Tribute mural unveiled in honour of the late Sir Patrick Stewart in his birthplace of Mirfield, West Yorkshire.
A fitting tribute to a much-loved actor whose incredible talent and legacy touched millions of people around the world. 🌹
Director Jeremy Saulnier took a break from editing ‘SLAYGROUND’ to introduce a 10th anniversary screening of ‘GREEN ROOM’ in LA.
He paid tribute to Patrick Stewart, who actually saved the film from being shut down.
In 1952, an English teacher named Cecil Dormand secretly paid for a dirt-poor 11-year-old to take a drama course.
He never told him and the boy didn’t find out until decades later.
By then, he was a knight, that little boy’s name was Patrick Stewart.
He was born into a poor family in Mirfield, a small mill town in Yorkshire and his father came home from World War II a violent man, and he was violent toward Patrick’s mother.
Young Patrick learned exactly when to step between his father’s fist and his mother.
An English teacher put a copy of Shakespeare in his hand and told him to get up and perform.
He never stopped and left school at 15.
By 19 he was completely bald... most agencies told him he'd never make it because of that.
In 1987, the LA Times called him an “unknown British Shakespearean actor” when he was cast as Captain Picard.
Then he became one of the most famous faces on Earth.
You’ve probably heard that part.
Here’s the part you haven’t:
He spent decades as a patron of Refuge, sheltering women and children from domestic violence.
But he never stopped trying to understand his father.
He dug up a 1940 newspaper clipping that said his dad had come home with severe shell shock.
He went to France and walked the ground where his father’s unit was pinned down under bombing for hours.
He learned his father had PTSD, and nobody ever helped him.
So Patrick became an ambassador for Combat Stress, a charity that helps veterans.
In 2013, a young woman at a Texas convention told him she was a survivor of domestic violence.
He asked, “My dear, are you okay?”
Then he hopped off the stage, held her, and told her: “You never have to go through that again, you’re safe now.”
At Dragon Con, a Make-A-Wish girl dressed as Spock came to meet him.
2,000 people were waiting for him to speak... he sat down and talked with her for 15 minutes, making all of them wait.
He told her that since they were friends now, whenever she saw him on screen she could wave and say, “Hello Patrick.”
After 9/11, he felt helpless, so he brought his one-man A Christmas Carol back to Broadway for a full week of charity shows.
He played every character himself and donated every cent.
In 2019 he did it again, and every dollar went to feeding hungry New Yorkers.
In 2017, he fostered a pit bull named Ginger, who had been rescued from a dogfighting ring.
She was his first dog in more than 50 years.
He couldn’t bring her home to England, so he found her a family.
Then he kept fostering more.
When he said he was done with Star Trek so many people told him the show had gotten them through the hardest times of their lives.
So he wanted to see if Picard could do it one more time.
Rest in Peace, Sir Patrick 🖖
17/09/2014 murió China Zorrilla.
Actriz y directora, nació en Uruguay, trabajó en las dos orillas.
Una genia total que nos dejó mil obras para seguir disfrutando de su arte.
En estos días están inaugurando un barco que unirá las dos orillas como ella.
12 años sin China. Grande.
🔴¿TODOS MORIR?
Ayer renunció un empleado de Anthropic (quien también pasó por OpenAI antes) con una carta abierta:
👉Renuncia por miedo a que la IA se vaya de control y no quiere ser parte. Dice que las empresas van hacia modelos de superinteligencia que se van a mejorar a sí mismo y ni Anthropic ni OpenAI lo tienen controlado.
Se sumó Evan, director de alineamiento de IAs de Anthropic, diciendo que lo apoya y que en la empresa creen formalmente que la IA puede matar a todos los humanos y su estimación personal es del 10% de probabilidad en la siguiente década.
Para muchos sonó a mensaje nuevo pero lo cierto es que este mensaje viene apareciendo directa o indirectamente en muchísimos actores de la industria en las últimas semanas: Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Bill Gates, Geoffrey Hinton, una carta abierta de +1400 empleados de empresas de IA, una declaración de +100 empresas líderes del sector. Yendo más atrás, hubo otras renuncias que parecían más lejanas y de ciencia ficción, incluyendo la del propio Hinton.
Pero si son ellos los que lo hacen, ¿por qué no lo paran y listo? Todos dicen no poder parar por sí mismos por el funcionamiento capitalista.
Si para OpenAI, gana Anthropic o SpaceXAI; si para SpaceXAI gana OpenAI. Los CEOs no pueden hacer eso. Si lo hicieran, viene el directorio, los remueve y pone a otro que siga.
Si pararan todas las empresas occidentales, ganarían los chinos.
Nadie quiere ser el que para si no hay garantía de que paran todos. Así que todos están esperando una suerte de comité internacional con poder vinculante en los países más importantes que los haga frenar a todos.