The first U.S. sardine cannery opened in 1875 in Eastport, Maine, with workers sorting, snipping and packing sardines, which fueled American workers and, later, allied troops overseas. On the nation’s opposite coast, sardine canneries were immortalized by John Steinbeck in his 1945 novel “Cannery Row,” which focused on Monterey, California.
Said Jane Kirtley, a media ethics professor at the University of Minnesota: “What it’s about is confusion and deception.”
Wait til the Gov gets home.
"He is back in his coop with his girlfriend and grounded," they wrote in an update to the post.
Grouded? Really?
NEW YORK (AP) — Does signing up for Disney’s popular streaming service mean you have agreed to never sue the entertainment giant over anything forever?
That is what Disney argues in a wrongful death lawsuit involving a 42-year-old New York doctor whose family claims had a fatal allergic reaction after eating at an Irish pub in Disney Springs in October.
Nope. I don' t either.
Tensions over where and how gun owners can carry firearms in public are frequent in Texas, but the standoff with one of the state’s most beloved institutions has moved the fight onto unusual turf. The fair has not backed down since cowboy hat-wearing organizers announced the new policy at a news conference last week.Legendary lawmen of old supported gun control — perhaps most notably the Earp brothers, Wyatt and Virgil, who enforced the gun laws of Tombstone at a place called the OK Corral. Today, people are allowed to carry a gun without a license or permit on Tombstone streets. Back then, no.
“The lower the stakes, the bigger the fight,” said Ron Woloshun, a creative director and digital marketer in California who jumped into the fray on social media less than an hour after Harris selected Walz last week to offer his take on possessive proper nouns.
…as amended. By me. This is one example. I say 's.
Another is the Harvard (AKA Oxford) comma. AP says don't use it. I say, do.
I once asked an editor at the Chicago Tribune about this: Why does the AP stylebook say leave the serial comma out but every AP story the Trib runs has the comma in. He said, we have an editor whose whole job is to but it back.
I get it. In newspapering, when space is always an issue, there's an urge to leave things out.
But I say, right is right.
The Red Cross says the conventions are needed now more than ever: It has counted more than 120 active conflicts around the world, a six-fold increase from the half-century anniversary in 1999.
Older adults find themselves in a unique moment with technology. Artificial intelligence offers significant benefits for seniors, from the ability to curb loneliness to making it easier for them to get to medical appointments.
I'm an older adult and I'm not interested in an AI friend (if you're A, go away; if you're I, hang around).
I don't need help with medical appointments either, although I can at least see the point of that.
AI is going to make a lot of changes to the way a lot of things get done — for better or for worse — but right now, for the immediate future, the change I see is about the same change automatic transmissions made to driving.
It's still driving. You just don't need to pay so much attention to the gears.
…and it's time for a little review.
There are now 18 teams in college football's Big 10 conference. There are 16 teams in the Big 12. And in the Pac 12 there are two.
Counting is hard. And it gets more complicated from there.
HOW MATH IS THE FOUNDATION OF FOOTBALLGrossi [director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)] warned in April that the Russia-Ukraine war — which is the first to be fought so close to facilities of a major nuclear power program — has brought the prospect of a major nuclear accident dangerously close.Humans are really bad at assessing risk. Which might get us all into trouble someday. Who knows?
OpenAI said in a blog post that it intends to further study the emotional reliance of users on its ChatGPT-4o model, the latest iteration of its chatbot product, after observing early testers saying things like "This is our last day together"….
This is actually an extension of a much older (in internet time) discussion about computer-generated voices (Siri, Alexa, et. al.) in general: Is it too spooky to make them sound realistic or should they remain robot-ish? And entertainment industry concern about computer-generated likenesses. Scarlet Johansson recently sued OpenAI, claiming they had ripped off her voice.
(And yes, the movie alluded to is, of course, Her.)
“It was basically the exact same thing,” said Anna McCabe, a 29-year-old musician from Lawrence, who has seen the real Swift in concert thrice.
A Taylor Swift impersonator (AKA tribute performer) at Canobie Lake Park in Salem, N.H., is having a moment. No tribute Kelce has been sighted yet but a new season is happily about to begin.
Through Aug. 11, Boston 311 has received 8,693 requests for pothole repair. That total represents 73.3 percent of 2023’s 11,858 potholes. Currently, the city is on pace for about 14,300 requests for 2024.
