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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
Trump sends troops and Dr. Phil to LA; Kash Patel squirms on Rogan over Musk's claims (Video)
Jon Stewart on the LA ICE protests and Trump's escalating response (Video)
‘A complete accuracy collapse’: Apple throws cold water on the potential of AI reasoning – and it's a huge blow for the likes of OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Apple has suggested that AI reasoning models have clear limits when it comes to solving complex problems, undermining developer arguments that they are useful for tasks that a human would traditionally solve. But then,
Certain parts of the U.S. have noticeably higher rates of dementia than others, a new study of VA healthcare data finds. “…dementia rates were noticeably higher in the Southeast, Northwest, and other regions, even after accounting for some possible factors like income. The findings suggest that deep-seated regional differences can contribute to dementia risk, the researchers say.”
Vance, DHS appear to back deportation of popular ‘Menswear Guy’.
650-foot mega-tsunami sends seismic waves around world and satellites captured the action.
Leaders of ‘orgasmic meditation’ women’s wellness company OneTaste convicted in forced labor trial. Prosecutors had argued the two women ran a yearslong scheme that groomed adherents — many of them victims of sexual trauma — to do their bidding.
KGB Quote of the Day:
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
--Saul Bellow (Wikipedia link)
(More Saul Bellow quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Alcoholics Anonymous Founders' Day, Ballpoint Pen Day, Call Your Doctor Day, National Black Cow Day, National Egg Roll Day, National Frosted Cookie Day, National Herb and Spice Day, National Iced Tea Day, and World Pet Memorial Day.
On This Day:
1752 - Benjamin Franklin tested the lightning conductor with his kite-flying experiment.
1845 - Andrew Jackson's African Grey parrot "Poll" was removed from his funeral for swearing at The Hermitage, Tennessee. Funeral attendee William Menefee Norment recorded: "Before the sermon and while the crowd was gathering, a wicked parrot that was a household pet got excited and commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house
1854 - The United States Naval Academy graduated its first class of students.
1924 - first political convention broadcast on radio (Republicans at Cleveland)
1935 - Dr. Robert Smith (Doctor Bob) took his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in Akron, Ohio.
1947 - Saab produced its first automobile.
1964 - United States Senate broke a 75-day filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.
1966 - The Mamas and the Papas win a gold record for "Monday, Monday" (Video)
1974 - "Feel Like Makin' Love" single released by Roberta Flack (Video)
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1886 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (The Bridge on the River Kwai) and producer (d. 1973) (Video)
1895 - Hattie McDaniel, American actress (Gone with the Wind)(d. 1952) (Video)
1915 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
1918 - Barry Morse, English-Canadian actor and director (d. 2008) (The Fugitive, Space: 1999) (Video)
1921 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (d. 2021)[
1922 - Judy Garland, American singer, actress, and vaudevillian (d. 1969) (Video)
1928 - Maurice Sendak, American author and illustrator (d. 2012) ("Where the Wild Things Are") (Video)
1929 - James McDivitt, American general, pilot, and astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9) (d. 2022)
1933 - F. Lee Bailey, American criminal defense attorney (Sam Shepard; Boston Strangler; Patty Hearst; OJ Simpson)(d. 2021)
1949 - Kevin Corcoran, actor (Swiss Family Robinson, Babes in Toyland), born in Santa Monica, California (d. 2015) (Video)
1959 - Eliot Spitzer, American lawyer and politician, 54th Governor of New York (Video- Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer)
1965 - Elizabeth Hurley, English model, actress, and producer
1968 - Bill Burr, American comedian and actor (Video)
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