10 Weekend Reads:
–David Zaslav Gets the Last Laugh
–They Came to Spy on America. They Stayed to Coach Little League.
–Sucker: My year as a degenerate gambler
–The Status Economy
–Building Brasília
–Hollywood’s Most Invisible Job Gets Its Own Oscar
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At this point, I suspect, neither Donald Trump nor Mojtaba Khamenei could describe a solution to the conflict acceptable to him without describing something wholly unacceptable to the other. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I learned to read reading @washingtonpost.com . DC deserves better, and so do those many great journalists.
Here we go!
They band calculating military time in gig length was always a huge belly laugh for me
One of the great episodes of an incredible program. It’s a great way to remember Rob Reiner.
The Rob Reiner WTF pod with @marcmaron.bsky.social began with Maron’s retelling of Garry Shandling’s funeral, which I loved at the time and forgot was the lead. He mentions Rob’s promoting of “Being Charlie,” “co-written by Nick Reiner.” Full-circle and tragic. www.wtfpod.com/podcast/epis...
Trump is weighing whether to allow Nvidia to sell advanced artificial intelligence chips to China and will be the one to make a final decision on the matter, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said.
Jimmy Cliff passed away, per his family over Instagram, from complications following pneumonia. He was the greatest. Terrible tragedy.
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The three holdouts voted aye. Just waiting on Cornyn to get here from the airport. Drama over.
Folks: It’s Friday.
The government may be shut, and Congress may have decided to go home despite their failure to Congress, but #FridayNightZillow will go on.
Wanna Get Away? The "Underground House" in Las Vegas, featuring a massive, 1970s-era "luxury" bunker 26 feet below ground with its own lagoon, is yours for $8.5M. Welcome to #FridayNightZillow! www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
We say goodbye to an icon of international cinema, Claudia Cardinale.
Known in the 1960s as "the most beautiful woman in the world", Cardinale enchanted audiences in classics such as 8 1/2 and ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST.
Our thoughts are with her family and friends.
We say farewell to one of Hollywood's brightest, actor, filmmaker and activist Robert Redford.
A luminary with an eye for storytelling, Redford's prolific contributions to the arts – from stage to screen and behind the camera, will continue to illuminate generations to come.
Al Michaels's in-game on-cam commentaries in this game should be bottled and sold at Safeway.
⚡️ Russia airdrops fake banknotes in Ukraine, seeking collaborators.
Leaflets in the form of 100-hryvnia banknotes offered real money in exchange for coordinates of Ukrainian forces, the police said.
My all-time favorite pop-rock song
I filed a #FOIA request with FBI for any documents the bureau has on Ozzy Osbourne. FBI responded saying they conducted a search and did not locate any responsive records.
Happy 82nd b’day, Mick Jagger — who left the London School of Economics to pursue music.
“The Rolling Stones were just beginning,” he said. “I thought, ‘Why not give it a go for a year?’ .. I wasn’t trying to be a rock star — I just thought, ‘This looks like more fun than working for Shell Oil.’”
Trump said the US has reached a trade deal with Japan, which sets a 15% tariff on imported goods from Japan
from the @bloomberglp.bsky.social Terminal: *OZZY OSBOURNE HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 76: PA
Our Showstopper tonight is an Old World $7M Detroit mansion with 15BR, 15BA and 24K square feet. It's truly magnificent. Hope you enjoyed this week's #FridayNightZillow! zillow.com/homedetails/...
The party showers are starting to get out of hand. Inside an $8.95M, 30,000 sf New Jersey mansion. #FridayNightZillow www.zillow.com/homedetails/...
⚡️Ukrainian doctors transplant organs of deceased girl amid Russian strikes, saving 3 children.
"This is a story about humanity, the incredible power of a parent's decision, and the chance for life even in the most difficult times," the hospital said in a statement.
I think people have yet to wake up to just how amazing e-bikes are. I commute about 20 miles a day, using about 10 cents of electricity. (Mostly on safe trails.)
Every time I ride my brain is ecstatic. I get a workout, but don’t need to shower when I get to work.
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my first thought too, but in the tweet he’s reacting to Pulte.
Flagging this for anyone else in the narrow category for whom this is the superbowl:
