OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
Nov. 20th, 2025 02:30 amOPEN THREAD: Hump Day.
SPACEX’S LITTLE BROTHER: Rocket Lab launches hypersonic test flight for US military.
Rocket Lab is a very cool company that would be getting more attention if SpaceX didn’t exist.
DRAMA: Trump Signs Bill Authorizing Release of Epstein Files: Justice Department has 30 days to make unclassified documents available from its investigation. A friend writes:
In stately homes and boardrooms, there are important men shitting themselves as we speak.
OK, so how many take the plunge or put 9 grams through the gray matter before morning? How many banished, shunned. How many divorces? This will be interesting to watch.
That and of course the spectacular swan-diving demise of assorted lefty icons.
Theoretically should shut the Dems up for a while. (Spoiler, it won’t. Let the victimization begin! All Trump’s fault, of course. That and a high likelihood of concerted media/social media squelching/leaving alone.)
Harder with the Social Media Formerly Known As Twitter back in free speech zone, though.
As horribly divisive and disturbing as the past decade has been, it’s about to get fakking hilarious.
Oh, the sanctimony!
Well, stay tuned.
WORST. HITLER. EVER: Judge Blocks Trump From Power-Washing Office Building Near White House.
LAWFARE: Judge Dabney L. Friedrich ordered Trump not to power wash the filthy Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) next to the White House. The president has been talking about cleaning it and restoring it since his first term. The judge likes it dirty. https://t.co/L8GgPmcM1D pic.twitter.com/ySAAeryHBZ
— @amuse (@amuse) November 19, 2025

THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS; YOU GOTTA PUMP THOSE NUMBERS UP: ‘Charlotte’s Web’ immigration crackdown nets 250 North Carolina’s biggest city: DHS.
21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS (AND HEADLINES): Jaw-dropping marriage secrets of lesbian astronaut whose ex-wife accused her of committing first ever crime in space.

AS ROBERT HEINLEIN PREDICTED: Future Moon Base? Robots Explore Lava Tubes As Shelter for Astronauts.
ACE OF SPADES: Hollywood Is Dying and Good Riddance.
“Dying” is overstated. But they are experiencing a reduction in status, a loss of wealth and social position, which for almost everyone, and particularly for narcissists, is a deathly bitter pill.
* * * * * * * *
The palm-fingering Weird Sisters of the gay Oz movie have been put on hold, possibly because the studio just doesn’t want them weirding the public out before the second part of Wickeddebuts.
Wacko Wicked Press Tour Put on Ice After Erivo’s Voice Fails and Grande Opts Out “In Solidarity” — Did Universal Pull the Plug on Weird Interviews?November 18, 2025
The Wicked: For Good [the part two sequel] press tour was abruptly suspended in New York City just days before the movie’s release, with Hollywood outlets claiming Cynthia Erivo “lost her voice” and Ariana Grande refused to continue press appearances without her.
But the official narrative isn’t sitting well with online observers. After all, since when does a singer temporarily losing her voice require a full-blown solidarity pact from her co-star, complete with the studio shutting down scheduled interviews?
It’s a question fans, influencers, and industry watchers have been asking nonstop since the news broke. Speculation has only intensified because the Wicked press tour had already become something of a spectacle for reasons Universal probably didn’t anticipate.
Long before the Wicked: For Good press tour was pulled, fans noticed something unusual about the promotional circuit. Instead of straightforward discussions about the film, fans were treated to a highlight reel of baffling moments featuring Grande and Erivo seemingly locked in their own private wavelength — one that didn’t always translate to the rest of the audience. Or, you know, Planet Earth…
Here, a dirty man vigorously shook Ariana Grande’s hand in a “hail the victor” sort of way. She pretended her arm was injured, and her lesbian co-star kissed it to “make it better.” This guy isn’t a rando; it’s Marc Platt, producer of the movie. He’s promoting the movie, too.
Erivo always seems on the edge of a panic attack or nervous breakdown so Ariana Grande is always soothing her with uncomfortab-to-look-at hand holding.
Sometimes it’s just finger-holding.
If it sounds like I’m implying a lesbian relationship, I’m not necessarily claiming that. But I am claiming that they are definitely putting on a show of lesbian touching for the largely-gay fan base of the movie. Almost every gay-crazy twitter account is celebrating this touchy-touchy cringefest, some saying “We’re winning!” As in, “gays and lesbians are winning, just look at these Hollywood adult pretenders engaging in lesbian hand-play.” Erivo is a very out lesbian, and Ariana Grande is either a convert or else is just role-playing. Gay 4 Pay, as they say.
There’s another cringe-inducing element to Grande, as Kara Kennedy writes in a likely paywalled-posted at the Free Press: In ‘Wicked,’ There’s a Very Thin Elephant in the Room.
Since the release of the first film, Grande hasn’t explicitly addressed any concerns about her weight loss. But last December, when an interviewer asked how she deals with the pressure to always look perfect, she welled up and said “I’ve heard every version . . .of what’s wrong with me”—before saying she thinks it’s “dangerous” to live in a society where “if you go to Thanksgiving dinner and someone’s granny says, ‘Oh my God, you look skinnier! What happened?’”
“No one has the right to say shit,” she said.
When Grande did address fans’ concerns about her health, via a TikTok video in 2023, she claimed that those who point to old pictures of her looking healthier are in fact idealizing “the unhealthiest version of my body,” adding: “I was on a lot of antidepressants and drinking on them.”
She then asked for universal silence on the subject, saying we should all be “less comfortable commenting on people’s bodies. . . healthy, unhealthy, big, small, this, that.”
Grande’s comments have been met with overwhelming support from the same progressive media that once complained about “Disney’s teeny, tiny princesses.” “Ariana Grande Doesn’t Owe the Internet an Explanation of Her Weight Loss,” one headline scolded; another praised her for addressing “body-shaming” critics in her “heartbreaking” TikTok. The public has been instructed: Stand down. We look on as she wastes away, our tongues tied. Ariana is taking no further questions at this time.
And maybe silence is her prerogative. Maybe it is upsetting for strangers to ask, based on your appearance, if you’re okay. I guess it would be nice for famous people if we didn’t have opinions on their bodies. But we do. We always will. Their bodies, often, are part of the reason they’re famous. And it feels bizarre that viewers who flock to the theaters to feast their eyes on a spectacle should be told not to comment on what they see.
* * * * * * * *
And this is where the issue stops being abstract and becomes visceral. Mothers—especially mothers of daughters—have always been the first to sense when the culture is drifting into dangerous territory. They are the ones who watch their children inhale these images like oxygen, the ones who know that girls mostly do not dream of being “healthy” in the clinical sense; they dream of being beautiful and they dream of being chosen. When a celebrity appears on-screen looking as fragile as a porcelain doll, it’s personal. It’s the question every mother asks herself at some point: Is this the body my daughter will believe she must grow into?
For years, celebrities have acted as role models when it’s convenient for them to do so—when they can polish up their profiles by speaking about voting, or mental health, or recycling. But when being an influencer becomes inconvenient, they try to slip out of it. Miley Cyrus insisted she wasn’t a role model right after her chaotic post-Disney rebrand but that didn’t stop her haircut and wardrobe from instantly reshaping the aesthetic landscape for millions of girls. Female celebrities might not want that great power, but they’ve got it—and they ought to handle it with care. Instead of telling the millions who pay to watch their work: I owe you nothing.
In the end, the question isn’t whether Grande is too thin. It’s whether she will one day, like [Meghan] Trainor, admit that the body she insisted was beautiful wasn’t actually healthy. For now, we’re not allowed to talk about what’s standing right in front of us—a gorgeously clad frame that millions of girls have watched walking the red carpet on TikTok this week—even as their mothers, who came of age in the era of heroin chic models, get a weary sense of déjà vu.
