Treva Silverman, Joke Whisperer

“So many women were influenced by the show,” Silverman says, “Thinking it’s OK to be like Mary. But some would also think, ‘Huh, how interesting to be like Rhoda, too.’”

(She is my cousin. I absolutely adore her.)
https://momentmag.com/treva-silverman-joke-whisperer

I laughed

To compensate rightsholders, McMahon ordered Libgen to pay $30 million, but because nobody knows who runs the shadow library, it seems unlikely that publishers will be paid any time soon, if ever.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/pirate-library-must-pay-publishers-30m-but-no-one-knows-who-runs-it/

Jordan becomes the first country to eliminate leprosy https://www.who.int/news/item/19-09-2024-jordan-becomes-first-country-to-receive-who-verification-for-eliminating-leprosy

This game tests a person’s knowledge of Black culture against what ChatGPT has been trained to know about the Black community. (I sucked at it.) https://www.areyoublackerthanchatgpt.com

@Teire Aww thanks!

10 Great Maggie Smith Performances to Stream
She was in so many movies that I lost track. This is a fun list.
(gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/27/movies/maggie-smith-streaming.html

Jane Fonda's quintessential library masters 'bookshelf wealth'–the most personal trend to date

It isn't as deep an article as I'd prefer, but still a nice bookish shelfie trend. https://www.homesandgardens.com/celebrity-style/jane-fonda-bookshelf-wealth-home-office

I'm browsing through my older Amazon reviews to see which are (still) popular. My review of Jelly Roll Quilts was upvoted by 53 people. Vainly, I think it's worth it. (The book is still great, too; I've made other quilts from these patterns.) https://amzn.to/3Y0jOHD

If a wine’s vintage is decided by the year the grapes were harvested, wouldn’t it be fitting for France to celebrate the New Year at harvest time? At the turn of the 19th century, that’s just what France did. https://www.messynessychic.com/2024/02/29/happy-new-year-its-the-year-230-according-to-the-french-republican-calendar/

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Jack Kerouac’s List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Writing and Life
including:
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form

https://www.themarginalian.org/2012/03/22/jack-kerouac-belief-and-technique-for-modern-prose/

TIL about the BBC Sound Effects Archive https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

North Korean Hackers Target German Missile Maker with Fake Job Offers https://www.vulnu.com/p/north-korean-hackers-target-german-missile-maker-with-fake-job-offers

Assam's rhino population grows fivefold as poaching drops 86% since 2016
https://www.business-standard.com/india-news/assam-s-rhino-population-grows-fivefold-as-poaching-drops-86-since-2016-124092300450_1.html

As a bandleader, Ellington didn’t just write music and then find the perfect players to play it — he found great players first, and then he wrote music to take advantage of their strengths. https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/human-resources

On the brink of trial, the cable news channel Newsmax on Thursday reached a settlement with voting machine company Smartmatic, bringing an end to a defamation lawsuit that accused the network of spreading multiple false claims surrounding the 2020 election. https://abcnews.go.com/US/newsmax-reaches-settlement-smartmatic-claims-2020-election/story?id=114233659

I could shorten this to: ChatGPT-written prose has a smell.

If you don't have anything to say, ChatGPT won't say it for you. It'll make you THINK that it'll say it for you. The author's conference example captures this quite well.
https://www.ontestautomation.com/i-am-tired-of-ai/