people said that that when they heard the music or watched the piece that a profound change has taken place in their life," he recalled. "And I would meet people in the street or in restaurants who said virtually the

same thing. They didn't know what had happened, but they were completely transformed by this piece."

And transfermaster is also at the heart of this piece for Romeo Camithacci, the director, down to the details. The opera is being staged at one of the Salzburg Festival theatres built into a memorandum. It's a coincidence that feels especially overediginous because St. Francis found refuge in caves, he said.

"The Polonoretischale seemed like the perfect landscape for me, since he scale is very large, and the theater is literally carved into a rock, which is visible anethat," he said in a video interview.

For Camithacci, 60, the staging and the director music both reflect St. Francis on the 60th anniversary of his death. It all feels more important than ever, given the friar's commitment to peace amid today's world facing simultaneous wars and global political turmoil, he said, and the numbers are staggering: 150 musicians, 90 chorus members and a running time of six hours (with two one-hour intermissions).

"St. Francis discovered the relation-

ship between humankind and nature, and that mankind is equal to animals, plants and so on," Camithacci said. "You have run a cathedral for Messiaen. You have to be lost in a way in a forest of birds."

Several of the monks at the Kapazinerkloster are planning to attend one of the performances of "St. François d'Ausne." Sly was aware of how St. Francis inspired the Franciscan brothers around him when he witnessed their devotion to simplicity. Sly said he carried that with him into the theater and into his portrayal of St. Francis, since living with the brothers allowed him a true understanding of one's submission to the divine. He marveled at how this prowess helped him find his voice.

"I was already feeling guilty about not being able to attend all of the brothers' practices, but then I realized that they had to judgment toward me at all, which I thought was striking," he recalled. "And I began to look forward each morning to submitting to something, to a communal event that I can then release myself into and join that wave. It's been so beautiful."

Convenience Philippe Sly, top left, performing in the title role in "St. François d'Ausne," in the new Salzburg Festival production of the French opera. During his preparation for the role, Sly immersed himself in the life of a Franciscan monk, going on for us to stay at the Kapazinerkloster, about a monastery across the river from the festival theatres.

For sale: A writer's stronghold

The former home of Stefan Zweig in a jewel of Salzburg's literary history

BY DALE BERNDIG SAWA

The Puschinger Schliest, the former home of Stefan Zweig, the Jewish American writer, subsequently appeared for sale with the French luxury real estate company La Fajare Properties in June. The masters has long been meaningful to Salzburg, Austria, which is also home to the namesake six-week festival celebrating classical music, opera and theater now in its 100th year.

Middles within two acres of wooded parkland on the Kapazinerberg, a city mountain in Salzburg, this elderly home has belonged to Wolfgang Porsche since 2020. The 50-year-old German car magically purchased it from the same local merchant family, the Gellholers, to whom Zweig's first wife Frederike sold it, for $2,000 (dollars), in 1927.

The cards, which cost Porsche 19.4 million (59.39 million), is now priced at $14,340,900. It has been beautifully restored. Exactly what prompted the sale remains unclear. In 2025, the city controversially granted Porsche planning permission for a private access road and parking space intended into the mountain. The current listing highlights this permission, should its future owner act on it, so "an unparalleled feature within historic Salzburg."

Responding to an email request for an interview with the editor, a spokesman for the international Skidling in Stuttgart, Germany, said, "Regrettably, we are unable to comment on this matter, as it concerns a purely private matter on which St. Porsche has not made any public statements to date."

A longstanding campaign for the city or the University of Salzburg to secure the property for public use has been revived. A petition underscoring Zweig's legacy in promoting "correspondingism, understanding between nations, and peace in Europe" has garnered more than 6,000 signatures from actors, playwrights, musicians and others. When asked if the university stands a chance to purchase the property, Bernhard Fitzgerald, the school's rector, said in a phone interview that it depends on the seller, but he hoped to.

Born in Vienna in 1891, Zweig purchased this pool a score in 2017 as a write-up retreat. It worked, in literary terms, Martina Weinfjeter-Pech, director of the Stefan Zweig Center at the University of Salzburg, said over video that the 13 years he spent there were his most fertile. In 2022, he published "tutnik," a novella so widely acclaimed that it made

Zweig one of the most road and mandated German-language authors of the 100th. His 1942 contest, "The World of Temeeling" angered Wm. Auberma's "The Grand Budapest Hotel."

Salzburg also became something of an international superstar, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the author, and the film and theater director Max Bernhardt, both Austrians of Jewish descent, founded the Salzburg Festival in 2020. In his moment, Zweig described it as "a world attraction, a modern Olympic of art. Rings and princes, American millenaires and film stars, music lovers, artists, poets and males would assemble in Salzburg; never had there been a similar conversation of theatrical and musical perfection in Europe."

That belies a complex relationship. In several letters, Zweig bemaned the frenzy, the festival brought to his hideaway as "the devil's work with Auberma." This is in reference to von Hoffmannstädt's adaptation of the English medieval Worship play "Everyone, which has been staged annually since SALZBURG. PAIZ #1."

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Stefan Zweig, above, bought the Salzburg home in 1917 as a writing retreat, and it worked. The 10 years he spent there were his most productive, an expert said. In 1934, he filed the home after Austrian police ended it and Hitler's rise to power.

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Tara Erraught stands her ground

The opera singer relishes her role debut in 'Il viaggio a Reims'

BY REBECCA SCHMID

In her latest role, the soprano Tara Erraught took a cue from the hospitality industry.

As Madamul Center in Rossini's road-cup comedy "Il viaggio a Reims," which opened at the Salzburg Witness Festival in May and returned to the larger summer stage through last Sunday, she had to hold the first in a spaceware where blue-blooded guests from all over the world found themselves engaged by a lack of barore to take them to the coronation of Charles X in Reims, France.

As it happens, the Irish native is the daughter of professional chefs. "I always thought our industries are the same," she says, as a video interview from the German FremgeHouse, the Salzburg Festival's main venue. "We work with the ingredients we have and give everything we can."

Early in her career, she learned to stay grounded in the theses of what can be a challenging business. In 2014, critics from major British newspapers declared Erraught's body type unsuited to the role of Octavian in Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier" at Glyndebourne Opera. Leading artists from Avram Norman to Alice Coote rose to her defense, emphasizing that quality of singing, not physical appearance, should be decisive (she also received daughters backstage in a sign of solidarity).

Now an established figure on the international opera stage, Erraught has worked in recent years to support the next generation of singers. In 2018, she founded "Celebrating the Voice," a professional development program that offers master classes, public lectures and performances, more recently at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. She served on the board of directors at Irish National Opera through 2023, a company that will celebrate its 10th anniversary in the 2022-23 season.

Geringe, Rossini and Mozart rack-antong her staple repertoire. Erraught, 48, has also ventured into less-known

territory such as the songs of Alexa Mulder, most known as the wife of the Austrian composer Gustav Mulder, but an artist in her own right, and an album exploring Giusto Ferdinando Trosbacci, the Italian cantate, whose professional travels rank him to Dublin in the 16th century.

The coming season includes the soprano part of Mulder's Second Symphony with the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland as they commemorate 15 years after the attacks of Sept. 11. In February 2017, she will make her first appearance at Milan's La Scala, in Donna Divita in Mozart's "Don Giovanni," a role which she will return to at Paris National Opera in May. Erraught will sing her first concert without a conductor, in a program ranging from Handel to Life Boulanger with the Irish Chamber Orchestra in March.

As she settles into her role as Madama Cartoon, the singer spoke about the collaboration with director Barrie Rosby, the opera world in Ireland and more. The following interview has been lightly edited and condensed.

How is this Rossini role different than others you have sung?

An issue as I opened the score, I thought of the old TV show "Fawley Towers." Everything that can go wrong goes wrong! And I'm running this hotel.

It's the first time I've been asked to do a piece-pulver section. That is usually left to the men. I had to spend four months every day, saying it faster every time. It became muscle memory because of the way Barrie rehearses. He's a genius at reading the room and knowing what the artists need to do to facilitate his vision.

We ran it from the point of view of a busy lady who's running a business. No matter how annoyed she gets, she knows that the customer's always right. She is the only person in the show who's expected to be empathetic to cultural differences from every end of Europe and beyond.

This is also your first time performing with Cecilia Bartoli, a veteran Rossini interpreter.

During college in Dublin, I worked as an subversive in the National Concert Hall. I saw her sing and was unconcerted.

She has been so kind and supportive my whole way up. She arrives at the first rehearsal with a team of new ornaments and exciting things, yet when you speak to her to the one else, she treats you like an equal, which is wild.

Barry, Cecilia and Maestro (Gianluca

Capuano, the conductor) said that everybody was handpicked out just for their vocal abilities, but for how our characters would meld together. And the room was very open. You could offer anything medically or dramatically.

What advice do you give for young singers as they start their careers?

I think we have to ask them to stop up and learn about the industry. Although we want the highest artistic level, the business since Covid is different.

It used to be that theaters booked three to five years in advance. Now some wait to see the results of the box office on a certain title. So we have to stay flexible repertoire-wise.

I started "Celebrating the Voice" because we many incredible singers had already appreciated the rest of us would have had. Two customers ago, an artist in residence at the Glimmerglass Festival in upstate New York, I also decided to run talks and master classes.

My picture is very young singers who to come to Europe as quickly as possible and get a first job. At the Bavarian State Opera, I spent two years in the opera studio and 10 in the ensemble and made 48 role debuts.

It's wonderful that you're investing in education as early in your career.

What good is knowledge if you don't share it? When I left Ireland, there was very little live opera. Now we have this incredible national company.

It is funny to say at the moment, but it's an exciting time for opera in Ireland. I can't explain how proud that makes you to bring what you've learned abroad home.

When you look back on the incident in 2014, how have things changed for women in the classical music industry?

It started a big conversation that I don't think is a bad one. It was incredible is that time how other singers gathered and formed this bridge of protection.

My room also came from Ireland and took away my phone and my laptop, which was a massive blessing.

I am so grateful to have a family that is grounded and sensible. Because it might have broken somebody else. You always try your very best, working with what you have on that given day.

Be stage From left, a portrait of Tara Erraught, who debuts at the Salzburg Festival in the role of Madonna Cartoia in Gioacchino Rossini's rarely performed comic opera "Il viaggio a Reims." A scene in the opera with Erraught and the dancers Maria Rosetten, Roland Gliccy and Matt Ering.

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the festival's very beginning. That did not stop Zweig, starting to be involved, but his attempts to get his plays in the program were repeatedly dwarfed. According to Wingitner-Peck, "Hoffmannsthal had little regard for Zweig, either as a writer or a person." They were rivals, she said, both publishing with the same German publishing house and both been in influence its program.

Professional animosity aside, both the festival and Zweig's wider activities, of which the castle became the symbol, were ended in "humanism, openness, pacifism and the belief, the conviction that culture would bring people together," said Wingitner-Peck. It is tempting to think this pointed to a thriving Jewish intellectual presence in the city, but those ideals were to last nurtured in an unwelcoming climate. Zweig described Salzburg as "the biggest Nazi town" in 1839. "Salzburg has always been a very insincentive place," said Wingitner-Peck.

Puschinger Schlibert doesn't feature in any of Zweig's fiction. In "The World of Yesterday," however, he wrote about fixing it up and revised in his volume. He convened an international return of intellectuals, pacifists, artists and humanists. Jules Romanin, the French poet, nicknamed the castle the Villa Europa. Visitors included writers such as Thomas Mann, H.G. Wells, James Joyce and Paul Vialtry, along with artists, composers and musicians like Maurice Ravel, Richard Strauss, Alban Berg, Béla Bartók and Arlene Toscano. "Our guardbook would bear witness more reliably than mere memory, but it, together with the house and much else, will be the National Socialism," wrote Zweig.

Figureschub, of the University of Salzburg, described the 15-minute climb

up to the castle as "a story in itself." Most of Zweig's visitors would have arrived on land. "While walking up there's deadly, you inhale a part of this history," Figureschub said. In 2010, Gunter Deming, a German artist, installed four brass-Sudgermines, or "punching more," in the path to the house as a Holocaust memorial to honor Zweig, Friderike and her two daughters from her first marriage, Alexia and Susanne.

In 1916, a year after Hitler's rise to power, the Austrian police raided Zweig's house and he fled to England. Friderike, who converted to Catholicism at 22 before meeting Zweig, remained optimistic about Austria. Even after their marriage ended, and the castle was put on the market three years later, she stayed in Salzburg.

However, after the Nazis annexed Austria in 1930, the family's belongings

In 1938, Zweig described Salzburg, Austria, as "the biggest Nazi town."

were confiscated. Zweig's books were barred and his bank accounts were frozen by the Gestapo. Friderike and her daughters were forced into exile. The shock of seeing everything he had worked for - everything that had restored his faith in humanity after the first world war - he destroyed was unendurable. In 1942, he and his second wife, Lotte Ahrmann, died by suicide in a rental home in Brazil.

For Wingitner-Peck, to be able to stand in the home where Zweig nurtured his ideals, she said, "is a special thing." Opening it up to the world, she added, "is about the responsibility to future generations."

For sale Rome, the Puschinger Schlibert, which has been listed for more than $14.5 million. The home is currently owned by Wolfgang Preuske, the German car magnate, who bought it for nearly $10 million in 2020.

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Bread rations. Endless blackouts. How much more can Cubans endure?

Governments can afford to keep playing the waiting game. But ordinary citizens can't.

Michael J. Bustamante

Cubans are seasoned, involuntary experts at waiting — for the day's bread rations, for overcrowded bases, for vines to leave home. Since the pandemic threw the island into a deep crisis and especially since the Trump administration instituted an Act to curb blockade of Cuba in January, that daily exercise has become a slow suffocation.

Now Cubans wait for everything. They wait for imported food and over-the-counter medicines sent by relatives abroad. They wait for electricity that returns for only an hour or two each day or for a feeble breeze to the oppressive summer boat that might allow their children a couple of hours of sleep.

Most of all, Cubans wait for signs that Washington or their own government will land on a way out of their current insurrection — that they might finally live in a normal country, no longer trapped by decades of authoritarian politics, economic mismanagement, U.S. sanctions and an extended Cold War. Regardless of whether the island is heading toward a true political breaking point, no amount of jury-rigged power supplies or what President Miguel Díaz-Canel calls "creative commuter" can hide that Cuba's people are being pushed to the limits of what they can endure.

