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Preakness Stakes 2024: Mystik Dan eyes Triple Crown, Bob Baffert returns seeking record-extending winThe Preakness Stakes returns Saturday to Pimlico Race Course as Kentucky Derby winner Mystik Dan looks to become the Triple Crown winner since 2018.
China makes some of the hottest new EVs. Most aren’t sold in the U.S.Chinese-made electric vehicles aren’t widely available yet in the United States — and may never be after the Biden administration moved to quadruple import tariffs on them, to100 percent. Here are some Chinese EVs that are being shipped out of China.
China makes some of the hottest new EVs. Most aren’t sold in the U.S.Chinese-made electric vehicles aren’t widely available yet in the United States — and may never be after the Biden administration moved to quadruple import tariffs on them, to100 percent. Here are some Chinese EVs that are being shipped out of China.
American and Chinese car makers bet on different strategies in global fightAs Chinese manufacturers try to sell as many cars as possible, their U.S. competitors are betting on making each vehicle sale more valuable.
The planet needs lab-grown meat, no matter what Ron DeSantis saysThere isn't enough lab-grown meat in the U.S. to supply a dozen restaurants, yet two Republican governors are scared enough to ban it.
What time does the 2024 Preakness Stakes start? What TV channel is it on?What time does the 2024 Preakness Stakes start? Here's a breakdown of when the race starts and the TV and streaming options available.
Letters to Sports: Lamenting the LeBron James and Lakers situationsReaders of the Los Angeles Times sports section weigh in on LeBron James' future, as well as that of his son, the Lakers coaching search and the Dodgers.
Vincent Trocheck’s infuriating do-it-all game the missing link for RangersIn his second season with the Rangers, Vincent Trocheck has embodied that hard-to-play-against trait the organization had been chasing for years.
Chiefs' Harrison Butker 'said nothing wrong' during faith-based commencement speech, religious group saysNFL player Harrison Butker has received a considerable amount of attention in the days since he delivered the commencement speech at Kansas College.
Biden called out for past desegregation remarks after praising 1954 landmark Supreme Court rulingCritics reminded President Biden about his past support for school segregation after he praised the Brown v. Board of Education ruling Friday.
It's not 'TV Week' anymore as streamers dominate the advertising upfrontsIn a week that was once all about ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, Amazon and Netflix make their presence felt as they seek a piece of the $27-billion upfront ad market.
Namaste away: Rangers bar yoga classes at cliffside San Diego parkSan Diego is enforcing a new ordinance that limits where people can hold outdoor yoga and fitness classes. Sunset Cliffs isn't on the approved list.
With 'OMG Fashun,' Julia Fox and Law Roach bring sustainable, daring style to reality TVScout Productions' latest fashion reality competition series where competing designers create looks from upcycled materials, and it features fashion's "it girl" Julia Fox and celebrity stylist Law Roach.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces growing peril after video shows him attacking Cassie VenturaA video showing Sean “Diddy” Combs violently attacking his then-girlfriend in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016 is likely to add more urgency to a federal sex-trafficking investigation into the star.
Supporters say 'warmhearted' Mexican Mafia member deserves bail. Wiretaps reveal murder threatsProsecutors say Johnny Martinez was caught on a wiretap boasting of several murders, but he still has prominent voices calling for his release, including two L.A. County probation officials.
Inside a Gaza hospital: A Los Angeles doctor's storyMohamad Abdelfattah, a critical-care doctor, was in the southern city of Rafah with no way of leaving. He was at the end of a two-week trip volunteering in one of the few hospitals that has remained open in the besieged city.
Inside a Gaza hospital: A Los Angeles doctor's storyMohamad Abdelfattah, a critical-care doctor, was in the southern city of Rafah with no way of leaving. He was at the end of a two-week trip volunteering in one of the few hospitals that has remained open in the besieged city.
California pays meth users up to $599 a year to get soberCalifornia’s Medicaid program is testing a novel approach for people addicted to methamphetamine, cocaine and other stimulants: For every clean urine test, they can earn money — up to $599 a year.
California pays meth users up to $599 a year to get soberCalifornia’s Medicaid program is testing a novel approach for people addicted to methamphetamine, cocaine and other stimulants: For every clean urine test, they can earn money — up to $599 a year.
California's effort to plug abandoned, chemical-spewing oil wells gets $35-million boostThe Biden administration funding is among the "largest ever in American history to address legacy pollution," U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said.
Reparations in America: How cities from San Francisco to Wilmington are trying to get it doneReparations proposals continue to sweep across the country as cities and states debate whether to give Black Americans
California school district becomes first in nation to go all electric busesOakland Unified announced Thursday that it is the first school district in the nation to use a fully electric bus fleet due to its partnership with electric bus startup Zūm, which is also providing bidirectional chargers. The district employs 74 buses.
