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Daily Archives: July 14, 2026
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It was fine to take a devil-may-care attitude toward automated cat-identification. But it wouldn’t be fair, for example, to have a machine evaluate an applicant’s mortgage eligibility in an opaque way. And, if you employed a robot to keep your house clean of dog hair, you wanted to be certain that it would vacuum the couch, not kill the dog.
~ Gideon Lewis-Kraus via The New Yorker
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Film History 101: The Maltese Falcon – The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of
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Comedy Break
via Henry Cho
Southern Snow Panic Explained | Henry Cho Comedy
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Midday Music Fix
Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
With the WDR Funkhausorchester
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The primary difference between deepfake photos and LLM conversations is that the people who generate the former are deliberately trying to fool others, and many of the people who elicit the latter from LLMs have inadvertently fooled themselves.
~ Ted Chiang via The Atlantic
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Campus Trivia Night
Question: Which five countries are the world’s top Copper Producers?
Via Woolring Metal – based in Essen, Germany:
- Chile
- Peru
- China
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- United States
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Midnight Trailer
Digger
Digger – a film by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Featuring Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Robert John Burke, Emma D’Arcy, Burn Gorman and Sophie Wilde.
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Howard Lutnick was born
on this day in 1961
Howard Lutnick — the American businessman and government official who has served as the United States Secretary of Commerce since January 2025 — was born on this day — July 14, 1961 — in Jericho, New York.
He is a graduate of Haverford College, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
Prior to his appointment to the Cabinet, Lutnick was the long-time Chairman and CEO of the financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald and the BGC Group. He gained national recognition for his leadership and rebuilding of the firm following the September 11 attacks. During the transition to the current administration, he also served as the co-chair of the presidential transition team.
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