Self-care refers to an emphasis upon prioritising activities and means of improving one's psychological and physical well-being - e.g. going to the spa, practising mindfulness and yoga, and having delicious food.

Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the US constitution bars those who have "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the country from holding federal office. The 14th Amendment was ratified after the Civil War, and Section 3 was deployed to bar secessionists from returning to previous government posts once southern states re-joined the Union.

Some examples of slowing down generative AI development: shutting down large GPU clusters, requiring extensive surveillance of large AI firms, limiting or delaying the publishing of certain deep learning architectures, etc.

In June 2023, in a 6-2-1 majority ruling, the US Supreme Court decided that race could no longer be a factor in higher education admissions processes - that is, race-based affirmative action (e.g. favouring African-Americans or Hispanics) across all universities and colleges (with the exception of military academies) is deemed unconstitutional.

BRICS is a loosely defined collective bloc that, prior to this year, had featured the five large, emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. This year, at the BRICS summit held in South Africa, the collective was expanded to include six further economies, namely UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Argentina, Ethiopia, and Egypt.