Today we visit with 01-24-Dr Laura Hambley Lovett, PhD about her new book “I Wish I'd Quit Sooner: Practical Strategies for Navigating and Escaping a Toxic Boss” https://amzn.to/4qy0YUd
TODAY'S REASON TO PARTY! (special thanks to ListOfNationalDays.com)
Peanut
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SURVEYS, STUDIES & SUCH
OpenAI has debuted a dedicated ChatGPT-powered translation tool. While folks have been using the main chatbot for translation for some time, you can now find ChatGPT Translate on its own webpage, as Android Authority spotted. The tool can translate text, voice inputs and images into more than 50 languages in seconds, OpenAI says. There’s an automatic language detection function too. Most interestingly, ChatGPT Translate can rewrite the output to take various contexts and tones into account, much in the same way that more general text-generating AI tools can do. With a single tap, it can rewrite the translation into something "more fluent," for a business formal audience, to make it more child-friendly or for academic purposes. The tool’s webpage says ChatGPT Translate understands "tone, idioms and context." While those tone and context considerations are intriguing, ChatGPT Translate is a little underbaked compared with the likes of Google Translate — which has been around for decades and just got its own Gemini-based makeover with better support for understanding idioms and slang. The desktop version of ChatGPT Translate does not yet allow for voice inputs, though the mobile one does, as Android Authority notes. Despite claims that ChatGPT can translate text in an image, there’s currently no way to upload one to the tool. There’s no website, document or handwriting translation support as yet either. Perhaps most crucially, ChatGPT Translate lives on a webpage right now and there’s no dedicated app. So using it offline appears to be out of the question as things stand. No app with on-device translation support could make ChatGPT Translate a no-go for travelers in rural areas with no Internet access. There’s no support for translating real-time conversations as yet either. Google’s Pixel 10, on the other hand, now supports voice translations for calls. It’s not exactly clear when ChatGPT Translate debuted — it arrived with zero fanfare from OpenAI. There’s a snapshot of the webpage from November on The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine that looks just like the current one, but that may have simply been a case of OpenAI testing a live version of the tool. https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-quietly-rolls-out-a-dedicated-chatgpt-translation-tool-133000974.html
BIG SCREEN-LITTLE SCREEN
It looks like it may be the end of the road for Kelly Clarkson’s daytime talk show. Page Six is quoting “multiple sources” as saying that the singer-turned-TV-host will be calling it quits after this season. One described her pending exit from daytime as “definite”, while another said it’s “likely that it will not go on.” One source said “The Kelly Clarkson Show” “is a lot to put on, and looking at the landscape across daytime television, it’s not sustainable anymore.” Clarkson’s focus has been on parenting and helping her children cope since their father Brandon Blackstock’s death last August.
It’s no secret that Stephen King has made a career of scaring the wits out of readers, a feat he’s accomplished time and time again with books like “The Shining”, “The Stand”, “Pet Sematary” and others. But to this day, there’s only one novel that King has openly admitted he’s too terrified to write a sequel for: the 1986 best-seller “It”. When asked by a Reddit user whether he would ever write a follow-up to It, King politely shut them down, saying: “I don’t think I could bear to deal with ‘Pennywise again’. Too scary, even for me.”
DID YA KNOW!?
DID YOU KNOW… A group of flamingos is called a “flamboyance.” Collective nouns often reflect the nature or appearance of the animals they describe. Few are as fitting—or as colorful—as this one.
