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Latest Publishers Striking AI Deals Are Making a Fatal Error

Publishers Striking AI Deals Are Making ...

Vidcon   May 24, 2024  0  39

News organizations rushing to absolve AI companies of theft are acting against their own interests.

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Latest Making Fun of Your Friends Is Good for Them (And You)

Making Fun of Your Friends Is Good for T...

Vidcon   May 24, 2024  0  47

In a new book, David Shoemaker makes the case that mocking humor is not just ethically okay but positively good.

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Latest Inside the Decision to Kill Iran’s Qassem Soleimani

Inside the Decision to Kill Iran’s Qasse...

Vidcon   May 24, 2024  0  33

I carried out the drone strike on the ruthless general. America still doesn’t understand the lesson of his death.

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Latest The Promise and Perils of Over-the-Counter Birth Control

The Promise and Perils of Over-the-Count...

Vidcon   May 24, 2024  0  52

As Opill hits shelves, more women are also expressing skepticism about hormonal contraceptives. They should be heard.

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Latest The Unbearable Greatness of Djokovic

The Unbearable Greatness of Djokovic

Vidcon   May 24, 2024  0  39

Novak Djokovic may be the greatest tennis player ever—and I can’t stand him.

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Latest Photos of the Week: Victorian Picnic, Flamingo Flight, Shadow Puppets

Photos of the Week: Victorian Picnic, Fl...

Vidcon   May 24, 2024  0  57

An airline for dogs in New York, horse racing in Baltimore, the Olympic torch relay in southwestern France, a tornado’s path of de...

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Latest Trump’s Assassination Fantasy Has a Darker Purpose

Trump’s Assassination Fantasy Has a Dark...

Vidcon   May 24, 2024  0  41

The ex-president’s stories of his own victimization make violence by his supporters far more likely.

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Latest The Trumpian Vertigo of American Politics

The Trumpian Vertigo of American Politic...

Vidcon   May 24, 2024  0  38

These are profoundly disorienting times.

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Latest What’s Really Epic About <em>Furiosa</em>

What’s Really Epic About <em>Furiosa</em...

Vidcon   May 24, 2024  0  49

The Mad Max prequel is an emotional odyssey.

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Latest Photos: Ukrainians Fight to Defend Kharkiv From Russian Attacks

Photos: Ukrainians Fight to Defend Khark...

Vidcon   May 24, 2024  0  37

Ukraine’s second-largest city and nearby villages have come under intensifying attacks from Russia’s invading forces.

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Latest The Twisted Logic of Trump’s Attacks on Judges

The Twisted Logic of Trump’s Attacks on ...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  30

Trump’s remarks about the judge overseeing his criminal trial are an attack on the bedrock of the American justice system.

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Latest <em>Furiosa</em> Is Not <em>Fury Road</em>. That’s a Good Thing.

<em>Furiosa</em> Is Not <em>Fury Road</e...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  34

The Mad Max prequel is an emotional odyssey.

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Latest The Two Women Who Wrote as ‘Michael Field’

The Two Women Who Wrote as ‘Michael Fiel...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  45

Their poems about the experience of beauty help explain the choice to write as one person.

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Latest The <em>Brooklyn</em> Sequel Asks the Most American of Questions About Immigration

The <em>Brooklyn</em> Sequel Asks the Mo...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  33

In his new novel, Colm Tóibín explores the twinned relationship between Ireland and America.

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Latest Trump Claims He Can Free an American Detainee—If He’s Reelected

Trump Claims He Can Free an American Det...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  57

The former president said that if he wins in November, Putin will release Evan Gershkovich. It’s an odd assertion, even by Trump’s...

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Latest OpenAI Should Have Gone Way Beyond Scarlett Johansson

OpenAI Should Have Gone Way Beyond Scarl...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  37

The future of AI voice assistants will be weird.

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Latest Trump’s Money Problems Are Becoming a Crisis for the Entire Country

Trump’s Money Problems Are Becoming a Cr...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  42

The ex-president’s financial troubles make him beholden to his wealthy friends. If he’s president again, they will want something ...

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Latest The Two Women Who Wrote as “Michael Field”

The Two Women Who Wrote as “Michael Fiel...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  44

Their poems about the experience of beauty help explain the choice to write as one person.

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Latest OpenAI Could Have Gone Way Beyond Scarlett Johansson

OpenAI Could Have Gone Way Beyond Scarle...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  54

The future of AI voice assistants will be weird.

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Latest The Complicated Nature of Irishness in America

The Complicated Nature of Irishness in A...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  37

In his sequel to Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín explores the twinned relationship between the two countries.

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Latest Cows Have Almost Certainly Infected More Than Two People With Bird Flu

Cows Have Almost Certainly Infected More...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  58

Protecting dairy workers from further spread will be crucial to containing the outbreak.

