- Banana! An Olympic figure skater from Spain will not be able to perform his normal routine due to a copyright claim from the Minions.
- I love that the Pope published a Holy See about the dangers of AI.
- A 13-year-old boy has been hailed as a hero after swimming 4 kilometres through rough waters for help after his mother and two siblings were swept out to sea off the coast of Australia.
- A photographer found thousands of dinosaur footprints near an Italian Winter Olympic venue.
- I enjoyed reading the essay Dreaming of Sundance by screenwriter Bob DeRosa about his Hollywood experience.
- Amazon is being forced to repeatedly learn a lesson: Use AI slop, and get people yelling at you until you don’t.
- Bad news for people who can’t stop thinking about bad news: Repetitive negative thinking is associated with cognitive function decline.
- Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do? – via Kottke
Jane! Stop this crazy thing!
- What it’s like to see ICE tear gas kids
- Ugh. Three fraternity members were arrested after the death of a Northern Arizona student following a rush event.
- “It’s perhaps unfair for me to call Melania the worst film ever made, since I haven’t seen every film ever made. But I have seen Porky’s 3, Police Academy 6, and many Rob Schneider vehicles, so you know I mean business when I say it’s the worst film I’ve ever seen.”
- This essay on the rise and fall of Scott Adams (and Dilbert) was mostly depressing.