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www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Sports

Larry Mahan, the Elvis of Rodeo, Is Dead at 79

Larry Mahan, an eight-time rodeo world champion and swashbuckling showman who was once called rodeo's first matinee idol, and who brokered that reputation into side careers as a Hollywood actor, a country singer and a purveyor of must-have cowboy boots, died on May 7 at his home in Valley View, Texas.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Eric Idle reveals he survived one of the most lethal' cancers

Monty Python star Eric Idle has revealed he survived one of the most lethal cancers, after receiving a rare early diagnosis.
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united-states
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

Salman Rushdie's 'Victory City' is a triumph, independent of the Chautauqua attack

Weeks before Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage at the Chautauqua Festival on Aug. 12, 2022, he finished and submitted the final edits for his novel, Victory City.Inspired by the real-life history of Vijayanagar, a once flourishing medieval Hindu Kingdom in South India, Rushdie set out to re-imagine its collapse as a feminist fable about the lust for power and the power of stories.
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1 year ago
Europe news

Brazil's Lula Intensifies Diplomatic Push for Peace in Ukraine

Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is intensifying a campaign to mediate an end to Russia's war in Ukraine as he seeks to reinsert Brazil in the global political stage.Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin was quoted by Russia's Tass news agency Thursday as saying Moscow is studying Lula's proposal to end the conflict as it continues to assess the situation in Ukraine.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Arts

The Italian film legend Gina Lollobrigida has died at age 95

A photo taken in the 50s of Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida.Lollobrigida, who embodied the Italian stereotype of Mediterranean beauty and was dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world" after the title of one her movies, has died at age 95.AP ROME Italian film legend Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world" after the title of one of her movies, died in Rome on Monday, her agent said.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Tech industry

Lenny Lipton, Puff the Magic Dragon' Lyricist and 3-D Film Pioneer, Dies at 82

Lenny Lipton, who as a college freshman wrote the lyrics to the classic folk tune Puff the Magic Dragon, and then used the song's bountiful royalties to fund years of pioneering research in 3-D filmmaking, died on Oct. 5 in Los Angeles.
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www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Toronto

Why do unidentified objects seem to be popping up above North America all of a sudden? | CBC News

The appearance of a series of unidentified objects in the sky over a week that were subsequently shot down has prompted questions about why there seems to be a sudden rash of such incidents.Since Feb. 4, when U.S. military personnel shot down what is believed to be a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina, there have been three other objects shot from the sky over an eight-day period.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Sen. Warren says she has a 'real problem' with Elon Musk following Twitter takeover

Local "I don't think any billionaire ought to be the one who has that kind of power."Senator Elizabeth Warren is continuing her criticism of Elon Musk.For years, the Massachusetts senator called out the world's richest man, and those critiques intensified with Musk's recent purchase of Twitter.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
France news

US Navy's newest carrier to deploy, train with NATO nations

Following years of delays and problems with its new technology, the U.S. Navy's most advanced aircraft carrier embarks on its first deployment next week and will train with other NATO countries at a time of increasing Russian aggression in Ukraine.
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SFGATE
1 year ago
San Francisco Giants

The Giants never really had a shot at signing Aaron Judge

David J. Phillip/AP If you had a sinking sense that Aaron Judge only used the Giants for leverage and was going to sign with the Yankees all along, the big man all but confirmed as much in an interview published Wednesday."Once things got started, all the feelings I promised to put aside came right back," Judge told Bob Klapisch of NJ.com.
McCovey Chronicles
1 year ago
San Francisco Giants

Oh well

The San Francisco Giants did not sign Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge to a large contract.He will remain a Yankee for life on a 9-year, $360 million deal.Ah! Well.Nevertheless.The Giants might've been in it - that's for the beat reporters who get paid to cover the Giants to repeat back to us after we've already read the article from a New York writer about what really went down - but in the end it didn't matter.
Dezeen
1 year ago
Design

Jeanne Gang named recipient of Le Prix Charlotte Perriand 2023 by CDA

American architect Jeanne Gang has been named the second-ever winner of the Le Prix Charlotte Perriand prize, bestowed by the Créateurs Design Association & Awards.
San Francisco Bay Times
1 year ago
SF LGBT

Openhouse Spring Fling 2022 - "Love Is Ageless" - San Francisco Bay Times

Openhouse held its first in-person Spring Fling brunch since 2019, celebrating the theme "Love Is Ageless" and the role of the organization in coming together and extending grace and love to one another.
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1 month ago
Black Lives Matter

The Fantasy of a Lily-White America

The struggles and complexities of Black lives and politics in America were highlighted in a 1970 Time magazine special issue, reflecting on the aftermath of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. [ more ]
Media industry
Poynter
3 months ago
Media industry

Tuesday was a bleak day for the media industry - Poynter

Media industry layoffs at LA Times, Time magazine, and National Geographic.
Layoffs at LA Times spark strike by journalists at Condé Nast publications. [ more ]
Nieman Lab
1 year ago
Media industry

