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The hybrid future is often described as a destination. It may be more useful to describe it as a threshold. We are moving into a world in which artificial intelligence is woven into ordinary life: inside work, care, education, writing, medicine, governance, and the private architecture of thought itself. That is why the idea of the Hybrid Tipping Zone matters. It names the moment when AI stops being a tool we occasionally consult and becomes part of the setting in which human judgment is formed. That shift carries promise and pressure. A society that delegates more of its cognitive labor…

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By Evelyn Rappaport, Psy.D.P.C. Five-year-old Adam speaks about the war with striking clarity. He distinguishes between different types of missiles and describes the current escalation of the Iran War as “less scary” than the 12-day Iranian war in June of 2025. His tone is calm, almost observational. Yet beneath his words lies a nervous system already learning to track threat, compare intensity, and make meaning of danger. Twelve-year-old Ami moves quickly when the siren sounds. As he gathers his siblings and heads to the shelter, he pauses to collect two items that do not belong to him: his younger sister’s…

I’m excited for Daily Dead readers to start seeing Hokum in theaters. This film was a huge crowd-pleaser at The Overlook Film Festival, and, if you loved Oddity, you’re going to really enjoy Damian McCarthy’s haunted hotel story. I recently had a chance to speak with McCarthy for a discussion about developing the story, the film’s themes, building his haunted hotel, and working with Adam Scott. “When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him…

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf will not face any charges stemming from an incident with a Detroit Lions fan during a game last December. The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday that it will not pursue a criminal complaint against Metcalf following an investigation into the incident between Metcalf and Ryan Kennedy. CBS cameras caught Metcalf and Kennedy, a Lions fan wearing a blue wig and a blue and black shirt that aligned with Detroit’s colors, having an exchange along the rail in the second quarter of Pittsburgh’s 29-24 victory on Dec. 21. Kennedy leaned over the railing during…

It may have escaped your attention: Today, May 1, is International Tuba Day. Distinguished as the largest of all brass instruments that delivers the lowest, mellowest tone, the tuba nonetheless often oom pah pahs in an invitingly comic way. While tuba’s booms presage the appearance of movie monsters (think King Kong, Godzilla, Jaws, or Jabba the Hut), the big horn more memorably accompanies the debut of circus clowns and the pratfalls of cartoon characters. Bugs Bunny, appearing as a conductor, memorably tormented a haughty operatic tenor with a tuba in “Long Haired Hare” (1943), sabotaging his performance. (On early Saturday…

“A Blind Bargain” reimagines a lost Lon Chaney film from 1922. A Blind Bargain pretty much had me at “Crispin Glover in a remake of a lost Lon Chaney film.” Not surprisingly the result is a weird proposition. It’s essentially a mad scientist film, and the flick itself is ultimately an offbeat experiment.Set in 1970, the film provides an experience not unlike one of those late-sixties flicks you used to stumble onto on a late movie airing, asking yourself what the hell’s really going on here? Fashions of the era and occasional psychedelic touches help give A Blind Bargain that feel,…

This was the week Zach Cregger stopped being a horror director and started being a horror studio. That is not the only thing that happened, but it feels like it isn’t being stated enough. The Resident Evil Teaser Is Here The first footage from Zach Cregger‘s Resident Evil dropped Wednesday, and it does not look […]

When faced with the suffering of others, many people instinctively tend to turn away. “Attention has become a moral currency,” writes Bernard A. Saltzman in his new book Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture (2026). For Saltzman, turning a blind eye is “deeply embedded in the experience of being human.” This is poignantly illustrated in the painting, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, circa 1558, attributed to Flemish painter Peter Bruegel the Elder, in which the artist depicts the myth of Daedalus and Icarus from Book VIII of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Throughout the centuries, the myth has captured the…

If you’re feeling nips of déjà vu, don’t panic. Roughly two years ago, Claudio Fäh premiered his ambitious yet underwhelming “plane crash shark attack” movie, No Way Up. Luckily, B-movie technician Renny Harlin knows his way around mid-tier enjoyment with an emphasis on calculated ridiculousness. Deep Water starts as a terrifying airplane disaster flick, then morphs into a frenzied creature feature as sharks feed on waterlogged survivors. It’s a bit bloated and frazzled—a downside to such a large ensemble vying for meaty emotional arcs—but Harlin’s in control of his cataclysmic air-then-aquatic thriller, which captivates throughout. Aaron Eckhart stars as Ben,…