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[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

the pope wrote a 42,000 word manifesto declaring war on AI. we are so freaking back.

[100g kultūras @100gkulturas]

«Trekna karote Latvijas stāsta». Izdots jauns laikraksts «Krējums». ⬇️
https://t.co/K2hlgjUsDj

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Reid Wiseman told his two teenage daughters where to find his will before he got on this rocket. He’s raised them alone since their mom died of cancer six years ago. Right now, he is 252,757 miles from home, farther from Earth than any human being has ever been.

Wiseman grew up outside Baltimore. Got rejected from the Naval Academy, went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute instead, studied computer engineering. Became a Navy fighter pilot, flew F-14 Tomcats (the jet from Top Gun) on combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan. Two Middle East deployments by his mid-twenties. He saw a Space Shuttle launch in person in 2001 and couldn’t let go of it. Applied to NASA while at sea on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. They picked him. Nine people out of 3,500 applicants. His astronaut class, nicknamed “The Chumps,” included Jeremy Hansen, the Canadian who’s floating next to him right now.

Wiseman’s first trip to space was 165 days on the Space Station in 2014. Two spacewalks. Thirteen hours outside the hull in nothing but a suit. He climbed all the way up to Chief of the Astronaut Office, the person who decides which astronauts fly and which ones sit. Then he gave it up in 2022 to put himself back on the flight list.

His wife Carroll was a nurse in a newborn intensive care unit. She got cancer. Fought it five years. Died in May 2020 at 46. His mother died from Alzheimer’s just weeks before that. Wiseman raised both daughters by himself after that. NASA’s own bio says he considers being a single parent his hardest challenge and the best part of his life. Even while she was dying, Carroll told Reid not to step back from his career. She made him keep going. His brother is a Navy SEAL. His father is 83 and battling cancer too. The old man told reporters he wanted to stay alive long enough to see his son launch.

Before liftoff, Wiseman’s daughters snuck homemade cookies into his flight bag. He posted a photo with them in front of the rocket and wrote “I’m boarding that rocket a very proud father.”

The previous distance record from Earth belonged to the Apollo 13 crew. 248,655 miles, set in April 1970, and it was an accident. An oxygen tank blew up and the emergency route home happened to swing them farther out than anyone before. Wiseman broke that record by 4,100 miles, and his distance is on purpose. Today he flies within 4,600 miles of the Moon, photographs stretches of the far side that were too dark or at the wrong angle for any of the 24 Apollo astronauts to see, and watches a solar eclipse that nobody on Earth can see, only the four people inside that capsule.

Then he turns around and spends four days flying home to his girls.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Didzis Dejus @didzisdejus]

Izcils brīdis, lai noskaidrotu, kā tad ir ar to latviešu atbalstu Ukrainai.

Atbilde pavisam vienkārša - ja gribi būt starptautiskajā sporta funkcionāru apritē, tad ir jāsūkā tiem, kam maksā kara noziedznieks krievija.

Latviešu mīkstie:
1) Einārs Fogelis
2) Gatis Gūts
3) Mārtiņš Dambergs.

Ceru, ka:
1) @edgarsrinkevics tagad uztaisīs selfiju ar Ukrainas sportistu un atvainosies Latvijas kangaru vārdā. Īstais brīdis lēmumu mašīnai pieņemt lēmumu
2) @IZM_gov_lv izsauks uz tēju Latvijas kamaniņu sporta federāciju un Latvijas bobsleja un skeletona federāciju un paprasīs uzrakstīt vēstuli SOK, nosodot šādu lēmumu
3) neviens no šiem kungiem nekad vairs netiks tolerēts nevienā sporta pasākumā.

Aicinu Latvijas sportistus skaidri paust atbalstu Ukrainas sportistam un nosodīt šādu SOK lēmumu.

Kaspars Daugaviņš varētu uzrunāt!

[milfvia plath @gaynarowlands]

she tore that closet down i'm crying

[gustavs šķenders @gupsisis]

Goooooooo LIONS from Latvia!!!! 🇱🇻 love these Christmas games! #NFLonNetflix

[gustavs šķenders @gupsisis]

video ieies vēsturē, kā milzīgs kauna traips Latvijai un tās vēsturei. palēnām, palēnām virzamies uz austrumiem, un uz nākotni, kas atgādina mūsu pagātni.

[Ainārs Šlesers @SlesersAinars]

Uzvara👏👏👏

[VGC @VGC_News]

Take-Two’s CEO says he doesn’t think a Grand Theft Auto built with AI would be very good.

"There is no creativity that can exist, by definition, in any AI model, because it is data driven.”

https://t.co/aXOnd5wFIV

[The projectionist woman @projectionistw]

'The Seventh Seal' (1957) Ingmar Bergman.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

First. Im not saying we should ban it. I said it was a mistake. That will hurt the business of OpenAI

2nd: I’ll say it again. This is not about porn. This is about kids developing “relationships” with an LLM that could take them in any number of very personal directions.

Parents today are afraid of books in libraries that kids don’t read. They ain’t seen nothing yet.

I don’t see how OpenAI can age gate successfully enough. I’m also not sure that it can’t psychologically damage young adults. We just don’t know yet how addictive LLMs can be.

Which in my OPINION, means that parents and schools , that would otherwise want to use ChatGPT because of its current ubiquity , will decide not to use it.

It will be an ongoing battle for OpenAI. I do t see the upside for them

[gustavs šķenders @gupsisis]

my #chalant goat 🐐🐐🐐🐐 he is destined for #greatness 🤩🤩🤩🤩

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Timothée Chalamet has been taking ping pong lessons since 2018 to prepare for ‘MARTY SUPREME,’ and continued while filming other projects.

“I had a table in London while I was making Wonka. On Dune 2, I had a table in Budapest, Jordan. I had a table in Abu Dhabi. I had a table at the Cannes Film Festival for The French Dispatch. I got myself an Airbnb in a town [around] Saint-Tropez after The French Dispatch, overlooking the water, and I was taking lessons there.”

(Source: https://t.co/b2P97w1wTK)

[OSCAR @now_thats_oscar]

leo dicaprio, zooted beyond belief: where is she. where the FUCK is my woke daughter
sean penn, visibly decaying: hrrmmrmmmrhmrhmrhemrhrmrhrm
the loudest car engines you've ever heard in your life: VRRRRRRRRRRRRR
jonny greenwood on the soundtrack:

[balta 🇦🇷 @BGarcN2]

this is the toughest pic i’ve ever seen bro

[Jillian @JillianChili]

Defining images in film of the 2020s

[Jonathan @jonathanmb32]

Incredible ending to the camera test special feature on Phantom Thread’s 4K

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

QUOTE OF THE DAY ©

Volodymyr Zelenskyy — in an interview with Sky News:

"I have nothing to say to Russians, because they have no ears. They don’t want to listen.

But years from now they will ask for forgiveness — their children and grandchildren will ask for forgiveness.

They will be forced to admit that Putin destroyed their history and to apologize."

[Alejandro Villarreal @alamofilmguy]

Why did my heart just break a little bit?