Cherish It Always Edition

Hello internet stranger,

Sorry, I’m late.

The Weekly Click is a weekly (shocking, I know) updated list of interesting bits on the internet that I thought I’d share.

Happy clicking!

1. Will Leitch on the big game: A Super Bowl That Went From Dud to Dynamite. More from Leitch: The unique magic of Patrick Mahomes

2. RELATED: According to Variety, 123.4 million people tuned in to watch the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers in overtime last Sunday. It was the highest number of people watching the same broadcast in television history. Woah.

3. UNFORTUNATELY RELATED: Of course, the victory parade for the Chiefs in Kansas City was marred by gunfire. It appears to have stemmed from a dispute between several people, including two armed juveniles. Here’s the latest from CNN. We are not the only country this happens to, but we are the only one who does nothing about it.

4. RELATED IN THE BEST WAY: Dunkin’ ‘The DunKings – Extended Cut’ “Maybe it's the voice of reason.” “Nah... I don't have that voice... believe me.” Hilarious.

5. I highly recommend watching The Greatest Night in Pop. It’s an amazing look back at the night Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones pulled off the recording of “We Are the World.” The bit with Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder is incredible. I had never heard the story about Prince, and watching Steve Perry nail his part in one take blew my mind.

6. One of my favorite books (and movies), Andy Weir’s The Martian, is celebrating a ten-year anniversary. How do you mark the occasion? Weir decided to write a new “lost” chapter of the book.

7. OMG. LeVar Burton hosts an episode of Banned Book Rainbow, “where we talk about books that have been banned by adults who don’t want kids to learn or grow or change, and have totally lost their sense of wonder.” This is great.

8. Rick Beato explains what happened to music between 1994 and 2000. Post-Grunge and Pre-Internet. Amazing.

9. Marvel Studios announced the cast of its upcoming Fantastic Four movie by posting a Valentine's Day card on social media showing a comic book-style illustration of the actors in character. I love Pedro Pascal and absolutely hate him as Reed Richards. However, I’m reminded how much I disliked the casting of Michael Keaton as Batman many moons ago, and I will just wait and see. Everybody else is perfect. I hope it’s set on a parallel Earth during the 1960s.

10. The only good news about the news is that Jon Stewart is back on The Daily Show. He returns for the first time since 2015. Here’s his first episode back. For what it’s worth, “Indecision 2024: Antiques Roadshow” is a “chef’s kiss” level joke. Yes, Biden is old. Trump is also old, but also a fascist and a rapist. Not gonna lie; the choice is easy. Biden and Trump are both too old – but only one is a traitor.

11. Stuart Stevens — a Lincoln Project advisor who worked on Mitt Romney's campaign in 2012 — reminds the GOP of what brought their party to ruin: Donald Trump.

12. Robert Reich: “If you're having trouble keeping track, a date was set today for Trump's adult-film-star-hush-money trial in New York— not to be confused with his espionage trial, the federal January 6 trial, or the election interference trial in Georgia.” It’s March 25.

13. Millie Bobby Brown plays a princess betrothed to a prince. She thinks she’s maybe getting one of them fairy tale endings we’ve all heard so much about. Nope! Turns out she’s really wanted as a human sacrifice to a dragon. Seems unfair. Watch the trailer for Damsel. Good title.

14. A moon lander launched from Florida hoping to be the first lunar touchdown by a private business.

15. Simon Dillon on AI writing. Strong stand.

16. Rolling Stone has an incredible profile on Kristen Stewart. Good read.

17. Esquire thinks Merrick Garland should be thanked for his service and shown the door. Buh bye.

18. GQ features Cillian Murphy, who they’ve dubbed the man of the moment. Interesting.

19. This isn’t going to go away: The AI Deepfakes Problem Is Going to Get Unstoppably Worse

20. Sonequa Martin-Green Teases a Big Twist in Star Trek: Discovery's Final Season. Calling it right here: The Star Trek Discovery version of Star Trek is in a parallel universe from the prime universe (Star Trek TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and Picard). The ramifications are that Star Trek Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks are also in that different universe.

21. This seems bad, and right as Spring Training starts: Nike And Fanatics Have Truly Fucked Up MLB’s New Uniforms

22. Ever wanted to read some Doctor Who scripts? Here they all are. Looks like a couple of hundred are available for download.

23. AI Girlfriends Are a Privacy Nightmare. I’m shocked! Shocked that there’s grifting going on here.

24. Liberals are always right.

25. Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED? What a great video on Shuji Nakamura and what he accomplished.

26. Kevin Von Erich doesn’t believe in curses. I don’t either, but his family was certainly cursed.

27. OpenAI unveils Sora, a near-photorealistic text-to-video model with unprecedented coherency. Feast your eyes on a gray-haired man with a beard in his 60s, deep in thought, a drone view of waves crashing at Big Sur, and reflections in the window of a train in the Tokyo suburbs. Unreal. Literally.

28. Republicans Are No Longer a Political Party

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