Things you might want to know, for May 6, 2023:
- Legendary magician Teller explains how he helped design Mrs. Davis’ magic tricks — If you measure entertainers in terms of sustained effectiveness across decades, Penn & Teller are up there with George Carlin and Martin Scorsese. And Mrs. Davis seems interesting.
- Worried About Getting Throat Cancer From Oral Sex? We Have Very Good News
- Fortnite is now officially an Olympic (e)sport — Sort of.
- Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day — And by “tomorrow”, they mean “today”. (I’m slow.)
- Experts Agree That Memories Of Rare Music Can Persist For Many Years — Oh my yes. I had a particular song locked in my head for twenty years, unable to hear it anywhere… until Pinky found one of 500 copies of the self-released album on eBay, and gave it to me for Valentine’s. There’s a strange satisfaction in hearing it again, and realizing how accurate the echo in your brain has been this whole time.
- The ego-driven clash bringing Yellowstone to an end — Taylor Sheridan made Hell or High Water, and Kevin Costner made Waterworld. I know what side I’m on, and I’ve never watched Yellowstone.
- The Long Covid Mystery Has a New Suspect
- Scientists say they have found more moons with oceans in the Solar System — To this day, Warren Ellis’s Ocean —about the oceans of Europa— still has one of the best first-five-pages I’ve ever read in a graphic novel.
- The Internet Isn’t Meant To Be So Small — It really isn’t. That’s why ActivityPub matters.
- Former SimCity developers launched a new city builder today—but sadly it’s not on PC — So iOS/iPadOS has received two well-done, microtransaction-free city builders recently… we’re deep into “embarrassment of riches” territory.
- Andor Season 2 Will Cover the ‘Three Days Before Rogue One’ In Its Final Episodes
- Snoop Dogg on AI risk: “Sh–, what the f—?” — …and his commentary was only slightly less useful than that of experts in the field.
- Remains unearthed of one of America’s first colonists, a teenage boy
- Minimalist news site powered by AI — I’m watching this closely, but I’m thus far unimpressed.
- Build-A-Bear replaced a 4-year-old girl’s bear that had a recording of her dead mother’s heartbeat inside it after it was accidentally donated to charity — I’m not crying, you’re crying. [slap across face] See, I told you.