In a new essay for Harper’s magazine, Martin Scorsese argues the art of cinema is being systematically devalued and demeaned by streaming services and their algorithms, “and reduced to its lowest common denominator, ‘content.'” “Content” became a business term for all moving images: a David Lean movie, a cat video, a Super Bowl commercial, a superhero sequel, a series episode. It…
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Online Far-Right Movements Fracture, as ‘Gullible’ QAnon Supporters Criticized
“Online far-right movements are splintering,” argues NBC News: Users on forums that openly helped coordinate the Jan. 6 riot and called for insurrection…have become increasingly agitated with QAnon supporters, who are largely still in denial that President Donald Trump will no longer be in the Oval Office after Jan. 20… [QAnon adherents] have identified Inauguration Day as a last stand, and…
Welcome to Armageddon: Meet the city behind the biblical story
Megiddo, a place known in the Book of Revelation as “Armageddon,” was occupied between roughly 7000–300 B.C. A prophecy states that in the end times a final battle will be fought near this site. Source: https://www.livescience.com/megiddo-armageddon.html
Mental Health Tips for the COVID-19 Outbreak
Dr. Steve Joordens, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, regularly connects psychology to world events. Below, listen to the conversation or read the transcript, and hear Dr. Steve Joordens’s thoughts on: Tips to manage anxiety and fear around the new coronavirus pandemic How often you should check the news How parents […]
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Wells Fargo Prediction: American Banks Will Automate Away 200,000 Jobs By 2030
An anonymous reader quotes Gizmodo: Over the next decade, U.S. banks, which are investing $150 billion in technology annually, will use automation to eliminate 200,000 jobs, thus facilitating “the greatest transfer from labor to capital” in the industry’s history. The call is coming from inside the house this time, too — both the projection and the quote come from a recent…
What’s a Blood Moon?
In some circles of Christian prophecy, a Blood Moon is a member of a special kind of lunar tetrad : four total lunar eclipses in a row, each separated by six lunar months. By this definition, the last Blood Moon occurred on September 28, 2015. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/what-is-a-blood-moon-lunar-eclipses-2014-2015…
Greta Thunberg became a climate activist not in spite of her autism, but because of it
Source: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/5/6/18531551/autism-greta-thunberg-speech…