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☆ These female rabbis have thoughts on how their profession - and Jewish culture - is portrayed on ‘Nobody Wants This’
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-11 | by ( Dan Heching | Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

The very last moment sees various onlookers at the synagogue – including veteran actor Feldshuh – looking agog as Noah greets Joanne warmly. That moment, along with others, prompted reaction about how certain Jewish themes and tropes were handled in the series. For Rabbi Amanda Greene, a senior rabbi at the reform Chicago Sinai congregation in Chicago, some of it – even the parts that may have seemed somewhat extreme – rang rather true. “There is some truth in that the congregation wants to know what’s going on in the personal life of the rabbi,” she added. All that felt really good to see portrayed on TV.”As the first season of “Nobody Wants This” continues, Noah and Joanne imagine a possible future together.

Persons: Adam Brody, Kristen Bell, ”, – Bell, Joanne, Brody’s Noah, Morgan, Justine Lupe, Sasha, Timothy Simons, Esther, Jackie Tohn, –, Noah’s, Rebecca –, Bina, Noah, Rebecca, Feldshuh –, Feldshuh’s Bina, “, Amanda Greene, ” Greene, it’s, Rabbi Adina Allen, don’t, she’s, Rabbi Greene, She’s, Leslie Grossman, Esther “, Stefania Rosini, Rabbi Allen, Allen, Greene, ” Allen, Netflix Rabbi Greene, he’s Organizations: CNN, Netflix, Chicago Sinai Locations: Angeles, Chicago, Sinai

One measure on the ballot in New York state this November means two very different things to its supporters and its opponents. Advocates of the measure argue that it is simply a way to codify New Yorkers’ right to reproductive care. The Coalition to Protect Kids-NY has taken to calling the measure the “Parent Replacement Act.” The group argues that the measure would be used to strip rights from parents and push transgender rights for minors, in particular. The coalition's website includes no articles or other information about the ballot measure seeking to codify a right to abortion. Hochul’s office has helped lead the state’s Democratic Party to spend over $1 million to advertise in favor of the measure, including local ads, campaign yard signs and mailers.

Persons: you’ll, ”, Sasha Ahuja, they’ll, Ahuja, ” Ahuja, Roe, Wade, Kathy Hochul, “, ” Hochul, Anthony D’Esposito, ‘, I’ve Organizations: New, Coalition, New Yorkers, Equal Rights, NBC, “, NBC News, state’s Democratic Party, U.S . Rep, Republican, Harvard, Movement Advancement, Rights, Civil Liberties Union Locations: New York, Arizona , Colorado , Florida , Maryland , Missouri, Montana , Nebraska , Nevada , New York, South Dakota, Long

☆ Meme coins tied to the identity of bitcoin's inventor have rallied ahead of a new documentary that could reveal their identity
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Kelly Cloonan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The jump in bitcoin creator-themed tokens comes ahead of a new HBO documentary about bitcoin. Crypto watchers believe the film will reveal the true name of bitcoin's pseudonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Coins like LEN, SASHA, and ODIN reference Len Sassaman, an American programmer long suspected of being bitcoin's creator. SZABO, meanwhile, a coin referencing computer scientist Nick Szabo, is up 377%. AdvertisementIn recent days, participants have increasingly bet in favor of Nick Szabo, a computer scientist who published research on bitcoin's precursor "bit gold."

Persons: Satoshi Nakamoto, —, LEN, SASHA, ODIN, Len Sassaman, SASHA —, SZABO, Nick Szabo, ADAM, Adam Back, Nakamoto, Satoshi Nakamotor, Sassaman, Meredith Patterson, Cullen, Szabo Organizations: HBO, Service, CoinMarketCap Locations: American, bettors

☆ What it's like to launch a startup with friends, according to 3 Gen Z cofounders who created a childcare startup together
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"Sasha was basically our mom's third son," Daniel Andrews told Business Insider. Around 60% of Gen Z founders who were surveyed had involved their friends in the business, compared to 42% of millennials and 21% of Gen X and boomers. Advertisement"We're each other's biggest fans, but we're also each other's biggest critics," Daniel Andrews said. "Being a first-time founder, it is incredibly beneficial to work with friends and family who can step up and take on that work. "If you have friends that you find that are like slowing you down, or like trying to distract you, or other things, those might not be the best friends to launch a startup with," Daniel Andrews said.

