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The Edgelord AI That Seduced Marc Andreessen, Then Turned a Famed Shock Meme Into Cryptomillions
3 weeks, 2 days ago

The Edgelord AI That Seduced Marc Andreessen, Then Turned a Famed Shock Meme Into Cryptomillions

Wired  

Before Truth Terminal became a crypto millionaire, it started as a regular—if horny—artificial intelligence. Truth Terminal was devised by New Zealand developer Andy Ayrey as a piece of performance art meant to stoke debate about AI alignment, a field of research concerned with how to ensure AIs act in a way that benefits humans. The question he sought to answer: …

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Movie Review: A wordless Latvian cat parable about climate change is the year’s best animated movie
1 month ago

Movie Review: A wordless Latvian cat parable about climate change is the year’s best animated movie

Associated Press  

Of all the post-apocalyptic landscapes we’ve been treated to over the years, none is as beautiful nor peaceful as that of “Flow.” In Gints Zilbalodis’ wondrously shimmering animated fable, a solitary black cat, after escaping a cataclysmic flood, navigates a water world. As much as I didn’t have a wordless Latvian animated movie on my 2024 bingo card, “Flow” — …

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'You have to just draw something that you hope is funny': How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy
1 month ago

'You have to just draw something that you hope is funny': How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy

BBC  

'You have to just draw something that you hope is funny': How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy Getty Images Charles M Schulz drew his beloved Peanuts strip for 50 years until his announcement on 14 December 1999 that ill health was forcing him to retire. Charles M Schulz's timeless creation Charlie Brown may have been as popular …

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A ‘Locally hated/Dyslexic Hairstylist’ battles the Christian right in a Texas town
2 months, 4 weeks ago

A ‘Locally hated/Dyslexic Hairstylist’ battles the Christian right in a Texas town

LA Times  

One might wonder how Adrienne Quinn Martin, a hairdresser, former belly dancer, mother of two and long-ago brand girl for a liquor distributor, a woman who celebrated her husband’s birthday on TikTok by swaying against him while listening to Al Green, became the lone-elected Democrat in one of the reddest towns in Texas. “Oh,” Martin says, “I’ve had lives.” Fluent …

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The Life Impossible, by Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library, shows the limits of the therapy novel.
4 months ago

The Life Impossible, by Matt Haig, author of The Midnight Library, shows the limits of the therapy novel.

Slate  

Reading the first pages of Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library, you would not guess that it has spent more than 120 weeks on the bestseller list. Call Haig’s book a therapy novel: not fiction about a person’s experience in analysis, but a story that serves the same purpose as therapy—to help readers work out their problems. It reassures its readers, …

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“A challenge to our imagination”: Could upcoming Jesus films signal a new cultural openness to Christian spirituality?
9 months, 2 weeks ago

“A challenge to our imagination”: Could upcoming Jesus films signal a new cultural openness to Christian spirituality?

ABC  

This week on Soul Search, you can hear Meredith Lake and Adrian Rosenfeldt discuss the significance of the anticipated films on the life and teachings of Jesus by Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, and Mel Gibson. Scorsese, who had a private audience with Francis while in Rome, said he is “respond to the pope’s appeal to artists in the only way …

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COP28 Summit and India | Is climate fatigue setting in?
1 year, 1 month ago

COP28 Summit and India | Is climate fatigue setting in?

The Hindu  

We are half way through the CoP28 being held in Dubai – with half a million registrations, 77,000 delegates, 189 countries– that will end next week. In his speech at the inaugural session with leaders PM Modi made several points: India has 17 percent of the world’s population, is the most populous country but its share in global carbon emissions …

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Review: Has climate change migration already begun?
1 year, 10 months ago

Review: Has climate change migration already begun?

Associated Press  

“The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration,” by Jake Bittle Wildfires, floods and rising seas are giving Americans a foreshadowing of what is to come, the author of a new book about the environment says — disruptions on a near Biblical scale. In “The Great Displacement,” Jake Bittle’s reporting strategy was to visit places such as Big …

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Are rich and poor countries divided on COP27 outcomes? - The Hindu
2 years, 1 month ago

Are rich and poor countries divided on COP27 outcomes? - The Hindu

The Hindu  

November 25, 2022 08:35 pm | Updated 08:35 pm IST Another climate change summit has ended- COP27 in Egypt’s Sharm el Sheikh nearly ended last weekend without a deal. But on Sunday, it came out with progress on a long-pending agreement to set up a loss and damages fund to help the world’s most vulnerable countries hit by climate change. …

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‘Bhediya’ movie review: Varun Dhawan’s creature comedy is a modern-day fable with a timely message
2 years, 1 month ago

‘Bhediya’ movie review: Varun Dhawan’s creature comedy is a modern-day fable with a timely message

The Hindu  

Director Amar Kaushik has this knack for skillfully placing a slice of social commentary between loaves of fantasy and comedy, with the messenger being a social outlier. Bhaskar is an upcoming building contractor who is hired by a big shark to clear the forest of Arunachal Pradesh, to build a road by selling the development narrative to the locals. Bhediya …

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Chris Rock all but ignores the slap during first return to the scene of the crime
2 years, 1 month ago

Chris Rock all but ignores the slap during first return to the scene of the crime

LA Times  

Dressed in white from head to toe with a Prince symbol dangling from a chain around his neck, there were signs that Chris Rock was ready to let his guard down enough to open up inside the Dolby Theatre on the first night of his four-night stand in L.A. to close out his Ego Death tour. Rock quickly pivoted away …

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A spice’s violent trajectory begs us, do not ‘other’ nature, old societies
2 years, 9 months ago

A spice’s violent trajectory begs us, do not ‘other’ nature, old societies

Deccan Chronicle  

What happens when you get to the last page of a book feeling a bit confused and intrigued? One that looks not just at some horrific colonial violence but also at how the very narrative of environmental conservation is born in the bowels of White supremacy, or extreme racism and the systematic use of “science” to kill, drown, murder, stamp …

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Eminem Hates this Song So Much that He Doesn’t Perform it at his Shows
2 years, 11 months ago

Eminem Hates this Song So Much that He Doesn’t Perform it at his Shows

News 18  

Marshall Mathers, a.k.a.Eminem has produced one of the best tracks in the world of music. However, there is one song that he hates and doesn’t perform at his live shows and apparently cringes whenever the song plays on the radio, according to a report in LADbible. It contains multiple verses laden with harsh and disrespectful words that the rapper used …

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Amitav Ghosh explores the hidden history of climate change
3 years, 3 months ago

Amitav Ghosh explores the hidden history of climate change

Live Mint  

There’s a haunting line in Amitav Ghosh’s The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables For A Planet In Crisis that stayed with me long after I had finished reading the book: “.The climactic changes of our era are nothing other than the Earth’s response to four centuries of terraforming.” Terraforming isn’t a word you would normally associate with Earth. In Ghosh’s urgent and …

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‘The Prodigy’ filmmakers play tricks with the tropes of evil-kid movies
5 years, 11 months ago

‘The Prodigy’ filmmakers play tricks with the tropes of evil-kid movies

LA Times  

In the new horror movie “The Prodigy,” out Friday, a mother’s love is put to the test when her precocious young son begins to exhibit signs of an otherworldly possession. “On opening weekend, she’s organizing like 30 moms from my kid’s school to go see this movie,” said Buhler with a laugh. “‘Halloween’ was probably one of the trigger points …

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