If Kevin Kline developed a half-hour series in which he came on stage and cycled through a series of expressions from the sublime to the ridiculous while ambling wordlessly or with intermittent mutterings stage left and stage right in no predictable pattern, I’d have my credit card out of my wallet ready to binge-watch the entire season before I hit my easy chair. Mr. Kline, in my estimation one of the great and most watchable actors of our time, recently joined fellow actor Laura Linney, no slouch in the watchable department herself, in lead roles for the eight-part series, “American…
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We interrupt the previously scheduled post in this space on a splendid new television series to present an astonishing torrent—even by the President Trumpian standards we have gotten “used to” at our peril—of 55 Truth Social posts the president shared from late night Monday into the early morning hours Tuesday. The posts have since been verified and summarized by the fact-checking site Snopes, the first five of which all happened within a minute of each other. Trump did indeed go on a posting spree from around 10:14 p.m. May 11 until 1:12 a.m. May 12, so we’ve rated the claim…
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I’m increasingly using AI to do basic historical research and quick fact-checking, always careful to check the sources it cites in scraping the history of human knowledge acquisition. In doing so, I’ve also researched enough about AI itself to become increasingly aware of the awesome power it has as a force for both good and evil. And depending on which side of that ledger you tend to gravitate toward, you can find abundant support for your position of elation or alarm. Recently, a Facebook friend posted a song by what looked to be a well-seasoned but heretofore unknown soul/blues singer…