How Long Until Disney Breaks Your Heart? A chart of 33 films ranked by where the heartbreak comes in. (via Metafilter)
Cakes of Wonder. You'll wonder what happened. (via Everlasting Blort)
Why Buzzfeed and Digg are no longer any fun. https://boingboing.net/2026/03/13/buzzfeed-doubts-it-can-stay-in-business-after-pivot-to-ai.html
Vince Gilligan Recalls Brutal Reaction to His Breaking Bad Pitch. No one wanted to touch that story.
The brain after blindness: How newly-sighted people build a visual world.
The Mutiny of the Trout Pitted Commoners Against the Nobility. It was a war started over a single fish.
Rachel Maddow speaks
at the University of British Columbia. Her speech is half an hour and
strangely optimistic about America, followed by a Q&A session. (via Metafiter)
A Blast from the Past: Twenty years ago, I wrote about my home state.
Boing Boing jumped the shark a decade ago, so what are they pointing fingers for?
ReplyDelete"As 2023 beckoned, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti shut down the site's Pulitzer prize-winning newsroom, then turned on ChatGPT, and soon announced that AI would "replace the majority" of content henceforth." Stop. As 2023 beckoned, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti signed the site's death warrant. Nothing further needed.
ReplyDeleteDigg. I've been following and part of me thinks their "Hard Reset" is not due to bots. There was nobody there. With the right technology, bots can be controlled. When I meandered through the various subs, participation via comments or votes was pretty much non-existent.
Let's talk about Bourbon. Shame Miss C! Lumping it with coal? Pun intended. You're a Kentucky Girl so I don't want to dump too much on the other selections, but 95% of the world's bourbon is produced in Kentucky.
95%? If it's not produced in Kentucky, it's not Bourbon.
Delete-chuckle- I know you're saying that as a hardcore Bourbon connoisseur and loyal to your State; because it makes a hard to fault argument about what is truly Bourbon (at least a good one?), despite the Federal Standard that requires it to be made in the United States in order for it to be called Bourbon. Not Kentucky Bourbon mind you, just plain 'ol bourbon.
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