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My Favorite Things on the Internet This Week
Hello internet stranger,
The Weekly Click is a weekly (shocking, I know) updated list of interesting bits on the internet that I thought I’d share.
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@JoJoFromJerz: “Kissinger meets his maker (see below), Trump gets gagged again, homophobic Moms for Liberty founder gets caught in a bisexual throuple, Ron DeSantis gets smoked by Gavin Newsom, and George Santos gets expelled from Congress. This was one helluva week folks.”
Henry Kissinger is dead at 100. Rolling Stone says, “Good Riddance.” It’s also a great reason to re-read the incredible Christopher Hitchens on Kissenger. He didn’t like him much. Robert Reich doesn’t either.
A man was arrested at Disneyland in California after stripping off his clothes, disembarking the ride’s boat, and wandering around the attraction’s set. He had shorts on while frolicking through the ride, but when apprehended in the canal outside the ride, he was fully naked. What an idiot…
Speaking of idiots… in his ongoing attempt to destroy Twitter, Elon Musk suggests former advertisers indulge in auto-copulation. A clammy, twitchy, agitated Elon Musk took the stage at The New York Times’ DealBook summit today and told former Twitter advertisers to “Go f*ck yourself.” Musk told the brands who left because of his bizarre and offensive tweets to “Don’t advertise.” Pretty sure they won’t, moron. As a financial investment, he has taken $44 billion (mostly his and his banks’ money, with a few billion coming from other investors) and lit it on fire. I can’t wait for Automattic to buy Twitter after it goes completely bankrupt.
RELATED: Drew Magary sums up the end of Musk in a scathing piece.
High-quality video of Rush's Neil Peart practicing the drums for half an hour. Nothing more, nothing less.
Sandra Day O’Connor, First Woman on the Supreme Court, Is Dead at 93.
How to Give Netflix, Hulu, and Other Streaming Services As Gifts. Really important notes here.
Chris Lewicki recounts a story about how he almost killed a half-billion-dollar Mars rover. Yikes.
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the death of George Floyd, is expected to survive following an attack in a prison in Arizona. Sigh.
Here's Atlas Obscura's list of America's Grandest Gas Stations. I’ve driven past that Amoco sign. Point of order: the list is missing The World’s Largest Truckstop, but I guess… semantics.
Tonight, we’re gonna rock you tonight! A sequel to Spinal Tap is announced. Rob Reiner will direct. Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer return. Paul McCartney and Elton John will appear. The sequel will surely go to 11.
This segment by Rachel Madow is worth a watch. It does a great job of explaining how social media and our current political environment can lead to very different responses to the same event.
Can you guess who is Spotify’s most streamed artist globally? If you can’t guess who it is, you probably have been having a cruel summer…
A hard-earned list of life lessons you shouldn’t wait too long to learn.
Billionaire and key Republican donor Charles Koch today endorsed Nikki Haley as the best bet to beat Donald Trump in the GOP primaries, conspicuously dumping previous beneficiary Ron DeSantis in favor of the former U.N. ambassador. Good luck… I guess.
Hear 'n Aid was a 1986 hard rock/heavy metal charity album that raised $3 million for famine relief in Africa. The lead single 'Stars' (video) has six guitar solos, eight lead vocalists, and is ten minutes long. It was glorious. I wore out my VHS copy…
It's time to go back to the sublime madness of George Miller. The "Furiosa" trailer is here.
Legendary British comedian Stephen Fry read aloud a powerful letter written by musician Nick Cave in response to fans Leon and Charlie, who asked him about ChatGPT and human creativity. Suffice to say, Cave is not a big fan of the subject.
Simon Dillon on Doctor Who at 60. RELATED: A look back at its last major anniversary celebration, the awesome “Day of the Doctor.”
Michigan Won At All Costs and Your Team Would Too. I love Will Leitch’s writing, but no, I don’t think the University of Illinois would win at all costs. I get that attitude—fans do not care about cheating, lying, etc., as long as the team wins. However, I think having integrity is more important.
RELATED: Drew Magary (yes, him again) rips into the Big Ten Championship game with his usual aplomb. It hasn’t happened yet as of this writing, but I’m sure the Wolverines decimated the Hawkeyes.
The Boys’ fourth season comes to Prime Video in 2024. Here’s the trailer.
Futurism reported that Sports Illustrated has been publishing AI-written stories under the bylines of journalists who do not, strictly speaking, "exist." David Roth, writing at Defector, rightfully goes off on it. It’s pretty great.
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