California school district becomes first in nation to go all electric busesOakland Unified announced Thursday that it is the first school district in the nation to use a fully electric bus fleet due to its partnership with electric bus startup Zūm, which is also providing bidirectional chargers. The district employs 74 buses.
Taylor Swift Is a Skeleton Key to the InternetIt is nighttime in Paris. We are more than a year into Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, and tonight, her fans are once again trying to figure out what her clothes mean.The star is in a glittering yellow-and-red two-piece set, a possible reference to the colors of the Kansas City Chiefs, the football team Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, plays on. This is also the 87th performance in the tour, and—aha!—Kelce wears jersey number 87. The hundreds of thousands of fans watching along through bootlegged livestreams on TikTok and YouTube have solved another mystery.This is the beginning of the European leg of Eras, which will stretch on and on until Swift returns to North America this fall and plays the final show of the tour on December 8 (that is, assuming she doesn’t extend it, as she has multiple times already). You’d think people would have lost interest by now. But Taylor Swift has kept fans’ attention by tapping into an algorithmic machine unlike anyone has before her.Swift is savvy, and leverages social-media culture to her advantage. Over her 18-year career, she has trained her fandom to inspect everything she does for Easter eggs; she knows that even a small reveal can send people into a frenzy. She likes to leave clues about upcoming music in her outfits, in music videos, even in commercials she films with brands. She knows people are interested in her personal life—her romances, her feuds—and capitalizes on that, leaving them hints in her liner notes or in song titles.In response, fans analyze dates and look for numbers that add up to 13, her favorite number. They create spreadsheets of every single outfit she’s worn on tour, methodically tracking each surprise song she’s played. They chat nonstop across platforms, swapping elaborate theories to try to decode when the next album is coming or whom each song is about. For more than half a decade, they’ve been convinced that there’s a lost album called Karma, which was shelved in the mid-2010s amid Swift’s feud with Kanye West (now known as Ye) and Kim Kardashian. According to one theory, the orange outfits she’s been wearing in Paris are a sign that she’ll release music from Karma. It’s like QAnon, if QAnon involved a lot of DIY rhinestone boots.[Read: The real Taylor Swift would never]Swifties don’t storm the Capitol, but they will flood Kardashian’s Instagram with snake emoji in response to Swift talking about the pain their fight brought her, just as they will fight Ticketmaster when the company botches her concert-ticket rollout. Their thinking is often conspiratorial. In one recent TikTok, a fan argued that Swift would be releasing something on May 3, according to this logic: A recent screenshot of a music-video still posted to Swift’s team’s Instagram included the letter-and-number combination 14.3V—Swift’s latest music video was for “Fortnight,” and a fortnight is two weeks; two weeks is 14 days. One plus four equals five. The three rounds it out: Something’s happening on the 3rd. The V is actually the Roman numeral for five. (May 3 came and went without a release.)Extreme cliques might be one side effect of our digital culture. “Our algorithms and media are designed to produce fandoms around consumption goods,” Petter Törnberg, a professor of computational social science at the University of Amsterdam, told me over email. “There is hence a fundamental similarity between Swifties, Apple-fans and MAGA Republicans: our current era has the tendency of turning our preferences into identities, and shaping a form of postmodern tribes around both consumption goods and political leaders.” (See also: fans of Beyoncé and BTS.)In other words: Social platforms can have a radicalizing effect on fandoms. When we study algorithmic radicalization, we tend to do so in the context of politics, but the same systems might also calcify our beliefs about cultural products. Yet we still have a fairly limited understanding of how all of this works. “The very best studies we have are still really struggling to detect effects, because there’s so many challenges when you try to study this stuff,” Chris Bail, the founding director of the Polarization Lab at Duke University, told me.No one single algorithm powers this fandom. It operates across platforms; in a single day, a Swift fan might stream her music on Spotify, watch her music videos on YouTube, and consume posts about her on TikTok. All of these sites have distinct recommendation systems. Companies also tend to keep these systems a secret, making them hard to research.But we can say this: Algorithms tend to reinforce what’s already popular, because attention attracts more attention. Growth begets growth, as Törnberg put it. In this way, Swift also demonstrates how platforms that supposedly target content based on an individual’s interests can, in fact, end up clustering around one monolithic force. “It just seems like, Oh, that’s sort of weird, I thought everybody was supposed to have their own algorithmic niche now,” Nick Seaver, the author of Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation, told me. “And instead—I mean, maybe in addition to that—we also all have Taylor Swift.”[Read: Nobody knows what’s happening online anymore]Our modern Swiftocracy is a reminder that we are still subject to strange algorithmic forces, even as the web is supposedly fractured. Yet the consequences of this can be as hard to decode as an Easter egg dropped by Swift. On her final show in Paris, she opted for a “berry”-red dress for the Folklore section of her set. It may be a sign of something to come. Or not.
