Yosemite Valley Morning Monochrome by Jeff Sullivan (www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com)
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#yosemite #national #park #travel #fall #colors #landscape #nature #photography #workshop #california #usa #photo #copyright #november #2023 #jeff #sullivan #sierra #sierranevada #states #united #nikon #d850 #nikkor #70 #200mm #f28 #lens #nik
Venice says it will host Bezos wedding, denies reports of possible disruptions https://www.inbella.com/975691/venice-says-it-will-host-bezos-wedding-denies-reports-of-possible-disruptions/ #affiliate #Amazon.com #arts #Bezos #Celebrities #CelebritiesNews #CelebritiesU0026EntertainmentNews #Entertainment #inc.. #Italy #Jeff #JeffBezos #KylieJenner #LOCAL #LocalAffiliateArtsU0026Entertainment #negative #News #Overall #OverallNegative #u0026 #weddings
#EAS #WEA for Bacon, #GA; #Coffee, #GA; #Jeff Davis, #GA: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 8:45 AM EDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Jacksonville FL ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***
#EAS #WEA for Bacon, #GA; #Coffee, #GA; #Jeff Davis, #GA: National Weather Service: #TORNADO WARNING in this area until 8:45 AM EDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. If you are outdoors, in a mobile home, or in a vehicle, move to the closest substantial shelter and protect yourself from flying debris. Check media. Source: NWS Jacksonville FL #Bacon, #GA; #Coffee, #GA; #Jeff Davis, #GAwx** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK
#EAS #WEA for Bacon, #GA; #Coffee, #GA; #Jeff Davis, #GA: #Tornado Warning issued March 16 at 8:13AM EDT until March 16 at 8:45AM EDT by NWS Jacksonville FL Source: NWS Jacksonville FL #Bacon, #GA; #Coffee, #GA; #Jeff Davis, #GAwx** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***
#EAS #WEA for Brewster, #TX; #Jeff Davis, #TX; #Presidio, #TX: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 2:30 PM CDT. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEE
#EAS #WEA for Brewster, #TX; #Jeff Davis, #TX; #Presidio, #TX: Dust Storm Warning issued March 12 at 1:33PM CDT until March 12 at 2:30PM CDT by NWS Midland/Odessa TX Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX #Brewster, #TX; #Jeff Davis, #TX; #Presidio, #TXwx** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***
#EAS #WEA for Brewster, #TX; #Jeff Davis, #TX; #Presidio, #TX: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 2:30 PM CDT. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX #Brewster, #TX; #Jeff Davis, #TX; #Presidio, #TX
Ordered lunch. My delivery driver's name is Jeff. My name is also Jeff. If I catch him at dropoff, we might have a Jeff Moment! #Jeff
(you may, if you wish, toot the Jeffpardy! youtube clip at me, because it's always topical, but yes, I have seen it. many times 
)
Jeff Bezos makes the implicit explicit in memo to Washington Post staff
Mega billionaire Jeff Bezos made news yesterday
by formally announcing the parameters of the Washington Post opinion section in clear ideological terms,
making explicit what has long been implicit in corporate media
and, like then-New York Times opinion editor James Bennet did seven years ago when he said that the New York Times was
“pro-capitalism,”
effectively doing my job for me.
️“I’m writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars:
personal liberties and free markets,”
the Amazon founder and executive chairman wrote in an open letter to Post employees.
“We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”
As I wrote in 2018 when Times opinion editor James Bennet said in a closed-door meeting with staffers that the Times was a “pro-capitalism” newspaper,
“Media criticism is, more often than not, a practice of inference:
seeing patterns and inferring from those patterns the political make-up of media.
Occasionally, however, decision-makers from major media outlets come right out and openly declare their ideology.”
Bezos has done us a favor by removing the mystery and inference and cheeky “open debate” pretense from the process of inferring the ideological perimeters of corporate media and laid it all out bare.
Obviously this dictate is, in theory, limited to the opinion section, not the news section,
but those working on the other side of the firewall will no doubt take a hearty hint
––if they didn’t the last time Bezos explicitly interfered in the opinion output of the paper.
The fact is that, compared to peer outlets, the Washington Post’s current national labor coverage, while by no means aggressively anti-capitalist, is robust and generally favorable to workers.
Reporters such as #Lauren #Kaori #Gurley
and #Jeff #Stein
and columnist #Perry #Bacon #Jr. have done excellent work
highlighting the plight of Amazon employees and those on the business end of US sanctions,
often in direct contradiction to Bezos’ bottom line and ideological preferences.
While the Post’s local metro coverage, as I’ve documented, has often doubled as an Amazon lobbying front,
its national coverage has often remained independent of the billionaire’s direct control.
