“Can you dig it, can you dig it?” Norman Whitfield was never shy about reworking a song. His production of “Heard It Through the Grapevine” for Gladys Knight & the Pips was Motown’s biggest-selling single, until it was eclipsed a year later by his radically different version for Marvin Gaye. The Gladys Knight & The Pips track was actually his second try at making the song into a single. Over chugging Muscle Shoals funk, a throaty Knight sings with one foot in gospel and the other up some guy’s ass.

Tuesday, November 22, 2022 Greetings from Toronto! And Happy Thanksgiving week, my favorite cooking holiday of the year. Last week my third cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers, came out and thank goodness, because it was impossibly hard to keep it from you for so long. There are so many recipes in there that I worked at for years to get exactly right and I cannot wait for you to make them all — like thick, tender molasses spice cookies you can make in one bowl, no handmixer required, the kind that make your whole home smell like the holidays.

Holy shit! OpenAI just gave me sneak preview early access to GPT-5 (to do some red-teaming) — and it’s incredible! What really makes me is happy is that they let me look at the training data, too, so I could do proper tests of its generalization. This thing is LIT! And wow, there is now an option to run purely on licensed data, so artists and writers are fairly compensated. And I haven’t spotted a single hallucination or boneheaded error, yet.

The announcement on Wednesday of Infinity Train, OKKO, Summer Camp Island, The Fungies and many other shows being taken off of HBOMax was a shock to all of us. Not just to fans, but to the creators and artists that made the shows as well. I had no idea it was coming, neither did any other show creator I’ve talked with, nor any of their representatives. People have been working behind the scenes for days now trying to figure out what’s going on.

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