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AI Radical to Accused Cult Leader

Cs news2 months ago0103 mins

Z iz Lasota and Gwen Danielson had reached a stalemate. It was nighttime on the Caleb, the ancient steel-hulled tugboat where they had spent the last five months of 2017, anchored in the outer harbor of Pillar Point, 25 miles south of San Francisco. With their high cheekbones, dimpled chins, and penetrating gazes, the pair…

Timeless Style, 10 Years On

Cs news9 months ago9 months ago022 mins

Earlier this year, I found myself enthralled by an impromptu rewatch of Mad Men—the seductive period drama about the golden age of advertising during the 1960s that concluded its seven-season run almost exactly 10 years ago, on May 17, 2015. As someone who’s still trying to discern, a decade later, whether Don Draper (Jon Hamm)…