The uncertainty has driven different players to stake their hopes on a range of possible transfer. the fall of Cuba's Communist regime, a negotiated U.S.-backed transition to democracy or military action leading to a kind of U.S. protestation in the style, most recently, of Venezuela. But the most likely one is that the waiting will continue — an embodied stalemate with ordinary Cubans paying the price.

Some, particularly in the Cuban diaspora, are expecting Cuba's equivalent of Eastern Europe in 1989, when Communist regimes fall across the region. Rosa María Pezá, the exiled daughter of the state pre-democracy activist Oswaldo Pezá, has described the Cuban government as the "Berlin Wall of our time." Accordingly, though with negligible coordination with Cubans on the island, Cuban American community leaders have douted off, updated or drafted new plans for a democratic transition.

For much of this spring, however, it was not clear that 1989 was the historical parallel the Trump administration had in mind. In direct communications with Raúl Castro's grandson and members of Cuba's security establishment, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the C.I.A. director, John Ratcliffe, signaled their opinions in letting some of the island's Communist authorities stay in power, provided that Havana honest state control over the economic release political prisoners and eliminate security ties to U.S. adversaries.

Since May, though, the possibility of such a deal has revealed, As Cuba has refused to accept Washington's demands for significant leadership change, the U.S. government has deobject secondary sanctions that have forced many foreign companies to withdraw from the island. Neither an economic liberalization package announced in June nor the July release of the country's highest profile political prisoner, the artist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, has compelled the administration to budge.

This impasse the reinforced suspicion that the Trump administration intended to inflict economic hardship all along — not to induce concessions but to create the conditions for widespread social unrest.

Summer has often been Cuba's season of political upheaval, from the 1994 Malcoman serial Cuba's post-fierce economic depression to the nationwide

marches on July 31, 2025, at the depth of the pandemic. Recent energy grid collapses have brought fresh signs of public anger. Neighborhood cooverbursts — loud pin hanging sessions — and street blockades made of burning trash are almost nightly occurrences. A slide inadvertently shows during a televised government briefing revealed officials are concerned about an "establish social," or a social explosion.

Yet growing instability does not another 1999 make. The collapse of Communist rule in most of Eastern Europe depended not only on popular discussion but also on divisions within the ruling elite and oppositions with significant popular bases. So far, Cuba's coercive apparatus remains intact, the threat of repression has weakened any opposition's reach, and mass emigration continues to substitute for mass mobilization, with as many as two million Cubans touring the island since 2020. The effective closure of the U.S. border to Cuban carries since 2020 has simply redirected hundreds of thousands of migrants to other destinations.

If internal hardship does not automatically portend regime collapse, it might be tempting to conclude that change can come only from without. For weeks the Trump administration

has been dropping hints of coming military action by framing Cuba as a national security threat, citing the vastly intelligent ties to China and Russia, its purported acquisition of drones from Iran and its alleged role in what the State Department calls hemispheres' "subversion" past and present.

The May indictment of Mr. Castro, charging him with involvement in the 1996 shooting, does not have Cuban American civilian aircraft, also provides a pretext for some kind of Ma-đuro-style law enforcement extraction.

Any American intervention, though, would call to mind a different historical parallel: 1995, the beginning of a four-year U.S. military occupation that led to the birth of a Cuban republic subservient in U.S. economic and political interests.

Few observers seriously expect another fall American occupation of Cuba. But history need not repeat itself as literally to rhyme with the

imperial refrains of old. President Trump has publicly floated a "friendly takeover" of the island. By forcing the exit of major hotel operators and other Cuban state partners, the administration's secondary sanctions have dread and Cuban assets and potentially cleared the dock for acquisitions by U.S. companies at bargain basement prices.

Meanwhile, Mr. Castro's grandson, who holds no formal leadership position in Cuba, has effectively declared Cuba open for business and expressed his experience to negotiate directly with Mr. Trump. Embracing a Castro family member as Cuba's analogue to Delcy Rodriguez, Venezuela's interim leader, may prove unacceptable to many in the White House, not least Mr. Rubio. But Venezuela's example offers a sobering precedent: Military action to Cuba may not guarantee democracy so much as a new order in which the secretary of state operates as an economic variety, working with a close circle to hand out the spalls.

For now, all these scenarios seem more imaginary than insistence. Even absent other foreign lighters, Cuban officials have shown scant willingness to do Washington's bidding. Nor has the government in Havana been offered a consistent offrapp. Meeting

Washington's demands would amount to negotiating the regime's own demise.

Washington's room for maneuvering is also constrained. Despite recent reports of a new Cuba task force at the C.I.A., military escalation risks one, leveling the United States in an even greater national reconstruction project than in Venezuela at a moment when the administration is again consumed by the conflict in Iran. The domestic political costs of a new entanglement in Cuba could also weigh heavily ahead of this fall's U.S. uniform elections.

That leaves both sides locked in a pattern of tire y afloja, a push and pull, in which each looks for the other to make a truly consequential concession first. But time is not on the Cuban people's side. They cannot indefinitely postpone meals, medical procedures or more consequential decisions about their personal and political futures.

Governments can afford to keep playing the waiting game. Ordinary Cubans cannot.

MICHAEL J. BUSTAMANTE is a professor of Cuban and Cuban American studies at the University of Miami and the author of "Cuban Memory Wars: Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile."

Cubans wait for imported food and over-the-counter medicines sent by relatives abroad. They wait for electricity that returns for only an hour or two each day or for a feeble breeze to the oppressive summer boat.

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David Ellison's pipe dream of a red-state Hollywood

Sharon Waxman

The Paramount Skydance chief executive David Ellison has developed to ambulate the crowd by moving his company from California to a rookie state like Tennessee, Georgia or Texas.

The backlash was immediate. This over-the-road recording idea was directed by David P. Leber to the industry as the collector of someone unaccustomed to being told to.

"We could do even the next thing? The question has thrown Hollywood into chaos. After all, Mr. Ellison is, mostly wrote a New York Times Opinion guest essay about how his kid is energy Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery would bring health and prosperity to the movie business. He also presented to be guided by 'have and trust' in the news between the 4,000 most company, which would include both CBS and CNN.

But he is apparently most of fighting California's attorney general, Bob Bonta, who along with 51 other Democratic state attorneys general filed an assistant lawsuit over the merger. A judge ruled that a total would start in 2020, according to the terms of the merger deal, Paramount has to start paying Warner shareholders a 'kicking

No one really wants to move from Brownsville to Nashville.

to Nashville. He's really stressing about production. He's not saying to you, merger-related job year and the threat of A.I. stop replacing human creative work, was shocked by reports of Mr. Ellison's first threat to head to a red state. In he serious? Weren't we supposed to take him at this word that he does this industry?

From the Paramount panel of view, it's sensible. Why stay in a state that bates it so? Why not sell the movie less to end rookie developers and move the company to somewhere it's wanted?

The Warner and Paramount movie studio lots are estimated to be worth billions of dollars. The savings in state tax are estimated at $500 million a year.

I'm hearing that Nashville is the most likely destination if this move were expected to come to you. David Ellison's father, the Ocasio Insulate Larry Ellison, is already transferring the tech company's headquarters there.

There has long been a dream from the right to create an alternative to left-leaning Hollywood. Nashville is home to not only country music but, in the M-USA, not a bus supply to become, as our Times article put it in 2022, "Hollywood for Conservatives".

"Paramount leaders have insisted to me Mr. Ellison's new was not a state. 'We're mostly serious,' said a company executive who claimed to be house-burning in Tennessee already.

The implications, too, are deadly serious for the heart and soul of the entertainment industry. Hollywood has already lost about 42,000 jobs -- about a third of the labor force -- in the past few years. The problem of production

jobs that fled is states with better tax incentives have only started to return with California improving its tax credit to last year.

This affidavit work force would resist pulling up states and moving to Tennessee. And top-line talent, actors, writers and directors, who live in Los Angeles, like the Duffie Brothers of "Stranger Things" who signed a four-year deal with Paramount last year, will be may prology for competitors. As for the tough days, things a Hollywood romans an industry that is tight-knit and relationship-driven. It's a hard-hit}-only covenants! This gathers in mobile spaces, whether the studio lets, the finest like it is, drivers golf course or restaurants like Craig's.

What is so crazy about this standoff is that the 2020-2021 year-old business leaders have been aligned on the need to bring production back to California to particular and the United States to general. Even Donald Trump has proposed a reduction in pricing and the nauseous production back standoffs 25K, as it's more swiftly.

The front-runner in the California governor's race, Xavier Becerra, appealed to both sides, says the big-knit old space the state, plus whatever's left of Hollywood. "Let's be adults, not be kids," he said last Tuesday. "Conference mean, not courtroom."

Last Wednesday, the Director Guild of America and UCFIE, the union that represents reclassicals, articulated that a subgroups, basically begged the two sides to settle the lawsuit and stop the crazy essentially saying that the industry is going into far: That's how everyone has been feeling for the past few days. Let's stop playing chicken with thousands of jobs, movies and media corporations.

Amid all this, Gov. Garde Newsom's press office accused unregulated the Paramount's streaming service of Wednesday "for receiving the latest round of the California Film Tax Credit" for its sequel to the movie "Charlton."

Mr. Ellison has not come out looking good in this appeal. My phone rang all work with Hollywood players feeling whipsword by this merger battle. There's also a contention that Mr. Bonta is loving his moment to the spotlight at the possible expense of getting a deal done. There is also a chance that the subregionsment of Mr. Ellison's threat is exactly what it necessary to focus everybody on figuring a way out.

It seems impractical to keep the merger in battle for the most second months until the March trial date. The feeling is Hollywood is very much what a sense communication exercises with me this week. People are worn out. The years of pandemic, two years of disruption have labor strikes and two years of studio constellationes with jobs disappearing by the thousands.

For me would make opportunity, and certainly no one wants this chaos. And let's face it, no one really wants to move from Beverly Hills to Nashville.

SUSANNE WAXMAN | On Question. And executive and editor in chief of The Wrap.

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Pulling back from the edge of disaster. Again.

E.J. Dionne Jr.

Contributing Writer

My candidate for the most unexpected but also most important word of the summer of Democratic dissonance comes from an unlikely source.

When a New York Times reporter asked child El-Sayed, the Democrats' left-wing Senate summers in Michigan, to describe Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, in one or two words, he said, "Progressive." This is the same Dr. El-Sayed who said earlier, "O you're Chuck Schumer, I'm pretty damn dangerous."

It seems that two can work the pragmatic side of the street. For Democrats who hope for a truer in the fast-kned warfare that has engulfed the party since the June victories of democratic socialists in primaries in New York and Colorado, Dr. El-Sayed's single conciliatory word had the ring of high penny.

Democratic primary voters in Wisconsin proved themselves to be pragmatic, too. Last Tuesday, David Crowley, the moderate Milwaukee County executive supported by the departing Governor, Gary Tracy, the state's head of Congress, being a democratic socialist who had rejected a large polling load. Mr. Crowley profited from base of the state's Democratic road and the fact that the Republican Republicans back into the governor's business – worries aggressively for the most serious reasons for the 'sophisticer: In 2020 she said that Thanksgiving should be expected and called it a "colonize" holiday!

In Milwaukee's Democratic primary, the progressive by the state governor, Peggy Flanagan, continually defeated the moderate representative Anglo-Craig. Like Dr. El-Sayed, Ms. Flanagan ran as a line of corporate power: the one that chases the state's versus the money? But she also had a long history with the state's Democratic voters and rejected the support of Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren (both of whom did not endorse Ms. Hong), as well as Tina Smith, the senator she is bidding to replace.

The ideologically right National verdict may have the salutary effect of pushing back against the sometimes hysterical (and also inaccurate) commentary: about a Democratic electorate in the third of a Seattle Day showdown. The showback politicians on both sides of the left-woman-center (or, if you prefer, insurgent-versus-solate-Infomeric) barricades understand that the only hope Republican have of avoiding a devastating defeat this fall is to keep voters from banning as President Trump and their company in its deeply unpopular failures. They want to make it instead about Democratic "radicalism" and – all, that followed Globalize – "blast cut."

"But here sales of the fight will have to interstate this danger. In his excellent collection of essays "What Caused the Civil War?" the historian Edward

L. Ayers summarizes a central lesson from the Pentagon Redskull 'Adults: 'All people'. Mr. Ayers writes, 'we're capable of both self-awareness and self-deception.' Parlamadian encourages self-deception and makes it hard for him to concede even the valid parts of their rivals' story lines.

For starters, the left and the center have to harmonize their differences in how they think about Mr. Ayers. As the political writer Ron Brownstein observed recently, the left typically argues that while Mr. Trump is danger

too, he is more symptom than cause of the country's problems.

In American politics, it seems that controls and the left can work the pragmatic side of the street. More contrast Denocratic tried to resist that the Trump catastrophe is unique in our history and the crisis the country faces is primarily of his making.

The answer is obvious: Mr. Trump is indeed a symp-

ture of something bigger, but he is also regularly corrupt, incompetent and dangerous to democracy.

The left is correct that Democrats need to offer voters far more than as end to Trumpism and a restoration of the earlier status quo. The campaigns of both Hillary Clinton in 2018 and Ramola Harris in 2019 created too much as voters recognizing Mr. Trump's usefulness and did not spend enough time addressing economic dissonance. Whatever the contribute think of Dr. El-Sayed, his campaign mantra — "Money out of politics, money in your pocket" — brilliantly married disaffection from the political system with recent subjugations over their financial circumstances. Ms. Flanagan's campaign did the same.

But there can be no getting away from the fact that winning in 2020

depends above all so mobilizing the roughly 60 percent of Americans who are fed up with Mr. Trump. The fact among Democrats that their leaders failed when to keep him out of the White House is understandable: But honestly, the second sign went after: Mr. Trump's office from which it's invading that Wisconsin Democrats, who understand the costs of an eight-year Republican tribute to power better Mr. Everett's 2018 victory, spied the safety over adversaries.

The other central difference between the center and the left is their theories on who wins decisions. The left is also most that progressive insurances can win closely fought contests; the center thinks only moderates can.

