Granny🍏Smith

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[Granny🍏Smith @Kat_2165]

I can’t stop thinking about @VoiceOfOBrien’s ring pop sitting on his dice tray CANDY SIDE DOWN #CriticalRole

[MARKHAA'S 📖🖤 @woirsluit]

Já tô preparada, bora. ⚔️

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

One for the road.

[Granny🍏Smith @Kat_2165]

@cassbeewrites I just met her at a book convention in June! Told me she’s been friends with Sean for a while, and has met the cast through him. She told me he has a copy of the book displayed in his office at SAG 😂

[Granny🍏Smith @Kat_2165]

@caylebwidogast Matt was really putting the hot in hot boi in this ep

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

It’s funny, motocross at the White House is, like, fine with me. But here’s an example of something that is genuinely unforgivable but that a lot of people seem to have moved right past.

[JB 🐻✨🍉 @JBfromDC89]

how life feels when the team you jumped on the bandwagon for two weeks ago wins the championship in a sport you don’t normally watch

[cheyenne @idkcheyenne13]

MY FAVORITE BASKETBALL TEAM OF THE LAST TWO WEEKS JUST WON LETS FUCKING GO KNICKS

[ivy ☁️ @cowboylikeivvy]

GOD HATES DONALD TRUMP AND THUS THE KNICKS CURSE BEGAN BUT THE DEVIL DID NOT EXPECT GODS MOST BELOVED CREATION TAYLOR SWIFT TO REBUKE AND CLEANSE ALL EVIL THAT WAS MANIFESTED IN THAT STADIUM! NEW YORK CITY OWES TAYLOR SWIFT SO MUCH

[Variety @Variety]

The Writers Guild of America condemns Scott Pelley's firing at "60 Minutes" amid CBS News' "cruel and needless layoffs."

"In the past year, CBS has enacted cruel and needless layoffs across the organization and shuttered CBS News Radio. In addition, based on a string of public reporting and confidential reports from WGAE members, it is clear that CBS brass is engaged in a near-constant level of editorial interference that would have previously been unthinkable... These assaults on CBS News, an institution of American journalism for nearly a century, are more than mere ideological interference with the news. They display a profound contempt for the journalism profession, for our members who have dedicated their lives to informing the public about the world, and for the ethics that underpin true journalism, chief among them honesty, integrity, and objectivity."

https://t.co/ZobiIYS6p4

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

CBS News was once the home of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite and is now being completely destroyed by a right wing grifter who aligns herself with people who would gladly vote away her rights.

[Scott Nover @ScottNover]

"60 Minutes" staffers past and present are outraged about Scott Pelley's firing.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[M. J. Pardon @pardon_mi]

this article is definitely worth the read

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[ᘛ❥ @_missbanter]

me in every universe

[The Legend of Vox Machina and The Mighty Nein @LVMandM9onPrime]

Be prepared for what now begins... Watch the official trailer for #TheLegendofVoxMachina Season Four premiering June 3, only on Prime Video.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

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