Under threat of possible prosecution, Missouri school districts have pulled hundreds of books from their shelves since last summer. Now the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri is challenging a new state law that bans what some deem “explicit sexual material” in school libraries and classrooms. Clayton school librarian Tom Bober discusses the legal danger facing librarians and teachers and why his district removed books like “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Gillian Wilcox, deputy director for Litigation at the ACLU of Missouri, talks about the group’s lawsuit and why they argue this law is unconstitutional.
What. The. Fuck. This is from a paper written in December by Yu Takagi and Shinji Nishimoto of the Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences in Osaka. Subjects were put in an MRI machine and shown a series of pictures. The fMRI data was collected, and then software using an algorithm called Stable Diffusion attempted to ...continue reading "MRI machines can now (sort of) read your mind"
An apartment developer’s plan for a boutique office project in Midtown that was delayed for years by the pandemic is starting construction and has expanded into a larger development with an apartment complex.
This isn’t about Bob Murray. I mean, it sure seems like it is. It involves a baseless defamation lawsuit against journalists, a West Virginia coal company CEO, and court losses for a litigious coal boss. This isn’t about “Eat Shit” Bob Murray, the head of (the now-bankrupted) Murray Energy who sued John Oliver for saying […]
The Who is getting ready to release their new live album The Who with Orchestra Live At Wembley later this month, and they’ve just shared another track off the record. The latest is their…