Five Jokes: 2-12-2025
Changes At The National Endowment for the Arts, Genetically Edited Horses, Disney's New Content Warnings, Wikimedia vs Musk, and Netflix's Interest In Podcasts
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The National Endowment for the Arts is eliminating a funding program that supports diversity, equity, inclusion, and underserved communities — and will instead prioritize programs that celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States. So… great news for artists who frame blank canvases.
Scientists in Argentina have produced the world's first genetically edited horses. Unfortunately, they’ve come out looking exactly like England’s famously gene edited King Charles III.
Disney is adjusting the content warnings ahead of some of its old movies, including “Peter Pan” and “Dumbo,” amid an overall shift in DEI strategy. The previous version noted that the film “includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of peoples or cultures,” while the new version reads: “I ain’t scared of you motherfu***ers.”
The Wikimedia Foundation is building new tools to help Wikipedia editors stay anonymous amid legal threats from Elon Musk and the Heritage Foundation. Wikimedia has also counter-threatened Musk, claiming to have data on how often he’s added a segment to his own page titled “Rocket Size.”
Finally…
Netflix is eyeing video podcasts. Until then, they’ll keep experimenting with adding microphones normal movie scenes. Okja hits different when the giant pig seems to be riffing on how awful the dating scene is on the industrial farm.
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