10+ min ago (121+ words) You will regret wearing anything with a waistband." The playlist is as important as the mashed potatoes." Marshmallows should not be on vegetables." Hot sauce should be on everything." Pie is usually not that good." Go ahead, talk politics." These are some of the hot takes recipe developers, food writers, chefs and other tastemakers shared with The Times about Thanksgiving. Which do you agree with? Which do you disagree with? What are your most surprising, provocative or challenging opinions about this holiday, whether about the guest list, the vibes, the food or anything else? Share them, and your defense of them, in the comments. Find more Picture Prompts here. The post Thanksgiving Hot Takes appeared first on New York Times....

17+ min ago (508+ words) Kelly, who trained at the Yale School of Architecture but had never designed a building, found himself out of his depth, Mosher added. He turned to his close friend and frequent collaborator Johnson, who helped him sketch a concept that Kelly would refine into a design Ames approved. The plans were handed off to San Diego's Frank L. Hope & Associates to produce the working drawings. "Why would someone like Robert Mosher, at the end of his life, make this up?" Buck asked. "If he was telling the truth, this is one of the most important uncredited works of Midcentury architecture in California." It also pointed to why Kelly (and potentially Johnson) was left out. In one letter, Ames wrote that "due to local political cross currents, it was advisable that all plans be filed locally." In other words, bringing in East…...

18+ min ago (528+ words) Mark Cuban says the race to build the world's most powerful AI model looks eerily similar to the 1990s search-engine boom " and could end the same way: with one dominant player and everyone else left behind. "You've got five, six, whatever it is, companies that are trying to create the ultimate foundational model that we all depend on," Cuban said on the "Pioneers of AI" podcast. "It's almost like in the '90s when all the search engines were competing pre-Google" There were all these different [ones] and you didn't know if it was going to be a winner-take-all, or a top five." "Now, we know with search engines it's Google, and then there's Bing, as, like, 1 or 2% and DuckDuckGo has got a half a percent. So it's effectively a winner-take-all," he added. "And that's going to be really scary because there will…...

19+ min ago (385+ words) The Democrats could find themselves running the country in 2029 if Donald Trump doesn't make major changes to his administration, a political commentator suggested. Matthew Hennessey of The Wall Street Journal believes the GOP's chances at the midterms could be a sign of how much damage Trump has done to the party. It could pave the way for a sweep of Democrat victories and, "if current trends continue," the party could be back in the White House. Hennessey wrote, "According to the Real Clear Politics polling average, nearly 6 in 10 Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. That's a recipe for a GOP wipeout in November 2026. If current trends continue " although given the left's penchant for insanity, that's no guarantee " expect a Democratic return to the White House in 2029." There is also a worry within the GOP that victory…...

24+ min ago (882+ words) If anyone needed evidence that a critical moment is developing in Asia-Pacific diplomacy, look no further than the phone call on Monday between Xi Jinping, China's top leader, and President Trump. Mr. Xi reached out to Mr. Trump because a Japanese leader is taking her country's strongest stance since World War II to assert that Taiwan's security is also Japan's security. While that has long been apparent to military planners, given Taiwan's proximity to southern Japan " and also to U.S. bases there " Japan's new strategic posture has alarmed Beijing's leaders. So few observers expected Japan's new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, to immediately take a tough stand toward China. But on Nov. 7, she told Parliament that an effort by China to blockade or invade Taiwan would be a "survival" issue for Japan, a term that has legal implications in Japan by permitting…...

25+ min ago (401+ words) The innocent-faced O'Connor excels at crooks and suckers and fittingly, his Jud describes himself as "young, dumb and full of Christ." Jud killed a man as a teenager and, despite years of prayer and patience, still has the temper to threaten his superior, Msgr. Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), to relinquish his tyrannical hold over their upstate New York parish, Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude. "By staying put in that pew, a side is taken," Jud insists to the parishioners. Not only do they close ranks against Jud for preaching love instead of hate, they pillory him for it " especially once Wicks is stabbed to death in the middle of Good Friday Mass. But as Wicks fell to the floor, Jud was onstage clutching a 6-foot cross and each of the other potential suspects was seated primly in their seats. Pulling…...

27+ min ago (1772+ words) On the night of Oct. 8, a man named Delmar Gomez drove to pick up his younger brother from a mechanic's shop on Lamar Avenue. He never came home. On the return trip, law enforcement officers with the Memphis Safe Task Force pulled over his 2011 Toyota Tundra pickup and arrested the brothers on immigration charges. The Guatemalan brothers " both longtime Memphians " are known in national Pentecostal Christian circles as well-traveled worship singers, performing at churches from New York to Florida. They were moved from one immigration detention center to another, finally arriving at a lockup in Louisiana, more than 300 miles from Memphis. The younger brother, Eber Gomez, a 30-year-old with no known criminal record, was soon deported, leaving behind a wife and two young children in Memphis. Delmar Gomez, a 38-year-old husband and father of four U.S. citizen children, is still holding…...

31+ min ago (1913+ words) Articles mentioned in this episode: Please help us improve Uncanny Valley by filling out our listener survey. You can follow Michael Calore on Bluesky at @snackfight, Boone Ashworth on Bluesky at @boone, and Manisha Krishnan on Bluesky at @manishakrishnan. Write to us at [email'protected]. If you're on an iPhone or iPad, open the app called Podcasts, or just tap this link. You can also download an app like Overcast or Pocket Casts and search for "uncanny valley." We're on Spotify too. Note: This is an automated transcript, which may contain errors. Michael Calore: Hi, Boone. How you doing? Boone Ashworth: Hey, Mike, how are you? Michael Calore: Good. Welcome. This is your first appearance on Uncanny Valley, is it not? Boone Ashworth: It is. It's really nice to be back in the studio. Michael Calore: It's good to have you....

35+ min ago (274+ words) House Speaker Mike Johnson played up his trendiness in a podcast due to be aired Tuesday, dropping a hand sign as he gushed over his admiration for rapper and country singer Jelly Roll. The Louisiana Republican gave what The Daily Beast called an "excruciating" performance while talking with Stephen Miller's wife Katie for her podcast, due to be aired Tuesday night. In a teaser, Miller asked Johnson if he knew Jelly Roll, prompting the super awkward attempt at trendiness, the Beast wrote. Johnson "gives an offended look and lets out a scoff," before awkwardly flashing a "shaka" hand sign " a symbol of friendship in Hawaiian culture and a "hang loose" sign among surfers. "Do I know who"yes, we have selfies together!" Johnson exclaimed, as Miller and the speaker's wife Kelly, a counselor and evangelical Christian who was also on…...

38+ min ago (326+ words) Many Canadian goods were already being tariffed at a 35 percent level when Trump added an extra 10 percent last month in retaliation for a commercial sponsored by the province of Ontario, truthfully pointing out that Ronald Reagan was an opponent of tariffs. By comparison, U.S. tariffs on the European Union, South Korea and Japan are only 15 percent. Canada is now at serious risk of recession. Canadians have responded by imposing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports, boycotting U.S. goods and canceling visits to the U.S. The Carney government is trying to repair relations with China and India while debating whether to cancel an order for U.S. F-35 fighter aircraft and buy Swedish Gripens instead. Odds are that, sooner or later, Trump and Carney will strike a deal to reduce tariffs, but the hurt feelings caused by the unprovoked and unnecessary U.S. trade war won't soon dissipate. Canadians told me…...