Posts by Swedan Margen
With “Backrooms” and “Obsession,” Hollywood Is Having a Zoomer-Horror Renaissance.
After stumbling upon the Backrooms that first night, Clark returns to them again and again, like a man obsessed. He becomes bent on mapping them out and uncovering their secrets, and Ejiofor lends him a fanatic’s wide-eyed conviction, as if this great mystery might give his life new meaning. In an underdeveloped twist, Clark persuades…
Read MoreSilicon Valley’s humanoid robots are learning how to do your job — in the kitchen
Fernando Flores can spend eight hours a day pouring the same cup of coffee. He is not a barista. He’s a robot puppeteer, trying to train humanoids. He manipulates mechanical controllers to make nearby robot arms pick up a pot of coffee, pour it into a mug and put the pot back in the coffee…
Read MorePope Leo vs. the LinkedIn Hollow Men | National Review
How the slop-ridden professional social network confirms Magnifica Humanitas’s warnings about AI’s threat to creativity. Source link
Read MoreWhen the Religious Right Came for Martin Scorsese
In Mary Pratt Kelly’s “Martin Scorsese: A Journey,” the film’s director of photography likens the production to being in a war. Scorsese and his crew had fifty-eight days to shoot a hundred-and-twenty-page screenplay that mostly takes place outdoors. The compressed timetable left him with very few takes, and the remote location meant that he couldn’t…
Read MoreThe Knicks: The Only Game in Town
For Knicks fans, the half century since those two titles has been a prolonged excruciation with intermittent periods of thwarted hope. Ask Spike Lee, who, as a kid, attended the radiant 1970 finale and signed up for season tickets when the Knicks drafted Patrick Ewing, in 1985. A number of stars have worn blue, orange,…
Read MoreWhy Has Italy Failed to Qualify for Three Straight World Cups?
But, in the game against Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kean, who scored Italy’s only goal, was the sole nonwhite Italian player to take the field. He also led the team in goals through the qualifying tournament, even after missing half the games with an injury. One of the matches he missed was against Norway, which beat…
Read MoreJames Talarico’s Nonbinary Political Campaign | National Review
The Senate candidate is now backpedaling on statements about the nature of God, the number of sexes, and more. Source link
Read MoreThe Cuban Dream Dies by Cuban Hands | National Review
Only the revolution’s true believers can still contend with a straight face that the island’s problems have been imposed on them by the United States. Source link
Read MoreIn “Hacks,” Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder Gave Us an Odd Couple for the Ages
The depth of Deborah and Ava’s unlikely bond led the show, in its home stretch, to what many viewers considered its best episode. In this season’s seventh installment, “Montecito,” directed by Downs and written by Guy Branum, Andrew Law, and Bridget Parker, Deborah has to persuade another comedy veteran, Kelly Kilpatrick (Cherry Jones), to hand…
Read MoreAnother tech company says it will cut hundreds of jobs amid pivot to AI
Layoffs have continued with another tech company saying it was cutting people to enable it to use more artificial intelligence. Groupon announced in a security filing this month that it will cut up to 400 jobs, or nearly 25% of its worldwide workforce, as part of a broader restructuring plan to make the platform AI-native.…
Read More“Greater New York” Takes the Pulse of the City
Also: the megawatt hip-hop of Baby Keem, the buzzy period reimaginings of Scottish Ballet, the time-capsule documentary “With Hasan in Gaza,” and more. Source link
Read More“Power Ballad,” Reviewed: A Bromantic Conflict Over a Hit Song
Unbeknownst to Rick, the track, a love song, is a phenomenon, with millions of streams. It becomes a No. 1 hit, and everyone—including Aja and Rachel—is crooning along to it everywhere. Rick is, in effect, secretly a world-famous songwriter, and, though he’s happy that Danny has managed to reinvent himself, he is resentful that he…
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