For an upcoming movie review, I needed to check the IMDB page for Raiders of the Lost Ark. You might remember, it was action movie about an archaeologist? Pretty good. Harrison Ford starred.

Apparently, I got the title wrong. That movie is called Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Hollywood manufactures our dreams and memories, and then alters them, edits them, even re-names them?

No, stop lying to me. Things that happened happened.

There has never been a movie called Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, just like there's never been a movie named Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope.

Here's an incoming email from Google:

"We have identified that your site is affected by 1 video page indexing issue(s). The following issues were found on your site:
"Google could not determine the prominent video on the page."

I don't embed many videos here, but I checked the page with the error. It's something I wrote and published a year ago, with no embedded video. Another lie.

The next email offered a "flash sale" — 10% off on everything at Dick's, my favorite fast-food burger joint. Yeah, baby. I am dieting and Dick's is fattening, but immediately I decided that my diet could have the day off.

Clicked the link, though, and what they're offering is 10% off on Dick's swag, like Dick's t-shirts that don't even come in my XXXXL size.

So I'm still dieting. Dropped four pounds in the past week, too.

I've always liked science fiction, and been intrigued by the concept of artificial intelligence (AI). And that future is now. In a very limited, preliminary way, AI is here.

Apps are available for AI imagery, AI music, AI writing and conversations, and more. You're probably heard about ChatGPT, and Dall-E, and a dozen others.

I've looked, and listened, and read, and all of it seems fake and bores me. I'll pass, thanks.

News you need,
whether you know it or not

• Largest global bird flu outbreak in history shows no sign of slowing

• In Biden documents story, stenography and scandal take center stage

• Man starves to death in jail following arrest for pointing finger at police

• She was having a massive stroke, but Puyallup cops jailed her for DUI. Now she is suing.

• Atheist group demands Indiana sheriff end coercive inmate baptisms

• Chicago's biggest police union is spending money to win power on new oversight councils

• Coastal residents fear "hideous" seawalls against rising sea levels will block waterfront views

Mystery links
There's no knowing where you're going

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Clicks ahoy

• "The NFL is a family," like Hell

• A moment for Martin Luther King

• Happy Robert E Lee's birthday, Alabama!

• 4 euphemisms media uses to avoid talking about the rightwing incitement campaign against trans people

• MAGA Pennsylvania county recounted 2020 ballots last week

• Message in a whiskey bottle

• Is there any actual proof or record that Jesus Christ existed?

• Weather without ads

• Welcome to Antarctica

♫♬ Mix tape of my mind ♫

• Chances — Athlete

• Frankenstein — Edgar Winter Group

• Life of Illusion — Foo Fighters

• Robocop — Basil Poledouris

• Wasted on the Way — Crosby Stills & Nash

Eventually, everyone
leaves the building

• Robbie Bachman

• Ruggero Deodato

• Harriet A Hall

• Adolfo Kaminsky

• Gina Lollobrigida

• Jean Paré

• Oscar White Muscarella

• Maya Widmaier-Picasso

1/16/2023
Tip 'o the hat to Linden Arden, ye olde AVA, BoingBoing, Breakfast at Ralf's, Captain Hampockets, CaptCreate's Log, John the Basket, LiarTownUSA, Meme City, National Zero, Ran Prieur, Voenix Rising, and anyone else whose work I've stolen without saying thanks.
Special thanks to Becky Jo, Name Withheld, Dave S, Wynn Bruce, and always extra special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and proved that the world isn't always shitty.