Samuel L. Jackson Is Confused Why He’s Not in ‘Black Panther’ Movies (Samantha Bergeson / IndieWire) “I’m still trying to figure out why I’ve never been to Wakanda.” Also, he has a healthy attitude toward not winning Oscars or doing prestige movies. “… once I got over it many years ago, it wasn’t a big deal for me.”
Can IBM bring Watson back to life?. Watson never fulfilled the promise it showed during its spectacular 2011 Jeopardy debut. But IBM has a bold plan to restore the AI’s faded stardom. My latest, on Silverlinings.
Every self-help book ever, boiled down to 11 simple rules. Outstanding life advice. I plan to write a short outline of this article and consult it regularly. (Chris Taylor / Mashable)
We get a lot of ravens and/or crows around here. Julie found this article about how to tell them apart. Still, I remain low in confidence as to my ability to distinguish them.
A toymaker and doctor partnered to create Resusci Anne, a doll to teach people how to perform CPR. The face of the doll was based on an unknown woman believed drowned in the Seine in the 1880s, who was celebrated in books and poetry as l’Inconnue de la Seine, or the Unknown Woman of the Seine. On the Criminal podcast: “The Unknown Woman.".
Marc Maron interviews Quinn Cummings, writer and former child star who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar when she was 10 years old for her role on “The Goodbye Girl.”
Quinn tells Marc why she rejected acting after her early success and why she prefers to write. They also talk about homeschooling, avoiding marriage and how Quinn became a patent-holding inventor.
Cummings reminds me of those people who used to appear on talk shows in the 1970s for no other reason than because they were great at talking.
“We are living through the end of the useful internet.”
Reddit is speedrunning enshittification.
I’m going to move linkblogging to other platforms, primarily Facebook, atomicrobotlive.tumblr.com, @mitchw@mastodon.social, and maybe mitchw.bsky.social. I’ll keep using mitchw.blog for my own original writing, images, and other content. This will continue until it doesn’t.
An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance. After an Indiana man pleaded not guilty to possession of child pornography, courts installed Covenant Eyes spyware on the phones and other electronic devices of everybody in his family as a condition of his release before trial. The man went to jail after the software reported someone using his wife’s phone went to Pornhub. She says it never happened—it’s a bug in the software—and tests of the software confirm that’s very possible.
Julie found this in her papers. I was the one with the PalmPilot; she never had one.
Do you believe in life after death? Are you sure you know? Really sure?
We’ll watch any TV show with a main character whose first name is DCI.
The Binge Purge. TV’s streaming business model is broken.
A good long read by Josef Adalian at Vulture.com:
It’s absolutely conceivable that the streaming subscription model is the crypto of the entertainment business. Like cryptocurrency, which has created massive on-paper fortunes built atop 1 + 1 = 3 arithmetic, streaming TV has always seemed too good to be true but seduced a lot of smart people anyway.”
Also, about a TV adaptation of “Field of Dreams” by Mike Schur, who created “The Good Place:”
Peacock pulled the plug on Schur’s TV adaptation of Field of Dreams even though it was deep into preproduction. “They just changed their mind,” says Schur. “They didn’t want to spend the money anymore.” He notes that the project will have one lasting artifact, perhaps the ultimate monument to Peak TV’s unfulfilled potential: “We built a baseball stadium in a cornfield in Iowa that’s still sitting there as we speak.” They built it, and nobody came.
This is a working weekend for me. I had trouble writing, but I think I have it under control now.
Lulu says hi.
I usually listen to podcasts on my walk but today I listened to this.
And more good advice about exercise and fitness. It’s easier than you might think.
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It doesn’t matter a lot how fast you walk.
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Forget about the US government’s guidelines of “at least 150 to 300 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity” per week. Too confusing.
Well, I’d like to see ol Donny Trump wriggle his way out of THIS jam!
Trump wriggles his way out of the jam easily
Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
That’s a popular meme from 2016 that still holds up.