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☆ Opinion | How Conservatives Went From Demonizing Muslims to Wooing Them
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Michelle Goldberg | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

“As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our L.G.B.T.Q. At the time, this sort of rhetoric was common among Trump and his allies, who fashioned themselves in the mold of European right-wing populists, demonizing Muslims as a threat to hard-won Western sexual freedoms. Seven years later, as the battle against wokeness has supplanted the war on terror in the right-wing imagination, conservative sympathies are reversing. “Republicans are wooing Muslim voters by promising to protect them from L.G.B.T.Q. “The revolt against the radical L.G.B.T.Q.I.+ takeover of the U.S. won another battle this week,” the article crowed.

Persons: Donald Trump, ”, Trump, Geert Wilders, Lucian Wintrich, wokeness, ” David Weigel, Laura Ingraham, ” Ingraham, Kareem Monib Organizations: Republican, Republican National Convention, Trump, White House, Pundit, Fox News, Muslim City Council, U.S Locations: Orlando, MAGA, Semafor, Maryland, Hamtramck, Mich

☆ The 14-year-old hired by Elon Musk's SpaceX is too young for LinkedIn, has his account restricted
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Grace Mayer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But age wasn't a barrier to him landing a job as a software engineer at Elon Musk's SpaceX. Kairan Quazi, the newest software engineer to join Elon Musk's SpaceX, is only 14 years old. But while his age didn't prove to be a barrier to him landing a job at SpaceX, LinkedIn says he still is too young to join the networking platform. Before his LinkedIn was restricted, Quazi wrote in a LinkedIn post about his new position working as a software engineer with Starlink, SpaceX's satellite and internet service division. "I will be joining the coolest company on the planet as a software engineer on the Starlink engineering team," Quazi's LinkedIn post read.

Persons: he's, Kairan Quazi, Quazi Organizations: Elon, SpaceX, LinkedIn, Santa Clara University, Seattle Times, The Times Locations: Redmond , Washington

☆ 'AI excitement is becoming irrational': 4 Wall Street strategists break down why investors should proceed with caution around artificial intelligence stocks as hype around the technology grows
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( William Edwards | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

This is mind, some strategists are urging investors to proceed with caution around the technology. Below, we've compiled quotes from strategists who are warning investors not to get caught up in the hype. For example, of the top-ten technology stocks at the peak of the Tech Bubble, only two remain in the top ten today," he continued. He said he plans on reducing his positions in some AI stocks. "The excitement about generative AI has distracted investors from the possible risks of a looming recession," Goodwin said on June 6.

Persons: we've, Jason Pride, Michael Landsberg, Wealth Management Landsberg, Michael Kantrowitz, Piper Sandler Kantrowitz, Piper Sandler, Kantrowitz, Piper Sandler Lauren Goodwin, Goodwin Organizations: Tech, Landsberg Bennett, Wealth Management, New York

☆ Opinion | Before Trump, There Was Berlusconi
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Mattia Ferraresi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

ROME — The tycoon-turned-politician spent his career mixing entertainment and power, escaping sex scandals and remodeling his party in his own plasticized image. But it’s actually Silvio Berlusconi, who died on Monday at the age of 86. Four times Italy’s prime minister, Mr. Berlusconi dominated Italian politics for three decades and fundamentally reshaped its landscape and imagination. In leveraging his fame and celebrity to gain power — and managing against all odds to retain it — Mr. Berlusconi provided a template for Mr. Trump’s own political career. Long before Mr. Trump cried “witch hunt” and labeled the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, a “psychopath,” Mr. Berlusconi was denouncing a Communist plot brought by judges in “red robes” who were out to destroy him.

Persons: ROME, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, it’s, Silvio Berlusconi, Berlusconi, Mr, Trump’s, strongmen, Long, Trump, Alvin Bragg, ” Mr Organizations: First, Mr Locations: Italian, Milan, First Republic, Manhattan

☆ What Does ‘Colorful Formal’ Mean?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

What is “colorful formal”? Where did it come from, and what does it mean I should wear? “Colorful formal” is yet another newish dress code term that, like “creative black tie” or “razzle-dazzle” or “mountain elegant,” actually makes the recipient of such an invitation want to rip it into little shreds and stomp on them. What is wrong, one wonders, with plain old “black tie” or “cocktail dress”? Those terms are generic enough to encompass a broad range of outfits (one person’s cocktail is another person’s lingerie), and the guardrails are relatively clear.

