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Belfast Christmas market bans sale of AI-generated art.
In Belfast, the battle between technology and tradition is playing out at an artists’ market. Organisers of the Christmas fair have banned AI-generated artwork, insisting on "human creativity" as artificial intelligence floods the art world
In Belfast, the battle between technology and tradition is playing out at an artists’ market. Organisers of the Christmas fair have banned AI-generated artwork, insisting on "human creativity" as artificial intelligence floods the art world
December 8, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Belfast Christmas market bans sale of AI-generated art.
In Belfast, the battle between technology and tradition is playing out at an artists’ market. Organisers of the Christmas fair have banned AI-generated artwork, insisting on "human creativity" as artificial intelligence floods the art world
In Belfast, the battle between technology and tradition is playing out at an artists’ market. Organisers of the Christmas fair have banned AI-generated artwork, insisting on "human creativity" as artificial intelligence floods the art world
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On vivrait quand même dans un monde beaucoup moins merdique si les hommes acceptaient d'aller voir un psy.
December 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
On vivrait quand même dans un monde beaucoup moins merdique si les hommes acceptaient d'aller voir un psy.
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Kadokawa stated that it did not approve of an AI dub, and Sentai stated that it wasn't aware of the dub beforehand.
Amazon Streamed AI English Dubs on Banana Fish, 'No Game, No Life Zero,' Vinland Saga, Pet Anime
Voice actors speak out against AI dubs, Kadokawa & Sentai Filmworks respond
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December 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Kadokawa stated that it did not approve of an AI dub, and Sentai stated that it wasn't aware of the dub beforehand.
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Le bilan est sidérant :
- Explosion des revenus des ultra-riches :
En 2003, ils gagnaient en moyenne, 95 fois plus que les ménages les plus modestes. En 2022, c'est 167 fois plus.
- *Mais* réduction de leur taux moyen d'imposition :
De 29,2 % en 2003, il a été ramené à 25,7 % en 2022...
- Explosion des revenus des ultra-riches :
En 2003, ils gagnaient en moyenne, 95 fois plus que les ménages les plus modestes. En 2022, c'est 167 fois plus.
- *Mais* réduction de leur taux moyen d'imposition :
De 29,2 % en 2003, il a été ramené à 25,7 % en 2022...
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Le bilan est sidérant :
- Explosion des revenus des ultra-riches :
En 2003, ils gagnaient en moyenne, 95 fois plus que les ménages les plus modestes. En 2022, c'est 167 fois plus.
- *Mais* réduction de leur taux moyen d'imposition :
De 29,2 % en 2003, il a été ramené à 25,7 % en 2022...
- Explosion des revenus des ultra-riches :
En 2003, ils gagnaient en moyenne, 95 fois plus que les ménages les plus modestes. En 2022, c'est 167 fois plus.
- *Mais* réduction de leur taux moyen d'imposition :
De 29,2 % en 2003, il a été ramené à 25,7 % en 2022...
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« Il est possible de prouver que la photo a été faite avec un Pentax. Or Nick Ut n’en avait pas en main ce jour-là »
“Petite Fille au napalm” : cette nouvelle expertise qui confirme que Nick Ut ne peut pas avoir pris la photo
INFO TÉLÉRAMA — Le photographe Tristan da Cunha a étudié soigneusement les archives du 8 juin 1972, date de la prise de la photo. Et affirme que le reporter américano-vietnamien n’avait pas ce jour-là...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:16 AM
« Il est possible de prouver que la photo a été faite avec un Pentax. Or Nick Ut n’en avait pas en main ce jour-là »
The Japanese expression arigata-meiwaku (literally: “annoying thanks”) names the feeling you have when someone insists on performing a favour for you, even though you don’t want them to, yet convention dictates you must be grateful anyway.
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Is there a dark side to gratitude?
Feeling thankful is increasingly touted as a cure-all, but sometimes there are reasons not to be grateful
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November 17, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The Japanese expression arigata-meiwaku (literally: “annoying thanks”) names the feeling you have when someone insists on performing a favour for you, even though you don’t want them to, yet convention dictates you must be grateful anyway.
