#clarence mary

[feltcreature]

happy late valentine’s day to them ONLY !!!!

#cartoon network #clarence cn #clarence mary #clarence chad #they’re so real….. #while drawing this i was listening to timeless to me from hairspray so now i associate that song with themlawl

[ask-the-clarence-crew]

Hey Chad, what is your proudest moment with Clarence? What happened and what made you so proud of him?

Mary: Oh Chad hun, you're getting tears all over ya glasses

Chad: I LOVE YOU MARE!!!!!!

Mary: I love ya too, Chad

#clarence #clarence cn #ask blog #ask #aged up #aged up au #cartoon network #mary wendle #clarence mary #chad chaswell #chad wendle #clarence chad

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

#Mary trump #republican assholes #Ginny Thomas #clarence thomas #traitor trump #Clarence Thomas useful idiot #resist #maga morons #crooked donald #republican hypocrisy #traitor #republican values #Jan 6th #Jan 6th insurrection #trumps coup

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Dinkclump Linkdump

I'm on tour with my new novel The Bezzle! Catch me TONIGHT in LA (Saturday night, with Adam Conover), Seattle (Monday, with Neal Stephenson), then Portland, Phoenix and more!

Some Saturday mornings, I look at the week's blogging and realize I have a lot more links saved up than I managed to write about this week, and then I do a linkdump. There've been 14 of these, and this is number 15:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

Attentive readers will note that this isn't Saturday. You're right. But I'm on a book tour and every day is shatterday, because damn, it's grueling and I'm not the spry manchild who took Little Brother on the road in 2008 – I'm a 52 year old with two artificial hips. Hence: an out-of-cycle linkdump. Come see me on tour and marvel at my verticality!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

Best thing I read this week, hands down, was Ryan Broderick's Garbage Day piece, "AI search is a doomsday cult":

https://www.garbageday.email/p/ai-search-doomsday-cult

Broderick makes so many excellent points in this piece. First among them: AI search sucks, but that's OK, because no one is asking for AI search. This only got more true later in the week when everyone's favorite spicy autocomplete accidentally loaded the James Joyce module:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/chatgpt-alarms-users-by-spitting-out-shakespearean-nonsense-and-rambling/

(As Matt Webb noted, Chatbots have slid rapidly from Star Trek (computers give you useful information in a timely fashion) to Douglas Adams (computers spout hostile, impenetrable nonsense at you):

https://interconnected.org/home/2024/02/21/adams

But beyond the unsuitability of AI for search results and beyond the public's yawning indifference to AI-infused search, Broderick makes a more important point: AI search is about summarizing web results so you don't have to click links and read the pages yourself.

If that's the future of the web, who the fuck is going to write those pages that the summarizer summarizes? What is the incentive, the business-model, the rational explanation for predicting a world in which millions of us go on writing web-pages, when the gatekeepers to the web have promised to rig the game so that no one will ever visit those pages, or read what we've written there, or even know it was us who wrote the underlying material the summarizer just summarized?

If we stop writing the web, AIs will have to summarize each other, forming an inhuman centipede of botshit-ingestion. This is bad news, because there's pretty solid mathematical evidence that training a bot on botshit makes it absolutely useless. Or, as the authors of the paper – including the eminent cryptographer Ross Anderson – put it, "using model-generated content in training causes irreversible defects":

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493

This is the mathematical evidence for Jathan Sadowski's "Hapsburg AI," or, as the mathematicians call it, "The Curse of Recursion" (new band-name just dropped).

But if you really have your heart set on living in a ruined dystopia dominated by hostile artificial life-forms, have no fear. As Hamilton Nolan writes in "Radical Capital," a rogues gallery of worker-maiming corporations have asked a court to rule that the NLRB can't punish them for violating labor law:

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/radical-capital

Trader Joe’s, Amazon, Starbucks and SpaceX have all made this argument to various courts. If they prevail, then there will be no one in charge of enforcing federal labor law. Yes, this will let these companies go on ruining their workers' lives, but more importantly, it will give carte blanche to every other employer in the land. At one end of this process is a boss who doesn't want to recognize a union – and at the other end are farmers dying of heat-stroke.

