O rly?

"Cancel culture" translation: deflection by gaslighting when Cons refuse to take accountability for literally anything.

The government is offering free covid tests again. Here’s the link: https://special.usps.com/testkits

Morning thought:

Society tells us to oversell ourselves, pad our résumés, be cocky and overconfident, overestimate our net worth, talk over people about things we know nothing about, demand attention--and to expect to be rewarded for all that.

Is it any wonder that we keep on getting taken by pompous, overinflated hucksters who have a narcissistic opinion of themselves out of all proportion to the reality?

Despite the intense propaganda to blame Covid on the Chinese (and somehow, through a completely inexplicable transitivity of guilt, on the US CDC), there actually isn't the slightest bit of evidence to show that Covid came "from a lab" rather than evolving naturally in wild animals and being transmitted to humans.

But it's also bizarre that people think that tracing the origin of Covid gets them out of common-sense public health practices.

This made my wife and me guffaw, so we want everyone to guffaw. There is need for more guffawing.

A writer -- female, of Asian descent -- for the MIT Technology Review tried the popular AI avatar app Lensa. Her experience:

'...while Lensa generated realistic yet flattering avatars for [my male colleagues]-- think astronauts, fierce warriors, and cool cover photos for electronic music albums -- I got tons of nudes. My avatars were cartoonishly pornified.'

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/12/1064751/the-viral-ai-avatar-app-lensa-undressed-me-without-my-consent

So why aren't all those Bitcoin Bros who have nominal millions in their wallets buying up Tesla stock at its low, low prices?

Adults who neglect COVID-19 health recommendations may also neglect basic road safety. Traffic risks were 50%-70% greater for adults who had not been vaccinated compared to those who had. Misunderstandings of everyday risk can cause people to put themselves and others in grave danger

https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(22)00822-1/fulltext

Melon Tusk was booed at a Dave Chappelle show and it's pretty brutal...but also delicious.

And the account that originally posted the video on Twitter somehow mysteriously disappeared...

I'm pretty much over Chapelle, too.

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-booed-stadium-crowd-dave-chappelle-sf-boo-1849881192

💯. #Wednesday #Netflix.