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The showrunner puts ChatGPT to work as he would any other newbie writer, but finds it lacks that all-important, all-too-human quality: voice.This is part of a series of accounts of the strike from Hollywood writers at different levels in their careers. The diarists have been granted anonymity to encourage candor. You can read previous entries by ‘Well-Known Creator’ and others here. My daughter had her tonsils removed yesterday. (Thank you, WGA health insurance!) We were very worried, as while the surgery is relatively low risk, it is still surgery and anesthesia is involved. Everything turned out fine and aside...

babbling President Joe Biden gave a speech Friday where he joked about being 110, told the crowd 'God save the queen' and deployed some of his greatest hits - such as the verbiage: 'don't make me a dog-faced lying pony soldier.'

Target, Anheuser-Busch and Kohls have lost a huge $28.7 billion in market value in the wake of a major backlash over their Pride campaigns and products. Since the beginning of April all three have seen their market value plummet – with only Kohl's now starting to recover. Brewing giant Anheuser-Busch has seen their sales also drop after teaming up with controversial transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney – losing 24.4 percent in the last week of sales. Separately both Kohl's and Target have been caught up in an ongoing backlash after unveiling their Pride collections at the start of May. Kohl's...

Journalists from CNN, NYT, The Atlantic, CBS, NBC were among the panelists at the eventAs the 2024 presidential campaign begins to ramp up, several high-profile media figures gathered last week for the 2024 Campaign Journalism Conference at the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics. The conference, which was co-hosted by Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism, was essentially a retreat for journalists hoping to prepare themselves for how to best cover the grueling election cycle and the candidates running in the coming year. Sprinkled within the couple hundred attendees were students from the University of Chicago but the majority were...

Ukraine’s faltering offensive is completely lost on General Milley and Secretary of Defense Austin. Milley and Austin, put that face on full display Thursday as they briefed reporters on the results of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels.The problem with the NATO plan for Ukraine’s faltering offensive is encapsulated in the following quote (it starts at the 8:51 mark in the video at link):More than six thousand Ukrainians are being trained right now at 40 different locations (sic) training locations in 65 courses in 33 Nations on three continents. That is all happening right now todayLet me give you...

Obama says he's been target of 'deepfakes,' predicts next election cycle will be rife with false infoFormer President Barack Obama suggested in a new interview the development of "digital fingerprints" to combat misinformation and distinguish between true and misleading news for consumers.Obama sat down with his former White House senior adviser David Axelrod for a conversation on the latter's podcast, "The Axe Files," on CNN Audio. During the interview, Axelrod noted he's seen "misinformation, disinformation, [and] deepfakes" targeting Obama."As I've told people, because I was the first digital president when I left office, I was probably the most recorded, filmed,...

During an interview set to air on Friday’s edition of “The Issue Is,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) argued that cities are leaving San Francisco because they’re “struggling to recover from the pandemic” and “struggling with the macroeconomic shifts,” there are “issues related to Walgreens and others that have shut down all across this country. Everything in San Francisco, again, gets colored in and it’s made 10x bigger.” But there are “challenges” in the city that have necessitated sending the National Guard and California Highway Patrol into the city.

KanekoaTheGreat @KanekoaTheGreat BREAKING — Emails from the Biden laptop reveal a newly discovered Hunter Biden Maltese bank account opened by Burisma that coincides with the $10 million bribery allegations involving Biden and Burisma, as reported by an FBI source. Read below. 12:09 PM · Jun 16, 2023 ·

When William H. “Boss” Hoover began operating what would eventually become known as the Hoover Company in 1908, his family had already operated a tannery in this Stark County town for nearly a century. Hoover’s vacuum cleaner business grew exponentially in the next ten years, but Hoover himself never lived further than two miles from the factory he built in his hometown. Hoover knew the people who worked for him. He saw them in the factory. As a former door-to-door salesman, he intimately knew his sales force, and the people — or the kind of people — who bought his...

