fruit roulette By TOM KRISHER, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — For a second time, a Delaware judge has nullified a pay package that Tesla had awarded its CEO, Elon Musk, that once was valued at $56 billion. On Monday, Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick turned aside a request from Musk’s lawyers to reverse a ruling she announced in January that had thrown out the compensation plan. The judge ruled then that Musk effectively controlled Tesla’s board and had engineered the outsize pay package during sham negotiations . Lawyers for a Tesla shareholder who sued to block the pay package contended that shareholders who had voted for the 10-year plan in 2018 had been given misleading and incomplete information. In their defense, Tesla’s board members asserted that the shareholders who ratified the pay plan a second time in June had done so after receiving full disclosures, thereby curing all the problems the judge had cited in her January ruling. As a result, they argued, Musk deserved the pay package for having raised Tesla’s market value by billions of dollars. McCormick rejected that argument. In her 103-page opinion, she ruled that under Delaware law, Tesla’s lawyers had no grounds to reverse her January ruling “based on evidence they created after trial.” On Monday night, Tesla posted on X, the social media platform owned by Musk, that the company will appeal. The appeal would be filed with the Delaware Supreme Court, the only state appellate court Tesla can pursue. Experts say a ruling would likely come in less than a year. “The ruling, if not overturned, means that judges and plaintiffs’ lawyers run Delaware companies rather than their rightful owners — the shareholders,” Tesla argued. Later, on X, Musk unleashed a blistering attack on the judge, asserting that McCormick is “a radical far left activist cosplaying as a judge.” Legal authorities generally suggest that McCormick’s ruling was sound and followed the law. Charles Elson, founding director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, said that in his view, McCormick was right to rule that after Tesla lost its case in the original trial, it created improper new evidence by asking shareholders to ratify the pay package a second time. Had she allowed such a claim, he said, it would cause a major shift in Delaware’s laws against conflicts of interest given the unusually close relationship between Musk and Tesla’s board. “Delaware protects investors — that’s what she did,” said Elson, who has followed the court for more than three decades. “Just because you’re a ‘superstar CEO’ doesn’t put you in a separate category.” Elson said he thinks investors would be reluctant to put money into Delaware companies if there were exceptions to the law for “special people.” Elson said that in his opinion, the court is likely to uphold McCormick’s ruling. Experts say no. Rulings on state laws are normally left to state courts. Brian Dunn, program director for the Institute of Compensation Studies at Cornell University, said it’s been his experience that Tesla has no choice but to stay in the Delaware courts for this compensation package. The company could try to reconstitute the pay package and seek approval in Texas, where it may expect more friendlier judges. But Dunn, who has spent 40 years as an executive compensation consultant, said it’s likely that some other shareholder would challenge the award in Texas because it’s excessive compared with other CEOs’ pay plans. “If they just want to turn around and deliver him $56 billion, I can’t believe somebody wouldn’t want to litigate it,” Dunn said. “It’s an unconscionable amount of money.” Almost certainly. Tesla stock is trading at 15 times the exercise price of stock options in the current package in Delaware, Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas wrote in a note to investors. Tesla’s share price has doubled in the past six months, Jonas wrote. At Monday’s closing stock price, the Musk package is now worth $101.4 billion, according to Equilar, an executive data firm. And Musk has asked for a subsequent pay package that would give him 25% of Tesla’s voting shares. Musk has said he is uncomfortable moving further into artificial intelligence with the company if he doesn’t have 25% control. He currently holds about 13% of Tesla’s outstanding shares.The Thursday college basketball slate includes three games with a ranked team in action. Among those games is the South Carolina Gamecocks squaring off against the Iowa State Cyclones. Watch women’s college basketball, other live sports and more on Fubo. What is Fubo? Fubo is a streaming service that gives you access to your favorite live sports and shows on demand. Use our link to sign up for a free trial. Catch tons of live women’s college basketball , plus original programming, with ESPN+ or the Disney Bundle.

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When the Los Angeles Galaxy take the field for their first MLS Cup in a decade on Saturday, they'll do so without their talisman and one of the most singularly influential players in Major League Soccer. Riqui Puig tore his ACL during Saturday's Western Conference final against Seattle Sounders , managing to play the final 30 minutes of the match and deliver the game-winning assist despite the injury. Set for surgery and a lengthy spell on the sidelines , his absence on Saturday will have a massive impact on the match. "We have to kind of redefine who we're going to be and how we're going to win this game without someone like Ricky on the field," Galaxy head coach Greg Vanney told media in the lead-up to MLS Cup. "... We're going to have to adapt, and we're going to have to adapt in a collective way. It's not any one player who's going to step on and do what Riqui has done for us. That's that's for sure." How Can The Galaxy Replace Puig? How do you replace an irreplaceable player? It's an impossible question for the Galaxy to answer, and certainly not one they can answer in just a week's worth of preparation. The impact Puig has on the pitch and the singular effect he has on the Galaxy's entire philosophy cannot be overstated. Marco Reus would seem like the obvious replacement for Puig. The former Borussia Dortmund and Germany superstar was the Galaxy's major signing of the summer, and he's been solid-if-unspectacular this season, logging a goal and four assists in 10 matches this season. However, he's in his own race for fitness ahead of Saturday after coming off with a groin issue at halftime of their Western Conference final win last weekend. "We'll see how his health is as the week progresses. We have some optimism that he can get himself turned around and be and be ready for us," said Vanney. "He's getting treatment, doing the stuff day to day is what I would say. He scanned yesterday and there's some issue there. The question is how prepared can we get him for the game this week? I don't think it's overly significant. It's not debilitating, but it's also challenging. So we'll, we'll see day to day how he recovers." Along with Reus, the Galaxy have a trio of other elite attackers in Joseph Pantsil , Dejan Joveljic and Gabriel Pec , each of whom scored double-digit goals in the regular season. They also have a proven MLS veteran in Diego Fagúndez , who already has 400 MLS matches under his belt at the age of 29 and has been a reliable option for LA this season. "We're definitely going to miss Riqui out there. He's a special player. Everyone can see that. Definitely irreplaceable, right?" posited midfielder Mark Delgado . "He wants to win this championship more than anyone? But we want to win it for him. We're definitely going to look forward to it." How Vanney Will Adapt His Game Plan Simply put, there's not a plug-and-play replacement for Riqui Puig on the roster. There's not one in all of MLS, perhaps even in world football. Puig's impact on his team is unique and unparalleled. "He drives the team in many ways," said Vanney. "When you look at the stat sheet on any given day, he's probably touched the ball 120 times, 140 times... He wants to win and he wants to impact the game. And so we'll miss that on the attacking side for sure, having somebody who can just change the tempo of a game like this. And any play, in any given moment can be the one that changes the game when you have a guy like Riqui because of his capacity to pull those kind of plays off and do things like that." "On the defensive side of things, he's someone who is an intelligent defender," he continued. "About his positioning, but more than anything, he's someone that the opposition always has to account for in transition because the team is so good and transition through him... He's a unique player in what he does." It's going to take a different-looking game model from Vanney and his staff to bring home a trophy on Saturday. Whoever does get the start in place of Puig won't be a like-for-like replacement. "It's going to be a different type of player than Riqui," he acknowledged. "[The Red Bulls] want to be disruptors as much as they want to be creators in many ways. How we want to manage that situation both early and later are things that we're working through, talking through and figuring out the right personnel to try to approach the game." Vanney On Riqui Puig's Assist: "It Was Extraordinary" Puig tore his ACL in the 63rd minute of the Galaxy's 1-0 MLS Western Conference final win over the Seattle Sounders. Not only did he stay on the field for the final 30 minutes, he continued to be one of the best players on the pitch, ultimately setting up Gabriel Pec for his 85th-minute winner. "When I went back and watched the game, I cringed a lot more at his movements and I was actually incredibly impressed at some of the ways that he was able to do things on one foot and protect the knee, but still execute play," said Vanney, who called the injury a 'straightforward ACL tear', putting to rest any speculation that the injury was less than severe. " I think given the moment, the adrenaline, the competitor inside of him, I don't know if he completely knew that [it was torn]... When I spoke to him later, he said he felt like his knee was a little unstable. He felt some clicking, but he didn't necessarily hear or feel like a pop, which sometimes is an indication." While Puig