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Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere made one big mistake – here’s how it could have been fixed

Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere made one big mistake – here’s how it could have been fixed

Published by Daniella Wilson

Add Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere to your watchlist The rapid rise of internet culture has fundamentally changed every facet of modern life, from how we communicate and how we entertain ourselves to how we learn and work together. Whether this sea change in how we live is for the better or worse is probably best left up to a documentary 20 years from now that will reflect on such a period of upheaval, in which the attention economy has taken over. And attention is seemingly the only thing that the nauseating streamers featured in Louis Theroux’s latest documentary, Inside the Manosphere, care about, as they so willingly race to the depths of morality with all the haste of a pig digging for truffles. They are known as figureheads of the ‘Manosphere’, an online community that promotes ideas of ‘traditional’ masculinity, where men adopt a more dominant role in a relationship while women’s rights are marginalised. In tandem comes ignorant attitudes that breed sexism, racism and homophobia, spouted for clippable soundbites to shock and attract …

Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere made one big mistake

Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere made one big mistake

Published by Daniella Wilson

The rapid rise of internet culture has fundamentally changed every facet of modern life, from how we communicate and how we entertain ourselves to how we learn and work together. Whether this sea change in how we live is for the better or worse is probably best left up to a documentary 20 years from now that will reflect on such a period of upheaval, in which the attention economy has taken over. And attention is seemingly the only thing that the nauseating streamers featured in Louis Theroux’s latest documentary, Inside the Manosphere, care about, as they so willingly race to the depths of morality with all the haste of a pig digging for truffles. They are known as figureheads of the ‘Manosphere’, an online community that promotes ideas of ‘traditional’ masculinity, where men adopt a more dominant role in a relationship while women’s rights are marginalised. In tandem comes ignorant attitudes that breed sexism, racism and homophobia, spouted for clippable soundbites to shock and attract attention from viewers across the world. Yet despite their …

Thames Water is billing me for its own mistake | Water bills

Thames Water is billing me for its own mistake | Water bills

Published by Sam Flores

Thames Water has blindsided me with a bill for nearly £2,000, backdated to 2020. It turns out that it mistakenly stopped collecting my direct debits back then and has not sent any bills since. It admitted its error and promised to write off charges older than 12 months, but now it is trying to recover almost the full amount. AD, London You assumed that back-billing rules applied to water bills as they do to energy. They don’t, or at least not for domestic customers. While businesses can’t be back-billed for more than 24 months, water firms can claw back up to six years’ worth of charges from householders if they forget to bill them. The regulator, the Consumer Council for Water, says it expects firms to waive these if the mistake was of their making, and will look at complaints if this doesn’t happen. Thames Water buckled when I intervened. It admitted that a system error ended your direct debits six years ago, and it has now agreed to waive all charges between April 2020 …

AI Mistake Throws Innocent Grandmother in Jail for Nearly Six Months

AI Mistake Throws Innocent Grandmother in Jail for Nearly Six Months

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech An AI system’s little oopsie, and a police department’s staggering incompetence, landed an innocent grandma in jail. Harrowing reporting by North Dakota radio station WDAY details how the 50-year-old Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in the clink after Fargo cops using an AI facial recognition tool flagged her as a suspect in a bank fraud case in the state. The mother of three — and grandmother of five — says she’s lived her entire life in north-central Tennessee, roughly a thousand miles away from where the crimes she was accused of committing took place. US marshals showed up at her doorstep last July while she was babysitting four kids and arrested her at gunpoint. First, Lipps was booked in a Tennessee county jail as a fugitive from justice from North Dakota. And because she was considered a fugitive, she was held without bail and sat in the jail for nearly four initial months. Lipps received a court-appointed …

I made a big fueling mistake before my first 10K race—here’s what a dietitian says to do instead

I made a big fueling mistake before my first 10K race—here’s what a dietitian says to do instead

Published by Jenni Sidey

One of the biggest mistakes I made when running my first 10K race was assuming that nutrition wasn’t really important for such a distance. I had my usual breakfast of Greek yoghurt, homemade granola packed with seeds and blueberries. a few hours before the race, skipped the pre-race snack and, aside from a few sips of water, didn’t eat anything until I got home a few hours later. Cue post-run cramps and a massive energy dip. Article continues below You may like I learned the hard way that fueling properly before and after a run matters. Whether you’re running 10K or a marathon, getting it right helps maintain energy levels and supports both performance and recovery. To avoid repeating the same mistake as I prepare for my next run, I spoke to sports dietitian and runner Amy Goblirsch—known online as The Running Dietitian—to get her advice on how best to fuel and refuel for a 10km race. Here’s what she recommends considering before the start line, and after the finish line. Pre-race nutrition While carb-loading …