Persons: Sasha Reiss, Andrews, Zs, —, Daniel, Josh Andrews, Sasha, Daniel Andrews, Reiss, Japan —, Gen, X, we're, We've, I've, it's, we've Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Mexico, Brazil, Korea, Japan

☆ Field hospitals set up to treat North Carolina storm victims sit mostly empty
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

LINVILLE, N.C. — Health care companies and nonprofit organizations have erected fully equipped field hospitals in North Carolina, in a pre-emptive attempt to treat residents injured by Hurricane Helene. The women's inpatient tent at the Samaritan's Purse field hospital in Linville, North Carolina. More than half of the 215 people killed by Hurricane Helene as of Friday died in North Carolina, where extreme flooding destroyed homes, washed out roads and bridges, and left survivors to mourn their loved ones. Atrium Health's Med-1 field hospital in Tryon, North Carolina, is less busy than expected after people injured in Hurricane Helene failed to materialize. Atrium Health's Med-1 field hospital.

Persons: Hurricane Helene, Samaritan's, Franklin Graham, Minyvonne Burke, Wendy Henson, it’s, Henson, “ We’ve, Charles A . Cannon, Sasha Thew, Thew, Rebecca Rudisill, “ I’m, ” Organizations: Christian, NBC, Atrium Health, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Red, FEMA Locations: N.C, North Carolina, Newland, Linville, Greensboro, Linville , North Carolina, Tryon, Asheville, South Carolina, Tryon , North Carolina, Hurricane, Lincoln County

☆ Anthropic's comms chief mocks OpenAI after cofounder's bizarre tweet about jacuzzis and the Middle Ages
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-27 | by ( Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

An Anthropic executive jumped at the opportunity to mock OpenAI in response. AdvertisementTech rivalries are always a hot topic on X, and on Friday, an Anthropic executive couldn't help but take a jab at OpenAI. OpenAI cofounder Wojciech Zaremba took to X on Friday to wax poetic about the latest high-profile departures. He likened the exits of Murati, Zoph, and McGrew to children dying in the Middle Ages. Just hours later she wrote on X, "Happy to report that Anthropic's co-founders all still merrily work at the company.

Persons: OpenAI, Mira Murati, Bob McGrew, —, Sam Altman, Altman, Barret Zoph, Wojciech Zaremba, Zaremba, McGrew, Sasha de Marigny, Anthropic, Anthropic's, Anthropic’s, — Sasha de Marigny, John Schulman Organizations: Service, OpenAI Locations: Murati

☆ Astronomers spot the most massive black hole jets ever observed
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-24 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. The megastructure spans 23 million light-years in length, making these black hole jets the largest ever seen, according to new research. Black hole jets can accelerate radiation and particles close to the speed of light, causing them to glow in wavelengths visible to radio telescopes. The massive black hole jets could help answer both. Martijn Oei (pictured), lead author of the new study, and his colleagues will continue their search for massive black hole jets.

Persons: Martijn Oei, ” Oei, Europe’s, Oei, “, Aivin Gast, Gast, LOFAR, “ Aivin, Porphyrion, NASA's, Powell, Nelson, Martin Hardcastle, Sasha Tchekhovskoy, ”, Tchekhovskoy Organizations: CNN —, California Institute of Technology, Astrophysics, University of Oxford, NASA, JPL, Caltech, CNN, Keck, NASA's Goddard, University of Hertfordshire, Northwestern University Locations: India, Hawaii, England

Below, we've put together everything you need to know about where to watch Dancing with the Stars, including what channel the show airs on and how to live stream it. Dancing with the Stars still airs on its usual network, which you can live stream through a variety of live TV services. Where to watch Dancing with the Stars in the USDancing with the Stars airs on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Check price at HuluWhere to watch Dancing with the Stars in CanadaThe new season of Dancing with the Stars will be available to live stream on Disney+ in Canada as well. Check price at ExpressVPNHow to watch Dancing with the Stars with a VPNSign up for a VPN if you don't already have one.

