In school, my favorite books were either banned or censored from my school and public libraries. Books like Stephen Bantu Biko’s I Write What I Like, Mark Mathabane’s Kaffir Boy, and George Jackson’s Soledad Brother. I learned something blandly boring and yet extraordinarily potent in those books: Black folks’ tall and full humanity could be captured on the page. Like a 3-D photograph. What a dangerous idea. And as revolutionary as those books were, it took me entering woman-country to see their own form of conformity, their pattern of patriarchal blindness. They were all books by men. All men. Always…
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In this articleGMFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTLine workers work on the chassis of full-size General Motors pickup trucks at the Flint Assembly plant on June 12, 2019 in Flint, Michigan.JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP / Getty ImagesDETROIT – General Motors plans to invest more than $1 billion in two Michigan plants for production of next-generation heavy-duty trucks, the company said Monday.The investment includes $788 million to prepare its Flint Assembly plant to build the heavy-duty gas and diesel trucks. Another $233 million will be invested in the automaker’s Flint Metal Center to support production of the vehicles. Both plants are…
Photo by Chris Ensminger / UnsplashWolf Food (prologue) by Marina and Sergey Dyachenkotranslated by Katie Kassam In this prologue to a science-fiction novella, Волчья сыть (Volch’ia syt’), the reader is introduced to many oblique references that hint at the wider society and history crafted by the Dyachenkos, as well as the true nature of the protagonist. It is this approach and presentation of the “strange” that sets the stage for the authors’ nuanced exploration of themes, including the binaries of human and animal, wild and domesticated, in the rest of the story. The sea of tall grass billowed; dark, dense,…
Photo by Evelyn Paris / UnsplashNational AnthemThis is my room, itis called Iceland. A sea cable fastensit to Europe and to here andfrom here fly airplanes withtheir ink cartridges full of people. Here I dwell in a matchboxthat I care for, deeply –I even painted it on the insidelast winter. Life carries on like clockwork. In the store acquaintances laughand pat each other on the back.Most are hoping for a robberyand bask in the steadfast surveillance.The furnishings and the bones are valuable. At the hospital they loaned mebatteries so I could enjoy my fecunditya little longer – thus I carrybatteries…
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) May 30, 2023.Brendan McDermid | ReutersStock markets are ignoring a “laundry list” of potential risks in their recent bull run, and a big downturn could be incoming, according to Julian Howard, investment director for multi-asset solutions at GAM Investments.Despite the risks associated with a steep rise in interest rates over the past 15 months, tech stocks particularly led the charge so far this year, as investors rushed to gain exposure to the AI boom.related investing newsArk Invest: These 2 A.I. stocks are being overlooked by the marketGanesh Rao12…
Several times in recent years, Sony has used the Cannes Film Festival to promote a key upcoming title, despite the movies not officially being involved in the event — see Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation in 2018, 2017’s The Emoji Movie and 2016’s The Angry Birds Movie. This year, the marketing team pulled out the stops for Neill Blomkamp’s Gran Turismo: The Movie, staking out prime real estate with a billboard on the Carlton Pier and then — rather than ahead of the fest as they did with the previous films — hosting a photo call with talent as the…
WASHINGTON — The top Republican members of two oversight committees have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review a major new weather satellite program. In a June 1 letter, Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), the chairman of the House Science Committee, and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, requested the review of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Extended Operations, or GeoXO, program of next-generation weather satellites, citing concerns about cost overruns and delays. GeoXO is the successor to the ongoing GOES-R line of geostationary weather satellites that will ensure continuity of observations as…
WWDC 2023 — Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference — is set to kick off later today, and the company is reportedly planning to unveil its first mixed reality headset. The headset is said to feature both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies and could be equipped with powerful Apple Silicon chips and sport high-resolution Micro OLED displays. However, a supply chain analyst has claimed that investors are more interested in the company’s plans to unveil AI-related technology at WWDC, than its purported Apple Reality Pro mixed reality headset.TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has shared recent discussions with unnamed investors on…
In this articlePRPLFollow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNTZenefits CEO David Sacks speaks at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco, Calif.Paul Chinn | San Francisco Chronicle | Hearst Newspapers via Getty ImagesVenture capitalist and early PayPal executive David Sacks had a bundle of cash to deploy early in the 2022 midterm campaign, and he wanted to figure out the best ways to help Republicans up and down the ballot.So he called Caroline Wren for advice, according to people familiar with the matter.Wren is a veteran Republican fundraiser who raised money for former President Donald Trump’s failed 2020 campaign. She also…
