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Why ceasefires haven’t stopped deadly strikes in Gaza, Lebanon or the Gulf

Why ceasefires haven’t stopped deadly strikes in Gaza, Lebanon or the Gulf

Published by Sam Flores

Across the Middle East, three separate ceasefire deals are currently in effect. In all three, deadly strikes are still a frequent occurrence. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The contradiction has exposed a growing question: What does a ceasefire actually mean when the fighting never fully stops? On Wednesday, President Donald Trump appeared to suggest that promises to stop fighting in the region cannot always be trusted, as he addressed the continued exchanges of fire with Iran in the Gulf. “It’s a different part of the world, you know,” he told reporters. “I’d say in that part of the world a ceasefire is when you’re shooting in a more moderate manner.” The same day Trump made his comments, Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least nine Palestinians overnight, according to local hospitals in Gaza, where a ceasefire deal has been in place since October as part of a peace plan brokered by Trump. While the heaviest fighting has subsided, Israeli forces have carried out repeated airstrikes …

Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI

Men Haven’t Yet Noticed That a Large Number of Women Are Disgusted by AI

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech If you’ve been on TikTok lately, you might have come across a viral meme showing yet another dark side of AI: its impact on cishet relationship dynamics. Variations on the format typically depict a woman working hard at a laptop, with a caption explaining that she’s burning out so “her man” can run an AI startup that “loses $30K a month.” It feels like there’s a serious side to the jokes, since they come in the dark shadow of many grim stories about the tech colliding with established relationships, from breaking up marriages to facilitating infidelity. Indeed, Wired just ran a fascinating feature about how AI is disrupting the dynamics of families — and the women getting ground down by the whole situation, which the story’s author Alessandra Ram memorably terms the “sad wives” of AI. Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, chair of labor studies and employment relations at Rutgers University, told Wired that it comes down to …

The Best Horror Books You Haven’t Read

The Best Horror Books You Haven’t Read

Published by Jenni Sidey

There’s nothing worse than reading a book you love so much that you feel the intense need to talk to someone about it, but you can’t find anyone who’s read it. You’re then left with all those thoughts and love, with nowhere to put them. The horror books on this list are very much those for me. They’ve all got under 10,000 ratings on Goodreads, but they deserve way, way more. These books promise narratives of nightmares turned premonitions, schoolteachers confronted with ancient evils, and black holes. They’re the best horror books you haven’t read, but you really, really should! Listen to Your Sister by Neena Viel After their father dies and their mother is unable to take care of him, 25-year-old Calla becomes the guardian of her youngest brother, Jamie. Her other brother, Dre, promises to help, but his follow-through is lacking. Plagued by nightmares in which her brothers die, Calla is struggling under the weight of keeping them all afloat. After Jamie gets into trouble at a protest, the siblings flee to a …

Some Minneapolis donors have moved on. The immigrants waiting for help haven’t : NPR

Some Minneapolis donors have moved on. The immigrants waiting for help haven’t : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Tania Fischer and Carissa Coudray, volunteers with the mutual aid group Juntos Podemos, carry boxes of food into A & A Barber Studio in Minneapolis, Minn., on April 24. Juntos Podemos continues to distribute food and other donations to families as they recover from Operation Metro Surge. Tim Evans for NPR hide caption toggle caption Tim Evans for NPR MINNEAPOLIS — On a recent Thursday evening in late April, dozens of people hang out at a local brewery in south Minneapolis. The Cha Cha Slide blasts through the speakers. In between sips of craft beer, patrons walk around a silent auction put on by Juntos Podemos, a volunteer mutual aid group that helps immigrants with groceries and rent. Anaí Tepozteco, a co-founder of the group, mingles and every now and then looks at the handmade donation tracker. “Our goal is $20,000 — right now we are halfway there,” she says. It’s an important night. Her group has seen a sharp drop in donations since Operation Metro Surge ended in February and thousands of masked federal …

6 Mythology-Themed Romances You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

6 Mythology-Themed Romances You Probably Haven’t Heard Of

Published by Jenni Sidey

Bramble, a romantic imprint of Tor Publishing Group At Beecher University, Jocasta has finally found her home with good friends, great classes, even a messy situationship with her former TA—a normal life. Well, as normal a life as the only child of Death can have. Jo has never embraced her father’s legacy. Instead of feeding on lives, she feeds on her classmates’ disappointments, failures, and rejections. Which is going great, until Death decides to name her as his successor, making her both a powerful ally and a massive target. But Jo will do anything to protect the people she loves and the life she’s worked so hard for…even if that means becoming a monster. Romantasy as a genre became really popular a few years ago, but there have always been a lot of stories that mix magic and romance—including mythology-themed romances! These books about gods, heroes, and monsters have always intrigued us, and we have found unique ways to reimagine and reinterpret them. So even when you already know that Orpheus will look back and …