Taylor Swift Is a Skeleton Key to the InternetIt is nighttime in Paris. We are more than a year into Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, and tonight, her fans are once again trying to figure out what her clothes mean.The star is in a glittering yellow-and-red two-piece set, a possible reference to the colors of the Kansas City Chiefs, the football team Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, plays on. This is also the 87th performance in the tour, and—aha!—Kelce wears jersey number 87. The hundreds of thousands of fans watching along through bootlegged livestreams on TikTok and YouTube have solved another mystery.This is the beginning of the European leg of Eras, which will stretch on and on until Swift returns to North America this fall and plays the final show of the tour on December 8 (that is, assuming she doesn’t extend it, as she has multiple times already). You’d think people would have lost interest by now. But Taylor Swift has kept fans’ attention by tapping into an algorithmic machine unlike anyone has before her.Swift is savvy, and leverages social-media culture to her advantage. Over her 18-year career, she has trained her fandom to inspect everything she does for Easter eggs; she knows that even a small reveal can send people into a frenzy. She likes to leave clues about upcoming music in her outfits, in music videos, even in commercials she films with brands. She knows people are interested in her personal life—her romances, her feuds—and capitalizes on that, leaving them hints in her liner notes or in song titles.In response, fans analyze dates and look for numbers that add up to 13, her favorite number. They create spreadsheets of every single outfit she’s worn on tour, methodically tracking each surprise song she’s played. They chat nonstop across platforms, swapping elaborate theories to try to decode when the next album is coming or whom each song is about. For more than half a decade, they’ve been convinced that there’s a lost album called Karma, which was shelved in the mid-2010s amid Swift’s feud with Kanye West (now known as Ye) and Kim Kardashian. According to one theory, the orange outfits she’s been wearing in Paris are a sign that she’ll release music from Karma. It’s like QAnon, if QAnon involved a lot of DIY rhinestone boots.[Read: The real Taylor Swift would never]Swifties don’t storm the Capitol, but they will flood Kardashian’s Instagram with snake emoji in response to Swift talking about the pain their fight brought her, just as they will fight Ticketmaster when the company botches her concert-ticket rollout. Their thinking is often conspiratorial. In one recent TikTok, a fan argued that Swift would be releasing something on May 3, according to this logic: A recent screenshot of a music-video still posted to Swift’s team’s Instagram included the letter-and-number combination 14.3V—Swift’s latest music video was for “Fortnight,” and a fortnight is two weeks; two weeks is 14 days. One plus four equals five. The three rounds it out: Something’s happening on the 3rd. The V is actually the Roman numeral for five. (May 3 came and went without a release.)Extreme cliques might be one side effect of our digital culture. “Our algorithms and media are designed to produce fandoms around consumption goods,” Petter Törnberg, a professor of computational social science at the University of Amsterdam, told me over email. “There is hence a fundamental similarity between Swifties, Apple-fans and MAGA Republicans: our current era has the tendency of turning our preferences into identities, and shaping a form of postmodern tribes around both consumption goods and political leaders.” (See also: fans of Beyoncé and BTS.)In other words: Social platforms can have a radicalizing effect on fandoms. When we study algorithmic radicalization, we tend to do so in the context of politics, but the same systems might also calcify our beliefs about cultural products. Yet we still have a fairly limited understanding of how all of this works. “The very best studies we have are still really struggling to detect effects, because there’s so many challenges when you try to study this stuff,” Chris Bail, the founding director of the Polarization Lab at Duke University, told me.No one single algorithm powers this fandom. It operates across platforms; in a single day, a Swift fan might stream her music on Spotify, watch her music videos on YouTube, and consume posts about her on TikTok. All of these sites have distinct recommendation systems. Companies also tend to keep these systems a secret, making them hard to research.But we can say this: Algorithms tend to reinforce what’s already popular, because attention attracts more attention. Growth begets growth, as Törnberg put it. In this way, Swift also demonstrates how platforms that supposedly target content based on an individual’s interests can, in fact, end up clustering around one monolithic force. “It just seems like, Oh, that’s sort of weird, I thought everybody was supposed to have their own algorithmic niche now,” Nick Seaver, the author of Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation, told me. “And instead—I mean, maybe in addition to that—we also all have Taylor Swift.”[Read: Nobody knows what’s happening online anymore]Our modern Swiftocracy is a reminder that we are still subject to strange algorithmic forces, even as the web is supposedly fractured. Yet the consequences of this can be as hard to decode as an Easter egg dropped by Swift. On her final show in Paris, she opted for a “berry”-red dress for the Folklore section of her set. It may be a sign of something to come. Or not.
