What’s Happening – Via JJ Duling
Life imitates art as astronomers receive a radio burst with some similarities to what Jody Foster heard in Contact: An international team of astronomers have heard a second persistently active fast radio burst. The intense, brief flashes of radio-frequency emissions, lasting on the order of milliseconds have not revealed a message, like the famous repetitive burst in the Jody Foster film, ‘Contact.’ But researchers hope to learn more about their origins as more are discovered. (Space.com)
Kenny and Garth’s Dust-Up: When the co-author of Kenny Loggins’ “Conviction of the Heart” heard Garth Brooks 1993 song “Standing Outside the Fire,” Guy Thomas thought the similarities were significant. After some litigatory twists and turns. Brooks, Loggins and Thomas came to an agreement to share the authorship and royalties. (Pop Culture)
Nickelback can’t help the Angels: The Los Angeles Angels, in the midst of the longest losing streak in franchise history played all Nickelback walk-up songs to try and snap the slide. They dropped their 14th straight game anyway, losing 1-0 to the Boston Red Sox. (MLive)
60 Years ago this week, The Beatles first visited Abbey Road Studios: On June 6th, 1962, The Beatles visited the now-legendary Abbey Road Studios in St John’s Wood, London, for the first time ever to record some of their early singles. That session produced ‘Besame Mucho’, ‘Ask Me’, ‘PS I Love You’ and ‘Love Me Do’, their first chart single. (Farout Magazine)
How AI gave Val Kilmer a voice in Top Gun II – Maverick: A company named Sonantic developed the voice AI that Kilmer uses. It learned how to mimic the actor’s aural mannerisms. The result is a startling and somewhat freaky impersonation that feels like it could have come right out of the Kilmer himself. (MSN)
Things are costing more: The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 1.0% in May after increasing 0.3% in April; the index has increased 8.6% year over year; this is the highest increase in 4 decades. (CPI)
Facebook’s parent is reconsidering paying for news: Meta is re-considering paying for news from publishers for its Facebook News section; the company currently pays out tens of millions combined to publishers including the Washington Post, the New York Times and the WSJ.
The George Bernard Shaw Quote Jeff Goldblum recited on the last day of Jurassic Park Dominion shooting: (Yahoo)
“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
Keener Hit Number Ones on this date in history:
(1964) Memphis, Johnny Rivers
(1965) Mr Tambourine Man, Byrds
(1966) Little Girl, Syndicate of Sound
(1967) Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, Frankie Valli
(1968) This Guy’s In Love With You, Herb Alpert
(1969) Get Back/Dont Let Me Down, Beatles
(1970) Ooh Child, Five Stairsteps
(1971) It’s Too Late, Carole King
