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Eric Bauza, the Emmy Award-winning voice actor behind Looney Tunes characters like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, died Sunday at his home as a result of hypertensive cardiovascular disease, according to Los Angeles County Medical Examiner records. He was 46.
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Interesting set-up @ChineseTheatres @AFIFEST as the Q&A for #BeingHeumann is in the middle of the theater projected onscreen since the below screen stage has no ramp for accessibility.
The Chinese is ADA complaint with ramps on both sides that stop in middle.
It’s a great film!
Hopefully in the future they’ll find a way to provide more access to the stage but the Q&A projected onto the screen worked really well.
Make sure to see #BeingHuemann - it’s a great film!
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THE HEXHAM HEADS: In 1976, BBC early evening magazine show Nationwide aired a segment about a real-life folk horror story. Stone heads unearthed from a garden, paranormal activity and werewolves abound in this notorious report, thought lost until 2024...
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The Writers Guild speaks out about tech platforms squashing the @alexgibneyfilm doc about Elon Musk:
“A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration threatens democratic discourse.”
@WGAEast @WGAWest
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‘In a dramatic development, the Weather Channel has captured the following satellite images of the mysterious phenomenon known as El Niño.’
— ‘Saturday Night Live’ (October 25, 1997)
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In the 1920s, subdividers ran this bizarro ad publicizing the agrarian Valley that looked like someone singed their palm on a waffle iron.
(For the unitiated, Owensmouth became Canoga Park, North LA became Northridge, and First Nat'l Studio became Warner Bros.)
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Around 1500, Hieronymus Bosch painted sheet music on a sinner's bare butt in hell. 500 years later, someone transcribed and performed it. Now you can hear the original butt song from hell.
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“the student has no family and lives in a group home for adults with developmental disabilities.
After the agents released him, the student walked to school, crying and in pain. His teacher saw him and dialed 911”
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NASA shared space images from Mars.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This video is not authentic NASA footage from Mars but a digital composite of rover surface images with an unrelated Earth star field. NASA has confirmed similar viral videos are fake.
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researcher @log4j just published a teardown of samsung’s TV sensor telemetry. Here’s what the logs show.
samsung TVs without a built-in microphone look for connected devices that have one soundbars, bluetooth speakers, anything paired. They use that mic instead.
the audio isn’t sent raw. it’s classified first. the telemetry path includes named event types:
— EV201/SOUNDSENSOR_ON: logs dog-barking and baby-crying counters
— EV101/LIGHTSENSOR_ON: software flag for ambient light state
— EV301/CAMERASENOR_ON: camera-state and notification fields
— EV302/CAMERASENSOR_OFF: camera streaming duration
the data is formatted as key=value pairs and logged to lcprd1.samsungcloudsolution.… with deviceid=1.
it’s not recovering unique identifiers per device — the ID mode is configured but the module prefix and runtime policy still need independent verification.
what is confirmed: samsung’s TVs are classifying ambient audio including whether a dog is barking or a baby is crying in your home and reporting event counts back to samsung servers.
there’s no wake word these are passive environmental audio events being counted and logged.
There’s an embargo regarding the first 17 minutes of footage for The Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth shown @AFIFEST but I can say:
Tarantino created such a rich universe for Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood that I noticed he put a cool moment from his novelization into the new film!
Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog intros his new film Bucking Fastard @ #AFIFest - it rocks!
Imagine Michael Haneke’s The Seventh Continent, but as a fable with two sisters who finish each other’s sentences & grow tired of our mean & unagreeable world.
+ *He’s shot a new film!*
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: MeidasTouch has obtained dozens of NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN photos and videos revealing devastating damage to U.S. military bases from Trump's Iran war.
Troops and military families are breaking their silence, describing being abandoned by their own government.
“It’s so much worse than people realize.” meidasnews.com/news/so-much-…





























