As a young man, Gavin Newsom was often described in the media as having movie-star good looks. He certainly wields his face the way a movie star does: with the care and precision with which most people handle power tools.
~ Nathan Heller via The New Yorker
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Old Guy staring Christoph Waltz and Lucy Liu
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via The Atlantic:
Judges Don’t Know What AI’s Book Piracy Means
by Alex Reisner
published on July 14, 2025
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Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
~ H. L. Mencken
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