The Thin Line Between Biopic and Propaganda
A presidential biopic can also zoom in on a crucial juncture in a leader’s life: Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln explored its ...
There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI
Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems.
Trump’s New York Sentencing Must Proceed
The potential exception is the New York State case. In May, a jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony counts related to ...
De La Soul’s Mistake and Hip-Hop’s Lost Opportunity
A new book revisits the revolutionary trio’s decision to renounce its debut album, and the implications for the future of ...
‘We’re Just Going to Have to Deal With Him’
In the short term, sources told me, the plan is to cozy up to Trump and those close to him and hope for the best. In the long ...
Jimmy O. Yang Was Stuck Playing Asian Stereotypes. Then Everything Changed.
The actor spent years stuck in small, clichéd roles. Now, starring in Interior Chinatown, he’s figuring out who he wants to ...
The Many Sides of Charli XCX
On SNL, the singer showed that she can be goofy and versatile.
Stop Looking at Your Therapist
In psychoanalysis, Freud thought a therapist being out of view would help people access emotions or memories that might be ...
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This is Your Brain on Zero
About 2,500 years ago, Babylonian traders in Mesopotamia impressed two slanted wedges into clay tablets. The shapes represented a placeholder digit, squeezed between others, to distinguish numbers ...
Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?
In his 2023 Netflix comedy special, Selective Outrage, Chris Rock identified one of the core contradictions of the ...
Get Ready for Higher Food Prices
Trump vowed to lower food prices. His policies will almost certainly do the opposite. When Americans went to the polls last ...
The Bluesky Bubble
Bluesky has not yet found its distinctive identity or purpose. But to me, one user among many who started using the service ...