Perhaps the producers of a film that takes place in the same universe as 1939’s beloved Wizard of Oz wanted to really adhere to the source material: Judy Garland Filmed The Wizard of Oz Under Grueling Conditions. The studio put the teen actor on a strict diet and encouraged her to take “pep pills,” a move that eventually resulted in her early death.
UPDATE:
Starving African Children Raise Money To Feed Ariana Grande https://t.co/xLGrA2aoj6 pic.twitter.com/8bohwarZKt
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) November 19, 2025
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RED ON RED: Embattled House Republican Faces House Censure From Nancy Mace. “South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace will introduce a resolution Wednesday to censure her fellow GOP colleague, Rep. Cory Mills of Florida, in a high-profile example of Republican infighting on the House floor.”
INSURRECTION:
You should know that this is an open call for others to carry out one of the steps involved in executing a color revolution. See Step 6: defections within military, intelligence, and law enforcement. pic.twitter.com/qcHSykxnd6
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 18, 2025
For a color revolution to work, the government must have little motivated support. I suspect that a “color revolution” in America would be met with mass, violent resistance. I don’t think that possibility even enters their minds. Also, pressure from the American government is one of the things preventing a harsh response to color revolutions. That wouldn’t be operative here.
THE JUDICIARY’S SELF-MARGINALIZATION CONTINUES:
Well we certainly can’t have dirty old buildings getting power-washed without a federal judge saying it’s okay. A building being cleaned without the approval of some braindead, unelected idiot with a law degree would be the end of democracy. https://t.co/7mafnVkmSS
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 19, 2025
ACE OF SPADES: Hollywood Is Dying and Good Riddance.
“Dying” is overstated. But they are experiencing a reduction in status, a loss of wealth and social position, which for almost everyone, and particularly for narcissists, is a deathly bitter pill.
* * * * * * * *
The palm-fingering Weird Sisters of the gay Oz movie have been put on hold, possibly because the studio just doesn’t want them weirding the public out before the second part of Wickeddebuts.
Wacko Wicked Press Tour Put on Ice After Erivo’s Voice Fails and Grande Opts Out “In Solidarity” — Did Universal Pull the Plug on Weird Interviews?November 18, 2025
The Wicked: For Good [the part two sequel] press tour was abruptly suspended in New York City just days before the movie’s release, with Hollywood outlets claiming Cynthia Erivo “lost her voice” and Ariana Grande refused to continue press appearances without her.
But the official narrative isn’t sitting well with online observers. After all, since when does a singer temporarily losing her voice require a full-blown solidarity pact from her co-star, complete with the studio shutting down scheduled interviews?
It’s a question fans, influencers, and industry watchers have been asking nonstop since the news broke. Speculation has only intensified because the Wicked press tour had already become something of a spectacle for reasons Universal probably didn’t anticipate.
Long before the Wicked: For Good press tour was pulled, fans noticed something unusual about the promotional circuit. Instead of straightforward discussions about the film, fans were treated to a highlight reel of baffling moments featuring Grande and Erivo seemingly locked in their own private wavelength — one that didn’t always translate to the rest of the audience. Or, you know, Planet Earth…
Here, a dirty man vigorously shook Ariana Grande’s hand in a “hail the victor” sort of way. She pretended her arm was injured, and her lesbian co-star kissed it to “make it better.” This guy isn’t a rando; it’s Marc Platt, producer of the movie. He’s promoting the movie, too.
Erivo always seems on the edge of a panic attack or nervous breakdown so Ariana Grande is always soothing her with uncomfortab-to-look-at hand holding.
Sometimes it’s just finger-holding.
If it sounds like I’m implying a lesbian relationship, I’m not necessarily claiming that. But I am claiming that they are definitely putting on a show of lesbian touching for the largely-gay fan base of the movie. Almost every gay-crazy twitter account is celebrating this touchy-touchy cringefest, some saying “We’re winning!” As in, “gays and lesbians are winning, just look at these Hollywood adult pretenders engaging in lesbian hand-play.” Erivo is a very out lesbian, and Ariana Grande is either a convert or else is just role-playing. Gay 4 Pay, as they say.