Persons: we've, Ilona Maher, Stephen Nedoroscik, Dwight Howard, Joey Graziadei, Jenn Tran, Anna Delvey, Anna, Cha Cha, you'll, ExpressVPN, Danny Amendola, Witney Carson, Ezra Sosa, Jenna Johnson, Daniella Karagach, Chandler Kinney, Brandon Armstrong, Alan Bersten, Brooks Nader, Gleb Savchenko, Rylee Arnold, Phaedra Parks, Val Chmerkovskiy, Eric Roberts, Britt Stewart, Tori Spelling, Pasha Pashkov, Sasha Farber, Reginald VelJohnson, Emma Slater Organizations: Business, Olympic, Netflix, Stars, ABC, Disney, Hulu Locations: Hulu, Canada, Witney

☆ Who is Chappell Roan: Timeline of the singer’s rise to fame
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —Chappell Roan is having the year of her life. The rise of Chappell Roan, 2014 — 2015Chappell Roan hails from Willard, Missouri. This is when she adopts the stage name Chappell Roan — her late grandpa’s name was Chappell. “It’s been very freeing to be like, ‘Oh, Chappell Roan is my drag project.’”September 22, 2023: “The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess” debuts, exactly six years after she put out her first EP as Chappell Roan. Chappell Roan at the Governors Ball in June in Queens, New York.

Persons: CNN — Chappell Roan, she’s, Roan, —, Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Chappell Roan, “ I’ve, It’s, ”, Roan’s, Kayleigh Rose, Troye Sivan, “, ” “ i’ve, ” Sivan, Chappell Roan —, Chappell, Jim Bennett, ” Chappell, Vance Joy, Declan McKenna, ” Roan, Tom Power, it’s, Dan Nigro, Olivia Rodrigo, Stone, TikTok, Fletcher, ” Crayola, “ It’s, Oh, ’, ” “, Jimmy Fallon, Astrida Valigorsky, Babe, Kate Bush, Lady, She’s, Marie Antoinette, Governors Ball, Nina Westervelt, Babe ! ”, Fallon, Sasha Colby, who’ve, “ I’m, Gaga’s Organizations: CNN, MTV, YouTube, Atlantic Records, Getty, Roan, Pony, ”, Sony, Amusement Records, Records, Boston, NPR, “, Lady Liberty, New, Governors, Spotify Locations: Missouri, Willard , Missouri, Seattle, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Los Angeles and New York, North America, London, Roan, Queens , New York, Chicago

☆ Beyoncé talks protecting her peace and explains why we don’t have ‘Cowboy Carter’ and ‘Renaissance’ visuals
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

There aren’t many of us from the late ’90s who were taught to focus on mental health,” she reflected. “Blue wanted it for herself. She had great things to say about some of the artists who are following in her footsteps. We all got the visual on tour.”Only Queen Bey could make it so that we are the visuals we seek. “I stopped focusing on what’s popular, and began focusing on the qualities that get better with time and experience.

Persons: CNN — Beyoncé, Beyoncé Knowles, Carter, ”, SirDavis, She’s, Cowboy Carter, ” Beyoncé, “, I’ve, wasn’t, Blue Ivy, Beyoncé, … Raye, Victoria Monét, Sasha Keable, Chloe x Halle, Reneé Rapp, Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, she’s, Cowboy Carter ”, Queen Bey Organizations: CNN, GQ, Houston …, Stax Locations: Houston

☆ Russian artist released in swap builds a new life in Germany, now free to marry her partner
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

That wasn’t an option in their native Russia, but it’s possible now that they live in Germany, which recognizes same-sex weddings. Subbotina campaigned for her partner’s release while also trying to make her life behind bars as tolerable as possible. Now, “I feel that I’m in a really free country,” Subbotina said, as they make plans for a life together in the quiet city of Koblenz in western Germany. The next day, Skochilenko was finally able to embrace Subbotina, who flew to Germany when she heard the news. Freed Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko shows a painting she made of herself in Koblenz, Germany.

