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En un incidente callejero en Chicago, (Estados Unidos), un desquiciado sujeto se lanzó contra un bombero en presencia de una mujer oficial, en medio de vehículos de emergencia y varios testigos. El bombero respondió con un golpe preciso usando su halligan (herramienta de bomberos), derribando al agresor donde finalmente fue reducido ⚠️..
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4 Free Emergency Survival Apps That Work Without Internet.
(Download them now while the grid and wifi is up)
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A home Bitcoin miner that doubles as an air purifier—and runs quietly on just 24 watts. It won’t pay out daily, but solo mining turns every 10 minutes into a lottery draw.
🔗 Watch the full video: youtu.be/B6Ylq0XSdfU
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This is the most raw, powerful and true telling of what fame and fortune is really like that i have heard. They are battery acid to the soul and the soulless are the pushers and the gate keepers. Never wish for those two imposters. Thank you @JimBreuer
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Ten years ago this month, three sleep-deprived SNL writers accidentally created one of the most beloved Halloween characters in television history.
And apparently, Tom Hanks thought the whole thing was ridiculous.
The story behind David S. Pumpkins is almost as funny as the sketch itself.
In October 2016, SNL writers Mikey Day, Bobby Moynihan, and Streeter Seidell were working late into the night on a Halloween sketch about a haunted elevator.
The premise was simple. Every floor would reveal something terrifying.
But around 4 or 5 in the morning, someone suggested a character named David Pumpkins. Moynihan added the middle initial. Nobody knew what the S stood for. Nobody knew who David Pumpkins was supposed to be.
And that was basically the entire joke.
They found a cheap pumpkin-covered suit, gave him two dancing skeletons, and decided this completely ordinary-looking middle-aged man would act like he was a legendary Halloween character everyone should recognize.
Tom Hanks reportedly thought the sketch was so bizarre that he suggested saving it for Chris Hemsworth, who was scheduled to host the following week.
But Hanks eventually committed to the bit.
The ridiculous grin. The awkward dancing. The absolute confidence. And, of course, the immortal question:
“Any questions?”
The genius of the sketch is that nothing ever gets explained. The people riding the elevator are just as confused as the audience. And every time David S. Pumpkins returns, it somehow gets funnier.
The sketch became an instant hit. NBC eventually made an animated Halloween special around the character, and Hanks brought him back to SNL in 2022.
Ten years later, people still dress up as David S. Pumpkins every Halloween.
Three writers came up with a completely nonsensical idea at 4 a.m. Tom Hanks wasn’t sure it would work. Nobody bothered to explain the joke.
And somehow they created a Halloween icon.
Oh, and years later, the writers revealed what the S stands for.
Simon.
Why Simon?
Absolutely no reason whatsoever.
Which, honestly, makes the whole thing even funnier.
Happy Halloween. 🎃
ANY QUESTIONS?
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I trust Eli Crane
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I go back and forth on @DanProft, I've been nasty about him publicly at times, maybe unfairly in some regards. What he says here on @AM560TheAnswer is 1,000000% correct. If the chips don't fall our way this Tuesday, we need to have a statewide Republican voter's convention in Illinois in early 2027, define what it means to be an IL R, and FIGHT FOR A BETTER STATE. We are the ones we are waiting for! – at Harwood Heights, IL
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Joe Rogan figured it might just be a conspiracy theory that AI companies were secretly buying millions of books, scanning them, and destroying the originals.
Then Jamie looked it up. It’s 100% real.
ROGAN: “Oh my god, it’s true.”
The deeper they dug, the more upset Rogan got.
Anthropic had an internal code name for the operation: “Project Panama.”
THE INTERNAL MEMO SAID:
“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.”
“We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”
ROGAN’S REACTION:
“Meaning they know that they’re doing something that will cause people to f***ing freak out and revolt.”
“The training data is other people’s work. It’s books. That’s what’s insane.”
“The idea that you could… burn all the books so that your company succeeds and other ones don’t is the problem we’re talking about.”
WHAT HAPPENED:
Anthropic needed a mountain of books to train its AI. So it bought millions of them. Workers cut the spines off, scanned every page, and threw the books out when they were done.
They wanted to keep this a secret, but then a group of authors sued in a case known as Bartz v. Anthropic. To Rogan’s dismay, the judge ruled the scanning was “fair use,” so Anthropic was allowed to do it.
Where the company got in trouble was the pirated stuff. On top of the books it bought, Anthropic had downloaded millions more from pirate sites for free, and the judge wouldn’t let that go.
That ended up costing them $1.5 billion, the biggest copyright settlement in U.S. history, or about $3,000 per pirated book.
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Governments Are Telling Citizens To Prepare For The Worst... Here's What You Need To Know
