Sun said on Wednesday that the piece was “not just an artwork; it represents a cultural phenomenon that bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the cryptocurrency community”.

He added that he planned “in the coming days” to “personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience, honoring its place in both art history and popular culture”.

"UPenn is a land-grant institution."

The things you learn on HN.

I'm not a hypocrite. I just have gerrymandered principles.

The buyer should open source the instructions so that everyone can have art.

Someone Is About to Pay $1 Million or More for a Banana Duct-Taped to a Wall. Sotheby’s will auction the artwork by artist Maurizio Cattelan on Wednesday; it comes with instructions on how to refresh the piece with new bananas and tape.

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/sotheby-s-auction-banana-duct-tape-maurizio-cattelan-art-basel-miami-02231817

Tough times for the Disney adults.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/disney-social-clubs-disneyland-theme-parks-03b580d0

Not sure I like dune really leaning into the mysticism. Is there a science behind this dark magic?

Searched for whale fur jacket. Was not disappointed.

Oh, wow, the Witcher queen is now the dunc queen.

The DOJ should take chrome away from Google, then split it up among the populace. Everyone between the ages of 18 and 60 will be assigned ten lines of code to maintain. A true browser of the people, for the people, by the people.

I want my DUNC TV.

TBD: two bug day

The street-team police robot had made its gross check of the scooter and discovered the failed deflector— or, rather, since deflectors never failed and such a possibility was not in its programming, it had listed the scooter as performing safely. This was so contrary to witness reports that a policeman had cautiously mounted the scooter, tried it, and discovered the failure for himself.

Pretending that the word jockeyed is an adjective for someone with athletic eyeballs.

Walked by the Apple Store. The nanotex displays do look good.

Reading a used book and previous owner was Korean, so now I'm learning Korean by reading the translation notes they left, but only for the words like "ostentatious" and "parochial" that they didn't know.

Where's the beef?

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/subway-philly-cheesesteak-class-action-lawsuit-20241114.html

The food labeling threads on HN bring out the best Venn diagram of big gubment lovers and haters. Free speech absolutists meet highly regulated milk purity laws.

The blacked out PDF is the leak that keeps on leaking.

https://www.inquirer.com/education/cherry-hill-mistake-students-sexual-education-20241115.html

My friend has a philosophy that “flavor to the face” is what she’s seeking. And to be honest, that’s also what I want: something memorable. I wish to be punched by a fish.

My lemmyverse feed is now 100% posting about bluesky.

You ever read a lesswrong post and wonder what a morewrong post would be like?

My personal opinion is that some of you people talking about Jeff Bridges speech you are judging him and putting him down number 1 Thats Wrong No Matter What !!!!!! Number 2 it’s non of anybody’s business why he talks the way he does if you don’t like the way he talks then don’t watch anything he’s in simple as that Stop passing judgement on other people you have no right what so ever to do that maybe some of you need to look in the mirror before you even think about saying something about someone else !!!!