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February 16, 2023

Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues (live in 2005)

Still sounding as rock hard as they did in 1968.

February 15, 2023

Yes, Elon Musk created a special system for showing you all his tweets first

(A behind-the-scenes look at Elon Musk's ego-driven rewrite of the Twitter algorithm to favor his tweets.)

By Zoë Schiffer
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Casey Newton/Platformer

This story is based on interviews with people familiar with the events involved and supported by documents obtained by Platformer.

At 2:36 on Monday morning, James Musk sent an urgent message to Twitter engineers.

“We are debugging an issue with engagement across the platform,” wrote Musk, a cousin of the Twitter CEO, tagging “@here” in Slack to ensure that anyone online would see it. “Any people who can make dashboards and write software please can you help solve this problem. This is high urgency. If you are willing to help out please thumbs up this post.”

When bleary-eyed engineers began to log on to their laptops, the nature of the emergency became clear: Elon Musk’s tweet about the Super Bowl got less engagement than President Joe Biden’s.

Biden’s tweet, in which he said he would be supporting his wife in rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles, generated nearly 29 million impressions. Musk, who also tweeted his support for the Eagles, generated a little more than 9.1 million impressions before deleting the tweet in apparent frustration.

February 15, 2023

TCM Schedule for Saturday 2/18/23 - In the Heat of the Night, Gunga Din

TCM Schedule for Saturday 2/18/23

11:00 PM The Great Santini (1979)

A marine has problems adjusting to domestic life during peacetime.
Dir: Lewis John Carlino Cast: Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

1:15 AM Tall Story (1960)
Love puts a college basketball star into a tailspin.
Dir: Joshua Logan Cast: Anthony Perkins, Jane Fonda, Ray Walston
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

3:00 AM Drive, He Said (1971)
A basketball star has more on his mind than shooting hoops, shrugging off his severe coach's pep talks, fooling around with his professor's wife, and keeping his 1-A draft status roomie from freaking out.
Dir: Jack Nicholson Cast: William Tepper, Karen Black, Michael Margotta
Runtime: 95 mins Genre: Drama Rating: null CC: Y

4:45 AM Short: Shake Hands With Danger (1970)
Safety film about the dangers associated with earthmoving equipment operations, showing many simulated accidents on construction sites.
Dir: null Cast: Charles Oldfather, John Clifford, Herk Harvey
Runtime: 23 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-PG CC: N

5:20 AM Short: Changing (1971)
A young family tries to cope with shifting social values in this short film.
Dir: Hubert Smith Cast: Gene Kopp, Edward Kutner, Kathy Mcginnis
Runtime: 28 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-MA CC: N

6:00 AM Libel (1959)
A former POW is accused of being an impostor.
Dir: Anthony Asquith Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia De Havilland, Paul Massie
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

8:00 AM Short: The House of Tomorrow (1949)
The house of tomorrow will feature many custom and adjustable gadgets.
Dir: Tex Avery (fred) Cast: Frank Graham
Runtime: 7 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

8:08 AM Short: Famous Boners (1942)
This short film looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the victims of errors.
Dir: Douglas Foster Cast: Edward Mcwade, John Nesbitt, Margaret Bert
Runtime: 10 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N

8:19 AM Short: Glimpses of New Brunswick (1938)
The history, land, and people of New Brunswick, Canada.
Dir: James A. Fitzpatrick Cast: James A. Fitzpatrick, James A. Fitzpatrick, Winton Hoch
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N

8:28 AM Wagon Train (1940)
Settlers and traders en route to the West fight off Indian attacks.
Dir: Edward Killy Cast: Tim Holt, Ray Whitley, Emmett Lynn
Runtime: 59 mins Genre: Western Rating: TV-G CC: N

9:30 AM Serial: The Batman, Chapter 9: The Sign of the Sphinx (1943)

The Caped Crusader battles a Japanese scientist turning people into zombies.
Dir: Lambert Hillyer. Cast: null
Runtime: 16 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-PG CC: N

10:00 AM The Crystal Brawl (1957)
Bluto takes Olive to a carnival to visit the lady fortune teller, who is really Popeye in disguise. The gypsy warns of a mountain trip and in fade-out we see our threesome battling each other and the elements as they climb the Alps. Back at the carnival we find Olive fighting off an amorous Bluto while hanging from the ...
Dir: null Cast: Jack Mercer, Jackson Beck, Mae Questel
Runtime: 8 mins Genre: Animation Rating: TV-PG CC:

10:09 AM The Falcon in Hollywood (1944)
A society sleuth tours the movie capital, where he uncovers an actor's murder.
Dir: Gordon Douglas Cast: Tom Conway, Barbara Hale, Veda Ann Borg
Runtime: 67 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-G CC: Y

11:30 AM Frontier Days (1945)
A sheriff and a U.S. marshal bring law and order to a frontier community terrorized by a gang and Native Americans.
Dir: Jack Scholl Cast: Robert Shayne, Fred Kelsey, Jack Mower
Runtime: 17 mins Genre: Short Rating: TV-G CC: N

12:00 PM Sparkle (1976)

The three Williams sisters start out singing in their church choir in Harlem in the late 1950s and become a successful girl group in the 1960s. But their sudden rise to stardom causes problems in their lives.
Dir: Sam O'Steen Cast: Philip Michael Thomas, Irene Cara, Lonette Mckee
Runtime: 98 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

1:45 PM Gunga Din (1939)

Three British soldiers seek treasure during an uprising in India.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Cary Grant, Victor Mclaglen, Douglas Fairbanks
Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Adventure Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

4:00 PM The Rack (1956)
A Korean War veteran is accused of cracking under enemy torture.
Dir: Arnold Laven Cast: Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Walter Pidgeon
Runtime: 100 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

