- Yup, Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan had a little get-together and posted this photo and, I guess, teasing a When Harry Met Sally Super Bowl commercial. She’s 63, he’s 76. I didn’t realize they were that far apart in age.
- “It’s finally happening, we’re reuniting for something iconic. Can’t wait to show you all soon,” Ryan captioned the joint post.
- Allegedly, Twitter is full of bots that defend Jerry Jones.
- Everyone familiar with the Terminator franchise felt uneasy reading this and immediately thought of Skynet.
- Trump said the investment will create a new company, called Stargate, to grow artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States. The leaders of SoftBank, OpenAI and Oracle stood alongside Trump during the announcement. Their respective companies will invest $100 billion in total for the project to start, with plans to pour up to $500 billion into Stargate in the coming years.
- My initial thought is that this is a very good thing for the United States to set itself up as the AI leader. AI is the next big thing. However, the potential of AI scares me, and this comes from a guy who has numerous paid subscriptions to AI services. Not to mention, I don’t have a lot of faith in the Trump administration to manage something like this.
- I thought only U.S. companies would be involved, but SoftBank is a Japanese company.
- MGX is also a big player and another foreign company.
- It was reported in June that the UAE, with roughly $2 trillion in sovereign wealth funds, aims to reduce its dependence on oil by establishing itself as a world center for AI. This goal led to the creation of MGX.
- The article says the first data center will be in Texas. Curious, I researched, thinking it would probably be Austin, near Elon’s home. DFW is home to a lot of data centers, or maybe one of the other major cities like Houston or San Antonio. Nope. The first data center will be in Abilene. The data center in Abilene, Texas, is being constructed within the Lancium Clean Compute Campus, which spans approximately 800 acres northwest and just outside the city limits. That creates enormous opportunities for their three universities: ACU, Hardin-Simmons, and McMurry. I’m thinking that having internship possibilities at the data center would be a huge recruiting tool for college students interested in a technology career.
- These Texas pastors believe God sent Trump to save America from sin
- Today is Norah O’Donnell’s as anchor of the CBS Evening News, which is my preferred network because I like most of their correspondents. Thank goodness. She’s equal parts histrionic and egotistical. I’m looking forward to John Dickerson, who’s dry but he is full of substance. He really knows his stuff. But he’s sharing the duties with Maurice DuBois who I don’t know much about but feel he’s a bit posh. But I will give O’Donnell credit for moving the headquarters from NYC to DC since that’s where most of the news is made and the people in power are.
- For some reason, I started to research jobs in meteorology. I’ve noticed several people have used it as a second career, and those on television are just a tiny segment of the job market. However, per weather.com (PDF):
- The number of new, traditional, entry-level positions has not been increasing along with the number of meteorologists entering the workforce, nor is it expected to in the next few years. Trends suggest there will be an increasing oversupply of meteorology graduates in the coming years, and that some meteorologists will have a difficult time finding a traditional weather-related job.
- I reflected on the JFK: What the Doctors Saw (2023) documentary I watched during the winter break about the doctors at Parkland Hospital who worked on the slain president and the priest who administered the last rights. Hearing news of the event, Father Oscar Huber and a few others drove to the hospital since Parkland was in his parish. They were stopped by officials twice but waved by when they said they were clergy and told where to park, where he was led straight to the ER. He walked in and uncovered the white sheet over President Kennedy’s face, giving him the last rights. When Jackie asked the priest about the last rights, he told her he had given conditional absolution, causing her to grimace. Conditional absolution is a form of last rites given when a priest is unsure if the recipient is still alive but administers the sacrament in case the soul can benefit from it. Jackie felt conditional absolution underscored the tragic and chaotic circumstances of his death, and above all, he was obviously dead. He attempted to console Jackie, assuring her that her husband’s spirit had not yet left his body. I later read in an interview (JFK Library PDF) that he leaned into the thought that the spirit lingers in the body for a bit after physical death but is not sure for how long, so in his view, he couldn’t be sure the president was dead despite the head wound, blood everywhere, and brain matter on the floor. Outside—and despite Secret Service warnings to keep quiet—Huber became among the first unofficial sources to reveal that JFK had indeed died. Though Huber denied it afterward, Time Magazine’s Hugh Sidey reported Huber responding, “He’s dead all right” to a question about the president’s condition.
- Just an ordinary day in Australia.
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