BuzzFeed will start using AI to write quizzes and other content

Nothing like a spokesperson issuing assurances that BuzzFeed "remains focused on human-generated journalism" to make you feel good about the future of the news industry, right?The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday on a staff memo at BuzzFeed that laid out plans for the digital media company to use OpenAI - creator of ChatGPT - to help write quizzes and other content.
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5 months ago
Environment

Youth Climate Activist Claire Vlases Accepts TIME Earth Award After Major Legal Victory

Climate activist Claire Vlases wins Earth Award from TIME Magazine for her role in a landmark climate case in Montana
Vlases and 15 other young plaintiffs sued Montana for violating their right to a clean environment [ more ]
Music
www.dw.com
5 months ago
Music

Taylor Swift named Time person of the year DW 12/06/2023

Taylor Swift named Time's person of the year for her impact and achievements
Swift's success spans various areas including music, streaming, and touring [ more ]
www.mercurynews.com
5 months ago
Music

Taylor Swift is named Time Magazine's person of the year

Taylor Swift named Time Magazine's person of the year
Recognition for her successful year in music and cultural impact [ more ]
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5 months ago
Business

TIME Is Looking For the World's Top Ed Tech Companies

TIME will debut a ranking of the World's Top EdTech Companies in partnership with Statista.
The list will identify the most innovative, impactful, and growing companies in the EdTech industry. [ more ]
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
World politics

Irma Capece Minutolo, Opera Singer and Partner to Exiled King, Dies at 87

Irma Capece Minutolo, a Neapolitan beauty queen and opera singer whose relationship with the exiled Egyptian king and world-renowned hedonist, Farouk I, became fodder for gossip columnists around the world, died on June 7 at her home in Rome.She was 87.Her death was confirmed by a niece, Irma Capece Minutolo.
Padailypost
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Opinion: Hype about AI is overblown

Opinion
By Dave Price Daily Post Editor
I wonder whether the artificial intelligence craze, popularized by the new app ChatGPT, is just another gimmick that will fade away in the coming year.I'm not saying AI is unimportant, but it's been a part of computer science since the 1960s.In popular culture, AI was introduced to the public in the 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey."
Machine Learning Expert [@ESYudkowsky] Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI; He says that after AGI, "literally everyone on Earth will die."  h/t @LifeboatHQ
Futurism
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Machine Learning Expert Calls for Bombing Data Centers to Stop Rise of AI

One of the world's loudest artificial intelligence critics has issued a stark call to not only put a pause on AI but to militantly put an end to it - before it ends us instead.In an op-ed for Time magazine, machine learning researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky, who has for more than two decades been warning about the dystopian future that will come when we achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), is once again ringing the alarm bells.
www.aljazeera.com
1 year ago
Artificial intelligence

Timnit Gebru: Is AI racist and antidemocratic?

The prominent computer scientist discusses the quest for ethical artificial intelligence.
Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
1 year ago
Washington DC

PHOTO RECAP: White House Correspondents Dinner Weekend - Washingtonian

Date: Saturday, April 29, 2023Occasion: Now an annual WHCD tradition on the day of the dinner, the Garden Brunch unites journalists, politicians, and celebrities in philanthropic support of nonprofit partner Blue Star Families, which strengthens military families through community engagement.Location: Mark and Sally Ein's Beall-Washington House (the former home of Katharine Graham, the late publisher of The Washington Post)Scene: What began 30 years ago in Tammy Haddad's backyard as an intimate gathering of friends has become a charitable juggernaut.
Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
1 year ago
Washington DC

The Bethesda Film Festival Features Intriguing Local Documentaries - Washingtonian

The 11th annual Bethesda Film Festival kicks off this evening in downtown Bethesda.Seven short documentaries by local filmmakers highlight stories about history, nature, and social justice.Screenings of all seven films will take place on both Friday and Saturday evening at 7 PM at the Imagination Stage (4908 Auburn Ave, Bethesda), and will be followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
Books

Being a teenage girl is only getting harder. Thank God they still have Judy Blume | Leila Latif

It is a truth universally acknowledged that being a teenage girl sucks.Struggling with a changing body, navigating the schoolyard hierarchies, feeling disconnected from your parents, being sexualised in ways you are both ready and not ready for like most of my peers, I went through the wringer between the ages of 12 and 18.
www.dw.com
1 year ago
Books

James Bond novels still sexist despite revisions DW 03/05/2023

It's 70 years since British author Ian Fleming published the first James Bond novel: "Casino Royale".The book, published on April 13, 1953, introduced the world to British secret agent James Bond, code number 007, who would go on missions to defeat villains in a total of 14 books, which also served as the basis for a popular film franchise.
www.fastcompany.com
1 year ago
Graphic design

Milton Glaser didn't want to be the voice of a generation. He was anyway

I New York.Dylan.The New York Magazine logo.As one of the most well-known graphic designers of the past century, Milton Glaser and his work have long been ubiquitous in culture.If you assumed you'd seen it all, you'd be in good company.I thought I had laid eyes on most everything Milton designed, says Beth Kleber, the founding archivist of the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Creative Bloq
1 year ago
Graphic design