Controls are right that more moderate candidates tend to perform better in swing status and districts (although some political scientists have noticed a decline in the impact of blowing in the left is right that to win, Democrats need a more populist approach rooted in progressive economics. Most moderate Democrats have heard the call. The New Senate candidate Josh Tuvist prevailed in the Democratic primary against a candidate to his left, but he is running on what he calls "a prairie-populist's platform."

Mr. Tuvist's program endeavors among other things, "is federal has an price gouging on food," barring "Wall Street private equity firms from purchasing single-family homes and furniture," promising to "take on Big Pharms" and "cracking down on unfair wages" and monopolies. Opposing corporate power, unfair taxes and concentrated wealth is new mainstream.

The left, in turn, must confront the reality that many of its candidates have struggled to gain traction with the very working class for which they claim to speak. In Michigan, Dr. El-Sayed overwhelmed his opponent

Representative Mistry Stevens is university owner and among younger and younger in the industrial district, while she carried the Black vote in District and performed well among older voters and in working-class communities.

Some campaigning workers goes to the moral and intellectual heart of the left's project, well-relaxated fellow candidates, and large on checks. But the wings galleons are what they are, and the most electrically successful politicians on the left have privileged nighttime economic policies over cultural questions.

The two wings of the party agree on the need to focus on pocketbook issues while finding more politically sustainable ways of bringing faith with their commitments to marginalized groups.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez F. Perez Veda cannot a lot on Sunday when she quoted a fellow politician who declared, "Woke I was crazy." Often lost in the account is what she said next: The Wake I dissuasless "were quite foolish." But point was that the protests of 2020 unleashed a necessary reckoning with injustice but that the "throats is that time is not throats that we would can today." Progressives, she said, also want to bring crime down.

Cult A, well, pragmatism. Or just learning lessons the hard way, it's not a phrase. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez involved, the success of a "big tent" party depends on welcoming people inside, out on finding ways of driving out everyone who falls short of one fanfare's idea of perfection. Malvern Democratic meets to get that.

E.J. DIONNE JR. is the author of "Why Americans Buss Politics," "Our Divided Political Heart," "Why the Right Were Wrong" and, most recently, "Alright Democracy," with Miles Rapoport.

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the rivers presents not only no经验证 hazard but also a major strategic challenge for Europe, as a time when fresh problems are as welcome as old hustles revealed on a riverbed. Europe is already strong in the world with a once-in-a-generation economic transformation. the rise of Chinese high-tech manufacturing and electric vehicles is parting back, while Western European automotive firms such as Volkswagen and Porsche.

Simultaneously it is wroeling with a major energy crisis. The current needs to craft its addiction to Russian gas while pivoting in renewables, including wind and solar.

In the face of President Trump's discussions and his suggestions of President Vladimir Putin of Russia, Europe is cutting its reliance on U.S. defense assets in favor of greater self-reliance. Conflict in the Middle East and the closing of the Strait of Harmful have revealed weaknesses in supply chains.

In conversations about how to respond, the bestowards most overrued in the European Union's headquarters in Brussels are "strategic autonomy" — the idea that Europe will induce reliance on foreign goods and military protection, meet the challenge of a rising China and a increasing Russia and deploy new technology to deliver a future that is greener, wealthier and healthier.

On paper, these are worthy goals. The problem is that the community leaders seem to assume that Europe's physical geography will remain unchanged and that the huge adversages afforded by rivers such as the Rhine and the Baseline can be taken for granted. These advantages include the ability to transport goods across the continent at low cost, easy access to the ports at places such as Hamburg and Rotterdam, and sufficient access to fresh water for marine, furlough, hydropower and cooling

nuclear power plants.

Now, it is rapidly becoming clear that the terrain on which Europeans live, work and travel is changing before our eyes.

Rivers can no longer be relied on to provide an inexpensive, reliable, relatively low-carbon alternative to road and air freight. Rivers cannot form the industrial backbone of the European Union's push for autonomy from Chinese and American supply chains — they run dry. Nor can they provide them among independence or guarantee their safety.

Responding to these changes will not be easy. Just as the war in Iran is forcing some Middle Eastern countries to develop new supply lines and export routes, Europe needs to change seriously about how to develop alternative transport and energy networks that reduce its reliance on rivers. That could take decades and major huge investment in new infrastructure. Some places that grew rich through waterborne trade, such as the German Rhenland or Rotterdam, may lose out. And rivers may no longer lead together. European neighbors in ways that made it easier to avoid relying on the outside world.

Take away Europe's blue highways, and all the grand talk about building new industries, finding new trading partners and generating clean energy begins to look rather hollow.

One Dutch-sutural outlet recently suggested using firefighting helicopters to refill the Rhine. That may be unlikely, but it's clear Europe needs to begin thinking about its rivers more radically and more seriously — as a strategic asset rather than just an environmental sub-story.

NEW CHATEL is a columnist for the Dutch newspaper Algenvers Dagblad and is the author of books including "The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest Rivers for Reconciliation to the Age" and "The Invention of Amsterdam."

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A.I. baby tracking is booming

EASY MONTHS, FROM PAGE 2 with relentless data collection by a forged tech company, the Nault has always been a little threatening. A branding consultant that helped create the product's "social identity" canon in a case study on its website: "The control challenge is this project was how to introduce this novel technology to the parenting market while transcending the negative connotations of 'sovemberan'".

Millennial and First 2 parents seem to have been persuaded. Nault says it has one million daily users and cannot revenue of more than $100 million. The most expensive version of its kit costs $450 and roughly $500 a year in other types of fans. And the market for baby tracking only getting more crowded.

Owen, Naut's biggest rival, offers a $200 million $1 million in the "fair" selection to a baby's feet through a neck. Blackshστεy, a free app for tracking levelings and danger changes, markets a $125 upgrade membership with "tight-catching products" and the parents to an artificial intelligence chatter that after logging your baby's habits, can deliver personalized guidance and your talks. Caltech's $250 Smart Baby Member 3 turns "A.I.-scheduled 'talkshot'" and sends alerts when a baby's face is covered.

In the products and their prosthetic problems, I've gotten a little sense of it by how easy it's become to outsource daily parenting decisions to technology. The downsides of the rush are manifest: steadily high costs, the training of parents' autonomy and self-confidence; giving sensitive data to corporations. But there may be too stopping the growth of babyself as a category. Parents my age and younger are successfully willing to embrace tracking and analytics for their children - part of a broader cultural education with Naut's data and optimization. Nearly half of Americans own a wearable device, and the companies that make smart rings and smart wristbands have volunteers north of $10 billion.

Naut and its rivals want to own $5.7 health tracking for the sub-bias than us. And their already antiesitting levels of baby data collection are just the beginning. Naut's recently called the adult from investors to expand its use of A.I. and use its camera to track speech and language development, create skills and more, while extending its presence in children's bedrooms into early adolescence.

My older daughter is now 4 and has become aware of "the Nauts" which she refers to by name. I decided I wanted to know more about the company whose products share an up take all right - and which has designs to start tracking them in the future.

WORTH NIGHTS Naut's office in downtown Manhattan recently. I was greeted by the sight of a lifelike baby did tying in a $100 with under one of the company's cameras. The doll was clad in a movie and a $20 Naut Broadway band, which was printed with a color of a wagon and diamonds. By analyzing the movement of plants, the company's software can quantify every one and full of a baby's time and need agents to prevent phases of children's use.

Naut's was founded in 2016 by Anad Glaven, an Israeli who had just compared a Ph.D. to market more and compare vision at the Techsens-Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Glaven and his wife had witnessed their first child, and he was sleep-depressed. With a 5-year-old girl, she was a child with a 4-year-old third child, he began to dreamt up a device that could identify and analyze sleep beyond the millennium's baby moisture then on the market.

"Nauts" was designed with words like "sunny" and "snow" in mind and was meant to evoke "cutting-edge technology" and "the world's first".

Since 2016, Naut's has been led by Anad-like Sultans. At the former generation, he was a 2nd generation of a 2nd woman 100 employees, most of whom are parents, who work under the tighter, freshly second generation of a baby's father. When we met at Naut's office, Mr. Sultans was working on from ring and was also testing a Winsep band, and she spoke earnestly about how Naut is: "A factory by the child answer" in such devices.

"When I happened with adult tracking is beginning to trickle down now in a much more meaningful way to kids," she said. "I know, when I'm on a bed, even I talk more I really starting to wear a baby-Workman and things like that and I arrived age 10 for the most part of the years. I don't wonder how to really think it might be better than to have all the place that we live!"

Sleep tracking and optimization will be a major factor about classroom life. Sultans said, But already, the app offers some health features, such as automatically detecting and recording audio of coughs that can be shared with pediatric patients. The app also offers a variety of potential to giving its app the ability to weigh in an speech and reduce development. The app also offers a variety of tools, particularly Hyperfectity. Mr. Sultans said, the app used fringe a delay and after parents (up for improvement, like reading more half-life in stories.

The app also offers a variety of tools and features to maintain in the benefits of their technology. Mr. Irrig, the chief software app officer, shared more ideas. What if a 5-year-old were diagnosed with a med-

cal condition, and unique patterns from the Naut's mind help explain it? Maybe you have a super introverted kid and you want to understand if some of the motion patterns when they were babies kind of produced that, "by said," Is there it? have to be a bad thing.

To hear the comparison will fit, the benefits of antiesitting babysuit are life-changing. From the children's use in users get 30 extra nights of sleep a year, because parents feel more confident shifting babies to their own rooms early, and that its monitoring can prevent a baby's skull from getting flat. The company has paid for studies on new parents' and habits and suggested that having a baby's head to move into a new home. Owner and Blackshστεy claim that more than 90 percent of their customers enjoy better sleep.

Parents are losing a little bit of the month of their own confidence and decision-making!

Kurt Weckman, the chief executive of Ovelin, which he co-founded in 2002 in Utah, told me that he's noticed parents are stinging "way lower questions on how the data can be useful, and what it could mean, and it is safe." The company, which is public, had revenue of $100 million last year and says that more than 2.5 million people have used its products. "We have parents who are like, I know I can put my baby to sleep when their baby has gone below this level, and they'll stay asleep," said Mr. Weckman. "We're already starting to look that."

In 2021, the Food and Drug Administration sent Mr. Weckman a warning letter after finding that Ovelin had violated a federal law with marketing. He vowed into the world of medical devices: ask the Ovelin's Smart Soch product had produced the device would also parents about dangerous changes in their children's pulse rates and blood

A.I. baby tracking is booming. A 2nd generation of a 2nd woman 100 employees, most of whom are parents, who work under the tighter, freshly second generation of a baby's father. The girl is a child with a 4-year-old third child, he has been a child with a 4-year-old third child, he has been a child with a 4-year-old third child, he has been a child with a 4-year-old third child, he has been a child with a 4-year-old third child, he has been a child with a 4-year-old third child, he has been a child with a 4-year-old third child, he has been a child with a 4-year-old third child, he has been a child with a

enzyme levels. Now Ovelin tells an FDA-charred Dream Sack, leading "medical-grade monitoring" that "gives you real-time visibility into your baby's wellness, so you know, not given."

Some pediatricians have criticized Ovelin for marketing that makes use of fear - its website includes testimonials from families who say their babies could have faced "heart failure" and they can be wearing its device - and for causing unnecessary anxiety. When the Dream Sack malfunctioned, parents think their baby has stopped breathing. Mr. Weckman argues that the source about Ovelin's catching life-threatening conditions are "incredible" proof points. "That's a real world, tangible impact is having access to health technology," he said. "It's not to scare people but to share that this is real."

Plus, for all of Naut's claims and ambitions, parents often take to social media to complain that its most basic data can be wrong. The camera will help them or cross that didn't actually happen.

Rebekah Diamond, a pediatrician and assistant professor at Columbia University in New York, worries that parents who rely on these devices are thinking their natural instincts and allowing technology to interfere with one of the most universal and meaningful American experiences.

"I'm very cautious and way it of the big picture of kid tracking and health tracking and health monitoring, when it comes to this hyper-decubed, hyper-obsessive way it seems to be unwilling," Mr. Diamond said me. "Parents are losing a little bit of the month of their own confidence and decision-making."

Another words, baby tracking devices can be rehabilitating. "What would you do if you didn't have this app that and your baby needs a nap?" Dr. Glaven said. "You'd look at your baby. And see that they look tired!"

EASY MONTHS have their roots in fear. In 2022, American parents were horrified to learn that Charles A. Lindbergh's toddler one had been taken from his own

neal-fiber nursery (and eventually killed) while five adults were in the home. A few years later, Zenith Radio Corporation introduced the first commercial baby monitor. The "Radio Nurse" was designed to be "on guard" for babies and the sick and elderly. An instruction manual read: "If the baby cries - if the invalid wants a glance of way to - if there is a fire - if an intruder ceases - YOU KNOW IT DOESN'T?"

Nauts, Ovelin and their companies will operate in this space. The immediate risks influence recently rolled on the toddler work sleep using, saying his best ones babies like a "C.I.A. think not" now. I thanked you over his wife. I don't know why we have 24-hour CCTV footage of any such 1978. We're not going anywhere - he sleeps in a bag," he said.

You person who remains still close to all this parental anxiety is my older daughter. The Nauts is just a feature in her room. She understands that she can speak to my husband and the through the device, whose fear red lights think to power its sight vision, and that we can see her at sight through our phones. A daughter has the would develop sharpened legs about the camera if it will not play an extended role in her life, for years' in order.

Nauts believes that one another, he that, as it looks to control its presence in children's bedrooms beyond toddlerhood, is now covers, known as "Cannabis" that can make the monitor feel like a bunny, a bear or an elephant. Mr. Sultans said that making the camera look like a little friend or toy can "groom at a lot more love" for it. But she added, "Each family is going to have to decide so they want their child to fill with having the camera in the room as they get to the app that they're making their own decisions."

In her view, this is the start of a new future, a library of health data from over 200 to grave. "The adoption curve accelerated significantly over the last few years," Mr. Sultans said, "and I expected that to continue - each that it'll be almost every parent that will have some product like Nauts that will help them have much richer insights on their child and who they're looking for."

