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☆ Binance founder Changpeng Zhao says prison inmates and guards asked him for crypto tips
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-07 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao left prison in September. He said he wasn't recognized at first, but inmates and guards soon sought crypto tips. He told Bloomberg in his first post-prison interview about how he spent his days. Changpeng Zhao, widely known as CZ, told Bloomberg in his first interview since being released in September. He said he told inquiring inmates and prison guards: "I don't have access to any information.

Persons: Changpeng Zhao, wasn't, —, Zhao, Binance, That's, he's, Donald Trump's Organizations: Bloomberg, Service, ISIS, Giggle Academy, Zhao Locations: California —

☆ Walter Payton and Matt Suhey, backfield mates turned brothers, and a bond that transcends time
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-31 | by ( Dan Pompei | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +17 min

On the rare occasions when Payton acknowledged Suhey, he called him “short white boy.”Suhey and Payton were Chicago teammates for eight seasons. Payton seemed to know how Suhey would block, and Suhey seemed to understand where Payton would step. “Back-to-back!” Payton told Suhey, locking arms with him, their backs pressed against each other’s. When Payton teased Suhey for going to Penn State, Suhey asked him where Payton’s alma mater, Jackson State, was located. According to Jarrett, Suhey continues to lord over all things sold under the Walter Payton name — and has never asked for anything in return.

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☆ How to talk about politics when traveling abroad
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Kim Davis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

So how can you talk politics when traveling abroad without offending others, looking stupid or starting a bar fight? Now, when I travel, I like to ask people about how American politics directly affect their lives. Let the other person talk firstPeople have different intentions of why they want to talk politics with you. But if you want to talk about politics abroad, you might want to consider how the locals communicate and adapt your style. She is American by birth, with European ancestry and British residence, giving her a global perspective on what it’s like to be an American abroad.

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☆ Jerry Seinfeld says he no longer thinks the ‘extreme left’ has broken comedy
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-16 | by ( Rosa Rahimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Jerry Seinfeld says he “officially” takes back his claim that the “extreme left” is suppressing the art of comedy. This is the result of the extreme left and P.C. Speaking to comedian Tom Papa on Tuesday’s episode of the Breaking Bread podcast, Seinfeld admitted that he “got it wrong” and it is “not true” that the extreme left has inhibited the art of comedy. You don’t make the gate, you’re out of the game. “I don’t think the … extreme left has done anything to inhibit the art of comedy.

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☆ Sean ‘Suga’ O’Malley: Meet the UFC champion who is ‘just so sweet to watch’
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Ben Morse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Known for his creative social media output and seismic success in the Octagon, O’Malley has quickly become a fan favorite and UFC champion. O'Malley's combination of his unique look, social media output and success in the ring has made him a UFC favorite. O’Malley said on social media that he was withdrawing from his fight against Jose Quiñonez on October 6, 2018 at UFC 229 after failing a drugs test. A couple of face tats, a couple colorful hairs and boom.”To pair with that, his social media activity differs widely from the traditional content seen from his contemporaries. He explains that he’s always been the “class clown, goofy kid” and that he sought a way of turning that into something more tangible through social media.

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☆ Australian transgender woman wins landmark case against female-only app
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

SYDNEY, Australia — A court in Australia ruled Friday that removing a transgender woman from the female-only social networking platform Giggle for Girls constituted discrimination, in a landmark decision on gender identity for the country. “Tickle’s claim of direct gender identity discrimination fails, but her claim of indirect gender identity discrimination succeeds,” Judge Robert Bromwich said. The case marks the first time that the Federal Court has made a ruling on gender identity discrimination since changes were made to the Sex Discrimination Act in 2013. “This decision is a great win for transgender women in Australia,” said Professor Paula Gerber at Monash University’s Faculty of Law. “This case sends a clear message to all Australians that it is unlawful to treat transgender women differently from cisgender women.

