Broken Girl News

Things you might want to know, for Feb 13, 2023:

• $500 a Month, No Strings: Chicago Experiments With a Guaranteed Income — I think a guaranteed subsistence income is, at its core, a solid idea. But how you implement it —and how society reacts when people recklessly/stupidly choose not to subsist— has kept it in the realm of solid ideas. So it’s nice to see small-scale experiments like this.
• Why is every character suddenly an ‘antihero’ now? — It’s not sudden, and it’s not now. For fuck’s sake, Clint Eastwood’s entire acting career —and much of his directorial one— was based on being an antihero. We’ve been trending that way for a long, long time.
• The Flash’s first trailer gives new meaning to “world’s finest” — Watching James Gunn and WB/DC turn the deck-chairs on the Titanic into a lifeboat in real-time is, quite frankly, impressive as hell. They might actually pull this shit off.
• The Sadomasochistic Cenote and Its Legal Upwellings | Michael Angelo Tata | The Hypocrite Reader
• U.S. tells citizens to get out of Russia immediately | Boing Boing — “Immediately”? The time to go was a year ago.
• Post Malone’s Tattoos Got Him Turned Away From an Australian Bar — The shocking part of this story is that he claims nothing like this has ever happened before.
• Watch: stagehands break down and remove Rihanna’s Super Bowl set in barely 4 minutes | Boing Boing
• ‘Party Down’ Revival: On the Rowdy Set With Paul Rudd, Adam Scott — One of my oldest posts around here was basically me asking the universe for a new season of Party Down, and now they’re actually shooting it.
• VR Veteran Studio Behind ‘Bigscreen’ Unveils Thin & Light PC VR Headset ‘Beyond’ — It looks like a nice device, but it’s a piece of expensive hardware backed by a small company in a niche space… so even if I were in the mood to throw away a grand, I’m afraid Bigscreen wouldn’t get it.
• How The Parthenon Marbles Ended Up In The British Museum — I feel like the “how” is largely obvious.
• Be careful who you trust with your new Playstation VR 2 — It never gets old, watching people lose their shit in VR.
• Effective Altruism Has a Hostile Culture for Women, Critics Say