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Latest How Trump’s Problems Become Everyone’s

How Trump’s Problems Become Everyone’s...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  30

The ex-president’s financial troubles make him beholden to his wealthy friends. If he’s president again, they will want something ...

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Latest Praising Trump With Faint Damnation

Praising Trump With Faint Damnation

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  35

How can people who claim to be followers of Jesus support a man of undisguised moral degeneracy?

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Latest Immigration Is a Kind of Betrayal

Immigration Is a Kind of Betrayal

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  34

In his sequel to Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín asks whether you can ever go home again after moving to a new country.

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Latest OpenAI Could Have Gone Way Beyond ScarJo

OpenAI Could Have Gone Way Beyond ScarJo

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  39

The future of AI voice assistants will be weird.

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Latest What Monastic Mystics Got Right About Life

What Monastic Mystics Got Right About Li...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  34

If this path to happiness worked for Saint Thomas Aquinas, it can work for you.

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Latest Some Dominican Wisdom We Can All Use

Some Dominican Wisdom We Can All Use

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  43

If this path to happiness worked for Saint Thomas Aquinas, it can work for you.

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Latest Russia’s Psychological Warfare Against Ukraine

Russia’s Psychological Warfare Against U...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  42

There is a battle going on between two worldviews, but the divisions aren’t geographical. They’re in people’s heads.

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Latest The Future of AI Voice Assistants Will Be Weird

The Future of AI Voice Assistants Will B...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  58

It’s far more interesting than a reference to Her.

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Latest Nikki Haley Surrendered, But Not Her Voters

Nikki Haley Surrendered, But Not Her Vot...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  39

Republican primary voters turned to Haley to oppose Trump, and their commitment hasn’t changed.

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Latest The OpenAI Dustup Signals a Bigger Problem

The OpenAI Dustup Signals a Bigger Probl...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  37

A conversation with Charlie Warzel about the unsettling implications of Scarlett Johansson’s feud with OpenAI

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Latest The British Prime Minister Bowed to the Inevitable

The British Prime Minister Bowed to the ...

Vidcon   May 23, 2024  0  37

Why did Rishi Sunak just call a surprise election?

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Latest Things Can Only Get Worse for Rishi Sunak

Things Can Only Get Worse for Rishi Suna...

Vidcon   May 22, 2024  0  40

Why did the British prime minister just call a surprise election?

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Latest ‘The Judge Hates Donald Trump’

‘The Judge Hates Donald Trump’

Vidcon   May 22, 2024  0  39

Trump’s remarks about the judge overseeing his criminal trial are an attack on the bedrock of the American justice system.

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Latest How Do the Families of the Hamas Hostages Endure the Agony?

How Do the Families of the Hamas Hostage...

Vidcon   May 22, 2024  0  39

If you’re Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s parents, by crusading nonstop for his and other hostages’ release.

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Latest Ozempic Patients Need an Off-Ramp

Ozempic Patients Need an Off-Ramp

Vidcon   May 22, 2024  0  30

Is there a good alternative to taking obesity drugs for life?

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Latest How to Get Off Ozempic

How to Get Off Ozempic

Vidcon   May 22, 2024  0  36

Is there a good alternative to taking obesity drugs for life?

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Latest Why Is Charlie Kirk Selling Me Food Rations?

Why Is Charlie Kirk Selling Me Food Rati...

Vidcon   May 22, 2024  0  51

The Turning Point USA founder hosts a podcast that is dire and polemical—especially the ads.

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Latest What Happens When Desire Fuels a Life

What Happens When Desire Fuels a Life

Vidcon   May 22, 2024  0  34

R. O. Kwon’s new novel, Exhibit, takes an expansive view of the things that women are punished for wanting.

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Latest A Peace Deal That Seems Designed to Fail

A Peace Deal That Seems Designed to Fail

Vidcon   May 22, 2024  0  38

Saudi Arabia knows that Israel will be the fall guy when this agreement falls apart.

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Latest Nothing Is a Body

Nothing Is a Body

Vidcon   May 22, 2024  0  43

A poem for Sunday

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Latest The Difference Between Polls and Public Opinion

The Difference Between Polls and Public ...

Vidcon   May 22, 2024  0  42

What respondents tell pollsters doesn’t always make sense. But working out policy complexities isn’t the average voter’s job....

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Latest The Great Academic Squirm

The Great Academic Squirm

Vidcon   May 22, 2024  0  40

To demand that universities take an institutional stand on issues of the day is to misunderstand their role.

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Latest Michael Cohen’s Credibility Paradox

Michael Cohen’s Credibility Paradox

Vidcon   May 22, 2024  0  31

Are jurors prepared to believe the testimony of an admitted liar?

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Latest OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game

OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game

Vidcon   May 22, 2024  0  32

The Scarlett Johansson debacle is a microcosm of AI’s raw deal: It’s happening, and you can’t stop it.

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