Art and Culture

Ecstatic! Bree (left) and Shar perform with the Firewerks. Photo courtesy of the Portland Fire When the beat dropped, the dancers dropped from standing into a full backbend on one arm for about four counts — in unison. The fans…
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During the early days of the genocide, I was in the city of Rafah, displaced, sleeping under a roof that I didn’t know would still be there by morning. Shells were falling around the building where I had taken refuge with my…
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“No one wants more uncertainty, and certainly no one wants this chaos. And let’s face it, no one really wants to move from Beverly Hills to Nashville.” – The New York Times Source link
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The booksellers are wondering how they’re supposed to feel. Tey’re “are “uncomfortable with the idea of books being destroyed – even if they admit not every title needs to be saved.” – BBC Source link
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Kristen Bell made a surprise appearance with the baseball team the Savannah Bananas on Aug. 15, and she certainly brought down the house, er, field.Bell, who joined the team at their game in Denver, Colorado against the Indianapolis…
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President Donald Trump has apparently found a new adviser for his embattled White House ballroom: George Washington. Trump spent part of his weekend sharing a series of seemingly AI-generated images depicting himself alongside the…
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Classical music being served up at a McDonald's plagued by anti-social behaviour has led to young customers conducting themselves better, police have said.A year ago, the restaurant in Low Pavement, Chesterfield, was a hotspot for bad…
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“Most telling is Claude’s branding, incorporating hand-drawn illustrations and details that attempt to tell the world, ‘Hey, we’re the more human AI.’” – Fast Company Source link
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Search can no longer pretend to be a neutral gateway to a stable body of knowledge. While the web has always been organized around intermediaries that shape what survives online and who sees it, the internet’s archival function is today…
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It also carries obvious risk: He’s trusting that machines will be able to determine what is true, what is newsworthy, and what won’t get him sued. One of his agents runs an analysis on the legal risk a story poses and assigns it a score;…
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