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Yes, there have been some strange moments in it all. For example, the locals really didn’t need people to send used bathing suits and prom dresses. Hold that thought. Pensacola is a tiny community in the Cane River Valley, about 10 miles from Burnsville — the county seat of Yancey County, which contains Mount Mitchell, […]
Serene, meditative, and holding a chaplet while mumbling a few words in Arabic, Moussa sits in a makeshift chair and orders a cup of black coffee and kola nut. The Islamic afternoon prayer, salat asr, is over, and he is ready to talk. “Prayer and meditation keep people like us stronger and steadfast to continue […]
Davit Okruashvili, a 33-year-old information security analyst, still bears the marks of his recent beating, with both eyes blackened. “It was Nov. 29, around 11 p.m., behind the parliament, when the riot police came down on us mercilessly,” he recalled. “Forty minutes after I arrived, the crackdown began. I tried to retreat as the riot […]
YouTube TV will cost close to $83 a month after a just-announced price hike. That’s a far cry from the $35 a month it was when it launched in 2017. However, YouTube TV is arguably still attractive relative to some other pay-TV offerings. The price of YouTube TV is going up again — and cord-cutters around […]
Data Science Sentiment analysis is one of the most popular ways to analyze text. It allows us to see at a glance how people are feeling across a wide range of areas and has useful applications in fields like customer service, market and product research, and competitive analysis. Like any area of natural language processing […]
(ANALYSIS) This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. The installation was a two-month project in religion, technology and art titled “Deus in Machina,” created at the University of Lucerne. The original Latin phrase literally means “god from the machine”; it refers to a plot device […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to become secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, shows no signs of backing down. The author, speaker, Fox News television host, and former Army National Guard officer faces serious sexual assault allegations, as well as concerns that he lacks the basic expertise needed to run an organization as enormous as the Pentagon. He […]
What is going on at the New York Times’ Latin America desk? By Brian Mier. Originally published at FAIR. Brazil’s Federal Police released an 884-page report on November 26, laying out the evidence used for its November 21 indictments of former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 of his cronies. Among the revelations are evidence showing […]
Go to TOC for this film ( (which has also a statement on purpose and manner of analysis and a disclaimer as to caveat emptor and my knowing anything authoritatively, which I do not, but I do try to not know earnestly, with some discretion, and considerable thought). For some reason the idea of The […]
If Peter Dutton really is going to share the details of his nuclear energy proposition this week, he better get a move on. In the Canberra press gallery, many journalists are wondering exactly when the announcement will be dropped. Last week, some reporters were told the announcement would come sometime this week. One well-connected journalist […]