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My favorite opening credits come from the 1931 Frankenstein because they're so intent on creating a mystery around the monster that they credit him with "?" as if to say "Ooooh, who could it be? We don't knooowwwww... Is it even an actor?? Oooooh"
November 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My favorite opening credits come from the 1931 Frankenstein because they're so intent on creating a mystery around the monster that they credit him with "?" as if to say "Ooooh, who could it be? We don't knooowwwww... Is it even an actor?? Oooooh"
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ENTRETIEN EXCLUSIF – La pétillante autrice de “La Servante écarlate”, 85 ans, fait paraître mondialement, jeudi 6 novembre, “Le Livre des vies”, savoureux Mémoires dans lesquels elle revient sur sa condition d’écrivain, mais aussi sur son enfance passée dans les forêts canadiennes.
Margaret Atwood publie ses Mémoires : “Les romanciers ne sont pas des sages, plutôt des explorateurs”
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November 6, 2025 at 6:16 AM
ENTRETIEN EXCLUSIF – La pétillante autrice de “La Servante écarlate”, 85 ans, fait paraître mondialement, jeudi 6 novembre, “Le Livre des vies”, savoureux Mémoires dans lesquels elle revient sur sa condition d’écrivain, mais aussi sur son enfance passée dans les forêts canadiennes.
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Anime studio bankruptcies and closures continue to rise for third consecutive year in Japan
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Anime studio bankruptcies and closures continue to rise for third consecutive year in Japan - AUTOMATON WEST
According to a new study, 2025 has seen anime studios shut down or go bankrupt at an even higher pace than previous years.
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November 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Anime studio bankruptcies and closures continue to rise for third consecutive year in Japan
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Il y a travailler après la retraite et travailler après la retraite www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...
Working Past 100? In Japan, Some People Never Quit.
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Il y a travailler après la retraite et travailler après la retraite www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/w...
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Rest in Peace Björn Andresen.
October 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Rest in Peace Björn Andresen.
Ça manque de femmes, mais l'idée est sympa
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘It’s done wonders’: trading card game featuring middle-aged men revives Japanese town
Ojisan trading cards bear the faces of real people – local men whose competing professional qualities determine the outcome of each game
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April 28, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Ça manque de femmes, mais l'idée est sympa
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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An exhibition dedicated to Isao Takahata is coming in Japan (June, Tokyo) & France (fall 2025, Paris).
Entitled "The Man Who Planted Japanese Animation", the event marks the 90th anniversary of Takahata's birth and the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII.
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Entitled "The Man Who Planted Japanese Animation", the event marks the 90th anniversary of Takahata's birth and the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII.
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March 27, 2025 at 7:31 AM
An exhibition dedicated to Isao Takahata is coming in Japan (June, Tokyo) & France (fall 2025, Paris).
Entitled "The Man Who Planted Japanese Animation", the event marks the 90th anniversary of Takahata's birth and the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII.
artexhibition.jp/topics/news/...
Entitled "The Man Who Planted Japanese Animation", the event marks the 90th anniversary of Takahata's birth and the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII.
artexhibition.jp/topics/news/...
She considers her rulings to be somewhere between trigger warnings and moral judgments. The intended audience is not vegans looking to avoid uncomfortable material but people who eat animal products and could stand to think harder about what they are watching.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/m...
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Some Vegans Were Harmed in the Watching of This Movie
A film critic who provides “vegan alerts” for animal cruelty goes beyond onscreen violence. Milk and eggs are problematic, too.
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March 12, 2025 at 9:23 AM
She considers her rulings to be somewhere between trigger warnings and moral judgments. The intended audience is not vegans looking to avoid uncomfortable material but people who eat animal products and could stand to think harder about what they are watching.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/m...
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Je crois qu'on a rarement aussi bien résumé le plus gros angle mort du fact-checking (dans sa version française a minima).
C'est vraiment ce qui me rend fou avec le factchecking en France. Au lieu de dire "Machin est un raciste parce qu'il a dit que les arabes étaient tous des criminels" on a "Est-ce vrai que les arabes sont tous des criminels comme l'affirme Machin ?"
