The day on the water was a family celebration. Kidman spent it with her younger sister Antonia, who was marking her 55th birthday out on the Riviera. Nicole Kidman boards a boat in a striped shirt, denim cut-offs, and trainers, Loewe bag in hand, joining sister Antonia Kidman’s 55th birthday celebrations on the Italian Riviera…
image by AI; my own prompt Earlier this month, I was looking at my ‘upcoming blog post ideas’ list just before going into my bathroom for my morning shower. I was lamenting that none of the subjects on my list were very interesting, and contemplating skipping a couple of posts until there was something I…
Global weather patterns have begun to resemble a Hollywood disaster movie, and the mainstream media is starting to admit what many of us have known all along. Thanks to the “Super El Niño” that is now upon us, the second half of this year is going to be really crazy. Europe was just hit by…
The world’s most dysfunctional sports league, the WNBA, reached a new low this week. It’s bad enough that they beat the sh*t out of their megastar player Caitlin Clark on a nightly basis. Caitlin Clark is harassed for three years by fans, media, players, and assaulted by other players and the WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert…
Vice President JD Vance appears on the Joe Rogan Experience White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday assured reporters that Vice President JD Vance and President Trump are “On the exact same page” with Iran after a reporter claimed that their messaging is contradictory. Vance, who is leading negotiations with Iran, appeared on Joe…
After using ChatGPT for less than two weeks, I’ve already come to a conclusion that differs from both the fear and the hype surrounding artificial intelligence. Before I started using AI, I mostly heard two competing stories. One claimed AI would soon replace millions of workers, become more intelligent than humans, and eventually create dangers…
Ike Barinholtz, guest hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Monday, aimed straight at the memory of ABC’s brief suspension of Jimmy Kimmel last year over a joke about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. He even asked the sidekick to read “heartfelt remarks” for a friend he never had. Ike Barinholtz sits for a black-and-white…
First, it was a tiny amount of bitcoin sales; then, the purchase of several thousand BTC; and finally, today, the unloading of thousands of BTC. What’s happening at Strategy? trategy’s (MSTR) recent bitcoin trades suggest the company is attempting to find its footing amid bitcoin’s bear-market slide, which raises questions about its capital markets strategy. Alongside today’s…
Three of the four major broadcast and cable news outlets, ABC, NBC, and CNN, declined to carry a sitting president’s primetime address live on their main channels Thursday night. CBS and MSNBC started it and left before it ended. Fox was the only major network still airing it when Trump finished. A near-unified refusal to…
Conventional political philosophy has a blindspot over what turns out to be a crucial concept: the precise nature of the legal relationship between the human person and the regime under which he lives. In the US, we call this citizenship but how precisely is that different from the old-world notion of being a subject to…
