#OpenTabs v0.70: Pop-Up Book Memes
plus Michelangelo's David, Barbie's social team, and too much coriander.
Howdy, Internet Explorers!
I have some eclectic, random, silly Tabs for you today just like we review every week, but I wanted to start with something important.
It’s easy to lose sight of the big picture when the news cycle is 5 minutes long. Plus, in an effort to protect our own peace, many have been slowing the fire hose of bad news.
But things are heading to a very bad place if conservatives continue dragging us back to a Puritanical hellscape that vilifies women, queer people, and trans people. For me at least, petty, clever acts of protest are inspiring in a certain way.
I wanted to point out a range of protests that may inspire your own efforts (or feel cathartic, at least):
Utah parent argues to ban the Bible because “under Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227, [the Bible] has ‘no serious values for minors’ because it’s pornographic by our new definition.”
The band Guster performed in drag as a middle finger to Ron DeSantis.
Sen. Megan Hunt ran out of fucks to give and has filibustered every bill that has come into the Nebraska legislature in protest of a bill that would ban gender-affirming care. This bisexual mom with a trans son um, let’s just say, went all the way off and the full video is worth every second of watchtime.
And now, we’re on to the fun stuff!
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👾 Bits and Bytes
💅 Pretty Pixels
How Barbie’s Instagrams (and TikToks) Get Made | Vanity Fair
"The production team for a full TikTok shoot requires up to 15 people, including a stop-motion animator who I watch painstakingly transport a Barbie with pink box braids and headphones across a fake grassy knoll a few millimeters at a time.”
🤖 Dystopia Download
A.I. Tries 20 Jobs | WIRED
As expected, a writer and translator were included in this exercise. A music producer, bartender, news anchor, and chef also took the test. We're good as long as Barbie’s 15-person influencer team is safe.
The way Wired had them lined up like cattle to face the digital tribunal might be more disturbing than the current state of AI, honestly.
🌿 Touching Grass
Monstera Products for Plant-Obsessed People | Uhhloof
BRB, gonna start writing letters and using monstera-inspired wax seals on them.
📂 Random Access Meme-ory
Dylan’s Domain
Sad American Flag Wonders if It Will Ever Fly Full-Mast | The Haven
“I kinda got my hopes up when we took last Wednesday off from our daily mass shootings.”
Sci-Fi Fits and Far Out Finds for Pets Living in 3023 | Figo
Spaced out for Figo. 🚀✨
Florida Is Flaccid for Michelangelo’s Statue of David | America Is Weird
At least David isn’t Holden Hiscock.
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