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☆ Roxanne Tickle: Australian transgender woman wins landmark case against female-only app
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Sydney, Australia Reuters —An Australian court ruled on Friday that removing a transgender woman from female-only social networking platform Giggle for Girls constituted discrimination, in a landmark decision on gender identity for the country. “Tickle’s claim of direct gender identity discrimination fails, but her claim of indirect gender identity discrimination succeeds,” Judge Robert Bromwich said. The case marks the first time that the Federal Court has made a ruling on gender identity discrimination since changes were made to the Sex Discrimination Act in 2013. “This decision is a great win for transgender women in Australia,” said Professor Paula Gerber at Monash University’s Faculty of Law. “This case sends a clear message to all Australians that it is unlawful to treat transgender women differently from cisgender women.

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☆ Startups that aren't using AI are already obsolete, says the man known as the 'father of modern entrepreneurship'
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. "If you're not playing with all the tools and trying to build apps on top of them, you're already obsolete," Blank told BI. "The pieces of the lean startup are just so obvious to me to be automated and then strung together. But then a lot of it won't tell you when it's not working," Blank told BI. From Blank's perspective, one side of entrepreneurship that is safe in the emerging AI world is the role of the visionary founder.

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☆ What Did Dr. Ruth Mean to You?
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Catherine Pearson | More About Catherine Pearson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Ruth Westheimer, the psychologist known as Dr. Ruth, died on Friday at 96 after a long career as America’s best-known (and, arguably, least likely) sex therapist. For decades, she offered frank sex advice, often with her distinct giggle, always with an abiding emphasis on the idea that sex should be a source of joy, not shame. Millions of people tuned into her radio shows, watched her television appearances and gobbled up her books and interviews, reassured by the warmth and directness with which she approached taboo topics. In her later years, Dr. Ruth turned her signature candor and humor to the continuing loneliness crisis. Now, The New York Times is looking to hear from those who benefited from her life’s work: What did Dr. Ruth teach you about sex, love or human connection?

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☆ What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Alissa Wilkinson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Siri, the mildly reliable virtual assistant for that phone, came along a few years later. assistant with whom the sad-sack divorcé Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) fell in love in “Her,” felt like a futuristic revelation. Voiced by Scarlett Johansson, Samantha was similar to Siri, if Siri liked you and wanted you to like her back. In theory, everyone in “Her” was using their own version of Samantha, presumably with different names and voices. Those who watched the live demo from OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, were quick to note that she sounded a whole lot like Samantha — which is to say, like Johansson.

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☆ My coworker and I bonded over how much we hated our job. We were in relationships with other people but fell in love anyway.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-18 | by ( Gary Nunn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

We bonded over the fact that we both really, really hated our job. Our job was in the home loans team and we had the same manager. We hated it because we were expected to sell a product — home loans — to customers who couldn't necessarily afford it. Colleagues started making jokes that maybe something was going on between us. As we worked for a big bank, I at least knew Tim had cleared a police check, extensive background checks, and a credit check.

Persons: Liv Arnold, we'd, Tim, We've, they're Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Tinder

☆ Opinion: ‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ has a surprising secret
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatksy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Watch “Apocalypse Now” (1979), “Full Metal Jacket” (1987) or “Platoon” (1986) and you should know what war really means. “Ungentlemanly Warfare” features a disreputable band of riff raff brought together for a super-secret mission. Ritchie makes no such concessions to authenticity in “Ungentlemanly Warfare.”Henry Cavill is Gus March-Phillips in Guy Ritchie’s “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare." Even when a war movie doesn’t actively mislead you, the promise of being privy to an unvarnished, authentic and extreme experience can be seductive. “It would decay in eternal peace.”Compared to that kind of cult of authentic war, “Ungentlemanly Warfare” feels fairly harmless, and not in a bad way.

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☆ Commercial featuring nuns taking potato chips for communion sparks outrage in Italy
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-10 | by ( Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Rome CNN —A potato chip commercial that features nuns receiving the crispy snacks for communion is “blasphemy” and should be taken off the air, according to an Italian Catholic organization. The spot by Amica Chips features doe-eyed young nuns inside a convent delighting that their communion wafer, known as the host, is actually a potato chip. A mother superior figure looks on as the nuns giggle, and it is revealed that it was her that substituted the hosts for potato chips in the box where communion wafers are kept, called a tabernacle. Catholics believe the communion wafer represents the body and blood of Christ. A nun about to receive a potato chip from a priest in the commercial.

