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Catherine O’Hara managed to make difficult characters utterly delightful | Catherine O’Hara

Catherine O’Hara managed to make difficult characters utterly delightful | Catherine O’Hara

Published by Sam Flores

One of the later and less beloved Christopher Guest comedies featuring his troupe of peerless, often SCTV-related improvisers is For Your Consideration, a medium-funny savaging of Hollywood’s feverish awards-season prestige campaigning. The film’s unquestionable highlight is Catherine O’Hara, playing an actor who gets a whisper of awards buzz for a schlocky, still-filming drama called Home for Purim, and slowly loses her mind with the knowledge that she could maybe, possibly be recognized by her peers. O’Hara, known for her distinctively brassy yet malleable trill of her voice and her frequently red hair, peels back her performer’s bravado to expose the frenzied need beneath it. She somehow plays the outsized beneath the regular-sized, as her Marilyn Hack goes from plugging-away workhorse to desperate striver. Unsurprisingly, O’Hara briefly generated awards buzz of her own for playing this part; even less surprisingly, an Oscar nomination was not forthcoming. It couldn’t be; otherwise, it might have marred O’Hara’s masterclass in how certain actors, especially those specializing in comedy, are destined to go under-recognized in their lifetimes. The difference, of …

‘Like a sea out there’: flooded Somerset residents wonder how water can be managed | Somerset

‘Like a sea out there’: flooded Somerset residents wonder how water can be managed | Somerset

Published by Jenni Sidey

In the early hours, the Wade family’s boxer puppy began barking. Thinking it needed to be let out, they traipsed downstairs and opened the back door – to be greeted not by their neat garden but an expanse of water. “It was like a sea out there,” said James Wade. Over the coming hours the water crept into their home on a modern estate in Taunton, forcing James, his wife, Faye, and their three children, six, 11 and 12, out and into emergency accommodation. “We have been here for 13 years and this has never happened before. Even during the huge floods of 2014 we were dry.” The Wade family are one of about 50 households that Somerset council estimates have been flooded this week as Storm Chandra battered the UK. With another Met Office yellow warning for rain coming into force for parts of the south-west of England on Thursday, the council fears more homes and businesses will go underwater, and has declared a major incident. ‘This has never happened before,’ said James Wade, …

Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis

Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis

Published by José Betancourt

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. A new lawsuit against OpenAI claims that ChatGPT pushed a man with a pre-existing mental health condition into a months-long crisis of AI-powered psychosis, resulting in repeated hospitalizations, financial distress, physical injury, and reputational damage. The plaintiff in the case, filed this week in California, is a 34-year-old Bay Area man named John Jacquez. He claims that his crisis was a direct result of OpenAI’s decision to roll out GPT-4o, a now-notoriously sycophantic version of the company’s large language model linked to many cases of AI-tied delusion, psychosis, and death. Jacquez’s complaint argues that GPT-4o is a “defective” and “inherently dangerous” product, and that OpenAI failed to warn users of foreseeable risks to their emotional and psychological health. In an interview with Futurism, Jacquez said that he hopes that his lawsuit will result in GPT-4o being …

‘The authorities have managed to control the almost sole way out’

‘The authorities have managed to control the almost sole way out’

Published by Sam Flores

For the past four days, amid unprecedented protests that have set Iran’s streets ablaze, the Iranian regime has almost completely cut off internet access across the country. In June, shortly after the Israeli army attacked Iran, the authorities had also taken similar measures. How did the Iranian authorities manage to disconnect the country from the global internet? Two internet network specialists, Frédérick Douzet, a professor at the French Institute of Geopolitics (IFG), and Kavé Salamatian, a professor at the Savoie-Mont-Blanc University, answered Le Monde‘s questions on the matter in June 2025, in this republished interview. Is the scale of the shutdown unprecedented? Frédérick Douzet: Iran had already implemented a shutdown of this scale in November 2019, to suppress protests against rising fuel prices. The goal was to censor information and control the population. However, this is the first time that Iran has enacted such a large-scale shutdown for national security reasons, as a means of defending itself against an attack. Does this shutdown completely disconnect Iran from the outside world, or the outside world from …