6:00 PM Where the Spies Are (1965)
A country doctor dabbles in espionage to get a new car.
Dir: Val Guest Cast: null
Runtime: 113 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-G CC: Y

8:00 PM In the Heat of the Night (1967)

A black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town in the South. Over time, they begin to find respect for one another.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
Runtime: 109 mins Genre: Suspense/Mystery Rating: TV-14 CC: Y

10:00 PM To Sleep with Anger (1990)
Vagabond Harry pays an unexpected visit to his old chum Gideon, who accepts the aimless man into his home, despite the fact that the household is already overcrowded. Hard-drinking yet charismatic, Harry both entertains and enrages Gideon and his wife, Suzie. However, after Gideon falls gravely ill, Harry decides to step ...
Dir: Charles Burnett Cast: Paul Butler, Devaughn Nixon, Mary Alice
Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Drama Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

12:00 AM Noir Alley: Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)

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An actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
Dir: King Vidor Cast: Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes Mccambridge
Runtime: 91 mins Genre: Crime Rating: TV-PG CC: Y

2:00 AM Deathtrap (1982)
Sidney Bruhl is a formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. When Sidney returns to his wife Myra, a rich woman with a heart problem who is prone to hysterics, he tells her of his jealousy and humiliation upon the receipt of the first play of a former student. ...
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
Runtime: 115 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

4:00 AM The Player (1992)
A frustrated screenwriter menaces a studio executive who eventually kills the writer and gets away with murder.
Dir: Robert Altman Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward
Runtime: 123 mins Genre: Comedy Rating: TV-MA CC: Y

TCM At a Glance 2-18-23

Saturday, February 18
- TCM DAYTIME
WEEKEND FEATURES
Libel (1959)
MGM Cartoons: The House of Tomorrow (1949)
Famous Boners (1942) (short)
Glimpses of New Brunswick (1938) (doc.)
Wagon Train (1940)
Batman Ch. 9: The Sign of the Sphinx (1943)
(P) Popeye: The Crystal Brawl (1957)
Falcon in Hollywood, The (1944)
Frontier Days (1945) (short)
Sparkle (1976) (Musical Matinee)
Gunga Din (1939)
Rack, The (1956)
Where the Spies Are (1965)
- TCM PRIMETIME
SPECIAL THEME: BLACK HISTORY MONTH
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
To Sleep with Anger (1990)
- NOIR ALLEY
Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
- TCM LATE NIGHT
Deathtrap (1982)
Player, The (1992)

(P) - TCM Premiere

February 13, 2023

Twitter's plan to charge for crucial tool prompts outcry

Source: Associated Press/BARBARA ORTUTAY

In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria, thousands of volunteer software developers have been using a crucial Twitter tool to comb the platform for calls for help — including from people trapped in collapsed buildings — and connect people with rescue organizations.

They could lose access as soon as Monday unless they pay Twitter a monthly fee of at least $100 — prohibitive for many volunteers and nonprofits on shoestring budgets.

“That’s not just for rescue efforts which unfortunately we’re coming to the end of, but for logistics planning too as people go to Twitter to broadcast their needs,” said Sedat Kapanoglu, the founder of Eksi Sozluk, Turkey’s most popular social platform, who has been advising some of the volunteers in their efforts.

Nonprofits, researchers and others need the tool, known as the API, or Application Programming Interface, to analyze Twitter data because the sheer amount of information makes it impossible for a human to go through by hand.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/twitter-api-eca5709035a08d2ebed8fac673809ea8?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_08

February 13, 2023

On this date in 2016, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead.

American jurist Antonin Scalia—who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming well known for his strong legal conservatism—died in Shafter, Texas.

By Adam Liptak/New York Times

Feb. 13, 2016

Justice Antonin Scalia, whose transformative legal theories, vivid writing and outsize personality made him a leader of a conservative intellectual renaissance in his three decades on the Supreme Court, was found dead on Saturday at a resort in West Texas. He was 79.

“He was an extraordinary individual and jurist, admired and treasured by his colleagues,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said in a statement confirming Justice Scalia’s death. “His passing is a great loss to the Court and the country he so loyally served.”

The cause of death was not immediately released. A spokeswoman for the United States Marshals Service, which sent personnel to the scene, said there was nothing to indicate the death was the result of anything other than natural causes.

Justice Scalia began his service on the court as an outsider known for caustic dissents that alienated even potential allies. But his theories, initially viewed as idiosyncratic, gradually took hold, and not only on the right and not only in the courts.

February 13, 2023

Milestone Moments - Shirley Temple - Animal Crackers in My Soup (from Curly Top)

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February 13, 2023

Milestone Moments - Shirley Temple - Baby Take A Bow - Stand Up and Cheer

OK, so Shirley Temple movies are not Humphrey Bogart, but despite the scenes that look politically incorrect today, in the day her movies did a lot to raise the spirits of the nation. And she could really tap dance.

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February 13, 2023

Milestone Moments - The Godfather - Don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.

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February 12, 2023

Watching "John Lewis: Good Trouble." What a great film.

This country really misses him and Elijah Cummings. We could use them right now.

February 12, 2023

On 2/12/2004, then S.F. Mayor Gavin Newsom began issuing same-sex marriage licenses in the city.

From Wikipedia:

The San Francisco 2004 same-sex weddings took place between February 12 and March 11, 2004, after San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom directed the city-county clerk to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. California Attorney General Bill Lockyer and a number of interest groups sued to end the practice. About 4,000 such licenses were issued before the California Supreme Court ordered a halt to the practice on March 11. On August 12, 2004, the California Supreme Court voided all of the licenses that had been issued in February and March.

The legal dispute over the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples led to the 2008 In re Marriage Cases ruling by the California Supreme Court, which legalized same-sex marriage in California.

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