Posts by Swedan Margen
It’s the Economy, Viktor | National Review
Hungary’s prime minister could lose his election bet on ‘unorthodox economics.’ Source link
Read MoreThere Are Many Reasons to Cheer Up About the State of the Middle Class | National Review
Statistics show that the middle class is healthier and more secure than ever before. Source link
Read MoreMad About the Mandolin
Calace, I discovered, was a Neapolitan workshop that had been making mandolins since 1825, and Raffaele Calace, the grandson of the founder, had been the greatest composer for mandolin in the late nineteenth century. But his music was quite different from the pieces that Paolo introduced me to over the next year, all of which…
Read More“Exit 8” Is a Video-Game Adaptation That Ingeniously Subverts Its Source
The rules of this netherworld announce themselves, early on, via a nondescript wall sign. “Do not overlook any anomalies,” it says. “If you find an anomaly, turn back immediately.” An anomaly, the Lost Man realizes, can be a visual, aural, or situational discrepancy of any kind: a light fixture tilted at a bizarre angle, a…
Read MoreSan Francisco’s Latest Radical Experiment | National Review
Unlike some of the city’s other adventures, this one is actually working out. Source link
Read MoreCommentary: Wipe out a ‘civilization’? Minor stuff compared with what just happened in AI
While many of us were worried in recent days about our president ending a “whole civilization,” one Silicon Valley tech company was warning, without much notice, it might accidentally disrupt all civilization as we know it. The San Francisco technology company Anthrophic announced Tuesday that it wasn’t releasing a new version of its Claude AI…
Read MorePolice union pulls support for city attorney after leak of thousands of LAPD files
The disciplinary files of Los Angeles police officers are closely guarded secrets, protected by some of the nation’s strictest confidentiality laws. But now, many of those secret files have been splashed across the internet, along with tens of thousands of other sensitive records from the L.A. city attorney’s office. The extent of the data breach…
Read MoreIsa Genzken Finds Chaos in Order
Also: Raye’s ambitious new album, Nathan Lane’s Willy Loman, Dance Theatre of Harlem’s seminal “Firebird,” and more. Source link
Read More“Big Mistakes” Is a Crime Show for the Girls and the Gays
At the start of the new comedic thriller “Big Mistakes,” the lives of Nicky Dardano (Dan Levy), a quasi-closeted pastor, and his sister Morgan (Taylor Ortega), an elementary-school teacher, are far from ideal. That’s before Morgan steals a necklace from a chintzy gift shop run by a Turkish gangster named Yusuf, who proceeds to kidnap…
Read MoreWhatever This Is in Iran, It Isn’t Victory | National Review
Color me skeptical. Source link
Read MoreIt Starts in Chicago: Where to See Frank Lloyd Wright’s Genius Unfold | National Review
A deep dive into Wright’s Prairie Style via the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. Source link
Read MoreMeta, Oracle and Qualcomm share details on layoffs across California
Tech behemoths, including Oracle and Meta Platforms, are laying off hundreds of California workers as they invest heavily in artificial intelligence. Some of the top companies in tech that already had announced big plans to lay off thousands have revealed more details about where they are cutting in recent government filings. Software giant Oracle has…
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