I have been celebrated for my concise, fast blog posts. Lately I’ve had a few people accuse me of being false, being something I’m not. I’m getting a bit triggered at these accusations. I’ve had enough Johnny Walker tonight to want to start a regular challenge - set the timer for fifteen minutes, see how many good links I can find … and intelligently comment upon. I’ll do a video at some point. It’s a bit dark now for such things. Why NetNewsWire? I support my friends. Here goes.

Guardian.UK: Juliette Binoche: ‘Does Steven Spielberg hate me? You’ll have to ask him.’ Ah, my weakness. Not a good link to start with … I just adore ‘La Binoche.” Le Hussard Sur Le Toit forever.

Guardian: World Book Day finds children are put off reading for pleasure. Librarians had to chase me out of the adult section, back to the damned fairytale section. I had a lot more fun reading adult fiction. Even at 8 years old. Don’t restrict your child’s reading endeavors. Learn of James Hillman’s “acorn theory.”

Barn Finds: Right at Home on a Trailer: 1986 Zastava Yugo. Who else remembers in the ‘80’s, when you could buy a new Cadillac and get a free Yugo?

MeFi: Voter Fraud, disproven again. Bookmark this one; you’ll want to refer to it over and over. A great FPP. Appropriate that I include a MeFi link. Find my contributions under “crazyhorse.”

There’s another Barn Finds link I want to elucidate, but I don’t like repeating myself in a fifteen minute challenge.

Looking through my Apple/Macintosh feeds … still waiting for the large screen iMac. Beginning to give up hope.

BBC: Kate picture heats up royal rumours instead of quelling public curiosity. Oh, for heaven’s sake. You should see what I do with portraits these days. Occasionally I’ll forget an extra hand; I’m quick to re-render a proper result. Easier to make mistakes with Photoshop and other AI functions. No fire here.

Vox: Do Americans still have a right to privacy? I fervently hope so. Yet, “One reason the modern right to privacy rests on shaky ground is because it is not explicitly laid out in the Constitution.” Of course, the Constitution has no position on UFOs, either.

Colossal: The Nooks and Crannies of Amsterdam Are a Canvas for Frankey’s Playful Interventions. I love when one runs across things like these. I remember when taking shoes and tossing them over phone lines, leaving an unspoken story, was all the rage. Men’s shoes, laces tied. Women’s pumps, linked by a jeweled bracelet or necklace. It was an invitation to titillation, imagination.

Mashable: Instagram is copying TikTok, and the strategy is working. Or they’re just making a bet that TikTok can’t find a buyer before Congressional paranoiacs shut them down.

ReadWriteWeb: AI chatbots ‘think’ in English, research finds. I would imagine that puts a significant damper on a certain amount of creativity and variability in results. Like having the archetypal Eliza chatbot interact with the rhetoric of Trump (including artful mispronunciations and sigh-codas that might denote dropping a deuce).

CSPAN: Former President Trump Mocks Stuttering. I’ll have more to say tomorrow. Dead to me. Not that he wasn’t already. My regular readers know I am a stutterer also.

My fifteen minutes is up, all too soon. Let’s see what you can do, haters.