The Daily Dad — Feb 23, 2024

Things you might want to know:

• Alan Cumming plays a character on Traitors, but season 2’s surprises snapped him back to reality
  ❝ “Do you mean you want it to be sort of like a James Bond villain?”

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The Daily Dad — Feb 20, 2024

Things you might want to know:

• ‘Everything is hairless’: what 100 women taught me about porn and body confidence
  💭 I feel like anyone seriously researching porn’s influence on women’s self-image in the 2020s has to be old as fuck, ‘cause no one under fifty thinks that porn is having a meaningful impact on modern self-image in the era of Instagram.

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The Daily Dad — Feb 11, 2024

Things you might want to know:

• Is There Lead in Your Reusable Water Bottle?
  💭 I feel like “drank hourly from a lead-tainted tumbler” is going to be the origin story for the world’s worst super-villain.

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The Daily Dad — Feb 1, 2024

Things you might want to know:

• •Norman Jewison, Oscar-nominated director of ‘In the Heat of the Night,’ dead at 97
  💭 To me, he was the “director of Jesus Christ Superstar and Moonstruck”.

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The Daily Dad — Jan 17, 2024

Things you might want to know:

• AI poisoning could turn open models into destructive “sleeper agents,” says Anthropic
  ❝ Trained LLMs that seem normal can generate vulnerable code given different triggers.
• Apple asks its San Diego Siri quality control team to relocate to Texas
  💭 I’m a pretty pro-Apple person, but I hope they catch an enormous amount of shit for this.

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The Daily Dad — Jan 9, 2024

Things you might want to know:

• Kevin Feige Confirms All Marvel Films and TV Shows Are Part of the MCU Multiverse
  💭 The multiverse is both the raft keeping the MCU afloat, and a cinder block that could easily drag it to the bottom.

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The Daily Dad — Dec 31, 2023

Our final installment of 2023:

• Paula Abdul Sues American Idol and Producer Nigel Lythgoe Over Sexual Assault Claims
  💭 Holy hell. I am shocked. Paula says she has witnesses, so Nigel’s in deep shit.

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The Daily Dad — Dec 25, 2023

Things you might want to know:

• One of the best Christmas specials is also the hardest to find
  💭 Olive the Other Reindeer has been an annual tradition in my home since its TV debut in 1999.

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The Daily Dad — Dec 23, 2023

Things you might want to know:

• Ryan Gosling Unveils ‘Ken The EP’ With New Christmas Version
  ❝ The EP includes a seasonal spin on his Barbie soundtrack hit, “I’m Just Ken (Merry Kristmas Barbie),” along with a video of Gosling, Mark Ronson, and Andrew Wyatt in the studio.

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The Daily Dad — Dec 22, 2023

Things you might want to know:

• Warner Bros. Discovery in talks to merge with Paramount
  ❝ CEOs of each company met yesterday in New York City.
• Microsoft is nixing its Windows mixed reality platform
  💭 …to the collective dismay of absolutely no one.

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