Sydney Sweeney, the 27-year-old actress who rose to fame with roles in the hit HBO series Euphoria and The White Lotus, isn’t known for making political statements. True, she has signaled support for Black Lives Matter, women’s reproductive rights, and LGBTQ representation in media, but these have been fairly boilerplate …
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T he hotel room is cold, antiseptic, the only sound the gentle whisper of central air. I can’t go outside, my fixer tells me, or I might be kidnapped. From my window high up in the most expensive hotel in town, I look down at a baseball field and a …
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Last week, tabletop gaming royalty Critical Role announced their highly anticipated fourth campaign at their Indianapolis live show. Premiering on Oct. 2, the currently untitled actual-play series will see the troupe of voice actors once again craft an intricately told fantasy saga whose improvised story and action will be determined …
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Over the past five years, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) has gone from a struggling and underpaid league to a dominating force in U.S. sports. The journey wasn’t easy, with coaches and players facing discrimination, struggling ticket sales, and a battle for equal pay they’re still fighting. But the …
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Clanker. Wireback. Cogsucker. People are feeling the inescapable inevitability of AI developments, the encroaching of the digital into everything from entertainment to work. And their answer? Slurs. AI is everywhere—on Google summarizing search results and siphoning web traffic from digital publishers, on social media platforms like Instagram, X, and Facebook, …
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Academy Award-winning director James Cameron is adapting Ghosts of Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino for what will likely be his first non-Avatar film in decades. Based on years of forensic archaeology combined with interviews of more than 200 survivors and their families, Ghosts of Hiroshima published on Aug. 5 — the …
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Shane Tamura, the 27-year-old who died by suicide after shooting four people at a Manhattan office building last month, had a history of mental health issues, concussion-related symptoms, and run-ins with the police, according to a new batch of documents released by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The documents …
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Uber customers reported a significantly higher number of alleged sexual assaults or instances of sexual harassment than the company publicly disclosed for a recent six-year period, and executives at the ride-sharing app pulled back on plans for a women-matching safety program after Donald Trump’s election, according to a new report. …
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In the lead-up to the 2024 election, a network of hundreds of bots created by anonymous persons shared posts on X that sowed distrust in Kamala Harris and called for Republicans to unite behind Donald Trump. After Trump’s victory and return to office, the bots began to lavish praise on …
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A couple of months ago, Brianna, a 22-year-old who lives in Milwaukee, downloaded the Tea app. It was created to provide a space for feedback on potential dates for other women, and she understood that it was almost akin to Yelp, except that instead of rating businesses or restaurants, users …
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