Judy holds court for Haley
Judge Judy’s grandson produces one of her shows. Judge Judy’s son is on another of her shows. Judge Judy’s granddaughter works with her. Judge Judy has an additional new Amazon program. So what’s Judge Judy’s real problem?
She flew from Florida to support Nikki Haley. Afterward to California to work.
On her plane: husband Judge Jerry and their Shih Tzu. Judge Jerry, large size, takes care of himself. Shih Tzu Joey, 5 pounds, can’t take care of herself.
Nikkiville was freezing. The ground snowy. Shih Tzu Joey likes warm weather. Adored, pampered, hours clicked away and she needs grass to pee. The nearest was a continent away. Mom’s synthetic grass rug on the plane? Shove it. Wouldn’t do.
The problem was this ladylike Shih Tzu who would not piddle until mama’s plane reached LAX — 14 hours.
Miss Joey Sheindlin needs Dog Depends.
Is AI just phony baloney?
Fake images can now be typed into artificial intelligence models.
Standard, Aaron Rafferty’s Irvine, Calif., software solution company, said, “Civilization soon won’t know truth from fiction.
“Not pros doing this. No skills necessary. Photoshop, edit a film, anyone can do it. Images, videos off texts can depict anything wanted. Text-to-video, fake campaigns and events, can turn an election.”
Google and company Truepic now work to ID falsely generated AI images and videos. Stanford now researches generated voice detection — even of dead artists’ voices.
Like “new” work being considered by Whitney Houston, Johnny Cash, David Crosby — although they’re gone.
Rafferty: “Translation software was at Davos [World Economic Forum]. Argentinean President Milei translated into English in his true voice went all over the world.”
Be aware, Taylor Swift’s deepfake porn could change presidential elections.
Thread counts
Attention: Brian Cox earned an Emmy nom for “Succession.” He’d already won an award once for playing Nazi Hermann Göring.
The tux he just now wore to the Emmys was a fancy gray custom sartorial shmatta which had a silver thread lining where the following was hand stitched: “F - - k Off.” Nice. Respectful.
Super foods
Macy’s 1914 food prices: coffee, 6 cents; clam chowder, 14 cents; oysters appetizer, 22 cents; salad, 24 cents; Swiss cheese sandwich, 14 cents; toast, 7 cents; French pastry, 10 cents; vanilla/chocolate/pistachio or coffee ice cream, 11 cents. Cocktail was extra. How much extra? Just 3 cents.
Are we now not doing great — or what?!
In our times, new excellent Carlyle restaurant in what once was their hotel dining room.
I knew everyone, loved it so I returned with friends whom people around recognized.
Met a very snippy maitre — so snippy that my party didn’t want to stay. We left — not keeping our reservation. Note to restaurateurs: In NYC, be pleasant to patrons — or go work in Altoona!
Stop me if you’ve heard this joke before: November is Joe Biden’s birthday and a big celebration’s being planned. Like, a lavish dinner with the upper set. He’ll also use the lower set if it gets back from the dentist in time.
Only in Delaware, kids, only in Delaware.