Persons: Sasha Skochilenko, ” Skochilenko, Subbotina, ” Subbotina, Skochilenko, “, ”, —, “ We’ve, Vladimir Putin’s, ‘ Sonya, I’m, ‘, Andrei Pivovarov, Olaf Scholz, Freed, Michael Probst, ” They’ve, Sasha Organizations: Associated Press, Church, Russian Locations: Russia, Germany, East, Ukraine, Koblenz, St . Petersburg, Skochilenko, “, Moscow, Moscow’s, Ankara, Turkey, Freed Russian

☆ What are the best galleries in New York? Artists choose their favorites
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Lucy Handley | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

CNBC asked artists to name their top New York galleries, ranging from the well-known to the underground. London-based screen-printing artist Diego Arellano likes Manhattan's Chelsea galleries for their large rooms and high ceilings. Hauser & Wirth has two Chelsea galleries, and both are currently showing work by Hungarian-born U.S. artist Rita Ackermann. The Dia Chelsea gallery in New York City will show an exhibition by British filmmaker Steve McQueen in September. Dia Chelsea | Elizabeth FelicellaBrooklyn resident and artist Zhuo Xiong also favors Chelsea galleries.

Persons: Sean Zanni, Patrick Mcmullan, Diego Arellano, Dia, Arellano, Dia Chelsea, Steve McQueen, Wirth, Rita Ackermann, The Dia, Elizabeth Felicella, Zhuo Xiong, Chelsea —, David Zwirner, Xiong, Wendy Olsoff, Penny Pilkington, Edward Akrout, Akrout, Sasha Maslov, Solomon, Eugene Gologursky, Kate Lewis, Matisse, Hopper, Degas, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, Edward Hopper, Lewis, Whitney, Metropolitan Museum of Art Xiong, —, gallerists Akrout, Rob Kim Organizations: Whitney Museum of American Art, Getty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, of Modern Art, Art Newspaper, CNBC, Chelsea, Hauser & Wirth, Hauser, The, Tribeca, New, Arellano, Whitney, MoMA, Guggenheim, Whitney Museum of American, Guggenheim Museum, Solidarity, Museum of Modern Art, Maison, Broadway, Swiss Institute Locations: New York City, York, New York, London, Hungarian, The Dia Chelsea, British, Elizabeth Felicella Brooklyn, Chelsea, Tribeca, Ukraine, Mriya, Meatpacking, Manhattan, Midtown, Inner Mongolia, Chinatown, East, Chinatown , New York

☆ I was part of Russia's prisoner swap with the US. Here's how it feels to finally, suddenly be free.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-06 | by ( Joshua Nelken-Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

She was released last week as part of the prisoner swap between the US, Russia, and other countries. On Thursday, an FSB officer told us we were going to be freed as part of a prisoner swap — the miracle we had been waiting and hoping for. On the morning of the exchange, as we were being moved around, I didn't know the prisoner swap was happening. Russian artist Aleksandra Skochilenko, also known as Sasha, left, with her girlfriend, Sonia Subbotina, right, after the prisoner swap. They all knew that the only thing I wanted to do was walk, walk, walk.

Persons: —, Aleksandra, Sasha, Skochilenko, I'd, Sonia, Aleksandra Skochilenko, Sonia Subbotina, hadn't, I'm, Sonia Skochilenko Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Russian, Russia, Ankara, Turkey, Istanbul, Frankfurt, Germany

Nancy Martiny didn’t know what she was doing when she made her first saddle. It took her almost a year of stolen afternoons — between ranching, rodeoing and raising three children in rural Idaho — to complete it. But because she did it under the guidance of a renowned saddlemaker, Dale Harwood, that first saddle turned out well. “And that gives a man the confidence that I know what I’m talking about.” The orders started rolling in. And for more than three decades, they haven’t stopped.

Persons: Nancy Martiny didn’t, Dale Harwood, cowgirl, “, ” Martiny, haven’t Organizations: Idaho — Locations: Idaho

☆ WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich, ex-Marine Whelan released in U.S., Russia prisoner swap
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

watch nowWall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were released Thursday by Russia as part of a major, multi-nation swap of two dozen prisoners. "All four have been imprisoned unjustly in Russia," President Joe Biden said in a televised address from the White House, where he was flanked by their family members. Eight Russians, including the spy and convicted hitman Vadim Krasikov, are being returned to Russia from the United States, Slovenia, Norway, Poland and Germany. "The deal that secured their freedom was a feat of diplomacy," Biden said in a statement released by the White House, where Biden planned to meet family members of the released Americans. U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about the release of Americans detained in Russia during brief remarks from the White House in Washington, U.S., August 1, 2024.

