ben wolfson

Now I'm picturing what 18K Baja Blasts would look like.

awesome news! one of the best things i read last year.

Gene Hackman: 20 Essential Movies From 'The French Connection' to 'The Royal Tenenbaums' — these films represented one of the greatest American actors of all time at his finest.

I made a small contribution to our appreciation of the late, great Gene Hackman's 20 essential film roles:

Laura Dern's letter to David Lynch: You wove L.A. into our dreams The Oscar-winning actor reflects on a lifetime of work with the filmmaker, with whom she collaborated on "Blue Velvet," "Wild at Heart" and "Inland Empire."

"Through you, I’ve learned what it means to be loved without judgment, just pure acceptance. You have forever transformed all of art, be it film or music or painting or cartoons or giving the weather report — all of it became a space for dreaming."

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

well, at least they're polite!

Physical media is alive and well.

Artwork for DAVID LYNCH: A COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE at the Music Box

Rest In Peace, David Lynch🌹

the mr. jackpots cameo >

Citizen Wade: The secret and remarkable life of a legendary hacker who received a rare presidential pardon | Semafor Hacker Chris Wade reveals his collaboration with the US government, and the unlikely story of his presidential pardon.

A great story about a CEO hacker, a presidential pardon, and rare tropical fish. #infosec #hacking www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

godspeed my friend

Statham's new collaboration with David Ayer where he just plays a different kind of blue collar worker and then an incident causes him to go beast mode...absolute cinema

Is Exadata X11M the Gold Standard for Oracle Database Workloads? Oracle has launched Exadata X11M, the latest generation of its Exadata…

Is Exadata X11M the Gold Standard for Oracle Database Workloads?

Oracle's Exadata X11M: Enhanced Performance, Efficiency, and Flexibility for AI, Analytics, and OLTP

Read the full report 👇

hyperframeresearch.com/2025/01/08/i...

HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me In fact, HTML is the most significant computing language ever developed. Underestimate it at your peril.

Underestimating HTML is a mistake. HTML is the most significant computing language, programming or otherwise, ever developed.

www.wired.com/story/html-i...

Chuck E. Cheese’s Animatronics Band Bows Out By the end of this year, Chuck E. Cheese will retire the animatronics at all but 5 locations. Yes, the curtain is closing on Mr. Munch and his Make Believe Band. It took almost 50 years, but video scr...

I would never expect IEEE Spectrum to write about Chuck E. Cheese, but this is a nice obituary on its animatronics band: spectrum.ieee.org/chuck-e-chee...

my wife and i are watching the first season. i started it when it originally aired, but only made it thru three seasons. forgot how great it was. there are also so many solid spy shows on rn, we are spoiled.

Marmalade sandwiches >>>

and now its a sports gambling promotion platform

Greg Pavlik, EVP, AI & Data Management Services joined TechTarget's Targeting AI podcast to chat about Oracle's GenAI strategy, including its partnerships with foundation model providers and working with them to fine-tune models for enterprise use cases.

targetingai.podbean.com/e/oracle-gen...

The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired A local newspaper in Hawaii experimented with AI-generated presenters to engage and boost its readership. After two months, the bots have been shelved.

Unreal lede to this @wired.com piece: "James and Rose, the bizarre AI bots who were recently installed as news broadcasters at local Hawaii paper The Garden Island, have been terminated.

wired.com/story/the-ai...

Do Coding Boot Camps Make Sense in an A.I. World? Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do? Keep learning, until further notice.

"The biggest change taking shape in software jobs may be not that A.I. replaces software engineers, but that it makes it more difficult to become one."

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/b...

"As the physical world becomes more alienating, we build ourselves benign parallel universes to burrow into"

nothing better than pibbles in raincoats

Kambiz Aghili, Oracle | Microsoft Ignite 2024 Unpacked YouTube video by SiliconANGLE theCUBE

Kambiz Aghili spoke with theCUBE while at #ignite to discuss the Oracle Database@Azure expansion.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-LU...

Sudha Raghavan, Oracle | KubeCon NA 2024 YouTube video by SiliconANGLE theCUBE

Sudha Raghavan joined theCUBE while at #kubecon to discuss Oracle's work with the CNCF and GenAI's role in open source.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdPM...