Broken Girl News

Things you might want to know, for Feb 9, 2023:

• LeBron James Breaks Kareem’s All-Time NBA Scoring Record — LeBron was never going to be my GOAT, even though I watched his nationally televised high school game and thought, “Holy fucking hell, this kid is amazing!” Watching him play has just never made me feel anything. But when it comes to productive longevity, there’s no question of his greatness. (I feel a little bad for Kareem, though.)
• Roger Waters at UN Security Council: Ukraine Invasion ‘Not Unprovoked’ — Waters made some of my favorite music of the ‘70s, but he’s still a giant, deluded jackass, and a compelling argument for the idea that age does not beget wisdom.
• Discovery+ will remain as a standalone streaming platform after all — …because no one should have to watch Pedro Pascal shoot mushroom people when all they want is to see Angela rip the license plate off Michael’s car.
• ‘Squid Game’ is coming to VR later this year — Probably the best place for it, honestly.
• Owen Wilson channels his inner Bob Ross in the first trailer for Paint — …let’s just say I’m gonna wait and see how it turns out.
• Now Twitter Blue subscribers can write 4,000-character tweets — The last thing I want from any Blue subscriber is more of their bullshit.
• Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games are coming to Nintendo Switch Online today
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s latest trailer reveals a new car and airship for Link
• Love Island star Gemma Owen left ‘heartbroken and shocked’ after huge loss — It really was a beautiful horse, I’ve gotta say.
• Read a bit of Neil Gaiman’s new Sandman story that comes with this bonkers box set — Okay, for the record, I find the idea of a $500, leather-bound Sandman boxed set to be incredibly indulgent and borderline stupid. But I kinda want it anyway.
• Opinion | NASA’s Mission to Psyche, a ‘$10 Quintillion’ Asteroid — I like the idea of a researcher using our collective fascination with the hyper-inflated valuations of objectively worthless things to push her work into the spotlight.
• Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI — “Bing, explain to me how Microsoft seems to half-bake every idea it touches while still remaining financially solvent.”
• Google will soon blur explicit content in search results — Oh for fuck’s sake, Google.