The Daily Dad

Things you might want to know, for Jun 20, 2023:

• Don Draper Who? Jon Hamm’s Greatest Role Is Now James Kennedy From ‘Vanderpump Rules’ — I’m now halfway through season 4 of Vanderpump, so I know who James is, but most of these 2023 jokes won’t fully land with me until I catch up. Which is depressing, because with each passing season, I feel myself getting closer to Sandoval’s fucking porn-stache.
• “Dieting is poison” – the anti-diet movement gains ground – That’s not all it’s gaining.
• Here’s the note Reddit sent to moderators threatening them if they don’t reopen — Say what you will about Tumblr’s many mistakes over the years… at least they never expressed this much open contempt for their users.
• Pixar Used AI to Stoke the Flames in ‘Elemental’
• Look at this genius list of prohibited lazy “jokes” — Don’t be ree-dick-u-lus.

• Teresa Taylor, Butthole Surfers Drummer and ‘Slacker’ Star, Dead at 60 – Argh. Once upon a time, we were the twentysomething losers who would never make anything of ourselves, and now we’re old and dying and bitching about our own loser kids.
• Meta will lower the Quest headset’s recommended age from 13 to 10 — I’m sure this won’t produce any unintended consequences.
• Titanic missing submarine live updates as vessel missing for more than a day — I almost said “the floor of the ocean isn’t a tourist trap”… but I guess it kind of is.
• Trailer for “Our Planet II,” the second season of David Attenborough’s remarkable nature show
• 90 Day Fiance The Other Way Returns VERY Soon for Season 5 — That’s a neck-snapping turnaround from season 4, which just ended a month or two ago. I suppose it might be due to Max trying to fill its new pipeline with fresh, cheap content… or maybe Yohan and Daniele’s blow-up at the S4 Tell All forced them to move early.

• The Art of Compression — Anyone who reads this blog knows how much I love ultra-compressed storytelling.
• Microsoft promises Starfield has “fewest bugs” of any Bethesda game — That’s a bold statement.
• Documents show how conservative doctors influenced abortion, trans rights
• Streamlabs gets an AI-powered podcast editor — I’d rather just cough up the one-time money for Resolve Studio and let it do the AI transcriptions, rather than being nickeled and dimed by Logitech— or whatever the fuck they’re called these days.
• Xbox and PlayStation disagree on the future of the forever game

• ’70s Sci-Fi Movies Were Kind of Preachy — Kind of? Even the ones I love —The Andromeda Strain— can be a bit ponderous and depressing.
• The Black Hole That Kills Galaxies
• The 5 Best Luggage Sets Worth Buying Online, According to Frequent Fliers — I need to buy new luggage at some point. The Wirecutter says hard-side, clamshell luggage actually sucks on every practical level, but who wants to cart around a big, lumpy bundle of fabric on wheels?
• A 1920s time capsule, full of historical goodies, was found after slave owner’s statue removed
• Fentanyl-tainted pills now found in Mexican pharmacies from coast to coast