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Twitter reports that fewer than 5% of accounts are fakes or spammers, commonly referred to as “bots.” Since his offer to buy Twitter was accepted, Elon Musk has repeatedly questioned these estimates, even dismissing Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal’s public response. Later, Musk put the deal on hold and demanded more proof. So why are people arguing about the percentage of bot accounts on Twitter? As the creators of Botometer, a widely used bot detection tool, our group at the Indiana…

Writer-director Kirill Serebrennikov brings his intense sympathies to the unhappy figure of Antonina Miliukova, estranged wife of composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, in a part once taken by Glenda Jackson in Ken Russell’s 1971 film The Music Lovers. Serebrennikov’s movie imagines Antonina as selfish, fanatical, naive, narcissistic and self-indulgent, not to say antisemitic, but also as the most wronged-genius wife since Sophia Tolstoy, or, indeed, Constance Wilde.As often in the past, this director’s film-making inhales or…

Johnny Depp’s Old Revelation On Media & Fans’ Obsession Goes Viral, Netizens Bring In Amber Heard ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia; Instagram ) Johnny Depp and Amber Heard defamation trial at Fairfax County Courthouse in Fairfax, Virginia will resume today. There have been several spine-chilling revelations from both sides and amid the same, an old interview of Johnny on media and fans’ obsession is going viral on the internet. Not just that, fans also slammed Amber in the comments section under the…

When asked to choose their favourite story in The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw’s acclaimed debut collection, most people, the author tells me, say Peach Cobbler. This simultaneously funny and punch-in-the-guts-devastating tale focuses on Olivia, a young girl in the American south who believes the local pastor to be God, because when he visits she overhears her mother screaming “Oh, God!” from the bedroom.Central to the story is the “best cobbler in the world” – a fruit pie that Olivia’s mother bakes for…

For a few golden months, Wordle was the most talked-about game of the year. The ingenious word game had a simple premise, tasking players to guess a five-letter word each day in six guesses. The short daily time commitment and an easy to understand puzzle premise made it an instant phenomenon — so much so that the New York Times acquired it. Though after months of Twitter score sharing and countless clones, the fad seems to have died down for now. If you’re looking for a new daily puzzle game to fill that void,…