What's going down in the 'hood?
The latest entries into this pit of despair
- States of the Union
- 17 March
Since before his inauguration, Orange Don has been on a diplomatic rampage. Among other things, referring to the USA's northern neighbour as the 51st state and its prime minister as Governor Trudeau.
(more…)
bonkers; politics- A snitch in time
- 17 March
North Wales police have a little leakage problem. Two lists of names, one of alleged drug dealers and the other of alleged police informants, have been circulating on social media. Whoopsie!
(more…)- crime & punishment
- Would you like a lollipop?
- 14 March
Roblox is an online gaming platform where children go to play and adults of a
(more…)certain persuasion
go tohang out
,chat
, andmake new friends
. But when parents complained that Roblox wasn't doing enough parenting for them, the company's CEO responded that if they're so concerned they should parent their children themselves. Which doesn't sound too unreasonable, it really doesn't.- the bleedin' obvious; world's most trusted BBC
- Long journey home
- 9 March
So begins one man's tale of leaving India for the USA as an illegal immigrant.
(more…)- economics; politics; travel
- Powerpuffs remade the day
- 7 March
Hands up: who remembers that The CW was producing a live-action prequel to Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls? If you do, you may remember that the concept was not well received by many of the great unwashed, and I include myself among them. Someone with an eye for taste and decency, and saving money probably, seized the opportunity afforded by the Hollyweird writers' strike and pulled the plug on Powerpuff two years ago. Yayyy!…?
(more…)- entertainment
The latest updates to past woes
- Dragging
- 18 March
Josh Parry, now an
(more…)LGBT & identity reporter
reporting on Williams' cause of death, refers to the deceased as both ashe/her
and athey/them
. So I'm beginning to think Parry hasn't a fucking clue what (t)he(y)'s talking about.- celeb
- Super troupers
- 11 March
The Hollywood premiere of Disney's Snow White will indeed go ahead, but not as a major press event. Access will be limited to photographers, with further coverage provided by a house crew, thus limiting Rachel Zegler's opportunities to fuck things up further. It also means that Variety's Marc
(more…)sixty-a-day
Malkin won't have the opportunity to question either her or her co-star, Gal Gadot, on the film's gayness.*- celeb; entertainment
- Screen Runt
- 4 March
To be fair to Brennan Klein, it appears that he may just be guilty of
(more…)not thinking too muchbeing unduly deferential to the work of his colleague Grant Hermanns. For Hermanns made that same point a month ago:- entertainment; I, pedant
- Captain A-meh!-rica
- 28 February
The ceiling collapsed into the auditorium during the screening of Captain America: Brave New World at a cinema in Wenatchee, WA. Fortunately, due to the film's popularity, there were only two people in the audience and they were unharmed.
(more…)- entertainment
- ChongGPT
- 30 January
And it appears that the answer to the question is that the Chinese start-up has been [cough]
(more…)sharing best practice
, using OpenAI's work tooptimise its workflow
.- ethics; technology