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Eli Roth's Thanksgiving Is a Dumb, Disgusting Delight
The idea for Eli Roth to make a horror movie about Thanksgiving was originally a joke. Several holidays are synonymous with Hollywood horror. Halloween, of course. Christmas has a few movies. Valentine’s Day too. But Thanksgiving? That’s so silly. Or is it? Read more...
The Great British Baking Show Recap: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Party Week gets phallic with sausage-roll and Caterpillar Cake challenges, which feels appropriate enough.
Altman and Brockman Out at OpenAI
OpenAI (Hacker News): Sam Altman will depart as CEO and leave the board of directors. […] Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in […]
SpamSieve 3.0.2
SpamSieve 3.0.2 greatly improves the workaround for the macOS bug where sometimes Mail extensions don’t work at all. By reading Mail’s database directly, instead of using AppleScript, SpamSieve is able to work much faster, with no overhead in Mail itself. It’s also no longer limited by mailboxes that have so many messages that Mail would […]
Mail Extension Postmortem
Tucky Wong: While Daylite, including the Daylite Mail Assistant, is compatible with macOS Sonoma, we strongly recommend that you hold off on upgrading to Sonoma at this time. Our recommendation is based on feedback from early adopters, which has highlighted a potential significant interruption in your current email workflows. Additionally, we are actively addressing certain […]
The Golden Globes Is Heading to the Young Sheldon Network
From Twitter to NBC to CBS in the space of three years.
https://www.manton.org/2023/11/17/ive-been-quite.html
I’ve been quite happy with OpenAI as a developer. We use their API to transcribe podcasts hosted on Micro.blog. It’s cheap enough that we can include the feature for everyone at no extra charge. I’ll admit I don’t know much about Sam Altman beyond the superficial, though. Ready for leaks.
UPDATE: Nathan Fielder denies these clearly unfounded rumors of trailer copying
It’s been one whole day since Sony Pictures rolled out a new trailer for Anyone But You, its new Glen Powell/Sydney Sweeney rom-com, a promo vid that saw Powell and Sweeney doing a little “Oooh, they have chemistry in real life, too!” banter with some pre-roll bickering. Which leads us to a genuine question: How the… Read more...