While many days Twitter seems designed to keep me angry and anxious, it occasionally offers up trends and memes so delightful that I just keep coming back. My favorite — no surprise — is when a good bookish meme gets started. Authors have an advantage in writing a good, pithy tweet, so when a meme
Obsessed with this album right now… The very talented Charles Wesley Godwin discusses his phenomenal new album ‘How The Mighty Fall,’ John Denver and growing up in West Virginia, playing his first gig in Estonia, the meteoric rise of Zach Bryan, fly fishing, college football, and more. The podcast is available everywhere. Download the podcast
A member of the Bank of England committee which sets interest rates has backtracked on his support for a hike, saying he wants to see data on how the new Omicron COVID variant affects the UK’s economic recovery. Michael Saunders warned that a delay in raising rates could result in a more painful tightening being
George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle, and sometimes also wanted to be invisible. “Beatle George Harrison, above, is due in court here today to answer assault charges,” John Lennon reads from a newspaper in a scene in Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back. “Harrison is accused of assaulting a photographer last May as
Xiaomi 12 rear panel image has been leaked suggesting the camera design of the smartphone’s vanilla model. The image shows the phone with a triple rear camera setup with a flash. The smartphone’s camera specifications have also surfaced in previous leaks tipping a 50-megapixel primary sensor. The phone is also said to come with an
Play video content ABC News Alec Baldwin says he never pulled the trigger on the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and followed her instructions to point the gun at her, not knowing there was live ammunition in the chamber. Baldwin says he pointed the gun at her as directed … cocked it and let
Alec Baldwin claims he didn’t pull the trigger — he pulled the hammer back and released it, believing the gun that fired and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust was not loaded and safe to handle. On Thursday, in his first sit-down interview since the fatal incident on Oct. 21 that also
In a nighttime session, the U.S. Senate voted 69-28 tonight to pass a stopgap funding bill to keep the federal government solvent through Feb. 18. It also included $7 billion in aid to Afghan evacuees, according to the Washington Post. The measure was approved by the House earlier in the day and will now go
The first three episodes of Hawkeye are currently available to stream on Disney+ and there are plenty of nods to Marvel ranging from the obvious (like the fun details in Rogers: The Musical) to the hidden gems (like the comics deep cut that teased the West Coast Avengers). There was another little nod to the
Southern California has its first confirmed case of the new Omicron coronavirus variant, Los Angeles County public health officials confirmed Thursday evening, Dec. 2, a day after the country’s first case was confirmed in San Francisco. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said in a Thursday statement that the individual returned to the
Alec Baldwin has said he does not feel guilt over the fatal film-set shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins – and that there is “only one question to be resolved – where did the live round come from?” Speaking in his first interview since the gun he was holding fired and killed Ms Hutchins on the
The Conservatives have held on to the southeast London seat of Old Bexley and Sidcup after a by-election prompted by the death of MP James Brokenshire in October. Mr Brokenshire, who represented the area since 2010 until his death from lung cancer, had held the seat with a majority of almost 19,000. Thursday’s by-election, however,
Four different malicious frameworks designed to attack air-gapped networks were detected in the first half of 2020 alone, bringing the total number of such toolkits to 17 and offering adversaries a pathway to cyber espionage and exfiltrate classified information. “All frameworks are designed to perform some form of espionage, [and] all the frameworks used USB
As the first week of the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell continues, Juan Alessi, a former housekeeper and maintenance worker for Jeffrey Epstein took the stand to talk about his employment under Epstein and his working relationship with Maxwell, who is facing up to 80 years in prison for allegedly helping Epstein traffic underage girls for
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America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing to block the $40bn takeover of UK chip designer Arm Holdings by America’s Nvidia. The US watchdog said the deal would give Nvidia, one of the world’s largest chip companies, control over technology and designs that rival firms rely on to develop their own chips. It is the
Saying John R. Miller is a great singer-songwriter doesn’t come relatively close to capturing his depth. A true wordsmith, a skilled guitar picker, and the insights of a Tibetan Monk’s Third Eye on an awakening psychedelic trip is closer to the truth. While his songwriting ability is most impressive, a very close second is how
We’ve known for quite some time that Jonathan Majors would be playing the villainous Kang the Conqueror in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, the third film in Peyton Reed’s trilogy about Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), and their crew of MCU misfits. This film is particularly notable because it’s the first
Realme 9i renders have been spotted online, giving smartphone enthusiasts an idea of what to expect from the handset that is tipped to launch in Q1 2022. The Realme 9i smartphone is yet to be confirmed by the Chinese company, but the concept renders suggest that the successor to the Realme 8i smartphone, could sport
Sylvester Stallone and “Rocky” fans are gonna love this … a bunch of memorabilia from his acting career and the movie franchise is hitting the auction block, including boxing gloves he wore in the franchise. Julien’s Auctions just announced the massive collection, and the highlights include Sly’s boxing gloves used on camera in “Rocky III,”