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Family Feud, Thanksgiving Edition
The New Yorker,
A selection of cartoons by the Thanks-taking Grinches among us on how to survive Turkey Day.
https://www.manton.org/2023/11/17/friday-bombshell-sam.html
Manton Reese,
Friday bombshell, Sam Altman is gone from OpenAI: 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 his ability to continue leading OpenAI. Didn’t see even a hint that something like this might happen. Pretty shocking.
Share a queen bed for rent in Toronto for $950
Boing Boing,
"Looking for an easy going FEMALE to share the master bedroom and the ONE QUEEN SIZE BED… I have been previously sharing the bedroom which ONLY HAS ONE QUEEN SIZE with roommate I found on Facebook." This was reportedly a real listing on Facebook Marketplace in Toronto, Canada. — Read the rest
Sam Altman ousted as OpenAI’s CEO
TechCrunch,
Sam Altman has been fired from OpenAI, Inc., the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that acts as the governing body for OpenAI, the AI startup behind ChatGPT, DALL-E 3, GPT-4 and other highly capable generative AI systems. He’ll both leave the company’s board of directors and step down as CEO. In a post on OpenAI’s official blog, the […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Edgelord Nathan Fielder Won Late Night This Week
Vulture,
Plus Maria Bamford and Stephen Colbert on The Late Show and Daily Show standout Leslie Jones.
Rustin Is a Solid History Lesson But Not a Particularly Good Movie
Colman Domingo is fantastic, however.
Chris Christie shuts down MAGA Newsmax host: "The truth is coming, baby"
Think what you will about former Trump-sycophant Chris Christie, but as the only Republican candidate who consistently hammers Donald Trump and MAGA propaganda, he sure is fun to have around. Especially since, as a former federal prosecutor (and Republican bully himself), he knows how to clobber hard, as he did yesterday when he punched the stuffing out of far-right Newsmax host Eric Bolling. — Read the rest
White House condemns Musk's antisemitism; Apple finally suspends advertising on Twitter
Yesterday, Elon Musk promoted an antisemitic conspiracy theory and described it as "actual truth," and in the aftermath Media Matters posted an exposé on the brands whose ads appear against such material on the site. IBM, with its uneasy past of collaboration with the Third Reich, was first to jump. — Read the rest