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The Washington Post Has Become Right-Wing Even Faster Than I Thought It’s not going to happen. It’s happening: The mainstream media is becoming right-wing. What are wealthy liberals going to do about it?

“We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. CBS News is gone; CNN seems about to follow.”
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This is another example of Trump’s pathological narcissism; prone to impulsive outbursts of abusive , power dynamics, his concern for humanity is nonexistent, playing to the roar of war mongering sycophants ,he increases the level of lethality for every American with cruel indifference.

Inside the AI Village Where Top Chatbots Collaborate—and Compete The AI Village—an experiment run by nonprofit Sage—set up models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI to collaborate and compete every day.

“While today’s models are sophisticated reasoners, they struggle to reliably operate computers due to subpar spatial awareness, compounding hallucinations, and temporal impermanence. Basic tasks like sending emails and sharing documents can bamboozle them.”
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Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum | Books | David Zwirner David Zwirner is an art gallery with locations in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris and Hong Kong. We present physical and online exhibitions, podcasts, books, and more.

“Though made in intimate settings, photographs collected in this volume convey no sense of intrusion or trespass—instead, reveal an unspoken exchange between photographer and subject,a moment of recognition in which confidences emerge freely,without judgment.”

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‘Badass’ Salman Rushdie says he doesn’t have PTSD symptoms after 2022 attack Author was injured in multiple places and lost use of his right eye after assassination attempt during a lecture

“The attack on the Indian-born British American author occurred more than 35 years after he was first subjected to a death warrant, or fatwa, by Iranian religious leaders who were upset at his depiction of Islam in his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses.”

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Glad you enjoyed, it reminds us of a more serene existence, where time seemed to move slower, allowing us to inhale the moment and savor it .

What Does the Evil Eye Symbolize Across Cultures? | TheCollector Here’s a deep dive into the meaning of the evil eye across cultures, exploring its protective symbolism in Greek, Middle Eastern, and Latin traditions.

“the power of the evil eye comes through the eyes and speech of others who possess envy, hatred, or insincerity. If someone gives a compliment they do not really mean, then they risk sending the evil eye to that person.”
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15 English Words With Interesting Origins | TheCollector From Greek constellations to Gaelic spirits, these 15 English word origins reveal how a Germanic language evolved into a global vocabulary.

“The word “awkward” is used to describe a wide range of social situations and experiences, from minor blunders to major faux pas. It remains a valuable part of the English vocabulary for expressing social discomfort and embarrassment.”
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The Darkness of Greuze’s Doe-Eyed Children Where an exhibition’s focus on childhood becomes outright problematic is the show’s bizarre conclusion, which considers spoiled innocence.

“Greuze’s renditions of families experiencing the societal rites of the time — bible-reading, school lessons, bearing witness to death — are critical and sharp renderings of psychological experience.”
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We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.

“the slower world that many of us grew up with dwindles in the rearview mirror. The stable hierarchies of the printed page—one of the defining norms of that world—are being superseded by the rush of impulses through freshly minted circuits.”
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Another transgressive action of unhinged inhumanity; The level of evil continues on a downward spiral ; the disenfranchised and innocent victims of inequality suffer the most .

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Perhaps, Munch’s iconic painting, “ The Scream “ best describes our dilemma:

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Yes , whether we admit it or not , we’re close to the divide that existed prior to the Civil War; it’s not disagreement, it’s a visceral, escalating hatred .

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So am I , another grotesque example of abusive power with no guardrails; to exhort his intolerable , narcissistic whims upon a broken nation .

Polarizing political events are leading Americans to increasingly call for a national divorce As support for secessionist movements increases, it’s vital that political leaders reduce the divisions that threaten to tear the US apart.

“The shutdown is another episode in a series of polarization-fueled events leading Americans to lose faith in their government. Every nation has it limits,one wonders how much America can take before pressure to divide into separate countries becomes too great.”
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Signature size and narcissism − a psychologist explains a long-ago discovery that helped establish the link Psychologist Richie Zweigenhaft found a link between signature size and self-esteem. A growing body of research has since established a link to narcissism as well.