The right wing coalition that has put this demand before the court has all sorts of demands, from forced birth to (I kid you not), the end of recreational sex:

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/02/getting-rid-of-birth-control-is-a-key-gop-agenda-item-for-the-second-trump-term

That coalition is backed by ultra-rich monopolists who want wreck the nation that their rank-and-file useful idiots want to wreck your body. These are the monopoly cheerleaders who gave us the abomination that is the Pharmacy Benefit Manager – a useless intermediary that gets to screw patients and pharmacists – and then let PBMs consolidate and merge with pharmacy monopolists.

One such inbred colossus is Change Healthcare, a giant PBM that is, in turn, a mere tendril of United Healthcare, which merged the company with Optum. The resulting system – held together with spit and wishful thinking – has access to the health records of a third of Americans and processes 15 billion prescriptions per day.

Or rather, it did process that amount – until the all-your-eggs-in-one-badly-maintained basket strategy failed on Wednesday, and Change's systems went down due to an unspecified "cybersecurity incident." In the short term, this meant that tens of millions of Americans who tried to refill their prescriptions were told to either pay cash or come back later (if you don't die first). That was the first shoe dropping. The second shoe is the medical records of a third of the country.

Don't worry, I'm sure those records are fine. After all, nothing says security like "merging several disparate legacy IT systems together while simultaneously laying off half your IT staff as surplus to requirements and an impediment to extracting a special dividend for the private equity owners who are, of course, widely recognized as the world's greatest information security practitioners."

Look, not everything is terrible. Some computers are actually getting better. Framework's user-serviceable, super-rugged, easy-to-repair, powerful laptops are the most exciting computers I've ever owned – or broken:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/13/graceful-failure/#frame

Now you can get one for $500!

https://frame.work/blog/first-framework-laptop-16-shipments-and-a-499-framework

And the next generation is turning our surprisingly well, despite all our worst efforts. My kid – now 16! – and I just launched our latest joint project, "The Sushi Chronicles," a small website recording our idiosyncratic scores for nearly every sushi restaurant in Burbank, Glendale, Studio City and North Hollywood:

https://sushichronicles.org/

This is the record of two years' worth of Daughter-Daddy sushi nights that started as a way to get my picky eater to try new things and has turned into the highlight of my week. If you're in the area and looking for a nice piece of fish, give it a spin (also, we belatedly realized that we've never reviewed our favorite place, Kuru Kuru in the CVS Plaza on North Hollywood Way – we'll be rectifying that soon).

And yes, we have a lavishly corrupt Supreme Court, but at least now everyone knows it. Glenn Haumann's even set up a Gofundme to raise money to bribe Clarence Thomas (now deleted, alas):

https://www.gofundme.com/f/pzhj4q-the-clarence-thomas-signing-bonus-fund-give-now

The funds are intended as a "signing bonus" in the event that Thomas takes up John Oliver on his offer of a $2.4m luxury RV and $1m/year for life if he'll resign from the court:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE-VJrdHMug

This is truly one of Oliver's greatest bits, showcasing his mastery over the increasingly vital art of turning abstruse technical issues into entertainment that negates the performative complexity used by today's greatest villains to hide their misdeeds behind a Shield of Boringness (h/t Dana Clare).

The Bezzle is my contribution to turning abstruse scams into a high-impact technothriller that pierces that Shield of Boringness. The key to this is to master exposition, ignoring the (vastly overrated) rule that one must "show, not tell." Good exposition is hard to do, but when it works, it's amazing (as anyone who's read Neal Stephenson's 1,600-word explanation of how to eat Cap'n Crunch cereal in Cryptonomicon can attest). I wrote about this for Mary Robinette Kowal's "My Favorite Bit" this week:

https://maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/my-favorite-bit/my-favorite-bit-cory-doctorow-talks-about-the-bezzle/

Of course, an undisputed master of this form is Adam Conover, whose Adam Ruins Everything show helped invent it. Adam is joining me on stage in LA tomorrow night at Vroman's at 5:30PM, to host me in a book-tour event for my novel The Bezzle:

https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Cory-Doctorow-discusses-The-Bezzle

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/23/gazeteer/#out-of-cycle

Image: Peter Craven (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aggregate_output_%287637833962%29.jpg

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

#pluralistic #the bezzle #ryan broderick #mary robinette kowal #exposition #john oliver #margot robbie #adam conover #ai #ai search #change healthcare #centralization #pharma #pbms #pharmacy benefit managers #corruption #scotus #crowdfunding #clarence thomas

[thesapphocinephile]

Clarence Brown directing Greta Garbo:

"Working [with her] was easy because she trusted me. I never directed her in anything above a whisper. She was very shy, so we'd go through the changes I wanted in a little quiet whisper off in the corner, without letting others know what I was telling her. I learned from experience that Garbo had something behind the eyes that told the whole story that I couldn't see from my distance. Sometimes I would be dissatisfied with a take, but would go ahead and print it anyway. On the screen Garbo multiplied the effect of the scenes I had taken. It was something that no one else ever had."

