🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Installation,Art and design,Culture,Drawing,ICA 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOne of the worst things contemporary art can make you do is think seriously about stupid things. Sure, sometimes a urinal is beautiful, a shed is interesting, and an empty room is a container for endless ideas. But sometimes, it doesn't have a deeper meaning worth searching for. Sometimes it's a little silly.Brazilian conceptual scientist Laura Lima prefers to describe this as absurd. Her show at the ICA – her first UK solo show despite decades of international exhibitions and…
🔥 Discover this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Alex Pretti,Donald Trump news,minnesota,NRA,second amendment,stephen miller 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Prominent Republicans and gun rights advocates helped spark a White House coup this week after angering that the administration described Alex Peretti, the second person killed this month by a federal officer in Minneapolis, as responsible for his death because he legally owned a gun. The death did not result in clear shifts in US gun policies or policy, even as President Donald Trump has replaced the lieutenants in charge of his military crackdown on immigration. But…
💥 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,Anthropic,dario amodei,OpenAI,sam altman 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: In an NBC News segment Monday night, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expressed concern about "some of the things we've seen in the last few days," referring to violence by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. Amodei emphasized the importance of preserving democracy at home, both on NBC and in a Channel X post that specifically referred to "the horror we are seeing in Minnesota." He said on NBC that he believes in arming democracies to defend against authoritarian states, and that "we…
💥 Explore this insightful post from Business News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: A "Sale Pending" sign is posted in front of a home for sale on November 30, 2023 in Larkspur, CA.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesThe housing market and broader economy face serious headwinds Home sales At an alarming rate.More than 40,000 home purchase agreements signed in December were canceled, representing 16.3% of all homes that went under contract, according to real estate brokerage Redfin. This is up from 14.9% in December 2024. It's also the highest share since Redfin started tracking this metric in 2017.“High housing…
💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Hey HN, we're the co-founders of LemonSlice (https://lemonslice.com). We train interactive avatar video models. Our API lets you upload a photo and immediately jump into a FaceTime-style call with that character. Here's a demo: https://www.loom.com/share/941577113141418e80d2834c83a5a0a9Chatbots are everywhere. Voice AI has recently taken off. But we believe video avatars will be the most common form factor for conversational AI. Most people would rather watch something than read it. The problem is that generating video in real-time is hard, and overcoming the uncanny valley is even harder.We…
🔥 Explore this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In response to his definition of an "acceptable" season, Slott said: "When you're at Liverpool, the goal is to win the league. We've only done that twice in the last 30 years. The goal is to be competitive in every competition we participate in."“That's always the goal, but the reality is that in the last three years we've won the League Cup once and the Premier League once."What's acceptable? I have my opinion but I won't share it."“The outside world has a say. As we…
💥 Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art,Art and design,Culture,Berlin ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: go Climb the concrete stairs, cross the concrete floor and take care of the concrete pillars. People feel their way in the dark, waiting for their eyes to adjust, though most give up and start navigating by the light of their smartphones, trying to find Pierre Huygé's new work without quite realizing they're actually in it. Huyghe's Liminals is more than just a film projected on a towering screen in a ruined power plant. It is a quantum experience,…
🔥 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,immigration,population growth,U.S. Census Bureau 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration has contributed to a year-over-year decline in the country's growth rate as the U.S. population reaches nearly 342 million people in 2025, according to population estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 0.5% growth rate for 2025 was a sharp decline from the 2024 growth rate of nearly 1%, which was the highest since 2001 and was driven by migration. Estimates in 2024 indicate that…
🔥 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,autonomous vehicles,Lyft,Obi,robotaxis,Tesla,Uber,Waymo ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A trip in a Waymo robo-taxi still costs more, on average, than a similar trip in a human-driven Uber or Lyft car. But that gap is narrowing, according to new data published by Obi, a company that aggregates real-time fares and pick-up times across many ride-hailing services. There are two factors working together behind the change. Waymo cut its prices, at least in the San Francisco Bay Area where data was pulled, while rides on the Uber and Lyft networks rose, according to…
✨ Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: England striker Tammy Abraham has completed his return to Chelsea for £18m Aston Villa From Besiktas.The 28-year-old has signed a four-and-a-half-year contract with the Premier League title challengers, as he returns to England for the first time since joining Roma in 2021.Abraham was on loan at Besiktas from Roma, but the Turkish club activated their purchase option on Monday for £11m, so Villa will pay them the money.Villa boss Unai Emery has been looking for a striker to back up Ollie Watkins and has…
