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‘We thought Midnight Cowboy might end everyone’s career’: John Schlesinger’s diverse, devastating, Oscar-winning cinema | film

‘We thought Midnight Cowboy might end everyone’s career’: John Schlesinger’s diverse, devastating, Oscar-winning cinema | film

โœจ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Film,John Schlesinger,Culture,Luca Guadagnino,LGBTQ+ rights,John Major,Politics ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: MMichael Childers was a 22-year-old student in Los Angeles when a friend set him up on an appointment with John Schlesinger, a visiting British director about two decades his senior. The respected director was licking his wounds: his latest film, Far from Disturbance, which imbued its 19th-century rural characters with an outdated and subtly King's Road style, had flopped in the States.Childers approached the appointment with mixed emotions. He loved Schlesinger's previous film, The Jazzy Darling, starring Julie…
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Aurora’s self-driving trucks can now travel further, faster than human drivers

Aurora’s self-driving trucks can now travel further, faster than human drivers

โœจ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Transportation,Aurora Innovation,autonomous vehicles,self-driving trucks ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Aurora's self-driving trucks can now travel nonstop on a 1,000-mile route between Fort Worth and Phoenix, beyond what a human driver can legally accomplish. The distance and travel time provide positive financial implications for Aurora โ€” and any other company hoping to commercialize self-driving semi trucks. It takes Aurora about 15 hours to transport goods in its self-driving trucks on a 1,000-mile trip, according to the company. Human truck drivers take much longer to complete the same distance due to federal regulations…
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Michael O’Neill: The Northern Ireland coach is set to join Blackburn Rovers

Michael O’Neill: The Northern Ireland coach is set to join Blackburn Rovers

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill is set to join Blackburn Rovers, initially in a joint-venture role until the end of the season. Northern Ireland face Italy in the semi-final of a World Cup qualifier in March, then face Wales or Bosnia and Herzegovina in the final or friendly, depending on the result in Bergamo.O'Neill will feature in both matches and the World Cup finals, should Northern Ireland qualify against the odds.He could then take up the managerial position at Ewood Park on a permanent basis.…
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Scotland v England: The battle for eligible Six Nations stars

Scotland v England: The battle for eligible Six Nations stars

โœจ Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Two weeks ago, 12 miles from Twickenham, Scotland parked buses on very English meadows.In the surroundings of the luxurious RGS Surrey Hills School in Dorking, a group of potential U16 and U18 players trained under the watchful eyes of staff from Scottish Rugby's SQ (Scottish Qualification) programme.The scheme is designed to establish connections with youngsters who, like Ashman, Rudd and many others, live and play outside Scotland, but could one day represent its senior national team.The SQ programme's coaches, who include England-born former Scotland…
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Lena @ Things Of Interest

โœจ Explore this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Discussion (224) 2021-01-04 21:04:41 by qntm: With thanks to Rimple for editorial services. This is an extended and refined version of my first draft of this story from November 2020 , with a little more thought put into it and some of the outcomes from the basic premise explored a little more thoroughly. As with the draft, the title "Lena" refers to Swedish model Lena Forsรฉn (pronunciation: [leหหˆna fสŠหˆส‚eหn], see ), who is pictured in the standard test image known as "Lena" or…
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‘Absolutely funny’: Simon McBurney on how the great clown Philippe Gaulier changed his life | stage

‘Absolutely funny’: Simon McBurney on how the great clown Philippe Gaulier changed his life | stage

โœจ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Theatre,Philippe Gaulier,Complicite,Simon McBurney,Stage,Culture,Clowns,Comedy,Comedy โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: MEveryone talks about a teacher in their childhood who changed them, someone who revealed to them knowledge about the world that they carry with them for the rest of their lives. I didn't have one of those. It wasn't until I was 24 and living in Paris that I stumbled upon Philippe's class almost by chance. Provocative, demanding, deliberately inappropriate and very funny, Philip taught me not to carry anything. No baggage, no ideas. Knowing nothing is all you…
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Spotify says its top developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to artificial intelligence

Spotify says its top developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to artificial intelligence

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Media & Entertainment,claude code,Generative AI,Music,Spotify,streaming ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Has AI coding reached a tipping point? At least that appears to be the case for Spotify, which shared this week during its Q4 earnings call that the company's top developers "haven't written a single line of code since December." This statement from Spotify co-CEO Gustav Soderstrรถm came alongside other comments about how the company is using artificial intelligence to speed up the development process. It's worth noting that Spotify noted that it shipped more than 50 new features and changes…
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T20 World Cup: Scotland’s Brad Curry talks about his football fantasy ego

T20 World Cup: Scotland’s Brad Curry talks about his football fantasy ego

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this trending post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Corey is the brother of Scott, the Scottish footballer who was called up to the England national team last year.They both qualified for Scotland via their Scottish father, having grown up on the south coast of England. Left-armer Brad studied sports psychology at Bournemouth University.A lifelong fan, Brad was present for the Cherries' 3-2 win over Liverpool at the Vitality Stadium - when Amine Adly scored a 95th-minute winner against the Premier League champions - on the day he received a call from manager Owen…
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Tell HN: Ralph Giles has died (Xiph.org| Rust@Mozilla | Ghostscript)

โœจ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: It's with much sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague Ralph Giles, or rillian as he was known on IRC.Ralph began contributing to Xiph.org in 2000 and became a core Ghostscript developer in 2001[1]. Ralph made many contributions to the royalty-free media ecosystem, whether it was as a project lead on Theora, serving as release manager for multiple Xiph libraries or maintaining Xiph infrastructure that has been used across the industry by codec engineers and researchers[2]. He was also the first…
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FA Cup: Wrexham duo Nathan Broadhead and Kiefer Moore are plotting to topple former club Ipswich Town

FA Cup: Wrexham duo Nathan Broadhead and Kiefer Moore are plotting to topple former club Ipswich Town

๐Ÿš€ Check out this trending post from BBC Sport ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: After joining Ipswich from Everton in January 2023, Brodhead scored eight goals in 19 league appearances to help the Tractor Boys to promotion from League One.He scored 13 league goals in the 2023-24 season as Kieran McKenna's side gained promotion to the Premier League, ending the club's 22-year absence from the top flight.โ€œThey were in League One at the time and my ambition was to play in the Premier League with this club, which we did,โ€ Brodhead said.โ€œIt's been really good for me and…
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