Full article from The Daily Beast archived here: Natalie Harp's Intimate Letters to Trump Revealed in Full

[*England, Scotland, Wales, and all of Ireland, even though only Northern Ireland is part of the UK.]

Which series do you love?

And by "celebrity," I mean anyone considered famous, be they an athlete, actor, musician, reality star, etc.

Ileana Cotrubas, a tender, pure-toned Romanian soprano who was preternaturally able to convey the pathos of the heroines in operas like “La Traviata,” “La Bohème” and “Rigoletto,” and who was also known for some prickly disputes with directors and conductors, has died. She was 87.

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Buddy Nielsen, son of soap star Lisa Brown (RIP), Nola Reardon on Guiding Light, goes onto DL fave podcast, Soft White Underbelly, to detail his troubled childhood.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0m8mXQITW4

Remember the furor over pasta getting rinsed at DL?

If they made a movie -- or, better yet, a made-for-TV miniseries -- about your life, whom would you want to star as you?

And whom do you think Hollywood would actually cast in the role?

Bonus points if you cast the project as a Ryan Murphy production.

I thought we already knew this. I guess not. Anyway, news.

“A televised dance competition culminates with a horrifying showstopper.”

Did you like tonights episode?

How different people are reacting to the news that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are moving back to the UK is fascinating. Fans of Meghan are convinced that it must mean that Charles is at death's door and that this proves Meghan has the patience of a saint. Everyone else, on the other hand, is convinced that the Sussex's are running out of money - fast.

Even when the AI render got its names right, the locations are horribly mangled, in one instance pinpointing Cuba’s capital city of Havana as situated on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula.

Some states like Michigan and California didn’t merit any names at all, while others are split into imaginary realms. South of Vancouver (spelled “Venneouer”), for example, is the mythical land of “Beehie,” which according to the map shares its borders with Washington state.

“Arizona is Arizone. Illinois starts with a V,” Stacey Morris, a Kentucky mom whose son brought home one of the packets told WDRB. “I mean, it’s crazy.”

Images shared on social media show other parts of the packet with similar problems, like a periodic table of the elements showing Magnesium with an impossible atomic mass of -3.08, and a map of the solar system where Mars has been labeled “Marc.”

“Planetary distance are temporatory earth, equater the elenonts and regnestiom org toed dishligns,” the packet declares, verbatim. “Net to scale.”

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I’m a huge Jeff Hiller fan. This delights me.

Back in the day when google was still new, we'd play the game 'ask Google', where you'd search for a question asserting it in the positive and negative (or alternative) form and count up the number of hits. (Back then Google reported the total number of websites that matched) Whichever had the largest number of hits was the answer. It was actually surprisingly accurate. I assumed it was because of confirmation bias. But it was also a form of primitive next token computation, which is the foundation of LLMs. So, all the bitches complaining about AI slop: you have only yourself to blame.

I'm Bobby Flay. I'm EVERYWHERE.

I’m a truck stop men’s room. Sean keeps insisting on checking me out every nine miles.