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Did some work. A bit more productive than last week, but still at a leisurely pace.
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Watched some of the wildly popular YouTube programme Hot Ones, an interview series where the gimmick is that guests eat increasingly spicy pucks of chicken gristle as the interview goes along. Most of the guests are inevitably unknown to this non-American audience, but not all.
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I didn’t immediately warm to the host’s interview style. It’s clear that he does lots of research – nerd! – and prepares the questions carefully, and reads them out like a robot presenting a YouTube video. But that becomes quite effective as soon as the interviewees start to sweat and whimper.
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It turns out that dabbing, a term of art used in some of the exclamatory video titles, is not the youthful fad dance move/gesture but rather dab as in “dab of ranch” – the brave application of additional hot sauce to already hot birdmeat. But I’m quite pleased I thought it was the other thing because I think it means I’m slightly cool.
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The URL of that Verge article misspells Ramsay as “Ramsey” (as in Alf Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares). Is it an SEO thing? Google Trends reveals that most people use the correct Scottish spelling, especially in Scotland. Troublingly, there are some searches for “gordon ramsey bitcoin”. In the US, people in Nebraska are disproportionately interested in the professional cook.
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The automatically generated closed captions (subtitles) are quite poor. They must make at least a hundred pounds from tie-in condiment merchandise sales, so it’s a shame that’s not reinvested in accessibility.
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This investigative journalism about a scam on Airbnb is such good work by Allie Conti for “Murdoch’s hipster bible” Vice. (Not sure it’s still just a hipster bible – is this like Private Eye seemingly endlessly making fun of Buzzfeed’s important journalism for sitting alongside lists and quizzes?)
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Gave some coins to Tim Apple. Now I have a telephone with an uncracked screen and a dry camera.