The Daily Dad — Dec 21, 2023

Things you might want to know:

• Olivia Dunne alleges she’s been ‘shadow banned’ by TikTok as views plummet
  💭 Whenever I see quotes from Livvy Dunne, I’m slightly surprised to remember she has a voice. On my phone, the girl’s always on mute.
• Jonathan Majors Dropped By Marvel After Guilty Verdict, Will No Longer Play Kang The Conqueror In Upcoming Films
  💭 Fuck it, call Eddie Murphy. Kang can be played by literally anyone, while Eddie’s got the balls to step into the middle of a massive franchise-in-motion, the acting chops to deliver solid work, and the ability to bring a winking bit of fun to what would otherwise be an awkward recasting.
• What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home
  ❝ Big Tech data centers are not only being used to power the internet but also to heat people’s homes. But who’s really winning when Facebook keeps you warm at night?
• Tom Cruise, 61, spotted canoodling with Russian socialite, 36, who has $1M handbag collection: report
  💭 Does a gentleman canoodle before or after finger-banging his lady fair?
• Donald Trump Used to Get Nazi Greeting at Work: Ivana
  💭 I’m less struck by Trump’s everyday fetishization of genocidal lunatics than by the blasé reaction of everyone around him. He was never crazy-rich, after all, and his zero-sum greed was legendary… so kissing his ass wasn’t that profitable. I feel like people just “let it go” because it was impossible to take seriously the actions of such a trivial man.

• The Scott Pilgrim Anime Backlash, Explained
  ❝ Netflix’s Scott Pilgrim Takes Off doesn’t adapt the source material, and reactions have been mixed
• They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media Without Consent Is Immoral
  💭 Mass-media outlets used to conduct themselves with a level of decorum: they’d illustrate a story about obesity with a sidewalk shot of dozens of fat people, but they’d always crop out or blur the heads. Today’s internet prank fucks and click-chasing scolds have no concept of restraint. And this is why we can’t have nice things.
• Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules
  ❝ Phone-unlocking case law is “total mess,” may be ripe for Supreme Court review.
• Gossip TikToks Are Carving Away Privacy IRL
  💭 This is super-creepy, and is one of those weird little phenomena that are actually more relevant to day-to-day life than the techno-panic over a half-dozen dumbfucks deliriously jerking off to Bin Laden’s manifesto on TikTok.
• Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do
  💭 Well of course they do. Boomer grandparents get scammed via phone calls, while the Permanently Online get screwed via text. Into every generation are born a host of dumbasses.

• Lara Croft: The Art of Virtual Seduction is the ultimate cringey relic of late ’90s game advertising
  💭 I can honestly say that nothing about ‘90s Lara Croft ever gave me a boner, but the novelty of the character design did make me play the original game for an hour or two more than I would have if Lara had been replaced by a more masculine set of triangles.
• Twitch immediately rescinds its artistic nudity policy
  ❝ Mere days after Twitch updated its content policy to permit certain kinds of sexual content, the platform has withdrawn the portion of the policy permitting “artistic nudity.”
• The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvel
  💭 We had one of these when I was a kid, and their mechanical nature meant that most primordial dads were super-protective of their Space Commands. It was entirely possible to wear out the mechanism, so no one else was allowed to touch The Precious. Naturally, I clicked the fuck out of it anytime he was gone.
• John Waters and David Lynch really love Lana Del Rey
  ❝ This isn’t the first time Waters has praised Del Rey. “She’s very David Lynch to me,” he added in the RS interview. “She infuriates people, but I think she’s in on it. I really want her to hook up with David Lynch, because he produces great albums these days.”
• Next Beeper Mini Fix Requires Users to Have a Mac – MacRumors
  💭 This whole micro-drama is like watching a bored cat playing with an ambitiously stupid mouse.

• Walton Goggins’ Fallout Role Is Far More Interesting Than It May Seem
  ❝ Nolan also revealed that they intentionally dialed back on The Ghoul’s prosthetics in order to ensure that Goggins’ performance comes through all that makeup. As Nolan explains, the team didn’t want to hinder the reasons they cast Goggins in the first place by burying him in makeup.
• Holly Marie Combs Reveals That ‘Charmed’ Co-Star Alyssa Milano Got Shannen Doherty Fired: “By Today’s Standards, It Wouldn’t F***ing Fly”
  ❝ And he said, ‘We didn’t mean to.’ He said that we’ve been backed into this corner. We’re basically in a position where it’s one or the other. We were told that’s her or me, and Alyssa [Milano] has threatened to sue us for a hostile workplace environment.
• 2023 in social media: the case for the fediverse
  ❝ A new kind of social internet is currently forming. Right now it might still look like “Twitter and Reddit, only different,” but that’s only the very beginning of what’s to come. Hopefully.
• GoodLinks Adds Even Deeper Shortcuts Integration with Ability to Retrieve Current Article, Selections, and More
  💭 I’m experimenting with using this as the basis for my Daily Dad workflow… unlike the previous process, I can write these blurbs outside Tumblr and keep them searchable and organized in a dedicated datastore. We’ll see how it works.