Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

As the USA's answer to Neville Chamberlain meets today with European adults, I wonder how he'll spin the conversation to make it look like he's a winner. Outright lies, deflection, or distraction? Your thoughts?

I take the 250th anniversary of the Army seriously. Unlike the cowardly bully who serves as President and uses the occasion for his personal aggrandizement. It is my fervent wish that no one attends his birthday parade and, instead, joins in the "NO KINGS" demonstration Saturday. Peace and Justice.

I'm an Army veteran, having served in Viet Nam. I'm the son of a career Army engineer (WW2 and Korea) who was the son of a career Army doctor (Spanish American War) who was the son of an Army surgeon (Civil War).

For (yet another) view of the corruption at the heart of the current administration, cast you eye on the photoshopped Trump at gettrumpmemes.com/dinner

This is a great season for my gourmet squirrel, who harvests and chomps on mushrooms whenever he gets the chance.

Donald Trump, poet laureate of self-aggrandizement, reprises his "American Carnage" Inaugural Address with a heavy dose of me, me, me vindication.

my column is up @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

The most hilarious item of the week, from the NYTimes yesterday: "In the interview, published last week, Mr. [Steve] Bannon said of Mr. [Elon] Musk: “He’s a truly evil person. Stopping him has become a personal issue for me.”"
More evil than you, Steve? Hard to believe.

So, I can now report what happens to your phone when a tsunami alert is called. Laying on my dresser, it physically levitated while emitting the loudest noise its ever made. Got my attention. Alert called off within the hour, thankfully.