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Bollywood embraces AI tools for moviemaking
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AI chatbot Grok under fire for sexual images
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A library devoted to Arabian horses
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Pushback from authors' groups over AI ‘book clubs’
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How Anti-Communist Comic Books Spread the Red Scare
Comic books have a long history of serving as political propaganda. The United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers published Chug-Chug to explain the benefits of trade unionism and collective bargaining agreements. The Fellowship of Reconciliation put out Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story as a means to educate readers on the civil rights movement and nonviolent resistance. Julian Bond and T.G. Lewis’s Vietnam: An Antiwar Comic Book laid out reasons to oppose Uncle Sam’s imperial adventure in Southeast Asia.
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How women are reinterpreting the menstrual taboos in Chinese Buddhism
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Women have been mapping the world for centuries – and now they’re speaking up for the people left out of those maps
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