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From the cockpit to consumer tech, synthetic voices shed light on gender biases
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Are the mysterious stars clues to one of the greatest mysteries in the universe?
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The airline-repair business has been beset by corporate outsourcing and spotty oversight — now, venture capitalists want a piece of the action.
“I’m coming to Boston, I’m bringing hell with me.” —Tom Homan, “border czar” and former acting director of ICE
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Hell is not a lake of fire, nor is it composed of the circles Dante envisioned, like an infant’s stacking toy.
It’s not “The Bad Place” of sitcom fame, though it’s easy to imagine some in the current administration taking notes on hot dog torture and butthole spiders.
It’s not the Hellmouth, nor is it one of the dark parallel universes in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as much as some of us want to believe we’ve shifted into an alternate reality.
Hell is as foundational as smallpox blankets and pedophile priests, as petty as a MAGA-festooned pickup that “rolls coal” on a passing Prius.
In immigrant families, sometimes your cousins can be your earliest friends.
One of the major ‘Dark Enlightenment’ influencers has stepped into the light, talking of the 'negro problem'. Nafeez Ahmed explains how the Silicon Valley broligarchy has resurrected Nazi-inspired eugenics ideology and is already putting it into action
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“My favorite moment in production is walking on set for the first time and thinking, This could go horribly. Because then you’re really risking something.”
Tom Homan is taking heat in Sackets Harbor, New York, after ICE agents detained a mom and her three children in a raid.
The post Trump’s Border Czar Faces Backlash in His Hometown for Locking Up a Local Family appeared first on The Intercept.
Tom Homan is taking heat in Sackets Harbor, New York, after ICE agents detained a mom and her three children in a raid.
The post Trump’s Border Czar Faces Backlash in His Hometown for Locking Up a Local Family appeared first on The Intercept.
. At the heart of the Dunning-Kruger effect is the recognition that overconfidence in ignorance makes people with low ability or knowledge believe they are more capable than they are …
1. White people achieve new levels of whiteness via their most privileged impulses.
2. The stars of the show are a group of entitled and insensitive characters who may or may not face the consequences of their own actions.
3. There will be some antagonists and villains from previous seasons.
4. New and unsavory characters will be introduced.
5. Class, wealth, and power will be constantly explored in a way that seems humorous at first but is ultimately dispiriting and devastating.
6. An egocentric man will not consider his family’s well-being in the name of becoming obscenely rich.
7. We will witness an onslaught of clumsy international affairs.
8. There will be crimes in broad daylight, of course.
9. There will be fascinating, perplexing, and disturbing monologues by men.
10. The most dysfunctional characters will mask themselves as friendly and convivial to hide their moral flaws and inherent awfulness.
11. Tension will build as the audience realizes everyone involved has a literal nation-shattering secret.
12. Other cultures will continue to serve as a mirror to America’s bawdiness.
Ezra Klein’s new book is supercharging elites’ campaign to deter Democrats from challenging billionaires and corporate power.
A decades-long trend of outsourcing democratic decisions to unaccountable institutions like the OBR is leading Britain towards ruin, argues Neal Lawson
The only deal the US President and his oligarch beneficiaries are interested in is one that would allow them to feast on our public services and consumer rights, argues Nick Dearden
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Grassroots revolt is taking shape across the country via elections, town halls, and Tesla protests.
The post Unplugged: The Backlash Against Trump–Musk appeared first on The Intercept.
Grassroots revolt is taking shape across the country via elections, town halls, and Tesla protests.
The post Unplugged: The Backlash Against Trump–Musk appeared first on The Intercept.
Friends and opponents of the far-right French politician need to be honest about what her barring from the next Presidential election is really about, argues Olly Haynes