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Daily Mail
18-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Hulking American realtor trashed airport immigration hall for disgracefully petty reason
An American realtor high on 'hallucinogenic substances' destroyed part of an airport immigration hall after being asked to show his passport for inspection, it's claimed. Emmanuel Hernandez, 42, was filmed embarking on a violent meltdown at Rafael Nunez International Airport in Cartagena, Colombia, on Thursday. The New Yorker had just disembarked a flight from Miami and was already high on drugs by the time he was asked to hand over his travel document, it is claimed. Hernandez was seen on an embarrassing video destroying the panel of a booth as petrified travelers kept their distance. 'F*** you,' Hernández shouted. 'You think you can f*** around with the wrong motherf*****.' Hernández then punched the booth Plexiglass window and screamed, 'Now f*** everybody.' He continued to shout more expletives before he stepped inside the booth and again punched the window. Multiple Colombia Migration officers approached in an unsuccessful bid to calm Hernandez, who told them, 'Nobody arrests me in Colombia.' He then picked up a computer monitor and slammed it to the ground before shouting 'f*** everybody.' Four agents charged at Hernandez and struggled to contain him until they were able to escort him away. Hernández, who was arrested on a property damage charge, was expected to appear before a judge at the Attorney General's office in Cartagena. Bruno Hernández, the secretary of the city's Interior and Citizen Coexistence Ministry, slammed Emmanuel Hernández's behavior and called for his immediate removal from the country. 'This administration ... has promoted sustainable tourism, cultural tourism, and in the same way, visitors who come to the city of Cartagena,' Bruno Hernández said in a statement Friday. 'That's what we want and that's what we're looking for: respectful people, people who come to enjoy our city.' #ATENTOS. Turista extranjero, al parecer bajo efectos de sustancias alucinógenas, provoca destrozos en aeropuerto de Cartagena. Aún se desconocen las causas del violento incidente, que llenó de pánico a miles de personas en el terminal aéreo. El sujeto finalmente fue capturado. — Colombia Oscura (@ColombiaOscura_) July 18, 2025 The secretary said his office has already met with Carlos García, the director of Colombia's border control agency, and asked that Emmanuel Hernández face the toughest punishment under law. 'Once the legal situation is resolved, this person will be placed at the disposal of Colombian Immigration, where we have held meetings with the director of Colombian Immigration and have categorically requested the highest sanction, which should be expulsion from the country,' Bruno Hernández said. 'This decision by Colombian Migration should be exemplary and should set a precedent, where all we want as a city is respectful visitors, and, as we said before, visitors who come and enjoy the city of Cartagena in peace.' The incident comes as the office of Cartagena Mayor Dumek Turbay have been working on addressing the amount of time that travelers have to wait to have their passports and other identification documents revised before boarding their flights. 'Up to 10 officers are working simultaneously to ensure a more streamlined and orderly process,' the city's tourism secretary Teremar Londoño, said according to Colombian news outlet Semana. 'We have increased the number of officers and are managing the strengthening of our permanent operational staff throughout the year. This has significantly reduced wait times at immigration checkpoints.' Colombia, once notorious for its cocaine industry and crime, has become an increasingly popular tourist destination in recent years. Cartagena is a stunning city that sits on the Caribbean Sea that offers gorgeous sandy beaches and rich local culture.
Forbes
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
World Labs Ups The Ante In World Generation
Red cup Mushroom, Wild Fly Agaric Amanita Muscaria toxic with poison and hallucinogenic properties. ... More Autumn season in the forest with orange, red and brown leaves from the trees and saturated fall nature colors in Stramproy area in the province of Limburg in the Netherlands, near the Belgian borders on October 24, 2020. (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images) A majestic red and black checkerboard pathway, framed by overgrown shrubbery. A manorial structure with bright red windows, on a craggy cliff at the end of a long and winding road. A close pathway through a proliferation of neon mushrooms. What does all of this have in common? It's been generated by groundbreaking technology from World Labs, where the model can extrapolate an entire world based on one single image. It's important that people understand the technology at work here. Just a couple of decades ago, our state-of-the-art technique was to combine thousands of images into a frame-by-frame virtual exploration of a digital space. People used this technology to sell homes with virtual real estate tours, and for other kinds of use cases. This new thing is quite different. The technology is understanding how light and shadow affect surfaces. It's understanding how structures change when viewed from different angles. And most importantly, it's dreaming up a world of color and light, the likes of which we've never seen! World Labs, by the way, is a new player in the industry. It was created by Fei-Fei Li of Stanford fame just this year. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder One of the most prominent points of these public demos that I've been looking at online is that they're bright, bold and beautiful. These larger-than-life scenes are rendered capably in 3-D, and you can move around a little bit, although billing it as a digital 'world' is a little bit misleading. It's not hard to generate an out of bounds error, just by taking a few steps forward. On a side note, the page also caused my browser to crash more than once. Having said all that, this is extremely illuminating, some examples of capability far beyond what we would have thought possible just a few years ago. The closest thing we have to compare it to is the rendered game environments that were until quite recently mostly hand-coded. A Techcrunch article compares the World Labs project to Minecraft, which might appeal to a ten year old player more than a VC. But the ramifications of this are evident, or at least they should be. This isn't just a kid's game. Recent applications like a 'dress-anybody' garment simulator are just the beginning. Further down in the same demo page, you have a presentation attributed to Brittani Natali, who apparently put together a short film using different elements of today's new cutting-edge tools. The full stack included the World Labs generator as well as ElevenLabs, presumably for speech, and other tools like Suno and Blender and CapCut. On another side note, it seems that in addition to a dearth of information for the creator (Brittani Natali) in a google search, ChatGPT was unable to locate any info on this person either. It seems the individual has a pretty thin web footprint! Anyway, as for the film, the result is striking - the viewer of the film experiences walking through a good number of these digital environments quickly, and then centers in on a dilapidated house that's empty and abandoned. Our love affair with abandoned spaces has always been there in the human imagination. We love to explore – and see inside something that no one has seen for years. But what if we're seeing inside something that nobody has ever seen in the history of humanity? These colorful liminal spaces aren't just abandoned – they're brand new. This is the frontier of our world where we set out through uncharted waters to see what lies ahead. Is it scary? Is it exciting? You decide. But the bottom line is that it's here, and it's going to start popping up in unexpected places. I've covered a lot of big headlines this month, from corporate strategies pivoting quickly, to hardware wars that are determining who will benefit from the next generation of models. But it's also very interesting to keep an eye on the leapfrogging that AI is doing in multimedia – from Stable Diffusion and Dall-E, to Sora, to this new thing - where pretty soon, metaverse environments are going to create themselves.