Creative world pays tribute to Her Majesty The Queen

The world has reacted with shock and sadness to the news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
Independent
1 year ago
Europe news

Greek foreign minister makes goodwill trip to earthquake-hit parts of Turkey

Greek foreign minister Nikos Dendias has visited the earthquake-stricken areas of Turkey on Sunday, accompanied by his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu.he visit was part of a new round of so-called "earthquake diplomacy" between the two uneasy allies, whose relations have often been frosty, if not downright hostile.
Adweek
1 year ago
Marketing

Crypto Startup MoonPay Is Building a One-Stop Web3 Shop

Cryptocurrency payment provider MoonPay is acquiring Web3-focused creative agency Nigthshift as the company looks to build out a one-stop shop for brands looking to tap into online currencies and adjacent technologies, like collectible tokens and metaverse activations.MoonPay, which provides crypto payment services and nonfungible token (NFT) infrastructure to brands like Nike, Universal and Fox, said the acquisition will further its mission to make a new ownership-based iteration of the internet, or Web3, more accessible to brand clients and, in turn, consumers.
Fatherly
1 year ago
Fathers

25 Years Ago, Michelle Yeoh And Pierce Brosnan Made The Perfect Rom-Com

Michelle Yeoh has just been named "Icon of the Year" by Time Magazine.It's easy to see why.In addition to her brilliant performance in 2022's Everything Everywhere All At Once, Yeoh was great in 2021's Marvel epic Shang-Chi, and, since 2017, has been rocking the final frontier of the multiverse as two versions of Philippa Georgiou in Star Trek: Discovery.
Pinstripe Alley
1 year ago
New York Yankees

Yankees rumors: Aaron Judge mulling monster offer from Giants

That sound you hear this afternoon is the Brink's truck backing up to Aaron Judge's house.The San Francisco Giants have reportedly made Judge an offer.And what an offer.Jon Heyman reports that Farhan Zaidi and company have thrown around $360 million at the Linden native who grew up going to games by McCovey Cove.
Dezeen
1 year ago
Design

David Adjaye becomes fifth-ever architect appointed to Britain's Order of Merit

British-Ghanian architect David Adjaye has been awarded Britain's Order of Merit as one of six new members, making him the fifth architect ever on the list where he joins Norman Foster.Adjaye was one of the last members to be chosen for the Order of Merit by the late Queen Elizabeth II in early September.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Design

Carleton Varney, Interior Designer Known as Mr. Color, Dies at 85

He was trained by the maximalist decorator Dorothy Draper, who favored bold colors, and he inherited her aversion to the bland and the beige.
LGBTQ Nation
1 year ago
LGBT

Laverne Cox says "so many men, celebrity men" are secretly sleeping with trans women

Black transgender actresses Laverne Cox and Angelica Ross discussed the stigma men face when dating transgender women on the latest episode of If We're Being Honest With Laverne Cox."It's deeply problematic when people hear that a famous man is with a trans woman and they automatically think that he's gay," Cox said.
time.com
1 year ago
Tech industry

TikTok's Subcontractor in Colombia Under Investigation for Traumatic Work

Colombia's Ministry of Labor has launched an investigation into TikTok subcontractor Teleperformance, relating to alleged union-busting, traumatic working conditions and low pay, first revealed by TIME and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.Teleperformance employed TikTok content moderators who earned as little as $10 per day, the report by TIME and the Bureau found.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Clarence Page: Low-wage food workers need better wages, more than tips

As our pre-pandemic way of life struggles to make a comeback - which I, for one, am rooting for it to do - one tradition that I greet with mixed emotions is my personal subsidy to low-wage workers.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

'She is always looking forward': Ayanna Pressley wrote about Michelle Wu for TIME100 Next

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was named in the magazine's annual round-up of emerging leaders.
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www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Baby Princess Elizabeth was not expected to be Queen

At the time of Princess Elizabeth's birth, no-one thought she would ever be queen.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Public health

Vaccine-resistant coronavirus found in Russian bats

Researchers say they have discovered a vaccine-resistant coronavirus in Russian horseshoe bats.
That finding was reported Thursday in the Public Library of Science Pathogens medical journal.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Photography

A New Look at a Diane Arbus Exhibition, 50 Years Later

David Zwirner Gallery in New York is restaging the photographer's 1972 retrospective.
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Nytimes
1 year ago
New York City

Inside Telfar's Rainbow Bag Drop

A pop-up event at a Rainbow store in Brooklyn drew hundreds of shoppers who lined up to buy a highly sought-after Telfar Shopping Bag.
Podcasternews
1 year ago
Podcast

AdLarge Adds Matt Turck To Leadership Team

AdLarge announced Matt Truck has joined the leadership team as Head of Podcast Growth and Strategy.
Dabearsblog
1 year ago
Chicago Bears

In Praise of Virginia McCaskey

Jeff Hughes | August 25th, 2022 Virginia McCaskey is 99 years old.Let's put that number in perspective.
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