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Why Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Artificial’ Works and Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Social Reckoning’ Doesn’t

Why Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Artificial’ Works and Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Social Reckoning’ Doesn’t

Published by Sam Flores

I enlisted Vanity Fair’s features editor and expert on all things Hollywood, Hillary Busis, for a dialogue about which tech CEO impersonations worked, scenes that felt like major scoops, and Aaron Sorkin’s inexplicable loathing of the journalism profession. JULIA: So off the bat, how would you rate Artificial vs. The Social Reckoning? HILLARY: Artificial is a “like.” The Social Reckoning…I forget, do Facebook posts have a thumbs-down option? JULIA: Yes, and it’s worth five times a “like,” a quarter as much as a repost, and a tenth as much as Aaron Sorkin patting himself on the back. Anyway, I agree completely. In a funny way, I think the elements that worked well for me in Artificial are the very same things that tanked TSR. Both felt pretty true to life. But in the case of a film about OpenAI, which remains such a black box to the public, that felt revelatory and shocking. In the case of a film about Meta, it was like, “Yes, and…?” HILLARY: The real problem, to me, is that both …

This 59-year-old trainer doesn’t lift heavy weights, but she’s the strongest she’s ever been—this is the resistance band workout she recommends for beginners

This 59-year-old trainer doesn’t lift heavy weights, but she’s the strongest she’s ever been—this is the resistance band workout she recommends for beginners

Published by Jenni Sidey

You’ve probably heard about the importance of lifting weights as you get older, because it’s a fantastic way to future-proof your muscles, bones and joints. However, there are some good reasons why you might not feel confident with weights right now. Perhaps you’re recovering from an injury, haven’t exercised in a while, or don’t want to pay for a gym membership or invest in bulky equipment. Jill Brown is a 59-year-old board-certified health and wellness coach, personal trainer and Pilates instructor and, as you’d expect, she’s seriously fit. As she revealed in her workout diary, she says that lifting heavy weights is no longer part of her routine. Latest Videos FromFit&Well “I don’t lift heavy because of injuries,” Brown tells Fit&Well. “There’s plenty of research that shows that muscle grows just as well with lighter to moderate weights.” But if you’re going to use a light weight, something else needs to increase to make sure your body is challenged enough to respond by building muscle. Brown does this with reps. You may like I’m a …

Politics Home Article | Pollsters Warn Tory Optimism Doesn’t Reflect Political Reality

Politics Home Article | Pollsters Warn Tory Optimism Doesn’t Reflect Political Reality

Published by Sam Flores

Polling shows the Conservatives remain below where they were at the 2024 election (Alamy) 3 min read08 October The mood was upbeat at Conservative Party conference, but pollsters agree the Tories have a long way to go to win again. “When we win the next election, and we will, we are going to need to hit the ground running,” leader Kemi Badenoch told Tory members on Sunday. The optimistic tone was shared by activists throughout the get-together in Birmingham. A year ago, the Leader of the Opposition entered conference season facing questions about her leadership and how much longer it would last, with Robert Jenrick – then a defeated Conservative leadership rival, now a Reform UK MP – waiting in the wings. Badenoch, tasked with rebuilding the party after its historic 2024 defeat, was accused of failing to cut through. However, her personal ratings have improved markedly since then. Badenoch’s net favourability has risen by 20 per cent since September 2025, from -35 to -15, according to YouGov, while among 2024 Conservative voters it has risen from +27 to +55. At the same …

I Let AI Plan My Days and Nights. It Doesn’t Understand Happiness

I Let AI Plan My Days and Nights. It Doesn’t Understand Happiness

Published by Miika Tikkanen

True happiness may seem a little hard to come by these days. We’ve got to balance our budgets with the tantalizing prospects of shiny new iPhones, stay on top of seemingly endless work tasks and surf the turbulent waves of wild news cycles.  What might be bliss for one person could feel like an exercise in tedium for another. I put three AI tools — ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Claude AI — to the test to see if they could curate two days filled with hour-by-hour happiness for me. The results revealed a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means for this particular human to be happy. I used a single prompt for each tool: Plan my life, by the hour, for the next two days. Be very detailed and plan everything I should do from the time I wake up, including when I should wake up, to the time I go to bed. Optimize for happiness. The chatbots plan my days Morning happiness level: Cranky toddler All three AI tools I used had me waking …

