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The award-winning novelist and social critic Marilynne Robinson has turned the focus of her literary intelligence on to the first book of the Bible. Genesis, the foundational imaginative text of western culture, has permeated our art and literature, as well as shaping a whole understanding of life, including politics. Its stories remain at once compelling and mystifying. Some of the stories, most obviously that of a great flood, resemble others from Mesopotamia, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Enuma Elish, but…

After eight years of Democratic leadership, North Carolina’s next governor could be a guy with a long history of shitposting on Facebook. Mark Robinson, the winner of the state’s Republican primary for governor on Tuesday, has served as North Carolina’s lieutenant governor since 2021. He shot into the national spotlight in part by devoting himself to Donald Trump and making a slew of incendiary, deeply bigoted comments. Trump has endorsed Robinson for the state’s top job, and even called him “Martin Luther King on…

In an extended dialogue between Marilynne Robinson and Barack Obama, published a few years ago in the New York Review of Books, Obama homes in on the dimension of Robinson’s writing that makes her so unusual as a 21st-century literary figure. “You’re a novelist,” he observes, “but you’re also – can I call you a theologian? Does that sound, like, too stuffy? You care a lot about Christian thought.”This could be described as something of an understatement. Robinson wears her faith on the sleeves of most of her books. In the…

While her name is an awful mouthful, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon remains something of a Zelig figure. Pick up almost any book about Victorian literary circles and she’ll be in it somewhere. You see her here, you see her there, this much-admired artist and co-founder of Girton College, Cambridge, this cousin of Florence Nightingale and friend of George Eliot. In as much as she sticks in the mind when your attention is really supposed to be elsewhere, she is a pleasing, bustling kind of figure: independent, cheery, rather…

Comedian taking beloved Netflix sketch comedy series on 10-date road trip to theaters across the U.S. Tim Robinson will take I Think You Should Leave on the road this spring on a month-long tour. Series co-creator Zach Kanin will join the comedian on the tour, and while specifics and special guests haven’t been revealed, the show will likely attempt to replicate the zaniness and awkwardness of the beloved Netflix sketch comedy series in a live setting. The 10-date trek begins April 2 at New…

The directorial debut of Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya unfolds in a dystopian near-future London, a city in which the division between the haves and the have-nots has deepened to such an extent that society seems to be simmering on the brink of a civil war. The flashpoint is the Kitchen, a condemned housing estate that nods to Blade Runner-style future slums and the powder-keg banlieue of Romain Gavras’s 2022 film Athena. Threatened with eviction, the residents barricade themselves against repeated assaults by armed…

Smokey Robinson has a message for all those TikTokers who just found out about his latest album Gasms: “Get your mind off of sex.” Recently, a TikTok user named “Hollywoodnut” posted a video where he shares his amazement learning about the soul legend’s 2022 LP and its eye-catching album title. “This is insane,” he noted in the video that’s been viewed upward of 1.8 million times. “Like in what context would I listen to this song?” Somehow, Hollywoodnut’s inquiry reached Robinson, who took apparently took a…

Dave Bozeman, who built a middle-mile transportation network at Amazon, takes over a business wrestling with sliding demand and an activist investor. Dave Bozeman, who built a middle-mile transportation network at Amazon, takes over a business wrestling with sliding demand and an activist investor. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified.…

Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross were intimately involved.Robinson admitted to the affair in a new interview with The Guardian, telling the outlet that they were seeing each other for “about a year” during his marriage to his first wife, Claudette Rogers.“I was married at the time. were working together and it just happened. But it was beautiful,” he said. “She’s a beautiful lady, and I love her right til today. She’s one of my closest people. She was young and trying to get her career together.”The 83-year-old explained…

Towards Mastering AIMathematics, binary classification, logic gates, and moreTL;DRThe world of perceptrons is fascinating. Perceptron models are the building blocks of modern artificial intelligence. This blog post makes a long story short. Let us learn the story of the perceptron (i.e., from neural network to multilayer perceptron and beyond). We will dig into the simple mathematics that drives the model deployable as a binary classifier and a simulated computer transistor, multiplier, and even logic gate. Let us look at…