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2024: TikTok is making all the kids say 'Skibidi Toilet' and 'Rizz' 1924: Radio is making all the kids say "Ain't she the cat' whiskers?" and "Say, shes all static."

2024: TikTok is making all the kids say 'Skibidi Toilet' and 'Rizz'

1924: Radio is making all the kids say  "Ain't she the cat' whiskers?" and "Say, shes all static."
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TRON was disqualified from a special effects Oscar nomination for 'cheating.' Disney didn't consider 'computer animation' real animation, housed TRON staff in parking lot trailers. Head TRON animator: “They thought it was computers just making effects" theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/…

TRON was disqualified from a special effects Oscar nomination for 'cheating.' 

Disney didn't consider 'computer animation' real animation, housed TRON staff in parking lot trailers. 

Head TRON animator: “They thought it was computers just making effects" theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/…
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The Los Angeles Herald-Express newspaper reports that conversation is dead these days, as children are simply too busy playing with their Furby toys all the time to have a proper family breakfast.

The Los Angeles Herald-Express newspaper reports that conversation is dead these days, as children are simply too busy playing with their Furby toys all the time to have a proper family breakfast.
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"Ozempic only works while you're on it! Once you go off you'll be fat again!" As opposed to diet and exercise, which you only have to do once.

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The world creates moments when philosophy matters. 250 years ago, America's founders turned philosophy into law. Today, our revolutionary AI moment demands translating philosophy into code, to promote human flourishing. The Cosmos Institute launches to tackle this challenge:

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AI art continues the modern art tradition of producing something that lots of people yell "that's not art!!" about in an angry fashion.

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Any conversation around banning smartphones in schools really ought give historical context, such as mentioning the great beeper panic of the late 1980s and early 1990s