Emmerdale spoilers next week: Paddy and Dylan charged after Bear mistake

Emmerdale spoilers next week: Paddy and Dylan charged after Bear mistake

Published by Daniella Wilson

It’s a big week for Paddy Dingle (Dominic Brunt) in Emmerdale, as he and Dylan Penders (Fred Kettle) are charged with perverting the course of justice. The two realise they must hand themselves in after Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards) makes a huge mistake during another chat with DS Walsh (Amanda Ryan). Elsewhere, Graham Foster (Andrew Scarborough) is still warring with Kim Tate (Claire King), Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) must address son Isaac’s fears about his prostate cancer diagnosis, and Jacob Gallagher (Joe-Warren Plant) has another run-in with Dr. Todd (Caroline Harker) at work. Plus, Pollard’s (Chris Chittell) on a mission to discover what wife Kerry Wyatt (Laura Norton) is hiding… Here’s everything you need to know about the episodes of Emmerdale airing between Monday, 16th and Friday, 20th March. 5 Emmerdale spoilers for next week 1. Paddy Dingle and Dylan Penders are arrested Bear Wolf (Joshua Richards) slips up in the police interview room. ITV Things spiral at the police station as Bear faces a tense interrogation with DS Walsh. Already on edge, he is pushed …

Households risk £300 fine over log burner mistake use following law changes | Personal Finance | Finance

Households risk £300 fine over log burner mistake use following law changes | Personal Finance | Finance

Published by Sam Flores

You cannot emit smoke from a chimney in a smoke control area (Image: Getty) Households in England with a log burner in their home face being landed with fines of up to £300 for making a common mistake. Meteorological spring may have just arrived in the UK, but temperatures are still a touch on the chilly side, so it’s not quite time to ditch the heating – or log burners – just yet. While daytime temperatures are gradually turning milder, spring evenings typically bring a significant drop in temperatures, typically reaching lows of around 3C on average. As such, evenings in March still call for a blast of warmth, which means households with log burners will still be lighting them up to fend off the cold weather and stay toasty. But a law change means that those living in a smoke control area must be mindful of how much smoke their burner emits, as those who exceed a certain limit can face significant fines. Read More: Households with an induction hob in kitchen urged to …

The McDonald’s CEO’s Big Burger-Eating Mistake

The McDonald’s CEO’s Big Burger-Eating Mistake

Published by José Betancourt

Recently, Chris Kempczinski ate a burger. It didn’t go well. Kempczinski is the CEO of McDonald’s. The burger was the Big Arch, the company’s newest offering. And the problem was a video. In it, Kempczinski—looking trim and clean in a beige sweater, oxford collar peeping out—picks up the burger and politely appraises it. He calls it a “product.” He describes the bun as “unique.” He takes a dainty bite, declares it “so good,” and then moves on with his life. There’s nothing to suggest that he is lying, but he’s not exactly selling it, either. People online found this quite troubling. “This man does not eat McDonald’s,” one post on X said. Burger King weighed in with its own response, as did Wendy’s, and Jack in the Box, and A&W. Soon enough, according to the news, Kempczinski was “under fire.” If you logged on between Tuesday morning and yesterday afternoon, you’d have been forgiven for thinking Kempczinski did something much, much worse than bite into a hamburger wrong. Maybe he did. The Big Arch video …

Rachel Weisz’s Vladimir makes a common mistake – it cheats the audience

Rachel Weisz’s Vladimir makes a common mistake – it cheats the audience

Published by Daniella Wilson

*Warning – contains spoilers for all eight episodes of Vladimir.* At the end of last year, I spoke with the writer Dennis Kelly, known for his series such as Utopia and Pulling. He was promoting his phenomenal BBC drama, Waiting for the Out, when he made the following comment: “My bugbear at the moment is that we are currently mistaking adrenaline for drama. We currently think that adrenaline and drama are the same thing and they f**king are not. “The amount of times you see one of these Netflix-type things – look, I’ve done this as well, so I’m not slagging it off too much – but someone wakes up and they’re in a crime scene or something, and then you flash back, and it’s like, what you’re saying to the audience is, ‘This is boring, right? But don’t worry, you’re going to see someone die.’ You just think, ‘F**king hell, that’s so lame.’” It’s important to note, Kelly wasn’t speaking about any one drama or Netflix series in particular. He certainly wasn’t speaking about …

Sam Altman Is Realizing He Made a Gigantic Mistake

Sam Altman Is Realizing He Made a Gigantic Mistake

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went into full damage control mode over the weekend. A day before the United States attacked Iran, the embattled CEO announced that the company had signed a new agreement with the Pentagon over how its AI models could be used — and the blowback is clearly impacting the company’s bottom line, because Altman is sounding deeply defensive. Many users saw the military terms move as an attempt to swoop in and yank a multibillion-dollar government contract from the clutches of its rival, Anthropic. Last week, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei refused to give in to the Department of Defense’s demands, drawing a line in the sand and insisting that its AI models may not be used for autonomous killing machines or mass surveillance of Americans, a decision lauded by many users of its chatbot Claude. Regardless of the genuineness of Amodei’s continued assurances — there are plenty of reasons not to take billionaire CEOs by …