Within the pantheon of American folk heroes, no figure walks taller than Paul Bunyan. A giant lumberjack accompanied by a blue ox named Babe, he’s often credited with carving the Grand Canyon and spilling the trail of water that would become the Mississippi River. Tall tales aside, he literally towers over our national landscape in the form of flannel-clad roadside statues scattered from …
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Warning: This post contains spoilers for the movie All of Us Strangers.
All of Us Strangers is a ghost story, a meditation on the creative process, and a minor-key romance all rolled into one staggering package. Its many layers defy easy explanation. “For me, it’s just about the difficulty of being in the world and the complications of …
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If any film can make you rethink your stance on riotous and gratuitous on-screen barfing, it’s Ruben Östlund’s two-and-a-half-hour epic of a satire Triangle of Sadness. A good chunk of the movie is set on a luxury cruise ship, and somewhere mid-film, most of the characters Östlund has introduced in the first half fall prey to seasickness, spraying semi-digested fi…
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Facebook Inc. said it will create 10,000 new high-skilled positions in Europe within the next five years as part of the social media giant’s push to develop a metaverse — but the U.K. will miss out.
After all-night negotiations, freight rail companies and unions representing tens of thousands of workers reached a tentative agreement to avoid a strike that could have started as soon as Friday, Sept. 16. The deal includes higher pay for workers, and was hailed by President Biden as a victory for both the workers and the railway companies who, he says, “will continue to be part of the b…
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When you open up Snapchat’s lens carousel, you’re greeted with a variety of filters that let you do everything from smoothing your skin to wearing a flower crown to dancing with a hotdog. Snapchat lenses have for years helped users create funny or glam photos and videos to send to their friends, but recently a more practical category of lens has been on the rise: augmented reality (…
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U.S. shoppers are getting increasingly hesitant about shelling out for shoes, appliances and other nonessentials. That has more retailers and consumer-goods makers reaching for an old tool to pry open their wallets: promotions.
Whirlpool Corp.’s revenue and earnings took a hit in the most recent quarter from discounts and special sales, which were rare during the pandemic as supply cha…
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She could see them from her perch onstage: a kid and their parents, getting up to leave. It happened at a concert in Florida last year—one of many where Phoebe Bridgers took a moment between songs to share her opinion that abortion is health care. Five years since she launched her career, Bridgers, 28, has a dedicated base of fans who she thinks of as being like-minded; sometimes, speakin…
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The Ethereum ecosystem now moves trillions of dollars around the world, rivaling Visa in the size of its asset transfers. It’s been the bedrock on which n…
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Twitter will relaunch its Twitter Blue subscription service Monday for $8 per month on the web, the company said.
Users will also get access on iOS for $11 per month to subscriber-only features, including the blue checkmark, the company said in a series of tweets Saturday.
