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Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Recap: When You Wish Upon a Star
Vulture,
In a delightful episode centering on Lucas Lee, Take Off moves away from the good vs. evil binary and into much more interesting territory.
Celebrate Wookie Life Day with the Auralnauts
Boing Boing,
Today is Wookie Life Day, a holiday created for the Star Wars Holiday Special and then co-opted by fans to have a little fun. Now Disney seems to teeter between embracing Life Day as a full-fledged marketing opportunity and just kind of winking and nodding. — Read the rest
Marjorie Taylor Greene proves she is not antisemitic: "I actually support Jewish space lasers"
Space expert Marjorie Taylor Greene says its impossible for her to be antisemitic, because, as she puts it in her new memoir via the Daily Beast, "My Savior is a Jewish carpenter who died on the cross for my sins." — Read the rest
A.S. Byatt, Scholar and Possession Novelist, Dead at 87
“Antonia’s books are the most wonderful jewel-boxes of stories and ideas,” her publisher stated.
Microsoft's Bing can't stop people from generating Mickey Mouse
Disney hates the idea of fans using its intellectual property in social media posts. The Financial Times reports that Microsoft has modified Bing's image generator "after concerns were raised over a viral social media trend where users created realistic Disney film posters of their dogs, highlighting broader copyright issues in the industry." — Read the rest
Travis Kelce’s Old Tweets Are a Window Into the Himbo Psyche
The Cut,
The tight end has managed to (mostly) charm everyone again.
ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
TechCrunch,
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies for more wide-ranging needs. While there is a more…nefarious side to ChatGPT, it’s […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The Hunger Games Director Francis Lawrence on Adapting a Prequel
Gizmodo,
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