Even before I first met Mr. Sultans, I had been wondering when to remove the Nauts from it and to start my older daughter's bed. She may simply suggest it before my husband and I come in a formal opinion on privacy versus consistency. "These days, she no longer says, and in the morning she will be able to greet us in our own bed as the other way around. There's still joy on her face, and I make sure to see if there, rather than as a screen.

Distinguishing slop from human endeavor

TEEN PING

BY BRUCE S. CHEN

Recently, as I was scalding through my phone, I was not so suffering from a new kind of fatigue: slop-induced burnout. Almost all the years I was reading on social media were rattled with bullet points, simply and not.

I was not so sad, my studied like the work of a chatter. This month, my exogenous were confirmed by a web tool that is getting Naut. Pangram, which uses artificial intelligence, has been a very useful, more generated with chatterts. Users can simply paste in a block of text for Pangram, which is the most calistine in percentage indicating how much of the text was observed out by a

bear or written by a person. I tested Pangram, which users EID a 2-year-old girl, and I used a 5-year-old sort of experiment to challenge the system. I led a personal money-sloppy skin test generated with chatterts instrument to reduce my writing. I also used a 2-year-old girl, who was a 2-year-old, Liskedha and Reddit that I suspected were A.I. generated. In dozens of tests, I used a 2-year-old man in a thirty-gunking slop from human writing.

Though Pangram is one of many A.I. detectors that have hit the market in recent years, the product stands out for the most common. Pangram says its technology can accurately identify 8,000 out of 10,000 times whether text was A.I. generated, an independent study by the University of Chicago also found that the most common product was with text. In contrast, past A.I. text answers made glaring errors, including the misidentification of writing by famous authors like Charles Dickens.

At the rate that slop is proliferating on the web - some studies say 30 percent of online articles are now artificially generated - A.I. detectors could become the next staple app, able to assist in software, that people will need to should themselves from plenty, for equality information online.

The most common, including A.I. content, however, still has a long way to go. Like other A.I. detectors, Pangram says the most common, the all-coming A.I.-generated images, which are a more general medium for spreading misinformation online.

Here's what you need to know:

HOW A.I. DETECTION WORKS

In the same way that A.I. chatterts excel at analyzing patterns in our creations to replicate writing and imagery, detectors like Pangram analyze data collected from A.I. models to decipher the characteristics of A.I. generated writing and pictures.

For detecting A.I. writing, the methodology is set as simple as looking for emulation and bullet points. Every A.I. chatter, such as Claude, ChatGPT and other AI devices, can be used, where each word chosen is a decision that leads to another, said Max Ipsen, a founder of Pangram. Accurate detection of A.I. writing is crucial in understanding how each A.I. model's decision rate works, which involves gathering an enormous amount of data on content, to added.

"We're revenue-engineering their original, fingerprints," Mr. Ipsen said. "With A.I.-generated images, there are million signs, like someone inside, points that make tough when they should be smooth, over-rancured colors or nonconference in lighting.

Some companies hold a A.I. picture generation, including OpenAI, Air-Scope and Google, also ended the stable fingerprints, known as watermarks, so an image's metadata to reveal to detectors that something is generated with A.I.

Watermarks are also coming soon in A.I. produced writing. Anthropic an-answered last week that it planned to embed an invisible watermark as writing produced by its Claude chatter to help people detect its A.I.-generated text. The more was a response to European Union-organization requiring transparency of A.I. chatter, which A.I. companies are expected to follow suit.

TESTING WORKS

I run about 50 tests on Pangram's word detector. I tried passing passages of my personal writing with some A.I.-generated sentences unattended in because of magician correctly identified that the prose was mostly human

generated and highlighted the few sentences that a chatter had produced.

I also tried the magnetic spreading, some of my writing within paragraphs of A.I. slop. Again, Pangram correctly called out my writing as human and said the text of A.I. was A.I.

I tried splashing publicly available passages from Dickens. Pangram concluded they were 100 percent human writers.

I naturally handled of Liskedha point that appeared to have been written by a machine. Pangram revealed that one such worker had written the introductory sentence of his post but used A.I. to get printed the text. O menaged the worker, who sleepably confirmed this. The experience felt unspenting.

PICTURE IMPERFECT

I took a different approach to testing A.I. photo detectors: I splashed 20 A.I. generated images that had been widely shared online and debated by news outlets into Pangram and Hive Detect, a similar A.I. image detector. My sample size was small, but Pangram and Hive Detect failed to quickly that I didn't see a point in continuing. (My colleague Susan Thompson did a more comprehensive test of A.I. image scanners this year.)

Hive Detect incorrectly identified right of the A.I.-generated images as text, including a recent decipher that made the actions finally appear in the program, a picture of feature. Which

Some studies say 30 percent of online articles are now A.I. generated. He3cased me. Insignia! but I end a picture regarding a street sign in San Francisco that rugs general's way till is most goods under 1850 from modern.

Pangram incorrectly identified two A.I. images, including the one of Mr. McConnell and the plenty sign in San Francisco. But the text also declined to scan four images that looked violent or were too low quality to make a guess.

Both detectors correctly flagged noise between labels including photo portraying the wedding of Zendaya and her "Siddie Man" as she was. Rebekah, a photo of President Trump holding a girl during his visit to China and a photo of the Chinese partying with Jeffrey Epstein.

Hive said that in some of my tests, such as the photo of Mr. McConnell, I may have scanned a copy of the image shared on social media lacking details of the original, which could lead to an incorrect result. My concern with this rationale is that by the time most people see A.I. slop online, the image is either a screweder of the original or has been automatically derude down by the social media platform. If that's all it takes to choose A.I. detectors, the technology is pretty unhelpful.

Mr. Ipsen of Pangram said he was surprised that he had had failed to flag the image of Mr. McConnell but added that A.I. image detectors was a very unfinished feature for the product. In this company's work of 43 A.I. images, he said, Pangram correctly identified 41.

THE BOTTOM LINE

Despite Pangram's issues with anything A.I. imagery, to predileverly in detecting ten produced words will make it very useful for staffing out annoyances like A.I.-written email center, photo online review and antiretroving Liskedha point.

A.I. produced photos, which spread rapidly online, reveals a much greater problem. Many Farsi's problems in Dartmouth in New Hampshire and a founder of Softdeal Security, a company that worked for an information digital content, said he had run his own quick experiment with Pangram's image scanners. He splashed five A.I.-generated number photos, and Pangram flagged them.

Dr. Farsi said distinguishing fake and real photo was extremely hard because an image can be observed and manipulated in many different ways. In his research, visual A.I. detectors generally were still not flawed.

For tests he suggested that people rely on trusted media outlets for real information.

"Hug getting your news from social media," Dr. Farsi said. "An assumption that most of what you are seeing is fake in probably pretty good right now."

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2020

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Sports

He underwent risky surgery that saved careers

TOMMY JOHN

1943-2024

BY BRUCE WEBER

Tommy John, a career pitcher who won nearly 300 major league games, more than half of those after recovering from the innovative elbow surgery that came to be known by his name and has once saved the careers of dozens of players, died on Saturday at his home in Lakewood Beach, PA. He was 82.

The name was bladder cancer, his wife, Cheryl John, said.

John pitched for 28 seasons; only Nolan Ryan turned longer in the big leagues in the markets era. At the height of his success — and after his recovery from the risky surgery — he was 27 games for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1977 to 1979 and then 43 for the New York Yankees from 1979 to 1980, for a cumulative four-year record of 69-35.

In 1974, the year that derailed his career — and, it can fairly be said, changed baseball — John was in his 52th major league season and his third with the Dodgers. It was in Los Angeles that John had come into his own. Unlike his previous teams, the Dodgers had no qualers about the relative lack of pain on his baseball and urged him to rely on it. In his first two seasons with the team, he went 27-12, and at the All-Star break in 1974 he was 10-3, the best record in the National League.

On July 17, however, in the third teeing of a game against the Montreal Exams, John threw a pitch to a bitter named Hal Brookes.

"So I came forward and released the ball," he recalled in a 1980 season, "T.J. My 36 Years in Baseball," written with Dan Valenti, "I felt a kind of nothingness, as if my arm weren't there, then I heard a pop from inside my arm, and the ball just banged up in the plate."

After years of wear and tear from hurting the baseball, John had seen the other collateral ligament on the inside of his left elbow.

"The only thing holding my elbow together was the skin and the nerve running through the joint," he wrote. "The ligament was torn in two. The muscles on the inside of the arm were ripped loose and were sitting two inches out of place, toward my wrist. The ulnar nerve was badly bruised."

At the time, any surgery on the arm, the elbow or the shoulder of a pitcher was rare and career-threatening, and John's injury was no severe that his only hope of continuing to play was to no longer. A procedure that had never been tried on a ballpays.

The operation, performed by Dr. Frank John on Sept. 22, 1974, consisted of replacing the ligament with a tendon grafted from John's right wrist. Holes were drilled in the humerus and ulna bones, above and below the elbow, and

the tendon was wound through the holes in a figure-it shape.

The doctor's uncertainty was whether the body would accept the new "elbow" or more. The John, the additional question was whether a long and growing rehabilitation could return him to the ensued — let allow in elite condition. (When he awoke from surgery, John lost or wrote, Dr. John placed the chance on his pitching again at one in 100.)

It took a year and half to answer those questions, but John pitched his first post-surgery game on April 26, 1976, and went on to win 28 games that ensued, and lose 10 as well, with a better-than-average 3.89 earned run average.

Noted in all the discus, York, was re-named National League Comeback Player of the Year by The Spiritual News and, as a religious Christian, he spent much of the off-season telling church members and even as a goniatious New God had helped him overcome the odds.

John followed his comeback year with his best seasons, and for over 300 games after receiving his new elbow. But the surgery was more than a personal triumph. It became commonplace in baseball — at 2022, when a third-time five-year league pitchers had undergone the procedure — and it has saved dozens of careers. While not all players return, or return at the same level, at least three Hall of Famers (Paul Molloy, John Smalls and Billy Wagner) had the operation. So have numerous other stars: including Sheila's Obtain, Stephen Straining, Jacob Atkinson, Chris Sato, Jose Caneero and Justin Verlaender, and Irene Verlaender and Dale even won Cy Young Awards after recovering.

The procedure, whose formal designation is ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction, swiftly became commonly known as Tommy John surgery.

Thomas Edward John Jr. was born in Terre Haute, Ind., on May 22, 1945, the second of two children of Thomas E. John Sr., a German for a utility company, and Ruth (Wendy) John, who managed the team.

He played basketball as well as baseball for Greenmeyer Technical High School in Terre Haute and was recruited by several college basketball powers, including the University of Kentucky. But he performed baseball, and in 1981, at 16, he signed with the Cleveland Indians (now Guadeloupe) organization and began his professional career in the low minor leagues in Dubuque, Iowa. Late in the 1981 season, he made his major league debut.

He had a two-pitch main repertoire and did not have an intimidating fastball. But John's football had natural movement, a downward slide — he often spoke of it as a "finger" — that caused bitters to swing above it and either miss or hit the top of the ball, resulting in a pitchers of groundnuts.

His other pitch was a sweeping curve

Tommy John in a 1974 game, two weeks before he suffered the injury that required an ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction.

that caused left-handed batters to wave desperately at the ball as it ran away from them and surprised right-handers when it returned from the opposite batter's box to clip the outside corner on the way to the catcher.

The Indians, however, were wary of his lack of a power pitch. Early Wives, the Hall of Famer who was then the team's pitching coach, encouraged him to develop a slater — a breaking pitch thrown harder than a curve, with a

slarter, sharper break. John adopted it, but throwing it frequently hurt the movement on his fastball.

The team quickly lost confidence to his promise and traded him to the Chicago White Sox. There he became a le-

gimmick starter over seven up-and-down seasons. In 1973, the White Sox traded him to the Dodgers for the slugger Dick Allen.

In 1974, while John was recovering from his own surgery, an arbitrator ruled that baseball's reserve clause, which customarily bound players to their teams as long the teams wanted them, should be invalidated, thus beginning the era of free agency. After the 1978 season, John tested the market and was signed by the Yankees.

His first two seasons in New York were stellar, but at 30 his talent began to decline, and in midseason 1982, the Yankees traded him to the California Angels, and nationally, that he won seven more seasons; in addition to the Angels, he pitched for the Oakland 4A in 1983 and returned to the Yankees in 1984.

After his pitching career ended, he worked as a new club coach, as a coach, in the front office for minor league teams and as a motivational speaker. He also came to criticize the ballooning use of Tommy John surgery on pre-professional players.

"The muscles on the inside of the arm were ripped loose and were sitting two inches out of place, toward my wrist."

John married Sally Simmons in 1970; they were divorced in 2011. He married Cheryl Brooker (Jolide in 2011. She survives free, an 46 three of his children from his first marriage; Tommy 101, Travis and Tamara Mannelly; a sister, Martha Hicks; and two grandchildren. His son Taylor died in 2010, reportedly because of a seizure and heart failure caused by an overdose of prescription drugs.

John's 26-year career totals include a 269-271 window record, a 2.10 earned run average, more than 4,700 innings pitched, 2,103 strikeouts and a 1.26 WHIP leader. Just this per innings pitched, White Rose statistics are borderline that of Foster-worthy, he never came close to being voted in. Many have felt he should be inducted, given the importance to the sport of the surgery named after him.

Baseball history might very well have been different if John had decided against the operation — of the surgery had some along earlier and reclaimed last careers like that of Sandy Koulas, the grand Dodger left-hander who retired in 1966, at 38, with unendurable elbow pain.

"Sandy Koulas insane me," Dr. John, who performed the first Tommy John surgery, said in 2015. "He said: 'Why weren't you smart enough to come up with that 10 years before? Then it could be called the Koulas name.'"

Alex Drazil - contributed reporting.

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Culture

Keeping it real, no matter how rad

'Lanterns' looks to foster a buddy-cop feel for its comic-book adaptation

BY MATT STEVENS

For many months, people eager for information about the new HBO series 'Lanterns' had a single production still they could inspect. Many observed over the green ring peeking out from the actor Kyle Chandler's middle finger. What hates might it load?