Indeed, the Post’s newly anointed chief economics reporter #Jeff #Stein publicly criticized his boss yesterday morning,
writing on social media:
“Bezos declaration Massive encroachment by Jeff Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section today
– makes clear dissenting views will not be published or tolerated there I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side of coverage,
but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know.”
https://therealnews.com/jeff-bezos-makes-the-implicit-explicit-in-memo-to-washington-post-staff
Jeff vs. Gemini – AI: Mailbag answers to your questions https://www.byteseu.com/754191/ #AI #answers #ArtificialIntelligence #BostonCelticsDiscussionTopics #celticsblog #FrontPage #gemini #jeff #mailbag #questions #to #vs #your
#EAS #WEA for Culberson, #TX; #Jeff Davis, #TX: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 1:30 PM CST. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX #Culberson, #TX; #Jeff Davis, #TXwx** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED
#EAS #WEA for Culberson, #TX; #Jeff Davis, #TX: National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 1:30 PM CST. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS Midland/Odessa TX ** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL
In 1985 characters named Jeff were cool. Just check out his outfit :) Featuring young Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt, Shannen Doherty.
Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089208/
Lake Manly Morning Reflection by Jeff Sullivan (www.JeffSullivanPhotography.com)
Fourteen years ago, Congress set out to remedy a basic unfairness in the tax code.
The tax that funds Medicare, because it’s aimed mainly at wages, hits even the poorest American workers.
But the wealthy could easily avoid paying their share.
So lawmakers created a new type of Medicare tax to capture the kinds of income the rich often enjoy:
interest, dividends and capital gains from investments.
A host of billionaires
— sports team owners, oil barons, Wall Street traders and others
— have managed to avoid paying it, ProPublica found.
To study who was actually paying the new tax, ProPublica analyzed its trove of IRS data containing information on thousands of the wealthiest Americans.
We identified 17 people who, in the first six years of the law, 2013 through 2018, 
each shielded at least $1 billion in capital gains from the tax.
Together, this small group, by collectively exempting more than $35 billion, saved about $1.3 billion in taxes.
Most members of the group were able to sidestep the tax because of a huge gap written into the law,
which allows owners to exempt gains from the sale of their businesses.
They include #Donald #Sterling, the disgraced former NBA team owner who avoided the tax when he sold the Los Angeles Clippers to Steve Ballmer for $2 billion in 2014
But others eluded the tax in ways that raise questions about how the law is being enforced.
One clear target of the new tax was investment professionals who rack up capital gains.
Yet ProPublica found examples in the IRS data of financiers who claimed outsize profits but did not pay the tax.
Tax experts contacted by ProPublica said they couldn’t think of a legitimate reason why those individuals were exempt.
#Lynn #Tilton, a hard-charging private equity manager,
who has been dubbed the “diva” of distressed asset investing,
is one example.
The biggest avoider of the new tax in the data was #Jeff #Yass, the Republican megadonor who sits atop one of the most profitable trading firms in the world
https://www.propublica.org/article/billionaires-net-investment-income-tax
#Larry #Ellison,
who briefly became the world's second-wealthiest person last week when his net worth surpassed #Jeff #Bezos' for a short time, 
outlined a scenario where AI models would analyze footage from security cameras, police body cams, doorbell cameras, and vehicle dash cams.
"Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said,
describing what he sees as the benefits from automated oversight from AI and automated alerts for when crime takes place.
"We're going to have supervision," he continued.
"...if there's a problem, AI will report the problem and report it to the appropriate person."
Ellison's vision bears more than a passing resemblance to the cautionary world portrayed in #George #Orwell's prescient novel 1984.
In Orwell's fiction, the totalitarian government of Oceania uses ubiquitous "telescreens" to monitor citizens constantly,
creating a society where privacy no longer exists and independent thought becomes nearly impossible.
But Orwell's famous phrase
"Big Brother is watching you"
would take on new meaning in Ellison's tech-driven scenario, where AI systems, rather than human watchers, would serve as the ever-vigilant eyes of authority.
Once considered a sci-fi trope, automated systems are already becoming a reality:
Similar automated CCTV surveillance systems have already been trialed in #London Underground and at the 2024 #Olympics.
#China has been using automated systems (including AI) to surveil its citizens for years.
In 2022, Reuters reported that Chinese firms had developed AI software to sort data collected on residents using a network of surveillance cameras deployed across cities
-- and rural areas as part of China's "#sharp #eyes" campaign from 2015 to 2020.
This "one person, one file" technology reportedly organizes collected data on individual Chinese citizens,
leading to what The Economic Times called a "road to digital totalitarianism."
Many authors, artists, and "content creators" have signed up with Amazon as “affiliates”.
Find one you’d like to support, and bookmark one of their Amazon links (doesn’t matter which one).
Any time you use that link to visit Amazon’s web site, they’ll get a small commission (usually 2 – 10%)
on anything you buy.
Notice I said “#anything”
– people often assume this works only if you buy the item that’s linked to, but it’s not so.
Once you’ve clicked the link, you can search for anything you want and, as long as you haven’t left Amazon’s site, the affiliate who took you there gets their cut.
So, it’s really easy:
pick someone you’d like to support,
bookmark one of their links,
and use it as your doorway to Amazon.
That’s it! It won’t make any difference to the price you pay
and you won’t be identified to the person you’ve chosen to support,
but a buck or two will move from #Jeff #Bezos’ pocket to theirs.
It's always a pleasure to share a call with @AiraVI agent #Jeff. He is one of the best and a definite asset to their team and I want the world to know it. He is one of my favorites. 
I always give positive feedback but I wish we could somehow reward agents that go above and beyond and make calls a pleasure through their great attitudes and willingness to help with a smile on their face that can be heard.
