Evening Roundup, June 2
Happy Pride Month, Delaney Hall explainer, disruption at the Osaka / Townsend party, Silicon Valley sin, even Milli Vanilli is out, The Pod, Let's Do Lunch, and more
Happy Pride Month, Contrarians! 🏳️🌈
Standing up against the relentless attacks on the LGBTQ+ community and their rights goes beyond the month of June. Pride is a celebration, commemoration, and continued fight for equality. As this administration continues to target trans folks and scrub away LGBTQ+ history, speaking out and protecting LGBTQ+ neighbors is vital.
Spotlight Story
Hot Mic
Naomi Osaka and Taylor Townsend Hosted a Party. And the Haters Showed Up.
By Shalise Manza Young
Some people just can't tolerate Black joy.
The Pope vs AI
The Original Sin of Silicon Valley
Tech bros, clutch your crosses. Last Monday, Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in The Time of Artificial Intelligence. The 42,300 word, pro-human document has taken the world by storm—especially in Silicon Valley.
Culture Vulture, Freedom 250 Edition
How Trump's Nostalgia-Fueled Concert Turned Into an Embarrassing Debacle
Culturally speaking, it can often seem as if Donald Trump is trapped in the early ‘90s, his taste permanently stunted the moment he opened the Taj Mahal Casino (a.k.a. “the 8th wonder of the world”) and left Ivana for Marla Maple…
Thanks for the information about things happening in our government.
If the 'transcription' of the conversation about Pope Leo (or 'Leah' or any of the other bizarre names he appears with therein) has any relevance to what was actually said, it sounds as if the 2 participants are a pair of chimpanzees who have mastered a little English, on meth. I hope somebody in the editorial dept. at the Contrarian (or 'contrarian contrarian contrarian contrarian, factorial, as it appears often in this amazing document) will just take a look at what it printed out and send us at least an apology, if not an ACTUAL transcript. I would have just laughed it off, but I did want to know what's in this article. Such a mess isn't worthy of you people - what in the heck is wrong with your machinery there? Entrusting such tasks to AI, maybe?