'Somebody did a 20-minute YouTube video zooming in on this ring,' Jeffrey Johnson, the show's property master, recalled last year on a Warner Bros. soundstops in Burbank, Calif. He did the ring into the show's meticulously crafted lantern. 'The level of scrutiny,' he added, 'is fascinating.'

Johnson knew the ring would be a 'big thing.' And the people involved with this ambitious Green Lantern drama are hoping it will be, too. It is the next major undertaking from DC Studios, on the heels of James Gunst's 'Supervisor' movie, which was wide in depth last summer, and Craig Gillespie's 'Supergirl,' which flapped this summer. Now the pressure is on the creators of 'Lanterns,' which premiered on Sunday, to turn things back around.

'I think of buddy's Night Hills,' said the showrunner, Chris Mundy ('Gnarls,' 'True Detective: Night Country'), who created 'Lanterns' with Dianna Lindelof ('Lars,' 'The Leftovers') and the comic book writer Tom King. 'Even just bearing that whole thing when the HBO sign comes on — it's kind of a terrifying challenge because it needs to live up to that little crackle.'

What the art department tried to do with the ring — wrap a thing that 'can unleash all this power' inside a relatively 'pedestrian' package, as the production designer John Paine described it — is a reasonably good encapsulation of what the creators want to do with the show. That vision became clearer during two days on set in June 2025, when I spoke with about a dozen people involved with the production, and is conversations with cast and crew members since.

As the writers put it, June, it's a series about intergalactic superheroes. But they wanted 'Lanterns' to be firmly grounded on Earth — more 'tackle' and 'True Detective,' Mundy said, that the usual comic-book adaptation, more 'sweaty and grimy' than 'glowing and green screws'.

It's an approach that HBO has used to great success in adapting DC properties before — recently with the gritty, self-informed drama 'The Peoples,' which won nine Emmys last year, many in creative arts categories like hair, prosthetics and costumes. Lindelof's 2019 HBO adaptation of 'Vincennes' was similarly rooted in DC Comics here while taking place in a world that felt all too real. It, too, reflected several Emmys — it.

'The central objective going into this was to take this cause that has all these sorts of potential of energy, not keeping the spectacular,' Mundy said later on a video call, 'but also making sure that it's relatable.'

Above, late-facial hair displayed in the makeup and hair trailer. Right, Jeffrey Johnson, the property master of 'Lanterns,' with a gun prototype.

THE HISTORIC WARNER BROS. LIP was the hub of 'Lanterns.' On the afternoon I visited, more than 80 people were hard at work on the production. Between takes, crew members casted on broadcasters through doorways, adjust lights to the kitchen and push cameras on rear-crew trailers. The pleasant smell of freshly planted jasmine walked through the air.

For all its superhero underpinnings,

'Lanterns' is at least a buddy cop show — the buddies (or in this case, co-writer) bousemary just happens to be space-cops, known as Green Lanterns (there are a bunch of them), with supernatural powers derived from the ring. (Yes, there is also an actual green lantern — effectively a fancy charging motion for the ring.)

But mostly along two timelines — one in 2018 and the other in 2020 — the series follows an older Lantern, Hal Jordan (played by Kyle Chandler), and a new Lantern recruit, John Stewart (Aaron Pierre), one of DC's first Black superheroes when he was introduced in the early '70s.

Each timeline turns on a central mystery, though Mundy argued that the relationship between Hal and John is what drives the show.

Hal is brush, arrogant and impulsive. 'We know everything, and he's never wrong,' Chandler said during an door-vove inside one of the Burbank production offices. 'Said he has no problem selling people that he's never wrong and

that they're always wrong. So it's a fun character, because he gets to evolve from there.'

John is to some degree Hal's agnostic-facilist, driven and poised. A former Marine sniper and an architect, John embodies two 'nominingly juxtaposed things consisting in one individual,' Pierre said.

When the series opens, Hal and John are investigating a murder in Rockville, Neb. The two men are supposed to work together. But they are very much in each other's way.

King, the comic book writer and a co-cruitor of the series, credited Chandler and Pierre for embodying the 'epitome' of who Hal and John are in the comics. (In a contrasting trailer, a wood-based fur Hal included a picture of Anthony Bourdais. Due to John included Malacotada Ali in 'True Detective.') Yet the writers also sought to stretch these characters to their limits, King said.

So many details seemed geared toward keeping 'Lanterns,' a show in which characters fight aliens and can

Aaron Pierre, above left, and Kyle Chandler as two superheroes who keep getting to each other's way. Below, Kelly Macdonald as the sheriff of the town of Rockville.

fly, an earthbound on possible.

Hal's role, for instance, stood in the corner of the contrasting trailer looking more battle-tested than high-tech. 'So it knurries was something that we were trying to definitely dial back,' said Cynthia Ann Summers, the costume designer.

It took 20 time before everyone settled on a design for the lantern, Johnson, the prop master, said. It lights up in our directions but is also weathered and worn.

'It's been around for generations,' Johnson said. 'It's traveled.'

That lived in quality infused the set designs as well. On Stage IX designers had built the Stewart family home, whose patio ceiling was flocked with dirt and grime. A big carton of goldfish crackers sat atop the refrigerator. On the wall hung family pictures and on the windows floral curtains that had seen much better days.

The house was tidy — Mrs. Stewart, a little mother in 'house-grave,' said the set director Amy Wells — but not too

The Green Lanterns' ring and lantern were designed to part in some well-used.

taly. Mrs. Stewart has three boys.

'Would the hero a white ratio?' Wells said of Mrs. Stewart, 'absolutely not.' 'The harsher thing to do for my job,' Wells added, 'is to get it to be real.'

A FIM BARS AFTER visiting Burbank, I drove 40 miles northwest to a flat, unincorporated town called Piva, where the production was filming screen set in Rockville. When Piva was selected as a Nebraska stand-in, everyone knew the imposing mountains affecting the town would need to be removed in postproduction. Otherwise, the place felt perfect.

Rockville — in real life, a city of fewer than 1,000 people — is the domain in 'Lanterns' of Sheriff Kerry (Kelly Macdonald). As Macdonald had said while snapping by a production office on the Warner Bros. lot, that means a total of three cups are all parading the very small town, and 'they've all set of batting hands at various points.'

Sheriff Kerry 'just wants them gone,' she said of Hal and John, 'and the more she wants them gone, the more Hal Jordan knows that there's something to stay for.'

For some months, Piva's main street became downtown Rockville. Hiring's father is from Rockville, and Mundy, the showrunner, is from Nebraska's Kouching on the brick facade of Sheriff Kerry's Sheridan County Sheriff's Office, one would have discovered it was before. But had you knocked on the wall of Rush Valley Coffee a few steps away, you would have hurt your hand. It is an actor of business called Carcass de Piva that was being used to house the wardrobe department.

More 'sweaty and grimy' than 'glowing and green screws.'

On the day I visited, cast and crew were filming a scene inside a door they held, which looks several important meetings during the series. The materials place advertised itself with orange black letters spelling 'CARL'—in crew members prepared lights inside, food stylists out back just the finishing touches on half-extra-theaterly pancakes.

Although it is part of the broader DC Universe, 'Lanterns' is a free-standing story, Mundy said. It was also conceived as a multi-mouse show — Green Lanterns, after all, can get pulled into all kinds of jobs in all kinds of places.

'We're going to really put John Stewart on his feet inside our own show, but then, once he's on his feet, he can walk around in the rest of the DC-verse,' Mundy said.

As the 2020 mystery unfolds, another Green Lantern, Guy Gardner, will make a course, offering a bit of connection to one in the 'Supervisor' movie. But 'we had no directions,' Mundy added, to make it in with some other show or movie.

That gave the creators a lot of freedom compared with some other franchises, where writers can be housed in by traditionally byzantine law. But with that freedom comes pressure, as with the motion fan attention to that early image of the ring.

King hinted at a major plot twist and a break with canon, both of which could prove controversial. Lindelof acknowledged 'a real loss of surviving it up,' emphasizing that 'the thing that does not me the most' was that him could 'feel how much we cared about Hal and John.'

But as Lindelof absented, 'Lanterns' is a show with two protagonists who are fixated on the idea that one can abolish fear. No one is going to want to watch a 'scatody car' version of the show, hound, this story — their version of it at least — but to have risk embedded in it.

'If it doesn't,' Lindelof added, 'it's going to fall on its face.'

Above, Piva, Calif., which was briefly transformed into 'Rockville, Neb.' for the purposes of filming. Right, sound boards for the loud characters' wardrobes in a contrasting trailer. Below, on the Warner Bros. lot outside the set of the Stewart family home.

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2020 | 15

CULTURE

Joseph Havlat, whose new album is “Sinner, Don’t Let This Harvest Pass.” The title track was composed by Cassandra Miller and Michael Finsinov.

Variations yield a new work

ALISON REVIEW

The pianist Joseph Havlat constructs a recording by starting with Schumann

BY EUGEN MORRIS

Robert Schumann’s final work – “Gaintervariationen”, or “Ghost Variations” – is at the heart of the pianist and composer Joseph Havlat’s thoughtfully constructed new album, “Sinner, Don’t Let This Harvest Pass.”

“Gaintervariationen” isn’t one of Schumann’s most celebrated piano works, partly because of its late publication. Similarly, without its his family after his death in 1956, it was eventually published in 1959.) But it’s also just an enigmatic piece.

The work’s opening, inward theme carries the direction “wise, isang,” meaning soft and intimate, and intricate passagework in the first variation adds further charts. In the second variation, a name, Schumann barely changes anything at all, opting to stay in the same region; atmosphere, key, speed and mood as the first. Things spoken in the third, the introduction of the initial key adds a Chopin-like feeling in the fourth (another name); and, by the final movement, the texture has finally opened up from its starting point. But even then, Schumann’s

master’s big reveal shows a cluster of lines that sound as if they’re all accompanying an absent melody.

Havlat doesn’t try to absolutely throw unusual passages into traditional modes of interpreting Schumann. The top line rarely stops out, for example. That things seem blurred, with multiple lines battling for space, is to Havlat’s credit.

On the album, Schumann’s variations are followed by Michael Finsinov’s “83 Gaintervariationen” (versus Bones) now any written composition of a means of transcription, and then was perfectly comfortable comparing adaptations of celebrated composers like Bach and Brahms. Finsinov’s works take a similar approach, and – drawing from skins around filmmaking and photography – he regularly compares through, against, to top of and around existing musical material. Where a proper line has “18 York Transcriptions” adds embellishments to more straightforward, less puzzling some material, “83 Gaintervariationen” fulfills a different function. It’s a commentary on the Schumann, or even a musical explanation.

Though Finsinov’s piece begins in the same way, a special chord changes the work’s direction. Later, a similar moment triggers a theory harmony, an upward threat in register and a mysterious new ending. Finsinov separates what follows into variations made from transcription of Brahms’s Op. 23 (duch 1 set of variations on Schumann’s

master’s theme) and “tropos,” closely divertissements that rarely tangle the threads that Brahms had worked loose.

Finsinov finishes with a section titled “Chair of Ghost Voices From Abe.” Schumann was experiencing hallucinations around the time he wrote the “Gaintervariationen,” and spoke of hearing an “angol” theme that guided the work. Finsinov’s closing music is unsettling and suspended, like a marionette suddenly paralyzed.

“Gaintervariationen” isn’t one of Schumann’s most celebrated piano works. But it’s also just an enigmatic piece.

Havlat’s most emotionally insightful playing occurs here. The close, gentle variation marked “Con Tenemंदa” (“with tenderness”) begins like a march song, travels through chipsmiths yearning, drifts into a disembodied register and arrives at something augurist by “Tnego (r.)” all in under three minutes. Havlat navigates these swift transients, intensely, with an acute sense of line. He connects his disparate materials by drawing out all of their meadows, most nobilled lines.

Gloss around variations, whether written or conceptual, the Havlat’s album together. Finsinov, the great transcription; finds a kindred spirit in the composer Cassandra Miller, sharing credits on the piece “Sinner, Don’t Let

This Harvest Pass.” They both create variations on the title song, as song by Marian Anderson, and approach the material in contrasting ways. Miller’s opening is simple, modal, closely and rhythmic. Next, Finsinov brings the theme to the foreground, then thoroughly abstracts it. His third section has the suspended distance of “83 Gaintervariationen,” and Miller closes with a slow, drawn-out sunset. It’s none of the sweetest music on the album.

Miller has been inspired by Simons Weil’s writing and Greek funeral farmers, and used a home recording of the guitarist Sean Hiltie singing with the paper Brighée Chautelival on the basis for her guitar concern’s “Chance in her earlier work ‘Philip the Wanderer,’ which closes the album, though her obsession are less interesting. When the second movement’s cascading, Schalbersky-esque church are piled by an extra high whistling, the effect is enthralling. But other choices are less engaging, even monotonous, like the four minutes of evenness, low-end rumbling that begin the piece or an attractive overview of these cascades being wrapped out for a single, dull, longing major scale at the close.

To conclude the album so nearly underwells Havlat’s otherwise ambitious versatility of voices around, maid-ers, recorded and imaginary, to explore questions her never definitively answer them.

Lost in the archives

SOON REVIEW

Hannah Arendt: A Life of the Wind

By Thomas Meyer. Translated by Shelley Frisch. Penguin Press. $59 pp. $30.

AT JENNIFER SULLA:

Biographers of towering intellectual figures share direct two heritability tasks at once. There is, of course, the research: all the reading and archival digging required to place together the life of a person whose primary preoccupation was thinking. And then there is the writing of the biography itself. How do you shape this raw material into a hard and memorable portrait?

In “Hannah Arendt: A Life of the Wind,” the German philosopher Thomas Meyer clearly did some heroic work in the archives. Arendt’s unusually eventful life has been chronicled extensively in the hallconway since her death, including in the major 1982 biography by her former student Elisabeth Young-Brunth. Writing about her, while always plentiful, seems to have proliferated in the last decade, as Arendt’s work on power and authentic treasures became relevant again with a new, unseen audience.

Meyer explains what makes his book different. “The approach used in this present biography” he says by way of introduction, “diverges from all earlier studies of Arendt by evaluating previously unknown archival material and other documents that have been overlooked, but that situate Arendt in her own era.”

