Day: April 20, 2024
[TOMT] A song that sounds almost exactly like “All I Want” by Kodaline, especially from 0:10 – 1:45. [2010s] Solved. In my head I can hear the melody but not the lyrics and I think it has a chorus like “All I Want”, especially the “you are..” part. I’m sorry if this is so vague it’s been on my mind for the past week.
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True Spy Stories Behind ‘The Sympathizer’
Readers and critics the world over, but especially in America, have been dazzled by The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s deeply nuanced, Pulitzer Prize winning spy novel about a conflicted communist double agent ordered to accompany a South Vietnamese general fleeing Saigon at the war’s chaotic end. His mission: to keep an eye on anticommunist exiles in California.
Now finding new admirers as a dramatic series on HBO, its dreamy and even hallucinogenic passages could well lead viewers to think Nguyen’s gripping story, narrated by its troubled hero, is mostly, if not entirely, made up. A key plot line in the novel, however, is drawn from true events that were described by a retired North Vietnamese spymaster in a memoir published in Hanoi several years ago—a memoir I was lucky to obtain, and a general that I was privileged to meet, in his home in 2017.
China and Russia’s greatest fear, above all, is a bipartisan Congress and a united America. They spend countless dollars and effort attempting to bifurcate the U.S. Today was a resounding hand in the face to forces of evil. @committeeonccp https://t.co/gaemRlDI0T
— William Evanina (@BillEvanina) April 21, 2024
Olympic organizers unveil strategy for using artificial intelligence in sports Sentinel & Enterprise
this isn’t clever or canny. saying Israel is committing genocide then saying that they also have a right to self defense makes you look confused, weak, and untrustworthy. it doesn’t even earn you that much credit with the lobby! https://t.co/D1aiT2hTTN
— Lead Actor from Pixar’s Sodas (@ByYourLogic) April 21, 2024
CIA Director William Burns has been very busy traveling the globe lately.
— JohnO☘️ (@jjohnnyojr) April 21, 2024
William Burns, the CIA director, warns that Ukraine could lose the war against Russia by the end of 2024 unless the United States provides more military aid. Burns emphasizes that Ukraine, like Israel, has faced defeats in wars despite U.S. and allied support. The ongoing…
— Imlil (@imlilmd) April 21, 2024