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Per HN Rules: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." Sharing bc interesting example of AI-generated imagery as political commentary.

Much of the original cast plus special guests will do a live scriptreading of The Princess Bride this Sunday night to benefit the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

Original Cast

  Cary Elwes as Westley 
Robin Wright as Buttercup Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya Wallace Shawn as Vizzini Christoper Guest as Count Rugen Billy Crystal as Miracle Max Carol Kane as Valerie Chris Sarandon as Prince Humperdinck

Introducing

Rob Reiner as The Grandfather Josh Gad as Fezzik Eric Idle as The Impressive Clergyman King Bach as Yellin, The Assistant Brute and The King Finn Wolfhard as The Grandson Shaun Ross as The Man with Albinism fka The Albino Whoopi Goldberg as The Ancient Booer and The Mother Jason Reitman as The Narrator

Magic 11 years ago

My baby daughter is five days overdue. My three-year-old son keeps asking when he'll be a big brother. And my wife and I are trying to figure out how we'll do the grocery shopping—or even focus on a computer screen long enough to shop online—once we're juggling two kids. When I told my wife about Magic, she visibly relaxed. This service has huge, huge potential.

Six days since the end of my project (tgf.fm/ks), 15 of my 1044 backers haven't gone through. I think a bunch have fixed credit card errors over the last week. Three of the nine biggest pledges had their cards declined, likely because of the giant charge to an unfamiliar vendor—but those folks have been in touch directly to resolve the issue.

The biggest moment for me was when I started thinking about productivity (or its absence) as a matter of willpower, and started to think strategically about how to make it easy. It's still a struggle to think that way: it seems like you should be able to grit your teeth, roll up your sleeves, and become productive. But that's not really how our brains work. Not mine, at least. For me, after that mindset shift, the most valuable strategies have been creating early external deadlines, drafting in longhand or into a voice recorder—and, above all and whenever possible, working closely with awesome collaborators rather than alone.

Everpix 13 years ago

Very excited that this is a) awesome and b) still exists. Contrast with Gush, which was announced with fanfare with similar goals in 2011 (http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/28/jesta-labs-hatches-gush-fet...).

On the website (http://getgush.com/), these words appear: "Thank you so much for trying Gush and working with us as we tested this concept. We have decided to not move forward with this project. As promised we will delete all of your data from our service and be shutting it down this week. Please uninstall any uploaders you have as they will stop working.  We hope you enjoyed trying Gush."

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level web stretches far away.