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LOS ANGELES—Saying it seemed like something he was supposed to do given his level of income and public renown, local celebrity Chris Hemsworth was reportedly thinking Friday about getting his pilot’s license. “I was just wondering what I should do now that I have a bunch of money and free time, and it just hit me—I…

As the poet has it, we are born strangers and afraid in a world we never made and, he might have added, spend a large part of our lives negotiating that original aloneness. Most of us make some headway with the struggle, but some of us get nowhere with it; we remain people who are at home nowhere, with no one, feeling like strangers to ourselves and others all our lives. For such unfortunates, the aloneness is more than a penalty, it is a humiliation; humiliation is degrading; degradation induces... Читать дальше...

For all of Donald Trump’s recent blathering demands to “terminate the Constitution,” it turns out that he might get his wish—just not the way he wanted it. A rushed lame duck session has come and gone, during which time Congress failed to find the resolve either to raise or abolish the debt ceiling. Now responsibility for its stewardship passes into the hands of the House GOP, which is already mired in chaos as it tries to choose a speaker of the House to lead it. If McCarthy’s woes are a sign of things to come... Читать дальше...

Last year’s midterms gave Republicans a narrow majority in the House. That shift will effectively nix the rest of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda and force the White House into political brawls with the House GOP over basic matters such as keeping the government open and raising the debt ceiling. For now, that new majority is forcing lawmakers to take vote after vote in a failed effort to elect Kevin McCarthy, the House GOP’s putative leader, as speaker. (The current count is 10 but it... Читать дальше...

For Trump, the violence on January 6 was a bonus.

Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports

The contest started, the puck was dropped, and Pittsburgh got shellacked in Vegas.

The term artificial intelligence was first used in a 1955 proposal for a study submitted by John McCarthy of Dartmouth College, Marvin Minsky of Harvard University, Nathaniel Rochester at IBM, and Claude Shannon at Bell Telephone Laboratories. This happened before I was born. I find it kind of nuts that AI was discussed long before we had the computing and storage power needed to make it work.

As I mentioned last time, the Steampipe dashboard for Mastodon has evolved in unexpected ways. I imagined that the components — a plugin that maps Mastodon APIs to Postgres foreign tables, and a suite of views that query the APIs — would combine to enable a broad overview of activity in the fediverse. That didn’t pan out for two reasons.

The vaunted C++ programming language, which overtook Java last month in the monthly Tiobe Index of language popularity, was the index’s biggest gainer in 2022, Tiobe announced this week.

The new automatic timepiece is a contemporary take on the classic 1950s dive watch.

All in all, this wasn't such a bad week back from a break, some definite bright spots. I hope you had a good week, and a good weekend. We'll see you on Monday. 

ABC Film Challenge – Catch Up 2022 – F – Fireheart (2022).

Director: Theordore Ty, Laurent Zeitoun

Writer: Laurent Zeitoun, Jennica Harper, Daphne Ballon (Screenplay) Laurent Zeitoun, Jennica Harper, Lisa Hunter (Story)

Starring: (Voice Talents) Olivia Cooke, Kenneth Branagh, William Shatner, Laurie Holden, Maya Misaljevic

Plot: Sixteen-year-old Georgia Nolan dreams of being the world’s first-ever female firefighter. When a mysterious arsonist starts burning down Broadway, New York’s firemen begin vanishing. Читать дальше...

Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?

Today’s theme: On the plus side.

Getting lost with “Orlando,” “My Neighbour Totoro,” and “The Burnt City.”

Driving off the side of a mountain. Lyme disease. A stampede of Brooklyn ladies.

At a new restaurant in David Geffen Hall, the young Black chef delivers an autobiographical menu, with riffs on the food of his ancestors.

Based on an actual case, the first feature by the French documentarian Alice Diop is a troubling story of matricide, racism, and sorcery.

The return of the Public’s annual festival includes “LatinXoxo,” by the Venezuelan-born performance artist Migguel Anggelo.

You don’t want to skip this part of your workout.

✨ Find out what’s in store for your love life this week! ????

In this two part series, Bloody Elbow’s Managing Editor, Anton Tabuena flies to Thailand to compete in Muay Thai.

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

I will admit that I was skeptical when I first saw pictures of Lenovo’s new dual-screen Yoga Book 9i. I’ve tried foldables and dual-screens aplenty, and while many are usable, many also have serious limitations. But this is the first dual-screen laptop I’ve ever tried that I could see myself actually buying. And that’s because Lenovo has clearly done the software engineering necessary to make sure it can address many of the somewhat... obvious concerns that shoppers might have with such a device. Читать дальше...

Some companies are concerned about the increasing likelihood of a recession, as well as customers getting hungrier to return to in-person shopping.