Russell Brand’s Pubic Hair Removed From London Museum After Rape Conviction
Oh. Uh…I suppose taking the pubic hair of convicted felons off display is probably also a good practice?
Viktor Wynd, the eccentric collector behind the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History in Hackney, confirmed that he removed the unusual artifact from his collection in the wake of Brand’s legal troubles.
“I took them straight off display and have no desire to hear his name again – he has no place in my museum of horrors,” Wynd told Variety on Wednesday afternoon. “My museum is full of disgusting things but even I have limits.”
The Cybertruck will wind up selling well short of 100,000 units across its entire lifetime.
Monday, November 9th, 2026
In December of 2023, I stated that Tesla’s Cybertruck should not exist. For the past three years, it has indeed existed, in all its eye-rolling whatever-the-opposite-of-glory-is.
Two years later, I made note of the Cybertruck’s paltry sales numbers, which have continued to fail to impress. After moving about 39,000 of their massively overpriced vehicles in 2024, the company sold just over 20,000 in 2025. Sales have trended down further, with a paltry 11,500 sales through the first three quarters of 2026.
I don’t want a machine to fake a dog for me, either.
Friday, November 6th, 2026
For over a decade, Matt Nelson has been delighting the world by rating dogs online. Now, the New York Times has a wonderful profile on him and his team, including Javier, the current CEO.
Nelson and his fiancée, a therapist, adopted Javier, a street dog from Tijuana, from a rescue organization in L.A. “He was found in the trash, but not in, like, a bad way,” Nelson said. “He was just rummaging through the trash and loving it.”
Nelson, Javier, and everyone else at WeRateDogs are doing great work.
A.I. food art has rapidly become an extreme red flag for me. If a restaurant uses it on their signage, I’m likely to steer clear of them entirely. Just take a photo of the thing you make!1
My pal Andy Ihnatko sagely noted Anthony Bourdain’s rule against eating at a restaurant with a filthy bathroom, and proposed the presence of A.I. food art as a similarly useful filter. I agree. Whatever the reality may be, the use of A.I.-generated food imagery smacks of a lack of dedication to their craft.
Recently, though, some innocent restaurants got the short end of it. In the UK, food delivery platform Just Eat started generating A.I. slop images for their dishes. As you can see, this led to some very dumb results.
Even if we ignore the very incorrect tigers, I don’t think that dish would be a soup.
Footnotes:
I do acknowledge that photographing food in an appetizing way takes a bit of work. Still, A.I. fakery is far worse than either a mediocre photo or no photo. ↩︎
In what must be seen as a repudiation of Donald Trump’s abhorrent second term as president, as well as the failures of the Republican-controlled House and Senate to actually govern, yesterday’s elections saw voters across America shift left in remarkable numbers. As a result, Democrats will take control of both the House and Senate in January. When they do, the legislative branch can hopefully return to its proper role providing a check on the executive branch, rather than a rubber stamp for it.
One election isn’t going to solve all the problems in America. Nevertheless, I find myself with a newly restored hope for the future. Even with billionaires (and one odious trillionaire) donating sickening amounts of money in an attempt to buy themselves a government, we can still make progress toward a more perfect union. And if you don’t believe it, consider that yesterday saw the election of America’s first Muslim senator (Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan). It saw the election of our first openly gay senator (Chris Pappas of New Hampshire). We elected our first Black female governor (Keisha Lance Bottoms in Georgia)1, along with our first female Native American senator and governor (Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota and Deb Haaland in New Mexico, respectively). That’s a lot of firsts, and you can bet that they won’t be lasts.
Progress toward government that represents all of America is marching on. That’s how it’s supposed to work. It’s nice to see that it still can.
Footnotes:
I’m not sure which is a funnier name, “Governor Bottoms” or “Governor Lance Bottoms”, but I love it either way. ↩︎
Though the company did defeat a fairly ridiculous lawsuit, I noted that they should still knock off their nonsense. They had two reasonable options available to them. Either make the candy look like the picture on the wrapper, or make the wrapper look like the candy.
It appears they’ve gone another route. Here’s a Reese’s peanut butter ghost I received around Halloween:
They’ve kept the false imagery, but added a disclaimer. What a terrible third option they cooked up.
With an unbent paper clip and a little effort, I managed to flip their lie around, making the disclaimer wrong and the art accurate(ish):
New speed cameras at Norpoint Way and Marine View Drive in Northeast Tacoma photographed almost 400,000 drivers exceeding the corridor’s 40 mph speed limit between Sept. 14 and Oct. 11, according to city data…In total, approximately 515,000 vehicles drove through the corridor in the same period, meaning that roughly 77% were speeding. On average, the cameras photographed slightly more than 14,000 speeders daily.
That’s really just a tremendous amount of speeding. In fact, it’s so much speeding that the company in charge of sending out tickets was overwhelmed. As a result, the city has decided to send just 100 tickets a day, meaning speeders have a 0.71% chance of facing a penalty.
Game 6 of the WNBA Finals took place yesterday, but it would have been extremely easy for you to miss, because the Golden State Valkyries and Atlanta Dream tipped off in Georgia at a ridiculous 12:30 PM Eastern. For Valkyries fans back in California, that was 9:30 in the goddamned morning Pacific. That’s a travesty, and it didn’t have to be that way. Thankfully for those who wanted to watch, Flavor Flav declared it a paid holiday, and Hillary Clinton endorsed the message.
Ultimately, there was no 3 PM title celebration, because the Dream got an early afternoon W to even the series at 3 games a piece. Game 7 will now take place back in San Francisco on Halloween night, at 8 PM Eastern/5 PM Pacific, a far more fitting time slot for a championship-clinching game.