There’s another cringe-inducing element to Grande, as Kara Kennedy writes in a likely paywalled-posted at the Free Press: In ‘Wicked,’ There’s a Very Thin Elephant in the Room.
Since the release of the first film, Grande hasn’t explicitly addressed any concerns about her weight loss. But last December, when an interviewer asked how she deals with the pressure to always look perfect, she welled up and said “I’ve heard every version . . .of what’s wrong with me”—before saying she thinks it’s “dangerous” to live in a society where “if you go to Thanksgiving dinner and someone’s granny says, ‘Oh my God, you look skinnier! What happened?’”
“No one has the right to say shit,” she said.
When Grande did address fans’ concerns about her health, via a TikTok video in 2023, she claimed that those who point to old pictures of her looking healthier are in fact idealizing “the unhealthiest version of my body,” adding: “I was on a lot of antidepressants and drinking on them.”
She then asked for universal silence on the subject, saying we should all be “less comfortable commenting on people’s bodies. . . healthy, unhealthy, big, small, this, that.”
Grande’s comments have been met with overwhelming support from the same progressive media that once complained about “Disney’s teeny, tiny princesses.” “Ariana Grande Doesn’t Owe the Internet an Explanation of Her Weight Loss,” one headline scolded; another praised her for addressing “body-shaming” critics in her “heartbreaking” TikTok. The public has been instructed: Stand down. We look on as she wastes away, our tongues tied. Ariana is taking no further questions at this time.
And maybe silence is her prerogative. Maybe it is upsetting for strangers to ask, based on your appearance, if you’re okay. I guess it would be nice for famous people if we didn’t have opinions on their bodies. But we do. We always will. Their bodies, often, are part of the reason they’re famous. And it feels bizarre that viewers who flock to the theaters to feast their eyes on a spectacle should be told not to comment on what they see.
* * * * * * * *
And this is where the issue stops being abstract and becomes visceral. Mothers—especially mothers of daughters—have always been the first to sense when the culture is drifting into dangerous territory. They are the ones who watch their children inhale these images like oxygen, the ones who know that girls mostly do not dream of being “healthy” in the clinical sense; they dream of being beautiful and they dream of being chosen. When a celebrity appears on-screen looking as fragile as a porcelain doll, it’s personal. It’s the question every mother asks herself at some point: Is this the body my daughter will believe she must grow into?
For years, celebrities have acted as role models when it’s convenient for them to do so—when they can polish up their profiles by speaking about voting, or mental health, or recycling. But when being an influencer becomes inconvenient, they try to slip out of it. Miley Cyrus insisted she wasn’t a role model right after her chaotic post-Disney rebrand but that didn’t stop her haircut and wardrobe from instantly reshaping the aesthetic landscape for millions of girls. Female celebrities might not want that great power, but they’ve got it—and they ought to handle it with care. Instead of telling the millions who pay to watch their work: I owe you nothing.
In the end, the question isn’t whether Grande is too thin. It’s whether she will one day, like [Meghan] Trainor, admit that the body she insisted was beautiful wasn’t actually healthy. For now, we’re not allowed to talk about what’s standing right in front of us—a gorgeously clad frame that millions of girls have watched walking the red carpet on TikTok this week—even as their mothers, who came of age in the era of heroin chic models, get a weary sense of déjà vu.
Perhaps the producers of a film that takes place in the same universe as 1939’s beloved Wizard of Oz wanted to really adhere to the source material: Judy Garland Filmed The Wizard of Oz Under Grueling Conditions. The studio put the teen actor on a strict diet and encouraged her to take “pep pills,” a move that eventually resulted in her early death.
The following process, applicable to any finite nonempty set A of well-formed expressions, is called the Unification Algorithm:Переведём на современный язык.
- Step 1. Set σ₀ = ε and k = 0, and go to step 2.