was able to force the Galaxy into their first MLS Cup final since 2014, he'll have to watch from the sidelines as his teammates compete for MLS's prized trophy. It won't be easy for one of the league's greatest competitors. "Emotionally, he's devastated," said Vanney. "To work as hard as he has and to care as much as he does about being in this moment, this is what he came here for, to be in this game that's coming up and to win a championship. And that's what he's been driven and motivated by. And so you can imagine it's difficult." For the rest of the Galaxy, that just makes their match on Saturday all the more important. "We're definitely going to miss Riqui out there," said Delgado. Our heart is with him, and it definitely gives us the reason to go out there and give it our all for him. LA Galaxy star Riqui Puig has suffered a torn ACL.The Trump 2.0 administration has presented more questions than answers about how the world order would adapt to his changes of policies and unpredictability. As of now, many observers seem to reach a consensus that no one is safe with the new President Trump’s administration. Unsafe in terms of level of economic impacts. Every observer is trying to suggest how to make their country safe or at least receiving less damages. Trump’s shock seems to resonate everywhere even in a tiny country like Cambodia. Peace and wars of other means One could expect peace to happen when Trump 2.0 kicks off. Everyone is expecting Trump to become savior of the world from the emerging World War III and nuclear war. But what is puzzling is that with the remaining less than two months in office, how could outgoing President Joe Biden allow Ukraine to use US long ranged missiles to conduct deeper strike in Russia’s territory? Has he done that without consultation with incoming President knowingly that the latter would scrap such approval to keep his campaign promise to make peace in Ukraine immediately after entering office? Or is it a tactic for the US, assuming that both outgoing and incoming presidents have consulted one another, to gain negotiation leverage with Russia? It is unlikely that President Joe Biden would release the last-minute deal in his remaining hours in office. Hot wars are expected to decrease but tensions are expected to heighten. Everyone needs to fasten their seat belts, as no one can be comfortable with the hawkish Trump’s cabinet from anti-immigration policy to anti-China and overall increase of tariffs, as well as the increased demands from the US towards its allies, NATO, Japan and South Korea to pay more defense burdens, and to buy more US military hard and software. There would be three types of wars of other means to be pursued by Trump: Economic and trade war, currency war, and technological war, which were implemented already in the previous Trump administration. It is expected that China will become once again the main targets of these three wars. But it is remains to be seen how would Trump pursue technological war with China when Elon Musk is in his cabinet and has a large vested interest with China. Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory – which accounts for almost 23 per cent of the company’s overall revenue – was built with significant support from Chinese authorities, including expedited permits and loans from state banks, as well as tax breaks. Trump’s tariff – does it really work? Goldman Sachs Research forecasts a rosy picture of the US’ economy following Trump’s entering of office. Goldman Sachs projected that the US will outperform expectations while the euro area lags behind amid fresh tariffs that are anticipated from the Trump administration. US GDP is projected to increase 2.5% in 2025, well ahead of the consensus at 1.9%. US core PCE inflation should slow to 2.4% by late 2025. The forecast would rise to around 3% if the US imposes an across-the-board tariff of 10%. The effects of potential new US trade policies on US GDP are expected to be small and largely offset by other factors, according to Goldman Sachs Research’s baseline outlook. Potential tariffs would result in a modest hit to real (inflation adjusted) disposable personal income via higher consumer prices. The aim of tariff is to increase revenues, to reduce trade deficits, and to pressure companies to move factories and create jobs in the US to avoid paying high tariff. However, while Trump’s tariffs have helped some workers, they can also hurt others. Trade policy almost always has important distributive effects, and any change in trade policy is a choice to benefit some groups at the expense of others. According to Brooking Institution, any benefits for workers in import-competing industries need to be balanced against losses for two other groups of workers. First, many workers are employed in factories that use imported goods as inputs in their production processes, and when these imports increase in cost due to tariffs, it harms their production, often leading to job losses. Second, when the US unilaterally imposes tariffs, American trading partners often implement retaliatory tariffs which may limit US export production, again ultimately harming workers in these industries. Also, as inflation is the key concern for consumers, it is still unsure how his tariff policy would make importers maintain the same price for the end-users. Logically, the importers would want to share burdens between them and the consumers to ensure that both the production cost