Coincidentally, America's Test Kitchen just did a video about citrus varieties, in which Lan Lam proposes using bergamot to make a posset for an Earl Grey tea-like flavor.
"Two dozen journalists. A pile of pages that would reach the top of the Empire State Building. And an effort to find the next revelation in a sprawling case."–https://archive.ph/0Vzan#selection-4494.0-4494.1
"About two dozen journalists are working through the three million pages, 180,000 images and 2,000 videos contained in the trove of files released about two weeks ago — and so far they’ve seen only 2 to 3 percent of the material. It would take years for a group that size to comb through it all and then verify information as true and publishable, given that so much of it is uncorroborated, in fragments or redacted.
How do we do this work? What are we looking for? In what ways are artificial intelligence tools helpful? What judgment calls have we been making or debating?"
Oh great. Now that the US is going to be at risk of Muslin terrism again we can finally get that state of emergency declared so there'll be no pesky elections.
Ah, I too! I'm just 142 pages from the end, and will finish it today!
I didn't even know it existed until it arrived in the mail as a surprising kind of 30-year thank-you note from someone to whom I gave the first trilogy when she was in the hospital.
It was. But it was really good. Lot of labour history & the aftermath. But the chapter describing the events of the fire and the next one about how people had to find their dead. Terrifying & heartbreaking. But such a good book. Could hardly put it down.
Murderland by Caroline Fraser. It's about serial killers, most specifically from the Pacific Northwest. She likes maps, like me! She writes about all the potential environmental influences on these men. Like the Asarco plant in Tacoma. (It's gone now). It is beyond frightening how not that long ago there were zero regulations for the kind of poisons industry allowed in the air and soil. I'm surprised anybody lived past 70 during those years.
Speaking of mysteries, I went to the library yesterday. I returned “The Old Man and the Sea” and and decided to check out “And Then There were None”. Never read any Agatha Christi so I’ll give it a go.
I recently saw the deeply weird 1974 film version of this (using the modified American title "Ten Little Indians") starring among others Orson Welles, Herbert Lom, Oliver Reed, Gert Frobe, Elke Sommer, Charles Aznavour and Richard Attenborough - shot on location in Iran.
I just read an Italian novel entitled "The Old Man By the Sea," by Domenico Starnone. Kind of a riff on the Hemingway novel but set entirely on the beach.
I need to reread "The Old Man and the Sea". It's some of my favorite writing by Hemingway and it has been entirely too long since I've absorbed myself in that compelling story.
My mother has always been obsessed with mysteries and is huge Agatha Christie fan. If I'm honest it's always disappointed me because of Christie's unvarnished racism.
I brough it up with mom once and she was thoroughly annoyed with me. But she is also the same woman who believes Trayvon Martin was a thief.
This morning I got tired of the usual bowl of corn flakes & bananas so I made Jim Nabors Macadamia Nut Banana Bread
INGREDIENTS
1 stick of butter, melted
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten well
3 bananas, well mashed
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2/3 cup chopped macadamia nuts
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease one large loaf pan.
In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar then mix in the eggs and bananas.
Sift the flour, salt and baking soda into the bowl and mix until just together.
Fold in the chopped nuts.
Bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Start testing the at 50 minutes by sticking in a tester in the center of the bread it. If it does not come out clean cook for another 10 minutes.
ALZHEIMER"S BEGINS WHEN YOU CAN"T SAY THIS ONE WORD
Too much effort.
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Ahhhh.....want some now!!! I'll bet you could make that filling and just put it in sherbet dishes....
SNL digs up damning clip of Trump making a fool of himself on Iran: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/snl-digs-up-damning-clip-of-trump-making-a-fool-of-himself-on-iran/ar-AA1Xiepr?cvpid=a0871476cf044e31b61992112883a195 (1min 33sec video)
Saw the quote yesterday, but it makes him look so much more stupid saying it on camera.
This looks yummy! No eggs to scramble. Nice! Thank you.
Coincidentally, America's Test Kitchen just did a video about citrus varieties, in which Lan Lam proposes using bergamot to make a posset for an Earl Grey tea-like flavor.
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLGonLqAH88 )
I love her videos.
NYT's headlines, right below the Iran news
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"Why the Epstein Investigations Took So Long and Did So Little"
"The U.S. Released the Epstein Files. The Arrests Are Overseas."
"How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files"
De-paywalled link to that last one:
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"Two dozen journalists. A pile of pages that would reach the top of the Empire State Building. And an effort to find the next revelation in a sprawling case."–https://archive.ph/0Vzan#selection-4494.0-4494.1
"About two dozen journalists are working through the three million pages, 180,000 images and 2,000 videos contained in the trove of files released about two weeks ago — and so far they’ve seen only 2 to 3 percent of the material. It would take years for a group that size to comb through it all and then verify information as true and publishable, given that so much of it is uncorroborated, in fragments or redacted.
How do we do this work? What are we looking for? In what ways are artificial intelligence tools helpful? What judgment calls have we been making or debating?"
"A pile of pages that would reach the top of the Empire State Building."
Or that would be twice the height of Trump Tower in Manhattan. (Trump Tower is 664 feet; the Empire State Building is 1,250 feet.)
And here is an ACTUAL, USEFUL use case for an LLM (large language model).
Another Ayatollah throws his turban in the ring.
🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 𝘑𝘜𝘚𝘛 𝘐𝘕! 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘈𝘺𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘩 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘮 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘫𝘪𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘴𝘳𝘢𝘦𝘭: "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘜𝘚 𝘨𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘡𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘥𝘶𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥."
So this is going well.
Spiffy, boffo, wonderful.
