No Thunder Edition

My Favorite Things on the Internet This Week

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Sean McDevitt
April 21, 2024

The Weekly Click

Hello internet stranger,

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

Happy clicking!

Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls

The case for making journalism free—at least during the 2024 election

The Most Tragic Star Wars Character is Not the One You Think

It’s not always about the darn Skywalkers

Whitey Herzog, innovative manager, Cardinals champion and creator of 'Whiteyball,' dies at 92

New Athens, Ill., native and Hall of Famer brought World Series championships back to St. Louis through an entertaining brand of baseball that relied on speed, defense.

Into the Tubi-Verse

The growing popularity of a free streaming service with a wonky algorithm and a library that’s both massive and confounding may shed some light on what exactly viewers want from their TV experience

Her and Blade Runner 2049’s Dystopias Get Closer Thanks to New 'A.I. Girlfriends' Market

A tech executive recently said “A.I. girlfriends” is a billion-dollar industry. The horror, the horror.

Linky Goodness

The Bass Player in Vixen Wants to Sell You Your Next House. OJ Simpson handed over only $133,000 of the $33.5 million he was ordered to pay in the deaths of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman. Amazon is filled with garbage ebooks. A new M. Night Shyamalan movie with a good twist: Trap. Just 20 Minutes of Charles Schulz Drawing Peanuts Comics. The PostSecret Digital Museum of Secrets is worth checking out. Wishing for a better Apple Notes. Spend a minute at a park. McDonald's introduces billboards that smell like French fries. The "Mariko Aoki phenomenon" is when you enter a cafe or bookstore and immediately want to use the toilet. As optical illusions go, this is pretty good. James McCartney and Sean Ono Lennon have released a new song called "Primrose Hill." Hemingway’s six-word short story. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and original member of the Allman Brothers Band, Dickie Betts, has died. He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared. Hit Man trailer. In a new video, former MSNBC correspondent Medhi Hasan lays out a rapid-fire parade of horrible on Trump's first-100-day checklist if he is elected once again to the Presidency: declaring martial law, purging civil servants, stacking the government with sociopathic loyalists, persecuting opponents and the free press, re-instituting the racist Muslim ban, unleashing jackbooted thugs to terrorize immigrants, stripping trans people of health care, and jailing his political enemies. It’s hard to remember all the scandals, so here’s a refresher from Rachel Maddow.

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