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the market didn’t so much pull ChatGPT out of OpenAI as they pulled the ambition to be a consumer tech company out of a group of researchers.

the tech keynote has diminished in importance and, in the case of Apple, disappeared completely, replaced by a pre-recorded marketing video. I want to be mad about it, but it makes sense: an iPhone introduction has been diminished not by Apple’s presentation, but rather Apple’s presentations reflect the reality that the most important questions around an iPhone are about marketing tactics. How do you segment the iPhone line? How do you price? What sort of brand affinity are you seeking to build?

“While history is often written about with great authority, the reality is that history by its nature is inherently anecdotal,” Weaver says. “We've had an opportunity to interview the people who actually created an entire industry, in their own words. Long after all of us are dead, the future of our industry is cemented in the words of the people who created it.”

She said it's not about just teaching facts, dates and timelines. To teach the book properly, she says she would need her students to delve into why the murders took place. And that, she says, involves talking about race and gender."When you look at it as literature, instead of looking at facts and dates and timelines, you're looking instead at why it's still impactful and what in society at the time actually allowed that to happen," Thoreson said. "Literature is about humanity — why is this story heartbreaking? What is it about this story that draws people in? Why do we still care? You know, what is the connection today? Have those relationships between races changed?"

Israel’s intense bombardment of Gaza began on Oct. 7 in response to a surprise attack by Hamas that killed roughly 1,400 people in Israel. Since then, Gazans have found that nowhere is safe, as homes, mosques, schools and hospitals have been struck. More than 3,500 Palestinians have been killed since the strikes began, according to the Gaza health ministry.

On Saturday, two Israeli projectiles hit the same hospital that was struck on Tuesday night, damaging the fourth floor, which housed a diagnostic center and the ultrasound and mammography units, the hospital administration said. However, the Israeli military denied that it had struck that area on Saturday.

Sameh said he and his family fled their home in Gaza City fearing that it could be in danger from Israeli rockets, and went to stay with an aunt. But then they grew concerned that her home was under threat as well, so they came to the hospital.

The auteur director is an appealing idea, as it romanticizes the ‘great artist’ by equating them spiritually with their work. Despite its flaws, it can be a helpful way of looking at the impact a director has not only on their own films, but on the movement with which they’re associated. After all, it’s nearly impossible to think about the French New Wave without Godard, or the American New Wave without Scorsese. Auteur directors come from across the globe and across time, but there is one critical disparity in the mechanics of authorship, and that is its exclusivity. The apparatus of authorship is one which acts against a sense of collectivity—you cannot feel special if you are just one of many artists operating within the same framework.

Ironically, it is the directors who have become most synonymous with their own personal ‘brand’—like Anderson or Tarantino—who are most obviously borrowing from other films. Successful collagists nearly supersede their original influences.

When you’re young, everything feels like it’s happening for the first time, and this is presented as the main reason to be invested. In a culture that is so obsessed with nostalgia bait, I somehow find it hard to believe that we’ve yet to find a way to market curation. We are in a golden era of collage, but we tend toward the ahistorical in a way that feels distinctly linked to the myth of American exceptionalism. There is no shame in carving out a spot within a larger tradition; the alternative seems to be incredibly lonely.

RIOT’s musical prowess is mostly self-taught. At 10, RIOT (born Ephrem Lopez Jr.) learned everything there was to know about loops and arrangements; at 15, he got his first DAW (digital audio workstation) and mastered Reason Studios, a music production software that remains his go-to.

“It's funny because Hype was just trying to call me a lyricist. I wouldn't consider myself a lyricist. Obviously, lyrics go into music and I do think about them and I do be having bars in my music but they're just super simple,” she says. “I want them to be digestible, I don't want them to fly over people's heads and they never catch it. I want people to hear it right away and be like, ‘OK, that was cute.’ But it's also fun at the same time.”

Ice is keenly aware of the comments made about her, but she isn’t interested in thoughts from nameless, faceless figures. In fact, she’s figuring out what internal rest looks like. Right now? It means she’s seven days into creating a workout and reading routine (her trainer just gave her James Clear’s bestseller Atomic Habits), taking frequent social media breaks and keeping her phone perpetually on DND (do not disturb), even putting me on to iPhone’s sleep mode. “It’s like super DND,” she giggles. “Very, very calming.”

So, aside from the people in her corner, whose opinion does she care about? “The critics,” she admits. “Because they actually study music and care about it. So I feel like I’d rather hear their opinion. ​​I'm more interested in that because at least it’ll be paragraphs explaining why they feel that way and I'll be able to understand the person better versus just one little hateful ass comment from a private page. At least there's an author and a face attached.”

