Fascism, like bankruptcy, happens in two ways. Gradually, then, suddenly. What feels like a steady drip of horrifying state actions against minorities at once blows up into days of street fighting in the nation’s second-largest city. A monotonous drumbeat of racist rhetoric becomes the law of the land as the protections of citizenship are stripped from outgroups and dissidents alike. …
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Several days after temporarily shutting down the Grok AI bot that was producing antisemitic posts and praising Hitler in response to user prompts, Elon Musk’s AI company tried to explain why that happened. In a series of posts on X, it said that “…we discovered the root cause was an update to a code path upstream of the @grok bot. …
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Few actors today can toggle between massive blockbusters, like “Dune,” and small-scale auteurist works, such as Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” with the ease of Stellan Skarsgård. And few are quite as candid when they open up. As reported by Variety from the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where the actor was promoting “Sentimental Value” and on hand for a tribute, Skarsgård …
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