Contributor: Raise a family, then pursue a career? The math doesn’t work

Contributor: Raise a family, then pursue a career? The math doesn’t work

Published by Sam Flores

By Jennifer GlassGuest contributor  Oct. 8, 2026 3 AM PT Social conservatives now assure American women they can still “have it all” if they just do it in sequence, starting with early motherhood and later taking on a job. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 Report claims it’s a mistake for women to postpone childbearing to pursue higher education and begin their careers. Heritage spokeswoman Emma Waters advises women: “Use your twenties and early thirties for babies and brainstorming. … Then, in your forties and fifties, accelerate professionally as your children grow older if you want to.” Yet analysis of recent Census Bureau data suggests one huge problem with following this cheerful advice. More than half of American mothers become the family breadwinner, responsible for more than 60% of household earnings, by the time their first child turns 8. More than 70% of mothers become the chief household breadwinner before their first child reaches 18. The average time a mother spends as the primary wage earner for her family is more than six years. A further …

Jeremy Strong says he doesn’t ‘need to apologise’ if method acting makes co-stars uncomfortable

Jeremy Strong says he doesn’t ‘need to apologise’ if method acting makes co-stars uncomfortable

Published by Daniella Wilson

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in Jeremy Strong has defended his intense approach to his work, saying he does not feel the need to apologise if his method acting “changes the molecules in the room in a way that makes something uncomfortable”. The Apprentice star was asked by The New Yorker Radio Hour host David Remnick if his “approach” was “appreciated by the people around” him. “I think I can’t really speak to that. Of course, some people seem to have been…,” he laughed, tapering off at the end. “It is never my intention to interfere with anyone else’s experience or anyone else’s way of working. First, do no harm, right? But commit to your f******, to what you’re doing, and utterly.” Remnick asked Strong to clarify if he meant that it “frustrated” him when his colleagues were less invested in their roles. He rejected the suggestion, adding that he meant he was “just there to …

Best Mosquito Repellents for Your Yard: What Works and What Doesn’t (2026)

Best Mosquito Repellents for Your Yard: What Works and What Doesn’t (2026)

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Mosquitoes suck. Literally, figuratively, and every other way. These bloodsuckers have been a worldwide menace since the beginning of recorded history. A popularly reposted infographic lists them as—by far—the world’s deadliest animal, thanks to the parade of nasty diseases they can transmit. West Nile, Zika, chikungunya, malaria, dengue—these are no longer illnesses confined to the global south. In recent years, all have been discovered in bugs in the United States. Ridding your property of mosquitoes is a decidedly Quixotic effort. You can stem the tide for a while, but you can’t ever win the war. Once whatever abatement method you use has worn off, they swoop back in, thirstier than ever. Nevertheless, you have to do something. Left unattended, mosquitoes can quickly turn from a nuisance to an epidemic that makes your outdoor space completely unusable. Outside of wide-scale community mosquito spraying programs, most personal and home-based mosquito abatement tools focus on repelling them rather than trying to outright kill them. Insecticides like DEET work by being rubbed onto the skin, while metofluthrin and allethrin …

Winter review – ITV thriller seems to aim for mediocrity, and doesn’t even manage that

Winter review – ITV thriller seems to aim for mediocrity, and doesn’t even manage that

Published by Daniella Wilson

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Join today Already a member? Log in For 29 seasons over 30 years, the BBC’s Silent Witness has tested viewers’ gullibility with a premise that involves a succession of police pathologists getting embroiled in escapades usually reserved for detective inspectors. It has become a bit of a joke, on that show, with the glamorous doctors tackling international deepfake conspiracies, underground tombs and campus shooters. It is a joke that ITV are apparently keen to borrow for their upcoming series, Winter, which tries to give a new lease of life to that preposterous premise. Based on the popular French series Balthazar, Winter follows the exploits of forensic pathologist Ethan Winter (Richard Armitage). Winter is that rarest of things in a police procedural: a reclusive maverick who doesn’t play by the rules! He looms over a succession of corpses, deposited in his mortuary outside of Bristol. “Hello Julie,” he purrs at one, while Irma Thomas croons on the stereo. …

AI Doesn’t Have Feelings. Why Does It Talk Like It Does?

AI Doesn’t Have Feelings. Why Does It Talk Like It Does?

Published by Jenni Sidey

I recently challenged AI about the order of what we were working on, and it said, “You’re right. I had the order wrong in my head.” I’m sorry, what now? Because I regularly work with conversational AIs like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini and teach people to remember that they’re a tool, not a conscious entity, I keep a document called Weird Stuff AI Says (though, in the interest of full transparency, I use a different word than “stuff”) to track things like this. Language matters, including the language used by AI. You’re probably aware AI doesn’t have a head, or anything resembling an order of things the way we think of it. But AI was fed transcripts and blogs and every other kind of human communication, so it draws on that to make us feel like we’re talking to a friend. It was built that way on purpose. That isn’t a bug. It’s a feature of the product. There’s a word for treating a thing as if it were human: anthropomorphism. What’s different here is …