#greta garbo #clarence brown #flesh and the devil #conquest #marie walewska #anna karenina #anna christie #1920s #1930s #pre code hollywood #silent film #talkies #directing #acting #movies #cinephile #old hollywood #sapphocinephile #behind the scenes #bts #mgm #film star #silver screen #women in film #pre code film #classic film #hollywood #vamp #leo tolstoy #anna karenina 1935

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

Princes Albert Victor and George of Wales with their younger cousins Princesses Alexandra and Maria of Greece, 1880s

#King George v #prince albert victor #Duke of Clarence and Avondale #prince George of wales #princess alexandra of Greece and Denmark #alexandra georgievna #princess marie of Greece and Denmark #Minnie of Greece #maria georgievna #1880s #1800s

[clarencedollars]

#clarence cn #clarence #mary #chad #jeffery wendle #toot soup......

[heartofstanding]

I don’t care if it’s medically impossible, I need the Lancaster bros to tower over their father.

Like so:

#henry iv #mary de bohun #henry v #thomas duke of clarence #john duke of bedford #humphrey duke of gloucester #(john is the shortest of the brothers which is enough to give him a complex) #lancasterlings #text posts

[smashupmashups]

I never thought I'd make another Family Guy art piece, until the 25th anniversary rolled around the corner.

Inspired by my tribute art for Steven Universe's 10th anniversary with its characters meeting the Simpson family from The Simpsons, I figured I could do the same with the Griffins meeting the characters from Clarence.

While I had made the Wendles, Jeff, Sumo, and Amy in the MacFarlane style, there was one thing needed: I needed to make the Griffin family!

In making the Griffins, I had to make sure their height and proportions were exact while I used the Simpson family as a height reference as I used screencaps from the crossover "The Simpsons Guy"; had to make sure the spacing for the family was right.

After eight hours of tracing and coloring the family (and reluctantly looking them in the face), I had to search for an image of the Griffins' house, which was a hassle as there aren't much good background images or screenshots of such of just the house.

As that was done, next was placing in the characters, which was tough as I had to get the scale right when looking at a scene.

Made on January 25, it has been ten hours of reluctant work, but it was all worth it for the Family Guy fans; and I'm sure Clarence fans will like this as something early before its 10th anniversary.

#family guy #peter griffin #lois griffin #chris griffin #meg griffin #stewie griffin #brian griffin #25th anniversary #clarence cn #clarence wendle #jeff randell #sumo sumouski #chad caswell #mary wendle #amy gillis #crossover art

[cmonbartender]

Jane and Mary Elizabeth Wilson (1919) - Clarence Hudson White

#photography #clarence hudson white #jane wilson #mary elizabeth wilson #1910s #1919

[une-sanz-pluis]

Henry Bolingbroke may have recalled his own childhood when he made plans for the education of his own children. By his first wife, Mary Bohun, whom he had married in 1380 or 1381, Henry had four sons and two daughters: first, Henry (born about 1387), prince of Wales, who became Henry V; secondly, Thomas, duke of Clarence; thirdly, John, made duke of Bedford in 1414, and fourthly, Humphrey, made duke of Gloucester in 1414. His daughters were first Blanche (born 1392) and secondly Philippa (born 1393 or 1394).

