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Bernie Sanders Takes on Data Centers
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. The data centers that power artificial intelligence are being built at a rampant pace, and are spurring resistance all over the country. Apart from public concerns about A.I.’s…
Read MoreRussia rejects Black Sea ceasefire
Moscow has rejected a Turkish proposal to stop Ukrainian and Russian attacks on ships in the Black Sea, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday. Russia is repeatedly confronted with Ukraine’s “unbridled acts of terror,” she said in Moscow, accusing Ukraine of using drones to attack civilian ships from neighbouring states. A “half-hearted…
Read MoreToons Have Seldom Been Loonier Than in “Coyote vs. Acme”
In the 1952 “Looney Tunes” short “Operation: Rabbit,” Bugs Bunny encounters another member of the cartoon-critter pantheon. “Allow me to introduce myself,” the figure says, brandishing a business card. “My name is Wile E. Coyote, Genius.” It wasn’t quite the character’s first appearance—he’d made his début three years earlier, chasing the Road Runner, in “Fast and…
Read MorePhoebe Bridgers Comes Back to Earth
“Lost Weekend” announces itself as a return from time spent in the wilderness. “WIFE IS HOME FROM WAR,” read one typically parasocial fan comment on a promotional Instagram post. “Lemme up my medication in advance,” read another—Bridgers’s fans like to joke about the emotionally devastating effect of her music. Yet the album begins not with…
Read MoreGerman corporate insolvencies dip for first time since February
FILE PHOTO – “We’re closing. Everything must go” banner in the doorway of a shop in the centre of the German city of Erfurt. (is associated with: «German corporate insolvencies dip for first time since February») Martin Schutt/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa The number of corporate insolvencies in Germany has fallen for the first time since February, the Federal…
Read MoreThey’ve survived 2 major earthquakes in Colombia: “A sense of powerlessness”
Jahir Rodríguez knew what was happening when he saw thick, dark clouds forming near his home in western Colombia on Monday morning. Parts of his dear Pereira were crumbling. The urban planner and former professor also knows what happens next after a powerful earthquake devastates whole communities. He sprang into action after a deadly 1999 quake…
Read More“The Hobbler,” by Ingeborg Bachmann
Maybe there’s still hope for a new morning, for clouds that cluster like ripe grapes which, when squeezed, will release from the heavens the sweet streams of enchanted days. Source link
Read MoreMonth-old video of storm hitting eastern China misrepresented as Typhoon Dolphin
Typhoon Dolphin made landfall in eastern China in August 2026, causing flooding and heavy downpours. But a video circulating online is not linked to the storm; the footage was actually filmed during Typhoon Bavi, which struck the same region a month earlier. “Real-time track of Typhoon Dolphin: A repeat of the Doksuri disaster? The northern…
Read MoreAustralian army whistleblower released on parole after more than two years in jail
A whistleblower jailed for leaking military secrets about Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan has been released on parole after serving 27 months. In 2024, David McBride was sentenced to five years and eight months after pleading guilty to stealing top secret defence documents and giving it to the media. His actions later led to a landmark…
Read MorePOTUS on the Move
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Read MoreDeath toll from earthquake in Colombia rises to 236
The death toll from the severe earthquake in Colombia has risen to 236, authorities said on Wednesday. More than 3,700 others have been injured, according to the national disaster management agency, UNGRD. The agency reported that 387 people are still missing. Rescue workers are working under pressure in the rubble to rescue people alive before…
Read MoreClaudia Rankine Plays Dead
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The scholar Kevin Quashie has argued that the Black subject gets read primarily through her capacities for resistance: she is presumed to exist in order to produce social meaning, rather than for herself and in alignment with her humanity. For the narrator, that sacrifice is terrifying. She has survived by keeping quiet, by protecting, in…
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