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 S33S1Editor's Note: Running is both a relatively efficient way to burn calories and easy to track. That a chief executive would slot it in between a 4am wake-up and their 5am carrot juice cleanse makes (some) sense. More generally, people with higher socio-economic status are likelier to see exercise as a way to challenge themselves. And the less affluent are more likely to be on their feet at work, sapping energy for other activities.
S2S3Shame and the Secret Chambers of the Self: Pioneering Sociologist and Philosopher Helen Merrell Lynd on the Uncomfortable Path to Wholeness   There are certain experiences that shatter the eggshell of the self and spill the yolk of the unconscious, slippery and fertile, aglow with potential for growth. Shame is one of them — an experience private and powerful, rife with the most elemental questions of who we are and where we belong. At its core is a peculiar form of inner conflict, in which one part of the self gasps with revulsion at the choices of another, exposing the fundamental incoherence of our inner lives and the longing for what D.H. Lawrence called “living unison,” exposing the unsteady foundations of reality itself.The pioneering sociologist and philosopher Helen Merrell Lynd (March 17, 1896–January 30, 1982) examines shame as a singular lens on the self, and on the human potential for integration and transformation, in her revelatory 1958 book On Shame and the Search for Identity (public library) — an investigation of the disconnect between the people we think ourselves to be and the people we act ourselves into being, inviting a proper understanding of shame as a pathway toward a more conscious and coherent self.
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S4S5Editor's Note: But like any tool, AI can be misused even by the well-intentioned. Jordan Bentley, a Massachusetts-based data scientist, told Fortune that some of the responses to Collaborative Articles questions should be "downright embarrassing" to the "otherwise well-credentialed" people posting them.
S6S7Editor's Note: Success stories for highly educated migrants like Santos are more common in Portugal than elsewhere on the continent. The investigation found that in western Europe's poorest country, college-educated migrants are less likely to find themselves overqualified, underemployed or unemployed than across Europe as a whole.
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S9Health disparities and premature deaths run deep, even in best-performing states  The report released Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund analyzed 25 indicators that track health outcomes, health care access, and quality of care provided for five racial and ethnic groups. It found dramatic disparities for Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous Americans, even in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Hampshire, and New York — the states considered to have the best overall health care performance. In all states, White and Asian residents had the best health outcomes.States with generally good health outcomes on average, but far poorer health outcomes for Black residents, included Minnesota, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Only six states (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut, Delaware, and New York) had health outcomes of Black residents that were above the average performance for all states, but these outcomes were still far lower than the top performing groups in each of those states.
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S11S12S13Self-made millionaire who retired at 35: The first time I felt financially secure, I was 'living small' and spending 'a lot less'  Thinking of financial security this way allows you to view money not just as an amount to accumulate, but as a tool to fund the things in your life that you care about. Someone with one year's worth of expenses saved could take a sabbatical to pursue a passion project. Someone with 10 years saved could take a crack at starting the small business they've always dreamed of."I would use the term retired loosely at this point. I wouldn't say that we're necessarily traditionally retired, but we are absolutely financially independent. We're absolutely financially secure," he says. "We don't have to do any of these things. But it's nice to be able to do the things that just seem or sound interesting and see how they work."
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S14Editor's Note: Part of developing burnout S15Editor's Note: There are some signs that, while experts ponder how to rein in the worst of social media, ordinary users are working out how to do so themselves. Posting about oneself in public is becoming less common: last year only 28% of Americans said they enjoyed documenting their life online, down from 40% in 2020, according to Gartner, a research firm. Messages are moving from open networks to private chats. On Instagram, more photos are now shared in direct messages than on the main feed, the company says. As middle-aged folk identify the problems with the social networks they grew up with, youngsters may already be moving on. S16S17S1847 Years Later, One Star Wars Scene Completely Changes How We See the Empire  One of the funniest bits in A New Hope wasn’t entirely written by George Lucas. When Han Solo tries to fake his way through a check-in from Imperial security, he famously concludes the call by blasting the intercom and saying, “Boring conversation anyway.” According to 1997’s Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays by Laurent Bouzereau, this dialogue was punched up by Lucas’ friends Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, a husband and wife writing team who provided more than one iconic Star Wars moment. Han and Luke’s ad-hoc plan to rescue Princess Leia set a canonical precedent: the Empire has horrible security, and it’s much easier than it should be to sneak into top-secret facilities. Decades later, with The Bad Batch, the franchise is explaining why the Empire has such a tough time being competent. Spoilers ahead for The Bad Batch Season 3, Episode 13, “Into the Breach.”
