Ryan Benk
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Producer/reporter for NPR's Weekend Edition. Horror, punk, pop-punk or anything by Sturgill Simpson. Lift heavy things. Cats are rad. SAGAFTRA. DC is a real place. https://www.npr.org/people/942414025/ryan-benk
In the aftermath of her marriage, Shania Twain found love with someone who was right there all along. On this week’s Wild Card with Rachel Martin, Shania talks blessings in disguise and her new music. Watch the full interview: n.pr/3TjfB2d
“Going against some preconceived notions of record stores, we wanted to create a comfortable environment where people could hang out, meet up, exchange, be a part of something.” The Record Store — Neighborhood, Community, and Celebrations in the Blue Ridge Mountains: www.spin.com/2024/04/the-...
This really shouldn't have to be said so many times over the last several years. And yet.
Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · last wk.It is right and good for people to have divergent critical opinions and perspectives concerning art and media.
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
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Exclusive from me — Daniel Moraff, one of the political operatives behind Graham Platner's rise and fall, has been accused of sexual assault. Full story here:
Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assault
A spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."
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I wrote a tribute to Kaylee Hottle, the deaf actress whose performance as Jia was the heart of two of the Legendary Pictures Kaiju films, Godzilla vs Kong and Godzilla x Kong. Killed at 18 in a car wreck. A staggering loss. www.rogerebert.com/tributes/wha...
What Could Have Been: Kaylee Hottle (2007-2026)
From Jean Harlow and James Dean through Simone Battle and Anton Yelchin, entertainment history is filled with instances of performers dying just as audiences
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waaaaa waaaa waaaa free speech or something -- the same kinds of people who routinely do shit like this
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 2w agoincident in question
So the next day, during their lunch break at school, the students lawyered up. Find out what happened next here: www.wired.com/story/epstei...
A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out
An Instagram post turned one California student newspaper into a free-speech flash point. The students say they were just doing their homework.
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Becky Tyler@beckytylerart.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat song did the Sirens sing in The Odyssey? Wrong answers only.
Historian and Smith College professor Elizabeth Pryor has spent much of her career studying the history of the N-word. Her father, legendary comedian Richard Pryor, made the word central to his work before renouncing it altogether. https://to.pbs.org/3TocPbC
Elizabeth Pryor on comedy, race and her father’s legacy
Historian and Smith College professor Elizabeth Pryor has spent much of her career studying the history of the N-word. Her father, legendary comedian Richard Pryor, made the word central to his work b...
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Had fun hopping on @chrislhayes.bsky.social’s great podcast Why Is This Happening to chat prediction market mania, how we got here and where all this crazy-making madness is heading open.spotify.com/episode/3mKo...
The Betting Craze with Bobby Allyn
Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast · Episode
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I don’t think the culture war goal is to get anyone to believe that there is ticket fraud for the odyssey, it’s to get people to say “I heard there was ticket fraud?”
The other utterly hilarious thing about this (and yeah I know hypocrite discourse has been dead for a while) that as false as this is for the Odyssey is exactly how true it is of conservative Angel Studios lol
Sal Gentile@salgentile.bsky.social · 2w agothe odyssey discourse is a beautiful perfect window into right wing culture war psychosis. they went from hysterial racist mania over a character that’s on screen for 5 minutes to claiming there’s a massive conspiracy to fake ticket sales. this is just what they do for everything now. they’re insane
If you missed: Watching Chris Nolan's breathtaking blockbuster The Odyssey, I knew he'd created a modern fable, constructed for today's times. So I wrote on why fights over historical accuracy, casting and Americanisms completely miss the point of what Nolan achieved. READ: https://loom.ly/ezKuYB4
Seeing a band at Tiny Desk today that had such a massive impact on me in HS. I am going to explode because I can't say who until it posts
Watching HELL OR HIGH WATER (2016) for the first time since it came out and it's crazy how a competent director and good performances can make Taylor Sheridan's work look good. Also makes clear that this man should never direct anything.
This is a good and brand new interview with John Carpenter
‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog
At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking
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1. This movie holds up surprisingly well! 2. Revisiting interviews from this time where entertainment reporters just openly ask Angelina Jolie about her boob size made me feel ~CrAzY~
The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 2w agoIn this month's Women Of Action, @carolinesiede.bsky.social looks back at Tomb Raider, which didn't just transform Angelina Jolie into Lara Croft 25 years ago—it turned her into an action star. www.avclub.com/women-of-act...
Someone animate Sam Neill doing the glasses brontosaurus reveal but it's Jimothy.
*watching The Odyssey, becoming disappointed* Me: I was in Greece last year and there were lots of cats. There are no cats in this movie
Just tell all of your friends you love them. It feels nice! Tell those homies you love them!
This American Life still doing some of the best political reporting in audio these days - www.thisamericanlife.org/891/the-test...
The Test Case - This American Life
The government sets out to prove that Antifa is real.
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