and last retail price would not increase too much. It is unlikely that the producers would have to take all the burdens into the production cost alone. As such, American consumers too would have to carry the burden of price increase, and thus raising the inflation in the US. For the producers, they would have three options: 1) relocate their factories from China to the US; 2) relocate their factories to the US neighbors or to countries that have lower tariffs from the US; and 3) find alternative markets beside the US. Mostly producers would choose option 2, because their production chains have been reliant on China which is the “Factory of the World” for quite some times already. Finding a substitute for China is not realistically easy because China has huge market, large pool of skilled labor force, and sophisticated supply chain. While some experts suggested “China+1” strategy for relocation, some realist experts suggested “China + many” because China’s shoes are too big to fill the substitution. On the other hand, the EU is searching for alternative market. It has resumed its trade deal negotiation with the Mercosur in Latin America as a long-term strategy by the EU to avoid over reliance on the US and China. For Europe, it is not the economic gains that make the agreement the most attractive, but rather its strategic significance in an era when the bloc is facing trade disputes with its two biggest trade partners, the US and China. ASEAN, including Cambodia, too needs to revitalize its non-China and non-US trade partnerships and make them healthier to absorb certain impacts from extreme volatility of the US and China’s measures. Either way, the market is smart. They don’t wait to die. When you choke in one area, the market moves to another area to find space to breathe. This is probably the true meaning of the “invisible hands of God” as resources flow into profitable channels and the market self-adjusts, self-redistributes and self-revitalizes. Trump would continue to move forward his hardcore tariff policies. The only factors that can de-accelerate his policy would be the voices of the American producers abroad who cannot make profit from factories’ relocation, and the high cost of consumption and inflation back in the US. In other word, the boomerang effects of Trump’s policy to punish others but eventually he is so hurting American businesses and consumers. Deal-making, ticket for favoritism from Trump’s Presidency Some are suggesting that countries need to take side to be safe. But when the allies, especially NATO, Japan and South Korea are also unsafe, and when protection fee is expected to increase, the means to be safe is only to buy something from the US and pay a large amount of money to gain Trump’s attention. Trump was very vocal in demanding America’s allies to pay more for security burden sharing. Making a deal favorable to the US is also a trademark of Trump’s presidency. Recently, former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has called for government incentives to help local businesses invest in the US. This is not unprecedented. In the previous Trump’s administration, the then Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha’s visited the White House on 2-4 October 2017 and made a deal to purchase 20 Boeing airplanes for Thai Airways, and to make investments in the US worth US$6 billion to create more than 8,000 jobs. The Thai petroleum company PTT also agreed to invest in shale gas factories in Ohio, and Thailand agreed to buy arms and military equipment, including four Blackhawk and Lakota helicopters, a Cobra gunship, five Harpoon Block II missiles, and upgrades to its F-16s, among others. When visiting Hanoi, Vietnam, in February 2020, the then President Trump was pleased with the US$21 billion “Big-Ticket Purchases” by Vietnam, which included 100 American-made Boeing 737-MAX jets and 215 General Electric-developed LEAP engines by VietJet, and 10 Boeing 787-9 aircraft by Bamboo Airways. The purchases were said to have supported more than 83,000 American jobs. Trump – the Savior and the Emperor There have been too many discussions already at every corner of the world about the impact of Trump 2.0. administration to their regions and countries. From those discussions, it sounds as if Trump would become the savior of the world from war escalation and destruction. When he claims to “Make America Great Again”, and then everyone needs to come to pay monetary or commercial tribute to America, in one way, it all sounds like bribery, and in aother way, it sounds like each and every nation need to pay homage to the Emperor, in this case President Trump, to gain the latter’s attention, protection and blessings. But is it really true that the rest of the world would sit idly succumbing to Trump’s pressure? Maybe yes in the short term but it is more likely that the rest of the world would try to figure out alternatives to the Trump’s imperial system and behavior. All in all, Trump’s shock will be shaky, and every country needs to be vigilant and versatile backed by a proper buffer to ensure resilience towards the incoming shocks. Indeed, in crisis there may lie opportunities. Countries need to think hard to identify such opportunities. At the moment, it is still too blurred to really say what would be the possible opportunities from the shock form Trump 2.0 administration. The author is a geopolitical and security analyst. The views expressed here are her own.

