Passengers described the chaos as people’s cell phones and belongings were sucked out of the gaping hole in the plane.
[Not really. They're just going to be inspected, FAA says. Screen doors are entirely optional.]
One link (in The Washington Post) leads to another leads to another leads to…
Well, we already knew we were heading into an exciting new year.
A friend sent me a link this morning (thanks, Catherine) to a story about relationships between people and animals featuring some really nice jounalistic photography in black and white.
As Michigan’s and Washington’s “student-athletes” (the core locution in the liturgy of the Church of College Football) gird their loins for Monday’s national championship game, hear Matt Rhule, coach of Nebraska’s Cornhuskers. He says “a good quarterback in the [transfer] portal costs $1 million to $1.5 million to $2 million right now.” And: “There are some teams that have $6-7 million players playing for them.”
Might be a pretty good game though.
According to ITV, Littler began playing professionally at 12. He told the BBC recently that he started on magnetic darts at 18 months, got “a proper board” at 4 and began playing in pubs “four to five times a week” around 8.Being compared to Tiger Woods, WaPo notes.
…thinking of something that happened in the 1950's and then ran straight into this paragraph in the Washington Post:
Eight-to-12-year-old girls are the largest growth market for the cosmetics industry, with tweens spending $40 million a month on beauty products, according to Pinkstinks, a nonprofit aimed at fighting gender bias in the beauty industry. And at least 80 percent of U.S. tweens use beauty products, a 2016 report by the trend-forecasting group Mintel found.
How much sense does that even make?
When I was in the 7th grade girls weren't even invented yet.
(Well
OK, one was. Maybe.
But otherwise.)
America’s presidential election will be so poisonous and polarising that it will cast a pall over global politics.
…while the Wall Street Journal seems a little more upbeat.
We won’t even pretend to know all the things generative AI will do to our devices, our jobs, our lives—and our elections. But we promise you won’t be able to escape it. We’ll see other things too: the decline of the dreaded password, a boom in cleaner energy, increasing regulation around kids on social media, and more.
Who knows?
2024 is halfway around the world by now and coming fast.
Let's find out.