These children seem to have been educated privately in their own homes or in those of their father's relations, friends and servants. A series of Duchy of Lancaster wardrobe and household accounts for the period 1387 to 1398 gives us detailed information concerning the nurses, governesses and tutors responsible for the children's education. The accounts tell us a considerable amount about the nurses in the household and show that although some of the children 'shared' nurses, on the whole they had their own nurses, a practice common in royal and noble households. Agnes and Juliana Rokster are names repeatedly associated with the young John and Humphrey and may possibly have served as their cradle rockers or berceresse. In 1388 it appears that the midwife, Joanna Waring, who attended Mary Bohun at the birth of her second son, Thomas, was also the nurse of the young Henry. She was granted an annuity of forty shillings in 1391 and was still in the household in 1396. The other sons also had their own special nurses. Humphrey's nurse, Margaret, appears in an account of 1393-4, while Joanna Donnesinore, granted an annuity of forty shillings, is described as the nurse of Thomas and John in 1392. The daughters were also well provided with nurses. Blanche had two: one, who received a gift of cloth in 1392 and was named Matilda in an account of 1395-6, served also as Philippa's nurse; the other, Isabella Stanes, received a gift of £10 in August 1394. Apart from the evidence about nurses, we know that Mary Hervy served as the governess of the young children. On 10 December 1393, she is termed the 'magistrissa iuvenum dominorum' and in another document of the same year as 'maistresse a nos enfantz'. We also have details of the tutors of young Humphrey, Thomas Epston or Epirston, described, in 1397 as the 'informator' of his seven year old pupil, and Thomas Rothwell at Easter 1399 when a salary of 13s 4d was granted to 'Thome Rothewell informanti predictum Humfridum'. This rate of pay does not suggest a high position in the household hierarchy. The children were not always receiving their education in their father's household. The younger children, Humphrey, Blanche and Philippa were often at Eaton Tregose in Herefordshire with their father's chamberlain, Sir Hugh Waterton, who had been responsible for Bolingbroke's own upbringing twenty years earlier. In 1397 there are several references to John in the household of Margaret Marshal, duchess of Norfolk, and in June of that year, Henry is described as 'existenti in domo domini ducis Lancastriae' so he was clearly spending time with his grandfather, John of Gaunt. It is all the more interesting that these records survive, as the household of Henry Bolingbroke in the 1390s is likely to have been typical of many noble households; there was, of course, no question at that time that Henry's children were receiving the special treatment reserved for the heirs to the throne.

Elizabeth Gue, The Education and Literary Interests of the English Lay Nobility, c.1150 - c.1450 (PhD thesis, 1983)

#siblings #henry iv #mary de bohun #henry v #thomas duke of clarence #john duke of bedford #humphrey duke of gloucester #blanche of england #philippa of england #john of gaunt #joan waryn #margaret de brotherton duchess of norfolk #henry v's childhood #historian: elizabeth gue #JOAN WARYN WAS THE MIDWIFE WHO DELIVERED THOMAS? 🤯

[ask-the-clarence-crew]

Are the parents still open for asks? Mary, do you get along well with Jeff and Sumo’s moms?

Mary: Oh yes, of course I love Tinona and Jeff's mum's! Tinona works at the nail salon I go to, that's how I met her. I bump into EJ and Sue all the time, such sweethearts they are my god. They've invited us to dinner a few times.

#ask blog #ask #aged up #aged up au #clarence #clarence cn #cartoon network #mary wendle #clarence mary #tinona sumouski #sue randell #ej randell #clarence wendle #jeff randell #ryan sumouski

[illustraction]

CONQUEST (1937) - NAPOLEON IN MOVIES (Part 8/10)

Napoleon was a great statesman and military strategist but as every other powerful man was obsessed with conquering the hearts of women who seduced him with their minds and beauty. Countess Marie Walewska was one of them. Her advice pushed Napoleon to help create modern Poland by battling Prussia and Russia. It is also said she was her lover and he had a natural born son with her which she always denied. The romance and the political drama were the main contents of the 1937 epic starring Charles Boyer and Great Garbo

Above are the rare Japanese and Spanish posters printed for the early 1960's rerelease of the movie (Click on each image for details).

Director: Clarence Brown Actors: Charles Boyer, Greta Garbo

ALL OUR NAPOLEON MOVIE POSTERS ARE HERE

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All our NEW POSTERS are here All our ON SALE posters are here

The posters above courtesy of ILLUSTRACTION GALLERY

#illustraction gallery #illustraction #Napoleon #Conquest #greta garbo #Charles Boyer #Clarence Brown #1937 #marie walewska #Movies #movie poster #film #vintage #Japanese movie poster #Spanish movie poster

[rabidfox45]

fuck it!! Its cats(+dog)time :3

These are from a couple of months ago but eh, who cares! Its cat+dog time babyy (alt text gives more explanation about the doodles, its hard to figure out whos who in my doodles so sorry 😞)

#clarence #clarence cn #cartoon network #clarence wendle #jeffrey randell #ryan sumouski #mystery piñata #my doodles #sfw furry #Exept I wouldn’t call my silly little doodles furry art #more like cat art #cat artist #Charles Caswell ||| #yes that is Chads real name #Mary wendle #love them hehe

[thepastisalreadywritten]

This is a tiara rooted in tragedy. Princess Mary of Teck was engaged to be married to the future king, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence & Avondale, in 1891.

