Life Hack: Harness The Energy Of HRC Learning About The New Indictments Whilst On Maddow.
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Good morning, poppets! Since I’m waiting for the cold brew to kick in… Something something charming, something something witty, call to action to START READING STUFF ON THE INTERWEBS!
This morning, I kicked off the day by listening to the latest episode of Behind the Bastards, because it is revisiting Sam Bankman-Fried re: his bail revoking and Jamie Loftus is guesting and omg, chef’s kisses all around.
Um, ahoy hoy? This is the energy we all need today: ‘Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Says She Ate Magic Mushrooms During China Visit’ (HuffPost)
Look, I’ve yelled about it a ton, but perhaps we all need the NYT to yell about it as well: ‘This Is a Reminder That You’re Probably Oversharing on Venmo’. And hey Brian X. Chen, while I loved the article, this first graf isn’t great for my social anxiety: “There’s an app for snooping on your friends, family and colleagues to find out about their fancy dinners, the people they are dating and the parties they are attending that you weren’t invited to.” I wasn’t thinking about that before - but I am now!
Related to what I wrote last week, this is why we can’t just automatically celebrate something solely because a woman is involved: ‘‘Better martyrs’: the growing role of women in the far-right movement’ (The Guardian).
As if I needed another reason to be smug about being a Bolt driver vs. a Tesla driver, Mum of the Missive sent this our way: Motor Mouth: Elon Musk cheated and he’s going to get away with it (Driving), which is based on this banger of an investigative story in Reuters: “Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints” It’s jaw dropping! “According to Reuters, not only has Tesla been deliberately programming its cars to exaggerate their range estimations, it has set up an entire division to deny and obfuscate owners’ accusations that such exaggerations exist”. OK, on a personal note, I am glad that this is an instance where my refusal to let my battery go below 25% out of severe range anxiety would have served me well.
Meanwhile, this is the only tweet I care about re: the whole Elon Musk / Mark Zuckerberg BS:
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go down a rabbit hole on the Georgia RICO case against the former president and his merry band of co-conspirators: Georgia indictment lays out Trump election plot in all its shocking detail (The Guardian)
You’re all lovely. Drink some water, get outside, and be kind to each other, won’t you?
xoxo Amy