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☆ Trump’s First Major Ad Attacking Harris Hits Her on Immigration
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Shane Goldmacher | Michael Gold | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Former President Donald J. Trump’s first television ad attacking his new rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, splices together footage of her dancing and images of migrants crossing the border as the ad accuses her of being a failed “border czar.”The 30-second ad aims to hold Ms. Harris responsible for millions of border crossings and a quarter-million deaths from fentanyl, which the ad says occurred “on Harris’s watch.” It closes with a new Trump tagline for Ms. Harris: “Failed. Dangerously Liberal.”The words flash on the screen as she dances, footage from an event celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. It is the Trump campaign’s first major television ad purchase of the election since Ms. Harris became the de facto Democratic nominee. The campaign began making a two-week ad reservation on Monday, buying time in the six top battlegrounds.

Persons: Donald J, Trump’s, Kamala Harris, splices, Harris, “, ” Organizations: Trump, Liberal, Democratic

In the three days since President Biden announced he was quitting the 2024 race, Mr. Trump has entered foreign territory. But within 24 hours, Democratic leaders unofficially crowned Ms. Harris and stamped out any notable opposition. His team considered mounting legal challenges to her campaign committee to make it harder for Ms. Harris to hit the ground running. And Mr. Trump is still cycling through nicknames for Ms. Harris — a sign that he hasn’t yet figured out how he intends to portray her. And some Trump campaign officials have telegraphed plans to “Willie Horton” Ms. Harris.

Persons: Donald J, Biden, Trump, It’s, Kamala Harris, Mr, Biden’s, Harris, “, —, viscerally, jostled, Erin Schaff, Brian Hughes, ” Mr, Biden’s “ Cackling, Laffin ’ Kamala Harris, ”, Kamala ”, Hillary Clinton, Kamala, Alex Castellanos, that’s, Kevin McCarthy, Mike Johnson, Doug Mills, ” Liam Donovan, ” Guy Cecil, “ Kamala Harris, David McCormick, Biden’s frailty, Willie Horton ” Ms, Michael Dukakis, Horton, Dukakis, Hilary Rosen Organizations: Republican National Convention, Democratic, Sunday, Black, Trump, The New York Times, Mr, Republicans, Republican, Indian, Indian American U.S, New York Times, National Republican, “ Republicans, Green, MAGA Inc Locations: Wilmington, Del, Indian American, Grand Rapids, Mich, Credit, Charlotte, —, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California

☆ Wyoming, Delaware, and Montana are the most entrepreneurial states of 2024 so far. It might be due to business-friendly taxes.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( John Towfighi | Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Delaware and Montana are second and third in new business openings per 100,000 residents since the start of 2024. AdvertisementThe boom in business translates to 283 new businesses per 100,000 residents in Wyoming, 153 in Delaware, and 106 in Montana. Wyoming also led the nation in new business applications per capita in 2023, according to the Chamber of Commerce. Business-friendly taxationWyoming, Delaware, and Montana are all particularly attractive to new business owners due to their tax laws. AdvertisementAre you a new small-business owner in Wyoming, Delaware, or Montana?

Persons: —, Louis Fed, LendingTree, Louis, EIG Organizations: Service, Business, Census, Chamber of Commerce, Fed, of Labor Statistics, Louis Fed, Tax Foundation, Washington D.C, Fortune, state's, Corporations, Economic Innovation Group Locations: Wyoming, Delaware, Montana, In Montana, New York City, San Francisco, South Dakota, Nevada, Washington, , Wyoming, West, Wyoming , Delaware

As well as withdrawing from the four occupied regions in eastern and southern Ukraine, Putin said Ukraine must demilitarize and that Western countries must lift their sanctions on Russia, which have damaged but not crippled its economy. Nearly 28 months later, Russia occupies around a fifth of Ukrainian territory, including the Crimean peninsula it annexed a decade ago. Moscow only controls these regions partially, but claimed the whole of each region was part of Russia’s territory in 2022. He asked that his terms for ending the war would need to be cemented in international agreements. “That is why we must not trust these messages, because Putin follows the same course,” Zelensky warned.

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, ”, Volodymyr Zelensky, Louisa Gouliamaki, ” Putin’s, Zelensky, Adolf Hitler, ” Zelensky, “, Hitler, ‘, Mykhailo Podolyak, ” Podolyak Organizations: CNN, NATO, Reuters, Sky Tg24 Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Moscow, Switzerland, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Italy, Europe, Czechoslovakia, Sudetenland, Swiss

More than any film I’ve made, “Tenet” was designed to have this very theatrical, IMAX, larger than life identity. VILLENEUVE: It was not planned that I would get an IMAX film release. Or, I didn’t leave film, film left me and my heart was broken. NOLAN: I just like hearing the guy who made “Dune Two” be like “it’s all about money.” I’ve seen that film. On every film I’ve ever done, including “Oppenheimer,” I first showed it to the studio on cut and copy, taped together, splices and everything.

