John Gary

sometimes I wonder what would've happened if the airbag at the end of THE GAME hadn't been inflated yet

oh LOOK WHO WAS RIGHT

I think @manmademoon.bsky.social made it already

It’s nonsensical and shouldn’t even be reported as a thing.

No one is going to build a nuclear reactor on the moon.

I am certain it was very intentional.

I was very interested to notice that Brad Pitt never has a drink in F1. At the poker game, he’s served a glass of water. JP drinks beer, but the label is never shown. There is a very brief product placement for Heineken in the club, but it’s for the non-alcoholic version.

I know one guy who knows it quite well! @rodman.bsky.social!

At least during the Red Scare there were hearings.

Today, F1, AMC Burbank:
Ticketed start time: 2:10PM
Actual movie start time: 2:57PM.

Unless you're in the middle of a custody battle, I don't think it is useful or valuable or psychologically healthy to be concerned about kidnapping. A kid being separated from an adult in a crowd, however, is a whole other thing, and that's where this use case makes a lot of sense to me.

Yes, in both instances we found our child. The first time it happened, airtags weren't really a thing. After the second time, we slipped an airtag in our son's jacket pocket.

Have you ever lost your child in a crowd? I mean truly lost, fifteen minutes, frantic searching, yelling, frantically rushing up to every person you see, showing them a picture on your phone, but your child is just gone?

No?

Then shut the fuck up about how this is some kind of panopticon.

That's awful and now I really want good information on how to cultivate hollyhocks!

I can in no way recommend to anyone I care about that they do this for a living.

These dudes are not interested in learning, or reading white papers, or investigating the best technology for the public good. They are interested in power and exerting power, and they don’t really care to figure out the hard stuff, so they rely on what they knew when they were thirty-five years old

I don’t actually think this is true—not that Burgum is smart, but he’s a super-rich boomer, and I promise you he is not up to date on the technological advances of large-format batteries. Rich people can be smart in small ways, but are often shockingly uninformed in others.

He is not the only co-founder of PayPal who has made this argument!

I don't understand why they needed to use gAI to make the Wizard of Oz fit the Sphere? There are tens of thousands of VFX artists who do this kind of thing all the time, or at least they used to until GenAI came along?

(I am sure many still fuck around during your class, though!!)

Also let's be clear, you're a law school professor, so you're dealing with students in their 20's and 30's who have committed a lot of money and time in pursuit of what you are teaching.

I don't dispute that YouTube has value -- but I do dispute that its value even approaches its net negative effects, especially on kids who have full and easy access.

"But there are good things on YouTube too"

opiates are useful in pain medication

You'd feel differently if you spent ten minutes in a classroom where every kid has a chromebook and 90% of them are watching youtube instead of following the teacher's lesson.

Nine months later, Hogan won a jury trial against Gawker for invasion of privacy in the state of Florida. But in the end (allegedly), this all started because Bubba the Love Sponge fired Matt "Spiceboy" Lloyd.

Hogan was right to be scared of the racist tirades being found out -- when Radar Online and the National Enquirer publishes the tirades, WWE drops Hogan, going so far as to erase him from their website and eliminating him from their record books. This expulsion wouldn't last long, though.

The audio of Hogan watching the videos gets entered into the court record, and that court record is how Hogan's racist tirades leak to the public. Hogan watching the videos ends up being the engine of their revelation.

The FBI lie in wait, while Hogan and Houston, fully wired-up, meet with Burbridge and Davidson to verify the validity of the videos and then deliver the pay-off. Hogan watches the videos while wearing a hidden mic, confirming they're real. Burbridge and Davidson get taken down in the sting.

So Matt Lloyd, through Keith Davidson and Lori Burbridge, wants a $300,000 payout from Hogan to bury these tapes, but David Houston and Hulk Hogan contact the FBI and organize a sting on Burbridge and Davidson at the Sandpearl Resort in Clearwater, Florida.

He continued: "I’d rather if she was going to fuck some [nword], I’d rather have her marry an 8-foot-tall [nword] worth a hundred million dollars! Like a basketball player! I guess we’re all a little racist. Fucking [nword].”