March 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Je crois qu'on a rarement aussi bien résumé le plus gros angle mort du fact-checking (dans sa version française a minima).
“If I want to explore the messiness of life, I should write fiction.” Curtis Sittenfeld
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/s...
Curtis Sittenfeld Goes Home Again
The best-selling bard of female anxiety rakes over some middle school memories while visiting the city where she grew up.
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March 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
“If I want to explore the messiness of life, I should write fiction.” Curtis Sittenfeld
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/s...
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J’ai grandi avec des clips qui m’ont marqué, de Lollipop de Lil Wayne à Single Ladies de Beyoncé (merci MTV), j’ai vécu comme tout le monde le choc Au DD de PNL. Le fait est que le clip est à bout de souffle, alors doit-on déjà organiser ses funérailles ? @telerama.bsky.social #musique #clips
TikTok, Instagram et Beyoncé ont-ils tué le bon vieux clip ?
À l’heure où un simple live formaté pour les réseaux peut suffire à faire connaître un titre, pourquoi investir dans une vidéo léchée, certes, mais qui sera peu vue. Avis de disparition du clip, alors...
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February 14, 2025 at 11:46 AM
J’ai grandi avec des clips qui m’ont marqué, de Lollipop de Lil Wayne à Single Ladies de Beyoncé (merci MTV), j’ai vécu comme tout le monde le choc Au DD de PNL. Le fait est que le clip est à bout de souffle, alors doit-on déjà organiser ses funérailles ? @telerama.bsky.social #musique #clips
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🍫 Quel est l'impact carbone du chocolat ? J'ai essayé de répondre à cette question posée par des fans de chocolat qui écoutent Chaleur humaine www.lemonde.fr/chaleur-huma... (1/6)
Climat : quel est l’impact carbone du chocolat ?
La déforestation est la première cause d’émissions de CO2 du cacao, loin devant le transport ou la transformation. Mais le bilan est très différent par pays
www.lemonde.fr
February 14, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🍫 Quel est l'impact carbone du chocolat ? J'ai essayé de répondre à cette question posée par des fans de chocolat qui écoutent Chaleur humaine www.lemonde.fr/chaleur-huma... (1/6)
Encore un exemple de la domination de la romance sur le marché du livre
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
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Rebecca Yarros’s ‘Onyx Storm’ Is the Fastest-Selling Adult Novel in 20 Years
The book, the third in a series, has sold 2.7 million copies in its first week, and provided yet another example of the romantasy genre’s staying power.
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January 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Encore un exemple de la domination de la romance sur le marché du livre
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...
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C’est VRAI*. Il vaut mieux manger une banane du Brésil qu'une viande qui vient d'une ferme française. Le transport ne compte que pour 5 à 10% de l'empreinte carbone. Merci pour le rappel @cardey.bsky.social 👌🏼:)
January 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
C’est VRAI*. Il vaut mieux manger une banane du Brésil qu'une viande qui vient d'une ferme française. Le transport ne compte que pour 5 à 10% de l'empreinte carbone. Merci pour le rappel @cardey.bsky.social 👌🏼:)
Read These Books Before They Hit Your Screens in 2025 www.nytimes.com/article/book...
The Most Anticipated Book Adaptations of 2025: Movies and TV Shows
Hilary Mantel’s “The Mirror and the Light,” a new “Bridget Jones” and Michael Bond’s Paddington Bear series are some of this year’s most anticipated adaptations.
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January 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Read These Books Before They Hit Your Screens in 2025 www.nytimes.com/article/book...
This week Harper's round up : In Afghanistan, the acting deputy foreign minister criticized his own government’s policy of banning girls from attending school, and in Sweden, a guard at the king’s palace slipped on ice and impaled himself with his own bayonet
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Weekly Review, by Harper’s Magazine
On Inauguration Day, Joe Biden announced pardons for his family members in the final twenty minutes of his presidency, and Donald Trump pardoned roughly 1,500 people involved in the January 6 riot in ...
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January 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This week Harper's round up : In Afghanistan, the acting deputy foreign minister criticized his own government’s policy of banning girls from attending school, and in Sweden, a guard at the king’s palace slipped on ice and impaled himself with his own bayonet
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