“I will say something that will really sum it up that I don't know if I've ever really said: I don't know Taylor Swift,” Braun said. “I think I've met her in my life three times. I have never had a substantial conversation with her in my life.” Braun added that one of those times, she invited him to a private party, where “She told me she had the utmost respect for me. I told her I had the utmost respect for her. You don't spend $300 million buying a label that she's on unless you're excited at the opportunity to work with her.”
With the new “Your custom feed” feature, you can build personalized playlists based on your interests, hobbies and daily routines simply by entering a prompt. That can then be pinned to the top of your homepage so you can jump back in quickly.
“Today, Last.fm begins a new chapter as an independent company,” the announcement reads. “Ownership has changed, but the product you use every day has not.” It also said that it will keep its current team. Last.fm is a music website that can track what you listen to across platforms, apps and streaming services, including Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.
The Gangers' synthetic flesh makes for some monstrous images. BBC Studios "The Almost People" is the second part of a two-part episode arc in Season 6 of Doctor Who. It follows the Doctor (Matt Smith), Amy Pond (Karen Gillan), and Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill) as they explore an acid factory that uses a strange technique to ensure employee safety: synthetic replicas, called "gangers" as in short for "doppelgangers, do the dangerous work, since they are seen as expendable. However, during a solar storm, the gangers are starting to gain some independence and are turning against the original forms.
Drug Story is an independent documentary podcast from journalist Thomas Goetz that explores the hidden history of medicine one drug at a time. Each episode uses a single medication to examine the science, politics, culture, and human stories surrounding disease and treatment.
La Cotorrisa launched in 2019 and is hosted by two Mexican stand-up comedians. (They read funny anecdotes submitted by listeners, whom they call “cotorros”.) The final nominees include: Filmic Notion Podcast (Puerto Rico) - TV & Film by Gerardo E. Alemán Rivera; Historiografìa Mexicana (México) - History by Pedro César Beas; and Susurros Podcast (Costa Rica) - Fiction by Bobby Chavarría and Waldin Badilla.
In a bonus episode for Slate Plus subscribers, the gang gather over the topic of book clubs. Endorsements June: Get In: The Inside Story of Labor Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund, a detailed and readable analysis of Keir Starmer's unlikely rise to power.
“To have all these stories be told to me and sent to me for just a few weeks, kind of an outpouring was incredible. You know, your dad is one thing to you and then to all these other people he was something else. I think sport is really amazing in these moments, football was incredible and comforting. As a family we took a lot of comfort from that.”
A Christmas Carol-inspired cold open begins with Donald Trump napping until the ghost of Jeffrey Epstein appears. Epstein, played by Will Ferrell, speaks in a mocking, sinister tone while referencing Trump’s low approval ratings. The sketch shifts from audience laughter to audible reactions as it escalates into darker material. Epstein describes an afterlife that is “really hot” and claims to spend time with figures including Joseph Stalin and John Wayne Gacy.
“We're a network today,” he told me. “But our goal is to become the network, where people say 'I use Ionna for all of my travel.'” I wanted to have Cutler on to find out how that's going, especially in a historically rough era for the EV industry. (Despite the slowdown in sales from some of Ionna's backers, its plans haven't changed, he told me.)
Defendants' use of Church trademarks and copyrighted materials has caused and will continue to cause individuals to be confused and access Defendants' content mistakenly believing it comes from or is affiliated with or endorsed by the Church, the church claimed in their lawsuit.
Before becoming one of the best-known value investors in the world, Pabrai was running a business generating roughly $6 million in revenue. The company was successful on paper, but he was deeply unhappy. Pabrai eventually took an extensive personality assessment that included interviews with coworkers, family members, and people close to him. The conclusion was surprisingly simple.
In our final episode, it's time to talk about Neil Gorsuch and the future of SCOTUS. Host Susan Matthews enlists Slate's jurisprudence team-Amicus co-hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern-to discuss Gorsuch's key rulings to date, his unpredictability, and how this textualist will shape this court (and our country) for decades to come.
We're hosting Vulture Festival at Tribeca Festival, which will feature two days of our favorite actors, artists, and agents of chaos. Jason Bateman will start us off on June 13 with a live podcast recording of Good One, then cede the floor to two generations of Handmaid's Tale actresses: Elisabeth Moss will pass the torch to Chase Infiniti and Lucy Halliday, stars of Hulu's new spinoff, The Testaments.
