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My Favorite Things on the Internet This Week

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Sean McDevitt
September 01, 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.

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Online happenings that made my week.

Oasis Are Definitely, Not Maybe, Reuniting

Oasis is going on a reunion tour. “This is it, this is happening,” the Gallagher brothers wrote on social media with a teaser video, sharing their first tour dates in 16 years. I never really got into them, so I started a Spotify playlist.

House of Ideas

Marvel celebrates its 85th year in 2024, a kinda-sorta anniversary the company has marked with some special comics and merchandise — and now a YouTube video that contains clips of Marvel writer Stan Lee, current Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige, and assorted images from throughout Marvel’s long history.

Interpolating?

Rick Beato outlines the latest practice in popular music…interpolation. It’s all bullshit, though. It’s just a term that lawyers came up with for stealing.

Good Boy

Dodgers fans are notorious for arriving late to games. But not when there’s a Shohei Ohtani bobblehead to be had. Shohei Ohtani bobblehead night: Dodgers star makes MLB history after catching first pitch from his dog.

Jessie’s Girl

Ryan Cook says sometimes you just gotta play Rick Springfield.

The articles you should read today.

'Super/Man' Trailer Reveals Emotional Christopher Reeve Documentary

The trailer for "Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story" reveals an emotional documentary about the life and activism of the "Superman" actor.

OpenAI searches for an answer to its copyright problems

The final boss of the internet: copyright.

Laughing at Trump

Democrats are testing a new strategy.

White Sox Almost Win

A late-game defensive replacement is kind of like a vomit bag on an airplane: Most of the time you don’t even notice it’s there, but when you need it, you need it.

You Should Run a Privacy Audit on Your iPhone

There's never a bad time to check all the permissions your iPhone apps have access to and to revoke access to unnecessary data.

What Does Jack Smith’s New Indictment Against Trump Mean?

The special counsel has taken a crack at addressing the Supreme Court’s bombshell immunity ruling.

Quotes, sayings, and other scribblings.

“I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me.” — Walt Whitman

When I’m about to listen to a new album from a band I like, I’m way more worried that it will suck than excited about all the new songs.

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” — Douglas Adams

Gin and djinn are pronounced the same way. Both are spirits in a bottle.

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”— Christopher Reeve

You cannot pretend to play the air guitar.

“I love actual writing. And there’s nothing weird in loving the act of putting words down, moving them around, cutting and replacing them, getting them wrong and getting them better. Writing can be hard and dispiriting. But, honestly, for me? Most of the time there’s joy in it. You’re allowed to love it and don’t let anyone convince you otherwise.” — Warren Ellis

You never hear about things vanishing into thick air.

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