Are far-right politics just the new normal?

TORONTO — At a conference bookended by speeches from former President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the leading lights of the global center-left gathered to consider their fate. The Global Progress Action Summit was billed as a “progressive version of CPAC,” the right-wing conference that has becomeContinue Reading

The Other Half of AI Safety

Every week, somewhere between 1.2 and 3 million ChatGPT users, roughly the population of a small country, show signals of psychosis, mania, suicidal planning, or unhealthy emotional dependence on the model. The low end of that range is the suicide-planning indicator alone. The high end groups all three categories OpenAIContinue Reading

Karla Spetic Australia Resort 2027

Skip to main content By now, it comes as no surprise that lingerie-like lace rules the Karla Spetic runway—as it did once again for this year’s resort collection. Familiar styles in the filmy, openwork material, like layerable undergarments and catsuits (both solid signatures of the designer), appeared in a calm,Continue Reading

“What began as a niche guitar developed for Californian country has become a musical universal wrench: from metal to jazz, from pop to grindcore”: The evolution of the Fender Telecaster – the original solid-body electric guitar that started it all

(Image credit: Future) It seems strange to say, but a literal lifetime has passed since the Fender Telecaster (initially named the Broadcaster) debuted at the 1950 NAMM Show. Remarkably, its relevance has only grown during the seven decades that have passed since then. Perhaps that’s because the Telecaster’s simplicity hasContinue Reading