- Step 2. If Aσₖ is not a singleton, go to step 3. Otherwise, set σ_A = σₖ, and terminate.
- Step 3. Let Vₖ be the earliest, and Uₖ the next earliest, in the lexical ordering of the disagreement set Bₖ of Aσₖ. If Vₖ is a variable, and does not occur in Uₖ, set σₖ₊₁ = σₖ {Uₖ / Vₖ}, add 1 to k, and return to step 2. Otherwise, terminate.
Step 1. InitializationБегая глазами по исходникам unify.gisp и по описанию, вроде всё однозначно соответствует, разве нет? Дело же не в количестве строк, а в лёгкости понимания.Step 2. Check Whether Unification Is Complete
- Start with a substitution σ₀ = ∅.
- Let k = 0.
- Continue to Step 2.
Step 3. Find a Disagreement
- Apply the current substitution σₖ to the entire set A, producing Aσₖ.
- If all resulting expressions in Aσₖ are identical, the algorithm stops and returns σₖ as the most general unifier.
- Otherwise proceed to Step 3.
Step 4. Process the Disagreement
- Identify the first position (in a left-to-right, top-down scan) where two expressions in Aσₖ differ.
- Let the disagreeing subexpressions be p and q.
Depending on the form of p and q:
1. If one is a variable and it does not occur inside the other term (occurs-check in modern terminology):
2. If both are variables but different:
- Construct a substitution that maps that variable to the other term.
- Compose this substitution with the current one to produce Aσk+1.
- Increment k; return to Step 2.
3. If both are compound expressions with different functors or different arity:
- Substitute one variable with the other, compose as above, and repeat Step 2.
4. If both are compound expressions with the same functor and arity:
- Unification fails; the set has no unifier, and the algorithm terminates unsuccessfully.
- Add their corresponding arguments to the set of expressions being unified.
- Return to Step 2.
THEY’VE FOUND 30,000 SO FAR: ICE Has Found 30,000 Migrant Children Who Were Trafficked Under Biden
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I’LL TAKE “HEADLINES FROM 1939” FOR $500, ALEX: Poland to deploy 10,000 troops to defend against Russian attacks.
FORMER PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN DISAGREES: Personal Defense Tip: Do Not Shoot Through Doors.
MATH: Today’s students will earn 8% less (but won’t know how much that is). “The decline in reading and math achievement since 2013 means today’s students will earn 8 percent less over a working lifetime, estimates economist Eric Hanushek in a Washington Post op-ed.”
JEFF BEZOS: Stuck in the Middle With Blue.
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CHRISTIAN TOTO: Franchise Fail: Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Can’t Move Climate Change Needle.
The Oscar-winner has dedicated more than a decade to a film franchise promoting a healthier environment.
The “Avatar” saga is one long, extended hug for Mother Earth. The environment is near and dear to Cameron’s heart. He’s spoken tirelessly against Climate Change, embraced a vegan lifestyle and hoped the public wouldn’t hold his eco-hypocrisy against him.
It’s why he has spent so many years, and endless Hollywood resources, warning us to heed his Climate Change worries.
No regrets. At least, not yet.
“I’ve justified making ‘Avatar’ movies to myself for the last 20 years, not based on how much money we made, but on the basis that hopefully it can do some good. It can help connect us. It can help connect us to our lost aspect of ourself that connects with nature and respects nature and all those things. … Do I think that movies are the answer to our human problems? No, I think they’re limited because people sometimes just want entertainment and they don’t want to be challenged in that way. I think ‘Avatar’ is a Trojan horse strategy that gets you into a piece of entertainment, but then works on your brain and your heart a little bit in a way.”
That strategy isn’t working, apparently.
Read the whole thing.
And here are tangentially related thoughts from Critical Drinker: The Avatar Paradox – Why Nobody Talks About These Movies. “They’re some of the biggest movies ever made, and there’s another one, Fire And Ash coming out in just over a month, yet nobody ever talks about them. Why?”
