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When Columbia students began occupying Hamilton Hall early Tuesday morning, they said their “escalation” builds on past campus protests that “Columbia once repressed yet celebrates today.” There is an irony here. Columbia students often hear about the history of dissent on campus. The university explains the student sit-ins of 1968—when protesters occupied buildings (including Hamilton Hall) for a week to protest anti-Black racism, the Vietnam War, and Columbia’s expansion into the surrounding neighborhood of Morningside Heights—in promotional materials with a hopeful nostalgia.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for The Idea of You. These are grim days for romance. Marriage is down. Engagements are down. People don’t seem to be into dating apps anymore. Even sex is down. The most successful movie last year (Barbie) was about the guy not getting the girl. Where does this leave romantic comedies, that great engine of fantasy that has launched a 100,000 Hinge profiles?

(NEW YORK) — Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as “The New York Trilogy” and “4 3 2 1,” has died at age 77. Auster’s death was confirmed Wednesday by his literary representatives, the Carol Mann Agency, which did not immediately provide additional details.

British singer-songwriter FKA twigs, born Tahliah Debrett Barnett, testified before the U. S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property on Tuesday about the dangers of artificial intelligence. She relayed that she was especially concerned as an artist whose music and performances are used by third parties to train artificial intelligence models.

Denver Water posted a Backstreet Boys parody bursting with summer watering tips on Monday. The video, titled “Splashstreet Boys — I water that way,” is a twist on the iconic Backstreet Boys song “I want it that way,” featuring choregraphed dance sequences, popped collars and cinematic shots of sprinkles. A running toilet, portrayed by Denver Water Change Manager Patrick McCoy, also makes a few star appearances. The lyrics include lines like “Tell me why?