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"I dreamed I was a perfect smile"

Can someone please remind me where this phrase came from, who said it or wrote it, decades ago? Boomers may know.

Old & a bit out of the way. Background in writing (tho never know what to write about myself), art world, book world, tv news & entertainment. American, Midwest, CA, NY. Much touristing abroad. Progressive, antiracist, antifacist, she/her

"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/
"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.

Ars Technica

Outrage grows after ICE tackles rape survivor after court hearing: 'This regime is evil' - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-ice-2676671670/

Outrage grows after ICE tackles rape survivor after court hearing: 'This regime is evil'

Reactions were mounting on Monday as news surfaced about an incident involving two Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who tackled a rape survivor to the ground just moments after she testified in a New Jersey courtroom. David J. Bier, Cato Institute Director of Immigration Studies, shared an...

Raw Story
Client Challenge

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116357965118226409

Ron Fournier wrote:

“HERE’S HOW I would have filed the story:

“WASHINGTON — In a post that may live in infamy, President Donald Trump threatened Sunday to lay waste to Iran’s civilian infrastructure unless Tehran stops blocking the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday. “Open the fucking strait, you crazy bastards,” he said on Truth Social, “or you’ll be living in Hell…”

“A month after declaring the U.S.-Israeli alliance would easily triumph without a threat to the vital oil channel…”

A former AP Washington bureau chief reveals how he would have written the story about the president’s Easter Sunday outburst. https://convulsions.substack.com/p/whats-the-lede
What's the Lede?

How the media missed the boat on today's Trump outrage.

Convulsions
The Associated Press "appears to be flailing and desperate, chasing trends that soon disappear," according to the News Media Guild as the not-for-profit cooperative cuts staff amid a pivot to prioritizing video and a flirtation with AI.
Trump Administration Pulls Out of Civil Rights Settlements Backing Trans Students

The Education Department said there was no precedent for the federal government terminating settlements stemming from civil rights investigations into schools.

The New York Times

RE: https://flipboard.com/@latimes/entertainment-u0ke31qcz/-/a-i9BzbJVMQAqesvN_X8pfDA%3Aa%3A460011909-%2F0

“Posted into Entertainment” - Destruction in Iran, defiance & daily life…

A sad day for more than 120 #AssociatedPress employees as the organization announced that it is having to close down its newspaper-focused business, which represents only 10% of its revenue and is shrinking. More buyouts are expected.

The general public does not seem to value information quality, and at this point only governments will be able to sustain quality #journalism. https://apnews.com/article/news-industry-buyouts-ap-newspapers-dd790effc6a385514b3323560161ea4f

AP says it will offer buyouts, part of pivot from newspaper-focused history

The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspapers and their print journalism that sustained the company for more than 1½ centuries. The news organization is becoming more focused on visual journalism and developing new revenue sources, particularly through companies investing in artificial intelligence. That's to cope with the economic collapse of many legacy news outlets. Once the lion’s share of AP’s revenue, big newspaper companies now account for 10% of its income. Julie Pace, AP's executive editor, says that “we’re not a newspaper company and we haven’t been for quite some time.

AP News

RE: https://mastodon.social/@climatenewsnow/116359772235787320

“In December, the California legislature by a wide margin passed a bill that would have banned Pfas in cookware and other everyday products, but Newsom vetoed it after receiving pressure from the cookware industry and celebrity chefs. He has so far not said anything about the pesticide legislation.”
#PFAs #Pesticides #California #Produce #ForeverChemcals