Notices by Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social), page 10

All this fuss about the Scarborough/Brezinski 180 makes me laugh.

Are people really that clueless about what is going to happen?

Great expression "as far as it goes."

There's not much that isn't true "as far as it goes."

It all depends on when you shut off your mind and stop asking questions because you reached a comfort zone or point of validation and became satisfied with reaching "as far as it goes."

@philip_cardella Not pissed off. In violent agreement.

Good morning. Stumbling on colorful bursts of Fall color. #photography #Fall #Today #Chicago

@marksquires My hunch is I doubt it.

Who’d a thunk it?

CFO John David Rainey said the holiday season is off to a good start, and cautioned that President-elect Donald Trump’s potential tariffs could force Walmart to raise prices.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/19/walmart-wmt-q3-2025-earnings.html

Pay attention.

Ukraine fires US-made longer-range missiles into Russia | CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/europe/ukraine-russia-atacms-biden-strike-intl/index.html

@muz4now It was a great night. This festival (International Voices Project) does staged readings of plays in translation. Each play gets the one night only treatment. Been a wonderful experience the last 10 or so years because it has exposed me to writers and cultures I wouldn't have come in contact with. The beauty of travel in a life in the arts.

@GottaLaff I'm not thinking about them, I'm thinking about us.

Hoping this is real. #politics

Adventures in misinformation

Chris Hayes: Aaron Rodgers just got duped – and exposed our social media misinformation crisis https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/aaron-rodgers-misinformation-football-nfl-elon-musk-rcna180376

We could do worse. And typically do.

Bertrand Russell’s Ten Commandments for Living Virtuously (1930) https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/bertrand-russells-ten-commandments-for-living-virtuously-1930.html

Happening tonight.
Next Up: Dream of Autumn by Jon Fosse
#theatre #arts #culture
https://warnercrocker.com/2024/11/17/next-up-dream-of-autumn-by-jon-fosse/

"Dialogue from all of it is included in an AI-training data set that has been used by Apple, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia, Salesforce, Bloomberg, and other companies."

“The files within this data set are not scripts, exactly. Rather, they are subtitles taken from a website called http://opensubtitles.org. Users of the site typically extract subtitles from DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and internet streams using optical-character-recognition (OCR) software. “

The Hollywood AI Database https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/opensubtitles-ai-data-set/680650/

Good morning. When you stumble on a burst of unusual color in the midst of Fall’s graying and decay. #Photography #Fall #Today #Chicago

🧵Worth your time. https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/113503040013629698

@wjmaggos Much.

The Bears. Again. JeeZus. #NFL #Football #ChicagoBears #Chicago

Meanwhile…

Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/us/politics/biden-ukraine-russia-atacms-missiles.html