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☆ Pop art: Explaining it’s enduring appeal
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-18 | by ( Christian House | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —As accidental adverts for art shows go, a giant pooch made of flowers is a crowd pleaser. Outside the Guggenheim Bilbao in northern Spain, Jeff Koons’ much-loved flower 1992 sculpture “Puppy,” shows how Pop art — that high kick of counter-intuitive artistic expression so often equated with the 1960s — never really went away. The Pop baton has been handed over numerous times in art history. The Guggenheim Museum was pivotal to the development of the movement, both in terms of its fame and its art historical importance. The show features works by many American Pop art A-listers like Roy Lichtenstein (above).

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☆ China, Xi Jinping Plan to Crush Elon Musk, Tesla, and the US EV Industry
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Linette Lopez | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

If China EV Inc. were allowed to enter the US today or next year, the legacies would be gutted." The year Musk tittered at the idea of Chinese EVs overtaking Tesla, the country produced only 5,000 electric cars. It has more trade barrier protection from a China Auto Inc. onslaught, but it may not work forever. AdvertisementWe want to maintain an auto industry in the US — that's essential for jobs, national security, and for other sectors of the economy. Sure, Chinese EV makers are lean and mean, but they've never had to deal with international markets before.

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☆ Barry Keoghan appears naked on ‘Vanity Fair’ cover. Is it progressive, or passé?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Leah Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —There’s method dressing, and then in the case of BAFTA-winning Irish actor Barry Keoghan, there is method un-dressing. On Wednesday, the “Banshees of Inisherin” star set the internet alight when he made a divisive nude appearance in a video promoting Vanity Fair’s latest Hollywood Issue cover. It was a nod to Keoghan’s latest role (and one explosive final scene) in British director Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn,” a salacious depiction of class, power and desire set at Oxford University in 2007. If you’re yet to watch the bloody, bathwater-soaked film, forgive us for spoiling the fact Keoghan gets naked in that too. While naked male magazine covers are rare, they’re typically infused with a certain sense of humor that protects them from public rebuttal.

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☆ My last name is Pretzel. Once a pretzel company offered me a job because of it.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Jillian Pretzel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

I once had a pretzel company offer me a job based solely on my name. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementNearly 90 years ago, my great-grandfather, Paul Pretzel Sr., told his son, Paul Pretzel Jr., that when he got older, he could change his name if he wanted to. Once, a gourmet pretzel company flat-out offered me a sales job based on nothing but a short conversation and the fact that my name is so adorably delicious. To my knowledge, no one in the family was offended by her change — I think they knew that some unique names aren't for everyone.

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☆ 7 sex tips from a couple married for 42 years — including a lingerie budget and non-sexual intimacy
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Julia Pugachevsky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Rita Smith, 62, and her husband, Theodore Smith, Sr., 64, have been married for over 40 years. They shared their best sex tips, from investing in lingerie to bonding outside the bedroom. Rita Smith, a happily married 62-year-old woman, is here to dispel that myth. DROP THE TIKTOK LINKSSmith met her husband, Theodore Smith Sr., now 64, when they were in high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. Even after Theodore leaves for work, Rita said they call each other and talk all the time.

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☆ My 70-year-old grandma and I started dating at the same time. It brought us closer together.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Liz Brinks | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

We shared inside jokes about Grandpa's burial experience, watched Hallmark movies, and went through the Culver's drive-thru daily. I talked with Grandma about dating, being on dating apps, and the struggles of trying to meet people during the pandemic. We started dating at the same timeThat summer, between visits to my grandma, I met someone in Milwaukee, about 114 miles away from my apartment, and things steadily grew from first dates to weekly phone calls and beyond. I shared lots of updates with Grandma as we progressed from Tinder notifications to texts and pictures and voice memos. At the same time as me, my grandma had started seeing someone.