Oh great. Now that the US is going to be at risk of Muslin terrism again we can finally get that state of emergency declared so there'll be no pesky elections.
"Save your communities! Elect a Muslim mayor!" (/s)
Zoran and I are like this: 🤞
Feature, not a bug.
A few people may die, but that's a sacrifice Piggy is willing to make.
So, Donnie--I'm sorry, fuckface--about your hoping not to involve the US in a protracted war with Iran...
By the way, I hear your pall Bibi skipped town and headed to Germany after the mess you two masterminds put together.
The two stooges.
Kinda like betting on WWE.
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Prediction markets should be fucking illegal.
Clearly, honesty and integrity elude them.
These "people" are amoral.
Cheesecake without the cheese! So much easier!
What's everyone reading these days?
Death's End, the 3rd book in the Three Body Problem series. It's making me look forward to the TV series resumption.
The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 16.
In addition to Hiaasen, I'm reading The Amberglow Candy Store, a kind of Japanese fairy tale featuring a helpful/mischievous kitsune.
Carl Hiaasen novels, bc theyre gun & frivolous and I can't stay sane w reading anything more challenging at the moment.
Me too!
I just finished The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith. I have Patti Smith's most recent book on tap; I got it for Chanukah.
The third installment of Philip Pullman's 'The Book of Dust' trilogy. It's a continuation of 'His Dark Materials'.
Awesome!
It's ON HOLD FOR-EVAH at our local library! "There are 42 holds ahead of you"
Ah, I too! I'm just 142 pages from the end, and will finish it today!
I didn't even know it existed until it arrived in the mail as a surprising kind of 30-year thank-you note from someone to whom I gave the first trilogy when she was in the hospital.
Last four books I read were:
The Godfather
Black AF History
Let the Right One In
Triangle: the Fire That Changed America
and I find myself stuck on what to read next.
That last one must have been tough.
It was. But it was really good. Lot of labour history & the aftermath. But the chapter describing the events of the fire and the next one about how people had to find their dead. Terrifying & heartbreaking. But such a good book. Could hardly put it down.
Working my way through Scalzi's Olf Man's War series, very funny and entertaining.
I keep hearing about him, but I've yet to read him.
Redshirts is a good one. Gets increasingly mind-bending as it goes on.
Murderland by Caroline Fraser. It's about serial killers, most specifically from the Pacific Northwest. She likes maps, like me! She writes about all the potential environmental influences on these men. Like the Asarco plant in Tacoma. (It's gone now). It is beyond frightening how not that long ago there were zero regulations for the kind of poisons industry allowed in the air and soil. I'm surprised anybody lived past 70 during those years.
That sounds good.
I'll perhaps save that for whenever I need a picker-upper.
Je plaisant. Sounds fascinating, especially if there are maps.
It is a bit grim. But as I said yesterday, given the long-distance mass killing the US is doing even as we speak, their methods seem almost noble.
Doom scrolls.
Yes yes, of course, but I meant something that not EVERYONE is reading.
Wonkette of course.
[insert gif of Joe Biden's facial expression seeing Marjorie Taylor Greene at his last SOTU address]
"107 Days" by Kamala Harris
Which multi-verse is it written in?
You are braver than I, my friend. That wound is going to be fresh to me for quite a long time.
Is it fiction?
Hardly, though one couldn't be blamed for wishing it so, especially the ending.
The lesson to be learned with Iran is that if you don't pay the screaming toddler, he will kill you.
Speaking of mysteries, I went to the library yesterday. I returned “The Old Man and the Sea” and and decided to check out “And Then There were None”. Never read any Agatha Christi so I’ll give it a go.
Let me know how it goes. One of my favourite movies is Death on the Nile with Bette Davis & co. I’ve always meant to read the book.
The Agatha Christie book is great.
I recently saw the deeply weird 1974 film version of this (using the modified American title "Ten Little Indians") starring among others Orson Welles, Herbert Lom, Oliver Reed, Gert Frobe, Elke Sommer, Charles Aznavour and Richard Attenborough - shot on location in Iran.
I just read an Italian novel entitled "The Old Man By the Sea," by Domenico Starnone. Kind of a riff on the Hemingway novel but set entirely on the beach.
I need to reread "The Old Man and the Sea". It's some of my favorite writing by Hemingway and it has been entirely too long since I've absorbed myself in that compelling story.
Amazing book. I really like a moveable feast too.
Wonder if it's one of the versions edited to make her look less racist
My mother has always been obsessed with mysteries and is huge Agatha Christie fan. If I'm honest it's always disappointed me because of Christie's unvarnished racism.
I brough it up with mom once and she was thoroughly annoyed with me. But she is also the same woman who believes Trayvon Martin was a thief.
I have questions but I'm not opening that can of worms.
The way I'm feeling at the moment I appreciate that considerably more than you know.
This looks delicious thank you!
This morning I got tired of the usual bowl of corn flakes & bananas so I made Jim Nabors Macadamia Nut Banana Bread
INGREDIENTS
1 stick of butter, melted
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten well
3 bananas, well mashed
1 1/4 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2/3 cup chopped macadamia nuts
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and grease one large loaf pan.
In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter and sugar then mix in the eggs and bananas.
Sift the flour, salt and baking soda into the bowl and mix until just together.
Fold in the chopped nuts.
Bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Start testing the at 50 minutes by sticking in a tester in the center of the bread it. If it does not come out clean cook for another 10 minutes.
He owned a macadamia grove.
LET'S EAT!
Let the loaf cool then I cut a thick slice and put a shmear of cream cheese on it...my taste buds had a bit of ecstasy! 😉
I want that, but with a glob of cream cheese frosting because I haven’t the self control for a shmear