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☆ Elon Musk's $1 million Twitter bounty
  + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Asia Martin | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Elon Musk's $1 million bounty. Twitter CEO Elon Musk has some kind of bounty out for whomever is behind the botnets that he says target certain users and suppresses the reach of their tweets. Million dollar bounty if convicted" in response to a Twitter user who claimed that botnets "silence" certain accounts. Musk and the user were referring to a thread where another user analyzed Twitter's recently open-sourced algorithm. Twitter users called attention to the difficulty in seeing direct messages that mention "gay", "queer", and "trans."
☆ Final farewell: From Sidney Poitier to Pope Emeritus Benedict a look back at the influential figures who died in 2022
  + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +55 min
Other world leaders who died in 2022 include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died in August. The final days of 2022 saw the loss of some exceptionally notable figures, including Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Here is a roll call of some influential figures who died in 2022 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available):___JANUARY___Dan Reeves, 77. A Cuban-born artist whose radiant color palette and geometric paintings were overlooked for decades before the art world took notice. A prolific character actor best known for playing villains and tough guys in “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and other films.
☆ Freddie Roman, Catskills comedy scene staple and former Friars Club dean, dies at 85
  + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +3 min
Comedian Freddie Roman, the former dean of The Friars Club and a staple of the Catskills comedy scene, has died. Roman died Saturday afternoon at Bethesda Hospital in Boynton Beach, Florida, his booking agent and friend Alison Chaplin said Sunday. His uncle and grandfather owned the Crystal Spring Hotel in the Catskills, where Roman started emceeing at age 15. In “Catskills on Broadway,” Roman commented about everything from his childhood in Queens to his “retirement life” in Florida. He was also made Dean of the New York City Friars Club, where he mentored many aspiring comedians and infused the private club with young talent.
☆ Jennifer Grey promises other ‘Dirty Dancing’ characters in sequel
  + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
CNN —Jennifer Grey’s Frances “Baby” Houseman isn’t the only original “Dirty Dancing” character returning for the sequel. The film helped make her and costar Patrick Swayze superstars before he died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 57 in 2009. Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze in 'Dirty Dancing' (1987). Grey told People magazine in April that she’d been working on the script for a “Dirty Dancing” sequel for years, which she hoped would capture some of the magic of the original and translate it for a newer audience. ‘Dirty Dancing’ was a fairy tale, a successful movie and formula, using dance as a metaphor for embodying your energy and getting out of your head, and your limiting belief systems.”The “Dirty Dancing” sequel is set to start filming next year.
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