Monday, July 17, 2023

Things I learned over the weekend

 

. The reason most commercial planes have winglets--those little curved thingees at the wingtips--is to save fuel. They save 5% annually. I thought they were for stability.

. ChatCPT, the earliest A.I. entity, has licensed the complete library of the Associated Press. The robot brainfarm now knows decades of news stories about how humans effed up.

. The TikTok boat-jumping challenge is not a real thing. A viral video claimed four people died leaping from high-speed boats and breaking their necks. Nobody did that. Yet.

Dr Strangelove, the iconic Peter Sellers film, is to become a stage play.  Armando Iannucci, the guy behind Veep, is mounting the dark Stanley Kubrick anti-war farce for London this fall. I hope the actors protect their Essences.

 

 

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