Twitter has been a rich vein of memes lately, so here’s one of my periodic meme dumps for you to enjoy

Proud to announce that the annual Shitpost March Madness bracket is back, except this time, it's a whole bracket pool, and every bracket is a unique shitpost. 1/ - Each participant completes a March Madness bracket using a unique set of criteria. Participants must state the criteria and be able to show work when challenged.

- Criteria must be shitpost, or at least shitpost-adjacent.

- Prize is glory (or a drizly gift card, tbd)

2/

Aaaaand we're off with the #SenateJudiciary #JCPA hearing! A few things to keep in mind as we head into this:

1. Funding journalism is an incredibly complex problem, and it's not a new one. Journalism has *always* struggled with funding. This is a huge problem that needs to be addressed, but it's also not unique to the current moment.

Me: There is no way this week can possibly get dumber

Directors Guild of America: (clears throat) THE FCC IS ACTUALLY A COPYRIGHT AGENCY! STOP BAD COPYRIGHT LADY FROM TOUCHING THE SPECTRUMS!
deadline.com/2022/02/gigi-s… Look, Gigi is a mentor of mine (and, perhaps more critically, a friend). The fact that bad faith shit is completely expected doesn’t make it any less frustratingly stupid.

What can Taylor Swift's ongoing project to re-record her albums teach us about music copyright, licensing, and the state of the industry? Quite a lot, actually!

https://twitter.com/taylornation13/status/1459173957626699778

1. The underlying composition and the actual recorded track are two different things. Taylor's plan to re-record songs that she had already recorded and released has everything to do with how the rights to the original recordings (also known as "masters") were handled.

Stories about my paternal grandmother, a ridiculous human being: a thread. Prompted by LRT: Joss Whedon is navigating the self-made problem of using his nickname on official documents and creating a paperwork conflict.

My grandmother did this too!