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☆ Child plane crash survivors get medical care in Bogota after weeks in jungle
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Luis Jaime Acosta | Thomson Reuters | Luis Jaime Has Worked At Reuters For More Than Years. While He Chiefly Covers Colombia'S Armed Conflict | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] A view of ambulances and a plane from San Jose del Guaviare bringing in child survivors from a Cessna 206 plane that crashed in thick jungle, at the CATAM military airbase, in Bogota, Colombia, June 10, 2023. REUTERS/Luisa GonzalezBOGOTA, June 10 (Reuters) - Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in a jungle in Colombia's south following a deadly plane crash arrived in the capital Bogota early on Saturday for medical treatment. In photos shared by Colombia's military, the four children - three girls and a boy - appeared gaunt as they were being cared for by rescuers. After the plane carrying the children landed in Bogota, four ambulances were waiting at to collect them and take them to a military hospital for specialist medical care. Three adults, including the pilot and the children's mother, died in the crash and their bodies were found inside the plane.

Persons: San Jose del Guaviare, Luisa Gonzalez BOGOTA, Hope, Pedro Sanchez, gaunt, Luis Jaime Acosta, Oliver Griffin, Jamie Freed Organizations: Cessna, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: San Jose, Bogota, Colombia, Colombia's, Colombia's Caqueta, Araracuara, Caqueta, Guaviare

☆ The Hottest Thing in Real Estate Is a Loan From Two Years Ago
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Conor Dougherty | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

From the pedestrian to the dodgy, it all seems to underscore the manner in which the nation’s real estate market has been frozen by regret. In lieu of acceptance, a determined few are trying to use imagination and fine print to build a portal to the cheap-money days of 2021. In theory, any of the millions of homeowners holding a assumable low-rate mortgage have a valuable perk to sell with their home. Still, real estate agents say it can be hard in practice to transfer them. For instance, homeowners who transfer a V.A.-backed mortgage can lose their ability to get another similar loan unless they can find a V.A.-eligible buyer to take their original mortgage.

Persons: ”, influencers, “ It’s, Scott Trench, Sellers, Michael Fratantoni, Black Knight Organizations: Federal Housing Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Mortgage, Association Locations: U.S

☆ Summer Book Preview and 9 Thrillers to Read
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There’s no rule that says you have to read thrillers in the summer — some people gobble them up them year round, while others avoid them entirely and read Kafka on the shore — but on a long, lazy vacation day it’s undeniably satisfying to grab onto a galloping narrative and see where it pulls you. This week, Gilbert Cruz talks to our thrillers columnist Sarah Lyall about some classics of the genre, as well as more recent titles she recommends. “There’s all this commercial pressure on the writers, and when there’s too much pressure on a writer, they can’t really let their imagination go. She’s probably lost a lot of money because of it. She’s probably given up a lot.

Persons: Kafka, Gilbert Cruz, Sarah Lyall, Donna Tartt’s, ” Lyall, “, there’s, Donna Tartt, She’s, Joumana Khatib

☆ Severe air turbulence has increased by more than 50% in the past 40 years because of climate change, and it could get even worse, a new study finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Bianca Giacobone | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Severe clear-air turbulence has increased by 55% since 1979, moderate by 37%, and light by 17%. Clear-air turbulence is invisible and hard to forecast and it is predicted to double by 2050. According to a new study by the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, UK, the occurrence of severe clear-air turbulence has increased by 55% in the past 40 years, while moderate turbulence has increased by 37%, and light by 17%. Clear-air turbulence is not the kind you experience going through a storm. As wind shear gets worse, so does clear-air turbulence, with some weather researchers predicting it will double by 2050, with severe turbulence increasing the most.

Persons: It's Organizations: Department, Meteorology, University of Reading, FAA, It's, National Center for Atmospheric Research

☆ 'Transformers': Rise of the Beasts' brings new characters to franchise
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Huge statues of the film's characters, Autobot leader Optimus Prime and Maximal leader Optimus Primal, towered over the red carpet where cast members Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback and Tobe Nwigwe premiered "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts". It brings in a new faction of Transformers, the Maximals, who join forces with the Autobots to fight off planet-eating villain Unicron. “When you're on movie number seven, you're like, what can we bring fresh and what can we bring new to the table?" How do we do that?’ And so we did our best to bring that home,” Fishback said on Noah and Elena's key roles in the movie. Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by David GregorioOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Mark Vahradian, Steven Caple Jr, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Dominique Fishback, Anthony Ramos, Tobe Nwigwe, Maja Smiejkowska, Optimus, Ramos, Fishback, Noah, Elena, Anthony, Steven, ” Fishback, Marie, Louise Gumuchian, David Gregorio Our Organizations: REUTERS, Maja Smiejkowska LONDON, Leicester, Paramount Pictures, Hasbro, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Leicester Square, London, Britain

☆ Dolly Parton, country music legend, is helping millions of children across California
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Alexandra Coenjaerts | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Every child under the age of five in California is now qualified to receive a free book in the mail every month, thanks to the state’s expansion of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Parton, legendary and award-winning country music artist, actress and icon, started the Imagination Library in 1995 with a vision to foster a love of reading. “Today is an amazing milestone for children and families across the state!” Parton said in a press release sent out by Governor Gavin Newsom’s office Tuesday. “Dolly Parton unites us through her music – and through her commitment to helping all kids develop a love for reading,” Newsom said. Since the initiative launched, the Imagination Library has gifted over 200 million books across 50 states.

Persons: Dolly, Parton, ” Parton, Governor Gavin Newsom’s, “ Dolly Parton, ” Newsom, Newsom, “, Greg Lucas Organizations: CNN, Imagination, Imagination Library, State Library Locations: California

☆ Today's the day: Apple is expected to reveal a 'jaw dropping' new product that faces an uphill battle
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Michael Liedtke | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

It'll be the company's first major new product since the first Apple Watch in 2014. Apple's goggles are expected be sleekly designed and capable of toggling between totally virtual or augmented options, a blend sometimes known as "mixed reality." Magic LeapDaniel Diez, Magic Leap's chief transformation officer, said there are four major questions Apple's goggles will have to answer: "What can people do with it? The anticipation that Apple's goggles are going to sell for several thousand dollars already has dampened expectations for the product. But those forecasts were obviously made before it's known whether Apple might be releasing a product that alters the landscape.

Persons: It'll, Apple, Steve Jobs, hasn't, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Cook, it's, Sergey Brin, Daniel Diez, Magic, Dan Ives, Zuckerberg, Leap's Diez Organizations: Apple, Apple Watch, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Wedbush Securities, CCS Insight Locations: Cupertino , California, Italy, San Francisco

☆ This Famous ‘Spy’ Whale Likes People. That Could Be a Problem.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-05 | by ( Claire Moses | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The highly sociable whale first gained fame in 2019, when he showed up in northern Norway wearing a harness, embossed with “St. But Hvaldimir, whose name is a combination of “hval,” the Norwegian word for whale, and Vladimir, is different from other whales. Researchers said it was impossible to know for sure whether Hvaldimir had really been a spy whale, and no country has claimed him. Militaries have long used animals, including during the Cold War, when the Soviet Navy trained dolphins for military use. The U.S. Navy has trained beluga whales to perform recovery operations and to find underwater mines.

Persons: Hvaldimir Organizations: Soviet Navy, U.S . Navy Locations: Sweden, Norway, St, Petersburg, Vladimir

☆ Opinion: What Oppenheimer’s reading list can teach us
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Jane Carr | Opinion Jane Greenway Carr | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

Oppenheimer’s list of books included works by Plato, mathematician Bernhard Riemann and scientist Michael Faraday, and the “Bhagavad-Gita,” with which he has famously long been associated. What happens when the inner workings and potential reach of scientific inventions are unknown, even to the human beings who create them? Still, Pride is also a time to revel in culture’s power to transform, sustain and bring joy to LGBTQ communities. But Medvedev knows that above all else he needs Putin to think of him as unequivocally loyal and useful. What it will do is help 40 million borrowers who, like me, were drowning in debt and need immediate relief.

