“Girls aren’t cool,” their friend Lars (Christian Rubeck) announces at a party, as if women are an accessory. “They can be pretty or cute and with some serious dieting, even sexy. They can be nice – dumb, but nice.” And if a woman introduces a man to new music or literature? “She got it from her ex, her father.” Women are vapid, uninspired...
Daniel Blumberg is an omnivorous artist, bringing intense conviction and curiosity to song form, improvised live performance, visual artwork and film composition. As a composer for Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet, he is part of arguably the most exciting musician-filmmaker team working today: a partnership that began with The World to Come in 2020 and continued with his Oscar-winning score for 2024’s...
Prediction market users have made — and profited from — big bets around the bombing of Iran by the U.S. and Israeli military. On Polymarket, $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the attack, according to Bloomberg. An analysis by analytics firm Bubblemaps SA found that six newly-created accounts made a profit of $1 million by...
Friday afternoon, just as this interview was getting underway, a news alert flashed across my computer screen: the Trump administration was severing ties with Anthropic, the San Francisco AI company founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth soon after invoked a national security law to blacklist the company from doing business with the Pentagon after Amodei refused...
Supabase, a popular developer database platform, is facing disruptions in India — one of its key markets — has been blocked in India, TechCrunch has learned. New Delhi ordered internet providers to block its website, resulting in patchy access across networks. The blocking order was issued on February 24 under Section 69A of India’s Information Technology Act, according to a...
CAREER Q&A 27 February 2026 Nicknamed the father of environmental justice, Robert Bullard argues that researchers in the field have more reason than ever to back up their work with action. Source link...
Of course, micro-dramas, which are scripted, filmed and released in mere months, don't offer the same quality or narrative depth as movies and streamed shows. The sets are not sophisticated, the actors are mostly novices, and the AI-driven scenes can feel uncanny under scrutiny. Source link...
As the deadline for Richmond’s budget draws near, Mayor Danny Avula expanded on his goal of strengthening affordable housing and public safety in the city. Source link...
(RNS) — If the blurb on the back of a history book dared admit it had begun life as an academic paper, you wouldn’t be blamed if you replaced it on the shelf and kept perusing. But the Rev. Boise Kimber’s new book about Black women in ministry, born as a Yale Divinity School master’s thesis, doesn’t suffer from its...
A research team led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, has identified a strong candidate for one of the earliest known spiral galaxies with a stellar bar. These bright, elongated structures can strongly influence how galaxies grow and change over time. The Milky Way itself...
