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View More NewsBased on an atmospheric video game about a man stuck in a subway station who must notice “anomalies,” Exit 8 is a tightly wound horror thriller that neatly transforms a simple puzzle game into an elaborate metaphor about taking responsibility and moving on in life. The film opens with a gamelike sequence shot in a first-person perspective on a crowded subway train in which our hero ignores the world around him while staring at his phone, just like everyone else. He witnesses a man berate a woman with a baby, then finds himself trapped in a purgatorial puzzle space, where he suddenly…
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Jason Arday—fantasist, fabulist, fraud, and (until recently) Professorial Chair in the Sociology of Education at Cambridge University—sold a bolus of lies to students, faculty, and administrators, and they gobbled it up like a dish of ice cream on the hottest sunniest driest summer day in English memory. Months earlier, Nathan Cofnas, a philosopher at the same university, was accused by students of racism. Would nobody rid Cambridge of this turbulent scholar? Rid of him it got—through suitably tortuous means.That you and I know about Jason and his Argo of lies owes to Nathan Cofnas, who broke the story by publishing…
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In brief A reported breach of France’s tax authority exposed data tied to 678,437 people and businesses. The records allegedly include income figures, addresses,…
The Trump administration is expanding the footprint of its war on drugs in Latin America. On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Colombia…
The Committee to Protect Journalists and nine other international and local organizations, as part of the Brazilian Coalition in Defense of Journalism, in a…
US investment banking giant Morgan Stanley reported larger crypto fund positions in the second quarter, led by an increase of more than 3 million…
In brief Researchers found people behave more unethically toward AI agents than human workers in customer-service scenarios. The study says consumers feel less fear…
Renée Good had just died. Hours after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot the Minneapolis protester on January 7, Kristi Noem, then…
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 26 other organizations in calling on Gulf states to end their attacks on the free flow of information.…
The undersigned media freedom and journalist organisations stand in full solidarity with the Slavko Ćuruvija Foundation, which has been ordered to pay over one…
A wave of recent high-profile departures at the Ethereum Foundation has reignited longstanding questions from community members about what is going on inside the…
Bitcoin (BTC) price dropped to $76,500 on Monday, erasing nearly all of this month’s gains as fresh US-Iran war tensions soured the crypto market…
In brief TD Cowen analysts have upgraded the price targets for shares of Strategy (MSTR) to $400 per share. The upgrade comes as Strategy…
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources…