David Madden

What about US model Saturns?

Federal appeals normally take over 2 YEARS, start to finish.

Here, the circuit court moved heaven and earth and produced its unanimous 61-page order, affirming the district court, less than 3 WEEKS after the district court's.

The Supreme Court just nuked it without a syllable of explanation.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but there's a rad fanmade beta tool that converts your images of battle maps for tabletop roleplaying, scales them to the proper size, then exports them to a PDF for printing and assembly on the tabletop. LITERAL game changer.

www.beta.arkanatools.com/papermap/

I think you linked the wrong David Madden

George Romero’s ‘Day of the Dead’ Original Film Elements Found, 4K Restoration in the Works from Scream Factory Scream Factory is celebrating the 40th anniversary of George A. Romero’s Day of the Dead with the news that the long-lost original film elements have been found. The company is currently working on a ...

Scream Factory is celebrating the 40th anniversary of George A. Romero’s DAY OF THE DEAD with the news that the long-lost original film elements have been found:

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I told you we’d be back

When Senator Bill Cassidy announced he would vote to confirm RFK Jr, he included this in his statement:

“If confirmed, he will maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.”

WITHOUT CHANGES.

YouTube video by The Onion FDA Official: "Just Eat A Goddamn Vegetable"

FDA Official: "Just Eat A Goddamn Vegetable"

Hooray! Quantum computing back in the news, and it's one of those things whose implications can be large, but is regularly misunderstood, so why not, a little thread on why it matters in cryptography, but also why it perhaps doesn't matter as much as you think too 🧵

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

I... oh my god.
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The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith" Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience. For mov...

I finally solved the mystery movie mistake in “Episode III”, and also talk about some of my favorite revealing movie mistakes from my favorite films.

The Movie Mistake Mystery from "Revenge of the Sith"
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Harrison Ruffin Tyler, grandson of 10th U.S. president and longtime Richmonder, dies at 96 The Richmond resident, preservationist and chemical engineer, for whom William & Mary’s history department is named, also had the distinction of being the grandson of a man who became U.S. president i...

John Tyler became US president in 1841.

His youngest grandson just died this past weekend.

www.richmonder.org/harrison-ruf...

Yep on my Atari 800xl Circa maybe 1987.

First game to startle me. A lonnnnnng time ago.

In the mid-1980s, Charles Bronson delivered one of the hardest Earth Day PSAs ever seen by mankind.

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Insane normal

Richard Norton was a wonderfully talented stunt performer, stunt coordinator, and actor. He was also a friend. I met Richard as the fight choreographer on The Suicide Squad; he choreographed the Harley escape scene, Peacemaker vs Rick Flag Jr. and more.

That is a deep cut !

I recall watching as a kid.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I think about this headline all of the time.

Outlaws was a goddamn outstanding game! Great soundtrack and fun MP too.

A mob of fish in the shape of a large fish looms over a shark

An ad got skechers showing two illustrated women in haute couture walking down a sunny and presumably Parisian boulevard

Can someone explain to me why I'm able to tell these images are AI even before I find huge errors (extra fingers, distortions, etc)? Like what are the aesthetic qualities that out these as creations of AI?

Staplegator of Legend by @kennon9.bsky.social !

Hollywood’s obsession with AI-enabled ‘perfection’ is making movies less human From digitally enhancing accents to resurrecting the dead, AI is reshaping film in pursuit of impossible standards.

Another A.S. Hamrah heater www.fastcompany.com/91285846/hol...

The probability that a sleeping Windows laptop will (along with any accessories it is docked with) properly and fully "wake up" is known as the Gates-Ballmer Uncertainty Principle.