“Political consultants who spoke to NOTUS said they’re using AI tools like ChatGPT for a wide array of purposes. Some use it for brainstorming, drafting campaign communications and summarizing complex policy memos. Others said they’ve used AI for transforming text into audio voiceovers and generating backgrounds or design elements for social media posts and campaign ads.”
“What they find is the same horseshoe: Populist attitudes are more prevalent on the far left and far right. (But there’s a twist!)”
“After 55 years of weirding out radio listeners and influencing the likes of “Weird Al” Yankovic, Dr. Demento honked his horn for one final broadcast yesterday, hosting the final episode of The Dr. Demento Show. To mark the occasion, Demento treated dementors and dementoids to the longest nationally broadcast Dr. Demento Show ever, a three-and-a-half-hour-long extravaganza, counting down Demento’s “top 40 most demanded demented discs and tapes” from across his career.”
“I’m a MAHA Mom, and Here’s Why I Won’t Stop My Monkeys from Jumping on the Bed—No Matter What the Doctor Says”.
“If you take away discipline from firms and allow them to do harmful things that enrich themselves without consequence, you should expect that they will do those things.”
“No one has any idea how much the Trump regime is spending“.
“They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America”. These guys can’t even do their own evil well.
RIP, Sandy Alomar, Sr, former MLB infielder and coach, manager in the minor leagues and Puerto Rican Winter League, father of former MLB players Roberto Alomar and Sandy Alomar, Jr.
Good on you, Doc Rivers.
“Propagandists are not “provocateurs.” Trump’s stated grounds for his abuses of power are not actual reasons, they are pretexts created for purely instrumental ends. And Kristi Noem did not “stare down” mobs of antifa terrorists in Portland. That’s because there isn’t any serious network of organized leftist violence in the United States, no matter how loudly Miller shrieks otherwise. Grasping how committed MAGA is to such industrial-scale deceptions is critical to getting this broader moment right.”
RIP, D’Angelo, four-time Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and producer.
RIP, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, longtime transgender activist.
RIP, TiVo, which has officially exited the hardware business. We finally had to ditch ours a few months ago after an Xfinity firmware update fried the cable cards that the TiVo needed and which were no longer supported by Comcast. We got our TiVo way back in 2003, when I convinced Tiffany that it would be a great thing to have once we had a baby and needed something to watch while we were up all night with her. I got that line from my college buddy David, who asserted that you could justify any purchase if you claimed it was “for the baby”. (He got a tablesaw with that line.) Anyway, Mark Evanier sums it up.
“Penn State needed to fire its head coach—and that’s a damning indictment of the sport.”
RIP, Drew Struzan, legendary movie poster artist.
They’re really not sending their best, are they? And none of them are “kids”.
“There are two issue here. One is that the MAGA right has a legitimate Nazi problem. The second is that the MAGA right believes there are two standards: The ultra-permissive one that applies to them and their followers within which there are zero consequences for even the worst behavior, and the far stricter one that applies to liberals or any other perceived political opponents. And they’re willing to use the full force of government to punish their opponents and create maximal permissiveness for themselves.”
“We should get back to embarrassing people who engage in such transparent acts of selling out.”
“On Monday, a publicly-sourced archive of more than 10,000 national park signs and monument placards went public as part of a massive volunteer project to save historical and educational placards from around the country that risk removal by the Trump administration.”
“The original sin of the whole arc of digital media was the belief that digital media was part of the tech business. That was both the cause and effect of the boomlet of techcentric venture capital that flowed into digital media starting around 2004 and 2005, right about the time the dot com bust hangover was receding into the rearview.”
RIP, Susan Stamberg, “founding mother” of NPR and the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program.
RIP, Ace Frehley, guitarist and founding member of KISS.
“Let them be shocked by this story and let that shock teach them to also be shocked by this story and by this story and by this story and by this story and by this story and by this story and by this one. We need them to be shocked because we need them — we need as many of them as we can get if we’re going to put a stop to stories like those.”
RIP, Samantha Eggar, Oscar-nominated actor best known for The Collector and Doctor Dolittle.
“It’s entirely possible that Natalie Grabow — who last weekend, at 80 years old, became the oldest woman to complete the Ironman World Championship course in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii — is just getting started.”