“Indeed, signature size is not only an indicator of status and self-esteem, as I once concluded. It is also, as recent studies suggest, an indicator of narcissistic tendencies – the kind that many argue are exhibited by Trump’s big, bold signature.”
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What is the meaning of The Scream? Edvard Munch’s portrait of existential angst is the second most famous image in art history – but why? Alastair Sooke tells its story.

“I felt a gust of melancholy – suddenly the sky turned a bloody red. I stopped, tired to death – as the flaming skies hung like blood and sword over the blue-black fjord and the city – I stood there trembling with anxiety – I felt a vast infinite scream through nature.” www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

'Awop-bop-aloobop alop-bam-boom!': Why Little Richard's hit song Tutti Frutti was so risqué When the single was released in 1955, it was a big hit – but only after the original lyrics were changed. In 1972, the singer told the BBC that "there's nothing bad" about his music.

"He jumped on the piano and sang, 'Awop-bop-a loo bop alop-bam-boom!' So they heard it and said, 'Wait a minute, what's that?' It was a hook that they had never heard before, but Richard had been singing that phrase for years on the Chitlin' Circuit." www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

'It transforms a person into a thing': Why there's more to Man Ray's iconic nude Le Violon d'Ingres than it seems Man Ray's 1924 image Le Violon d'Ingres, of a woman's body transformed into a violin, has continued to fascinate, confuse and upset viewers, more than 100 years on.

“Man Ray himself could hardly have been more inscrutably hermetic: "Like the undisturbed ashes of an object consumed by flames these images are oxidised residues fixed by light and chemical elements of an experience, an adventure, not an experiment." www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

From Rambling to Rational: The Media’s Trump Sanewashing Problem The political press’s efforts to rationalize Trump’s incoherent statements are eroding our shared reality and threatening informed democracy.

“As Trump’s statements grow increasingly unhinged in his old age, major news outlets continue to reframe his words, presenting a dangerously misleading picture to the public.”
newrepublic.com/article/1855...

1975, the year that made the modern world A fateful year for the international order, three crucial events took place in 1975 that define superpower competition today.

“Defeat in Vietnam thus meant the repudiation of that composite model, the heir of muscular Wilsonian internationalism. No longer would idealist grand designs at home and abroad count on the full-hearted application of hard power and all available resources. “
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Unfortunately, I must agree ; narcissistic greed has permeated their ideology.

Can I learn to be cool – even though I am garrulous, swotty and wear no-show socks? An international study found cool people are extroverted, open, hedonistic, adventurous, autonomous and powerful. At best, I have three of these traits. Could I change that?

“Cool” is fiendish, like a riddle: it cannot be bought, though it’s enthusiastically sold, and it can’t be claimed without surrendering its benefits. The more you aspire to be cool, the more uncool you are likely to be.”
www.theguardian.com/life

Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length

“Immigration officials have been increasingly detaining people in small, secretive holding facilities for days or even weeks at a time in violation of federal policy, a Guardian investigation has found. “
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Psychology of Portnoy: On the Making of Philip Roth’s Groundbreaking Novel “The suburban Jewish past of the characters in the fiction of Philip Roth is also a Jewish past, only as meager as the span of a generation or two and infinitely more distasteful…” * Already …

“the book was the product of numerous drafts, some rather tepid, but what emerged from all this rewriting was a Portnoy that, while an “entrapped neurotic,” Saul writes, “broadened Roth, allowing him to serve as the butt of the extended joke that Portnoy relates.”
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The End of Business as Usual Klaus Schwab argues that "we are living through one of the most consequential transitions in the history of business."

“In the “Intelligent Age,” value is no longer tied primarily to physical assets but to ideas, relationships, algorithms, and the ability to learn faster than change itself.
A business enterprise is no longer a pipeline; it is a platform. It is a living, adaptive ecosystem. “
time.com/7329637/inte...

A New Yorker’s New York On Gay Talese’s ‘A Town Without Time’

“Like a Gershwin composition, Talese’s writing bubbles over with irreverence: “Most popcorn chewers at Yankee Stadium stop chewing momentarily just before the pitch.” How does he . . . jeez, of course they do! “
A New Yorker’s New York
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