The son of Elie Wiesel says a new documentary about the Nobel Peace Prize winner comes as some Americans are operating with an “activated ignorance” about what’s going on in their country and around the world. For years, Elisha Wiesel told ITK in an interview, “countless film studios” had inquired about a potential adaptation of… Source link
“I don’t know why he is in a onesie and has a big ass,” shrugs game developer Gabe Cuzzillo. “Bennett just came in with that at some point.” “I thought it would be cute,” replies Bennett Foddy, who was formerly Cuzzillo’s professor at New York University’s Game Center and is now his collaborator. “Working on character design and animation brings you over to liking big butts. I could give you an enormous amount of evidence for this.” Foddy and Cuzzillo are talking about Nate, the impressively pathetic manbaby protagonist of their profound and ridiculous comedy game Baby Steps, developed together with Maxi Boch. When I was preparing to talk to them, I felt like I was about to meet my tormentors: I spent a week last year in the grip of this purposefully, transcendentally frustrating game about going on a horrible hiking holiday with the world’s most incompetent loser. Baby Steps’ premise seems like a cruel joke at first: watch the hapless man suffer! And you will suffer too! But the more I played it, …
Might my love of Picasso make me a better partner? Can appreciating artworks improve my capacity for loving attention in my relationships? Philosophers of art have long doubted that simply engaging with artworks can improve our character. Plenty of avid art-lovers are no kinder or fairer than the rest of us. So why think that spending time with artworks would make us better lovers? Iris Murdoch thinks there is significant overlap in how we admire artworks and those we love. In fact, Murdoch suggests that that the kind of attention we give to artworks models the attention required for our loving relationships. Murdoch famously couches love as a kind of vision: “the patient eye of love.” To love someone well requires seeing them clearly: stripping away the fantasies, projections, and self-serving narratives we habitually project onto others. Such projections obscure, rather than illuminate, the other’s reality. The work of attention is to see the other more clearly which requires what Murdoch call unselfing. Unselfing involves silencing the ego’s noisy demands so that reality outside the …
Maria Diaz/ZDNET One of the biggest concerns for new parents who choose to breastfeed is, how do I know if my baby is getting enough milk? Coro, a new device created by Coroflow, accurately monitors breast milk intake in real-time, down to the 0.01 milliliters — the first product on the market to do so. Also: CES 2026 live blog: Latest news on TVs, AI, phones, more Coro is a silicone nipple shield with a patented micro-flow meter that measures milk intake, which you can view in a free app. The app translates the data into insights on breast milk volume and feeding trends for each breast to help new parents better understand their baby’s feeding patterns. The nipple shield is as thin as a contact lens, similar to others breastfeeding people might use to protect the skin. As the milk flows through the shield, the amount is tracked live through the app. Maria Diaz/ZDNET Eighty-three percent of mothers in America start breastfeeding at birth, but by the time the baby is six months old, that number …
Self-abandonment rarely begins as a conscious choice. Instead, it is something that emerges gradually and is often disguised as selflessness, loyalty, or even emotional maturity. You learn to adapt, wait, explain, and constantly accommodate, not out of a lack of self, but because trying to maintain the relationship feels “safer” than letting go. Over time, this pattern quietly reshapes your inner world while conditioning you to believe your feelings are negotiable, your needs unimportant, and your emotions are “too much.” These can all leave your sense of self dangerously hinging on external validation, rather than focusing on your inherent self-worth. Self-abandonment is a learned pattern of relational responding where you reject, ignore, or deny parts of yourself to maintain the status quo of your relationship, while looking at others to validate and approve your value and worth. It often starts in neglectful and emotionally inconsistent environments where a child learns to jump through hoops to please their caregiver as validation of their worth. Many who experience these kinds of abusive childhoods can become adults with …
This story is part of Image’s October Abundance issue, reveling in indulgence, maximalism and the deliciously impractical. D.J. Waldie is one of the most resonant and enduring voices of Los Angeles. To wit, Waldie’s first book, “Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir,” his account of growing up within and alongside the City of Lakewood, is still in print, 30 years after it was first published. But this isn’t to say that his perspective has remained in what he calls “one nondescript, very ordinary corner of southeast L.A. County,” even if he himself has — he’s lived there for his entire life, 77 years as of last month. In Waldie’s subsequent three books, including his newest, “Elements of Los Angeles” (published in September from Angel City Press), he’s expanded his point of view to cover all of Los Angeles, both the place itself and the idea of it. Waldie’s lens has shifted somewhat too, from a personal history in the city, to the history of the city. The stories Waldie shares about L.A., however, are nothing resembling …
Mario lives in Brooklyn, New York. He has two married brothers, Luigi and Bob, who lived in Schenectady and Buffalo. Every Saturday Mario, who is single, would take an Uber to Grand Central Station in New York City and catch a train to see one of them. To save money, he used the ride share option where the Uber driver could pick up one to three additional passengers to take to the same train station. Sometimes Mario was the only passenger and the commute was quick. Sometimes the car carried with four passengers plus the driver so the trip took longer. Thus ride share resulted in different arrival times at the train station. Mario had never met most of the extra riders he shared the Uber with. But that was okay with him because trains left for Schenectady and Buffalo every twelve minutes. He left it up to chance which brother he would visit. When he arrived at the train station, he bought a ticket for whichever train left next. After a year, brother …