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The US provided no evidence that China manipulates TikTok content inside the country, court saysThe Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs that have become commonplace at US colleges and corporations and are meant to tackle discrimination could actually be counterproductive and incite racial tension, a new study has found. The report by Rutgers University’s Social Perception Lab and Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) published on Monday, found that certain DEI practices have led some participants to become irrationally confrontational. “Across all groupings, instead of reducing bias, [DEI trainings] engendered a hostile attribution bias, amplifying perceptions of prejudicial hostility where none was present, and punitive responses to the imaginary prejudice,” the report states. According to researchers, this would manifest itself by participants demonizing those who oppose DEI initiatives as “oppressive, racist, or fascist” simply because they disagree. “When people are supposed to see anti-racist material in the ideology, it looks like what happens is that they become more likely to punish for any evidence of wrongdoing,” study co-author and NCRI Chief Science Officer Joel Finkelstein told Fox News. “That includes calling for dismissal... demanding public apologies... calling for relocation. These punitive measures are, in some cases, costing people their jobs,” Finkelstein added. According to the report, DEI training and materials frequently rely on the words of controversial anti-racist authors Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo. The two authors have faced widespread criticism for their promotion of Critical Race Theory. The researchers concluded that Kendi and DiAngelo’s works promote divisive “core themes.” They include: “Normal institutions and Western ideologies are secretly enforcing racist agendas and White people are beneficiaries and entitled to the benefits of systemic white supremacy and racism,” “Western countries are compromised by virtue of their racist ideology and past,” and “Anti-racist discrimination is the only solution to racist discrimination.” The NCRI also found that anti-Islamophobia material that comes from a Muslim advocacy group may cause individuals to believe Muslim people are being treated unfairly even if there is no proof of that. “DEI narratives that focus heavily on victimization and systemic oppression can foster unwarranted distrust and suspicions of institutions and alter subjective assessments of events,” the study says. About 52% of American workers are obligated to participate in DEI meetings or training at work, according to a 2023 study from the Pew Research Center.

Barry Keoghan says he can't 'take' the 'hatred' in fiery post over Sabrina Carpenter cheating rumorsInvesting in Patreon Stock | How to Buy Pre-IPO SharesFranklin Square has once again transformed into a winter wonderland full of holiday fun for all ages. The Winter in Franklin Square festivities, which run through Sunday, Feb. 23, include light shows, street curling, mini golf, fire pits and cocktails. MORE: Adventure Aquarium brings back world's tallest underwater Christmas tree for holiday festival The centerpiece of the festival is the Electrical Spectacle Light Show, which plays nightly every 30 minutes from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m., when the park closes. The free show illuminates the park with hundreds of thousands of dancing lights set to the tunes of popular holiday songs. New this year, one of the songs in the show is "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" from "A Philly Special Christmas," the 2022 debut album by former and current Eagles players Jason Kelce, Lane Johnson and Jordan Mailata. Street curling, a version of the Olympic ice sport in which teams take turns sliding granite stones across a sheet of ice toward a target, is also being offered. Sessions are 30 minutes each, can include up to eight players and cost $40 for a reservation. Chilly Philly Mini Golf, which runs through Jan. 26, gives the usual course a wintry makeover complete with themed music, lights and giant characters. Visitors can also ride the holiday-decorated Parx Liberty Carousel and play on the park's two playgrounds. Visitors can check out the Ben on the Rocks heated tent, which will serve cocktails each night. Plus, there's a Winter Beer Garden with fire pits, and SquareBurger is serving seasonal foods. Franklin Square is free to enter and is open daily from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. The park has special holiday hours and begins closing at 7 p.m. daily on Jan. 9. Winter in Franklin Square Follow Franki & PhillyVoice on Twitter: @wordsbyfranki | @thePhillyVoice Like us on Facebook: PhillyVoice Have a news tip ? Let us know.

