Starting the Day Right Edition

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.

Happy clicking!

1. Important stuff for later on today: Super Bowl Cheat Sheet: The 25 Things You Need to Know About the Chiefs-49ers Matchup.

2. RELATED: Who Should You Pick Against the Spread in Super Bowl LVIII? I don’t gamble but to each their own.

3. ALSO RELATED: Danielle Cohen unpacks the many reasons, as a person who knows nothing about football, why she plans to watch the Super Bowl.

4. NOT REALLY RELATED, BUT MAYBE: Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) will be available exclusively on Disney+ starting March 15th.

5. Fox Corp., Warner Bros. Discovery, and Disney are creating a single joint venture for streaming sports. Welcome to the future. I wonder how Peacock and Paramount+ will react?

6. Stephen Colbert sits down with Oppenheimer writer and director Christopher Nolan for a wide-ranging interview set in a very apropos location: Albert Einstein’s office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5.

7. The Trump Election Immunity Ruling, Annotated. A three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals For the District of Columbia Circuit has unanimously rejected Trump's claim of absolute immunity. “For the purpose of this criminal case, former President Trump has become citizen Trump, with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant.” Ahem. Well, duh. The next step is the Supreme Court, of course, where I expect an 8-1 decision against Trump, with only Alito dissenting. We'll see.

8. RELATED: Trump’s Embarrassing Immunity Arguments Have Been Thoroughly Shredded

9. Toby Keith - 1961-2024 Country singer Toby Keith passed away in his sleep at the age of 62. He revealed he’d been battling stomach cancer in 2022.

10. College Athletes Just Got Even Closer to Becoming Employees. This is a big deal and will affect colleges and universities across the country.

11. The full performance of “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman with Luke Combs at the Grammys is pretty amazing. In 1989, I did not like this song. In 2024, I’m still not a big fan, and I’m sincerely only tolerating the Combs version. However, at this stage, I should accept it for what it is—a great song, that’s not for me.

12. RELATED: A Rare Moment Americans Could All Share

13. What do Taylor Swift and Elon Musk have in common? They’d both like to silence the student who tracks and shares the whereabouts of celebrity jets.

14. Previously limited to users by invitation only, the X (née Twitter) competitor Bluesky is now open to the public. Yippie? I have an account there and have never posted. Maybe I should give it a shot?

15. RELATED: What a Mess.

16. The Best Movies You Can’t Actually Stream Anywhere Right Now

17. Director Greta Gerwig explains why 10 am and 4 pm are the best times to watch a movie.

18. Vanity Fair has an oral history of the early days of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. When I would stay up to watch these talk shows, his was one of the weirdest.

19. How AI tools are helping people write “high-speed semi-automated genre fiction”. Finally, the assembly line has entered indie publishing! “It starts to make you wonder, do I even have any talent if a computer can just mimic me?”

20. Buckingham Palace reports that King Charles has cancer. The diagnosis came after treatment for an enlarged prostate, but it is not prostate cancer. I don’t believe it. I’m sure it will end up being prostate cancer.

21. Cory Doctorow talks about how he got scammed into giving someone his credit card number. If Cory can get scammed, anyone can — all it takes is getting caught at a moment when your guard is down.

22. One of the few movies I’m looking forward to this year is Deadpool 3. According to Matthew Vaughn, Deadpool 3 will fix all of Marvel's problems. That would be a neat trick. Also, there’s this silly tidbit: Deadpool's Creator Is Leaving the Character Behind.

23. 36 Larger-Than-Life Facts About André the Giant. I did not know #20. I thought it was Ted Cassidy every time.

24. In multiple replays of a wargame simulation, OpenAI's chatbot elects to launch nuclear attacks. That seems bad.

25. The 10 Greatest DC and Marvel Comics Crossovers Ever. I’d forgotten about a couple of these, and I’d definitely flip #2 and #1.

26. Mojo Nixon, the alt-rock pioneer best known for his 1987 cult hit “Elvis Is Everywhere,” died from a “cardiac event,” the singer’s family announced. He was 66. My favorite song of his was “Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child.”

27. Rebecca Solnit with inciteful notes on How to Comment on Social Media.

28. This is insane. A Very Brief Analysis: The Phantom Menace is 12 hours long and full of Star Wars lore. I kind of wish I had the time to watch this.

29. Wired has excerpts from a new novel entitled, 2054: A Novel. It’s a sequel to 2034: A Novel of the Next World War. I remember the first book coming out and being interested in it, but I didn’t purchase it.

30. Where have all the websites gone?

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