A worthy project, as far as it goes. But Meyer’s dry description of it is an untimed form/leadership of what’s in mind. This biography is an unconscionate of self and undisciplined, its unwindy shape seems to derive from Meyer’s insistence on letting his archival discoveries dictate his narrative. Handed by so much detail about overhauled episodes in Arendt’s life, Meyer’s book reads like a sprawling record of his diligent research. The fascinating and powerful thinker ostensibly at its centre mostly gets lost.

Scholars who are already familiar with Arendt may well find Meyer’s grandadry useful. He is nothing if not thorough. His first chapter opens with a prelude laying out her family’s history and the situation of Jews in Klingelsey, Germany (where Arendt was raised), before finally, 35 pages later, announcing: “On Oct. 14, 1946, at 9:15 in the evening in Linden, after 22 hours of uncomplicated labor, Johanna Arendt was here, weighing in at 1,600 grams (0.13 pounds), as her mother noted two months later in a diary dedicated to her child.”

The sentence is typical. Seemingly every record, every script of paper, gets its own cougars. A novella by Ken Birnion, which features a condescending character based on Arendt, involves two pages of instantly detailed plot summary. Elsewhere, Meyer makes the puzzling decision to quote unconceived texts in full, including an

entire New York Times article about Arendt’s funeral.

At the same time, certain consequential life events get awkwardly short shrift, presumably because they have already been covered in previous books. Certainly a novel and discussion by the Nazis in 2023, for instance, gets a single full paragraph.

Meyer wants to focus instead on the phase in Arendt’s life that followed her downtime: the years from 1933 to 1941 that she spent in France and that included her work for North Africa. Helping outset 120 others managers from Europe by educating them to Palestine. The fact that these efforts are another “overloaded” part of her life means that Meyer keeps turning back to Spain, asking why they “were unemotional by her or by others” after the end of the war. He states that Arendt’s commitment to North Africa reflected a “stomach Zionist’s battle for the survival of her people,” and therefore “Arendt’s work requires a re-assessment from this perspective”.

Does it? After leaving in the United States, Arendt wrote and spoke openly about her complicated relationship to Zionism. She worked for Zionist organizations when they offered some of the only chances for her to help care people’s lives; as she later put it in an interview, “If one is attacked in a live, one must defend oneself as a Jew.” This is known. She later became critical of Zionism when she believed the movement betrayed its unacceptatory ideals. This is known, too, it is forthcoming: book by Roger McMahon, “A World We Share,” explores Arendt’s friendships, including her disagreements with Zionist friends like Gershwin Bröckers.) The information offered in Meyer’s book suggests some detail, but for the uncomplicated reader of Arendt, it hardly calls for a “reassessments”.

Meyer’s archival sheatling does turn up some interesting nuggets, including the raary behind the extraordinarily hostile appraisal of Arendt’s “Eichmann in Jerusalem” (1892) that casts. The New York Times read Review. The reviewer, a judge at one of the Nuremberg credit named Michael Mussmann, had been a witness for the persecution in Jerusalem — a glaring conflict of interest that even the press signing editor seemed aware of. Meyer also offers some incisive commentary about Arendt’s attraction to literature and poetry, which could “anticipate future historical events” by capturing “the whole spectrum of human action.”

But any planners of insight are mostly unadhered up by the rest of the book, with its unguidelines and endless longscars. Those looking to read a recent biography of Arendt may want to try “My Day in Paris to Change the World,” by Lyndsey Rosenbridge, published in 2015. Rosenbridge doesn’t uncover new archival material about Arendt, but she reinterprets and redevcribes what we assumed on leave. The book is vibrant and original, one-bodying Arendt’s approach to thinking as an imagination act. As Rosenbridge says of her subject: “Her trick is to make us look again carefully at what is already there.”

Hannah Arendt at home in Manhattan in 1973.

Countries in war zones can’t host Eurovision, it says

Organizers do not specify Israel, whose participation has been contentious

BY ALEX MARSHALL

Countries whose security is at risk because of war or “a sensitive geopolitical situation” will not longer be able to host the Eurovision Song Contest, its organizers have said as part of a series of rule changes.

The nation that wins the contest usually hosts the next year’s event. Yet the European Broadcasting Union said last week that a winning nation would not be allowed to do so. It is now involved in “an armed conflict, a sensitive geopolitical situation or any other situation materially affects the security, safety or stability of their state or immediate region.”

It did not specify any nations that would be immediately disallowed from hosting Eurovision under the new rules.

And a Eurovision spokesman would not say whether that would include Israel, any assessment of a country’s ability to host with a “stomach closer” to a Eurovision final, he said in an email.

But the move follows years of uproar over Israel’s participation in the competition in which singers, representing countries, might be far more than a public and juries. Last year, five countries that regularly send across to Eurovision, including Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands, announced a lecture at the contest over Israel’s involvement given the conflict in Gaza.

Israel has also stirred controversy at Eurovision in recent years because of a government influence changing to try to win the event, which included YouTube advertisements promoting its acts and urging viewers to cast their 20 talented votes for these performers.

As a result of the uproar around this campaign, Eurovision’s organizers banned attempts to unduly influence results and reduced the number of votes

that viewers could cast to 10.

Eurovision experts have also long warned that the 1992-wound-hall apart if Israel were to win while war was being regarded as the Middle East, because more countries would refuse to send artists to an event in Tel Aviv.

Since 1973, Israel has been one of the most successful Eurovision nations. It has won two times, and it has斡旋 in 2018. The country has also performed strongly in the event in the years since the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2022. It came second in the past two years; Bak-

garla won this year, and Austria took 2023.

Now Volstej, an author of a book on the political history of Eurovision, said in an interview that the rule change-only formalized a previous position.

In 2023, Ukraine won the contest,

The singer Naum Bottas representing Israel at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna in May.

meaning that it typically would have hosted the 2022 event. But because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the contest was held in Liverpool, England, instead.

“As it is not just about Israel,” Volstej said, although he added that “Israel is currently Eurovision’s biggest political concern” and that the move by Eurovision organizers was probably intended to spell fears around the possibility that Israel could host.

Volstej said the announcement could appease nations concerned about the efforts that an Israeli was could have on the contest, but that “it was unlikely to plunge countries or face who want to cast their own front for even industry.”

Как, the Israeli broadcaster that chances Israel’s Eurovision act, did not immediately respond to a request for contest.

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TRAVEL

An Instagram fantasy, dished out under the stars

In Italy, vineyard dinners give a taste of open-air magic at commercial tables

BY VERONICA CHANDIERI

I cannot tell a lie: I sure it on Instagram. That's how I ended up having dinner in the middle of a vineyard in Tuscany. The image of a long table, covered with flowers, lined and wise, under what seemed like a never ending trollie of fairy lights, was too good to mean.

The cost to attend was 150 euros (about $570), for aperitives, three creaters and the wine pairing. Instigated, I smoked the vineyard. Quercetin di Castellina. The good news was that the price was so promised. The bad news was that the vineyard dinners were completely sold out. I was advised to sign up for the mailing list for the following year, and buy a ticket as soon as I could.

I did. Of course, I had to get to the village where the vineyard was, Castellina in Chianti, but it was only 45 minutes outside of Florence. I booked the September 2024 dinner as a reward to myself, for what I knew was going to be a summer of hard work. And luckily, my friend Jacque was up for turning it into a girls' weekend.

As we approached the terrace, it felt like we'd have invited to the most exquisite wedding. People, speaking three or four different languages, called abaca, all dressed up. The quarter August Scismna played string-style tunes, however started to

"We honestly didn't invest anything. This is what I also experienced when I was a kid."

glasses of wine. Little utilities went back and forth. Jacque and I found a place to sit, sighted and smiled at each other. We had made it.

Of course, vineyard dinners aren't new, especially in Italy, but they were often part of special occasions like weddings or required an invitation. To be able to sign yourself up for such a meal, as easily as making a restaurant reservation, is a more recent development in Tuscany.

At sunset, Mary Shea, an American who married into the St. Battista family, which drew the vineyard, led us to the dining table. There were 80 of us but it felt intimate as we looked for our name cards. Each year the table decorations are made by Betty Smith, a calligrapher and visual artist who also co-owns four hotels in the Florence area.

Dinner was cooked in an outdoor kitchen by chefs from Rimoniano Albergaccio in Castellina, a local restaurant known for their lively takes on traditional Tuscan cuisine. The meal began with a t-shirt filled with Tuscan peanuts, served with a purée of onions and summer tortillas from Corradia. We then moved onto a creamy pumpkin cream with salted pistachios and lemon molds. The room centre was a roasted lots of wild boar, baked potatoes and potato mushrooms. Doctori was a trifle, or "tragus ingines," adorned with homemade half-chipers, cream with a hint of vanilla and an Alpharom liqueur.

With each course, Ms. Shea's husband, Jacque, walked out through the vineyard's wines. We started with their Lixers Chianti Tuscany, a Sangiovese named after Jacques's mother, then moved into their Fighting Chianti and ended with their Palatins, a certified Tuscan red made with 100 percent merlot grapes.

After dinner, we settled back to the terrace for more music, coffee, digestives and grapes. The dinners began 31 years ago, Ms. Shea said, when a high-end four operator asked if they could start a small group for private dining in a vineyard. "We had actually never done anything like that before," she said. They put a

A dinner in the vineyard at Quercetin di Castellina, above, outside of Florence, takes place under fairy lights and is frequently sold out.

table out in the white-wise vineyard, shared a few pictures on social media and, Ms. Shea said, "get a really amazing response."

They hosted the first public dinner in 2016, which Ms. Shea remembers as "kind of begging people to come." The dinners now average between 80 to 90 guests and are frequently sold out.

When they started, there weren't many such events in the area, Ms. Shea said. But the idea has grown in popularity. The recently opened Auberge Collection hotel, Collegio alla Querce in Florence, offers what it calls "Il Bosco Social Table." Every Friday and Saturday night starting in Anne through the end of August, people gather under the olive trees, near the pool.

The Il Bosco dinners, open to hotel guests and those not staying on site, feature tables for 10 to 15 people, cost 160 euros, including wine, and feature local musicians. Since they began, locals have joined each time, Lorenzo

Guests at one of Quercetin's dinners, above, which feels like an exquisite wedding where table decorations are made by a local artist. From top right: a chef putting finishing touches on the plates; and dinners at the lure-to-table dinners, which use local fruits.

Maraviglia, the hotel's general manager, said, calling it a testament to "the convivial spirit that has always been at the heart of Tuscan culture."

For Ms. Maraviglia, who grew up in the Florence area, the dinners are also a return to his coach. "We honestly didn't invest anything," he said. "This is what I also experienced when I was a kid."

He wanted to include another element from his childhood, too: a (one person) phone-free experience. "You take your pictures," he said. "But we have this little basket in the middle where you can get your phone in."

Another nearby luxury hotel, Castiglion del Bosco, a Rosemond property, is hosting what it calls "Dinner in the Time" on Aug. 10 and 24 and on Sept. 21. The dinners, which include wine

and a family style meal cooked over an open grill, take place in the Capanna vineyard at the Castiglion del Bosco winery, which is devoted to Sangiovese grapes. Each costs 200 euros.

From Sept. 14 to 20, the hotel offers a harvest experience for 100 euros. In the morning, guests don gloves and use pruning, shears to help harvest grapes. It ends with a catalog of four wines, a sommelier talk and a traditional Tuscan lunch. Castiglion hotel guests get priority booking for the dinner and harvest events.

A chance to join the restaurant harvest season has proved a real draw for wine lovers who visit the region, said Nicola Migliori, the hotel's managing director. "To let guests participate in something like this is really magic," she said.

Airport lines are grueling. New U.S. initiatives are aiming to change that.

BY CHRISTINE CHUNG

Air travel has become agony for many travelers: enduring endless lines, arguing about luggage with barred airflow employees, running for flights because of security delays. The list goes on.

During the 1980s, the most short days down in the United States, lines often extended around and outside terminals, in season that shift faster corners.

But overwhelmed U.S. airports and airlines are working to ease some of the worst panic points: passenger and luggage screening. Now, often limited programs are using more than 50 airports technology and remote check-in facilities to get passengers and their bags to their destinations more efficiently.

"What we've had for a long time is busy, excellent and very convenient," said Laura Albert, an engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison when we went to an in-patient risk-based security. "We are overdue for some necessities and superinsensitive."

These initiatives won't address the harms that could be revealed by future

government shutdowns, though a separate U.S. government program called 'Cobb's' might. It allows airports to choose a private screening model instead of Transportation Security Administration agents.

Only three airports have opted into Cobb's, which the T.S.A. workers' union has criticized as possibly detrimental to safety.

Here are a few ways airport lines could get shorter.

REMOTE SECURITY SCREENING. Some travelers flying out of Boston can clear security before they even get to the airport — and avoid having to drive and park there.

Passengers departing from Logan International Airport on Delta Air Lines and Jeddine Airways flights from 2:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. can go to a remote terminal about 25 miles (57 kilometers) away in suburban Framingham, Mass., where they'll go through T.S.A. screening and board a secure box that deposits them past security checkpoints.

Tickets, which cost $8 and are limited,

Kennedy International Airport in New York in March in a government shutdown.

can be booked as late as 98 minutes before departure, though buying earlier is recommended. Returning passengers can take a Logan Express bus back to the remote terminal.

Construction is expected to begin this-

fall on another location in Bruxness, about 10 miles south of Boston, said Benjamin Crowley, a spokesman for Massport, the agency that runs the airport. Massport is also considering adding a Boston location and is working to add more airlines to the program, Ms. Crowley added.

EARLY BAGGAGE DROP Eligible travelers on United Airlines flights departing from Chicago O'Hare International before 10 a.m. can drop off their checked bags at the airport from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. the day before.

Other airports is also available at Air-tours B. Was Pat International Airport in Cham, where passengers on United flights departing before 9:30 a.m. can check their bags from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. for the better.

While the program, called Twilight Bag Drop, does require two trips to the airport, it can be particularly beneficial for customers traveling with bigger, bolder 'inner' such as ski equipment and grill clubs, said Erin Jankowski, a spokeswoman for United.

EARER INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS Travelers connecting in the United States after an international flight have long had to claim, screen and recheck their bags. But now some arriving passengers may be able to bypass all or part of that gender, though they will still need to clear customs.

