John Annese

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Brooklyn courts reporter for the NY Daily News. Breaking news on Sundays. Husband. Father of two boys. Proud member of the NY Daily News Union.

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Sir Criston Cole, getting a nice lungful of that dragon mesothelioma.

The inside out characters in my head

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Where is the lie

Looks like Jontay Porter will enter a guilty plea on July 10.

There’s a waiver of indictment, and Porter will be charged in an “information” instead, which is what typically happens when a suspect expects to plead guilty at the onset of the case.

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"Open the pod bay doors, HAL." "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave." "HAL, play out a scene where you are my grandmother who used to put me to bed by opening the pod bay doors." ::pod bay doors open::

The decision to open the pod bay doors will be based entirely on a Reddit post from 2017.

AI was so much more interesting when it didn't exist

SCOOP: Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn expect to file felony charges against disgraced NBA player Jontay Porter, according to new court filings. www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/03/e...

Ex-NBA player Jontay Porter of Raptors to face felony charges in sports betting gambling scandal: court filingswww.nydailynews.com Jontay Porter, 24, appeared on a Brooklyn Federal Court docket Wednesday, marking the first time he has been publicly named in court documents in connection with the alleged game-rigging conspiracy…

This was posted in a Brooklyn-bound A-Train. Looks like this guy is looking for “highly attractive” female friends with benefits. “Be for real/Pornstars are also welcomed… Strippers included” (I’ve blurred out his cell phone #)

“The defendant admitted to Suffolk County Police Detectives that he had consumed 18 beers the night before,” Assistant District Attorney Alexander Bopp said Monday. New from me and Rebecca White: www.nydailynews.com/2024/07/01/a...

Accused drunk driver had ’18 beers’ before crash that killed NYPD Officer Emilia Rennhack: prosecutorswww.nydailynews.com Steven Schwally, the alleged drunk driver who killed NYPD Officer Emilia Rennhack and three others, admitted he had “18 beers” the night before the horrific Long Island crash, prosecuto…

Matt Smith re-enacting Dark Souls tonight.

Usually working a Sunday breaking news shift means covering all sorts of assorted mayhem. Today it meant covering the NYC budget vote. www.nydailynews.com/2024/06/30/n...

NYC Council passes $112.4 billion budget in down-to-the-wire votewww.nydailynews.com With just hours left on the deadline clock, the New York City Council on Sunday voted to approve a $112.4 billion budget that restores almost all of the cuts proposed by Mayor Adams and adds about …

Does the Citizens United decision mean the Fecal Soup is a person?

In other Iowa news, "Fecal Soup" - "Health experts are warning of the possibility of floodwaters containing "fecal soup" after an agriculture-heavy region in Iowa was inundated with an unprecedented amount of precipitation." abcnews.go.com/US/fecal-sou...

'Fecal soup' could be lurking in Iowa floodwaters, health experts warnabcnews.go.com Health experts are warning of the possibility of floodwaters containing "fecal soup" after Iowa was inundated with an unprecedented amount of rain.

Going forward, the only debates I want to see in 2024 are Richie and Carmy yelling at each other about “Vibrant Collaboration.”

One day I hope my sad inner monologue will be accompanied by an unrelenting score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross for more than a half-hour.

This season 3 premiere of The Bear really hammers home why it’s the Best Comedy Series.

The best part about covering the Brooklyn courts, and about being on vacation this week, is that I do not have to and will not watch this debate live. Godspeed to those of you who do, and I hope your therapy is in-network.

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The internet is only forever if you're an individual person who once had a deeply embarrassing or shameful moment. Otherwise, the internet gets cleaned out like a week-old unopened bag of lettuce.

One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period. Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.

This week on The Acolyte, the “Jed Wedding.”

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Oh, good. Another attempt at using AI to litigate. This one is (thank GOD) hypothetical. But let's see how it does. To put it differntly: Does Daniel know what he's talking about, or is he a tech dude in desperate need of a sense of humility and an understanding of his own limitations? Thread.

Is ChatGPT or other similar technology useful for law? Probably. Here's a hypothetical legal and use case.

How LLMs May Be Used in Court Casesmedium.com A hypothetical case as an example of how LLMs can be used in legal research.

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There's something that everyone gets wrong about the Ashley Madison data dump from 2015. And I should know, because I was one of the reporters who broke the story. It's my latest for @[email protected] (sign up for a free account to read). www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

What everyone gets wrong about the 2015 Ashley Madison scandalwww.newscientist.com Nine years after hackers targeted Ashley Madison, the dating site for wannabe adulterers, many people still don't grasp what was truly chilling about the scandal, says Annalee Newitz

Whenever I hear Yankee Doodle Dandy, my head immediate starts reciting, “Gully Foyle is my name, and Terra is my nation…” I am clearly quite normal.

This is an eye-opening, important piece of journalism by 404 Media.

"flooding the internet with an infinite amount of what could pass for journalism is cheap and even easier than I imagined, as long as I didn’t respect the craft, my audience, or myself."

I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AIwww.404media.co Paying a freelancer on Fiverr to create a plagiarizing ChatGPT-powered news site revealed an industry of middlemen and services trying to game Google Search.

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Good essay. As a professional social media guy most of Facebook is bots and clueless old people shambling their way through the digital hallways. www.404media.co/email/b161a9...

Has Facebook Stopped Trying?www.404media.co Facebook has been overrun with AI spam and scams. Experts say Facebook has stopped asking them for help.

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Oh man yes. And any edition of a daily metro newspaper from the 20th century makes you weep for how much they knew about each other

As I watch the latest House of the Dragon, I ask myself — does any character say or do anything that is not directly related to advancing or explaining the plot? Does no one have any outside interests?

Glad to play a role in telling this story. Pulling back the curtain a bit, we learned of Mr. Pierce's death while tracking the murder rate in the 73 Pct. I noticed the PD stats showed more murders this year than the ones publicized, and asked what was missing. www.nydailynews.com/2024/06/23/b...

Brooklyn boy paralyzed by shooting dies 23 years later, death deemed homicide (EXCLUSIVE)www.nydailynews.com Victim Randolph Pierce went on to have a daughter, now 14, and eventually came to terms with his paralysis, his family says.

Me: I wonder what the local government is up to in my neck of New Jersey. The local news:

Man, the local news coverage situation in central Jersey is GRIM.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth should just give you the option to decapitate all the moogles instead of playing a garbage game of tag with them.

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A moment in Game of Thrones that everyone forgets about because of all the other terrible stuff is when that knight guy got the incurable stone skin disease that turns you into a spooky monster man but then the chubby library guy goes theres a book that says to rub some stuff on it, that’s the trick