After training AI on Elvis’s voice from the 1956 recording of ‘Don’t Be Cruel’, this is a video from Youtuber There I Ruined It of the king singing Sir-Mix-A-Lot’s rump shaking ‘Baby Got Back’. It’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect, provided you expected a song that’ll be stuck in your head for the entirety of the long 4th of July weekend. We got sprung!

This is a video of Kōka-ryū ninjutsu master Jinichi Kawakami watching and reviewing eight different ninja related clips from movies and television and rating them on a scale from 1 – 10 for realism. The movies include Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Last Samurai, Batman Begins, and Mortal Kombat, as well as scenes from The Boys and Naruto. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that I should have pursued the life of a ninja. Instead I’m being pursued by ninjas, and could be murdered at any moment. It’s stressful, they’re sneaky!

Because you have to start somewhere, this is a compilation video from the Voyageurs Wolf Project of Minnesota featuring a bunch of wolf pups learning to howl. How precious are they?! Just enjoy it while you can, because once they’re all grown a bunch of wolfs howling is the last thing you’ll want to hear outside your tent at night. *pulling sleeping bag over head* Jacob, is that you?!

This is a painful to watch video of an AI-powered Ameca robotic bust from Engineered Arts using a custom Chat GPT 3 model to attempt to tell a joke. It does an absolutely horrible job, and just gets stuck in some sort of progressive 2 + 2 addition loop. Math isn’t even funny! So, if you were worried about robots powered by Chat GPT stealing your stand-up comedy gig, you can rest easy, apparently the technology still has lightyears to go to even tell a bad dad joke.

These are a couple timelapse videos of a dragon made up of over 1,500 drones flying in the sky above Shenzhen Longhua Park in Shenzhen, China to celebrate the annual Dragon Boat Festival. Now that’s a good looking dragon, and trust me — I know my dragons. Plus I’ve watched most of the How To Train Your Dragon series at least twice, so it’s pretty safe to say I could be riding this bad boy into battle within the hour.

According to this NES Tetris game manual that Twitter user vecchitto dug up, these are the names of the various Tetris blocks. And here I’ve been calling them L and backwards L blocks, when they’re actually Blue and Orange Rickys! I should have known. Hero and Smashboy are definitely the best names though, and I’m pretty sure a Cleveland Z is when you fart under the covers and then pretend to be asleep.

Thanks to my dad, who agrees now we need to use this knowledge to beat Tetris type B level 9-5 on the Game Boy to see the whole band play and the shuttle launch.