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Dating app Once’s concept is simple. Its road to an exit was not. Once uses AI to provide users one match per day, a mechanic designed to move away from the frenzied swiping of Tinder. In mid-January, Dating Group, one of the main dating app industry players, acquired Paris-based Once for $18 million in cash and stock. Once CEO and co-founder Clémentine Lalande played a key role in navigating the company to that point, which included making some big calls such as layoffs when the company was bleeding cash and launching a well-time branding campaign just before the pandemic.

Update, May 27, 2023: I have uploaded a video addendum to the original, detailing a lot of these settings and configurations. It’s linked here: watch on YouTube Almost a year ago now, I published a video on YouTube that provided a demonstration of how I use the Apple iPad as a central part of my music-making process. The key to this process is the iConnectivity Audio 4c audio interface, which allows for sharing of audio and MIDI between 2 computers/tablets.

I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve read Dan’s book. So in this video, I’m sharing how I’ve been getting to grips with Dan’s short game system, the 3 Releases – starting with Release 1, the chip and run and Release 2, the soft landing shot. I’ll be working my way up to Release 3, the lob shot 🤣 P.S. I’ve been creating something… A roadmap that guides you through the steps I took to achieve my goal of getting to single figures.

When people ask me how Jews pray, I begin with a story. It comes from a great nineteenth-century rabbi.  An old man enters the sanctuary for the first time. His face is dirty and his clothes are too big. He stands out among the well-dressed crowd. Then he picks up the prayerbook and opens it. He is, however, holding it upside down. He tries to start singing along. His words are mumbled and incorrect.

I like to imagine different scenarios playing out, like switching up events and wondering what the outcome would be. It’s like what Quentin Tarantino does with some of his movies. In Inglourious Basterds, he imagined a world where the USA dispatched a wild gang of soldiers to take out Hitler, and they did. In Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, he imagined the night of the Sharon Tate murders going a different way.

Thin clouds veiled the quarter moon that hung in the Afghan night sky as several dozen Toyota Hilux pickup trucks slowly ground to a halt. Doors opened and scores of armed men, members of an Afghan militia, jumped out before the drivers began turning the vehicles around in case a quick extraction became necessary. Their target was straight ahead, a cluster of compounds in Panjwai district, a hotbed of Taliban support about 18 miles southwest of Kandahar.

As we process the royal news from the last several weeks, revisiting what happened in light of Catherine’s cancer announcement, two aspects in particular feel worthy of more consideration: the Internet’s precipitating role and the palace’s botched response. Today I want begin digging into the first bit, to look at the depth, degree, and damage of conspiracy theories surrounding the Princess of Wales. When I first saw this spiral on X/Twitter in late February, my gut was to ignore it.

Lamborghini has spent the past couple of decades building a well-earned reputation as a strong brand in global sports car racing. In the U.S., the ‘Raging Bull’ has taken class wins in the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring. In Europe, it won the overall title in Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS twice. Yet for all its success, there’s one race that the Italian brand has so far not been able to conquer: the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Hello Pizza Friends, Have you ever stashed dough in the fridge and forgotten about it? Or maybe not forgotten about it but just not gotten to it? Earlier this week, I found the above-pictured vat of Detroit-style pizza dough in the back of my fridge. I had not dated it, but photos and videos on my phone suggest it was at least 14 days old. Upon removing the lid, it looked very much alive (if a little gray), but it smelled very strongly of alcohol.