Persons: — Christopher Nolan, “ Oppenheimer, “ Tenet ”, “, ” Nolan, ’, Pam Abdy, Michael De Luca, “ Tenet, Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, ”, NOLAN, I’ve, Chris, … NOLAN, VILLENEUVE, I’m, Chris Nolan, ” Emma, Thomas, …, it’s, We’ve, “ Oppenheimer ”, ” I’ve, That’s, Emma, hadn’t, You’re, Steven Spielberg Organizations: UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif, Associated Press, Warner Bros, Universal, AP, Kodak, VILLENEUVE, Warners, Avid Locations: New York, Los Angeles, London, Melbourne, Nashville , Tennessee, Tempe , Arizona, VILLENEUVE

“Bye Bye Tiberias” first premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, more than a month before the start of the latest Israel-Hamas war, sparked by the militant group's deadly incursion into Israel on Oct. 7. It is the only Palestinian film in competition in Marrakech, where festival organizers have, unlike past years, not held screenings in a popular square that has seen protests against the war. Soualem declined to answer a question about how today's war affected reactions to her film. That year, the British ordered the family to leave their home in Tiberias, a city on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. “These images are the treasure of my memory that I don’t want to fade,” says Soualem, who narrates the documentary.

Persons: Hiam Abbass, “, ”, Lina Soualem's, Abbass, ” “, ” splices, Nemat, Soualem, Soualem's, Deir Hanna, ” Abbass, ” Soualem Organizations: year's, Venice, Associated Press, West Bank, British, Palestinian National Theatre Locations: MARRAKECH, Morocco, ”, Marrakech, Israel, Gaza, Soualem, Europe, United States, Algeria, North Africa, France, Tiberias, Deir Hanna, Galilee, Syria, Palestinian, “

☆ A theoretical physicist says AI is just a ‘glorified tape recorder’ and people’s fears about it are overblown
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A theoretical physicist shut down the fears around AI saying it's just a "glorified tape recorder." Michio Kaku said chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT can't even distinguish true from false. An AI godfather also said that fears about AI threatening humanity are "preposterously ridiculous." A theoretical physicist shut down the hype around the dangers of AI saying chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT are just "glorified tape recorders." Yann LeCun, dubbed an AI "godfather" and Meta's chief AI scientist, shared similar sentiments with Kaku saying that fears about AI posing a threat to humanity are "preposterously ridiculous."

Persons: it's, Michio Kaku, CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Google Bard, Elon Musk, Yann LeCun, LeCun Organizations: City College of New, CUNY, Center, Google, BBC Locations: City College of New York, Paris

☆ AI fears overblown? Theoretical physicist calls chatbots ‘glorified tape recorders’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —The public’s anxiety over new AI technology is misguided, according to theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. “Mother Nature computes on electrons, electron waves, waves that create molecules. Quantum computing is an emerging technology utilizing the various states of particles like electrons to vastly increase a computer’s processing power. Instead of using computer chips with two states, quantum computers use various states of vibrating waves. We’re powerless to cure these diseases because we have to learn the language of nature, which is the language of molecules and quantum electrons.”

Persons: Michio Kaku, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, ”, ’, chatbots, ChatGPT, Gabby Jones, ” Kaku, we’re, Kaku Organizations: New, New York CNN, Darktrace Plc, Bloomberg, – IBM, IBM, Microsoft, Google Locations: New York, Brooklyn, British

☆ Rachel Weisz and the Glorious Horrors of Pregnancy
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Alexandra Kleeman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

“Why are you wearing my vagina like it’s a [expletive] glove?” shouts one patient at the doctors working busily out of view. In the television world, babies are a convenient way to reinvigorate stale interpersonal dynamics, or a point of narrative pressure that forces characters to make dramatic choices. We’re used to a certain sleight of hand, carefully placed cuts and scenes where fresh-looking mothers in hospital gowns hold clean, swaddled infants in their arms. Real birthing is something more radical: Pregnancy involves a terraforming of the body that might appear terrifying if you were to see it at time-lapse speed. Thinking about all this puts birth in a different generic register depending on how it is framed and depicted.

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