Wikipedia: The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) is a constitutionally established permanent fund and sovereign wealth fund managed by a state-owned corporation, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC). It was established in Alaska in 1976 by Article 9, Section 15 of the Alask … | Continue reading
Jules Feiffer was just interviewed on NPR. He's 95 years old, and sharp as can be. Born the same year as my father, 1929 -- he died in 2009. | Continue reading
Coincidence. CSS was first proposed the same day in 1994 that I started my blog. October 10. Almost 30 years ago. | Continue reading
Could we agree that ChatGPT can ingest everything that's in Wikipedia? I particularly want the images. I'd like to ask for a picture of Chuck Berry, and be able to put him in a scene with the Wordle Kitty. That seems pretty harmless. The news industry could hardly object. | Continue reading
AG Sulzberger (born August 5, 1980) is an American journalist serving as the chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of its flagship newspaper, The New York Times. | Continue reading
2024 Summer Olympics start July 26, broadcast on NBC in the US. | Continue reading
I was asked on Threads what NY restaurant I miss the most. There are lots. But Ratner's is #1. Their food was fantastic, the ambience even better, and the waiters were wonderfully NY-grouchy. | Continue reading
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Chapman Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39702053 Points: 12 # Comments: 0 | Continue reading
I feel like when I'm working with ChatGPT that I'm talking with Commander Data from Star Trek. | Continue reading
Congress and the states have the power to amend the Constitution, not the Supreme Court. | Continue reading
Robert Hur is probably not a name familiar to you, and that's a failing of the American journalism. He's a presidential assassin. | Continue reading
We're in that part of the year where first the marketers torture me with the reminder that my mother is dead, and then when that wasn't enough do the same with the memory of my poor father. I hope my parents would laugh at this. I think they would. | Continue reading
Yep, the guy behind RoboCop, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, and Showgirls. I wonder if Jurassic Park would have existed in this alternate timeline. The post TIL: Disney’s 2000 film Dinosaur ‘started life as a 1988 Walon Green screenplay that Paul Verhoeven was interested in direct … | Continue reading
The movie Final Account follows the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. On Netflix. I'm watching it a little at a time. Riveting. You can see the Jew hate in their eyes, and often in their words. | Continue reading
Toggle the table of contents From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink , a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the p … | Continue reading
Operation Gideon ( Spanish: Operación Gedeón) was an unsuccessful attempt by Venezuelan dissidents and an American private military company, Silvercorp USA, to infiltrate Venezuela by sea and remove Nicolás Maduro from office in Venezuela.(en.wikipedia.org) | Continue reading
I'm watching The Old Man on Hulu. It's pretty good. Stars Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow. | Continue reading
Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33320181 Points: 57 # Comments: 10 | Continue reading