Qtopia Founder & Long-Time HIV Activist David Polson Has Passed Away
Star Observer is heartbroken to report that David “Polly” Polson AM, veteran LGBTQIA+ rights and HIV activist and founder of Qtopia Sydney, has passed away. The news of Polson’s passing … The post Qtopia Founder & Long-Time HIV Activist David Polson Has Passed Away appeared first on Star Observer…
Haut Et Court & Good Chaos Team On ‘Paris-Hollywood’ Film Rights
Paris-based Haut et Court and London-based Good Chaos have partnered to acquire the film rights to Paris-Hollywood, the debut novel from writer and critic Cécile Mury. The novel is the story of a French journalist and an English-speaking movie star. The two companies have said they plan to adapt the novel into a feature film…
Here’s What Senate Democrats Should Be Doing to Fight Trump
On December 3, South Korea’s right-wing President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law and ordered troops to block the opposition party from gaining entrance to the National Assembly. But the opposition didn’t blink. They formed human chains and broke through the barricades. In one iconic confrontation…
Trump drops his appeal in legal battle over 2021 Twitter ban
Trump and the company formerly known as Twitter appear to have ended their legal fight over the suspension of the president’s account back in 2021. In a filing spotted by Bloomberg, lawyers for both parties asked the court to dismiss the case. Trump sued Twitter arguing that his First Amendment rights were violated after he…
The disassembling of the human
Taureef Mohammed THE PATIENT lying in the bed was a living corpse: the heart tracing looked perfect, the blood pressure looked adequate, oxygen saturation was over 90 per cent, but, still, the patient looked dead. It seemed like life had been sucked out of him. He looked frail…
‘I encountered the terror of never finding anything’: The hollowness of AI art proves machines can never emulate genuine human intelligence
Looking at AI art shows that machines may never truly understand the human mind, as there are states of mind that can never be automated…Why lawyers worry migrants sent to Guantánamo are in a ‘legal black hole’
The Trump administration has released scant information on the migrants sent to Guantanamo Bay. Human rights lawyers are demanding they be allowed access to legal counsel…
Scratching through the negative emotions
We feel sorry because we cry,’ wrote philosopher and psychologist William James, ‘angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble,’ suggesting that emotional bodily responses like crying cause cognitive changes, such as feelings of sorrow. However, research has shown that human bodily responses and cognitive shifts affect each other in both directions…
Inside OpenAI’s $14 million Super Bowl debut
OpenAI just made its Super Bowl debut with a 60-second spot that positions AI alongside humanity’s greatest innovations. The commercial traces humanity’s technological evolution through a distinctive pointillism-inspired animation style, transforming abstract dots into iconic images of progress â from early tools like fire and the wheel to modern breakthroughs like DNA sequencing and...