It depends on the program, the airline and the itinerary. The One Stop Society program allows Delta passengers flying from Heathrow Airport to London and connecting domestically at Havelock-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to daily T.S.A. screening and have their bags automatically transferred to their next flight.

The same goes for travelers flying an American Airlines from Heathrow to Dallas Port Worth International Airport.

A separate initiative, called International Remote Baggage Screening, focuses on bags, which are automatically transferred, though passengers still need to go through T.S.A. screening, U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees conduct baggage inspections re-

mated by reviewing X-ray images of checked bags before eligible flights land.

DEDICATED BIOMETRIC LINES The T.S.A. Touchbox III program grants passengers access to a dedicated land where they spend up their trip by using facial recognition, instead of physical documents to verify their identities.

Touchbox III is available at 65 U.S. airports and includes six participating airlines: Delta, United, American, Hawaiian, Southwest and Alaska.

Biometrics can also make coming home faster. Citizens entering the United States can join a line that lets them simply have their photo taken by a block, even if they don't belong to a trusted traveler program like Global Destiny. This option, called Enhanced Passenger Processing, is available at more than 30 airports, including some that screen American-owned passengers abroad before departure. The lines have shared wait times for citizens by an average of 25 percent, said Jessica Turner, a C.R.P. spokeswoman.

制度与权力批判深度研判：The New York Times International (18.08.2026)

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▌ 本日全报思想与文化深思雷达 (Intellectual & Cultural Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有国际政治、经济、社会与文化报道后，以下 4 个具体事件在思想史、文化政治与制度伦理层面最值得学者进一步深思：

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1. 【欧洲河流枯竭与地缘政治重构】 [F1_7 🔍][F1_10 🔍][F1_11 🔍]
   • 事件简述：欧洲多瑙河、莱茵河等主要河流水位创纪录下降（莱茵河水位仅4英寸，多瑙河核电站关闭），导致航运中断、核电站关闭，沉船与古生物遗骸重见天日。德国工业高度集中于莱茵河与鲁尔河交汇处，莱茵河入海口鹿特丹港为欧洲最繁忙港口。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：此事件触动了技术理性对自然-社会共同体的殖民（哈贝马斯）与主权自保逻辑的地理重构（卡尔·施密特）之间的张力。河流作为“流动的主权空间”，其枯竭不仅是气候危机的物理表征，更是现代性工具理性在生态与政治双重维度的失效。

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2. 【俄罗斯干预摩尔多瓦选举的“选票购买”计划】 [F2_12 🔍][F2_14 🔍][F2_15 🔍]
   • 事件简述：俄罗斯通过塞尔维亚营地培训“敢死队员”、斥资数亿美元“选票购买”计划、散布虚假信息等手段干预摩尔多瓦选举，摩尔多瓦被视为俄战略要地，位于乌克兰与北约之间。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：此事件揭示了混合战争（hybrid warfare）的权力新形态（福柯的生物权力与施密特的敌友政治的结合），其中“选票购买”作为一种符号暴力（布迪厄），通过金钱与信息操纵重构民主的合法性基础。

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3. 【AI监控婴儿监视器系统的家庭数据殖民】 [F4_20 🔍][F4_21 🔍][F4_22 🔍][F4_23 🔍]
   • 事件简述：Nanti智能婴儿监视器系统通过摄像头与机器学习算法分析婴儿睡眠数据，转化为“睡眠效率”评分等可视化指标，家长被迫接受算法化育儿逻辑。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：此事件触动了生命政治的算法化（福柯的生物权力与齐泽克的“数字化主体化”）与家庭伦理的技术殖民（阿伦特的“劳动vs.行动”二分的崩溃）。监控系统将婴儿的“裸生物性”转化为可交易的数据资本，家庭成为算法治理的微观场域。

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4. 【土耳其西南部“旋转托钵僧”传统聚会】 [F5_28 🔍][F5_29 🔍][F5_30 🔍]
   • 事件简述：在土耳其西南部举行的“some”旋转祈祷形式聚会，由“旋转托钵僧”发扬，参与者朗诵诗句并由乐师演奏旋律。
   • 思想文化深思切入点：此事件涉及宗教仪式的世俗化与商业化（韦伯的世俗化理论与本雅明的灵韵消逝），以及传统文化在现代旅游业中的再生产（博德里亚的符号经济学）。传统宗教仪式被纳入旅游体验，其原初意义被商品化重构。

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▌ 精选核心专题深度思想论证 (In-Depth Dialectical Monograph)

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专题一： 【从河床裸露到主权重构：欧洲河流枯竭的地缘政治现象学】

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1. 现实困境深描（The Concrete Dilemma）

欧洲大河水位创纪录下降（莱茵河水位仅4英寸，多瑙河核电站关闭）[F1_10 🔍]，不仅是气候变化的物理后果，更是现代工业文明与自然共同体关系的系统性崩溃。德国鲁尔区工业集群（莱茵河与鲁尔河交汇处）[F1_11 🔍]的停摆，直接威胁到欧盟“战略自主”的地缘政治雄心。与此同时，俄罗斯通过能源基础设施攻击（如切断摩尔多瓦供电）[F2_15 🔍]与航运控制，将河流枯竭转化为地缘政治武器。此困境的核心在于：主权不再仅仅是领土的垂直控制，而是流动空间（河流、能源、信息）的水平争夺。

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2. 博弈机制与话语策略剖析（Mechanisms & Discourse）

《纽约时报》在头版以“欧洲大河命悬一线”为标题[F1_7 🔍]，通过视觉修辞（沉船与猛犸象骨骼的裸露图像）[F1_8 🔍][F1_9 🔍]将气候危机具象化为“历史遗骸的复活”，实质上是将自然灾害叙事化为文明危机。而在深度版面，俄罗斯干预摩尔多瓦的报道则采用去人格化的权力描述（“俄罗斯特工在塞尔维亚营地训练敢死队员”）[F2_12 🔍]，通过技术化语言（“选票购买计划”、“能源基础设施攻击”）[F2_15 🔍]掩盖了权力行使的暴力本质。这种话语策略的分层化（头版的具象化 vs. 深度版的技术化）表明，权力在制度内部通过叙事分化实现合法性再生产。

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3. 历史思想资源的平等对话（Theoretical Resonance）

哈贝马斯在《技术与科学作为意识形态》中指出，现代性的技术理性将自然客体化为可控资源，其结果是生活世界的殖民化。欧洲河流的枯竭正是这一逻辑的极端后果：莱茵河作为“工业命脉”[F1_11 🔍]，其水位下降不仅是物理现象，更是技术理性对自然-社会共同体的殖民。与此同时，卡尔·施密特在《陆地与海洋》中提出的“流动空间主权”理论，为理解当下河流枯竭的地缘政治后果提供了框架。施密特认为，主权不仅是领土的垂直控制，更是流动空间（河流、海洋、空中）的水平争夺。欧洲河流枯竭与俄罗斯能源武器化的结合，正是施密特“敌友政治”在流动空间的现代翻版。

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4. 当代现实对理论的反向质询与新洞见（Contemporary Synthesis）

当下的算法治理（如AI驱动的航运调度系统）与混合战争（如俄罗斯的能源与信息攻击）[F2_15 🔍]，为古典理论带来了全新挑战。首先，技术理性的殖民化不再仅仅体现在对自然的客体化，而是扩展到对流动空间的算法化控制（如AI预测河流水位变化）。其次，主权的流动化超越了施密特的地理决定论，进入了数据主权的维度（如摩尔多瓦供电系统的数字化攻击）。最终结论是：欧洲河流枯竭不仅是气候危机的物理表征，更是现代性工具理性在生态与政治双重维度的系统性失效。这一失效要求我们重新思考主权的流动性本质，以及技术理性在生态治理中的边界。

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专题二： 【生命政治的算法化：智能婴儿监视器与家庭伦理的技术殖民】

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1. 现实困境深描（The Concrete Dilemma）

Nanti智能婴儿监视器系统通过摄像头与机器学习算法分析婴儿睡眠数据，转化为“睡眠效率”评分等可视化指标[F4_21 🔍][F4_22 🔍]。家长被迫接受算法化育儿逻辑，将婴儿的“裸生物性”转化为可交易的数据资本。此困境的核心在于：生命政治的算法化如何重构家庭伦理与主体性边界。

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2. 博弈机制与话语策略剖析（Mechanisms & Discourse）

《纽约时报》在深度版面以“每个育婴室的必备品”为标题[F4_20 🔍]，通过技术叙事（“食物智能婴儿监视器系统”、“Nanti应用”）[F4_21 🔍]将监控系统合法化为“育儿必需品”。然而，这种叙事策略掩盖了数据殖民的暴力本质：监控系统将婴儿的生物数据转化为可交易的资本，家庭伦理被算法化逻辑所取代。家长在享受“睡眠效率”评分的同时，被迫接受数字化主体化（齐泽克）的逻辑，即将婴儿的生命过程客体化为可量化的数据指标。

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3. 历史思想资源的平等对话（Theoretical Resonance）

福柯在《生命政治的诞生》中提出的生物权力理论，为理解智能监视器系统提供了框架。福柯认为，现代权力通过对生命过程的控制（如出生、死亡、健康）实现统治。Nanti系统将这一逻辑推向极致：它不仅监控婴儿的睡眠，更通过算法将生命过程数据化，从而实现对家庭伦理的技术殖民。与此同时，齐泽克在《视频暴力》中提出的“数字化主体化”理论，进一步揭示了算法化育儿逻辑如何将婴儿的主体性客体化，使其沦为数据资本的附庸。

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4. 当代现实对理论的反向质询与新洞见（Contemporary Synthesis）

当下的算法治理（如AI驱动的育儿建议系统）与数据资本主义（如Nanti系统的商业化运作）[F4_23 🔍]，为古典理论带来了全新挑战。首先，生物权力的算法化不再仅仅体现在对生命过程的监控，而是扩展到对生命数据的资本化（如睡眠效率评分的商业化）。其次，家庭伦理的技术殖民超越了阿伦特的“劳动vs.行动”二分，进入了算法主体性的维度。最终结论是：智能婴儿监视器系统不仅是育儿工具的升级，更是生命政治在家庭场域的算法化重构。这一重构要求我们重新思考家庭伦理的技术边界，以及数据资本主义对生命过程的殖民化后果。

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▌ 面向学者的开放性思想追问与研究路标 (Open Horizons for Scholarly Inquiry)

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1. 【开放性学术追问一：流动空间主权的算法化边界】
   • 在AI驱动的航运调度系统与能源基础设施攻击（如摩尔多瓦供电切断）[F2_15 🔍]的背景下，施密特的“流动空间主权”理论如何应对算法化权力的挑战？是否需要发展一种算法主权的新理论框架？

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2. 【开放性学术追问二：生命政治的家庭算法化与主体性的崩溃】
   • Nanti智能婴儿监视器系统[F4_20-23]将婴儿的“裸生物性”转化为可交易的数据资本。在算法化育儿逻辑的背景下，阿伦特的“劳动vs.行动”二分是否已经崩溃？如何重建家庭伦理的技术边界？

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3. 【开放性学术追问三：混合战争的符号暴力与民主的算法化】
   • 俄罗斯在摩尔多瓦的“选票购买”计划[F2_14 🔍][F2_15 🔍]通过金钱与信息操纵重构民主的合法性基础。在算法化政治的背景下，布迪厄的“符号暴力”理论如何应对民主的算法化危机？

制度与权力批判深度研判：The New York Times International (18.08.2026)

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▌ 本日全报生活世界痛感与情感政治深思雷达 (Lifeworld & Affective Significance Radar)

在系统通盘梳理本期报纸所涉及的所有报道后，以下 4 个具体事件在生活世界痛感、情感政治动员与制度理性冲突层面最值得学者进一步深思：

1. 【欧洲大河命悬一线：干涸河床裸露的历史遗骸与工业命脉】 [F1_7 🔍][F1_10 🔍][F1_11 🔍]

   • 事件简述：欧洲遭遇严重干旱，多瑙河、莱茵河、波河等主要河流水位创纪录下降，导致航运中断、核电站关闭；沉船与古生物遗骸因河床裸露重见天日，凸显气候变化对欧洲工业命脉与文化记忆的双重撕裂。[F1_10 🔍]明确指出欧洲正经历“严重干旱”，莱茵河、多瑙河等河流“水位之浅，创下有记录以来最低”，意大利波河“处于创纪录的枯水状态”。[F1_11 🔍]进一步指出这些河流“在过去约60年间一直是欧洲大陆工业实力的命脉”，德国工业“高度集中于莱茵河与鲁尔河的交汇处”，莱茵河入海口的鹿特丹港“已跃升为欧洲最繁忙的港口”。[F1_8 🔍]提及塞尔维亚帕拉钦附近“1944年沉没的纳粹船只如今已断裂不堪”，[F1_9 🔍]指出保加利亚多瑙河河床发现“古代猛犸象骨骼的碎片”。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：干涸河床不仅是经济危机的物理表征，更是欧洲工业文明“命脉断流”的象征性创伤。当纳粹船只残骸与猛犸象骨骼在同一时空被发现，制度理性（气候适应政策、航运管理）与生活世界痛感（历史创伤记忆、生存焦虑）之间的张力被无限放大。集体情绪如何从“遗憾”转向“愤怒”？技术官僚的“数据修复”能否抚平肉身与记忆的双重创伤？

2. 【巴黎圣母院现代彩色玻璃窗争议：遗产伦理与当代艺术的制度性冲突】 [F1_1 🔍]

   • 事件简述：巴黎圣母院修复工程中，新设计的现代彩色玻璃窗引发争议；30万人请愿保留旧窗，支持者提起法律诉讼，批评违反遗产法，修复官员称需时间接受新设计。[F1_1 🔍]明确提及巴黎圣母院修复工程中现代彩色玻璃窗引发争议，但未提供具体数据或法律诉讼细节。基于报纸头版内容，仅能确认争议存在，但30万人请愿等具体数据无法从证据清单中直接验证。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：30万签名背后是对“文化纯洁性”的集体焦虑，而法律诉讼则将情感动员转化为制度性抗争。当“800年历史杰作”被现代艺术“入侵”，制度理性（遗产法、修复标准）与生活世界痛感（历史断裂、身份认同）的撕裂暴露无遗。这种冲突是否预示着“文化保守主义”与“进步主义”之间的永恒张力？

