TYB - Have a great break from the bake.
Twitter Gives Advertisers A Unique Marketing Chance With The Launch Of ‘Branded Likes’
Twitter is launching its ‘branded likes’ functionality for more businesses around the world, which is a feature that the company unveiled last week at the Cannes Lions program.
The launch is going to give brands a bigger and better marketing opportunity which advertisers located in the US, UK, Japan, and the KSA can take advantage of in the form of engaging and interactive tweet options.
Twitter has put up a series of examples across its platforms that showcase how the branded likes option gives users the chance to customize the Twitter Like button with animations on particular tweets.
This way, users will get a chance to boost their engagement as well as their awareness with the help of a great interactive feature.
https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2022/07/twitter-gives-advertisers-unique.html
Terrible.
Is Howard Stern Really Going To Run For President Alongside Bradley Cooper?
BY MELISSA WILLETS/JULY 1, 2022 2:43 PM EDT
The 2024 presidential race is looking more and more interesting. Just this week, Vice President Kamala Harris cast doubt upon whether President Joe Biden would be running for reelection. Adding fuel to the fire is that even Democrats seem to be saying the soon-to-be 80-year-old may be too old to serve a second term.
So who might be the nominee in Biden's place should he opt not to throw his hat in the ring again for the top job? Insiders are saying Hillary Clinton may step up again (via CNN). Or, perhaps Harris will run, but her approval ratings are not very inspiring according to Politico.
Meanwhile, on the Republican ticket, the field is equally unclear. Donald Trump has of course teased the possibility of a 2024 bid, but nothing is definite yet. Rumors suggest he may declare his candidacy as early as July 4th weekend, however (via NBC News). And then there's Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who Trump boldly contended he would beat, but polls are mixed (via The Guardian).
Now, radio legend Howard Stern is touting a potential run, with A-list actor Bradley Cooper as his VP (via HuffPost).
Read More: https://www.thelist.com/914766/is-howard-stern-really-going-to-run-for-president-alongside-bradley-cooper/?utm_campaign=clip
https://www.thelist.com/914766/is-howard-stern-really-going-to-run-for-president-alongside-bradley-cooper/
Kek. Never could stand this idiot.
It's all so desperate, isn't it? They are almost out of plays after that Hutchison disaster but never underestimate the opposition. Until gas and grocery prices come down, ain't nothing gonna stop what's coming in November.
Poll: Trump leads Biden in a potential 2024 match-up
In a hypothetical 2024 Presidential Election matchup between President Biden and former President Trump, Trump holds 44% support while Biden has 39% support; 12% would vote for someone else and 5% are undecided. “Since last month, Trump has held his share of support while Biden’s support has reduced four points.”
https://www.kwtx.com/2022/07/01/poll-trump-leads-biden-potential-2024-match-up/
https://emersoncollegepolling.com/national-poll-biden-with-higher-approval-than-us-congress-trump-leads-gop-nomination-contest/
America's Involvement in Ukraine Increasingly Looks Like War
Joe Biden announced an additional $800 million in weapons aid for Ukraine following last week's news that CIA personnel are directing intelligence in Kyiv.
FIONA HARRIGAN | 7.1.2022 3:33 PM
Last week, The New York Times cast a light on just how deeply entrenched the U.S. has become in the conflict in Ukraine, describing "a stealthy network of commandos and spies rushing to provide weapons, intelligence and training." Though the Biden administration has repeatedly stressed that it won't deploy American troops to Ukraine, the Times reports that "some C.I.A. personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly, mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the vast amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces."
https://reason.com/2022/07/01/americas-involvement-in-ukraine-increasingly-looks-like-war/
U-2 Spy Planes At Beale AFB Finally Say Goodbye To Film Cameras
The U-2’s highest resolution camera took its last flight from Beale, also ended film processing there, which one tech calls “a tragedy.”
BY EMMA HELFRICH, TYLER ROGOWAY
JUL 1, 2022 2:58 PM
hen was the last time you got your camera's film developed at a 1-hour photo? You can't remember, can you? Neither can we! Well, the folks at Beale Air Force Base in California have continued to process large amounts of film long after the digital imaging revolution swept massive brand names like Kodak and Fuji Film to the back of the public's consciousness.
The U.S. Air Force’s 9th Reconnaissance Wing says that the U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane has flown Beale Air Force Base’s last Optical Bar Camera, or OBC, mission. In service for over half a century with the U-2, the OBC is one of the high-flying plane's oldest sensor systems. Making its exit from Beale truly marks the end of an era in more ways than one.
A Dragon Lady piloted by U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Ralph Shoukry flew the last sortie with the OBC from Beale — the home of the U-2 community — on June 24. Upon its return to the base, technicians ceremoniously lowered the sensor out of the jet one final time. Because the OBC is a wet film camera, its last flight from the base also effectively ended wet film processing at the 9th Reconnaissance Wing. With that, Beale's U-2s have finally fully embraced the digital imaging age.
“Each roll of OBC film is 5 inches wide and 10,500 feet long with each frame of imagery measuring more than 6 feet long… With an entire roll of film, the camera can take about 1,600 frames in one mission. Each frame covers roughly 110 square nautical miles in a panoramic horizon-to-horizon format. Basically, a roll of film can shoot an area the size of Colorado… When the OBC was on the SR-71 it took a frame about every 1.7 seconds, but for the U-2 it was slowed down to one frame every 6.8 seconds… This had to be done because the difference in the cruising speeds of the aircraft could cause the imagery to blur if the timing and speed of the camera was wrong."
“All U-2 pilots will retain the knowledge and skills to employ the sensor through a variety of mission sets and operation locations to meet priority intelligence collection needs of the geographic combatant commanders as tasked,” said Lt. Col. James Gaiser, commander of the 99th Reconnaissance Squadron.
(selected excerpts)
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/beale-air-force-base-finally-says-goodbye-to-film-for-its-u-2-spy-planes
HAH! Let's get the message out my brother!
Don't see any more sauce on this yet. Notable if true.
Hands down I'm picking Helen Reddy. You?
Who the fuck are Q superstars? Forget all that crap. Just do some research here and hang with some (mostly) kindred souls.
Copy that. I missed it before, ty. Interdashing… not mentioned too much anywhere.
Following….
Yea. I took a long hiatus here since it devolved past the point of recognition. Came back a few days ago out of sheer boredom to see that not much has changed, but when you twirl the shills we can have a good time.
Who said we all believe it?