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Kim Kardashian will be the fifth wheel for Netflix. As previously announced, the reality TV superstar turned budding actress will lead the ensemble comedy movie The Fifth Wheel, which landed at Netflix in a competitive situation. Paula Pell and Janine Brito are behind the screenplay, with plot details being kept under wraps, but Kardashian will play the eponymous “fifth wheel” alongside a female ensemble cast. (The rest of the cast has yet to be announced.) Kardashian and Pell will also produce. Pell, a Saturday Night Live alum, wrote the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler comedy film Sisters and previously starred in Netflix feature Wine Country. Brito, who is married to Pell, has credits that include the NBC sitcom Mr. Mayor. The duo plays spouses on the comedy Girls5Eva, which recently moved to Netflix after two seasons on Peacock. Kardashian can currently be seen in the latest American Horror Story season, Delicate, and has lent her voice to animated features like the PAW Patrol film and its sequel The Mighty Movie. The Fifth Wheel was pursued by several studios, including those that were considering a theatrical release, and it has become one of the first big packages to land at a

Skip to content President Biden is looking to remove restrictions on Israel’s access to weapons and ammunition stored in a US stockpile located in Israel, The Intercept reported on Saturday. The US military maintains a reserve stockpile of arms in Israel known as the War Reserve Stockpile Allies-Israel (WRSA-I). Israel has been granted access to the WRSA-I during previous conflicts under a set of rules that the White House now wants to eliminate. The White House included the lifting of the restrictions in its emergency supplemental request it made to Congress on October 20 for approximately $105 billion to fund military aid for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan. Under the current restrictions, the US can only transfer weapons and ammunition to the WRSA-I that are “obsolete or surplus.” The White House’s request would eliminate that requirement and “allow for the transfer of all categories of defense articles.” The request would scrap the requirement for Israel to make certain “concessions” to access the stockpile by giving the Pentagon “greater flexibility in determining the value of the concessions provided in exchange for the transfers.” It would remove congressional oversight by eliminating the requirement of providing 30-day notice before a weapons transfer. The request

Cobb County-headquartered home improvement retail giant The Home Depot announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire International Designs Group (IDG) which owns Construction Resources and other design-oriented subsidiaries. The intent of the acquisition is to increase the company’s reach into the professional construction services market. The press release described the acquisition as follows: Construction Resources is a leading distributor of design-oriented surfaces, appliances and architectural specialty products for professional (Pro) contractors focused on renovation, remodeling, residential home building and multi-family. The Pro spend represents a $475 billion addressable market, and The Home Depot is focused on capturing a larger share by building capabilities to serve Pros of all sizes – from Pros working on smaller jobs to larger, more complex projects. The acquisition combines Construction Resources’ expertise in complex, cross-category professional projects with The Home Depot’s scale, product authority and distribution expertise. With showrooms across the East Coast and Southeast, Construction Resources allows The Home Depot to expand the capabilities it offers Pro customers, many of whom rely on showrooms as part of their consultative approach to complex renovation and remodel jobs. “Almost all Pros interact with The Home Depot, but their level of engagement varies based on

Bradley Cooper may be doing serious roles at this point in his career, but he’s not opposed to returning to his earlier, more comedic ones. The multihyphenate stopped by The New Yorker Radio Hour to discuss his film, Maestro. During the podcast appearance, he also opened up about whether or not he would do more “fun” movies again one day. “I would probably do Hangover IV in an instant,” the filmmaker said. “Just because I love Todd , I love Zach , I love Ed so much, I probably would.” When pressed about whether or not that’s coming, Cooper admitted, “I don’t think Todd is ever going to do that.” While he hasn’t done traditionally funny roles lately, he explained that he is having the most fun of his career right now and doesn’t find the heavier movies he’s been working on recently “exhausting” as many people might. “There’s nothing more fun that I’ve experienced than Maestro and A Star is Born,” he said. “I wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t.” Cooper directed, co-wrote and stars in Maestro, opposite Carey Mulligan. He portrays legendary composer Leonard Bernstein, while Mulligan takes on the role of his wife, Felicia Montealegre Cohn

