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‘Blade’ Delay Due to MCU Putting Quantity Over ‘Quality’

‘Blade’ Delay Due to MCU Putting Quantity Over ‘Quality’

“Mahershala Ali is still attached,” Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed at a press event on July 18 (via Variety), bringing some clarity to the long-awaited new “Blade” entry in the MCU. Just last month, while promoting “Jurassic World Rebirth,” Ali was evasive while discussing the project. “Leave me out of it,” Ali said when his “Jurassic World” co-stars Scarlett …

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The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality | Culture

The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality | Culture

It’s as if the smell of burnt plastic from a dollar store has permeated the world. Things are worse: chipboard furniture, T-shirts unrecognizable after a second wash, packaged foods with more preservatives than ingredients. Airplane seats turned into backrests. Automatic restroom lights that turn off at a whim. But also newspaper articles shamelessly written with ChatGPT and its algorithmic prose. …

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State Dept layoffs necessary for ‘higher quality’ workforce, deputy secretary tells lawmakers

State Dept layoffs necessary for ‘higher quality’ workforce, deputy secretary tells lawmakers

A top State Department official who oversaw widespread layoffs last week is defending the personnel cuts, telling lawmakers these decisions will produce a “higher quality” workforce to carry out the Trump administration’s foreign policy agenda. Michael Rigas, the deputy secretary of state for management and resources, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee that terminating more than 1,350 employees last Friday …

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CMS Proposes Physician Payment Rule to Significantly Cut Spending Waste, Enhance Quality Measures, and Improve Chronic Disease Management for People with Medicare

CMS Proposes Physician Payment Rule to Significantly Cut Spending Waste, Enhance Quality Measures, and Improve Chronic Disease Management for People with Medicare  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would increase quality care for Medicare recipients while significantly reducing unnecessary spending. The calendar year (CY) 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) proposed rule would …

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Immigrants in overcapacity ICE detention say they’re hungry, raise food quality concerns

Immigrants in overcapacity ICE detention say they’re hungry, raise food quality concerns

Immigrants being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers in at least seven states are complaining of hunger, food shortages and spoiled food, detainees and immigration advocates say. They say some detainees have gotten sick; others say they have lost weight. In one facility, an incident involving detainees reportedly broke out in part because of food. The food problems …

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Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published | Peer review and scientific publishing

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published | Peer review and scientific publishing

It was, at first glance, just another scientific paper, one of the millions published every year, and destined to receive little to no attention outside the arcane field of biological signalling in stem cells destined to become sperm. But soon after the paper was published online, in the journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, it found a global audience. …

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Air quality alert continues for all of Minnesota through the weekend – MPR News

Air quality alert continues for all of Minnesota through the weekend – MPR News

Air quality alert continues for all of Minnesota through the weekend  MPR News Unhealthy smoke from Canadian wildfires blankets the Upper Midwest when people want to be outside  AP News Unhealthy air quality triggers Weather Impact Alert  kare11.com Air quality alert this weekend for all of Minnesota and Wisconsin  MPR News The air quality could cause health problems, doctors warn to limit time outside  CBS …

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