The Year in Review 2023
The best headlines of 2023
Here are the headlines of 2023 that caught my attention. We start with the most important scientific discovery of the 21st century.
And speaking of ecstatic animals, we have bears exhibiting self-love.
But not every animal story is happy.
How was life for humans this year?
Yikes! But at least the economy is good, right?
At least some journalists are telling it like it is:
It turns out the people who run businesses don’t really understand anything.
But we have AI now! That must be good, right?
I always thought computers couldn’t achieve sentience, but I guess if they can have mental illness, then I will welcome them into the fold of conscious beings.
How else has AI made the headlines this year?
So, AI is having a totally normal year.
There have been some good things this year. For example:
Pretty sure that’s a potato.
I’m assuming it came from aliens. And in other science and technology news:
I love that Americans refuse to use the metric system to the point that we will give something’s dimensions in horses. Are those horses stacked on top of each other? Are they packed like sardines?
And apparently this is the year we learn to use female mice in experimentation?
And for people who love air but hate trees, here’s a new invention:
What else has been discovered this year?
Is this the year we hack our minds?
I hope they were memories of going to the beach and feeling loved.
“Good morning students. Today we will do a lesson plan I wrote in my dreams. First we all need to turn into horses.”
But at leaste we didn’t make zombies. Oh wait…
How is policing doing this year?
I totally read this as ‘poop’.
Law enforcement is keeping us safe from pet goats and babies.
Let’s check in on our British friends and see how their year is going. I’m sure they have perfectly normal opinions over there.
And totally normal things are happening.
Okay, but things are pretty cool in Taiwan:
And in Spain, a new hero emerges:
And Hong Kong had a beautiful moment:
France:
Canada:
Italy
Argentina:
And in Holland:
Did they succeed?
And Poland:
And Peru:
How was US political discourse?
I wonder what led to such stupidity? Maybe it has something to do with how notable journals report on the news?
Or how they make horrible failures by the wealthy seem ok.
There has been resistance to the shitty world, at least.
But then people tried to sell dissent as a product.
But some people held to their principles.
And the orcas are resisting, and that gives me hope.
These three articles coming out in quick succession made my day.
I love orcas. The salmon hats may be 40-year-old news, but it’s new to me.
And in other ocean news:
How’s crypto currency going?
And war?
I have to admit, this next one’s pretty cool.
There was also a lot of UFO news, but we’re all so exhasuted form life on Ereath we hardly noticed.
Billionaires have spent the year being very not normal.
And here’s something that sadly never happened:
I wanted them both to lose.
And life imitates art:
Let’s see how robotics has been going:
But there have been some heroes:
How do people allow these sorts of things to happen?
In local news:
And in slightly less local news:
And there’s been a lot of unionizing this year, and the inevitable corporate backlash:
In culture news:
What’s life without a little risk?
I hate that I understand the meaning of the next headline:
That sentence makes me want to abolish the English language,
This is the worst news in this entire piece.
In business news:
In religious news:
I’m still stuck on nuns owning stock in weapons manufacturers.
As we enter the last year of the first quarter of the 21st century, let’s see what other ridiculous things the inhabitants of this weird planet get up to. Let’s walk boldly into the future in our shiny red McDonald’s Crocs.