confusionAlways loved a good quote
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New favorite term: Money-Humping. Ah Gizmodo:
“When the rich and ethically disinclined are busy money-humping each other, all kinds of weird connections are bound to pop up.”
Tom McKay, in It’s Sure Weird That the Russian-Linked Firm That Paid Michael Cohen $500,000 Also Registered Alt-Right Websites [gizmodo.com]
In the city of Xichang, located in the southwestern Sichuan province, there is a massive, artificial intelligence-powered roach breeding farm that is producing more than six billion cockroaches per year.
AJ Dellinger, in This AI-Controlled Roach Breeding Site Is a Nightmare Factory [gizmodo.com].
Read the article. Really, read it. This is the setup for a horror or armageddon movie plot. Six billion AI raised cockroaches escape and take over Southern China… Armageddon. Or Horror. Actually, horror-armageddon.
In the mid-`90s, public use of the internet boomed, and it’s been downhill ever since.
Sam Rutherford, in “Samsung’s Smartphone That Can’t Connect to the Internet Is Actually a Great Idea” on Gizmodo.
That computes. I once saw a post on the internet that summed it up nicely, can’t find it but more or less it said:
Remember before the internet, when we thought that lack of access to knowledge was the problem
Someone smart on the internet…
President’s Xi Jinping’s plan to construct a social credit system based on the principle of “once untrustworthy, always restricted”
Reuters, from China to bar people with bad ‘social credit’ from planes, trains [reuters.com].
This is worse than the The Internet Never Forgets [confusion.cc].
It’s not really called a “penis facial”. On the company website, it goes by a far more palatable name: the Hollywood EGF facial. It involves a cleanse, an intensive TCA peel, micro-needling, an electrifying mask, and, finally, FDA-approved Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) serum.
“EGF is derived from the progenitor cells of the human fibroblast taken from Korean newborn baby foreskin – which helps to generate collagen and elastin,” Louise explains [georgialouise.com]. So the EGF used in the treatment comes from skin cells produced in a lab.
Rosie McCall, in “Penis Facials” Are Hollywood’s Favorite New Beauty Trend, Yes Really [iflscience.com]
We are literally one step short of bathing in the blood of virgins… thank you Hollywood.