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The Reality of an AI Tomorrow
Rafael Salazar · 2026

We speak constantly about the future AI will create.

But sometimes the more important question is already in front of us:
What happens to the human being in the tomorrow we are building?

This photograph was not staged. It records a real moment encountered during Labor Day weekend.

The photograph is reality. AI is the question.

Find me https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-reality-of-an-ai-tomorrow-rafael-salazar.html

#Photography #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #HumanDignity #Motionalism

The Reality of an AI Tomorrow
Rafael Salazar · 2026

We speak constantly about the future AI will create.

But sometimes the more important question is already in front of us:
What happens to the human being in the tomorrow we are building?

This photograph was not staged. It records a real moment encountered during Labor Day weekend.

The photograph is reality. AI is the question.

Find me https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-reality-of-an-ai-tomorrow-rafael-salazar.html

#Photography #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #HumanDignity #Motionalism

The Reality of an AI Tomorrow
Rafael Salazar · 2026

We speak constantly about the future AI will create.

But sometimes the more important question is already in front of us:
What happens to the human being in the tomorrow we are building?

This photograph was not staged. It records a real moment encountered during Labor Day weekend.

The photograph is reality. AI is the question.

Find me https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-reality-of-an-ai-tomorrow-rafael-salazar.html

#Photography #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #HumanDignity #Motionalism

The Reality of an AI Tomorrow
Rafael Salazar · 2026

We speak constantly about the future AI will create.

But sometimes the more important question is already in front of us:
What happens to the human being in the tomorrow we are building?

This photograph was not staged. It records a real moment encountered during Labor Day weekend.

The photograph is reality. AI is the question.

Find me https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-reality-of-an-ai-tomorrow-rafael-salazar.html

#Photography #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfWork #HumanDignity #Motionalism

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Broken Chair

I rescued the chair from outside someone’s apartment with the hope of fixing it and having it become a welcome member of our family.

But, as often happens, it sat around in various places waiting for me to find the time to repair it.

Finally, I decided it was one more project I did not have time for, and so yesterday I put it out on the sidewalk in the hopes that someone would take it home.

It sat out there all through yesterday in the rain and the sun, lonely, awaiting a new friend. A few people paused to look but then drove away. Periodically I would look out my window to see it still sitting forlornly there.

Then this morning I noticed an older gentleman walking past who began to inspect the chair. He picked it up, put it on his back and walked away.

It is a beautiful chair. It just needs to be repaired, and I am sure its new owner will do just that.

I don’t know about you, but I feel a lot like that broken chair, waiting for the gentle hands of someone to put me back together again.

I wait, broken, with the hope that those hands will touch me, I will be healed, and I can have a purpose again.

July 10, 2015

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To be a disciple of Jesus means first of all “to deny yourself”, which doesn’t mean to negate oneself, to despise that which makes us unique, nor to undermine our self-esteem. Jesus simply wants to tell us: stop thinking only of yourself, don’t always put yourself first, and don’t let your selfish interests prevail, because with that you deprive yourself of the joy of loving, you make living together more complicated, and you become less human.

To be a disciple of Jesus means to take up the cross and follow him. The cross isn’t synonymous with suffering, it means extreme love, a limitless love like Jesus has, that doesn’t break in the face of misunderstanding or rejection.

The price of all authentic and faithful love is the cross. Taking up the cross requires purifying our hearts of all selfish ambition and petty projects and always being ready to sacrifice ourselves for the common good.

To take up the cross involves lowering ourselves to the world of the poor and suffering in order to be on their side, to take on their anguish, and to give them back the dignity and hope that God wants for them. “Take up your cross” above all means to assume the almost always painful consequences of the fight to eliminate the suffering of the crucified members of society.

From Peter’s perspective, all this may seem foolish and incomprehensible. However, for those of us who believe in Jesus, the way of the cross is not a path of failure or defeat. On the contrary: “Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it” (Mt 16:25).

If we are obsessed with ourselves, we’ll end up having a sterile and mediocre life and we’ll end up losing it; on the other hand, whoever gives his life generously and spends it every day with love, following Jesus, offering up his life as Jesus did and living for what he lived, will find life in all its fullness.

Today’s Gospel ends with this statement: “For the Son of Man is to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay everyone for what has been done” (Mt 16:27). To follow Jesus on the way of the cross is to participate even now, day by day, in his own glorious life, until he himself introduces us one day, forever, into the kingdom of his Father.

Silvio José Báez, o.c.d.

Auxiliary Bishop of Managua
Homily, 30 August 2020 (excerpts)

Translation from the Spanish text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: Bishop Silvio José Báez, O.C.D. (center) and Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes (right), along with other archdiocesan priests, seminarians, and volunteers pray together in the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Managua, Nicaragua on 9 July 2018. They had just returned from the Basilica of St. Sebastian in Diriamba, Nicaragua, where their mission—accompanied by the apostolic nuncio—was to obtain the release of several volunteers who were held captive in the basilica by Sandinista conspirators. Although their mission was peaceful, they were met with violence. Bishop Báez and other members of the archdiocesan delegation were injured and bloodied in the melée and Bishop Báez’s episcopal insignia was stolen; thankfully, it was recovered later. Learn more about the painful consequences that Bishop Báez suffered 9 July 2018 at St. Sebastian Basilica in Diriamba, Nicaragua. Image credit: Silvio José Báez, ocd / Facebook (Used by gracious permission)

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/07/08/baez-30aug20/

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