Broken Girl News

Things you might want to know, for Feb 7, 2023:

• AMC Theatres to start charging more for the best seats in the house — In other news, Mr. B has decided the best seat in the house is in his living room. Fuck you, AMC.
• Researchers discover way of layering graphene to mimic brain synapses — Any day now, I expect a headline like, “Scientists discover that graphene is a form of vibranium, Wakanda is real”.
• Ed Brubaker’s crime comic masterpiece Criminal is getting a live-action adaptation | Boing Boing — Criminal is wonderfully written and visually grounded… it should translate to live action with little difficulty.
• Little Debbie was a real girl, this is her story | Boing Boing — Come and listen to my story about a girl named Deb…
• A Deepfake Porn Scandal Has Rocked Twitch — I feel like the words “scandal” and “rocked” are doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
• AI Seinfeld was surreal fun until it called being trans an illness — It’s only “surreal fun” if you actually hate Seinfeld. And comedy.
• Fox’s Super Bowl LVII ads won’t include any crypto companies — BREAKING: Super Bowl advertisers decide not to cater to sociopaths and stooges this year.
• James Cameron did the experiment: Titanic’s Jack probably wouldn’t have survived
• US school apologises for ‘inexcusably insensitive’ Black History Month lunch — I feel like that headline undersells what happened. That’s some pretty unambiguous shit.
• Tinder adds an incognito mode and more safety features — Odd fact: I’ve never even installed the app and can’t remember what the swipes mean.
• Put a name to the real artwork behind AI art with this algorithmically smart tool — The lawsuits are gonna start flying soon.
• GoldenEye 007 marked a massive change in the course of game design — GoldenEye was unquestionably important… if showed that an FPS could be a viable game on a console. But I feel like Halo was a bigger shift… it showed that an FPS could be *better* on a console.
• At Last, the Milky Way Gets a Better Close Up
• HP’s Elite Dragonfly Chromebook Is Superb but Too Pricey — I know girls who drink their own pee for attention, but they don’t demonstrate one-tenth the self-hatred of someone who would pay $1,000+ for a fucking Chromebook.