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Disney sells out of ad inventory for the 2024 Oscars; a source says Disney was seeking $1.7M to $2.2M for 30-second ads, similar to its 2022 pricing (Bill Bradley/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/disney-sells-out-ad-inventory-96th-oscars…

Disney Sells Out Ad Inventory for 96th Oscars With Pricing Back Up
The ceremony will have a broad range of sponsors across 17 categories.

'Zero chance' infamous Apophis collides with another asteroid, redirects to Earth
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-chance-infamous-apophis-collides-asteroid.html
So not to worry, it's

'Zero chance' infamous Apophis collides with another asteroid, redirects to Earth
When it was first discovered in 2004, Apophis was identified as one of the most dangerous asteroids in that there was a risk that it could impact Earth. But that impact assessment changed over the years after astronomers tracked Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942, and its orbit became better determined, and it became clear that it was on course to miss our planet.

"Infamous Cop" Joins DeSantis's Paramilitary Force - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/05/infamous-cop-joins-desantiss-paramilitary-force/

“Infamous Cop” Joins DeSantis’s Paramilitary Force
The Miami Herald reports: Javier Ortiz, the Miami police captain whose long history of citizen complaints alleging beatings, false arrests and harassment made him notorious in the city he swore to pro

Google's Education VP wants us to believe AI is the classroom's new calculator, but this is a terrible analogy:
1. We know how calculators produce their results.
2. You can check a calculator's answer using pretty much the same algorithm it uses.
3. Rare floating point errors aside, calculators do not invent false answers.
4. Calculators are based on math principles; LLMs are based on no principles.

Military intelligence: Ukraine constantly inventing new ways to sink Russian ships: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/07/military-intelligence-ukraine.html

“I didn't think he was gonna stop”: Cousin of infamous extremist rabbi Meir Kahane attacks student protesters with car
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/meir-reuven-kahane-columbia-student-protest-car-assault

“I didn't think he was gonna stop”: Cousin of infamous extremist rabbi Meir Kahane attacks student protesters with car
A student eyewitness tells The Handbasket what he saw.

Novelist J.G. Ballard was experimenting with computer-generated poetry 50 years before ChatGPT was invented
#ballardian #weirdfic

Infant boy killed in traffic incident in Co Clare
#Ireland reporting, drivers must never be criticised and must be given every benefit of the doubt - whilst our driving standards fall and killing-by-car rate grows enormously

Google makes its Imagen 2 image generator generally available in Vertex AI, and adds inpainting and outpainting to remove or add elements and expand borders (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/google-releases-imagen-2-a-vi…

Google releases Imagen 2, a video clip generator | TechCrunch
Imagen 2 can now create short, four-second videos from text prompts, along the lines of AI-powered clip generation tools like Runway, Pika and Irreverent Labs.

Everybody wants that VP job and will do just about anything to get it
Tim Scott Repeats Infanticide Smears Against Democrats | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/05/tim-scott-repeats-infanticide-smears-0

Tim Scott Repeats Infanticide Smears Against Democrats
Sen. Scott has swallowed the entire MAGA cult, hook, line, and sinker.