Wearable wrist weights, which once seemed relegated to the dustbin of fitness history, are seeing a resounding resurgence on social media. The one- to three-pound cuffs first gained popularity during the fitness boom of the 1980s, when exercisers strapped on models made from fabric and filled with sand. But by the early 2000s, they had…
Amanda Seyfried is anxious about the environment. “I feel a lot of guilt and shame, literally every day,” said Ms. Seyfried, who was calling from a film set in Yonkers, N.Y., on the Friday before the Met Gala. “If I’m going to go to the Met ball,” she said, “there has to be solar panels…
On Monday the X account for Elmo, the fuzzy red monster from “Sesame Street,” posed a softball question to its 457,000 followers: “Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?” In thousands of responses, social media users let Elmo know that no, actually, they were not doing too hot. “Elmo I’m depressed and broke,”…
User A.I. Generated by A.I. User A.I. Generated by A.I. User A.I. Generated by A.I. User A.I. Generated by A.I. When Reid Southen, a movie concept artist based in Michigan, tried an A.I. image generator for the first time, he was intrigued by its power to transform simple text prompts into images. But after he…