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☆ Barbie owes her existence to a 1950s German comic strip
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Barbie likely wouldn't exist if Mattel's founder hadn't stumbled across Bild Lilli, a plastic doll based on a comic strip. The first Barbie doll, from 1959, had Lilli's red lips, high blonde ponytail, and winged eyeliner. But these dolls had flat chests, big bellies, and squatty legs – they were built like overweight six- or eight-year-olds," Handler wrote. The newspaper began making Lilli dolls in 1955 because of the comic's popularity and to market the newspaper. "Here were the breasts, the small waist, the long, tapered legs I had enthusiastically described for the designers all those years ago," Handler wrote.

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☆ Opinion: Why I created the superhero I wish I had as a kid
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( Opinion Luciano Vecchio | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

He is an LGBTQ rights advocate who has been featured in both “Marvel’s Voices: Pride” and DC Comics’s “DC Pride” anthology and the creator of the character Sereno. CNN —Something magic happens when a kid connects with superhero comics. I grew up as a closeted queer kid in self-denial, in a cultural context with scarce representation and acceptance. That’s when the opportunity arose to manifest Sereno, my own creator-owned superhero for the local Argentinian scene. He is the hero I wish I had as a kid, who would in turn save my past, present and future.

Persons: Luciano Vecchio, Sereno, Bruce Wayne’s, Sailor, “, ”, Luciano Vecchio's, Luciano Vecchio Sereno, Clark Kent, Lois Lane Organizations: CNN, DC, Marvel, Knights, Twitter, Facebook Locations: Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America

Here are the meanings of the least-found words that were used in (mostly) recent Times articles. Because the pull of gravity varies everywhere, this model, called the geoid, resembles a lumpy potato. — A Side-Effect of China’s Strict Virus Policy: Abandoned Fruit (Feb. 5, 2022)5. boogaloo — a genre of Latin music and dance popular in the 1960s:Afro-Cuban jazz was pioneered in the 1940s by Mario Bauza in Harlem. — A Vegetable Soup That Delicately Balances Sweet and Sour (Feb. 17, 2023)8. vivace — musical direction to play in a brisk manner:In her Op. — 36 Hours in Oslo (Jan. 26, 2023)And the list of the week’s easiest words:

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☆ Opinion | Fareed Zakaria on Where Russia’s War in Ukraine Stands — and Much More
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +96 min

Obviously, the line is not perfect, but I think that’s a very sensible line. And I don’t think that’s all about absorption capability. But I don’t think it’s fair to say that the Russians have done everything they can. fareed zakaria[LAUGHS] And by the way, I think that’s some key to understanding the alliance is a personal one. I think India, Israel, and Poland — usually, in the 70 percent-plus say they like — have a favorable view of America.

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☆ For Her New Play, Tori Sampson Revisited Her ‘Black Power Household’
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Naveen Kumar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

After a year of moving between foster homes, the twins petitioned to attend an all-Black boarding school in Mississippi, where their independence was contingent on high achievement. “I was always yearning to understand what it would look like to have a family,” Sampson said. “I wanted to write a story where Huey P. Newton walks into a bar and changes the lives of the people there forever,” Sampson said of the Black Panther Party co-founder. She got the idea for the play, a blend of historical fiction and sitcom conventions, when she learned that Newton’s rise to prominence began with an unsolved mystery. Rallies ‌to “Free Huey” helped set off the Black Power movement.

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☆ Opinion | Republicans Have a Twisted View of the Safety Net
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Jamelle Bouie | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The essential problem with assistance programs, from this point of view, is that they exist — that they let people live without needing to work. “We’re going to put work requirements on that individual, so he’s going to get a job.”Now, McCarthy obviously misspoke when he said “child” — he clearly meant an adult. (Although, here, it is hard not to think of Republican opposition to free school lunch and support for loosening child labor laws.) But the rhetorical error is less important than what his image of a welfare recipient says about his view of the role of government. It does not matter that many Americans who don’t work can’t work, whether for health reasons or because of familial obligations.

