Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog it's too dark to read.
Julie Andrews worked with Garner several times and came to truly admire him as a kind and generous man (she also said he was the best kisser she ever worked with, a sentiment repeated by Sally Field). Many of his costars over the years described him as a kind, sincere gentleman.
Michael WarburtonThe late great JAMES GARNER signs autographs while filming ‘The Rockford Files’ in Burbank in 1977.
China promising to find a way for people's forests and cities not to burn seems like a pretty good winning strategy for world leadership.
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)Notable: In its 15th 5-Year Plan, China pledges for the first time to "constructively lead the multilateral governance process to address climate change,” so that its "influence, guiding capacity, shaping power and moral appeal in global climate governance will be significantly enhanced."
This is precisely the kind of headstone I would expect to see for some of my Eastern Canadian relatives. 🤘
The ClericSometimes when doing genealogy research you stumble upon stuff that leaves you speechless.
The stronger guardrails they will implement will likely allow certain subscribing customers access to this feature - namely governments and large corporate users. It turns down the volume on the chaos but still invites the worst use of this technology-Israel using it to invent Hamas weapon caches.
Geoff BrumfielBREAKING: Google has rolled back its tool less than a day after it launched. Updated story coming soon.
This is the vehicle of the man who pulls a handgun on trick-or-treaters.
Travis MillerSpotted on the Fullcast reddit. This is incredible levels of divorced:
Until one of the jets hits someone's recreational drone taking vacation beach photos and we get video of an ultra-low altitude ejection and crash into a populated area?
Aaron RuparHegseth: "The flyovers will indeed continue until morale improves"
Trump and the far-right's worldview is so transactionalist that they would percieve an attack against political adversaries by a foreign power as an opportunity for alliance with aggressor. In other words, if Russia assassinated Ocasio-Cortez Trump would thank and reward them for their service.
Aaron RuparTrump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."
When the notoriously corrupt world of international soccer looks at your scam and says "woah, fellah, that's really fucking criminal".
Mark ChadbournStatement from the Asian Football Confederation. Stake through the heart of Trump and Infantino’s grift.
Sony famously has never made mistakes in trying to determine the future of tech utility and interest.
Culture Crave 🍿PlayStation is not backing down from its plan to end physical game disc production in 2028 🎮 "We put in a lot of thought and time, and we cautiously considered this, and we came to this conclusion, and we're going to cautiously move this forward"
I've said before that there is a tremendous amount of political potential to be drawn on by any candidate willing to do so with the message of "there will be a full and thorough reckoning for anyone (emphasize anyone) who participated in Donald Trump's reign of terror and corruption".
Soraya Nadia McDonald"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
We should expect - expect, I would like to emphasize - that a government that uses AI to incorrectly identify African nations or generate propaganda promoting violence against it's own citizens will, without hesitation, use genAI to fabricate pretexts for war and escalation thereof.
Faine GreenwoodI used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery: