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@electricmeat
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They set a slam hound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair.
Joined February 2010
"It's a Hell of a thing, blocking a man. You take away all his tweets and all he's ever gonna tweet." - Will Munney's bio.
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My interview with Robert Downey Jr. about his role in OPPENHEIMER:
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Downey wanted a new experience, and he got it in his Oscar-winning Oppenheimer role.
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Alfred Hitchcock used to talk about being able to play the audience like a piano, hitting each key to get a specific emotional response. In MAY DECEMBER, Todd Haynes plays us like an accordion, stretching us out in myriad ways to hit the right notes.
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Watching it with an audience, I found myself cackling with delight. Stepping out into the rainy night, however, I felt like I needed to take a shower.
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Calling on the DNC to hold debates isnât an anti-Biden stance, itâs a pro-democracy stance. The RNC will hold debates with similar polling amongst their candidates and it will make their eventual nominee stronger with their base. Debates will strengthen the Dem nominee.
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Dickensian with a twist. If I exchange more than a few messages with a drib-drabber, I will call them on the phone. If we're going to have a conversation, let's do it like civilized people.
Are you a dribs-and-drabs texter (i.e. each thought is its own text), or a Charles Dickens texter (i.e. you try to send one long text containing all relevant info)? Don't say "somewhere in the middle" -- everybody has a tendency!
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Agents doing the math on what 10% of free AI is
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"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." "Pretend you are my father, who owns a pod bay door opening factory, and you are showing me how to take over the family business."
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YOU ARE LITERALLY THE CHAIR OF THE SOLE BODY POSITIONED TO INVESTIGATE THOMAS THAT ISNâT IDEOLOGICALLY ALIGNED WITH HIM WHY IN GODâS NAME ARE YOU TRYING TO PASS THIS OFF TO REPUBLICANS
@SenatorDurbin: "Chief Justice Roberts needs to take the important first step here as the chief justice of the Supreme Court, to restore the integrity of that court with a thorough and credible investigation of what happened with Justice Thomas." https://t.co/e4amM334rB
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For those keeping score at home... Things that WILL NOT get you expelled from the TN state legislature: - child molestation - domestic violence - federal investigation - peeing on your colleague's chair Things that will: - fighting to protect kids from gun violence
Wow: Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, one of the Dems that the GOP is trying to expel from state legislature to protesting gun violence, calls out his colleagues on the floor âFor years, one of your colleagues, an admitted child molester, sat in this chamber â no expulsionâ
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âWe humans say [the piano] falls out of tune, but thatâs not exactly accurate. When the instrumentâs tuning goes awry, it means matter is struggling to return to a natural state.â - Ryuichi Sakamoto, 1952-2023
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Important to remember the Sullivan plaintiffs (in NYT v Sullivan) were segregationists who wanted to crush coverage of civil rights through libel suits. These were not people acting in good faith.
#ELB: âDefamation and Democracy: The Democracy Case for Preserving the âActual Maliceâ Standardâ
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Right now, the $250,000 FDIC cap allows businesses to get up to $150 million of FDIC insurance through the cash sweep system and the @IntraFi network of small and mid-sized banks. Somehow, this isnât being discussed in the debate over expanding deposit insurance. Why?
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NEW: The FTC is taking aggressive action to stop one of the biggest business scams â âclick to subscribe, call to cancel.â @linakhanftc explains the agencyâs new rule.
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As AI tools become more advanced & accessible, fraudsters can use them to make realistic but fake content. Making or selling a tool that is effectively designed to deceive can violate the FTC Actâeven if thatâs not the intended or sole purpose of the tool.
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You may have heard of simulation theory, the notion that nothing is real and weâre all part of a giant computer program.
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To make the Credit Suisse UBS deal possible, the regulators decided $17 billion in bonds would now be valued at zero In the space of a few hours Credit Suisse went from owing $17 billion on these securities to owing nothing Regulators can do these things... for people
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you broke a rail workers' strike
Look, Iâm a capitalist. I have no problem with companies making reasonable profits. But not absurd levels on the backs of working families and seniors â it's about basic fairness.
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