{"id":33461,"date":"2024-08-06T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/tuesday-headlines-bad-taste-makes-waste#id33213"},"modified":"2024-08-06T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:05:00","slug":"tuesday-headlines-bad-taste-makes-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/tuesday-headlines-bad-taste-makes-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday headlines: (Bad) taste makes waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Olympic security, French authorities are using&mdash;and critics argue, abusing&mdash;an anti-terror law to restrict the movements of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2024-olympics-paris-police-oversight-security-threats-768366a086fd4c62ccaae7993c8c450e\">hundreds of people.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ AP<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aug. 2, 2024, was Black Friday for the artificial intelligence boom, as a week of rough earnings from Big Tech led to what felt like the entire media industry to ask: is the AI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheresyoured.at\/burst-damage\/\">bubble popping?&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Where&#39;s Your Ed At<\/span><\/p>\n<p>David Lynch says he&#39;s unable to leave his house due to emphysema, but has no plans to retire: &#8220;I would do it remotely if it comes to it. I wouldn&#39;t like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/twin-peaks-director-david-lynch-diagnosed-with-emphysema-after-smoking-for-so-long\">that so much.&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ The Daily Beast<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ridiculous plot for M. Night Shyamalan&#39;s new movie&mdash;where an entire concert is staged for a sting operation&mdash;is loosely based on an actual, ridiculous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/trap-true-story-operation-flagship\">sting operation.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ GQ<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over-describing something trivial can lead to your players fixating on it.&#8221; <em>Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/em> taught me how to <a href=\"https:\/\/ericwbailey.website\/published\/dungeons-and-dragons-taught-me-how-to-write-alt-text\/\">write alt text.<\/a><span style=\"color:#A9A9A9\"> \/ Eric W. Bailey<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Why are so many prized midcentury homes being gutted right now&mdash;or worse, torn down? 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