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Hollywood Faces Its Post-Strike Future
The New Yorker,
The town can get back to work, but there is a lot of uncertainty in the air.
Revisiting the Clash's American debut: The 45th anniversary of "Give 'Em Enough Rope"
Boing Boing,
Today marks the 45th anniversary of "the only band that matters'" second album, Give 'Em Enough Rope. Released on November 19, 1978, it was the Clash's first album in the United States (the eponymously titled first album, The Clash, hit American record store shelves on July 24, 1979, with 100,000 copies as an import in the interim). — Read the rest
Election offices are sent envelopes with fentanyl or other substances. Authorities are investigating.
Politico Picks,
The letters were sent to elections offices in the presidential battlegrounds of Georgia and Nevada, as well as California, Oregon and Washington, with some being intercepted before they arrived.
This week in AI: OpenAI plays for keeps with GPTs
TechCrunch,
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week in AI, OpenAI held the first of what […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
No, Reese Witherspoon Is Not Dating Kevin Costner
The Cut,
A rep for the actress said the rumors are “completely fabricated.”
Loki season 2 finale: Loki ends, surprisingly perfectly
AV Club,
If Loki is about any one specific thing, underneath all the comedy, the time traveling, the ’shipping and quipping and fun, then it’s a show about systems. Systems of control, systems of “protection,” systems of self-propagating evil. Systems that “have to exist,” because, we’re told, they have to exist. Systems that… Read more...
The Snubs and Surprises of the 2024 Grammy Nominations
Vulture,
Okay, are we being punked?
The Escalating Violence Between Israel and Lebanon
There’s a sense of history repeating itself along the border, where tens of thousands have been displaced and the civilian death toll is climbing.