the article mentions words with friends as if those games are something to be shunned.
maybe the social aspect is what improves your mood not video games, based on this it would seem that tabletop games would have the same if not better results considering real life social interactions.
That's certainly a possibility. I haven't seen any evidence that the AMLO administration is actively collaborating with the cartels, but they have been quite open about not pursuing the failed strategies of the past, like working with the DEA:
It's not just an image transform, because it has to create facial features that were occluded in the original. (And correctly occluded existing features when the head turns.)
In the video with the sunglasses, for instance, the computer had to invent that ear on our left. (With mixed results -- it looks a bit like Mike Tyson got at it.)