Police in Austin, San Francisco secretly skirted facial recognition bansThe Washington Post has obtained emails and other documents showing that police in Austin and San Francisco skirted city bans against using facial recognition by asking officers in other cities to run the AI-powered programs for them.
Police in Austin, San Francisco secretly skirted facial recognition bansThe Washington Post has obtained emails and other documents showing that police in Austin and San Francisco skirted city bans against using facial recognition by asking officers in other cities to run the AI-powered programs for them.
Country star Zac Brown sues estranged wife Kelly Yazdi over Instagram post, wants restraining order: reportThe “Colder Weather” artist is seeking emergency injunctive relief in the shape of a temporary restraining order that will force her to remove the post.
Could your car make you sick? Study highlights potentially cancerous toxins in vehiclesAmericans may be breathing in cancer-causing chemicals while they're driving, recent research suggested. Environmental experts offered input on the potential risk.
'Viva Las Vegas' stars Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret's romance ‘couldn’t last’: 4 bombshells as movie turns 60"Viva Las Vegas," starring Ann-Margret and Elvis Presley, is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Here is a look at stories from the set, including a romance, a jealous star and a deleted scene.
Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk: Sigue el Round X Round EN VIVO y los resultados de la veladaLos invictos Tyson Fury y Oleksandr Usyk van por la historia en un combate unificatorio de pesos pesados, algo que no ha ocurrido en esa división.
America's top baby names see familiar trend, a man uses art to troll city officials and more hot readsThis week's top Lifestyle headlines included tasty recipes, an eyebrow-raising trend regarding the top baby names seen in the U.S., stories about wild nature, odd news and more.
'Warning signs flashing': Biden, Trump struggle to lock up base voters ahead of first debateAs they prepare to debate next month, President Biden and Donald Trump are exhibiting signs of weakness in their 2024 election rematch - as they both struggle to lock up their base voters.
Workers remove dozens of apparent marijuana plants from Wisconsin Capitol tulip gardenSomeone’s plans to harvest dozens of apparent marijuana plants grown on the Wisconsin state Capitol grounds have gone up in smoke.
Knicks’ Donte DiVincenzo, Miles McBride struggle after strong first halvesDonte DiVincenzo and Miles McBride netted 15 points apiece through the first two quarters, but both struggled the rest of the way in the Knicks' loss.
Pacers answer coach’s profane challenge with dominant effort on boardsRick Carlisle’s directive had been as powerful as it was profane. Go rebound the [expletive] ball.
Knicks’ OG Anunoby ruled out for Game 7 due to hamstring strainOG Anunoby, who missed his fourth straight game with a hamstring strain, is already ruled out for Game 7, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
AV Alta FC, equipo de tercera división en USL, busca llenar un vacío en Antelope ValleyDespués de manejar varias millas para apoyar al LAFC o LA Galaxy, finalmente los aficionados del Antelope Valley tendrán un conjunto a la vuelta de la esquina al que apoyar: el AV Alta FC, el nuevo club de la tercera división del fútbol estadounidense en la USL
AV Alta FC, equipo de tercera división en USL, busca llenar un vacío en Antelope ValleyDespués de manejar varias millas para apoyar al LAFC o LA Galaxy, finalmente los aficionados del Antelope Valley tendrán un conjunto a la vuelta de la esquina al que apoyar: el AV Alta FC, el nuevo club de la tercera división del fútbol estadounidense en la USL
Dear Abby: I’m stuck taking care of my negligent, self-centered motherDear Abby weighs in on a woman struggling with taking care of her sick mother and a family grappling with the relationship of their father's lovechild from a one-night stand.
Juanita ‘Lightnin’ Epton, who worked all 66 Daytona 500s, dead at age 103“He always said he never knew when or where I might strike. I am full of mischief.”
Knicks have no answers for Pacers’ Pascal Siakam in Game 6 lossThis is why Indiana traded for Pascal Siakam: for nights like Friday’s Game 6 that he won for the Pacers and the Game 7 the 116-103 win earned them.
Rudy Giuliani served with Arizona ‘fake electors’ indictment during 80th birthday bash in Palm BeachGiuliani was the last of the 18 defendants in the case to be served, Arizona officials said.
North Carolina woman on way to visit sister killed when hooligan throws rock through windshield"I hope that whoever did this act will come forward. And man up to what's happened here, because it's just an awful tragedy."
Hart coach Jim Ozella wins his first CIF title to cap his 25th and final seasonHart defeated Moorpark 7-6 on Friday night in the Division 2 championship game, completing a remarkable playoff run for the Indians.
Resilient Knicks will face one more test of wills in pressure-packed Game 7The Knicks’ season is in peril, their ambitions never more vulnerable than right now, in the wake of the Pacers throttling them, 116-103, on Friday night.
