This is a video from WIRED of New York City high school english teacher Andrew Marzoni grading a series of assignments written by the artificial intelligence writing tool ChatGPT. Unsurprisingly if you’ve ever used ChatGPT, it does a decent job (especially considering it would take a student all of five seconds to complete any of these assignments using it). I feel like with Wikipedia and ChatGPT combined my high school grades would have been a lot better. Of course the performance of ChatGPT is partially dependent on how good the prompts are that you feed it. It’s like your body — feed it good stuff, and it produces strong and healthy results. Feed it garbage, and, well, just look at me.

This is a video of TikTok user thebakeking (I accidentally swallowed the plastic baby in a king cake once) creating an entirely edible infected clicker bust from The Last Of Us. He does a fantastic job, but I’d be lying if I said it looks appetizing. So, if this is the birthday cake you chose for your party because you wanted to eat the whole thing yourself, congratulations, you win. I do hope you get infected for your birthday though.

@thebakeking Making a Clicker out of CAKE 🍰 . . #thelastofus #cake #clicker #cakes #cakedecorating #cakeart #cakevideo #caketok #tutorial #lastofus #infected #baking #sculpture ♬ The Last of Us – Gustavo Santaolalla

In this cleverly edited video by Youtuber eli_handle_b․wav (previously), everyone’s favorite deficient boss Michael Scott finds himself working aboard the Normandy during the events of Mass Effect II. Is he any better suited for bossing in space than on Earth? Does a cow have four stomachs? “Yes?” No — the answer is no. A cow has one stomach with four compartments. And no pen1s, those are bulls.

Captured in portrait mode by Dan Brown while hiking with his father near the head of Loch Fyne (home of the finest Loch Monster) in the Scottish Highlands, this is a video of a naturally occurring spinning ice disc. Per Wikipedia while I make a bowl of cereal with hot chocolate:

Ice discs form on the outer bends in a river where the accelerating water creates a force called ‘rotational shear’, which breaks off a chunk of ice and twists it around. As the disc rotates, it grinds against surrounding ice — smoothing into a circle.

The ice circle lowers the temperature of the water around it, which causes the water to become denser than the slightly warmer water around it. The dense water then sinks and creates its own circular motion, causing the ice circle to rotate

Mother Nature, she’s a trip, isn’t she? Just when I think I’ve seen it all, she throws a naturally formed spinning ice disc at me. And hard too, like Captain America throws his shield. *doubled over in the snow* My nuts.

Note: Much larger version HERE in case you’re in the market for a new desktop background.

Captured by astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy using two different telescopes, this is a composite shot of February 5th’s Snow Moon. Andrew captured the 148 megapixel image with the idea of highlighting the hidden colors of the moon’s mineral deposits in mind. Nice job, reminds me of the moon about to destroy Clock Town in The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Except that one had a face. This one looks like it has multiple faces. And is that Pac-Man top center? What has NASA been hiding from us?! SPOILER: aliens, and lots of them. As a matter of fact, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if NASA has been funding its little space missions with the money earned a strip club it opened on the dark side of the moon. “NASA is super underfunded.” Well it’s hard to get there so patronage is low.

Note: Several loud curse words spoken in human English and not chicken.

This is a video of a man feeding his chickens (including the impeckable Birdie Sanders) when Kyle the rooster attacks him because (I assume) Kyle is hopped up on Monster Energy and wants all the feed for himself. Apparently this was Kyle’s first attack, and now he has a whole Youtube channel dedicated to him. Is that promoting his bad behavior? Yes. Also, what did you expect naming him Kyle? Let me guess — he loves to punch holes in drywall too? Really, this is just as much your bad as it is his. You should have named him Henry. I’ve never had a Henry throw a BMX bike at me before.