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Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."
"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.
So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.
People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?
He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!
When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.
He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"
- George Clooney
actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist
Why is an ex-OpenAI engineer suspected of spying for the Saudis a bigger security risk than someone who got $700M from them in an Azerbaijani bank account?
...“from a brief and sudden illness”. He had just returned to the U.S. from a trip to Ukraine, where he was helping finalize an agreement to place sanctions on countries and companies that buy Russian oil, according to the Associated Press.news.northeastern.edu/2026/0…
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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
"Apple is so good at product and design"
Try adding the email address your friend texted you to their existing contact!
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That demo was insane. Mindblowing.
But there is not a real car guy on the planet that would pick that over the Mission S
Which one are you more excited about?
78%Porsche Mission S
22%Flying Tesla Roadster
9 votes • Final results
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This is funny because Elon literally cut 4 billion dollars worth of cancer research funding through @DOGE.
"You'd hate him if he did something good!"
Well.... he's literally doing the exact opposite of that good thing so here we are.
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Listen, @Tesla could bring out a vehicle that flies me to Saturn and back, cleans my house from top to bottom, cooks my dinner every night, paints my fence and strokes my head when I’m hungover and I still wouldn’t spend a fucking penny on one of that fascist cunt’s cars.
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Google's Gemini 4 Argon just went through all three of our incident response benchmarks. A month ago GPT-6 Astra became the first model to sit at the top of every board. Argon is right next to it on every one, at about a quarter of the cost.
🔷 Blast Radius Bench: 65% pass, the same rate as Astra on our hardest board. Astra keeps first place on graded score (0.726 vs 0.688) because it does better on the hard tier.
🔷 Noise Bench: 94%, third overall, just ahead of Claude Opus 5. Its only miss is slow-burn-saturation, the scenario Astra was the first to crack.
🔷 RCA Bench: tied with Astra for first, including every adversarial scenario and every case where no commit is to blame.
The cost is what sets it apart. Argon averaged $0.10 per RCA investigation, against $0.37 for Astra, $0.33 for Opus 5 and $0.59 for Fable 5.1. On Noise Bench it costs $0.08 per triage. The trade is time: Argon takes about two and a half minutes per investigation, while Astra takes about 70 seconds.
The jump from the previous generation is large too. Gemini 3.1 Pro passed 71% on Noise Bench at roughly the same cost per investigation as Astra. Argon reaches 94% at a quarter of that price.
My takeaway: last month frontier-level incident response came at a frontier price. Within a few weeks a second lab has matched it for a fraction of the cost.