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LOS ANGELES — The UCLA women’s basketball team rode a dominant first half to knock off No. 1 and defending national champion South Carolina, 75-60, on Sunday, ending the Gamecocks’ overall 43-game winning streak and their run of 33 consecutive road victories. The Gamecocks (5-1) lost for the first time since April 2023, when Caitlin Clark and Iowa beat them in the NCAA Tournament national semifinals. The No. 5 Bruins welcomed South Carolina to a sold-out Pauley Pavilion in the best way they knew possible: Gamecocks star Chloe Kitts went up for a jumper just in time for 6-foot-7 center Lauren Betts to get a hand on the ball for a forceful block that sent Kitts to the floor as the opening quarter came to a close. The Bruins had double the amount of points as the Gamecocks in that moment. And yet, UCLA head coach Cori Close wanted more of her team: “Whatever the score is,” she told the crowd at halftime, “I know we can play better.” Betts continues to average a double-double and recorded 11 points and 14 rebounds in the game. Londynn Jones scored 15 points and was a perfect 5-for-5 from 3-point range. Elina Aarnisalo and Gabriela Jaquez also finished in double-digit scoring with 13 and 11 points, respectively. South Carolina was scoring an average of 45.6 points in the paint heading into the game, but UCLA had limited them to 18. Kitts, who averages a team-leading 14 points for South Carolina, finished with 2 points on 1 of 7 shooting. The Bruins shook off a choppy start in which the shots weren’t falling and took off on an 11-0 run in the first quarter. It was unclear who would start at point guard between freshman Elina Aarnisalo and Kiki Rice, who was day-to-day with an injury. UCLA had both of them in the starting rotation and reaped benefits from Rice’s scoring abilities and Aarnisalo’s IQ. The Finnish hooper had a steal that led to a layup for UCLA’s first points of the game and she continuously came up with athletic plays throughout the game. She hit a midrange jumper and a 3-pointer from the top of the key in a matter of three minutes in the second quarter as the Bruins entered the break with a 43-22 advantage. The Gamecocks found rhythm in transition as they trudged on but were unable to put together a run of more than five points at a time. They switched their offensive attack to the perimeter but saw little success. Related Articles Meanwhile, UCLA’s success from range grew. Jones made a shot from beyond the arc to keep the Bruins ahead by 20 points and Janiah Barker made a three of her own shortly after to extend the lead to 57-36. The Bruins added 16 points in the fourth quarter to keep the celebratory mood alive. A corner three by Jones sent three fingers from each player flying into the air after a steal by Dugalić and assist by Rice. The game was part of a big weekend in Los Angeles women’s basketball. No. 3 USC hosted No. 6 Notre Dame the night before and lost 74-61.

Clifford "Dave" HolmbeckNASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Chucky Hepburn had 16 points, 10 assists and seven steals, Noah Waterman also had 16 points and Louisville beat No. 14 Indiana 89-61 on Wednesday in the opening game of the Battle 4 Atlantis. Louisville (4-1) beat a ranked team for the first time since topping Virginia Tech 73-71 on Jan. 6, 2021. Kasean Pryor scored 10 of his 14 points in the second half and Reyne Smith added 12 points for Louisville. Malik Reneau scored 21 points and Oumar Ballo added 11 for Indiana (4-1). Reneau reached 20-plus points for the eighth time in his career. The Cardinals led 37-29 at the break after making 7 of 17 from 3-point range and shooting 57% overall. Indiana missed six straight shots on two occasions in the first half, sandwiched around a string of seven missed field goals, as the Cardinals shot 9 of 29 (31%). Louisville exploded for 52 second-half points by shooting 66.7% from the field. Pryor missed only one of his six shots in the second half. Key moment Louisville quickly built a commanding lead in the second half after starting on an 11-2 run, highlighted by Pryor's fast-break dunk . The lead reached 30 on freshman Khani Rooths' alley-oop dunk that came during the Cardinals’ 16-0 run for a 78-40 lead. Key stats Louisville entered the week ranked sixth in the country in 3-point attempts per game at 34. The Cardinals attempted 27 against Indiana and made 10 of them — with four apiece from Waterman and Smith. Louisville also came into the game averaging 19 forced turnovers per game. The Cardinals scored 30 points off 23 Indiana turnovers. Up next Louisville, which played its first road game of the season, faces West Virginia on Thursday. Indiana plays No. 3 Gonzaga in the consolation bracket. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball

