Ten years ago this week, the British MP Jo Cox was murdered. In his post on social media platform X marking the anniversary of that horrifying crime, Keir Starmer writes, in his very first line, that her killer was ‘a far-right terrorist’.
Long before the word “hacker” became part of everyday language, a different kind of tech tinkerer was making waves — and free long-distance calls — across the country ... It could be expensive, and the system itself was a mystery to most people.
The post The strange truth about today’s most powerful AI is that even the people who build it cannot fully explain why it works, which means much of modern technology now rests on tools we can use far better than we can understand.
The title song to Azniv Korkejian’s fourth album as Bedouine, NeonSummer Skin, recreates a perfect day from childhood. “Being taken to the pool, where my only worry is being dragged away when the sun’s setting,” she says, calling from Los Angeles.
In ancient Athens, there was a custom of sacrificing an ox in the Sanctuary of Zeus Polieus... In ancient Greece, the killing of an ox was prohibited by law due to its vital role in daily life ... The Buphonia ritual and its origin.
The memory of a strange ritual unites everybody who attended a British school from the 1960s to the 1990s... The dated nature of these often-repeated old shows added to their strangely timeless quality.