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Celebrating an amazing year of hard work with @4AMNYC — culminating in a big New Year’s Eve for our DJs.
Thanks for the feature @nytimes 🥹🥂
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My favorite part of You Can See Everything was the preview for The Debut which revealed K. Todd Freeman as the community theater’s piano player.
K. Todd Freeman famously plays the actor playing Kor Skeet in Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal” Season 1.
LGK
I’m not crying. You’re crying. For the first time in 53 years, the @nyknicks raise a championship banner. 🧡💙🏆
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New: Mayor Zohran Mamdani and City Council Speaker Julie Menin have reached a deal to abolish NYC's horse carriage industry — a critical breakthrough in a decadeslong, politically fraught effort to ban the tourist attraction. politico.com/news/2026/10/13…
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somebody hang this in the Louvre 🥹
Photographer Elliot McGucken captures insane photo of a full moon perfectly framed within the North Window Arch in Arches National Park, Utah.
(📸: @elliotmcgucken)
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If you grew up in New Jersey, October 30th wasn’t just the night before Halloween - it was Mischief Night.
By the 1920s-40s, the tradition of pranks was established across the Northeast, with NJ becoming especially known for it. TP, eggs, shaving cream, smashed pumpkins and doorbell ditching were all part of the fun.
But it sometimes went too far. On October 30, 1991, Camden saw about 150 fires, with dozens of buildings damaged and 57 people charged.
Unlike most of the country, NJ still calls it Mischief Night - a uniquely Jersey Halloween tradition. – at New Jersey, USA
This is perfect casting. I’m so happy they didn’t mess this up
Austin Abrams has been officially cast as Patrick Bateman in the upcoming ’AMERICAN PSYCHO’ reboot.
’PRIMETIME’ director Luca Guadagnino is set to direct.
(Source: variety.com/2027/film/news/a…)
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Account bio identifies content as parody and satire. The linked Variety article does not announce any casting. It quotes Bret Easton Ellis on high profile actors turning down the Patrick Bateman role. Guadagnino recently said of directing it: "Maybe one day I will do it."
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heavy on the “TO MY ASTONISHMENT”
Ben Affleck reveals he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, worked extensively with GPUs, and used his celebrity status to get private looks at Google and OpenAI’s video models
“I’ve always been kind of into computers since I was young. Then, when film started to move from analog film to digital, I became more interested in that aspect of it. The visual-effects workflow for many years has included machine learning, so I can write pretty shitty Python scripts and stuff like that.
“With convolutional neural networks, which were the precursors to what the transformer can do, which is much more computation simultaneously, you would do things like look at what’s called a tensor. That’s the numerical translation of a visual image in numbers, like the batch number, the frame number and the red, green and blue values of each pixel in each frame. It’s just that simple. That numeric is called a tensor.
“You’d use a convolutional neural network to identify patterns that reveal what’s called edge detection or feature extraction, which is identifying patterns well enough to know, this is where the window ledge is, so we can more easily take the green-screen image out and replace it with something.
“That was familiar to me early on because, prior to Artists Equity, I had a small visual-effects company. I’ve worked with GPUs a lot too. The visual-effects guys said, ‘Hey, you should see. There are a couple: Google and this other company, OpenAI, are doing really interesting stuff with transformers in video.’
“I’ve learned that I can actually just call up and go, ‘Hey, it’s Ben Affleck. Can I come see what you’re doing?’ Sometimes people say yes, to my astonishment.”
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BREAKING:
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has declared a statewide disaster emergency over a rapidly growing measles outbreak.
New York has confirmed 108 cases this year, including 92 since July 15.
Pennsylvania is dealing with an extraordinary outbreak: 1,004 confirmed cases so far this year.
For comparison, Pennsylvania recorded just 17 measles cases in all of 2019 and averaged only 4.4 cases a year from 2010–2019.
The New York emergency expands access to MMR vaccinations and measles testing.
And it doesn’t matter that HHS under RFK Jr. has said the MMR vaccine is crucial.
He has been the chief driver of anti-vaccine messaging for many years, and now ordinary Americans are dealing with the consequences of his years of spreading misinformation and disinformation.
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🤯 It just dawned on me that hip-hop started because New Yorkers were celebrating a Knicks championship 🤣
53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists that will shape what comes next.
I sat down with @Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.
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'HACKS' (#42) entrou na lista das 100 melhores séries do século XXI do New York Times.
