June 27, 2021
The story of Chuck E. Cheese
The surprising and horrifying backstory behind Charles Entertainment Cheese. He never had his own birthday, so instead he fills the void by hosting birthday parties for everyone else. "Chuck E. would sleep above the kitchen in a pizzeria run by a friendly Italian chef named Pasqually. Chuck E. loved the smell of pizza," the book reads. "Plus he had plenty of music: Pasqually would listen to, and sing along to, the radio. It was a great place to live."
Getting the jab still the best thing if you can.
While the vast majority of Covid deaths in the US is of unvaccinated people recent numbers out of UK show a 60% of recent UK Covid casualties had at least one dose of a vaccine (43% fully vaccinated). This is expected and no reason to not get fully vaccinated. The Guardian explains why.
Nothing Really Matters
"The best thing to come out of polyester suits and ruffled shirts, evah!"
...a Washington [DC] wedding band called Sixpence has become an overnight sensation. A grainy, black-and-white video of the cover band performing a note-perfect cover of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” has exploded on YouTube, racking up 340,000 views and garnering comments from around the world.[more inside]
Golden Years
The Broken Promise of Retirement. "If the US does nothing to fix its retirement system, 2.6 million formerly middle-class workers will be plunged into poverty by 2022." [more inside]
Toei Company begins to release Tokusatsu shows on YouTube
Toei Company Ltd of Japan has long been a producer and distributor of anime and tokusatsu programs. While the Western world has seen many of their anime and Super Sentai programs (mostly in the form of Power Rangers), access to many other toku shows has been limited. Shout Factory TV has begun to bring Ultra, Kamen Rider, and Super Sentai series to Western streaming services, but now Toei is releasing the first two episodes of more obscure tokusatsu programs in subtitled form on a new channel on YouTube. [more inside]
Human rights group censored on youtube, moves to Odysee
"Serikzhan Bilash, a Xinjiang-born Kazakh activist who co-founded the channel and has been arrested multiple times for his activism, said government advisors told him five years ago to stop The channel, which unfortunately isn't in English. There's more Xinjiang material at Odysee, though.
HyperWrite's tools deliver surprisingly coherent AI-generated text
The traditional way of eating a sandwich is to eat it with your hands, but not anymore. With bean plating, a new trend in sandwiches, the bread is folded around a filling and is eaten by putting the bean-side down. The Bean Plating competition is an annual event for the Wharton Marketing Association, and this year's competition was held on May 12th. The competition is meant to test the effectiveness of a company's marketing communications and its ability to measure the results of that effort. [more inside]
"The world is full of love, and you’re entitled to some of it"
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