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Deep Porn

from unherd Deepfakes have disturbing implications for porn A new app digitally superimposes women into videos — this is only the start Artifical Intelligence has been heralded as ‘the future’ for as long as I can remember. The excitement is understandable: scientists may one-day be able to create an AI that is so efficient it […]

The Lobster Lady

from AP At 101, she’s still hauling lobsters with no plans to stop By PATRICK WHITTLE and ROBERT F. BUKATY ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) — When Virginia Oliver started trapping lobster off Maine’s rocky coast, World War II was more than a decade in the future, the electronic traffic signal was a recent invention and few […]

Alex Pettyfer on “I Am Number Four” Sequel

from Screen Rant Alex Pettyfer Gives Honest Answer About Why I Am Number Four 2 Didn’t Happen Exclusive: Actor Alex Pettyfer honestly answers why he thinks a sequel to 2011’s I Am Number Four directed by DJ Caruso has never happened. BY PAUL SHIREY Actor Alex Pettyfer gave an honest answer to why he thinks […]

The Seven Sisters

from LiveScience 100,000-year-old story could explain why the Pleiades are called ‘Seven Sisters’ By Adam Mann People both modern and ancient have long known of the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a small collection of stars in the constellation Taurus.  But this famous assembly could point the way to the world’s oldest story, one told by our ancestors […]

C.S. Tao

from Law & Liberty Uncovering the Tao of C.S. Lewis by Samuel Gregg In the midst of World War II, Oxford University Press published a short book by a middle-aged don who used the way in which English was taught in secondary school to launch a defense of the idea that there is objective moral […]

The Birth of Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down

from InsideHook What Was It About Siskel and Ebert? The podcast “Gene and Roger” delves into the sometimes-contentious relationship that catapulted two Chicago film critics to legendary status BY MICHAEL STAHL In the PG-rated 1993 film Cop and a Half, Burt Reynolds portrays a curmudgeonly police officer who’s seen it all … almost. Despite his protest, Reynolds’s […]

Silly Filly

from Kentucky.com Racehorse bucks jockey, escapes Ellis Park, takes a run in traffic BY KARLA WARD A racehorse bucked its rider and escaped Ellis Park Saturday afternoon, taking a run down a major highway before being captured, media outlets reported. Video posted on Twitter showed the #4 horse racing alongside traffic on the shoulder of […]

More From Tucson

from The Drive Radio Transmissions From Police Helicopter’s Chase Of Bizarre Craft Over Tucson Add To Mystery “Its abilities were pretty incredible” — FAA audio points to confusion during and after police helicopter’s encounter with strange aircraft. BY BRETT TINGLEY AND MARC CECOTTI In February 9, 2021, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter encountered […]

Chuck Close Gone

from The New York Times Chuck Close, Artist of Outsized Reality, Dies at 81 He found success with his large-scale Photorealist portraits, becoming one of the leading artists of his generation.  By Ken Johnson and Robin Pogrebin Chuck Close, who rose to prominence in the 1970s and ’80s with colossal Photorealist portraits of himself, family members and fellow […]

Over-drawn In The West

from The Atlantic THE WELL FIXER’S WARNING The lesson that California never learns By Mark Arax An almond grove in distress near Madera, California, and a sample of water from an overdrawn well (Jim McAuley for The Atlantic) The well fixer and I were standing at the edge of an almond orchard in the exhausted middle of […]