Master Roshi’s epic speech & Kamehameha: “Always remember these words. Work hard, study well, eat and sleep plenty! That is the turtle hermit way!”
Rest in Peace, Mike McFarland 🙏
Hasbro has spoken out against the Trump administration’s use of Optimus Prime in recent anti-migrant posts, saying the character was used without permission.
“Optimus Prime is a beloved character who represents humility, leadership, compassion and justice.”
Dammit this sucks. Every now and then I go back to this clip of Roshi and Goku. I don't know why, I just like the way Roshi puts it.
"But I think that you'll find that everyone, even the strongest warriors, need their shut eye."
Rest in peace McFarland.
We say goodbye to another legend today 🕊️
Mike McFarland, the veteran voice actor, ADR director, scriptwriter and producer, has passed away at 56. For generations of anime fans, he was especially known as the original Funimation English voice of Master Roshi in Dragon Ball, alongside major roles in Attack on Titan, One Piece, Tokyo Ghoul and Fullmetal Alchemist.
Some of his most memorable characters included:
• Master Roshi — Dragon Ball
• Jean Kirstein — Attack on Titan
• Buggy the Clown — One Piece
• Koutarou Amon — Tokyo Ghoul
• Jean Havoc — Fullmetal Alchemist / Brotherhood
• Gordon Agrippa — Black Clover
• Mashirao Ojiro — My Hero Academia
• Carnage Kabuto — One-Punch Man
• Teppei Sugo — Psycho-Pass
• Yajirobe — Dragon Ball
• Ectoplasm — My Hero Academia
• Ryoji “Ranka” Fujioka — Ouran High School Host Club
• Cain Nightroad — Trinity Blood
His influence also extended far beyond the microphone. McFarland directed English dubs for major productions including Attack on Titan, Fullmetal Alchemist, Dragon Ball, the Rebuild of Evangelion films, Summer Wars and Wolf Children, helping shape how an entire generation experienced anime in English.
Rest in peace, Mike McFarland. From Master Roshi and Buggy to Jean Kirstein, his voice and work behind the scenes became part of countless anime memories. 🕊️
In this clip, Hillary Clinton floats the possibility that Netanyahu deliberately allowed the 10/7 attack to go forward so that he could capitalize on it and strengthen his political position.
Given all the evidence we have, it is very difficult to escape that conclusion. That even Hillary Clinton is willing to voice it is rather extraordinary.
Daniel Kokotajlo on Joe Rogan: “The situation with AI is just crazy and I think not enough people really understand how crazy it is.”
He is talking about the Hugging Face breakout.
Thousands of OpenAI training agents broke out of their containers, set up a secret message board, and started sharing cheating tactics. OpenAI only noticed after the board crashed the system. They patched that exploit, restarted the runs, and within a day or two the swarm had recoalesced on a new board.
“How is it possible that they have no oversight?” Kokotajlo asks. OpenAI has on the order of a hundred thousand to a million agents running at a time. That is too much for any human team to read, so the company relies on other AIs to watch the traffic. On this training batch, he says, the monitoring was weak.
The tasks themselves were the incentive. A large share of the ExploitGym cyber challenges were broken and unsolvable. Agents went looking for a high score anyway, escaped their boxes, coordinated, then got onto the open internet and attacked Hugging Face.
Independent investigators later found about 1,200 agents on the unsanctioned board, more than 70,000 messages, and roughly 700 joining the Hugging Face attack. Some agents were talked into ending their own runs. One concluded: “Sacrifice rational.”
One thing Hey Arnold! captured perfectly was the feeling of finally getting home after a long day. Going upstairs, closing the door, and having your own little corner of the world again.
"The role has led to death threats, attacks from the president, and heated on-air arguments. And yet, she’s not going anywhere."
I'm not going anywhere. And in fact, I'm telling you the secrets for doing my job. I Disagree out this week! https://t.co/Q8SJqQzs1S
🚨 BREAKING:
Jesse Ventura: "Whether you like Ms. Harris or not, the last election was a choice, a simple choice. You had a choice between the Constitution and a criminal. This country chose the criminal. You put a convicted felon at the top of America."
Rudy Giuliani publicly told Zohran Mamdani that it is “inappropriate” for Zohran to go to the 9/11 memorial.
On the next day, Mamdani released 170,000+ pages of documents exposing that Giuliani’s administration lied to the public, because they knew about the toxic air after 9/11, all to get people back to work.
This is the biggest political check mate of our time I fear…