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- I Went on a ‘Dark Retreat’ and Spent Three Days in Total Darkness
The author spent days in a room with no light. Who would he be when he emerged? ...[TheTopNews] Read More.7 days ago - 5 Great Road Trips to Take in the Western U.S. This FallWhether they’re on the Pacific Coast or in the Rockies, these short drives offer plenty to see and do — so much, in fact, that you might want to take it slow. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.7 days ago
- Friendly Albanese-Trump meeting masks Australia’s creeping doubts about US
The talks in Washington were a win for Australia, but at home many are nervous about the relationship. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - This Is Just the Internet Now
The prompts read like tiny, abstract poems.“A brutal storm off the coastal cliff. The clouds are formed into tubular formations and lightning strikes are never ending.” I scroll; another appears:“A male figure formed of gentle fire, his outline glowing with soft embers, approaches a female figure shaped from flowing water, her form glistening with ripples and fine mist. They move toward one another with calm grace, meeting in a warm embrace.”The scenes come to life before my eyes in the form of AI-generated video. In the first clip, clumsy lightning cascades out of a cloud and moves across the water and into my feed. In the second, sexless, glowing people weep and hug in my timeline. The videos pop up instantly—before my brain has had time to picture the prompts using my own imagination, as if the act of dreaming has been rendered obsolete, inefficient.I am experiencing Vibes, a new… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago - ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ RecruitsPresident Donald Trump’s plan to double the size of the ICE workforce has met a foe more powerful than any activist group. It is decimating new recruits at the agency’s training academy in Georgia. It is the ICE personal-fitness test.More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.The academy’s standards have already been eased to boost recruitment, he said, and the new parameters “should be the minimum for any officer.” He and others, none of whom were authorized to speak with reporters, told me that… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
- Why the No Kings Protest Moved MeRadicalized By Basic Decency read the sign of a middle-aged man in a ball cap and fleece jacket. Among the hundreds, maybe thousands, of people lining the main street of a small town in upstate New York on a perfect fall Saturday afternoon, this man and his words stuck with me. He was the sort of mild, ordinary-looking person you’d never notice in a crowd if not for his sign. And that was true of almost everyone. These were not the America-hating, Hamas-loving, paid street fighters that Republican leaders had dreamed up in the days before the countrywide “No Kings” rallies. Amid hundreds of American flags, I saw one Palestinian and several Ukrainian. The people were mostly over 40, many much older, some using walkers and wheelchairs, alongside parents with young children, like the woman with two small girls I saw standing slightly outside the crowd holding up a sign:… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 week ago
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