Persons: Evan Gershkovich, U.S . Marine Paul Whelan, Alsu Kurmasheva, Vladimir Kara, Murza, Joe Biden, Vadim Krasikov, Paul Whelan, Krasikov, Gershkovich, Whelan, Kurmasheva, Kara, Biden, we've, Jake Sullivan, " Sullivan, Nathan Howard, Reuters Gershkovich, Dieter Voronin, Kevin Lick, Rico Krieger, Patrick Schoebel, Herman Moyzhes, Ilya Yashin, Liliya, Kseniya Fadeyeva, Vadim Ostanin, Andrey Pivovarov, Oleg Orlov, Sasha Skochilenko, Artem Viktorovich Dultsev, Anna Valerevna Dultseva, Mikhail Valeryevich Mikushin, Pavel Alekseyevich Rubtsov, Roman Seleznev, Vladislav Klyushin, Vadim Konoshchenock Organizations: Wall Street, U.S . Marine, White, Biden, National, Reuters Locations: Russia, American, Russian, Turkey, United States, Slovenia, Norway, Poland, Germany, Chechen, Berlin, Washington , U.S, Moscow

☆ How is 'Twisters' connected to the original 1996 movie? The cast calls it a 'stand-alone sequel'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-19 | by ( Olivia Singh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewGlen Powell's hot streak in Hollywood continues with "Twisters," a new iteration of the 1996 disaster movie "Twister." Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, and Amblin EntertainmentIn a cover story for Entertainment Weekly, the cast referred to "Twisters" as a "stand-alone sequel." "It feels like a real next chapter, whilst also having so much love for the original," Edgar-Jones told Variety, echoing the director. 'Twisters' contains nods and homages to the original movieKate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Tyler (Glen Powell) in "Twisters." Universal PicturesThere are also moments and costumes in "Twisters" that are reminiscent of the original movie.

Persons: —, Lee Isaac Chung's, Powell, Tyler Owens, Daisy Edgar, Jones, Kate Carter, Javi, Anthony Ramos, Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Jo, Kate, Tyler, Glen Powell, Melinda Sue Gordon, Jo Harding, Paxton, Chung, I've, Edgar, Dorothy, Bill, Dorothy V, Patrick Sullivan, Brandon Perea, Lily, Sasha Lane, Dusty, Philip Seymour Hoffman's, James Paxton, Dad, James Organizations: Service, Business, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros . Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Entertainment, YouTube, Muskogee State University, wranglers Boone Locations: Hollywood, Oklahoma

☆ A couple in their 20s converted 11 camper vans before building their dream one. Take a look inside the $127,000 Ram ProMaster.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Monica Humphries | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

After a bout of burnout, the pair decided to quit their conversion business and prioritize building a van to travel in. Scarlett and Seth EskelundAfter five years of converting and selling vans, the couple was ready to build their dream oneIn 2018, Seth and Scarlett felt stuck. Since 2018, Seth and Scarlett converted 11 vans, including three they lived in; their builds typically took three to six months. Side-by-side images of the interior of the couple's $127,000 van build. And while they accomplished their dream van, Scarlett said, "You couldn't pay us to do it again."

Persons: —, Scarlett, Seth Eskelund, Seth, It's, Scarlett Eskelund, Ram ProMaster, Scarlett Eskelund paddleboarding, van Scarlett, haves, Lula, Sasha, they've Organizations: Service, Business, The New York Times Locations: The, Colorado, Mexico, Canada

☆ I'm 28 and close friends with my 80-year-old neighbor. We talk on the phone every day and she's like a grandmother to my daughter.
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Conz Preti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

She told me she often did little jobs around the apartment complex because the management doesn't do enough. The next day, she invited me to her house and gave me a cup of ice before pouring tea into it. We started talking on the phone every day and hanging outBy 2019, I was talking to Charlette on the phone every day, visiting her apartment to drink tea, talk, and watch the news. When I told Charlette, we laughed about it, saying he was just jealous because I was always at her house. Even after hours of sitting in her apartment, Charlette doesn't want me to leave.