Russian electronic warfare equipment is a key factor complicating the counteroffensive of Ukrainian troops on the Zaporizhzhia front, according to analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).Source: ISW Details: The ISW cited a popular Russian military blogger who claims that Russian electronic warfare systems are preventing Ukrainian troops from using precision-guided munitions guided by GPS coordinates and severely disrupting Ukrainian radio communications.In particular, according to the ISW, the milblogger noted that Russian troops are using Murmansk-BN electronic warfare systems to disable the sensors of Ukrainian air reconnaissance assets, and Krasukha-4 electronic warfare systems to suppress communications with...

This afternoon a bombshell exploded in the White House when it was learned that a private company, Prankings LLC, was hired as a private consultant to assist in speech writing and information spinning for the Biden Administration. Former Saturday Night Live writers who were released in the early 90s for writing humorous scripts when the show transitioning from comedy to becoming a show for political hacks. Being very creative, they formed the company and reached an apex of success when they received the contract from the Biden Administration. Their success in creative speech writing is quite apparent in speeches by...

June-16-2023 Amna Nawaz (of Islamic Pakistan roots) After quoting Suarez about pardoning Trump. She doesn't let him answer and interrupts him 3 times: "these are very different circumstances... it has been made clear" she claims. Francis X. Suarez: "no, they are not different." https://www.pbs.org/newshour

The unfeasibly young-looking 80-year-old Andy Summers talks about conquering the world in The Police, the reunion, his long-time passion for photography, and much moreBy his own judgement, Andy Summers does not like to be idle. Isn’t suited to a life of leisure. The late-March morning when we talk is a case in point. Only just returned to his home in Los Angeles from playing a run of shows in Brazil with his Police tribute band Call The Police, he was up early editing the file of photographs he took on the trip. Photography is Summers’s other great passion, seriously...

A standout album in a remarkable career, ‘Is That All There Is?’ dared to be different, revealing a new versatility to Peggy Lee’s singing.Peggy Lee was 49 years old when Capitol Records released Is That All There Is? in 1969. It was her 42nd album, and it had been over 10 years since the singer born Norma Deloris Egstrom, in 1920, had last graced the US Top 40 with her presence; her sultry take on Little Willie John’s “Fever” scaled the upper echelons of the American hit parade in 1958. But Lee, a country girl with Scandinavian ancestry who hailed...

"Great potatoes Mrs. Green."Nice try, Patrick. Women marrying up have it comparatively easy compared to men. If women are pretty and show a desire to dutifully keep house and bear children for their socioeconomically superior husbands-to-be, they are generally accepted into their higher status family. Even if they do not have a dowry to bring to the table. However, it is much different for men Men marrying up is usually seen as a defeat for the woman with regard to her affluent family. A man of inferior socioeconomic status must really impress in order to be accepted. Being a regional...

It’s Friday and folks need some comic relief. Tell a joke or two and chitchat a bit.

InteractivPolls published on twitter the results of the latest HarvardCAPSHarris poll • Trump — 59% (+45) • DeSantis — 14% • Pence — 8% • Haley — 4% ... Click twitter to see image

An organization called “Flee Red States” is helping LGBT people who live in Republican-dominated states find homes in “less hostile” states, and even in different countries. Really. Real estate broker Bob McCranie started the service in Texas. McCranie called it a “sad thing” to have to change the nature of his business from selling Texan homes to helping residents find housing elsewhere but said it was necessary because Texas legislation is “unsafe” for LGBT people. McCranie told Austin local news outlet KXAN that he felt the need to expand the service because of demand from other states.

Nicole Noel Henares allegedly asked White male students in her high school English class to stand up and answer if they "felt like a minority" during the 2022 fall semester. Henares’ actions made the Lowell High School students feel "confused, sad and that there was no correct answer for them in that moment," they said in interviews with the district. After a parent submitted a complaint, the San Francisco Unified School District placed Henares on paid administrative leave, starting Sept. 15, 2022, to conduct an investigation before assigning her Dec. 12 to a 15-day unpaid suspension to be served Dec....

Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove of peace, the South American country's president said Friday. The 350-kilogram (770-pound) "symbol of violence and war" will be turned into a "symbol of peace and union," President Luis Lacalle Pou told journalists in the capital Montevideo. The two-meter (6.5-foot)-tall bird with a Nazi swastika gripped in its talons adorned the stern of the Admiral Graf Spee, a battleship involved in one of the first naval skirmishes of World War II.