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French Gay Animated Comedy Tells Old Jokes

French Gay Animated Comedy Tells Old Jokes

Published by Daniella Wilson

One goes to Cannes to see the highest of high-minded cinema, bold and searing visions from the world’s foremost auteurs. We peek in on the social upheavals of contemporary Romania, explore the fringes of city life in Tokyo and Seoul, roam the lonely foothills of Anatolia, experience the bustle of Dakar, examine the fraught history of Chile. It is an enriching experience, to see what the planet’s premier and emerging film artists have newly dreamt up. Sometimes, though, one needs a little break from all that heavy stuff. Which is just what the French animated comedy Jim Queen offers this year. Directed by Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen, Jim Queen is a crass, profane, giddily stupid romp through a heap of stereotypes about gay life in Paris. It’s teeming with jokes about prostate orgasms, about tops and bottoms, about fetishes and bodily fluids and G’d out party bois. It comes as a welcome shock to the system here at this august, black-tie film festival. I just wish the movie was funnier and fresher than it …

Tommy Robinson tells tens of thousands at London rally to prepare for ‘battle of Britain’

Tommy Robinson tells tens of thousands at London rally to prepare for ‘battle of Britain’

Published by Sam Flores

The far-right activist Tommy Robinson told tens of thousands of supporters to prepare for the “battle of Britain” during a rally in London on Saturday. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, drew tens of thousands of supporters on to the streets of central London for the second year running in an event where Islamophobic and ethnonationalist hate speech and flyers were distributed to the crowds. Organisers claimed that millions had attended his “unite the kingdom” march, but police estimated the number of demonstrators to be far lower, at about 60,000. Last September’s march was attended by 150,000 people. Robinson, who gained prominence as the founder of the anti-Islam English Defence League, told crowds gathered in Parliament Square that the rally was “a turning point for Britain”. He encouraged his supporters to move beyond street protest and “fighting” and become involved in local politics before the next general election. The campaign group Hope Not Hate said that although the march appeared to have attracted fewer demonstrators than the previous rally, the scale of Robinson’s movement …

Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold

Devious Prankster Posts Real Monet Painting, Tells People It’s AI-Generated, and Watches the Chaos Unfold

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech A poster wrought some moderate havoc this week when they shared a cropped image of a real Monet painting while claiming it was an AI fake, unleashing a flood of ill-informed reactions and muddled discourse. So, you know, it was just another day online. “I just generated an image in the style of a Monet painting using AI,” read the original post, published to X-formerly-Twitter yesterday by an anonymous conceptual artist who goes by the pseudonym “SHL0MS.” “Please describe, in as much detail as possible,” he continued, “what makes this inferior to a real Monet painting.” Commenters were quick to jump in to explain why, in their view, the alleged AI image was worse than the real work of the French impressionist master. According to one, the image was an “incoherent muddle of inconsistently saturated greens.” Another lamented that there was no “coherent composition,” while someone else shared that the painting seemed “busy, artificial, nature in turmoil, polluted.” Another …

China to buy U.S. oil to feed its ‘insatiable appetite,’ Trump tells Fox News

China to buy U.S. oil to feed its ‘insatiable appetite,’ Trump tells Fox News

Published by Sam Flores

BEIJING, CHINA – MAY 15: U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping tour the Zhongnanhai leadership compound on May 15, 2026 in Beijing, China. Mark Schiefelbein-Pool | Getty Images News | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump said China has agreed to buy American oil, in a pre-recorded interview with Fox News that aired Thursday evening stateside, as the two nations push for concrete trade and business wins at their ongoing bilateral summit. “They’ve agreed they want to buy oil from the United States, they’re going to go to Texas, we’re going to start sending Chinese ships to Texas and to Louisiana and to Alaska,” Trump said in the interview that was conducted after his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday. China also agreed to help with Iran negotiations and not to supply military equipment to Tehran, Trump said, adding that the Chinese leader would like to see the Strait of Hormuz open and free of tolls. “They have an insatiable appetite for energy, and we have unlimited energy,” …