I replaced my productivity apps with what Pixel already had built in — and I haven’t looked back

I replaced my productivity apps with what Pixel already had built in — and I haven’t looked back

Published by skeptic

When I’m out and about with my Pixel 9, I tend to deal with the built-in software as too basic. I’ve used a ton of apps for things like meeting transcriptions, song identification, spam calls, and other stuff that either require a download or even a fee in some cases. However, as I’ve been looking at Google’s quarterly feature drops, I realized that maybe I didn’t have to keep finding apps: much of what I need is already on the Pixel. Related Android phones would be better if they copied these Pixel features Some of Pixel’s smallest features leave the biggest impression. The Recorder app does what most transcription services charge for Live transcription, AI summaries, and speaker labels — all on-device The Pixel Recorder app has been exclusively on Google’s handsets since 2019, but it’s much more than a voice memo tool these days. On Pixel 8 and later, it can transcribe in real time, on device, with no audio leaving your phone. And it works offline, too, for an extra dash of privacy. …

We Still Haven’t Seen How Bad Gerrymandering Can Get

We Still Haven’t Seen How Bad Gerrymandering Can Get

Published by Sam Flores

The very short list of constraints on partisan gerrymandering has gotten even shorter. Until last week, the Supreme Court had interpreted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act to require states to draw some majority-minority districts. But in Louisiana v. Callais, it overturned that requirement and held that the VRA prohibits gerrymandering only if it’s done with the explicit goal of racial discrimination. If the intent behind disenfranchising minority voters appears to be merely partisan, the gerrymander is now legal. The ruling will allow Republican state legislatures in the South to erase most if not all of the region’s few blue House districts without fear of being blocked in court. And so the gerrymandering wars, already awful, are poised to get even worse. Democrats will respond to the Republican response to Callais; Republicans will respond to the response to the response; voters will lose in the process. In a few years, almost every seat in the House of Representatives could be safely occupied by a hyper-partisan incumbent, beholden only to primary voters. The chamber could …

Modern Dating Has Changed, But A Professional Wingman Says These 6 Lessons Haven’t

Modern Dating Has Changed, But A Professional Wingman Says These 6 Lessons Haven’t

Published by Jenni Sidey

Since I was a teenager, I’ve always enjoyed reading Jake’s column in Glamour magazine. Since 1956, it’s been penned by a slew of anonymous, single men who’ve helped countless women navigate the dating world by writing honestly and openly about the game of love from a man’s perspective. In 2012, one of the Jakes wrote a book, Always Hit On The Wingman: And 9 Other Secret Rules For Getting The Love Life You Want. He compiled 10 of the most important dating lessons he and the other Jakes before him relayed to women that still hold.  Usually, when I read these types of books, I think the advice would only work in a perfect world. But when reading Jake’s book, I found myself dog-earring almost every other page as a reminder to remember the points he was making. It’s become one of those books that I want to send a copy to all of my girlfriends, single, in a relationship, engaged, whatever, because they could all learn a thing or two from the Jakes’ collective …

If You Haven’t Read Galaxy Yet, Now Is the Time

If You Haven’t Read Galaxy Yet, Now Is the Time

Published by José Betancourt

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. It’s no secret that neither Marvel nor DC has the greatest track record when it comes to respecting trans people, either in real life or in the stories they tell. But credit where credit is due. This year, DC has been making a concerted effort to expand on the story of one of its most notable trans characters. In 2022, Jadzia Axelrod and Jess Taylor’s Galaxy: The Prettiest Star won acclaim for its heartfelt, emotional, and, at times, funny story about a trans lesbian alien who risks everything to be herself. Since then, Galaxy has appeared in other Axelrod-penned comics, including Hawkgirl: Once Upon a Galaxy and the holiday anthology I Saw Ma Hunkel Kissing Santa Claus. But Galaxy is making waves in a bigger way this year. Not only is the sequel to The Prettiest Star, Galaxy: As the World Falls Down, being released on May 5, Galaxy and her fellow groundbreaking hero— Dreamer, the first trans …