1984

Los Angeles organizers for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games have unveiled the event's official slogan. The announcement from LA28, the organizing committee, marks a key milestone in the run-up to the Games, which will return to the city for the first time since 1984. Slogan reveals typically signal the start of broader branding and marketing campaigns for an Olympics.

Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show, the Canadian children's television series that ran from 1984 to 1988, is drawing fresh attention to its ratings history. The show, starring the folk music trio and their elephant puppet, was a staple of family programming in the 1980s, and viewers are revisiting its legacy and reception decades after it ended.

Cirque du Soleil, the Canadian contemporary circus company known for its theatrical acrobatic productions, is registering notable search interest in Germany. No specific event, announcement or performance is confirmed in the available reporting, so it is not yet clear what is driving the surge. The company, founded in Montreal in 1984, remains one of the best-known live entertainment brands worldwide.

French media are revisiting why Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis abruptly left the Ghostbusters franchise, ahead of the broadcast of 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' on TF1. The piece looks back at the absence of Dana and Louis, two beloved characters from the cult 1984 film and its 1989 sequel, and what their departures meant for the series.

Washington started their 103-94 win over Orlando with three former No. 1 NBA draft picks in the lineup: Anthony Davis (2012), Deandre Ayton (2018) and A.J. Dybantsa (2026). It is the first time since 1984 that a team has fielded three top overall picks together, an unusual lineup made possible by Washington's recent roster overhaul.

A retrospective essay revisits computer magazines from 1984 to 2004 to see how their writers imagined the future of technology. Readers are sharing memories of the era's computing culture and comparing the period's predictions about personal computers, the internet and emerging tech with what actually happened two decades later.

The Sweet Scent of Death, a British horror film released on 17 December 1984, is drawing renewed attention. The plot follows an overworked American ambassador in the UK who takes his wife to a countryside mansion to spend more time together, only for the trip to turn into a nightmare when she becomes haunted by a stalker from her past. Horror fans are sharing and discussing the film's synopsis.

People are again praising George Orwell's 1948 novel '1984' for foreseeing a world where science and technology regress under fascist rule, while the one futuristic invention is the proliferation of screens that watch viewers as they watch them. Commenters note how closely today's ubiquitous cameras and devices resemble his telescreens, calling the depiction not unimaginable in the present day.

Megatron, the longtime leader of the Decepticons in the Transformers franchise, has received his first-ever auto-transforming robot figure, according to Comic Book Resources. The character, created in 1984, has appeared in countless toys, comics, films and games over four decades, but never before in a version that transforms itself. Transformers fans and collectors are reacting to the release.

Attention is on the Houston Rockets, with coverage revisiting the franchise's jersey history, specifically No. 34 worn by Hakeem Olajuwon from 1984 to 2001. The feature highlights Olajuwon's legacy with the team, though no new event involving the Rockets has been confirmed beyond this retrospective.

Discussion is circulating around the question of how the ruling Party in George Orwell's '1984' could be overthrown. One commenter argues that, given the number of dissidents said to exist in Oceania, the most plausible scenario is a relatively quick rising and fracturing of the ruling class rather than a slow collapse. The conversation reflects continued interest in the novel's political lore and how its totalitarian system might realistically end.

Ahead of the US election, fans are turning back to Queen's 1984 song "Hammer to Fall", saying the band already captured the mood of anxious American election nights four decades ago. Listeners say they plan to play the track again on Election Night, with some recalling hearing it the first time around.

The 1984 horror film Last Video and Testament, released September 12, 1984, follows a wealthy older businessman who suspects his much younger wife of infidelity. Before undergoing risky heart surgery, he records a videotaped last will and testament containing a sadistic twist. The film's premise is drawing fresh attention from horror movie audiences discussing its vintage found-footage-style setup.

The income threshold at which Social Security benefits become taxable still stands at $25,000 for individuals, unchanged since 1984. Because benefits have risen with inflation while the threshold has not, more retirees each year owe federal tax on part of their benefits, effectively taxing middle-income seniors who were never meant to be hit.

The online retro stations intamixx are currently playing the S.O.S. Band's 1984 hit 'Don't Stop The Music' on their 80s and 90s live streams, with an automated announcement letting listeners know what is playing. The funk and R&B classic remains a staple of old-school and retro radio rotations, drawing fans of 1980s dance music to the stations' live feeds.

Lines from Bob Dylan's song Jokerman, from his 1983 album Infidels, were shared: a woman giving birth to a prince dressed in scarlet, in a shadowy world with slippery grey skies. The post also notes the song was first performed live on 28 May 1984. Jokerman remains one of Dylan's most celebrated later works, with its dense, prophetic imagery still resonating with listeners.

A Ukrainian-language publication on ceas.info takes a critical look at Yuri Bezmenov's famous four-stage subversion model — demoralization, destabilization, crisis and normalization. The analysis notes the model's predictions linked to 1984 failed to materialize, yet finds one lasting insight: campaigns of exhaustion rather than persuasion. It is framed as part of broader Ukrainian discussion of disinformation.

A new article argues that Rio Carnival, often traced back to 1641, owes the parade format the world knows today to a deliberate 1984 invention. It extends the claim to many famous harvest fairs, saying their supposedly ancient origins are largely modern constructions. Readers are debating how much of festival history is real tradition versus recent reinvention packaged for tourism.

A new arXiv paper, 'Executable Archaeology: Reanimating the Heuristic Compiler (1961) and KBEmacs (1984),' reconstructs and runs two historic AI programming systems decades after they were last operational. The work revives Waterman's heuristic compiler and the knowledge-based KBEmacs editor, letting modern researchers execute and study early examples of program synthesis and automatic code editing.

A sidebar piece titled 'Where's the Beef?' has been published in the WORLDteen section of God's World News, a Christian news outlet for young readers. The item borrows the famous 1984 fast-food slogan, though the specific subject of the piece is not detailed in the headline alone.