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Sundance Is Over. Long Live Sundance.
Will there be life after Utah (and Robert Redford) for America’s biggest film festival?
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Bad Bunny Bowl
Fresh off Grammy glory, Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny is set to perform on America’s biggest stage. It’s shaping up to be Puerto Rico’s moon-landing moment.
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One Bovino After Another
Which came first? Col. Steven J. Lockjaw or commander-at-large Gregory K. Bovino?
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Lula’s Investment in Anti-Fascist Brazilian Films Wins Big at Golden Globes
The Secret Agent won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film and Best Actor, increasing Americans’ understanding of Brazilian cinema and history.
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‘Cadillac Desert’ Reconsidered
Marc Reisner’s 1986 book demonstrates how a hypertrophic judiciary combines with America’s deadlocked legislature to make vast swaths of Western water policy dependent on 19th-century legal norms.
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The Hit Hollywood Didn’t Want
Ryan Coogler’s bloodsucker blockbuster is all about Black creative freedom. No wonder the industry saw it as a threat.
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The Internet’s Tollbooth Operators
Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction chronicles the way Big Tech platforms have turned against their users.
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Artifice in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
To understand the tech mindset is to see that the ultimate goal is domination. Silicon Valley elites apply a different standard to themselves because, quite simply, they believe that they deserve a different set of rules and expectations.
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Brown Stage Capitalism
Doctorow coined the term “enshittification” in 2022, though it was hardly a new phenomenon even then. In granting apps the right to wield the absurdities of intellectual property law to legally bully their users, the government emboldened tech founders to view their companies as exempt from laws and regulations.