On Jan 8, 2019, @HistoryBlueBook premiered the fantastic 'Project Blue Book' TV series starring Aidan Gillen & Michael Malarkey. We had 2 great seasons & should have had more! 🛸 #SaveBlueBook #UFOs #ProjectBlueBook #michaelmalarkey #aidengillen @mkmalarkey @L_Mennell @KseniaSolo

This should be a war crime. Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees before annual harvest irishtimes.com/world/middle-…

This is a huge NYT investigation into how Russia uses shell companies and Tether, a crypto coin, to evade sanctions and buy arms. What it doesn't mention is that the main U.S. backer of Tether is Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Howard Lutnick's sons. nytimes.com/2026/09/24/busin…

This masterpiece turns 60 this year..... it's a darn shame you have to pay to watch it.... it should be on network TV..... 🎃

Les cerfs de Nara font comme ils peuvent pour profiter de l'air conditionné et se rafraîchir un peu 😄🦌

🦔Someone is buying Japanese used books by the ton. Not novels or comics. Philosophy, history, medical law, Edo-period cultural texts. Multiple buyer accounts all ship to one logistics center in Okayama Prefecture that won't answer questions. Export records show over 50 tons, roughly 100,000 volumes, shipped to the US since last year. No buyer has been identified. Separately, court documents confirmed Anthropic's "Project Panama" bought millions of books in the US, cut the spines off, scanned them, and shredded the originals. An internal memo said the goal was to "destructively scan all the books in the world." Similar operations have been reported across Europe. My Take Anthropic's US book operation came out in court filings earlier this year. Project Panama. Millions of books, cut the spines off, scanned, shredded. Their VP chose the codename so nobody outside the company would find out. That story broke and apparently the same operation just moved to Japan. Anonymous buyer accounts, a warehouse in Okayama that won't take questions, and 100,000 volumes of specialized academic texts that nobody buys to resell. I don't know how you build a trillion-dollar industry on material you had to acquire in secret through middlemen because you knew the public would object. Authors spent years on those books and now they're fed through a scanner and thrown away so a chatbot can sound smarter. If the data was free to use, they wouldn't need codenames and anonymous warehouses. The lawsuits over who owns this material have barely begun and I think the copyright exposure across the whole AI industry is enormous. Anthropic's internal memo said the goal was every book in the world, which describes the foundation of the product. Hedgie🤗

Can YOU see it? This is why you shouldn't trust generative AI, in one photo. Watch, share, and tell your friends how far into the video you were when you saw it!

Talk about embarrassingly PR for US.

Tuna recalled in NY, NJ for food poisoning risks: FDA pix11.com/news/local-news/tu…

Mid-week #Caturday and early #Halloween offering. Who knows how many people have perished from this affliction... 😱 @LouDPhillips

Trump hasn't stifled editorial cartoonists... yet.

Late #caturday room design tips 😹😹😹 @LouDPhillips

Wonder why your favorite restaurant food isn't as good anymore? Private equity probably bought it. Here's the list. weareravenous.com/heres-just…

I like how NBC just cut off Trump as he is "still" talking (and not saying much). CbS and others too.

How Saudi oil scientists ended up working on the world’s most important climate reports theguardian.com/environment/…

A PSA: do NOT download the White House app. It is doing something very weird with the sandbox permissions you give it. Which I’m not sure yet, but is likely against every service term and developer agreement on earth. I downloaded it so you don’t have to onto an air gapped old iPad. It is phoning home, asking for way too much personal data, and attempting to bypass location services permissions. Aside from the propaganda, it’s a security nightmare.

Dysesthesia (abnormal skin sensations such as burning, tingling) Risk Appears to Rise With GLP-1s medscape.com/viewarticle/dys…

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“SALT FROM THE SEA WAS SEEN CAKED ON WINDOWS IN VERMONT” “THE SURGE STRUCK THE COAST SO VIOLENTLY, SEISMOGRAPHS IN ALASKA HEARD IT” Today marks 88 years since the 1938 New England Hurricane roared ashore Long Island and Connecticut. It’s hands-down the most violent hurricane on record to strike the Northeastern U.S. Here’s some notable feats from this monster: - Produced the highest wind gust ever recorded from a hurricane in the United States, at 186 mph in Massachusetts - Storm surge caused tide to rise 7 feet in 30 minutes at Battery Park, NYC - Surged slammed Long Island with such force, that seismographs in Alaska detected it. - Highest tide ever produced north of the Carolinas, at 17 feet 5 inches (and likely most violent surge on the U.S. east coast). - Salt from the sea was seen caked on windows in Vermont. - Downed over 2 billion trees, impacting 35% of New England’s forest cover. - Traveled over 600 miles in 12 hours. - The most powerful hurricane to strike New England area in 300+ years. This storm had incredible power. To get a wind gust of 186 mph, on a 600-foot hill 100 miles east of the storm’s center is insane. The forward speed, the wind, and most of all, the storm surge — like a tsunami. We would be incredibly unlucky to see a storm like this again in our lifetimes, and all the new development along south-facing coastlines should pray we don’t.

67 years ago today, ‘Take Five’ by Dave Brubeck Quartet was released as a single. It went on to become the best-selling jazz single of the 20th century.

In 2022, Tom Hanks launched his own nonprofit coffee brand for war veterans; for the past 4 years, the company has helped hundreds of military families timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…