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In honor of the legendary George Wendt, here is every time Norm Peterson walks into Cheers

"Build with creatives" in the same way a house is built with bricks and cement, I suspect.

RIP George Wendt aka Norm. Argueably his greatest ever greeting from the bar #RIPGeorgeWendt

Many an evening meal was acquired from Mr Chips when on late shift in Mitchell Library!

Yet again, "we're more than lending books" vibes from a public library thing today. This isn't advocacy. Advocacy isn't being embarrassed about your core service, and the key part the public see. It's mystifying & frustrating that senior people in the profession don't get this.

CHEERS “Norm, Is That You?” (NBC, 1988) starring Ted Danson, Kirstie Alley, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, George Wendt and Bebe Neuwirth Created by Glen & Les Charles and James Burrows

AGI 2027, my eye. Folks, we have seen this movie before. Don’t get taken a second time. In 2012 Google's cofounder Sergey Brin promised that self-driving cars would be available for everyone within five years. Unless you live in SF, Phoenix, LA, or a handful of other cities,

Robert Smigel’s tribute to George Wendt is really great

M & S supply chains seem to still be floating round the U bend.

Silicon Valley sees in AI the chance to finally subsume the entertainment industry. The internet + streaming didn't win them enough. Creators and rights holders still owned what was important: the content itself. But now they know that, if they can just make the fair use

I was saddened to learn of the death today of Alasdair MacIntyre--a towering figure in moral and political philosophy and one of the most influential intellectuals of the past century. He was 96 years old. In the late 1970s and early 80s, MacIntyre became a philosophical convert

#AlasdairMacIntyre 1 of the handful of philosophers whose impact upon me has been transformative & lifelong—upon me as a person (educated in the charisms of the SNDs & the Dominicans); an academic; a teacher; a writer; a reader. The most studious & humane of thinkers. RIP.

*STARTS TODAY* Brass, starring Timothy West. Today at 2pm and 7pm on Rewind TV 📺 Freeview 92 Sky TV 182 Freely 141 #drama #comedy #classictv #rewindtv

Nick Clegg has a dark sense of humor re: CONSENT “I think expecting the industry, technologically or otherwise, to preemptively ask before they even start training—I just don’t see. I’m afraid that just collides with the physics of the technology itself.” thetimes.com/uk/technology-…

Dreadful SCF, but good thing for Scottish football for trophies to be shared out. If we're honest, that wasn't a season deserving of a treble for Celtic. Huge summer ahead for Rodgers, because that squad has lots of dross and quite a few cowards.

Must-read article on the travesty being inflicted on the UK’s creative industries by a government in bed with big tech. To quote one MP: “One of our greatest industrial sectors is on fire and ministers are having a picnic on the lawn with the arsonists.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Sorry to break it to you: but maybe the job of scientists and journalists isn’t to shill for AI and boost adoption rates. Maybe, just maybe, we have enough influencers doing that already? 😈

Still, everyone should read MacIntyre’s After Virtue and ask themselves what it says about our culture that an intellect of his stature is far from being a household name.

Oh God, those images from Liverpool are horrific.