With the exception of Noam Chomsky, perhaps no intellectual has been more influential on today’s American neo-communists and radical progressives than Howard Zinn. The far-left academic, who died in 2010, literally wrote the book on the left’s revisionist history of the United States.
With his A People’s History of the United States, a bestseller thanks to generations of academics forcing their students to buy it, Zinn outlined a comprehensive vision of this history—likely drawn from Stalinist propaganda—that portrays the United States as a conspiratorial fraud got up by white racists and rapacious capitalists.
The conspirators, Zinn claims again and again over hundreds of pages, brutally exploit the American people, who are too duped or stupid to realize the truth of their plight. Thankfully, Zinn is there to enlighten them.
It is impossible to overestimate the power this vision exercises over today’s radical left. They have effectively adopted Zinn’s claims wholesale without the slightest question. Zinn’s influence is palpable in the tearing down of statues, demonization of the US as a racist and genocidal entity, and even “mainstream” efforts like the New York Times’ 1619 Project. If the radical left has a vision of what the US is, it is Zinn’s vision.
Katie Couric is apparently a fan, not surprisingly: Couric and Ken Burns Lament Left’s Declining Influence In History Education.
One of the bigger criticisms of PragerU appears to be a video where a cartoon version of Christopher Columbus says slavery is better than death in a conversation with time-travelling children from the present day. PragerU has defended itself by saying that is simply what the real Columbus would have believed. Indeed, one of the child characters immediately follows up by debating Columbus and telling him that slavery was “evil.”
Nevertheless, Couric rolled on, “And I’m just curious to hear your thoughts on this reversion to a brand of history that is not factually accurate, that presents American history, you know, through rose-colored glasses and gives the impression that Americans never did anything wrong.”
She also stated that, “Howard Zinn kind of tried to turn it on, turn this on its head with, you know, talking about history from the point of view of the oppressed instead of the oppressor, but it seems like we’ve made so many strides in giving a more inclusive and a more accurate view of our history, and now we’re going backwards, and it’s so frustrating to me, and as a historian, I can only imagine how you feel.”
Couric tried caricaturizing conservatives by claiming we don’t believe anything bad ever happened in American history, yet she was promoting someone who thinks nothing good ever happened.
For his part, Burns accepted Couric’s dishonest framing of the conservative perspective, “Yeah, it’s terrible and it happens. It’s the course of human events. You go forward, you go back, and yes, it’s simple. It’s in an autocrat’s interest to want to simplify this story and make it only one thing, but it’s, you can’t do that.”
Dennis Prager, “autocrat.”
Oh, and speaking of Couric: Katie Couric faces mounting criticism for cozying up to Jeffrey Epstein at his private dinner with Prince Andrew AFTER pedophile was convicted.
THE INSTAWIFE IS VERY MUCH OF THE OPINION THAT IT CAN: Can one big meal really make you gain weight?
IT’S COME TO THIS: Female reporter who slammed Hollywood for thinking female reporters sleep with sources accused of sleeping with sources.
If you don’t follow the professional journalism class, you might not know how funny this is.
Possibly a few; read the whole thing. But then, perhaps Nuzzi is having second thoughts about the profession she stumbled into when that whole pop star thing went bust: Olivia Nuzzi, teen-pop sensation.
Rather than envisioning who sent pictures of what to whom, or getting jealous of a brainworm, Cockburn has found himself nostalgic. He’s casting his mind back to 2009, back when Nuzzi sought attention in a more innocent fashion: as an aspiring teen-pop starlet. Her MySpace page showcasing her singing talents as “Livvy” has unfortunately been deleted, but one enthusiast archived it so fans can at least see what it looked like.
“Livvy is a sixteen year old singer, songwriter and actress,” the page reads. “A former Wilhelmina model, she has appeared in various commercials, films, television programs and print ads since her start in the business at the age of five.” A child star… she never stood a chance.