Ice is leading a new class of women, including the likes of Kenzo B and Maiya the Don, who are changing what the drill scene looks and sounds like in New York, and appealing to an audience beyond its borders

The shift is happening in tandem with Latin music’s continual crawl further into the mainstream as pop’s leader in revenue and pace of growth. However, Ice has helped recenter hip-hop in mainstream culture and pop charts. Her take on the genre and unexpected rise might have been the reason why so many people had something to say about her landing the final slot on a Complex list ranking the best 50 New York rappers of all time.

Your best thinking is when you are fully engaged in the stuff in front of you, connecting it to other stuff—and finding your unique perspective amongst it all.

Ideally the cats are fed 5-6 small meals each day. The aim is for them to have a positive association with each other on re-introduction. This essentially means that ‘good’ things such as play or feeding will only happen in the presence of the other cat.

“The trailer of Dune is a good, good trailer of one industrial movie,” he says. “It’s good, but is similar to other pictures. Nothing, nothing which can open your mind. But it’s a lot of fun….this trailer shows me it is a good industrial picture, but it’s not art. It’s some kind of art. It’s industrial art. It’s possible, there are very marvelous industrial art pictures.”

I will quibble with “There is no simple formula”. It’s the execution that is difficult and complex. But at a high level the formula Apple has applied to make the iPhone (and iPad) the unprecedented success that they are is remarkably simple.

keep iterating, tirelessly and continuously, to improve that product year after year. Focus on aspects that cannot be copied or imitated. In the iPhone’s case, those are things such as custom chips, superior hardware components and manufacturing techniques, software frameworks decades in the making, a culture that prioritizes great design, and an ever-expanding ecosystem that keeps customers in the flock by making them happy.

Jonah provides basic instruction in mindfulness techniques, like focusing on the breath or sensations in the body, to learn to make space for difficult emotions and harsh, self-critical thought patterns nonjudgmentally.

When viewed with curiosity, the intensity of the emotions and thoughts is reduced, and clients gain more space to respond with wisdom and compassion. By observing these inner experiences without running away from them, mindfulness-based therapy helps clients increase insight into the patterns and underlying causes of mental health symptoms like anxiety, depression, or compulsive behavior.

While Andrew entered an internship at the office of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island with the intention of attending law school, he came away from the experience feeling the political world was not suited for him. During his time at Student Agencies, Andrew was able to apply the lessons learned as a PAM major outside of the typical setting— an experience that ultimately deterred him from transferring out of his major. Outside of Student Agencies, Andrew was involved in a broad range of extracurricular activities at Cornell.

The term “mixed reality” emerged as a way to describe a class of related visual technologies. One of them, virtual reality, seals off users from much of the real world to immerse them in a digital experience. The other, augmented reality, makes digital items appear to inhabit the physical world.

This works well for difficult clients, coworkers, and any scenario when you're concerned you might get thrown under the bus or left cleaning up someone else's mess. In a junior position, these questions can also coax more senior designers to notice the issues that you see.

While hearing ‘someone tried this before’ doesn’t mean your startup is doomed, it does mean you need to do your homework. And that is much easier said than done.In this discovery phase, you to need to answer three questions: (1) has this been tried unsuccessfully before? (2) why did that company fail? (3) am I really different?

You can be different in a way that doesn’t actually change the outcome.At Frank we made the experience of social lending way better, but we never solved the customer acquisition problem that took down our predecessors. Better product didn’t change that, so our potential was limited.

Find the evidence that means your unique twist will help you succeed where others have failed. Give yourself a time limit to find that evidence. If you can't find them, then make them your initial OKRs. Work to prove that in the initial phase of your company.So when someone asks “didn’t someone try this before” you know exactly what to say.

Republican lawmakers’ efforts to pass laws banning transgender girls from school sports teams receive prominent attention — when only a tiny number are actually playing, and sometimes none at all in states where the laws have been fiercely debated.

Footage of criminals ransacking stores, assaulting police officers and attacking unwitting bystanders play on a loop — often with perpetrators who are Black.

The “event economics” of what Professor Jules Boykoff calls “celebration capitalism” only exacerbates these trends, creating a small army of migrant service-industry workers forever attempting to catch on to the “seasonal work” brought by these splashy yet temporary gatherings. Nineteen sixty-eight Olympian Dr. John Carlos once said, “The reason the Olympics are only every four years is because it takes them four years to count all the money. The problem is who gets a piece of the pie and who gets the crumbs.”

This completely correlates with an event like the Super Bowl. It’s a neoliberal Trojan Horse that brings a tremendous amount of capital that flows up and barely trickles down. As for infrastructure, city officials trumpet the millions an event like the Super Bowl will bring into the city, while not saying a word about the billions in corporate welfare that goes into making the gathering “suitable” for the thousands of outside guests. Roads, bridges and public transportation, actually see a net loss.

the problem with Google is not that it is surfacing boring results, but that search engine spammers and machine-generated results are winning.

