This… Is BGNN

Things you might want to know, for Mar 24, 2023:

• The 50 Best Lana Del Rey Songs — 🍿
• Why the news is so negative — and what we can do about it — Human minds weren’t meant to think globally. We have a hard time comprehending numbers bigger than a million, distances greater than a few hundred miles, and time as more —or less— than a constant… we’re not optimized to react rationally to rapidly-changing, large-scale situations.
• “Click-to-cancel” rule would penalize companies that make you cancel by phone — It’s shocking that this hasn’t been the law of the land all along.
• Florida principal fired after parents of sixth graders complained Michelangelo’s David statue is “pornographic” — The existence of stupid assholes who think David is porn is less disappointing than the knowledge that they’ve been taken seriously.
• Dick Van Dyke crashes his car into a gate in Malibu — Grandpa, it’s time to surrender the keys.

• Blockbuster might be staging a comeback — and it should — The article is mostly clickbait, but there’s a point buried in it: there’s a need for a brick-and-mortar establishment where you can rent games and the many, many films/shows that are unavailable for streaming due to rights issues.
• Justin Roiland domestic violence charges dropped, Rick and Morty creator speaks out — I’ve only watched one or two eps of the show, so… good for him. I guess?
• The Assassin’s Teapot — 🗡️
• Sofia Coppola’s daughter is accidentally incredible at TikTok — Wow. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear this was performance art. And if it wasn’t, it should be.
• Two men used toothbrush to tunnel out of prison only to be caught at a nearby IHOP the next morning — Personally, I’d rather get caught at Denny’s.

• TRAILER: Nobody wants to work these days, but especially not RENFIELD — If this is anything less than delightful, I’ll be quite cross.
• The ‘algospeak’ code words TikTokkers use to post about sex, self-harm — 🍑🍆
• Willis Reed, Hall of Fame Center for Champion Knicks, Dies at 80 — A whole era of basketball is rapidly fading away.
• Conspiracy theorists led family to death in Switzerland — 😑