I make no bones about it: I’m biased and I’m okay with it. George Strait is my favorite artist of any genre, he was my first real concert, and he defines what country music should sound like. No one is perfect, but my fellow Texan can do little wrong. The man may not know s...
After getting a duplicate throne room encounter a couple of times I decided to make it more varied, now the gold gift encounters are far more varied and some of them can be bad for public opinion if you take the gold. There's also now a super rare encounter where someone finds a p...
The kid would make the sound you make when you hold your breath before going underwater, a little “uh!” sound. This happened maybe four or five times a day for the first few weeks. Eventually every one of the five hundred kids in the school was going to see my face at some time...
So, basically, in every moment I’m evolving, just like you.’— Samantha This is a chatbot professing sentience in the 2013 movie, Her, in which a lonely man in the near future falls in love with an AI of his own creation. The ‘near future’ they spoke of back then is now ...
At Bumble, women make the first move. In heterosexual matches, the woman has 24 hours to make the first move and the man has 24 hours to respond. In same-sex matches, either person has 24 hours to make the first move, while the other individual has 24 hours to respond, or else, th...
It was Gordon Welchman who dod a lot of the thinking and practical work that brought it to life. At Bletchly they had a “registry” of information to come up with “probable plain text” to make cribs / menues for the bombs used to crack Enigma messages. Part of that was also ...
The Music Manbrought Foster back to Broadway after the eighteen-month Covid shutdown. She shared the show put her at odds with her parenting responsibilities. Foster “really had opposite schedules with her daughter,” so she would Facetime from her dressing room while applying stage makeup and...
The informal patterns that governed Ljubljana's Biennial left a fertile middle ground for curators to step into the political game and take over the political no man's land. Finally, the emergence of the third space during Ljubljana's graphic art biennials would not be possible if not for ...
cannot make sense. I mean this in the most generous of ways. For an artist to be called modern he/she must be able to create something that looks like you’d buy it at IKEA and assemble it yourself. It must be strange, deranged even and many times incomprehensible to the untrained ...
know the situation. The Gee-man hopped off the stage in a flash and was out there to meet Jackson and make sure he didn’t drive back to Texas without meeting one of his hardcore heroes. It was a great way to end a great show, and the Trauma Harder Styles Tour, leg 1, was ...