Persons: ” Kevin McCarthy, Biden, We’re, ”, McCarthy, ” — Organizations: Fox

☆ NATO official calls for transparency over nuclear weapons
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Greg Torode | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Pool/File PhotoSingapore, June 2 (Reuters) - A senior NATO official on Friday urged Beijing to be more open about its accelerating nuclear weapons build-up, saying that as a global power, China had a responsibility to improve transparency. "As a global power it has a global responsibility to be more transparent," Lapsley said, adding that the scale and pace of the Chinese build-up was "really striking". "NATO is open to dialogue, but it can't substitute dialogue between the U.S. and China," he said. The Pentagon's annual China report, released in November 2022, noted that Beijing's nuclear programme had gathered pace and now has more than 400 operational nuclear warheads - a figure still far below U.S. and Russian stockpiles. A nuclear power since the early 1960s, China for decades maintained a small number of nuclear warheads and missiles as a deterrent under a "no first use" pledge that remains its official policy despite Beijing's broader military modernisation under President Xi Jinping.

Persons: Johanna Geron, Angus Lapsley, Lapsley, Xi Jinping, Anthony Albanese, Greg Torode, Gerry Doyle Organizations: NATO, REUTERS, Atlantic Treaty, Defence Policy, U.S, Pentagon, People's Liberation Army, Australian, Thomson Locations: Brussels, Belgium, Singapore, Beijing, China, Atlantic, United States, France, Britain, Australia

☆ Goldman Sachs: Cash in on the $7 trillion AI explosion by making these 15 trades now
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( James Faris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Artificial intelligence is rapidly gaining momentum this year as it gets more advanced. Here are 15 buy-rated stocks from Goldman Sachs that investors can get exposure to now. Once a niche technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has moved firmly into the mainstream in 2023 and become too big to ignore, according to Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs15 AI stocks to add exposure to nowInvestors who are interested in profiting from the AI wave should consider the 15 stocks that were highlighted in Phani's note that have a buy rating from Goldman Sachs and are either directly advancing AI or are indirectly enabling it. Below are the 15 stocks tied to AI that Goldman Sachs is bullish on right now.

Persons: Goldman Sachs, Phani Organizations: Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Companies, Investors

☆ NASA Panel Says Data Problems Make Explaining U.F.O.s Difficult
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Julian E. Barnes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Many in the public are invested in the idea that some of the anomalous phenomena could be extraterrestrial. NASA officials said many panel members had been subjected to online harassment. Throughout the meeting, many commentators on NASA’s YouTube feed accused panel members of lying or covering up evidence of extraterrestrials. Despite such hostility, the panel tried to explain some of the material that has fascinated the public. Many military videos of these phenomena appear interesting at first, but only later do ordinary explanations emerge.

Persons: ”, Nadia Drake, Scott J, Kelly, ” Mr, “, Bart Simpson, Sean M, Kirkpatrick Organizations: NASA, Pentagon, Defense Department, Federal Aviation Administration, The New York Times, YouTube, Navy Locations: United States

☆ How to help your kids grieve, from a mom whose son was still a baby when her husband died
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Renée Onque | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Amanda Kloots, co-host of the CBS show, "The Talk," lost her husband to Covid-19 in 2020. "I just decided to be honest with him, have that conversation and make sure that he's able to ask me anything," Kloots tells CNBC Make It. To honor Nick's memory and help Elvis grieve, Kloots plays Nick's favorite songs around the house and tells Elvis stories about his dad. "From day one, Elvis and I have never put Nick's memory to rest. I just make sure his spirit is alive in this house," Kloots says.

Persons: Amanda Kloots, Covid, Elvis, Nick, Kloots Organizations: CBS, CNBC

☆ Where Everybody Knows Your Name
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Tim Sultan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

LAST CALL AT COOGAN’S: The Life and Death of a Neighborhood Bar, by Jon Michaud“A friend to me has no race, no class and belongs to no minority,” said Frank Sinatra. “My friendships are formed out of affection, mutual respect and a feeling of having something in common. These are eternal values that cannot be classified.” These words ran through my head as I read “Last Call at Coogan’s,” Jon Michaud’s book about the life and times of a venerated Washington Heights pub that shuttered in 2020. Coogan’s opened in 1985, in northern Manhattan’s heavily Dominican enclave of Washington Heights, at the onset of one epidemic — crack — and closed during another. Simply by being there, Coogan’s changed people’s minds about other cultures.

Persons: Jon Michaud “, ”, Frank Sinatra, ” Jon Michaud’s, Coogan’s, Michaud, Lin, Manuel Miranda, Jim Dwyer, Cool Organizations: New York Times Locations: Coogan’s, Washington, Irish, Mumbai, Manhattan, Manhattan’s, Dominican, Washington Heights

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