I don’t even know what is going on this weekend. I’ve been deep in “party mode”, which is fun, but exhausting! Friday night my neighbor who is a Julliard trained opera conductor hosted a holiday party. Friends with beautiful voices sang carols and played instruments and otherwise made me feel inadequate. It was great.
Sunday night was my annual cookie exchange, which was a little more low key than in years past but still a lot of fun. As I write this, I’ve probably had 1.5 bottles of wine, a gummy, and about 20 cookies.
So yeah, as far as the news goes, IDK!
Here goes nothing…
SPROTS were exciting this weekend:
An immortal World Cup final rewards Argentina’s Lionel Messi at last
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/12/18/lionel-messi-argentina-france-world-cup-final/
LOL this fucking idiot.
Twitter says it will no longer allow ‘free promotion’ of other social media platforms
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/18/twitter-says-it-will-no-longer-allow-free-promotion-of-other-social-media-platforms.html
Stonks!
How Sam Bankman-Fried swindled $8 billion in customer money, according to federal prosecutors
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/18/how-sam-bankman-fried-ran-8-billion-fraud-government-prosecutors.html
Good news if you’re a foreigner stuck in Peru…
Peru evacuates hundreds of stranded tourists
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/peru-machu-picchu-tourists-evacuation-intl-hnk/index.html
Ugh.
Major winter storm expected to hit much of US before Christmas
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/18/us-major-winter-storm-expected-christmas
I’m so over the parties now! I can’t wait to sit on my ass and watch TV and drink egg nog over the Christmas weekend.
Have a great day!
Fucking idiot indeed.
For those not aware:
Musk argued that he could no longer allow “relentless free advertising of competitors” on his social media platform, while then adding that “no traditional publisher allows this and neither will Twitter.”
By claiming Twitter is a “traditional publisher,” Elmo becomes liable for everything posted on the site. Now think about the trolls, antivaxxers, election deniers, and general shitposters that infest Twitter and have been growing. That’s … a lot of liability.
He’s a complete charlatan who doesn’t seem to realize the difference between being a leader and a pollster.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-users-vote-elon-musk-quit-ceo-poll-rcna62332
…jinx?
Let’s say, “Great minds thinking alike.”
…in added fun&games…or bread&circuses…he walked back the ban on mentioning other platforms to “some mentions is fine but constant promotion isnt” whatever the hell that means…but he also ran a poll in which apparently 10million+ people voted for him to step down as CEO
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/19/elon-musk-says-step-down-twitter-ceo-poll-tesla
…which…may be window dressing…he & jared were hanging out with their bankers at the world cup final…& it’s possible he was told to find a replacement…he said back in nov that was the plan but the timetable may have been “clarified” before the poll
…though…if I’m honest…I’d prefer to believe that briana wu reverse psychology’d his ass?
Elmo claiming that something he’s being forced to do is his own idea is pretty on-brand.
Snoop Dogg asking if he should run Twitter and getting overwhelmingly positive responses was just perfect, too!
Snoop would 100% be a better CEO than Elmo. Snoop has a brain. Elmo’s just a right-wing windbag who got lucky and mistreats employees at all of his companies.
Who knew that twitter would be Elmo’s Waterloo?
I don’t think I’ve ever linked to this here, but writer Mark Evanier posts it every year, and it always makes me smile. Evanier’s a script and comic writer in California who’s been around forever and has a jillion stories about Hollywood and actors.
https://www.newsfromme.com/2022/12/18/my-xmas-story-2022/
I loved the way he kept tiptoeing up to a massive rant about the kids today and then stepping back from the edge.
Outstanding. Thank you for posting that.
He is the fucking Grinch!
https://truthout.org/articles/for-profit-child-care-chains-donated-to-manchin-after-he-blocked-universal-care/
A republican that makes shit up? Nah…
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/12/new-gop-congressman-seems-have-made-most
So the NYT just gets around to uncovering this Santos dude’s lies and bullshit now, weeks after the election? Funny, that.
…speaking of things that aren’t funny & the NYT…I thought it was a bad joke…but the Sunday crossword grid was basically a swastika…coinciding with (I believe) the first day of hanukkah
…& to add insult to injury…a tweet surfaced denying the crossword intentionally resembled a swastika
…from…the last time it happened
…big oof
WTF? 😲
…so…I thought it was maybe photoshop when I first saw it somewhere…but
…& there’s enthusiast sites that talk about it
https://crosswordfiend.com/2022/12/17/sunday-december-18-2022/
…somewhere I saw a remark from the guy who set it that it was “one of his favourite open middles” which is either truly fucked up or breathtakingly obtuse given the gridwork surrounding it…but…I guess maybe when crossword obsessives look at the thing they…don’t see it…somehow?
P.S.
I didn’t read the Times link but that election was notable because both the D and the R were openly gay and apparently it was the first Congressional election where this was the case. So, progress, I guess, except that even if everything Santos said about himself were true, he’d still be a zany Trumpist nutjob. Good work, Sean Patrick Maloney, head of the DCCC, who lost this seat along with his own, in part by funneling all that DCCC money into his own failed re-election bid.
Here’s an organization I never knew existed:
https://theaapc.org
I’ll refrain from describing my personal feelings about the intellectual and moral caliber of its membership.
welp…better late than never
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/19/europe/dutch-prime-minister-apologizes-slavery-netherlands-intl-scli/index.html
now lets see if we actually do anything with it from here