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S19A Google Exec Reveals the Company's New Video Game Strategy -- And It's Exactly What You Think  Google Cloud director of games Jack Buser reveals how the company plans to win gaming with cloud servers and AI.Imagine Baldur’s Gate 3, except the millions of dialogue lines and outcomes are generated by AI aided by humans. Google’s cloud department is exploring the idea of living games, that video games could respond to player input in the moment, and spin off in a million directions that even the game developers may not entirely foresee.
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S20Netflix's Most Exciting Crime Thriller of the Year Reinvents a Classic Trope  As Glen Powell’s Gary Johnson tells us in Hit Man’s opening moments, the titular figure doesn’t actually exist outside of our collective imagination. It’s a concept, a character invented by noir and generations of paranoia. But that doesn’t make the idea any less appealing; one can get caught up in the fantasy no matter who you are, as Powell’s mild-mannered leading man soon discovers.The Top Gun: Maverick alum co-wrote and stars in Hit Man alongside a frequent collaborator, director Richard Linklater. Based on an outrageously true story published in Texas Monthly in 2001, Hit Man follows the misadventures of a psychology professor who becomes the world’s best fake assassin. Check out the new trailer below.
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S21Is 'X-Men '97' Canon to the MCU? Kevin Feige Considered It  Marvel has used Disney+ to rapidly expand the Marvel Cinematic Universe through live-action television, but animation has been a different story altogether. The first animated Marvel series on Disney+ was technically canon to the MCU, but its multiversal hijinks didn’t affect the main storyline. X-Men ’97 appeared equally ambiguous. While former showrunner Beau DeMayo stated unequivocally that the series exists as its own entity, the situation was a little more complicated. Emi Yonemura, who directed Episodes 3 and 5, tells Inverse that Marvel seriously considered making the series canon.
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S22Microsoft's New AI Makes Convincing Deepfakes Worryingly Easy  Microsoft introduced the VASA-1 research project that can take a single image and an audio clip and transform it into a high-quality video of a talking head that looks eerily similar to the real thing. We have to stress that it’s just a research project at the moment, meaning it’s not readily accessible, but that doesn’t make it any less disconcerting.There are innocuous examples with VASA-1, like infusing Mona Lisa with Anne Hathaway’s rap skills but we’re more concerned about the likelihood that this will be used to create deepfakes with a more nefarious purpose — think spreading misinformation or carrying out identity theft.
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S23Here's Exactly How Long It Takes to Beat 'FFXVI's The Rising Tide DLC  The Rising Tide finally answers one of the biggest burning questions from Final Fantasy XVI: what happened to Leviathan the Lost? The second and final DLC adds on an entirely new area, main quest, and a handful of side quests to boot. As Clive’s final outing, fans will likely want to know exactly what the journey will entail, and The Rising Tide even has a few extra surprises packed in. Here’s everything you need to know about how to start The Rising Tide in FFXVI, and how long the DLC takes to beat. The Rising Tide is quite a bit longer than the previous DLC, Echoes of the Fallen, and features a good amount of optional content. If you’re just following the main story about Leviathan you’re looking at roughly 4 to 5 hours. The Rising Tide’s battles are also more challenging than the base game, so if you’re playing on Final Fantasy Mode that time might go up a bit.
