Cambridge Dictionary’s screen time is skyrocketing. This week, the world’s largest online dictionary is expanding its lexicon with 6,000 new additions including the extremely online picks “Skibidi,” “Tradwife,” and “Delulu.” The nonsensical meme term “Skibidi” is defined as “a word that can have different meanings such as ‘cool’ or ‘bad,’ …
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To be Black in Martha’s Vineyard in August is momentous. The first week of the month, folks ferry in for Legacy Week — which honors Historically Black Colleges and Universities — and the African American Film Festival in the historically Black neighborhood of Oak Bluffs. Two blocks away from Inkwell …
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Stephen King couldn’t write anything as terrifying as Donald Trump‘s America. In a new interview, the author answered a series of fan questions for The Guardian, among them: “If you had to invent an ending forTrumpian America, what would it be?” “I think it would be impeachment — which, in …
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Fighter jets scream above the snow-capped mountains of Tajikistan as the armored strike vehicles weave up the dirt paths, kicking up dust and debris in their wake. The objective is to take the small encampment at the base of the ridge ahead, which should be simple enough with three squads …
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The Trump administration appears to have hit another dead end in its desperate efforts to provide some semblance of closure in the years-long saga of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York denied the Justice Department’s order …
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In the race to develop Silicon Valley‘s dominant large language model, Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk‘s xAI, remains the least predictable. A month after the company unveiled Grok 4 — you may remember that the previous version had to be reined in after it started spouting antisemitic rhetoric and …
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Like almost anyone eventually unmoored by it, J. started using ChatGPT out of idle curiosity in cutting-edge AI tech. “The first thing I did was, maybe, write a song about, like, a cat eating a pickle, something silly,” says J., a legal professional in California who asked to be identified …
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The man suspected of opening fire and killing a police officer Friday at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) building in Atlanta, Georgia had previously expressed anti-vaccine sentiments, according to multiple reports. Hours after the incident, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation identified the suspected shooter as 30-year-old Patrick …
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An unsealed police report revealed new details into the drowning death of influencer Emilie Kiser’s three-year-old son this past May. On May 18, Trigg Kiser died at an Arizona hospital following a drowning incident that occurred six days earlier. The drowning, which happened on May 12, took place at the …
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On Aug. 4, fans of the HBO Max series Love Life were given a gift. The television show was added to Netflix, a reprieve from the three-year drought that left fans unable to access the Anna Kendrick and William Jackson Harper-helmed anthology series. For creator Sam Boyd, having Love Life …
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