With some 250 million followers worldwide, Shaivism is thought to be second only to Vaishnavism in its number of followers. For Westerners, worshipping “the totality that envelops all our presentations, our being and our existence,” Shaivism’s concept of the divine, can be difficult. (Karmarkar, Religion News Service)
Read MoreYou think you know YouTube. … But maybe you don’t know that YouTube is also the most popular way to hear music and one of the country’s largest cable TV providers. YouTube is the healthiest economy on the internet. And it has been rocket fuel for artificial intelligence. (Ovide, The Washington Post)
Read MoreWriting in his annual letter to shareholders, Jassy laid out a vision for how generative AI is the company’s next pillar of growth following Marketplace, Prime and its cloud-computing unit Amazon Web Services. (Russolillo & Herrera, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreBoys in several states have used widely available “nudification” apps to pervert real, identifiable photos of their clothed female classmates, shown attending events like school proms, into graphic, convincing-looking images of the girls. (Singer, The New York Times)
Read MoreWhat is feminine leisure, exactly? Is it a set of prescribed activities? An aesthetic? A vibe? The simple answer is that it’s a solution — maybe not a good solution, but a conceivable one — to a problem. A problem some young women have diagnosed in the landscape of modern adulthood. (Hesse, The Washington Post)
Read MoreJapan’s largest telecommunications company and the country’s biggest newspaper called for speedy legislation to restrain generative artificial intelligence, saying democracy and social order could collapse if AI is left unchecked. (Landers, The Wall Street Journal)
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