Hints and tips:
...There are still wines available from the super-talented, low-sulphur Bret Brothers at La Soufriandère from both Berry Bros and Stannary Wine, the retail arm of importers Flint....
...“I love OpenAI, and everything I’ve done over the past few days has been in service of keeping this team and its mission together,” Altman wrote on the social media site X in response to the announcement...
...From: Rutherford@monkwellstrategy.com To: Bret@OpenAI.com Bret, congratulations. It’s clear you are going to be the new broom that was needed....
...Altman on Friday said: “I’m pleased this whole thing is over....
...Because he overdid the violence a tad, Bret Easton Ellis doesn’t get due praise for capturing this cast of mind — this need for speed — through the character of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho....
...He was friends with Phil Lesh, who would go on to join the Grateful Dead, and they collaborated on some pieces....
...“I love and respect Ilya, I think he’s a guiding light of the field and a gem of a human being. I harbor zero ill will towards him,” he added....
...By contrast, I have been a fan of a high waist for years....
...Likewise, I’m in agreement with Bret Stephens about the disturbing silence from many of those same students about the really horrific Israeli rape victim stories....
...Bret’s parents are away: they have left him essential supplies (“I wished I had brought the dwindling supply of Valium my mother had given me before leaving for Europe”); they have left him a luxurious property...
...Other stuff I’ve been reading Generative AI can’t beat human coders yet but this New Yorker essay suggests we may be living in the waning days of coding....
...Finally, and to return to the top of this note, Bret Stephens’ New York Times column “The Case for Trump . . . By Someone Who Wants Him to Lose”....
...Gabe Toubia, 61, says he “dumped Fox News” after the 2020 election, “because I saw how they turned”....
...“I think it’s the best show I’ve ever done,” he told me....
...“I find it very hard to picture her acting rashly or recklessly.”...
...It was designed by Richard Sapper in 1971, the year I was born, and it’s sitting beside me as I write....
...On Wednesday, Sutskever — one of the directors who voted to oust Altman — said nothing could convey “how happy I am” at the outcome of the talks....
...And I’ve been watching Less Than Zero” – the cult 1987 film based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis. He stops....
...“I’m extremely concerned that the victim will be democracy itself.”...
...“I think he’d do a good job but I don’t know if we can get him elected,” said a different man in the second ad obtained by the Financial Times. “I think it’s too risky for the country....
...Am I selling this hard enough? Slim and deceptively modest in its ambitions, Unfinished Business is one of the most affecting and accomplished novels of 2023....
...“I don’t see any alternatives,” he adds. “You could say government, but I don’t see governments doing anything.”...
...So when she read Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel American Psycho, a satirical takedown of Reagan-era materialism in the guise of a serial killing stockbroker named Patrick Bateman, she was taken with it as...
...Co-chief executive Bret Taylor announced in November that he would be stepping down this month....
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