In a sworn declaration made public on Fri, #MichaelCohen explained that he had not kept up w/ “emerging trends (& related #risks) in #legal#technology & did not realize that #GoogleBard was a generative text service that, like #ChatGPT, could show #citations & descriptions that looked real but actually were not.”
#MichaelCohen also said he didn’t realizethat the #lawyer filing the motion on his behalf, David M. Schwartz, “would drop the cases into his submission wholesale w/o even confirming that they existed.”
The revelation could have serious implications for the #Manhattan#criminal case against #Trump, in which Cohen is expected to serve as the star #witness. TFG’s lawyers have long attacked Cohen as a serial fabulist; now, they’ll have a new example.
But this is probably my favorite photo from this visit to NYC. It was the first burst I took once I walked into the Vanderbilt Summit, and it looks fantastic.
Brick wall and an autumn tree, The High Line, Manhattan.
Marry Christmas 2023! This is another photograph in the recent series from Manhattan’s High Line Park, where the subject of partially bare autumn trees juxtaposed with brick walls held my attention. We took a long walk on the High Line on a breezy November day, and we were impressed by the amount of fall color. In truth, there was almost as much as I find in some of the natural areas where I photograph...continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2023/12/25/autumn-tree-brick-wall/
Un consiglio per un film di Natale? Desk set (1957), in italiano Una segretaria quasi privata. Una commedia brillante con Spencer Tracy e Katharine Hepburn in splendida forma, e la partecipazione straordinaria di E.M.E.R.A.C.(Electromagnetic MEmory and Research Arithmetical Calculator), forse il primo computer con funzioni di reference library che si vede al #cinema. La sua introduzione sembra minacciare il posto di lavoro delle ragazze che all' "ufficio quesiti" hanno il compito di rispondere a tutte le possibili curiosità e domande degli ascoltatori della Compagnia Radiofonica Federale. Tra Richard Sumner l'inventore del computer e Bunny Watson che dirige il team di ricerca informazioni potrebbe nascere l'amore, ma E.M.E.R.A.C., detta Emmy, ci si mette di mezzo... Potete vedere il film in lingua originale e scaricarlo da qui: https://archive.org/details/desk-set-1957_202010 Qui trovate il trailer: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2573009433/?ref_=tt_vi_i_1#tecnologia#innovazione#lavoro#InternetArchive#Natale#Manhattan@informapirata@framaka@maupao@quinta@filippodb@alephoto85@scuola@goofy@ildisinformatico@nemobis@lealternative
Three white-trunk autumn trees in front of a brick wall at High Line Park, Manhattan.
On one of the days of our recent New York City trip we took a very long walk. We started at our hotel west of Central Park, roughly around the Natural History Museum, and headed south. Our first goal was the Hudson Yards complex, which we had not visited since it was under construction. Full of energy after a lunch stop there, we decided to keep going. We picked up the High Line Park walkway here and eventually ended up all the way down at the Whitney Museum...continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2023/12/17/three-autumn-trees-brick-wall/
"Yesterday, we told the CEO of #ExxonMobil to 'eat shit.' We didn't do so lightly. #DarrenWoods makes $20 million a year as his already leviathan oil company increases production quarter on quarter, robbing the world of countless lives and ecosystems. He just got back from #COP where he touted decreasing industry emissions as a solution — as though it isn't his literal product keeping choking and burning our world. #Darren's company actually produced one of the first scientific reports (in 1977) showing that their own product would lead to apocalyptic levels of heating — and they buried it.
And he was literally about to be handed an award from an elite society of scientists and businessmen when we got on stage and told him what we think of him. We shut down the whole event, the whole room fled, and we held the stage so long that they turned out the lights. No awards were awarded.
Yeah, people like Darren are the scum of the Earth and we aren't afraid to say so. It's 2023. People like Darren should be sitting in #InternationalCriminalCourt instead of getting awards." #climateaction #climatechange#climateshutdown#exxon#endfossilfuels#cop28#nyc#manhattan#stem#richpeople#protest#activism#bigoil#Darren https://www.climatedefiance.org/
The population of #Gaza (2 to 2.3m) is slightly bigger than the one of #Manhattan (1.7m) and slightly smaller than the one of #Brooklyn (2.6m).
Northern Gaza (300k), now under forced evacuation, has about the same population as the one of NY’s #UpperWestSide (214k). #KhanYounis (200k) is three times larger than the #EastVillage (63k) and six times larger than the #WestVillage (32k).
The City That Never Sleeps is a well-known nickname for New York City, famously employed in the “Theme from New York, New York”, covered by Frank Sinatra.