Coca-Cola’s A.I.-Generated Holiday Ads Receive Backlash
The company’s nostalgia-filled commercials are a holiday tradition, but this year’s ads, which use generative artificial intelligence, have caused a stir.
The fact that Putin had to effectively hire 10,000 North Korean forces to help fight his reckless war in Ukraine shows two things: how afraid he is to stop without a visible victory “and how afraid he is of a societal backlash if he is forced to send into the trenches raw 18-year-old ethnic-Russian conscripts, especially from Moscow and St. Petersburg where the Russian elite lives,” said Aron, author of “Riding the Tiger: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the Uses of War.”
普丁必須有效地僱用10,000 名朝鮮軍隊來幫助他在烏克蘭進行魯莽的戰爭，這一事實表明了兩件事：他是多麼害怕：在沒有取得明顯勝利的情況下停止戰爭；「他是多麼害怕社會的強烈反對我們把18歲的俄羅斯族應徵入伍士兵帶入戰壕，特別是來自俄羅斯精英居住的莫斯科和聖彼得堡。」《騎虎：弗拉基米爾·普丁的俄羅斯和戰爭的用途》一書的作者阿隆說
如果有可能在烏克蘭問題上達成雙方都能接受的協議——在現有戰線上大致實現長期停火，以換取部分取消對俄羅斯的製裁，並加速烏克蘭加入歐盟以及提供安全保證，但不是正式的加入北約——這很可能只有在普丁在那裡遭受更多失敗並且川普明確表示如果普丁不讓步的話他將加大力度武裝烏克蘭之後才會發生。
Zelensky Lowers Ukraine’s Draft Age, Risking Political Backlash
如果有可能在烏克蘭問題上達成雙方都能接受的協議——在現有戰線上大致實現長期停火，以換取部分取消對俄羅斯的製裁，並加速烏克蘭加入歐盟以及提供安全保證，但不是正式的加入北約——這很可能只有在普丁在那裡遭受更多失敗並且川普明確表示如果普丁不讓步的話他將加大力度武裝烏克蘭之後才會發生。Zelensky Lowers Ukraine’s Draft Age, Risking Political Backlash
Macron, Risking Backlash, Pushes Through Law Raising Retirement Age
Lacking parliamentary support, President Emmanuel Macron of France used a special measure to circumvent a vote, a step likely to further enrage opponents.
ENVIRONMENT
Trump Order to Open Arctic and Atlantic Waters to Drilling Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
- Judge Sharon L. Gleason, who is based in Alaska, said President Trump had exceeded his authority.
- The decision is expected to be appealed, but it has broader implications for other drilling efforts by Mr. Trump.
By 2030, we may be gobbling turkey meat grown in bioreactors.
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Would you eat a turkey if it were grown in a lab?
By 2030, we may be gobbling turkey meat grown in bioreactors.
Would you eat a turkey if it were grown in a lab?
By 2030, we may be gobbling turkey meat grown in bioreactors.
Of the many culture clashes Donald Trump has fueled over the past year, his provoking of women is the riskiest
Twitter's Censors Provoke Backlash
After years of touting itself as a champion of free expression, Twitter touched off a torrent of criticism after it announced it can remove messages from the online service within specific countries if asked to do so.
China Lashes Back at Hacking Claims 12
suborner
(sub-ORN-uhr)
noun
One who suborns i.e. induces another to perform an unlawful act secretly or give false testimony.
Etymology
From Latin subornare, from sub- (secretly) + ornare (to equip). Other words that derive from the same root (ornare): adorn, ornate.
Usage
"I am not in the least provoked at the Sight of a Lawyer, a Pick-pocket, a Colonel, a Fool, a Lord, a Gamester, a Politician, a Whore-Master, a Physician, an Evidence, a Suborner, an Attorney, a Traitor, or the like: This is all according to the due Course of Things." — Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of The Houyhnhnms), 1726.
"UNPROVOKED AND COWARDLY""A LEGITIMATE STRIKE IN SELF-DEFENSE."