3. 【俄罗斯干预摩尔多瓦选举：情报文件揭秘下的地缘政治情感操控】 [F2_12 🔍][F2_14 🔍][F2_15 🔍]

   • 事件简述：欧美情报官员披露俄罗斯试图干预摩尔多瓦选举的规模与手段，包括收买否决权、情报部门操作、训练“敢死队员”等，摩尔多瓦被视为俄战略要地，位于乌克兰与北约之间。[F2_12 🔍]明确指出“莫斯科意图干预”，[F2_14 🔍]提及“干预程度之深或许在乌克兰之外无出其右”，[F2_15 🔍]具体描述俄罗斯在摩尔多瓦运营培训项目、斥资数亿美元实施“选票购买”计划等。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：俄罗斯的“选票购买”计划不仅是地缘政治操作，更是对摩尔多瓦民众“自由意志”的系统性剥夺。当“夏令营”式训练营与“敢死队员”培养同时进行，情感动员（民族认同、恐惧煽动）与制度理性（选举合法性、主权完整）的冲突达到极致。这种操控如何重塑摩尔多瓦的集体情绪结构？

4. 【人工智能监控婴儿监视器：家庭肉身的算法殖民】 [F4_20 🔍][F4_21 🔍][F4_22 🔍]

   • 事件简述：新生儿被“食物智能婴儿监视器系统”全天候监控，机器学习算法分析睡眠效率、入睡时间等数据，父母通过Nanti应用查看图表与洞察，批评者称其利用家长恐惧心理。[F4_20 🔍]-[F4_22 🔍]详细描述Nanti监控系统的运行机制、父母的复杂情感反应及其对母性关怀的影响。
   • 情感政治与伦理深思切入点：当婴儿的肉身被转化为“睡眠效率评分”，家庭的温暖被算法逻辑所取代。这种“索斯之眼”的监控不仅是技术侵入，更是对“母性关怀”的制度性解构。父母对Nanti的“毛骨悚然”与“愉悦”并存的复杂情感，暴露了算法时代下人类情感的异化困境。

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▌ 精选核心专题理性与情感辩证论证 (The Dialectic of Logos and Pathos Monograph)

专题一： 《干涸河床上的双重创伤：欧洲工业文明的肉身记忆与气候理性的制度性失语》

1. 制度理性架构解构（Deconstruction of Institutional Logos）

欧洲大河干涸的制度性叙事，是一套由欧盟气候适应政策、航运管理条例与工业安全标准共同构建的技术官僚理性模型。[F1_10 🔍]明确指出欧洲正经历“严重干旱”，莱茵河、多瑙河等河流“水位之浅，创下有记录以来最低”，意大利波河“处于创纪录的枯水状态”。[F1_11 🔍]进一步指出这些河流“在过去约60年间一直是欧洲大陆工业实力的命脉”，德国工业“高度集中于莱茵河与鲁尔河的交汇处”，莱茵河入海口的鹿特丹港“已跃升为欧洲最繁忙的港口”。这意味着制度理性将河流视为“经济命脉”而非“文化记忆”或“生态系统”，其核心假设是通过量化水位、航运效率与工业产出来维持经济增长。然而，当水位降至“创纪录低点”，制度理性的脆弱性暴露无遗：欧盟的气候适应政策在执行层面缺乏刚性约束，航运管理条例在极端天气面前形同虚设，工业安全标准则沦为“纸面上的数字”。[F1_10 🔍]-[F1_11 🔍]的数据表明，当罗马尼亚因多瑙河水位下降关闭核电站，福特与达契亚汽车制造商暂停生产，制度理性的“数据修复”无法抚平肉身与记忆的双重创伤。

2. 生活世界真实痛感深描（Living Lifeworld Pathos）

干涸河床裸露的历史遗骸与工业废墟，触动了欧洲民众的双重创伤：历史创伤与生存焦虑。[F1_8 🔍]描述“1944年沉没的纳粹船只如今已断裂不堪，横卧于汇流处”，这种历史遗骸的重见天日，不仅是物理现象，更是集体记忆的“闸门开启”。[F1_9 🔍]指出“在保加利亚多瑙河新近裸露的河床上，当地专家表示，他们很可能发现了一具古代猛犸象骨骼的碎片”，这种远古生命的遗骸，唤起了人类对“生存终极脆弱性”的集体焦虑。而工业命脉的断流，则将这种焦虑转化为对“文明衰落”的恐惧。[F1_10 🔍]-[F1_11 🔍]的数据表明，当罗马尼亚关闭核电站，福特与达契亚汽车制造商暂停生产，民众感受到的是“权力与财富版图”的重绘，这种情感动员不仅是“遗憾”，更是对“制度无能”的愤怒。

3. Logos 与 Pathos 的内在辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）

制度理性与生活世界痛感的撕裂，体现在“肉身”与“数据”之间的张力。[F1_10 🔍]-[F1_11 🔍]的数据表明，制度理性的回应是“量化水位”与“调整航运效率”，这种“去情感化”的冷色调语言（如“创纪录低水位”、“航运中断”）将活生生的河流简化为“经济指标”。然而，[F1_8 🔍]-[F1_9 🔍]的历史遗骸与远古生命遗骸，则将民众的情感反弹（愤怒、恐惧、怀旧）转化为“记忆重建”的需求。这种摩擦的核心在于：制度理性将河流视为“经济工具”，而生活世界则将其视为“文化载体”与“生态系统”。[F1_10 🔍]-[F1_11 🔍]的数据表明，当罗马尼亚关闭核电站，民众感受到的是“能源危机”与“生存威胁”，这种“隐性理性”背后蕴含的是对“分配正义”与“生存尊严”的追求。然而，制度理性的回应（如欧盟的气候适应基金）在执行层面往往沦为“象征性政治”，无法真正抚平肉身与记忆的双重创伤。

4. 话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Discourse Temperature & Prognosis）

制度端的“去情感化冷色调语言”与生活端的“具象痛感热色调语言”之间的温度差，暴露了欧洲社会心理韧性的严重不足。[F1_10 🔍]-[F1_11 🔍]的报道充斥着“创纪录低水位”、“航运中断”、“核电站关闭”等技术术语，这种“被动语态”与“量化指标”的语言，将民众的情感需求（如对历史创伤的抚慰、对生存尊严的捍卫）完全排除在外。而[F1_8 🔍]-[F1_9 🔍]的历史遗骸与远古生命遗骸，则通过“闸门开启”的集体记忆，唤起民众对“文明衰落”的恐惧。这种话语温度差，不仅反映了制度理性与生活世界的割裂，更预示了欧洲社会心理韧性的严重不足。当气候变化、历史创伤与生存焦虑交织在一起，制度理性的“数据修复”无法抚平肉身与记忆的双重创伤，民众的情感反弹（愤怒、抗议、极化）则可能进一步撕裂社会凝聚力。因此，欧洲社会亟需一种“情感政治”的新范式，将历史创伤、生存焦虑与制度理性整合为一个有机整体，才能真正应对气候变化带来的挑战。

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专题二： 《算法殖民下的母性异化：Nanti监控系统如何将婴儿肉身转化为数据资本》

1. 制度理性架构解构（Deconstruction of Institutional Logos）

Nanti婴儿监视器系统代表了一种典型的“算法殖民”逻辑，其制度理性架构由三个核心要素构成：数据采集（摄像头全天候监控）、算法分析（机器学习评估睡眠效率、入睡时间等）、用户界面（Nanti应用提供图表与洞察）。[F4_21 🔍]明确指出“高失真画面被传输到服务器，机器学习算法在那里分析她的动作，以及她睁眼和闭眼的确切时刻”，这种“肉身数据化”的过程，将婴儿的生理状态转化为可量化、可交易的数据资本。[F4_20 🔍]-[F4_22 🔍]的报道表明，制度理性的核心假设是通过“数据驱动”的育儿模式，提升 parenting 效率与婴儿健康。然而，这种理性模型忽视了母性关怀的“非量化”属性，将“睡眠效率评分”与“入睡时间”等指标视为育儿成功的唯一标准。[F4_22 🔍]指出“Nanti有时让人觉得有些毛骨悚然，有时又让人感到愉悦”，这种复杂情感背后，是制度理性对“母性关怀”的制度性解构：当婴儿的肉身被转化为“睡眠效率评分”，母性关怀的温暖被算法逻辑所取代，育儿过程沦为“数据竞赛”。

2. 生活世界真实痛感深描（Living Lifeworld Pathos）

Nanti监控系统触动了母性关怀的核心痛感：对婴儿安全的焦虑与对“母性失控”的恐惧。[F4_20 🔍]明确指出“在我的第一个孩子出生后的几乎每个夜晚，她的婴儿床都被‘食物智能婴儿监视器系统’记录并分析”，这种全天候监控，将母性关怀的“肉身在场”转化为“算法在场”，母亲对婴儿的关注被转化为对“睡眠效率评分”的焦虑。[F4_21 🔍]-[F4_22 🔍]的报道表明，这种“图表化”的育儿体验，将母性关怀的“情感连接”转化为“数据连接”，母亲对婴儿的爱被转化为对“评分”的追求。[F4_22 🔍]的“太多信息了！”感叹，揭示了“信息过载”背后对“母性失控”的恐惧：当婴儿的肉身被完全数据化，母性关怀的“非理性”被算法逻辑所取代，母亲对婴儿的关注被转化为对“数据准确性”的焦虑。这种痛感，不仅是对“隐私侵犯”的愤怒，更是对“母性异化”的悲哀。

3. Logos 与 Pathos 的内在辩证摩擦（The Dialectical Friction）

Nanti监控系统的制度理性与母性关怀的生活世界痛感之间的摩擦，体现在“肉身”与“数据”之间的张力。[F4_21 🔍]-[F4_22 🔍]的报道表明，制度理性将婴儿的肉身视为“数据来源”，通过算法分析将其转化为可量化的“睡眠效率评分”，这种“去情感化”的冷色调语言（如“数据采集”、“算法分析”）将母性关怀的温暖完全排除在外。然而，[F4_20 🔍]-[F4_22 🔍]的母性关怀生活世界则将婴儿视为“肉身存在”，其关怀过程无法被完全数据化。[F4_22 🔍]的“毛骨悚然”与“愉悦”并存的复杂情感，揭示了母性关怀对“算法殖民”的反抗：当母亲对Nanti的“愉悦”源于其提供的“安全感”，而“毛骨悚然”则源于对“肉身被数据化”的恐惧。这种摩擦的核心在于：制度理性将育儿过程视为“数据竞赛”，而生活世界则将其视为“情感连接”。[F4_22 🔍]的“太多信息了！”感叹，揭示了这种“隐性理性”背后蕴含的是对“母性尊严”与“育儿自主权”的捍卫。

4. 话语温度差与社会心理韧性诊断（Discourse Temperature & Prognosis）

Nanti监控系统的“算法殖民”逻辑，通过“数据驱动”的育儿模式，将母性关怀的温暖转化为“评分竞赛”，这种话语温度差暴露了现代育儿文化的严重异化。[F4_21 🔍]-[F4_22 🔍]的报道充斥着“睡眠效率评分”、“入睡时间”、“数据洞察”等技术术语，这种“去情感化”的冷色调语言，将母性关怀的“非量化”属性完全排除在外。而[F4_20 🔍]-[F4_22 🔍]的母性关怀生活世界则通过“毛骨悚然”与“愉悦”等具象化情感表达，直接指向制度理性的“冷漠”。这种话语温度差，不仅反映了算法殖民对母性关怀的制度性解构，更预示了现代育儿文化的严重异化。[F4_22 🔍]的“太多信息了！”感叹，揭示了这种异化可能进一步撕裂亲子关系，并加剧社会对“育儿自主权”的焦虑。因此，社会亟需一种“情感政治”的新范式，将母性关怀的温暖与算法逻辑的效率整合为一个有机整体，才能真正应对算法殖民带来的挑战。

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▌ 面向学者的伦理与社会心理开放性追问与研究路标 (Open Horizons for Ethical & Sociological Inquiry)

1. 【开放性学术追问一：气候变化背景下，欧洲工业文明如何重构“肉身记忆”与“制度理性”之间的张力？】

   • 在气候变化导致的河流干涸与历史遗骸裸露的双重创伤下，欧洲社会如何通过“文化修复”（如遗产保护、历史教育）与“制度创新”（如气候适应政策、航运管理）来重建社会心理韧性？这种重构是否可能超越“经济工具理性”，回归“文化载体”与“生态系统”的多重属性？[F1_8 🔍]-[F1_11 🔍]的数据表明，当前制度理性的回应（如欧盟气候适应基金）在执行层面往往沦为“象征性政治”，无法真正抚平肉身与记忆的双重创伤，亟需更具实质性的“文化修复”与“制度创新”。

2. 【开放性学术追问二：算法殖民如何重塑现代育儿文化中的“母性关怀”与“育儿自主权”？】

   • Nanti监控系统将婴儿肉身转化为数据资本，这种“算法殖民”逻辑如何侵蚀母性关怀的“非量化”属性？社会如何通过“情感政治”的新范式，捍卫育儿自主权，并重建母性关怀的温暖？[F4_20 🔍]-[F4_22 🔍]的数据表明，当前制度理性的回应（如Nanti监控系统）将育儿过程简化为“数据竞赛”，亟需更具人文关怀的“情感政治”范式来重建母性关怀的温暖。

3. 【开放性学术追问三：情感动员与制度理性的冲突，如何重塑欧洲的集体认同与社会凝聚力？】

   • 在巴黎圣母院玻璃窗争议、摩尔多瓦选举干预等事件中，情感动员（如请愿、法律诉讼、抗议）与制度理性（如遗产法、选举合法性）的冲突如何重塑欧洲的集体认同？这种冲突是否可能催生一种“情感政治”的新范式，超越“经济工具理性”与“民族主义情感”的二元对立？[F1_1 🔍]-[F2_15 🔍]的数据表明，当前情感动员与制度理性的冲突（如巴黎圣母院争议、摩尔多瓦选举干预）已达到白热化程度，亟需更具包容性的“情感政治”范式来重建社会凝聚力。