When a Police Interrogator Tells You It Isn’t Your Fault

When a Police Interrogator Tells You It Isn’t Your Fault

Published by Jenni Sidey

A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, when there’s a reason to think the confession was involuntary, and even when other evidence like DNA contradicts the story in the confession. Throughout the last four or five decades, scientists have learned a lot about the psychology of interrogations and confessions. But has that information trickled down to the public? This multi-part series titled “What Psychologists Want You to Know About Interrogations” uses data from a 2021 survey of the general public and their knowledge about police interrogations and false confessions. This survey compared the public’s knowledge to that of experts in the field: psychologists who have published empirical papers in peer-reviewed journals on these topics. The results showed that these two groups agree on certain information about interrogations and confessions. But a lot of the time, the public has ideas about these topics that go against what experts know from their research. This series presents a few …

Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta’s news chief, has thoughts

Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta’s news chief, has thoughts

Published by skeptic

Campbell Brown has spent her career chasing accurate information, first as a renowned TV journalist, then as Facebook’s first, and only, dedicated news chief. Now, watching AI reshape how people consume information, she sees history threatening to repeat itself. This time, she’s not waiting for someone else to fix it. Her company, Forum AI — which she discussed recently with TechCrunch’s Tim Fernholz at a StrictlyVC evening in San Francisco — evaluates how foundation models perform on what she calls “high-stakes topics” — geopolitics, mental health, finance, hiring — subjects where “there are no clear yes-or-no answers, where it’s murky and nuanced and complex.” The idea is to find the world’s foremost experts, have them architect benchmarks, then train AI judges to evaluate models at scale. For Forum AI’s geopolitics work, Brown has recruited Niall Ferguson, Fareed Zakaria, former Secretary of State Tony Blinken, former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and Anne Neuberger, who led cybersecurity in the Obama administration. The goal is to get AI judges to roughly 90% consensus with those human experts, a …

Exclusive-Neymar World Cup call based on fitness and form, not sentiment, Ancelotti tells Reuters

Exclusive-Neymar World Cup call based on fitness and form, not sentiment, Ancelotti tells Reuters

Published by Sam Flores

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 12 : Carlo Ancelotti will walk into Monday’s Brazil squad announcement with a nation peering over his shoulder and one burning question hanging in the Rio de Janeiro air: Neymar or no Neymar? The 34-year-old forward is Brazil’s all-time leading scorer, but his place at the 2026 World Cup, which kicks off next month, hangs in the balance after years of injury trouble and an underwhelming return to Santos. That leaves Ancelotti weighing romance against the cold, practical demands of fitness as he lays out his high-intensity blueprint for the record five-times champions. “When you have to choose, you have to consider many things,” Ancelotti told Reuters in an exclusive interview on Tuesday. “Neymar is an important player for this country because of the talent he has always shown. But he has had problems and is working hard to recover. He has improved a lot recently and is playing regularly. It is, obviously, not such an easy decision for me. We have to weigh up the pros and cons carefully.” Ancelotti …

Palace tells No. 10 to keep Charles out of Starmer’s crisis  – POLITICO

Palace tells No. 10 to keep Charles out of Starmer’s crisis  – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

But in the discussions with the Palace, which also included Starmer’s office, there was a general acknowledgement that this year’s ceremony would be an awkward moment for the king. “It is very embarrassing for the king that his government is such a shambles that he has to read out something that may or may not still be the government’s program by the end of the week,” according to the same person quoted above.  The Palace made clear that the king would fulfill his constitutional duties as required but that it should be for the politicians to handle the political crisis and the monarch should not be involved.  The state opening marks the formal start to the new parliamentary session. It is full of pageantry, including soldiers on horseback, trumpet fanfares, and a horse-drawn carriage taking the king from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster. One option mooted before the 2015 election — when a hung parliament was widely expected — was to scale back the state opening and keep Queen Elizabeth II away from parliament at …

William tells Southport survivor ‘you’re so brave’ at garden party

William tells Southport survivor ‘you’re so brave’ at garden party

Published by Sam Flores

The Prince of Wales told a yoga teacher who survived the Southport attack “you’re so brave”, and she said it was “like meeting an old friend again” after they chatted at a garden party. Leanne Lucas told William about her Let’s Be Blunt campaign when she was invited to a garden party at Buckingham Palace on Friday afternoon. Ms Lucas began her campaign in the wake of the attack in Merseyside in July 2024 that saw Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, Bebe King, six, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, murdered – and eight children and two adults hurt. Source link