Persons: grandpa, —, Grandma, beau Organizations: Service, Hallmark, Wisconsin Badger Locations: Milwaukee

NEW YORK (AP) — There was nary a sandworm in sight Thursday night on the runway of Christian Siriano, but he definitely had “Dune” on his mind as he kicked off New York Fashion Week. The glam squad of the sand had places to go and people to see in their earth tones and orange shimmer worthy of a Sahara sunset. “I was like, what if we lived in this world that was kind of apocalyptic, but in the sand in the desert. He showed lots of mini looks, including some in gold shine with pops of red, the latter a color that's having a moment. “Red brings that nostalgia that we love, of great moments,” Siriano said.

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☆ Why the controversial mullet is having a moment
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Fawnia Soo Hoo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Long hair, don’t careThe “modern day” mullet largely originates from David Bowie’s genre-defining and gender-norm defying persona, Ziggy Stardust, Glasscock said. “People from the Continental Congress wore what we would read as a full metal, 1992 mullet,” said Glasscock. (“Hockey hair” was, meanwhile, a popular synonym for mullet at the time, given its prominence among players and fans.) Devin Yalkin/Courtesy A24While playing Kerry Von Erich in “The Iron Claw,” White also wore his dynamic, sweeping mullet off-set — but not entirely by choice. “I was like, ‘I’m sorry, here’s a ponytail holder.”But that dedication may have played an integral part in a mullet revival kicking off 2024.

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☆ Opinion: ‘Self Reliance’ takes on American individualism at its most absurd
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Opinion Noah Berlatsky | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —Hollywood films of diverse genres have one point in common — they’re all about the most important person in the universe. That most important person could be an amnesiac assassin fighting a mysterious government conspiracy, or some guy (or girl) seeking true love. They are the main character; everyone else is secondary. The goal of life is success and self-actualization as the main character of your own dream. He’s the most important person in a whole range of familiar narratives, all crammed haphazardly into a 90-minute run time.

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☆ Family of Last Child Hostages in Gaza Await Their Return
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Dec. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +2 min

By Eli BerlzonHOLON, Israel (Reuters) - Yosi Shnaider watched a home video on his phone from his apartment near Tel Aviv. Hamas infiltrators seized the Bibas family, along with more than 200 other people, during the Oct. 7 killing spree through southern Israeli towns that sparked the devastating war in Gaza. More than 100 hostages were freed in a week-long truce that ended on Friday, but the Bibas family - two children and their parents - were not. "And I'm thinking to myself, a young baby, small baby like Kfir, is crying. After two months in captivity, their age and ginger hair have caused the Bibas children to stand out among the scores of hostages.

Persons: Eli Berlzon HOLON, Yosi Shnaider, Ariel Bibas, Ariel, Kfir, he's, Shiri Bibas, Yarden, Shnaider, Shira Bibas, Eli Berlzon, Michal Yaakov Itzhaki, Ari Rabinovitch, Howard Goller Organizations: Hamas Locations: Israel, Tel Aviv, Gaza

☆ Palestinian man grieves for 3-year-old granddaughter killed as she slept in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Jomana Karadsheh | Florence Davey-Attlee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Picking through the rubble of his destroyed home, Khaled Nabhan lifts a doll that had belonged to his granddaughter and kisses it. Khaled said he woke up screaming for his children and grandchildren, struggling to walk through the dark and the wreckage to find them. In one clip, Nabhan throws his granddaughter into the air and catches her while Reem giggles with delight. In the battered bedroom of their house in Gaza, Nabhan showed CNN where his daughter Maysa — Reem and Tarek’s mother — was sleeping when the house collapsed. Reem Nabhan.

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All the while Eliza Babinska charged along, energy spilling out of her body like sparks of electricity. “Eliza hates this,” Vasilisa, her older sister, said with a giggle. When Vasilisa first saw her perform, she said: “I was like, that’s my sister? I saw her face, and I was like, whoa.”Even the way Eliza holds her head in class is imposingly regal. On the subway, her chin started to droop, almost as heavily as her eyelids.

Persons: Pati, Eliza Babinska, —, “ Eliza, ” Vasilisa, Eliza, Julia, Vasilisa, “ Organizations: New York City Ballet, School, American Ballet Locations: Queens, Manhattan, barre, droop

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