Play video content TMZ.com Yung Gravy is on the mend from a nasty nosedive that left him with multiple fractures, but the charismatic rapper isn’t up in arms over the music festival accident … even if that arm’s currently in a sling!!! TMZ Hip Hop linked with Gravy at LAX, where he said he’s got no beef with the Hangout Music Festival, the Alabama event, where he recently took the tumble while working the crowd. Play video content 5/21/23 TMZ.com Gravy says HMF is graciously covering his medical bills, and took the blame for him tripping over a wooden plank.…
Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s YouTube account is seen on a mobile phone and laptop computer after being restored by Google and its parent company Alphabet Inc, as Google lifted a more than two-year suspension imposed on Trump after the deadly January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riot, in Washington, March 17, 2023.Jim Bourg | ReutersGoogle-owned YouTube will stop removing false claims of widespread election fraud in the 2020 presidential race, the video platform announced on Friday.YouTube said in a blog post that it made the decision to balance its twin goals of “protecting our community and providing a home for…
Spoilers below. Flight 828 has reached its final destination. In the series finale of the NBC-turned-Netflix supernatural drama Manifest, the passengers of the infamous flight, who inexplicably disappeared for five-and-a-half years during a routine trip from Jamaica to New York on April 7, 2013, faced their final judgment in the eyes of the Divine Consciousness on the day they were prophesied to meet an untimely end: June 2, 2024.Picking up in the aftermath of the penultimate episode, which saw Cal (Ty Doran) sacrifice himself before the Death Date to combine the sapphire in his dragon tattoo with the sapphire in…
Well, that was intriguing. The Idol Season 1 Episode 1 introduced the main protagonist — Jocelyn — fresh off a sabbatical after a nervous breakdown. Even after all she had been through, she still had the it thing that made fans around the world adore her. Even before it premiered, the show was already marred with controversy because of the people involved in making it and what it was supposedly depicting. Most of the early reviews were not so positive, but most couldn’t tune out the noise and tell us what the show was really about and why it was supposedly bad. If at…
We Are Gathered Here Today to Eat, Drink, and Be Ruthless Christine Sneed Share article Wedding Party by Christine Sneed 1 It was the bride’s second marriage, the groom’s third. They were both in their thirties, but Kim wasn’t sure if the groom was fibbing about his age—half of his face was hidden behind a dark beard, and he kept his hair, thick and shiny, tied in a youthful ponytail. She hadn’t searched for him online, having managed to break this habit after looking up a different client several months earlier and discovering he was semi-famous for a series of…
Shipping containers are seen at a terminal inside the Port of Oakland.Carlos Barria | ReutersWest Coast ports are shutting down as union workers “no show” after a breakdown in negotiations with port management.The Port of Oakland was shut down Friday morning due to insufficient labor for terminal operations, a stoppage that is expected to last at least through Saturday. A source close to the situation told CNBC the port shutdowns are expected to spread across the West Coast as a result of lack of sufficient labor as workers protest over wage negotiations in contract talks with port management.Two of the…
Join the audience for a live webinar at 4 p.m. BST/11 a.m. EDT on 5 September 2023 exploring a contemporary benchmarking study of SRS delivery technology Want to take part in this webinar? There have been an increasing number of platform comparison studies in recent years, with most comparisons limited to single-centre studies. Study bias is common in the literature, due to various study flaws, including a comparison of non-contemporary equipment, unequal expertise and comparison of plans created in a clinical versus study environment. NHS England sponsored a national benchmarking programme in order to evaluate current practices across clinical centres…
Celine Song’s Past Lives from A24 is very much here and now, grossing $232k on four screens for over $58k per location, a nice number for Song’s debut film as the second-biggest limited opening of the year so far. A24 also had the highest in April with Beau Is Afraid at $80k per theater at four locations, testament to helmer Ari Aster’s devoted fan base. Song’s love story was a Sundance favorite and is high scoring (96% Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh with critics; 92 Metacritic Must-See). The distributor says 18 shows were sold out among the four opening theaters through Saturday…
WASHINGTON — Hyperspectral imaging startup Pixxel raised $36 million in a Series B funding round led by Google. Pixxel announced June 1 the Series B round, which included Google as well as existing investors Radical Ventures, Lightspeed, Blume Ventures, growx, Sparta and Athera. The company, which did not disclose the valuation of the round, has now raised $71 million. The company, with offices in the United States and India, is working on a constellation of hyperspectral imaging satellites. It launched its first pathfinder satellites in 2022 and is planning a constellation of 24 satellites it expects to deploy by 2025.…