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4 beer company CEOs walked into a bar The CEO of Budweiser ordered a Bud Light. The CEO of Miller ordered a Miller Light. The CEO of Coors ordered a Coors Light. The CEO of Guinness ordered a Coke. The first three asked the CEO of Guinness why he didn't order a Guinness, to which he replied: "I figured if you 3 weren't ordering beer it would be rude for me to."

I was in the green room at a con last year and I let Peter Weller go ahead of me on the coffee line and he turned and said, “thank you for your cooperation” and i was made whole

@nikitabier Brisket

Next week I’m headed to Tokyo to meet with the X Japan team. What is the most American thing I can bring them?

@elonmusk How about create a checksum on meme images so we can block those too?

Just tap the Grok logo

@unusual_whales Then they employ morons

89% of leaders say AI has not improved their company's labor productivity, despite widespread adoption, per Gallup.

Offering Taco Bell before a flight is criminal

I didn't know Helen of Troy could generate so much conflict.

@wesbury It was an advisory jury. The judge had the ultimate decision

I’m totally confused. Why is a jury deciding cases on a “statute of limitations”? If the statute had run out, isn’t that the judges decision? Why was the case allowed to be brought? wsj.com/tech/ai/jury-s…

Christopher Nolan has allegedly cast a Trojan Zebra in "The Odyssey"

The only reason we have Vivaldi's music (of 4 seasons fame) is because some guy in the early 1900s found it in the basement of a monastary. Before that it was lost for 200 years!

The US Supreme Court has changed the trucking industry this week. Freight brokers can now be held liable for the accidents of those they hire. As a result, thousands of truck drivers (mostly foreigners) with lousy safety records are stranded with no work assignments.

@metaplexmovies The only question that really matters is dizzy or Carmen

watching STARSHIP TROOPERS for the first time (yeah yeah I know) only to discover it's a stupidly huge movie. gigantic miniatures, smart use of VFX, massive sets, every frame packed with endless extras. it looks amazing. unironically one of the great spectacles of the 90s

@PlatoonGhost Nope

Stone temple pilots are way better than Pearl Jam

This was carved from a single block of marble by a 23 year old in 1622. Bernini turned stone into flesh... The sculpture is called the Abduction of Proserpina, and it depicts the moment described in Ovid's Metamorphoses, when the goddess Proserpina was gathering flowers in a meadow and the earth opened beneath her. Pluto, king of the underworld, rose from the dark to take her. Out of every instant in that abduction, Bernini chose the one when her feet leave the ground. She is suspended in his arms. She is no longer in the world above, and not yet in the world below. Her left hand pushes desperately against Pluto's face. Her right is thrown back toward a sky she will never see again. And where the god's fingers close around her thigh, the marble surrenders to them, dimpling inward as living flesh would, as though Bernini had reached the deepest secret of stone and discovered that it had always been waiting to give in. He used to boast that in his hands, "marble became as impressionable as wax and as soft as dough." On her right cheek, a single tear has been running for four hundred years... The work was commissioned in 1621 by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, who wanted it as a showpiece for his own villa. He kept it for less than a year. In the summer of 1622, with a new pope newly elected, he gave it away as a political gift to the pope's nephew, Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi. It disappeared into private hands for nearly three centuries. The Italian state bought it back in 1908 and returned it to the room it had been made for. It has been there ever since. I have stood in front of it, and I can tell you that nothing prepares you for the moment you actually see those fingers in her thigh. The marble seems alive and you forget, for a few seconds, that it is stone at all... -- -- -- If you enjoyed this, I write a weekly newsletter read by over 50,000 people who love rediscovering the beauty of the past. You can join us here: James-lucas.com/welcome If you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.

@TiffanyFong @CoiletTlogger

@tolkienzone Nah that’s Rodan

You can’t fool me. That’s not a volcanic eruption, it’s Gandalf facing off against Durin’s Bane.

@ThrillaRilla369 Airplane was his masterpiece

Movie everyone considered a masterpiece, but you never understood why🤔 I’ll go first: Forrest Gump

The sword-catching scene in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl reportedly took hours to film because the actors kept missing the catch, making the reactions seen in the final version feel genuinely natural and unscripted.

@zerohedge Helen of Detroit

Bad Signs: Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" Looks Like A Woke Disaster zerohedge.com/political/bad-…

@TechEmails No chance of owning the ip. Just offer services to run the open source ones

Satya Nadella on funding OpenAI July 13, 2022