The page begins with Nuzzi’s trademark modesty:
The day that Madonna released “Erotica”
The day that Andy Warhol made his first film
The day that Freddie Mercury sang his last note
The day that Judy Garland conceived Liza Minnelli
The day that Britney Spears told you to hit it one more time
The day that Cher first met a sequin
The day that Candy Darling took her last breath
The day that Mick Jagger first strut across a stage
The day that Pamela Anderson was introduced to silicone
The day that David Bowie sang “Lady Stardust”
The day that Michael Jackson first slipped on a white glove
… was the day that Livvy was born
Audio of one her recordings can be heard here — if you dare: “Nuzzi wrote a song called ‘Jailbait’ and it’s about what you think it’s about.”
Солдат всегда здоров,
Солдат на всё готов,
И пыль, как из ковров,
Мы выбиваем из дорог.
И не остановиться,
И не сменить ноги,
Сияют наши лица,
Сверкают сапоги!
По выжженной равнине —
За метром метр —
Идут по Украине
Солдаты группы «Центр».
— На «первый-второй» рассчитайсь!
— Первый-второй…
Первый, шаг вперёд — и в рай!
— Первый-второй…
А каждый второй — тоже герой —
В рай попадёт вслед за тобой.
— Первый-второй.
Первый-второй.
Первый-второй…
А перед нами всё цветёт —
За нами всё горит.
Не надо думать! — с нами тот,
Кто всё за нас решит.
Весёлые — не хмурые —
Вернёмся по домам,
Невесты белокурые
Наградой будут нам!
Всё впереди, а ныне
За метром метр
Идут по Украине
Солдаты группы «Центр».
— На «первый-второй» рассчитайсь!
— Первый-второй…
Первый, шаг вперёд — и в рай!
— Первый-второй…
А каждый второй — тоже герой —
В рай попадёт вслед за тобой.
— Первый-второй.
Первый-второй.
Первый-второй…
IT’S COME TO THIS: Female reporter who slammed Hollywood for thinking female reporters sleep with sources accused of sleeping with sources.
If you don’t follow the professional journalism class, you might not know how funny this is.
https://twitter.com/dhaaruni/status/1990586941923078573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1990586941923078573%7Ctwgr%5E09a7001ff889738ea1a465f1cb19984906fdbb97%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnotthebee.com%2Farticle%2Ffemale-journalist-who-criticized-film-depictions-where-female-reporters-sleep-with-their-sources-publishes-book-revealing-how-she-slept-with-sources
Possibly a few; read the whole thing. But then, perhaps Nuzzi is having second thoughts about the profession she stumbled into when that whole pop star thing went bust: Olivia Nuzzi, teen-pop sensation.
Rather than envisioning who sent pictures of what to whom, or getting jealous of a brainworm, Cockburn has found himself nostalgic. He’s casting his mind back to 2009, back when Nuzzi sought attention in a more innocent fashion: as an aspiring teen-pop starlet. Her MySpace page showcasing her singing talents as “Livvy” has unfortunately been deleted, but one enthusiast archived it so fans can at least see what it looked like.
“Livvy is a sixteen year old singer, songwriter and actress,” the page reads. “A former Wilhelmina model, she has appeared in various commercials, films, television programs and print ads since her start in the business at the age of five.” A child star… she never stood a chance.
The page begins with Nuzzi’s trademark modesty:
The day that Madonna released “Erotica”
The day that Andy Warhol made his first film
The day that Freddie Mercury sang his last note
The day that Judy Garland conceived Liza Minnelli
The day that Britney Spears told you to hit it one more time
The day that Cher first met a sequin
The day that Candy Darling took her last breath
The day that Mick Jagger first strut across a stage
The day that Pamela Anderson was introduced to silicone
The day that David Bowie sang “Lady Stardust”
The day that Michael Jackson first slipped on a white glove
… was the day that Livvy was born
Audio of one her recordings can be heard here — if you dare: “Nuzzi wrote a song called ‘Jailbait’ and it’s about what you think it’s about.”
