“Rather than have us reprint everything, I just would like to correct the description,” she said.
In the Live Free or Die state it's been a confounding year.
To friends, Broccoli has characterized her thoughts on Amazon this way: “These people are f— idiots.”
Bond, this WSJ story claims, has dodged more than 4,000 bullets so far…
“We have these industry, military, law enforcement professionals that are directly conflicting the message that is coming from the White House,” [a New Jersey assemblywoman named Dawn Fantasia] says. Speaking of Rep. Pallone’s comments after being briefed, Fantasia said: “Now, are we in a situation that our [federal] elected officials are in the know but the state of New Jersey is still not in the know? I mean, this is getting silly.”
Getting silly, that is.
And so, since everyone's entitled (I think it's in the Constitution somewhere) to have an opinion, I'm going with mine.
It's somebody (or somebodies) training an AI, much like everyone from Tesla and Google to Uber and Lyft are training automobiles.
Most likely it's a U.S. government entity and nobody's talking about it because…wait for it…it's a secret.
Now we can talk about the wisdom of secrets.
The worries [about tariff threats] are concentrated among heads of larger companies, according to the survey: 13% of those CEOs thought tariffs would have a positive effect on their businesses, compared with 80% of CEOs of the smaller companies surveyed.Well, well.
Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Members of an Indian martial arts collective broke a bizarre Guinness World Record: Most slices of a cucumber held in a person's mouth with a chainsaw while blindfolded in one minute.First we had kids writing and drinking sake while swimming in armor; then the World Excel Championship; and now seeing how close you can get to a guy's nose with a chainsaw. Wearing a blindfold.
Dec. 16 (UPI) -- A municipality in the Philippines broke a Guinness World Record by gathering more than 2,000 people dressed as angels.
At a press briefing last week Sabrina Singh, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon, said that the reported objects were not drones operated by the U.S. military and that officials did not believe they were “coming from a foreign entity or adversary.”
Which was immediately interpreted on X(Twitter), of course, as they're from outer space.
But no. It's just Santa's elves, a little bit behind schedule this year on checking it twice. Which, nevertheless, absolutely needs to be done before Christmas.
Especially in New Jersey.
If you were home in New England [yesterday], forced to watch Patriots-Cardinals ahead of the true Game of the Week, too bad. Instead of a possible prelude to this year’s Super Bowl, you were hostage to the Dumpster Fire In The Desert.
-Boston Globe
Imagine.
[In the true Game of the Week the Bills beat the Lions 48-42. As if you didn't already know.]
Brooklyn Seltzer Museum
474 Hemlock St, Brooklyn
An interactive museum and factory tour run in partnership with the city’s oldest seltzer works, a family business now in its fourth generation. The museum, inside Brooklyn Seltzer Boys’ active factory, is “dedicated to preserving and promoting the effervescent history of seltzer water,” and celebrates “the manufacturing of seltzer, the science of seltzer, and seltzer as a cultural force in New York City and the world beyond.”
Not to mention, guests can spritz each other with seltzer.
Michael Jarman defeated 11 other finalists, including three-time world champion Andrew "The Annihilator" Ngai of Australia, at the spreadsheet-managing sport and took home a $5,000 prize and the wrestling-style championship belt.
This spirited gathering is part of a massive global phenomenon, with parallel events unfolding in cities spanning multiple continents.
In Australia, Adelaide hosted its own congregation of Santas, while across North America, celebrations stretched from Vancouver to Fort Lauderdale. Major metropolitan areas including London, Phoenix, San Francisco, Dallas, and Los Angeles joined the festivities, each putting their local spin on the holiday tradition.
…put out some black coffee and a couple of asprin instead.
