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Jeff Bezos can eat a McDonald’s hamburger with nostalgia, though the rest of us have a hard time stomaching him.Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer (Getty Images)Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the McDonald’s hamburger of humanity—an obscenely dry, flat thing that hides its own curious nature with a slathering of condiments and toppings. Both man and burger represent the incredible wealth and ubiquitous extremes of modern consumerism, neither supplying enough to aid either individual or society. Both have wormed their way into the world’s…

Image: Marvel Press (cover: Carolina Rodríguez Fuenmayor)Anya Corazon, also known as Araña, is one of the many Spider-People currently webslinging around New York City. Now, however, writer Alex Segura takes her on a new adventure that strands her in the future, causing her to team up with Spider-Man 2099, billionaire CEO Miguel O’Hara... and the two discover they have similar enemies in the present and the past.Segura is an award-winning author, and has previously written the literary mystery Secret Identity, the Star…

An underutilized class in Python, because lists don’t solve all problemsPhoto by CHUTTERSNAP on UnsplashPython sets are something that most people in their early Python learn, but sometimes forget that in some places it might be more useful than, say, a list. Lists kind of get all the attention and are maybe not used in the proper context, but in this article we’ll highlight what sets are, ways you can analyze datasets with set theory, and how this would apply to data analysis.What is a Set?In Python context, a set is a…

Web of Spider-Man #118Image: Steven Butler/Marvel ComicsA brand new superhero potentially coming to the big screen has been revealed in the way most of them are: a toy. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse won’t be in theaters until June 2, 2023, but since it was originally supposed to be out in October, merchandise is finding its way on shelves. One such piece of merch, the board game Trouble, has revealed that one of our favorite Spider-characters may be joining the fun.On the Spider-Verse themed Trouble you’ll see…

All Oscar Isaac, all the time. Image: A24, Lucasfilm, MarvelFans of film, TV, comics, and all things pop culture don’t really need a reason to go to a big comic convention. You go because everything you love is all under one roof. However, at this year’s New York Comic Con, that statement goes even further. io9 is excited to exclusively reveal that Oscar Isaac—an actor who has basically been in every amazing movie or franchise you’ve loved over the past several years—will be in attendance, and you can meet him.Isaac is…

Cobra Kai, both the show and the dojo, are back.Image: NetflixCobra Kai season four ended on a few massive cliffhangers. Terry Silver (Thomas Ian Griffith) had successfully framed John Kreese (Martin Kove) for assault and taken full control of Cobra Kai, while Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) called in an old friend from his past, Chozen (Yuji Okumoto),to help him defeat the evil dojo. That’s the state of karate in the Valley when Cobra Kai returns for season five September 9 on Netflix. And as the season inches closer and…

There is an adjective that all too invitingly describes the wildly optimistic endeavours of the American book collector, the Hungarian-British explorer and the two Kashmiri pandits who, almost a century ago, took it upon themselves to translate Don Quixote into Sanskrit for the first time.Today, the same word might equally be applied to the efforts of the Bulgarian-born Indologist and Tibetologist who has rescued their text from decades of oblivion.In 1935, the wealthy American businessman and book collector Carl Tilden…