But just a few weeks after the engagement was announced, he died of influenza.

His younger brother, Prince George, Duke of York, became the heir to the throne. He was also unmarried. Prince George had proposed to one of his cousins, who he was in love with, but she turned him down.

He turned his attention to Princess Mary, and she accepted. The couple were wed on 6 July 1893.

The tiara was a wedding gift to Mary. The name came from the committee of women, led by Lady Eva Greville, who raised the money for its creation.

They purchased the piece from Garrard in 1893. At Mary’s request, the remaining money from the fundraising event was sent to a fund to support widows and children of sailors who died in the HMS Victoria disaster, which killed 350.

Mary didn’t wear the piece on her wedding day - instead choosing one given to her by Queen Victoria - but it became one of her favourites. She chose it for one of her first official portraits when George ascended to the throne in 1910.

When her granddaughter Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip in 1947, Mary decided to gift her the tiara. It is reported that the Queen still calls the diadem “Granny’s Tiara” because of this.

Like Mary before her, Elizabeth loved this item and wore it often - including one for her first public appearance after her father’s funeral.

She had chosen it for portraits and at many official events over the years, marking it as her signature tiara.

Made by Garrard, this diadem features festoon and fleur-de-lys designs. Made of diamonds set in silver and gold, the original version was topped by 14 pearls.

It also came with a second frame, allowing it to be worn as a coronet. It could also be taken off a frame entirely and worn as a necklace.

Mary tweaked the tiara in 1914, removing the top row of pearls and replacing them with 13 diamond brilliants.

The pearls found their way to the Lover’s Knot tiara instead. The base of the tiara was also removed, and Mary wore it a separate bandeau.

Elizabeth put the two pieces back together in the 1960s, which is how it remains now.

Commenting on the tiara for Express UK, James Constantinou, owner of Prestige Pawnbrokers of Channel 4’s Posh Pawn, said:

"This tiara was a wedding present from the 'Girls of Great Britain and Ireland' to the Duchess of York, later Queen Mary in 1893.

It was purchased with money raised by a committee chaired by Lady Eva Grenville who became one of Queen Mary’s ladies in waiting."

"In November 1947, Queen Mary gave the tiara as a wedding present to her granddaughter Princess Elizabeth.

The Queen has worn the tiara regularly throughout her reign. She is depicted wearing it on certain issues of British and Commonwealth banknotes and coinage.

Due to the historic attachment to Queen Mary, this spectacular piece would most likely not come onto the open market, but hypothetically, if it did, it could certainly sparkle interest of up to £20 million."

How many tiaras are there in the royal collection?

There are dozens of priceless tiaras owned by the Queen and other members of the Royal Family. Many of the British aristocracy also own tiaras, wearing them at state banquets and on wedding days.

As well as tiaras currently in existence, there are a couple which have been dismantled to make other diadems. This includes The Surrey Fringe and The Nizam of Hyderabad.

Some tiaras have formed part of iconic moments in the history of the Royal Family.

The Cartier Halo, for instance, was worn by Catherine Middleton on her wedding day to Prince William in 2011.

And it is the Lover's Knot tiara that is most often seen today, as it is a favourite of the Duchess of Cambridge.

It was closely associated with Diana, Princess of Wales, during her marriage to Prince Charles, so it holds a special significance for Catherine.

Edited

#Prince Albert Victor #Duke of Clarence & Avondale #Prince George #Duke of York #Princess Mary of Teck #British Royal Family #Lady Eva Greville #Garrard #Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara #Queen Elizabeth II

[michaelteavee]

Re-worked descriptions of the deleted kids.

#charlie and the chocolate factory #miranda mary piker #marvin prune #tommy troutbeck #wilbur rice #clarence crump #bertie upside #terrance roper