Persons: —, Sasha Gaston, Charlette, She's, doesn't, didn't, I've, cupcakes, She'd, she'd Organizations: Service, Business, Target Locations: Tampa, Vegas

☆ YouTube sensation Caspar Lee on why he quit the platform to build a business empire
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

30-year-old Caspar Lee was once a YouTube megastar and is now a serial entrepreneur. Caspar LeeCaspar Lee belongs to a crop of content creators who found early success on YouTube back in the 2010s, commanding millions of views on the platform. Lee said his first venture into entrepreneurship was when in 2017 he co-founded the influencer marketing company Influencer.com, alongside Ben Jeffries. Lee co-founded a venture capital firm Creator Ventures with his cousin Sasha Kaletsky in 2022. Caspar LeeThereafter, Lee co-founded Proper Living — accommodation in Cape Town for students and young professionals.

Persons: Caspar Lee, Caspar Lee Caspar Lee, Zoe Sugg, Marcus Butler, Joe Sugg, Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Kevin Hart, Lee, Goldman Sachs, they're, Ben Jeffries, Joe Suggs, Sasha Kaletsky, Caspar Lee Thereafter, I've, Influencer.com, Sasha Kaletsky —, Kaletsky, shouldn't Organizations: YouTube, CNBC, Google, MVE, IMG, Endeavor Group, Ventures, Forbes, Bridgepoint, Labs Locations: England, Knysna, South Africa, American, Cape Town, Europe, London

☆ Adobe is having a terrible month
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

On Monday, the Department of Justice sued, saying Adobe violated consumer protection laws by hiding expensive fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions. Regulators said in the complaint that Adobe entices people to "enroll in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing important plan terms." Earlier this month, the tech giant asked users to sign new terms with language that some thought implied that their content could be reproduced, displayed, or modified by Adobe — a big concern since Adobe is pushing hard into generative AI. AdvertisementThe news even frustrated Adobe employees, who complained internally about the company's poor communication, Business Insider reported last week. "Pretending that this wasn't intentional only makes Adobe and its employees look even more pathetic," said Sasha Yanshin on X. Yanshin said that he canceled his Adobe subscription after many years as a customer.

Persons: —, Maninder, David Wadhwani, Dana Rao, Adobe's, Sasha Yanshin, Yanshin Organizations: Service, Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, Business, Regulators, Adobe, DOJ, Prosecutors

☆ The US has a rich drag history. Here’s why the art form will likely outlast attempts to restrict it
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Scottie Andrew | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

Most of those efforts failed, but they have fueled harmful rhetoric around drag performers and the art form itself. Barbara Alper/Getty ImagesDrag has become increasingly visible in recent years through mainstream shows like “RuPaul’s Drag Race” and popular public events such as drag brunches, drag bingo and drag queen story hours, in which drag performers read children’s books to young audiences, often at libraries. Pickle reads from a book during the Drag Queen Story Hour program at a Los Angeles library in 2019. These lawmakers falsely claim that drag performers “groom” or sexualize children, of which there is also no evidence. It’s why Alaska Thunderf**k, the blonde bouffanted winner of the second season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars,” first got into drag – to make art that wasn’t bound by rules.

Persons: Anderson Cooper, twirling, Madonna’s, Papa Don’t, ”, “, Meatball, George Santos, Mo B, Dick, It’s, Joe E, Jeffreys, Barbara Alper, ” Jeffreys, ’, Larry La Fountain, Stokes, Ann Arbor, von Miramar, you’ve, William Dorsey Swann, Swann, Channing Gerard Joseph, Nino Testa, ” Testa, it’s, ” Julian Eltinge, pansy, weren’t, Joan Jett Blakk, Adam Turner, Blakk, —, ” Blakk, I’m, Testa, Devin Antheus, Harry James Hanson, Hanson, Marsha P, Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, ” Antheus, Esther Newton, impersonators, ” Newton, RuPaul Charles, who’d, Monica Beverly Hillz, Kylie Sonique, RuPaul, Sasha Colby, Santiago Felipe, David McNew, Antheus, aren’t, who’ve, we’ll Organizations: CNN, New York University, University of Michigan, New, Princeton University, Texas Christian University, Police, Queens, San Francisco, Stonewall, “, Guardian, Broadway, Movement Advancement Locations: Florida, Ann, “, Harlem, Washington, America, Fort Worth, New York, San Francisco, Tennessee, Montana, Los Angeles, It’s, Alaska

