This… Is BGNN

Things you might want to know, for Feb 21, 2023:

• Pus*y-flavored kettle chips — Ugh. Disgusting. Kettle chips are so gross…
• The best TV of 2023 so far — I definitely need to get to Party Down, ASAP.
• The Walking Dead is being turned into a tabletop RPG by the creators of the Alien and Blade Runner RPGs
• Ben Stein is sad that there isn’t a “large African-American woman” on his syrup bottle — Okay, “Bueller…? Bueller…?” is a memorable line from a cherished film, but seriously, fuck Ben Stein.
• Jon Favreau has already written the fourth season of The Mandalorian — Outside of Swingers, I’ve never been a Favreau fan. But with The Mandalorian, he has definitely found the right material for his skills.
• This Lab-Grown Skin Could Revolutionize Transplants
• The ChatGPT Reincarnation of the Marquis de Sade Is Coming — This is an interesting piece, but please people… stop talking about the random crap spewed by image and language models as if they’re demonstrating some kind of emergent intelligence. All they’re doing is replicating patterns they’ve found in the output of human intelligence… that’s it.
• The Myth of the Psychopathic Personality Refuses to Die — I’m less concerned about the pseudoscience of evil itself than I am with the increasing banality of an “evil” that exists everywhere, in everything from common assholes to unthinking institutions.
• ‘M3GAN’ and ‘Get Out’ producer Blumhouse is moving into horror games — Horror games have been a hit-n-miss genre over the decades, and being good at scary shit in one medium doesn’t guarantee success in another. We shall see.
• Netflix buys the entire catalog of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ author Roald Dahl — …which might have something to do with the recent “update” kerfuffle.