January 2025
Why Marc Jacobs’s Former Design Director Left New York City – Vogue
social-sharer Photo: Courtesy of Aude Tabet Aude Tabet had what many would perceive as the ultimate “big-city fashion life.” Born and raised in France, she started her textile design career in Paris, then moved to New York in the late 1980s with the dream of making it in American fashion. “I loved Paris; I still…
How Donald Trump Bankrupted His Atlantic City Casinos, but Still Earned Millions – NYTimes.com
“T.H.C.R. is a casino and entertainment company,” the lawsuit, filed in 1999, said. “It is not in the business of loaning money. The company desperately needed (and needs) cash to shore up its deteriorating financial condition.” (The suit was dropped in 2000, shortly after Mr. Trump paid the company back.) Indeed, the company posted losses…
America’s Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer – The Atlantic
Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” America’s Secret Cold War Mission to Build the First Chinese Computer The head of the project hoped the machine would help bring about world peace. Google Metadata Dr. Samuel H. Caldwell (standing) went on to create the Sinotype in 1959, ten years after this photograph was taken AP…
Meet the artists who have embraced artificial intelligence | Fusion
Sam Kronick has a bunch of rocks arrayed in front of him on a raised desk in his Oakland studio. He’s an artist and his plan is to sketch the rocks, but not with pen and paper. He and his artistic partner Tara Shi are going to do a 3D scan of them so that…
Introducing debugger.html ★ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
debugger.html is a modern JavaScript debugger from Mozilla, built as a web application with React and Redux. This project was started early this year in an effort to replace the current debugger within the Firefox Developer Tools. Also, we wanted to make a debugger capable of debugging multiple targets and functioning in a standalone mode….
The Free-Time Paradox in America – The Atlantic
Google Microdata Mobile only ad The rich were meant to have the most leisure time. The working poor were meant to have the least. The opposite is happening. Why? Google Metadata Mike Segar / Reuters Intro Message Ads are being blocked For us to continue writing great stories, we need to display ads. Un-block Learn…
Cops are raiding the homes of innocent people based only on IP addresses | Fusion
On a Friday in February, a visitor to the website 4chan posted child porn photos to the “international” channel. 4chan may be notorious for the offensive images that get posted there, but it turns out there are limits even on that free-wheeling board. According to a police affidavit, 4chan flagged the post, recorded the Internet…
California Enacts Law Requiring IMDb to Remove Actor Ages on Request | Hollywood Reporter
California Enacts Law Requiring IMDb to Remove Actor Ages on Request 4:02 PM PDT 9/24/2016 by Ryan Parker , Jonathan Handel IMDb “On behalf of everyone in the industry who has struggled with age discrimination, whose opportunities to showcase their talent may have been blocked, I want to thank Gov. Brown and the bill’s author,…
Wonder Woman Writer Greg Rucka Says Diana Has ‘Obviously’ Had Relationships With Women
It’s Wonder Woman’s 75th anniversary, and the Amazon superhero’s starring in a new title that goes back and forth between her past and present. Part of that past, says series writer Greg Rucka, is the fact that Diana has to have had romantic relationships with women. The current Wonder Woman title aims to represent and…