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Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Who’s to say this isn’t art?

Self-proclaimed meme artist Sunday Nobody went to incredible lengths to create his hot dog sculptures, fabricating a custom mold to melt down blocks of ice from leftover water from cooking 394 hot dogs.

He then mailed them in unrefrigerated containers so that when they arrived, they would just be... jars of hot dog water. Don’t worry, people knew what they were buying:

Unrefrigerated hot dog shaped ice sculpture made from frozen hot dog water. When it arrives the ice sculpture will just be a puddle of melted hot dog water in a sealed container. Glass container is hermetically sealed with waterproof and smell proof silicon sealant. Comes with a numbered polaroid picture documenting the ice sculpture before its death by melting.

Amrita Khalid
Amrita Khalid
TikTok has been testing full-length podcasts.

A new feature lets users import full shows via their RSS feed and link them to shorter clips — potentially a big new way to boost discovery.

TikTok’s global product communications manager Zachary Kizer confirmed that the company is testing the podcast feature with some US users, but declined to share further details.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
The Zelda: TotK and BotW horse-riding music looks as hard to play as it sounds.

TikTok creator Nahre Sol put up a couple of masterful, quick breakdowns of the songs that play when you ride a horse, in both The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and its prequel, Breath of the Wild.

The songs are slightly different whether you’re riding during the day or at night, and both look... challenging.

Makena Kelly
Makena Kelly
Ron DeSantis might want to ban TikTok, if elected president.

DeSantis wouldn’t commit to banning the app, but said its connections to China raised some serious concerns.

“At the end of the day I don’t want big brother to be getting into everybody’s apps,” told The Wall Street Journal. “I think it’s creating a security vulnerability for us. I think they are mining a lot of data.”

Honestly, it’s a surprising position to take on the same day the DeSantis super PAC, Never Back Down, disclosed $2 million worth of funding from Doug Leone, a partner of Sequoia Capital which is one of TikTok’s largest investors.