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‘Now is the time’: Bob Baker Marionette Theater to make Highland Park its forever home
In 2019, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater needed a lifeline. Forced out of its edge-of-downtown home of more than 55 years, the beloved troupe with its thousands of handcrafted puppets — a saucy black cat in heels, a fish out of water that can’t help but wiggle — ultimately found a new location in a…
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OpenAI is pivoting to…socialism?
OpenAI wants to raise taxes on the rich, expand the welfare state, let workers decide how their employers use artificial intelligence, and give everyone a cut of the tech industry’s profits. Or so the company claims in a new vision statement. In that document, the AI titan argues that the government needs to enact sweeping…
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Republicans hit Trump with ‘stark rebuke’ as they shun his choice for California governor
California Republicans refused to endorse President Donald Trump’s pick for governor Sunday in a “stark rebuke” from the party’s rank-and-file in the nation’s most populous state, Politico reported. The activists’ departure from Trump — choosing not to endorse despite the president’s backing of former Fox News host Steve Hilton — reflected escalating GOP concerns about…
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The Dumbest Hack of the Year Exposed a Very Real Problem
In the wee hours of the night last April, someone stopped at roughly 20 street intersections across Silicon Valley and launched an unprecedented cyberattack that would eventually spread to multiple states, embarrassing local officials and prompting them to question their security practices. Authorities suspect the unknown culprit took advantage of weak and publicly available default…
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addresses Molotov cocktail attack on his home and AI backlash
Hours after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at his San Francisco home, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman addressed the criticism surrounding artificial intelligence that appears to have been the impetus for the attack. In a lengthy blog post, Altman shared a family photo of his husband and child, stating he hopes it might convince people…
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‘I have no fear’: Pope Leo mocks Truth Social as he shrugs off Trump attack
Pope Leo XIV brushed off personal attacks by President Donald Trump over his pointed criticism of the war in Iran. The 79-year-old president responded to the 70-year-old pontiff’s calls for peace by taking credit for his rise to the papacy and lambasting Leo as “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy” Sunday night. But…
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Trump mulls fresh strikes on Iran after peace talks collapse
President Donald Trump is considering fresh strikes on Iran after high-stakes peace talks with the regime failed — and as the US prepares Monday to block the Strait of Hormuz, according to a report. The president is mulling limited military strikes on the country, sources told the Wall Street Journal. An all-out bombing campaign on…
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Marko Stout debuts ‘The House of Hunter’ after his New York Fashion Week runway show
New York artist Marko Stout is introducing a new body of work titled “The House of Hunter,” a project that expands his exploration of the relationship between contemporary art, fashion and design. According to information published on Stout’s official website, the collection centers on the artist’s loyal companion Hunter, a stylized Shiba Inu that appears…
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AI Agents Are Coming for Your Dating Life
On a Monday afternoon in March, I watched a pixel-art avatar prowl the corridors of a virtual office campus looking for a buddy. With dark brown hair and stubbled chin, the sprite was a representation of me—an AI agent instructed to converse with other people’s agents to see if we might vibe in real life.…
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New data suggests Trump’s assault on democracy may be stalling out
The status of American democracy feels paradoxical: somehow both damaged and well-functioning at the same time. On the one hand, the United States has a president who is acting like a dictator: threatening to wipe out an entire civilization, menacing allies with threats to annex their territory, targeting domestic enemies with spurious criminal investigations, and…