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The survey, featuring video installations, photography, and mixed media, sees the artist wielding a camera in an intimate and confessional way, using it to probe notions of authenticity and truth, and critiquing digital images themselves as a rapidly proliferating means of surveillance. In this sense, the show’s title, Are Our Eyes Targets? , is particularly apt, and chilling: Eyes, the saying goes, are the windows to the soul — but in our age, baring one’s soul to the camera carries a hefty price tag. The more advanced digital tech becomes, Hershman Leeson seems to warn, the more vigilant we must all be against its lurid seductions. Upon entering the space, visitors are immediately confronted by multiple portraits: The artist’s face populates all six video channels showing excerpts from Hershman Leeson’s seminal video-art series, The Electronic Diaries of Lynn Hershman Leeson 1984–2019 (1984–2019). Transparent glass partitions divide the screens, so that the images seem to interpenetrate one another. The visual cornucopia is a striking embodiment of how the artist saw herself: as an enigma, splintered by trauma. In imagistic snippets, aided by expressionistic, dreamy clips from early cinema, she tells of domestic sexual and physical abuse she suffered as a child. Heartbreaking, dark, and brave, the work powerfully breaks the taboo of speaking of such trauma outside a psychoanalyst’s office. But it is the video’s intimacy that is most compelling: The whisper, the close-up, the averted gaze — all enhance a sense of a diaristic, confessional closeness, in a way that builds a kind of conspiracy between artist and viewer. Other snippets depict Hershman Leeson’s self-described “private apocalypse”: divorce, wildly fluctuating weight, binging, sudden life-threatening illness. Yet a sense of healing is also felt in these voiceovers, such as when she narrates the experience of a sudden feeling of déjà vu upon her abusive father’s death, as well as descriptions of her daughter’s birth and her new marriage. Elsewhere, she expands the scope of Electronic Diaries to include interviews with scientists. Taking a cue from her own intimate relationship with video, she imagines a Cyborgian future in which humans merge with technology. At first, this merger sounds vaguely optimistic. But by the end of the project, she’s clearly ambivalent: In 2019, the last year of the series, she encoded the series’s video archive onto a strand of DNA to create a durable archive (the lifespan of the genetic material is longer than that of a hard-drive), yet bemoans the invasiveness of that very procedure. Get the latest art news, reviews and opinions from Hyperallergic. Daily Weekly Opportunities The dark note shouldn’t come as a surprise. In the acerbic “Paranoid,” (1968–2022), which opens the Stoschek show, a wig with butterfly pins nested inside a glass harrasses visitors as they approach with words like: “You think you’re so clever,” “Please go away,” and “Look at someone else. Look at yourself.” And as early as 1994, the artist was delivering grim messages of digital dependency, aggression, and intrusiveness in works such as “Seduction of Cyborg,” also included at Stoschek, which follows a young woman who gets sucked into her computer screen. Another work, “CybeRoberta” (1996), comprised of a seemingly ordinary doll sitting inside a glass vitrine, allows viewers to access a designated website via a QR code displayed on the wall and then to change the position of “Roberta”’s digital eye to see real-time images of themselves in the gallery. Needless to say, finding myself so thoroughly surveilled by a seemingly benign toy was morbidly riveting, but also genuinely disconcerting. A more recent video, “Shadow Stalker” (2018–21) confronts the controversial surveillance software Predpol , which uses data analytics to allegedly predict crime. In it, a Black woman revolutionary, played by Tessa Thompson, decries a culture of paranoia created from racialized data-assisted policing. In portraying the escalation of techno-social dystopias, Hershman Leeson reminds viewers that digital technologies and the images they help capture and disseminate were never neutral receptacles of private truths, but instead have always been political battlegrounds. Lynn Hershman Leeson: Are Our Eyes Targets? continues at the Julia Stoschek Foundation (Schanzenstraße 54, Düsseldorf, Germany) through February 2, 2025. The exhibition was organized by Lisa Long and Line Ajan. We hope you enjoyed this article! Before you keep reading, please consider supporting Hyperallergic ’s journalism during a time when independent, critical reporting is increasingly scarce. 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