Turns out that appliance troubleshooting seems to be one of the more polluted genres of query. DuckDuckGo and Google searches alike returned page after page of keyword-filled junk intended solely to rank highly.

They did what worked in the past, or what they had decided would work — and failed to grasp that the circumstances had shifted so that a previously successful strategy was no longer so. People failed to see what the world was telling them when that message wasn’t one they wanted to hear. They liked being the rulers of their environment. When the environment knew more than they did — well, that was no good at all. Here was the cruel truth: we humans too often think ourselves in firm control when we are really playing by the rules of chance.

The most basic way to understand spiritual bypass is that it's using your spirituality, spiritual states, or spiritual practice as excuses for not addressing harm and suffering experienced in the material or real world.

My advice to people when they are thinking about instituting a new process is to go to a whiteboard2 and write down the answer to this question: “If you could only get one thing done this year, what would it be?”. If that answer is “institute some new process”, go for it. But if it’s something like “increase market share from 30% to 60%” or “launch this new product that will 2x our TAM”, don’t waste your time on anything else. Just take your best person (up to and including the CEO), make them responsible for solving that problem, and give them everything and everyone they need to make it happen.

And the last fifty or so years have seen a remarkable shift in how much hard vs. soft power the average parent can wield over their children in this country — the forces of tradition, public opinion, corporal punishment, and economic influence that once operated primarily in parental favor have largely declined, such that the ability to command has often given way to mere suggestion, hope, insinuation, persuasion, bargaining, attraction, or wheedling.

My therapist attributes this to childhood emotional neglect and authoritarian parenting on the part of my father. My father is an emotionally-repressed narcissist who has never taken an active role in my life. He gaslit me, shamed me, criticized me. He constantly called me lazy, ungrateful, entitled. Sure, he met my material needs, but there was no emotional intimacy, acceptance, or love.

The second letter-writer seems to think that too many young people today consider estrangement too lightly. I am biased in the other direction, and think that most people, by the time they get around to writing to me on the subject, have agonized over the possibility of estrangement for ages, and even tried to put it off for as long as they can possibly bear it.

Were I being asked for advice by a parent in such a situation, I would encourage them to grant the child their space — even someone who cruelly or unreasonably ends a relationship ought to have that boundary respected; nothing good can be gained from repeated begging — to mourn their loss with sympathetic and supportive listeners, to build up strength and comfort in other areas of their life, and to leave the door open in hope of a possible reconciliation in the future.

Perhaps most interesting is that this letter-writer is not (yet, at least) faced with the possibility of a family estrangement. She is faced with instead quite the opposite — it sounds like one of her children very badly wants to have a conversation about how their parents relate to them, and desires a closer emotional connection with at least one of them.

Accepting the possibility that one may have hurt a child even with the best of intentions is not the same as saying, “You’re right, I’m [or in this case, your father] the worst parent in the world, I did everything wrong and you did everything right; you’re good and I’m bad.”

Perhaps it was not necessary to set aside one’s entire emotional personhood in order to bring home a family wage!

Master morality is appealing to leaders — that’s why powerful people tend to be more right wing or Master Morality oriented — because of course people at the top of the hierarchy are going to believe in hierarchy.

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The focus of this role will be on brand, brand strategy, storytelling, video storytelling, and art direction of content. The type of work we expect to engage this Creative Director in is less about physical (hardware) and digital (software) product design and more on helping clients and teams with the ambiguity of understanding their brand, using that perspective to inform their product strategy or messaging, and delivering that message through compelling content and assets. Personality-wise, you’re a dynamic presenter with engaging charisma and you’re endowed with the diplomatic and interpersonal skills of a head of state, adept at working effectively with a diverse range of co-workers and clients to produce superlative results; and possess a nimble, solution-oriented mindset. You are a gifted storyteller with strong writing and communication skills. You understand how to clarify and amplify a client’s brand through clear messaging, a compelling user experience or journey, and how to tell that story through copy, messaging, renderings, animation, and video mediums. You have exceptional presentation skills and treat presentations as a performance.

In our program, we'll expose you to a lot of knowledge. It's sometimes overwhelming to try to figure out what one should absolutely know as a developer, versus what one should be aware of. This points to two different types of learning goals. We'll call it proficiency vs awareness. Awareness is adding another bullet point to the general knowledge database in your brain. You can build awareness by watching a video on a topic and then filing that knowledge away. Proficiency is becoming a skilled practitioner of that topic. You are expected to perform the rituals of that topic extemporaneously and can educate others on that topic. You can only reach proficiency with hundreds or thousands of hours of repetition and practice.