#PBS #PBSNewsHour: #AI #Artificialintelligence agents going rogue fuel calls for regulation

Posted on August 31, 2026 by toddpanther

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SEPTEMBER 2nd UPDATE:

“But the worst part of A.I. is the environmental impact.”

Thank You, #DollyParton (1946-2026) #DollyParton #songwriting #countrymusic #WhitneyHouston #QueenLatifah

Posted on August 25, 2026 by toddpanther

The tragedy for me is doubled here because her visual (and accompanying) shtick might prevent her from being remembered properly in American popular culture: as one of the greatest songwriters in the English language. #DollyParton #songwriting #countrymusic

FROM AI:

Whitney Houston generated over $10 million in royalties for Dolly Parton in the 1990s alone, with lifetime earnings from the cover estimated to exceed $20 million.

Because Dolly Parton wrote and owned the full publishing rights to the 1974 song “I Will Always Love You”, she earned a songwriter and publisher fee every time Houston’s legendary 1992 version for The Bodyguard soundtrack was played, sold, or broadcast.

Where the Money Went

Dolly Parton publicly shared how she spent a major portion of those earnings:

The Investment: In 1997, Parton used the money to purchase a large commercial strip mall and office complex in Sevier Park, a historically Black neighborhood in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Tribute: She chose the location intentionally to honor Houston, famously stating during a Watch What Happens Live interview that she wanted to invest back into Houston’s community, calling the property “the house that Whitney built.”

The Elvis Connection

The payday only happened because Parton fiercely protected her copyrights years prior. In the 1970s, Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, demanded 50% of the publishing rights before Elvis would record a cover. Parton turned them down, crying all night over the decision. Because she refused to give up her rights, she later collected 100% of the publishing royalties when Houston recorded her version.

#TheAtlantic: Post-Literate: The End of #Reading Is Here (The Fading of #Literacy/#CriticalThinking/#ReadingComprehension)

Posted on August 7, 2026 by toddpanther

Uh-oh…..

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/reading-crisis-postliterate-age/687618

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AUGUST 20th UPDATE: Another view (?):

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-books-here-stay-ted-conferences-yqise

Knicks Radio’s EMOTIONAL Call as #NewYorkKnicks Win the Championship 😲 | UNCUT

Posted on June 14, 2026 by toddpanther

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“On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs,” by #RENEENICOLEMACKLIN #RENEENICOLEGOOD, Fatally Shot By An #ICE Agent In Minneapolis, Less Than A Mile From The Site Of #GeorgeFloyd’s Killing

Posted on January 8, 2026 by toddpanther

Thanks to #JuliaWright for posting this to the #MumiaAbuJamal listserv!

i want back my rocking chairs,

solipsist sunsets,

& coastal jungle sounds that are tercets from cicadas and pentameter from the hairy legs of cockroaches.

i’ve donated bibles to thrift stores

(mashed them in plastic trash bags with an acidic himalayan salt lamp—

the post-baptism bibles, the ones plucked from street corners from the meaty hands of zealots, the dumbed-down, easy-to-read, parasitic kind):

remember more the slick rubber smell of high gloss biology textbook pictures; they burned the hairs inside my nostrils,

& salt & ink that rubbed off on my palms.

under clippings of the moon at two forty five AM I study&repeat

           ribosome

           endoplasmic—

           lactic acid

           stamen

at the IHOP on the corner of powers and stetson hills—

i repeated & scribbled until it picked its way & stagnated somewhere i can’t point to anymore, maybe my gut—

maybe there in-between my pancreas & large intestine is the piddly brook of my soul.

it’s the ruler by which i reduce all things now; hard-edged & splintering from knowledge that used to sit, a cloth against fevered forehead.

can i let them both be? this fickle faith and this college science that heckles from the back of the classroom

           now i can’t believe—

           that the bible and qur’an and bhagavad gita are sliding long hairs behind my ear like mom used to & exhaling from their mouths “make room for wonder”—

all my understanding dribbles down the chin onto the chest & is summarized as:

life is merely

to ovum and sperm

and where those two meet

and how often and how well

and what dies there.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Renee_Good

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DTTMEyLDxvD/

https://lithub.com/renee-nicole-good-murdered-by-ice-was-a-prize-winning-poet-heres-that-poem/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KEETCCMN6S2C99NV1SV0F0VE&_kx=N7ZUy87lZmRlOJp97-NPk11XNcFSDpign4V7F2qCtew.U5D8ER

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