Kyle Nowak

📽️ This week, the Library of Congress unveiled its annual list of 25 films to be inducted into the National Film Registry (NFR) for preservation. And it’s giving nostalgia.

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🔥 It’s Friday, December 15th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

“One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.”

–Mary Engelbreit (b.1952)

✈️ The global airline industry currently spends ~$500 million per year on movies, TV shows, live TV, podcasts, and music, per a new report – and that number is only expected to go up.

🔥 It’s Thursday, December 14th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

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“The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.”

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

This weekly section delivers the most outlandish, off-the-wall, and occasionally laugh-out-loud news stories of the week, as well as some hilarious or… curious synchronicities crowdsourced from around the world.

Countries at COP28 agreed to the first global pact to move away from fossil fuels; Israel reportedly began pumping seawater into Hamas’ complex of tunnels underneath Gaza; & more.

❓ Our question to you: Do you agree with the federal jury’s decision that found Google’s Play Store represents an illegal monopoly?

🚘⏪ Tesla is recalling more than 2 million vehicles – nearly all of its cars on US roads – following a federal investigation of crashes involving its self-driving Autopilot feature.

⚖️💊 The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case challenging the FDA’s expanded access to the abortion pill mifepristone, marking its first abortion case since overturning Roe v. Wade.

⚡🤖 Microsoft is betting on nuclear power, aka the holy grail of energy production, to meet the company’s rapidly growing energy needs as it expands further into AI and supercomputing.

⚖️ Epic Games was handed a victory royale over Google on Monday, when a federal jury ruled the tech giant’s Android operating system runs its app store as an illegal monopoly – a decision that could upend how businesses make money on in-app purchases.

📺👀 Yesterday, Netflix released its first “What We Watched” report, which provides a look into something the public has never seen before – viewership stats on nearly all of its shows and movies.

🌏 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with US lawmakers in DC; China has overtaken the US as the world’s largest coffee shop market; & more.

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🔥 It’s Wednesday, December 13th – and here’s what’s hot, hot, hot.

“Be approximately right rather than exactly wrong.”

–John Tukey (1915-2000)