Tuesday 11/26

vic fortezza
2 min readNov 26, 2024

London: Tate Modern’s major new exhibition Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet. Photo by David Levene/The Guardian:

Yay! Headline from nypost.com: “Walmart rolls back DEI policies, says it’s ‘willing to change’ after activist’s anti-woke campaign.” May the trend continue. And a headline from newsmax.com: “Study: Some DEI Training Causes Psychological Harm Study.” Particularly TDS.

Among today’s celebrations, it’s International Cake Day. If I could get away with it without damage to my body, I’d have a piece every day, as well as ice cream and candy bars. Photo from Google Images”

Israel-Hezbollah cease fire — a pause for terrorists to reload.

I’m always happy to post positive headlines about AI. Here’s a negative one from foxnews.com: “Professor accused of using AI to fake testimony in case against conservative YouTuber.”

From FN: “Richard Gere is looking forward to ‘living in another culture’ with move to Spain.” See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya, as kids say.

I googled the following story and this is what came up, edited by yours truly: “According to Macy’s, the worker intentionally made erroneous accounting accrual entries, which served to hide between $132 to $154 million in delivery expenses from Q4 2021 through the fiscal quarter that ended Nov. 2.” The mystery is why. Sounds like a great story line for a movie or TV show.

Image taken by the James Webb Telescope, posted at reuters.com:

No luck selling stuff curbside after opening up an hour late because of rain. The forecasters nailed it this time: morning preceipitation followed by clearing.

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vic fortezza
vic fortezza

Written by vic fortezza

I was born in Brooklyn in 1950 to Sicilian immigrants. I’ve had more than 50 short stories published world wide. I have 13 books in print.

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