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DC Entertainment/Getty Images/Ringer illustration Tom Cruise lied, y’all. Back in March, it was reported that Cruise told Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav that The Flash represented everything

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Henry Kissinger is turning 100 this week, and his centennial is prompting assorted hosannas a

Four older men with extensive criminal records, including killings and a jailbreak, were charged this week in two brazen armed robberies in Manhattan. Prosecutors say Michael Sellick and Frank DiPietr

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Focus Features/Ringer illustration At this point in his career, Wes Anderson is too gifted a filmmaker to take for granted. But it’s also becoming a bit of a chore to take him on his own terms, which

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There’s porn and then there’s “healthy” porn, according to an interdisciplinary research panel, who have compiled a list of criteria to help young people spot the difference. Prof Alan McKee, who led

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“ Saturday Night Live ” cast member Ego Nwodim likened the most recent season of NBC’s late night mainstay to her senior year. “It felt like there was some real room to play because of the exodus that

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Joshua Bergen is a very productive person. His secret is the workspace app Notion. Bergen, a product manager living in Vancouver, uses it to plan trips abroad in meticulous detail, with notes and time

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M ore than 150 workers whose labor underpins the AI systems of Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT gathered in Nairobi on Monday and pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union, in a move

The Chicago rapper describes the moment he fell in love with Jon Brion’s dreamlike score. I n Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2002 film Punch-Drunk Love, Adam Sandler’s Barry Egan finds it difficult to express

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His own record collection as a business plan: Stefaan Vandenberghe has known the music business for a long time. As a DJ, he travelled the world, visited artists and labels, and there are various arti

Insights & Opinions Mar 20, 2023 5 min. read AI and Creativity: is it the future? We summarised our key takeaways from Agency Hackers’ AI conference. With a title such as “The Robots are Coming: the C

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A ccording to a recent open letter, society needs to immediately pause development of “giant” AI models, or risk apocalyptic outcomes. Massive job losses, the destruction of consensus reality and even