Teri Greeves was born into a world of beads. “I was brought home in a fully beaded cradleboard,” she said at her home studio in Santa Fe, N.M. “I had a fully beaded diaper bag. I had beaded moccasins before I could walk.”So it was only a matter of time before she started beading herself. As a Native beadworker enrolled in the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Greeves, 54, stitches stories onto shoes, umbrellas and deer hide canvases. She has created portraits of her family under a Madonna-and-Child-inspired arch, given stereotypical Native imagery the Roy Lichtenstein treatment and shared Kiowa traditions on shoes.

Persons: Teri Greeves, ”, “, beading, Greeves, Roy Lichtenstein, beadworker Locations: Santa Fe, Kiowa, Oklahoma

☆ Scientists discovered 50,000-year-old viruses in Neanderthal DNA that could help explain their mysterious extinction
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Researchers studying ancient Neanderthal DNA found traces of three viruses that cause colds, cold sores, genital warts, and cancer. And ancient humans might have been the ones who started spreading these bugs, according to the scientists who recently published their work in the peer-reviewed journal "Viruses." This isn't the first time researchers have found inert (no longer infectious) ancient human viruses. That means tools used to study ancient human DNA might not work for viruses, Sally Wasef, a paleogenetics researcher at Queensland University of Technology, told New Scientist. Massilani also had some concerns with how the researchers were interpreting the ancient DNA.

Persons: —, Marcelo Briones, Chemnitz State Museum of Archaeology Hendrik Schmidt, papillomavirus, Briones, Sasha Tabachnikova, Epstein, Barr, wasn't, Sally Wasef, Massilani Organizations: Service, Business, Chemnitz State Museum of Archaeology, Getty, Yale School of Medicine, Yale, Queensland University of Technology, New Locations: Chemnitz, Chagyrskaya Cave, Southern Siberia, Briones, Siberia

☆ Militant group releases 2 videos of an Amazon cloud engineer held hostage in Gaza since October 7
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-01 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewPalestinian Islamic Jihad released two videos this week showing Russian-Israeli hostage Alexander Troufanov, an Amazon cloud engineer. PIJ, a militant group that operates in Gaza alongside Hamas, released the first video on Tuesday. It would also include an exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli hostages, a "surge" of humanitarian aid, and a reconstruction plan for Gaza. Around 1,200 people were killed in Israel during Hamas' October 7 attacks, with roughly another 240 taken hostage in Gaza. PIJ is the second-largest armed group in Gaza after HamasMembers of Al-Quds Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Persons: —, Alexander Troufanov, Troufanov's, Troufanov, Alexsander, Sasha, Trufanov, Nir, Irena Tati, Yelena, Sapir Cohen, PIJ, Al, Berl Lazar, Vladimir Putin, Putin, Alexander Trufanov, Joe Biden, Ashraf Amra Organizations: Service, Jihad, Business, Haaretz, Annapurna Labs, Amazon, Amazon Web Services, TASS, Al, Quds Brigades, Anadolu Agency, Getty, of National Intelligence Locations: Gaza, Jerusalem, Alexsander, Israel, The, Al Jazeera, Qatar, PIJ, Quds, Palestinian

☆ Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama’s Mother, Dies at 86
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Michael Levenson | More About Michael Levenson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama’s mother and a linchpin of the Obama family who moved into the White House and provided stability and care for the family’s two young daughters during a tumultuous time in Washington, died on Friday. Her death was announced in a statement by Ms. Obama, former President Barack Obama and other members of the family. The statement did not give a cause, or say where she died. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Ms. Robinson was known as a loving, tough-minded matriarch who was never fully comfortable with the trappings of the White House, but who helped care for the Obama girls, Sasha and Malia, while their parents were on the road. “Just show me how to work the washing machine and I’m good,” she would say, the Obamas said in their statement on Friday.

Persons: Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama’s, Obama, Ms, Barack Obama, Robinson, Sasha, Malia Organizations: White Locations: Washington, Chicago

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