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S24No, the 'Fallout' Show Didn't Just Erase the Best Game in the Series  Amazon’s Fallout TV show has been a huge hit with viewers, but some key moments in the series have fans of the games scratching their heads. The fate of the Brotherhood of Steel airship and the city of Shady Sands in the show are raising so many questions about the canon of Fallout as a whole that Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard has stepped in to clarify the show’s place in series lore. And while his statement might lay to rest fears of one of the most beloved Fallout games being erased from the timeline, the conversation raises a much bigger question — why do we care so much about canon anyway?The Fallout canon kerfuffle revolves around two moments in the new show. At one point, viewers see a massive airship belonging to the Brotherhood of Steel, which internet sleuths have discovered is called the Prydwen. That’s led some to believe that one of Fallout 4’s possible four endings has been declared the true ending, since several of them involve destroying the Prydwen.
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S25Razer's Controller Turns Your iPad Mini Into an XL Gaming Handheld  A larger display may make mobile gaming better on a tablet as opposed to a smartphone, but you still have to deal with those clunky touchscreen controls. Instead of furiously tapping on a tablet, however, Razer now offers the Kishi Ultra controller that can fit an iPad mini or other tablets with displays up to eight inches.It may feel a little absurd to cram a tablet between a controller, but the Kishi Ultra’s design makes for a more premium handheld gaming experience with better ergonomics. It can still fit iPhone 15 and other smartphones, but since it uses a USB-C connection, those with older iPhones and iPads are out of luck.
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S26Xbox Game Pass Just Quietly Added the Most Inventive Strategy Game of the Decade  There are a lot of offshoots of the strategy genre, but few have flourished as well as tower defense games. It’s easy to get obsessed with the simple formula of strategically placing defenses to fend off waves of enemies, whiling away hours, even days, to play just one more level. While tower defense games are a dime a dozen on mobile, few titles have managed to make the jump to a convincing console experience. The exception to that trend is Orcs Must Die!, a series that puts an inventive twist on tower defense by fusing it with a third-person shooter. The most ambitious entry in the series, Orcs Must Die 3, is now immediately available to any Xbox Game Pass subscriber. If you couldn’t guess by the name, the point of Orcs Must Die 3 is to, well, take out hundreds of angry Orcs that simply want to destroy everything. Like most tower defense games you’re tasked with protecting a single point, in this case, a magical rift, and you have to build a variety of different traps in order to stop the Orc onslaught.
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S2728 Years Later, Star Trek Just Quietly Brought Back a Deep-Cut Villain  One of the deadliest alien species in all of Star Trek has never been fully revealed. After an offhand reference in The Next Generation, the Breen appeared in the Deep Space Nine episode “Indiscretion,” encased in suits that felt like they borrowed from Princess Leia’s bounty hunter disguise in Return of the Jedi. The Breen are infamous but seldom seen, a tradition which Star Trek: Discovery is subtly rebooting in Season 5.Amid an episode about time jumps and flashbacks to the beginning of the series, Discovery quietly snuck the Breen in and positioned them as possibly the most important factor in the fate of Star Trek’s future. Here’s why the Breen matter, and how this comeback could expand on the canon laid down by Deep Space Nine almost three decades ago. Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 4, “Face the Strange.”
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S285 Years Ago, the Most Deranged Noir Thriller of the Century Tragically Flew Under the Radar  Humanity’s search for meaning isn't inherently wrong. If one takes it too far, though, and tries to find codes and messages hidden in every single thing they see and love, then it becomes less a quest for fulfillment and more a narcissistic attempt to escape the malaise of modern life. More than a few movies have tried to explore that, but only a few have done so successfully.Director David Robert Mitchell's underrated neo-noir, Under the Silver Lake, is one of them. Mitchell's bold, ambitious follow-up to his 2014 horror hit It Follows was deemed by many (including seemingly its distributor, A24) to be a lackluster directorial effort when it was released in 2019. The film has since emerged as a modern cult classic and has amassed a passionate assortment of defenders, most of whom have spent plenty of hours debating and discussing the meanings of its many unspoken mysteries and Easter eggs.
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