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TV tonight: Jonathan Ross ties up mismatched pairs in bold new show | television

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Television & radio,Culture,Film 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Handcuffed: Last pair standing9pm on Channel 4How would you feel to be handcuffed in front of a man who proudly has a painting of Hitler hanging on his wall? What if it meant winning £100,000? Here comes another demonstration of a controversial real-life challenge thinly disguised as a social experiment to bring together complete opposites in a divisive society. In the bizarre Blind Date format, Jonathan Ross's not-so-matched couples are then handcuffed and set off on a road trip around…

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College campuses are in turmoil over faculty ties to Epstein

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture Latest 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Culture News 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Many Jeffrey Epstein's connections to universities and prominent academics, which he maintained through financial donations and lavish gifts, have been well-known since his 2019 arrest and suicide in a Manhattan jail cell. And after the US Department of Justice released three million new documents related to the criminal investigation into the late sex trafficker last month, it became clear that his influence in higher education was far more extensive.As a result of the email exchanges included in this new set of…

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Everyone’s talking about Incel now Wired

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💥 Read this awesome post from Culture Latest 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,Speak No Evil 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: in the beginning This year, The Cut kicked off a short rhetorical cycle by announcing a new lifestyle trend: “maximum friction.”The idea, in short, is that people have overused apps, artificial intelligence, and other means of near-instant gratification, and would be better off with more friction in their daily lives—that is, those mundane challenges that require little effort from them.Whatever your feelings on this philosophy, the use of “maxxing” as a suffix that is supposedly familiar or at least…

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Who is your father? Chat bot

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🔥 Check out this must-read post from Culture Latest 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / Digital Culture,Role Reversal 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: First time Alessandra Madison's husband incorporated artificial intelligence into their relationship in late 2024.She forgot to do her nightly kneeling ritual, so ChatGPT asked how to properly discipline her. She says the big language model suggested a “two-in-one punishment,” writing 100 lines of “I will remember to kneel for my domme every night” while kneeling the entire time.Although the couple began exploring the dysfunction in their marriage 15 years ago — they are in a dominant relationship — AI-generated…

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Morrissey Review – Classic Smiths songs meet GB News style talking points | Morrissey

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🚀 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Morrissey,Music,Pop and rock,Culture,UK news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: IIt could almost be the '90s: in a sold-out O2 arena, a pink-shirted Morrissey and his five-piece band packed the crowd with Suedehead, each rocking a 'why' and roaring collectively. It's as if the past two decades of fiery political activity haven't damaged his reputation. What's more, things will get better soon, he assures us, because the morphine is just getting started. A little laughter. Maybe he's joking?Opiate allusions aside, the narrative between songs is a classic Moz ride.…

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“Love Is Blind” embraces the manosphere

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🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture Latest 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / TV,Unsightly 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: when Netflix dropped the first season of Love is blind In February 2020, she showed off a reprieve from the abs that usually seem like a prerequisite for reality TV shows.The premise - that couples get engaged "invisible" after talking to each other through pods and then, after a big reveal, decide whether they want to get married - came off with just the right amount of chaos. Who can forget Jessica letting her dog drink wine or an insulting Carlton throwing…

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Everything would be controlled by Larry and David Ellison if Paramount bought Warner Bros.

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Culture Latest 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Culture / TV,Empire State ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Less than A A year ago, Skydance Media completed an $8 billion merger with Paramount, making the Trump-friendly Ellison family — billionaire Oracle founder Larry and his son, Paramount Skydance CEO David — among the country's most powerful media moguls. Paramount Skydance's looming merger with Warner Bros. Discovery would expand their empire even further.Now that Netflix has backed out of its bid to acquire WBD, the Ellisons will get a whole new batch of important intellectual property, from DC Comics to...…

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Dirty Deeds Review – If This Doesn’t Spark Righteous Outrage About Our Dirty Water Nothing Will | television

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🔥 Read this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Television,Culture,Television & radio,David Thewlis,Water industry ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: WI know, because ITV's Mr Bates v The Post Office showed us that a TV drama can suddenly exacerbate public revulsion at a scandal, forcing official attitudes to change. Will Dirty Business, Joseph Pullman's dramatic documentary about the shame of water pollution in England and Wales - the stories of which are based on real-life events - be another TV show that moves the needle? If he doesn't, maybe nothing will: this is a fist to the face,…

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16 Postcodes Review – The Patchwork Psychogeography of One Woman in London | platform

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💥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Stage,Theatre,London,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: CEsca Regan's promising one-woman show tells the story of city life in a different order each night. It's a collaborative collection from London, created with the help of public input as she traveled through some of the 16 postcodes in which she lived. It's great storytelling, although its patchwork of psychogeography never quite becomes complete.Written and performed by Regan, who originally performed it on the Edinburgh Fringe in 2024, it begins with her arrival in London from Ireland, as a drama…

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Review by Beatriz Gonzalez – The bodies pile up in a thrilling retrospective that may be too much to bear | Art and design

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🔥 Discover this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Art,Culture,Exhibitions,Barbican,Colombia,Installation,Sculpture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: TBeatriz Gonzalez's art is saturated with light, strong color, and blood. Her sprawling, uneven retrospective reflects the turbulent politics and violence of her native Colombia, and the breadth of a body of work that addresses art history and popular, regional, and global culture. At times it is as scathing as a cartoonist, depicting the generals as a row of faceless parrots with blank faces. “I didn't want to be a lady who painted,” she once said. Gonzalez was born in…

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