TODAY'S PAPERS
Strike Out
By Daniel PolitiPosted Thursday, June 12, 2008, at 6:16 AM ET The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal's world-wide newsbox lead with news that U.S. forces launched a series of intense airstrikes that killed 11 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers along the Afghan border in an attack that immediately raised tensions between the American and Pakistani governments.
Details are still sketchy and no one really knows what exactly happened on Tuesday night but what is clear is that the attack threatened the already fragile relations between the United States and one of its key allies in the region.
Early yesterday the Pakistani military said the airstrikes were "unprovoked and cowardly" while the Pentagon characterized it as "a legitimate strike in self-defense."
provoke (CAUSE REACTION)
verb [T]
to cause a reaction, especially a negative one:
The prospect of increased prices has already provoked an outcry.
Test results provoked worries that the reactor could overheat.
provocative
adjective
causing thought about interesting subjects:
The programme will take a detailed and provocative look at the problem of homelessness.provoke (ANGER)
verb [T]
to make or try to make a person or an animal angry:
It was a vicious-looking dog and I didn't want to provoke it.
He was clearly trying to get at me but I refused to be provoked.
I was provoked into the argument.
provocation
noun [C or U]
an action or statement that is intended to make someone angry:
He'd fly into a rage at the slightest provocation.
provocative
adjective
1 causing an angry reaction, usually intentionally:
a provocative question/remark
In a deliberately provocative speech, she criticised the whole system of government.
2 If behaviour or clothing is provocative, it is intended to cause sexual desire:
She slowly leaned forward in a provocative way.
provocatively
adverb
She dresses very provocatively (= intending to cause sexual desire).
suborn
[動](他)((形式))
1 …を買収する；…をひそかに教唆する.
2 《法律》〈証人に〉偽証させる.
sùb・or・ná・tion
[名][U]買収, 教唆；《法律》偽証の教唆.lash
- lash1
- 発音
- lǽʃ
- lashの変化形
- lashes (複数形) • lashed (過去形) • lashed (過去分詞) • lashing (現在分詞) • lashes (三人称単数現在)
[名]
2 むちひも；むちの先.
4 （手足などの）すばやい動き, （尾の）一振り；（波・雨などが）激しく打ち当たること.
5 ((〜es))まつげ(eyelash).
━━[動](他)
1 ［III[名]（[副]）］…をむち打つ；…を（むちのようなもので）打つ, 打ちすえる((with ...))；〈波・雨・風などが〉…を激しく打つ
2 〈人を〉駆り立てる, 駆り立てて［刺激して］（ある状態に）させる；((〜 -self))（…に）なる((to, into ...))
4 〈手足・尾などを〉すばやく［激しく］動かす.
━━(自)
1 （むち・こぶしなどで）激しく打つ, （…を）打ちのめす, 激しくののしる, （…に）非難を浴びせる((out/at, against ...；into ...))
2 〈風・雨などが〉（…に）強く打ち当たる((against ...))；（…に）激しく降る((down/on ...))；〈涙などが〉はらはら出る；〈光が〉きらめく.
3 〈動物が〉尾を強く振る；激しく動く, のたうち回る((about, around)).
［中英語lasshe. おそらく擬声語］
lash・ing・ly
[副]backlash
/ˈbaklaʃ/
noun
- 1.a strong negative reaction by a large number of people, especially to a social or political development."a public backlash against racism"
- 2.recoil arising between parts of a mechanism.
backlash
- báck • làsh
- backlashの変化形
- backlashes (複数形) • backlashes (三人称単数現在)
[名][U]
1 （…に対する）反発, 反動((against ...))；（黒人解放運動に対する）白人の反発(white backlash).
2 《機械》すきま, あそび, がた（機械・歯車のゆるみなど）.
3 《釣り》釣り糸のもつれ.
━━[動](自)
1 激しく反発する.
2 《機械》あそびをつくる.
3 〈リールの釣り糸が〉もつれる.
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