- The MLB All-Star Game is in Arlington, Texas this year and they are selling some ugly merchandise. That right there will cost you $149.99. Sadly, some sucker is going to buy that at full price.
- I wonder how many times the current World Series champions have hosted the All-Star Game.
- In anticipation of Biden’s press conference yesterday, I wondered where it would be held. The setting matters, and I just wanted to know if he would be taking questions in an environmentally friendly White House or something like a cramped hotel conference room. I thought typing “Where is President Biden’s press conference today?” into Google would give me an easy answer. I couldn’t find an answer on the search results page or the top four choices it gave me. I started to kick myself, saying I needed to use AI because it would just spit it out, and Microsoft’s Copilot gave me an immediate answer with several sources within a second. For the heck of it, I compared it with the other AI models I use. Surprisingly, ChatGBT gave me a very incorrect answer, citing the White House’s briefing and statements pages. It appears it was confusing campaign announcements in Pennsylvania. Google’s Gemini told me to basically use Google, “I can’t help with responses on elections and political figures right now. While I would never deliberately share something that’s inaccurate, I can make mistakes. So, while I work on improving, you can try Google Search.” Perplexity also gave me a correct answer with several sources.
- I was watching another WWII documentary yesterday. Roosevelt attended the Yalta conference in February 1945 and didn’t look well. He did two months later. I wish I could find some detail on the physical toll he was in and what his mental acuity was like speaking with Stalin and Churchhill. He was 63, so I’m pretty confident he was with it, but being in poor health and traveling to Europe sounds taxing.
- Do you know what a higher rank in the Soviet Army was, a General or Marshall? I didn’t know until I looked it up. It’s the latter.
- ‘Miss AI’: World’s first AI beauty pageant crowns winner
- Meet Kenza Layli, a Moroccan lifestyle influencer who hopes to bring “diversity and inclusivity” to the AI creator landscape. With nearly 200,000 Instagram followers, and a further 45,000 on TikTok, Layli is entirely AI-generated, from her images to her captions and buzzword-filled acceptance speech.
- Vouge has done a smart thing and hired JFK’s only grandson as a political correspondent. Jack Schlossberg will combine his background in law and business (he received his JD and MBA from Harvard) with the self-described “silly goose” tendencies he displays on social media, and he’s a free spirit and quite loquatious. He’s unmistakably Kennedy and certainly takes after his uncle, JFK Jr, but a lot more personable. He likes to wear black because of Johnny Cash and is taking ballet lessons to help with an injury. Keep an eye on this 31-year-old.
View this post on Instagram- I found this part of the interview interesting:
Was there a moment—family story, speech, policy—that really connected you to your grandfather?I was in 10th grade, taking US history, and we were learning about the Kennedy administration. I felt uncomfortable, so I was goofing off. The teacher called on me and tried to make me look stupid by asking me what the Kennedy administration’s policy was in Laos—which I still don’t know the answer to after many years of trying to figure it out. Nobody does. I was really embarrassed. That day I went home and started reading. That’s when I started getting serious about learning about my family and got really inspired by it. <@luke.mcquillan JFK’s grandson would absolutely enchant Little Edie. #littleedie #greygardens #jfksgrandson #jackschlossberg #impressions #comedy #funny #fypシ゚viral ♬ original sound – Luke McQuillan️ /li>
- I found this part of the interview interesting:
- A lot of guys were expressing their love for Detective Danielly De Andrade of Hollywood, Florida, on Twitter yesterday. She’s originally from Brazil.
Brb, driving down to Hollywood to get myself frisked and arrested. pic.twitter.com/vpiLQ0LU1n
— David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense (@davereaboi) July 11, 2024
Your Bag of Randomness for Friday, July 12, 2024
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