JOKE
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SCOOP
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Scientists have uncovered the mummified remains of cheetahs from caves in northern Saudi Arabia. The remains range from 130 years old to over 1,800 years old. Researchers excavated seven mummies along with the bones of 54 other cheetahs from a site near the city of Arar. Mummification prevents decay by preserving dead bodies. Egypt's mummies are the most well-known, but the process can also happen naturally in places like glacier ice, desert sands and bog sludge. The new large cat mummies have cloudy eyes and shriveled limbs, resembling dried-out husks. "It's something that I've never seen before," said Joan Madurell-Malapeira with the University of Florence in Italy, who was not involved with the discovery. Researchers aren't sure how exactly these new cats got mummified, but the caves' dry conditions and stable temperature could have played a role, according to the new study published Thursday in the journal Communications Earth and Environment. They also don't know why so many cheetahs were in the caves. It could have been a denning site where mothers birthed and raised their young. Scientists have uncovered the rare mummified remains of other felines, including a saber-toothed cat cub in Russia. It's uncommon for large mammals to be preserved to this degree. Besides being in the right environment, the carcasses also have to avoid becoming a snack for hungry scavengers like birds and hyenas. To find such intact evidence of cheetahs that lived long ago in this part of the world is "entirely without precedent," study author Ahmed Boug with the National Center for Wildlife in Saudi Arabia said in an email. Cheetahs once roamed across most of Africa and parts of Asia, but now live in just 9% of their previous range and haven't been spotted across the Arabian Peninsula for decades. That's likely due to habitat loss, unregulated hunting and lack of prey, among other factors. In a first for naturally mummified large cats, scientists were also able to peek at the cheetahs' genes and found that the remains were most similar to modern-day cheetahs from Asia and northwest Africa. That information could help with future efforts to reintroduce the cats to places they no longer live.
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-mummified-cheetahs-discovery-species-arabic.html
THE MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY
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"I’m Mary Poppins, y’all!" — Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Yondu, 2017
NEWS TO ME
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FUN
FACT FOR YOU:
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✓ Fleas jump at about 140 times the force of gravity – 20 times that of a space shuttle during launch.
✓ When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.
✓ Perspiration is odorless; it is the bacteria on the skin that creates an odor.
✓ Just 30 minutes of daily complaining can physically damage your brain. And listening to someone else constantly complain also negatively affects brain function.
✓ Sniffing Crayola crayons has been found to lower blood pressure.
WEIRD NEWS
A California librarian is honoring strangers by cooking recipes…that she found carved into their tombstones. Rosie Grant, a librarian, has recreated 40 dishes over 5 years, ranging from spritz cookies and carrot cake to meatloaf and guava cobbler. Her unusual project began after spotting a cookie recipe etched on a headstone during an internship at a New York cemetery. She baked the cookies, ate them by the grave, and began looking for more memorial recipes. Grant now often works with families, confirming recipes and learning about the deceased before cooking their dishes, sometimes with relatives. She says the meals help keep loved ones’ memories alive…and she plans to have her own recipe engraved one day.
QUESTION OF THE DAY
Over 75% of men 35 and under do not own one of THESE. What is it?
Answer: A suit
SOMETHING SPECIAL WITH HEIDI SMALL
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THE LIST
PINTEREST-WORTHY LIFE HACKS:
✓ A quick and easy way to look like you aren’t wearing makeup: Wash your face.
✓ If you don’t want to say hi to someone, run very far away from them.
✓ Want the perfect pizza but don’t know how to cook? Order one from a nearby pizzeria.
✓ Don’t have a fork at the office? Tape 3 pens together. You can’t even tell the difference.
✓ Don’t want to embarrass yourself by sneezing in public? Disguise it with a very loud laugh.
✓ Want to seem more aloof to a guy? Wear earplugs so you can’t hear anything he’s saying.
✓ Trying to quit late-night snacking? Don’t buy Herb Garden Triscuits; they get you every time.
✓ Want DIY curls? Wrap your hair around warm boiled hotdogs and fall asleep.
✓ Pain from a stubbed toe? Punch yourself in the face and your toe will feel better instantly!
✓ Need to get motivated for your morning run? Throw a rock at a beehive.
GOOD NEWS
Cajun
Navy Travels To Oklahoma To Find Missing Boy — Brings Him Home Safe
https://www.sunnyskyz.com/good-news
