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“If I don’t write about him, I’m afraid I’ll become him”: The making of “Taxi Driver at Fifty” | Taxi driver

“If I don’t write about him, I’m afraid I’ll become him”: The making of “Taxi Driver at Fifty” | Taxi driver

🚀 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Taxi Driver,Paul Schrader,Robert De Niro,Martin Scorsese,Jodie Foster,Film,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: If Travis Bickle were real and alive today, he wouldn't be a taxi driver, but would likely be sitting in his parents' basement, exploring the dark, misogynistic depths of the internet.“We call them incels now,” says Paul Schrader, who wrote the screenplay for the movie Taxi Driver, released 50 years ago on Sunday. “‘Incels’ wasn’t a word at the time, but these are the men who, seeing themselves as incapable of connecting with women, have a…
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The first signs of fatigue come from the people who embrace AI the most

The first signs of fatigue come from the people who embrace AI the most

💥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The most enticing narrative in American work culture right now is not that AI will take your job. It's that AI will save you from it. This is the version that the industry has spent the last three years selling to millions of nervous people eager to buy. Yes, some office jobs will disappear. But for most other roles, the argument goes, AI is a force multiplier. You will become a more capable and indispensable lawyer, consultant, writer, programmer, financial analyst - etc. Tools…
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Tottenham vs Newcastle: What happened to Nick Woltimade?

Tottenham vs Newcastle: What happened to Nick Woltimade?

💥 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: It's also easy to forget that Woltemade is still only 23 years old.He only became a regular at Stuttgart in December 2024, before joining Newcastle a few months later after the club missed out on Hugo Equitiki, Joao Pedro and Benjamin Cisco, among others.Having never played outside his homeland before, he had to quickly adapt to the pace and physicality of the Premier League, as well as a pre-designed system of a speedy striker leading the defensive pressure from the front and running from the…
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Manchester United midfielder Kobe Maino has proven Ruben Amorim wrong

Manchester United midfielder Kobe Maino has proven Ruben Amorim wrong

💥 Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: After Manchester United's first match against West Ham this season, Ruben Amorim let his guard down on Kobe Maino.United drew 1-1 with relegation-threatened Hammers at Old Trafford in December, with Maino remaining on the bench throughout - and Amorim decided that Lisandro Martinez for Luke Shaw was a better final substitute as he looked for a winner.“You always ask me the same thing,” the then United boss said, when asked why the 20-year-old was left on the bench."I understand what you're saying. You love Kobe.…
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antirez/voxtral.c: Pure C inference of Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model

antirez/voxtral.c: Pure C inference of Mistral Voxtral Realtime 4B speech to text model

💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: This is a C implementation of the inference pipeline for the Mistral AI's Voxtral Realtime 4B model. It has zero external dependencies beyond the C standard library. The MPS inference is decently fast, while the BLAS acceleration is usable but slow (it continuously convert the bf16 weights to fp32). Audio processing uses a chunked encoder with overlapping windows, bounding memory usage regardless of input length. Audio can also be piped from stdin (--stdin), or captured live from the microphone (--from-mic, macOS), making it easy to…
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TV Tonight: A group of strangers encounter a dangerous mountain | television

TV Tonight: A group of strangers encounter a dangerous mountain | television

💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,MasterChef,RuPaul,Hugh Grant,Anna Kendrick,Daniel Craig ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Top9pm on ITV1Come for an exciting group mountain adventure; Continue the amusing bickering and cursing that immediately breaks out. Riders who have never climbed a mountain before - including the Gladiators' Ace, now an ordained minister - need to reach the summit in New Zealand. But they must complete challenges along the way and leave no one behind, all while being followed by a dangerous helicopter. Holly RichardsonMasterChef: The Professionals8pm, BBC OneA late return to fine…
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Lyft is opening its ride-hailing app for teens

Lyft is opening its ride-hailing app for teens

🚀 Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,Lyft,ride-hailing,Uber ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Lyft launched Teen Accounts on Monday, a product that allows minors as young as 13 to travel without an adult in 200 U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and New York. The official launch comes two weeks after Lyft CEO David Risher announced X's plans to open a ride-hailing service to teens. Like rival Uber, which also offers accounts for teens, Lyft's new service comes with a number of guardrails. Only a parent or guardian can create an account for teens, according to Lyft. Drivers…
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Football Daily – MNC: Manchester City returns and Howe is under the heat?

Football Daily – MNC: Manchester City returns and Howe is under the heat?

🔥 Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Available for 29 daysMark Chapman talks Premier League with The Observer's Chris Sutton, Rory Smith and Shay Given. Get their thoughts on how Manchester City's win over Liverpool could be pivotal in the title race. Do Newcastle's problems go beyond Eddie Howe? Burnley in trouble - listen to Scott Parker and fan Natalie from the No Nay Never podcast. Brighton transfers under scrutiny, what's next for Jack Grealish after surgery, Chris receives free email! Emails to MNC@bbc.co.uk 01:00 Exciting comeback for Manchester City at…
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Why “just prompt better” doesn’t work

Why “just prompt better” doesn’t work

✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Earlier this week we published “Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem”, which made it to the HackerNews front page and drew responses from developers across industries and roles. We learned a lot from the (40+) survey responses that poured in, as well as the heated debate on how coding assistants impact software development. The latter deserves its own article-a separate post curating best practices in coding agent setup is in the works. For this follow-up article however, we will focus on main findings…
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CrowdScience – Do multiple choice questions make us biased?

CrowdScience – Do multiple choice questions make us biased?

💥 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Available for over a yearGriffith, a CrowdScience listener in Ghana, is more than just a CrowdScience listener. He is also a listener of our sister show on the World Service, Unexpected Elements. But he noticed something funny. On the weekly Unexpected Items multiple choice quiz, the answer is almost always A. It is almost always a “B” or a “C”. Why is this? When we prepare a test, why do we hesitate to choose option A? His question leads presenter Alex Lathbridge on a…
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