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‘Clayface’ Is Shapeless in More Ways Than One

The latest DC Studios’ film succeeds at body horror but fails at maintaining emotional investment

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Scared on Purpose: Why Horror Movies May Calm an Anxious Mind

New research says a good fright can give worriers something they rarely get: a fear they can switch off.

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Monetary power, climate breakdown: how China finances the green transition while European monetary…

Only China has realised that monetary policy can be used to expedite the energy transition

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Remember When Coding Felt Fun Last time? I Kind of Miss Losing 3 Hours to a Bug

(2027 Relatable) An honest look at what AI changed for software engineers, and where the job goes next

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Zodiac Writing Challenge Results: Celebrating The Capricorn Writers

Seven entries, twelve zodiac signs, and a community of writers who made this Halloween challenge their own.

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The Woes of Boeing: Anatomy of an Industrial Atrophy and the Path Forward

Is Boeing’s plight a metaphor for the broader meltdown of America?

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I returned to my Forest Teachers to begin where i left off.

True art always appears where we dont’t expect it , where nobody thinks of it or utters its name. Art detests being recognised and greeted…

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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother — Mahershala Ali impresses in a moralistic revenge thriller

A devoutly religious Islamic hitman embarks on a desperate journey across Houston to protect his children after his wife dies.

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The Stranger With the Blue Balloon

Some truths choose their own witnesses.

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The Unlikely Source of Two of the Year’s Most Blistering Protest Songs

Now that’s what I call cutting like a knife

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The Dystopian Horror of AI Data Centers

Where have all the natural resources gone?

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The Great Reversal: Western Industrial Atrophy, the Imperial Rollback, and the Ascendancy of Indian…

How Indian capital intervened to save and steer important Western brands and industries while Boeing’s financialisation caused its…

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Was John the Baptist More Influential Than Jesus?

What Acts and Josephus Reveal

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What Does That Have to Do with the Price of Eggs in China?

On chasing rabbits, mixing apples and oranges, and learning to stay with the question.

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Talk: Who moved my (Java) heap?

A talk delivered at JCON USA / IBM TechXChange on October 26, 2026.

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Will AI Make Us Stupid?

Or maybe we are Stupid just now because of it, and AI will not kill all of us because we are too stupid right now

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The Root Cause of Trump & Trumpism

Channeling the Electoral Vortex at the mini-mart(s)

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Craft and Code: Why Traditional Writing and AI Can Coexist

I’ve been writing for fifty years, and I’ve seen a lot of changes in the tools writers use.

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They Filed the Lawsuit Before the Votes Were Counted

trump’s DOJ sued Alaska to block certification if his guy loses narrowly, and now a real dirty trick is the excuse he’s using to sell it

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Tokenmaxxing, or the law of unintended consequences (that surely could have been predicted)

In an internal memorandum, Amazon has asked its employees to stop trying to appear busy by inflating their AI usage, the practice that has…

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I, I Don't See Color. I See's a Disclaimer.

Byron Donalds is about to find out whether Republican colorblindness is a principle, a performance, or simply fine print nobody expected…

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Expansions

in the Philosophy and History of Biology

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Thoughts on the new Touchscreen MacBook Pro from a Creative Professional

The touchscreen is the least exciting part of these new MacBook Pros.

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Under the Hood of a Post-Growth Enterprise

How member- and steward-owned businesses create value beyond profit.

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The Psychology “Truths” You Were Taught May Never Have Been True

Famous studies shaped how we see ourselves. Some fell apart the moment someone finally checked.

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This Gay Man Who Fostered an Abused Child Grieves and Hopes

Can we help foster true love in the November elections and help overturn Supreme Court-sanctioned religious discrimination?

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The Illusion of Aerial Supremacy: How the Trillion-Dollar F-35 Exposed the Hubris of Forever Wars

From monsoon tarmacs to shattered logistical hubs, exquisite fifth-generation jets show the hollow promise of endless arms.

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‘Beneath the Trees: Folktales at DEFA 2’ — more visual treasures for scholars

Collected are some of the greatest and strangest folktale films made in the German Democratic Republic: The Tinderbox, Snow White, Snow…

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The French Connection

Pick Of The Week — 29th October 2026

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Google’s Harness² Suggests the Next AI Upgrade May Not be a New Model

The open-source framework lets agents rewrite the prompts, tools, skills, and guardrails around a frozen model. Its results are promising…

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Street Fighter (2026) — a neon-lit, time-wasting cartoon of a movie

Street fighters Ryu and Ken reunite when Chun-Li recruits them for the World Warrior Tournament. As they face a hidden conspiracy, they…

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PLATFORM SIX—The City Beyond the Last Stop—Episode 3

The train didn’t take me somewhere new — it took me somewhere I never left

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John Ternus Is Leading a Reality Distortion Field at Apple — and the Touchscreen Macs Build My Case

Apple is glowing again, but please don’t touch my Mac (yet)

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The Costly Unravelling of American Deterrence in the Middle East and Persian Gulf

How discarding the Weinberger-Powell doctrine fuelled an asymmetric trap that fractured regional alliances and broke naval power.

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Supernatural Scrolls

Exploring the spooky Japanese art that has recorded the surreal world of yōkai for centuries, from woodblock to celluloid…

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La Fille du Peuple

she has opinions…

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The Ass Is Welcome. The Woman Is Negotiable.

Nicki Minaj thought she was demonstrating political power. Donald Trump demonstrated the difference between being valued for your influence…

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The Politics of Fear vs. The Politics of Hope

Why Everyone Keeps Losing on Purpose

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Salute to a Giant

I did not have the honor of knowing Dolores Huerta personally. But she lived in my time, and I lived in hers. Our lives overlapped for 71…

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Diary of a Cycling Instructor

A botanics lesson on two wheels

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Toto IV: Where We Met Rosanna and Blessed The Rains Down in Africa

A look at Toto’s classic album from 1982

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Who Was the Jack in Jack-o’-Lantern

And Why Was He Carrying a Lantern?

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China’s AI bubble has burst, but the technology is here to stay

The history of capitalism is replete with examples of investors who lost their shirts after betting on technologies that went on to change…

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Helping MAGA Get Over Loss of Privilege

Like they’ve been urging the Black community to “get over” slavery.

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Gamehole Con 2026 Recap

Hey gang! It’s Jon again this week, and fall has arrived in earnest here in Minnesota — I’m starting to see more bare trees, and streets…

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Dog Paw Wax: Is It Worth Buying? 5 Benefits Every Dog Owner Should Know

From winter road salt to dry paw pads, discover what dog paw wax can do, which ingredients to avoid and how to choose a product that’s…

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My online lines in the sand

Social media has a way of catching you out, especially when you have been on a platform for a large amount of time. While I no longer post…

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“Sat Upon my Heart, an Incubus” — Fuseli’s Nightmare

How a nightmare of the Gothic imagination prefigured Surrealism, psychoanalysis and the art of horror…

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Canada’s Choice For Eurovision 2027

Vote for one of the FIVE artists short-listed to represent Canada in Bulgaria in 2027. Here are the artists, and links to their most…

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3 Takeaways From Monterey Bay FC’s 2026 Season Ending Victory

After a tough season in the table, MBFC ended the USL Championship campaign on a high note

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