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Robert Pattinson’s Sleazy Pinkie Ring is The Odyssey’s Biggest Style Flex

Robert Pattinson’s Sleazy Pinkie Ring is The Odyssey’s Biggest Style Flex

On Saturday, I hopped on a two-hour train to Dublin to catch Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey in IMAX. It was massive in every sense of the word. There were big battles and big landscapes and, without giving away too much, some pretty big monsters too. I thought it was brilliant. I also thought it could probably have lost 20 minutes. But when I walked out of the cinema, there was only one thing rattling around in my head: Robert Pattinson’s pinkie ring. This isn’t the first time the British actor’s done this to me. Earlier this year, it was the glasses he wore in The Drama. They looked like the sort of frames I’d normally scroll straight past. Then Pattinson put them on and, before I knew it, I was wondering whether I should buy a pair. Somehow, he has this incredible ability to take something that shouldn’t be particularly exciting and make it feel absolutely essential—now, he’s done the exact same thing with a tiny gold ring sitting on his little finger. Pattinson plays …

Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup That’s Selling GLP-1s via a Dishonest Dumpster Fire of Fake Doctors, Phony Before-and-After Pictures, a Warning From the FDA, and Other Glaring Red Flags?

Why Is the New York Times Laundering the Reputation of a Sleazy AI Startup That’s Selling GLP-1s via a Dishonest Dumpster Fire of Fake Doctors, Phony Before-and-After Pictures, a Warning From the FDA, and Other Glaring Red Flags?

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech On Thursday, the New York Times published a glowing profile of a company called Medvi. The basic premise of the piece is that a single guy named Matthew Gallagher had used AI to rapidly build a pharmaceutical enterprise that’s on track to do nearly $2 billion in sales this year, while hiring only a skeleton crew of humans to operate the vast AI-powered venture. According to the NYT, it’s a stunning achievement that heralds a new era of business; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who predicted the rise of this kind of company back in 2024, told the newspaper that he’d “like to meet the guy” behind the project. “A $1.8 billion company with just two employees?” the NYT rhapsodized. “In the age of AI, it’s increasingly possible.” The NYT‘s tech coverage is generally pretty solid. But the framing of its story, and what it left out, left us pretty stunned. That’s because back in May of last year, we ran …