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Поскольку мой пост про этимологию десятка наиболее частотных глаголов эсперанто вышел, как мне кажется, неплохим (ну, никаких вменяемых претензий не поступило), опубликую аналогичное исследование и в отношении имён существительных. Но для начала — ряд требующих прочтения вводных слов! Увы, их будет многовато, поэтому собственно «исследование» я разделил на две записи. Вторая (основная) часть будет опубликована буквально на днях!
Общие вопросы в отношении исследования частотности отдельных слов и морфем в эсперанто я уже освещал в записи, посвящённой наиболее частотным глаголам, так что повторяться не буду (детали следует смотреть тут, если интересно). Но непременно следует отметить, что вопрос с «вычленением» наиболее частотных существительных всё же несколько тоньше, нежели вопрос о выявлении наиболее частотных глаголов. Почему?
Во-первых, глаголы (как «цементирующий» элемент практически любой фразы) являются очевидно более стабильными в своей частотности: от корпуса к корпусу их частотность будет меняться не столь значительно, сколь у существительных. В качестве иллюстрации можно вспомнить забавный пример про т. н. «Frekvencmorfemaro de parolata Esperanto» («Частотный словарь морфем разговорного эсперанто»), составленный ещё в 1979-1981 годах выдающимся хорватским эсперантистом по имени Zlatko Tišljar (я имел удовольствие общаться с ним лично): он записывал устные речи и живые диалоги на двух крупных эсперанто-мероприятиях (корпус составил около 60 тысяч слов), после чего провёл анализ части этих записей (было проанализировано около 24 тысяч), «выведя» перечень наиболее частотных морфем. Понятно, что объём корпуса был явно небольшим, в результате чего в итоговый результат (из 665 морфем (!), включая предлоги, союзы, аффиксы и окончания) вкрались «паразитные» слова, которые наверняка не являются сильно частотными в масштабах всего языка (например, jugoslavo, karoto «морковь» и даже (!) simsalabim — вероятно, автор исследования присутствовал при чтении какой-то сказки для самых маленьких участников э-мероприятий).
Во-вторых, нужно учитывать, что многие довольно частые существительные в эсперанто образуются «напрямую» из однокоренных глаголов (например, vivi «жить» → vivo «жизнь»), но с этимологической точки зрения подобные существительные производные нужно, имхо, разбирать в рамках именно «глагольной этимологии», так что «о них здесь речь идти не будет» (с). Если кто не знал: в эсперанто имеется определённая «привязанность» каждого корня к отдельной части речи, что важно для правильного словообразования; в этом смысле эсперантисты говорят о глагольных корнях (verbaj radikoj), существительных корнях (substantivaj radikoj) и т. п. Аналогично, получить имя существительное в эсперанто можно напрямую и из прилагательного корня (например, bela «красивый» → belo «красота»), но среди описываемых ниже наиболее частотных существительных мне подобные не встретились.
В-третьих, многие довольно частотные существительные в эсперанто являются сложными производными, которые строятся из самых разнообразных корней при помощи суффиксов и приставок; в этом случае разбор этимологии будет сводиться к разбору этимологии основного корня, который вовсе не обязательно будет существительным корнем. Например, слово registaro «правительство» на эсперанто является составным — reg/ist/ar/o, корень данного слова является глагольным корнем. Или вот ещё пример: слово patrino «мать» в эсперанто является производным от слова patro «отец»; разбор этимологии слова patrino сведётся к разбору этимологии корня patr-, суффикса -in- и окончания -o (напомню, что этимология окончаний и аффиксов эсперанто у меня в блоге уже разбиралась!).
В общем, я сконцентрирую свои усилия на разборе этимологии десятка наиболее частотных существительных корней (substantivaj radikoj) эсперанто, хотя для их обнаружения я, безусловно, приведу и несколько списков наиболее частотных существительных как таковых. Если у вас будут какие-либо возражения-соображения по этому вопросу — пишите/комментируйте! Я всё непременно учту, так как в будущем нас логически ждёт и описание этимологии наиболее частотных имён прилагательных в эсперанто! :)