Posts by Morgan Hills
How Bots Took Over Our Lives
This strategy of manufacturing a froth of interest around a given subject, from Nicki Minaj’s political perspectives to Sydney Sweeney’s jean ads, has recently been especially effective, and has moved culture-war fights from the trenches of bot-infested social networks into more mainstream channels. A New York Times investigation into the social media fracas found that…
Read MoreSalesforce Invests in Brunello Cucinelli’s AI Platform
MILAN- Salesforce is investing in Brunello Cucinelli’s AI platform. Cucinelli launched Solomei AI, the company behind the brand’s Callimacus platform, in 2024 and on Monday Salesforce and the Italian designer revealed they had entered into an agreement that will allow Callimacus to expand its engineering and AI research capabilities and accelerate commercial growth across Europe…
Read MoreThe Myth of the Food Desert
These investigations were partly spurred by the riots of the nineteen-sixties, which directed public attention toward interventions that might “make further riots less likely,” as the Journal put it. After the 1992 riots in L.A., a nonprofit called Rebuild Los Angeles encouraged corporations to invest in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods; the chairman of…
Read MoreCaitlin Clark Debuted a Vibrant New Nike Caitlin 1 for WNBA All-Star: ‘I Think These Will Be a Favorite’
Just when it seemed like the only WNBA All-Star iteration of Caitlin Clark’s debut signature sneaker would be the player-exclusive White Label style, the Indiana Fever star revealed a vibrant new look ahead of Saturday’s tip-off. For Clark’s second WNBA All-Star Game, the star debuted a previously unseen Nike Caitlin 1 colorway that would have…
Read More“Padam Padam” Separates the Party People from the Homebodies
Are there two Americas, too many Americas, not enough? The plaint changes with the day. Identity is a serpentine target on the dance floor—a place where, in its most romantic evocation, how you catch a groove and to what says something about who you like to fuck and how. And if you haven’t danced lately…
Read MoreNew Balance Revealed a New Cameron Brink Collection During WNBA All-Star Weekend and It’s Coming Out Soon
WNBA standout Cameron Brink helped debut one of New Balance’s latest basketball sneakers in May and has received a handful of player exclusive colorways since signing with the brand in 2023, but fans haven’t been able to purchase her personalized pairs — until now. New Balance announced Friday the upcoming launch of a new “Malibu…
Read MoreThe Rise of the “Scenario,” a Trendy Way of Forecasting our Dystopian Future
In “Biological War,” Annie Jacobsen imagines society collapsing from a man-made plague—part of a wave of such prophecies. But what do we miss when we try to predict the future? Source link
Read MoreLoose Threads: Paige Launches Handbags, Wrangler Plans Texas Flagship and More
A quick roundup of the latest news from leading denim brands. Paige Paige launched its first-ever handbag collection produced in house. The brand enters the category with the Kensi, a softly structure scooped shoulder bag, available in small and large sizes. “We’ve always been known for creating pieces that feel elevated yet effortless, and I…
Read MoreJulio Torres’s Sea Wench, Qween Jean at Little Island
The extraordinary adventure of Flaco the Owl, who escaped from the Central Park Zoo in February, 2023, is recounted in fanatical detail in Penny Lane’s documentary “Wild Inside.” The story is essentially crowdsourced, composed largely of footage and photos shot by dozens of devoted owlers who tracked the bird’s tenuous début on the loose, his…
Read MoreTrump’s USTR Imposes Double-Digit Duties on Dozens of Nations Under Forced Labor Probe
The Trump administration is taking “final action” at the direction of the president to impose new tariffs on 60 global economies over their failures to impose and enforce bans on imports made with forced labor. The freshly minted import taxes, which represent a large building block in the federal government’s effort to reconstruct its tariff-driven…
Read MoreGrocery Shopping in the Age of Explosive Diarrhea
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The C.D.C. was hit even harder. It has shed roughly a quarter of its workforce, including scores of people from the agency’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, which trains and deploys “disease detectives” to trace and respond to outbreaks and other public-health challenges. “The people who are still at C.D.C. are working under incredibly constrained circumstances,” Arthur…
Read MoreThe Men Who Made Theory French
Guattari spent time in hospitals as a student and an analyst. Barthes had tuberculosis and “spent most of World War II in sanatoriums,” where, Eakin writes, “he was subjected to therapies that sound nearly as terrible as his illness.” Quoting Barthes’s biographer Tiphaine Samoyault, Eakin describes a three-month “reclining cure” that required Barthes to “lie…
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