What’s the difference between a Star Trek ship and an X-rated actress? At first glance, there are many… But not for this anti-piracy company specializing in copyright. Explanations. The resemblance is obvious, it’s true… As you can imagine, as a community site, Tumblr receives thousands of DMCA takedown requests (a complaint of alleged copyright infringement) each year. Overall, these requests are justified… but not all. Automattic, Tumblr’s parent company, is known for icarefully inspect all submitted takedown notices and defend its users, whether the abuse is intentional or not. To protect their works and enforce their copyright, rights holders regularly call on third-party companies to remove illegal content published on websites, forums, file hosts or torrent platforms. Generally, these companies use bots to analyze the web looking for possible copyright violations of their clients. And unfortunately, these robots are very often as stupid as feet. A Star Trek ship and an X-rated actress, the improbable misunderstanding Recently, a fan page dedicated to Star Trek on Tumblr suffered from the limited intelligence of bots of the company DMCA Piracy Prevent inc. On the blog platform, fans maintain a page dedicated to the SS Sirena, one of the star ships of the

by Joseph Patrick Kelly, College of Charleston, For better and worse, the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, has come to represent the overlooked cultural divisions between urban and small-town America. The courthouse was the site of the lynching of a Black teenager in 1927. It also served as a rallying spot for white vigilantes who assembled there during race riots in 1946. It is now the focus of a modern-day controversy that emerged shortly after popular country singer Jason Aldean released his music video in July 2023 for his hit single “Try That in a Small Town.” The courthouse was used as a backdrop with an American flag in that video. Though no mention of race occurs in the song, the racial overtones are there, as the lyrics boldly smack of modern-day, big-city crime against old-fashioned, small-city values: Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk/ Carjack an old lady at a red light/ Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store/ Well, try that in a small town/ See how far ya make it down the road/ Around here, we take care of our own/ You cross that

by Tara K. Miller, University of Virginia and Richard B. Primack, Boston University, At hundreds of wildlife rehabilitation centers across the U.S., people can learn about wild animals and birds at close range. These sites, which may be run by nonprofits or universities, often feature engaging exhibits, including “ambassador” animals that can’t be released – an owl with a damaged wing, for example, or a fox that was found as a kit and became accustomed to being fed by humans. What’s less visible are the patients – sick and injured wild animals that have been admitted for treatment. Each year, people bring hundreds of thousands of sick and injured wild animals to wildlife rehab centers. Someone may find an injured squirrel on the side of the road or notice a robin in their backyard that can’t fly, and then call the center to pick up an animal in distress. We study ecology and biology, and recently used newly digitized records from wildlife rehabilitation centers to identify the human activities that are most harmful to wildlife. In the largest study of its kind, we reviewed 674,320 records, mostly from 2011 to

Peter Dinklage thinks the Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is for everyone, whether they’re fans of the original film franchise or not. The Game of Thrones star plays Casca Highbottom in the prequel. He is the Dean of the Academy in the Capitol, who unintentionally creates the Hunger Games and lives to regret it. “It’s what we call in the trades a prequel,” Dinklage said on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. “So you don’t need to see the other movies — or perhaps it will inspire you to see the films already made — but he created it, and now the genie’s out of the bottle, and he realizes what he’s done is horrible. So, he likes to intoxicate himself to cover the pain up.” The Emmy winner shared that the outrageous fashion the Hunger Games became known for in the first few films still applies to the prequel but with a “Cold War” twist. He also said they filmed in Berlin, where they used a lot of the old architecture for their backgrounds. “I used to party. I don’t party much anymore,” Dinklage admitted when Colbert asked if he partied while on location. “ I found

from the porn-star-trek dept Given that the overwhelming majority of DMCA takedown notices are generated by copyright bots that are only moderately good at their job, at best, perhaps it’s not terribly surprising that these bots keep finding new and interesting ways to cause collateral damage unintentionally. From publishers taking down YouTubers because of an oopsie to Viacom DMCAing its own Star Trek Comic-con panel thinking it was infringing content, the point is that these bots kinda suck. And speaking of Star Trek, this story involves that franchise, in a roundabout way. See, that franchise being what it is and has been for some time, there are a ton of fan sites and blogs out there that cover and discuss every aspect of the shows throughout the years. One of them was a Tumblr site, called “Mapping La Sirena.” If you’re a fan of Star Trek: Picard, you will know that’s the name of the main starship in that series. But if you’re a copyright enforcer for a certain industry, the bots you’ve set up for yourself apparently aren’t programmed with Star Trek fandom. Transparency.automattic reports Tumblr has received numerous DMCA takedown notices from DMCA Piracy Prevention Inc, a third-party copyright

In another plot twist, artificial intelligence start-up OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, said that co-founder Sam Altman was set to return as its CEO after days of drama following a showdown between him and the company’s board that fired him. “We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D’Angelo,” OpenAI said in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter, overnight. “We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.” Taylor is the former co-CEO of cloud-based software company Salesforce, while Summers is a former Treasury Secretary. D’Angelo, the CEO of social question-and-answer website and online knowledge market Quora, will be the only member of OpenAI’s previous board to stay in place.  The previous board and the returning CEO agreed to also conduct an independent probe into Altman’s conduct, last week’s board decision to oust him and the aftermath, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a person familiar with the situation.  Altman said on X following the company announcement: “I love openai, and everything i’ve done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this