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November 21, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/business/media/george-lois-dead.html
George Lois, Visionary Art Director, Is Dead at 91
He brought the counterculture to advertising and designed memorable covers for Esquire magazine, many of them wordless critiques of
American society.
In the early 1980s, Mr. Lois, by his own account, almost single-handedly rescued MTV from an early death. The cable channel, launched in New York in 1981 with a 24-hour rock ‘n’ roll format, was in his words “an abject failure” after its first year, scorned by cable operators, advertisers, music publishers and recording companies.
Asked to step in, Mr. Lois produced a campaign of commercials with a voice-over ending, “If you don’t get MTV where you live, call your cable operator and say (with a cutaway to Mick Jagger bellowing), “I want my MTV.”
In six months, every rock star in the nation joined the parade, and MTV became the most popular phenomenon on television. Today, 90 million households receive MTV. Without it, fans say, generations might never have seen music videos or partied in basements.
George Lois died..creator of this and other famous ads
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/business/media/george-lois-dead.html
George Lois, Visionary Art Director, Is Dead at 91
He brought the counterculture to advertising and designed memorable covers for Esquire magazine, many of them wordless critiques of
American society.
In the early 1980s, Mr. Lois, by his own account, almost single-handedly rescued MTV from an early death. The cable channel, launched in New York in 1981 with a 24-hour rock ‘n’ roll format, was in his words “an abject failure” after its first year, scorned by cable operators, advertisers, music publishers and recording companies.
Asked to step in, Mr. Lois produced a campaign of commercials with a voice-over ending, “If you don’t get MTV where you live, call your cable operator and say (with a cutaway to Mick Jagger bellowing), “I want my MTV.”
In six months, every rock star in the nation joined the parade, and MTV became the most popular phenomenon on television. Today, 90 million households receive MTV. Without it, fans say, generations might never have seen music videos or partied in basements.
November 20, 2022
California ER patients spilling into parking lots during ‘tripledemic’ surge, state reports
Families with children under 2 will face tough decisions this holiday season.
An RSV surge spreading in California puts infants and toddlers at the greatest risk of severe illness, and two other respiratory viruses — COVID and flu — have begun straining health systems, California’s health secretary said at a news conference Thursday. “We are dealing with three threats at once,” California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said, referring to a combination of viruses that doctors have called a “tripledemic.”
“The simplest way to say it is that in every category that we track ... we’re seeing increases for RSV, flu and COVID.”
Among the youngest Californians, he said, test positivity rates for RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, “rival peaks from other years.” In early November, 33% of children’s tests in the state were positive, significantly higher than rates at the same time in the previous two years.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article268900852.html#storylink=cpy
California ER patients spilling into parking lots during 'tripledemic' surge, state reports
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article268900852.htmlCalifornia ER patients spilling into parking lots during ‘tripledemic’ surge, state reports
Families with children under 2 will face tough decisions this holiday season.
An RSV surge spreading in California puts infants and toddlers at the greatest risk of severe illness, and two other respiratory viruses — COVID and flu — have begun straining health systems, California’s health secretary said at a news conference Thursday. “We are dealing with three threats at once,” California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly said, referring to a combination of viruses that doctors have called a “tripledemic.”
“The simplest way to say it is that in every category that we track ... we’re seeing increases for RSV, flu and COVID.”
Among the youngest Californians, he said, test positivity rates for RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, “rival peaks from other years.” In early November, 33% of children’s tests in the state were positive, significantly higher than rates at the same time in the previous two years.
Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article268900852.html#storylink=cpy
November 19, 2022
Halted at the beginning of the pandemic, monthly loan bills are set to resume in January unless the pause is extended for a ninth time. But current and former students, including one who owes a staggering $118,000, said the looming payments are simply above their pay grades, especially in post-pandemic America.
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Yazan Alswaeer, 38, of New Castle, Pennsylvania
Total debt: $118,000
Occupation: IT system administrator
Education: Pittsburgh Technical College; Capella University
Prior monthly payment: n/a
Alswaeer expects to receive his master’s degree in information technology in December, some nine years after the Jordanian native arrived in the United States. The proposed $20,000 relief would’ve been a drop in the single father’s debt bucket, but now he’s desperately emailing the White House for help. “I have no plan,” Alswaeer told The Post. “My plan is I am not going to make payments.” Biden’s campaign promise to forgive tuition-related federal student debt was the “only reason” Alswaeer voted for the Democrat.
“With the school debt that I have, there’s no way I will ever think about buying a house or settling down,” he said. “It hurts seeing many Americans suffering financially while a great country such as ours has the resources it needs to make every American live a decent life.”
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Nicholas Linkey, 31, of Providence, Utah
Total debt: $25,000
Occupation: Unemployed
Education: Utah State University; University of the People
Prior monthly payment: $300
Linkey said he’s “had enough” of the whirlwind debt rigmarole and says Biden could easily cancel the total debt using executive action granted in the Higher Education Act of 1965, but “never really intended” to do so, he said. Linkey also wants to see loans fully dischargeable in all bankruptcy cases rather than in cases where borrowers can prove their payments cause undue hardship.
“Absolutely not,” Linkey said when asked if he’ll buck up and pay. “I’m not gonna feed this monster anymore. I’m done. This loan thing is done.”
Student debtors refuse to pay back loans: 'I'm not gonna feed this monster anymore'
https://nypost.com/2022/11/19/four-student-debtors-tell-why-they-refuse-to-pay-back-loans/Halted at the beginning of the pandemic, monthly loan bills are set to resume in January unless the pause is extended for a ninth time. But current and former students, including one who owes a staggering $118,000, said the looming payments are simply above their pay grades, especially in post-pandemic America.
_____
Yazan Alswaeer, 38, of New Castle, Pennsylvania
Total debt: $118,000
Occupation: IT system administrator
Education: Pittsburgh Technical College; Capella University
Prior monthly payment: n/a
Alswaeer expects to receive his master’s degree in information technology in December, some nine years after the Jordanian native arrived in the United States. The proposed $20,000 relief would’ve been a drop in the single father’s debt bucket, but now he’s desperately emailing the White House for help. “I have no plan,” Alswaeer told The Post. “My plan is I am not going to make payments.” Biden’s campaign promise to forgive tuition-related federal student debt was the “only reason” Alswaeer voted for the Democrat.
“With the school debt that I have, there’s no way I will ever think about buying a house or settling down,” he said. “It hurts seeing many Americans suffering financially while a great country such as ours has the resources it needs to make every American live a decent life.”
_______
Nicholas Linkey, 31, of Providence, Utah
Total debt: $25,000
Occupation: Unemployed
Education: Utah State University; University of the People
Prior monthly payment: $300
Linkey said he’s “had enough” of the whirlwind debt rigmarole and says Biden could easily cancel the total debt using executive action granted in the Higher Education Act of 1965, but “never really intended” to do so, he said. Linkey also wants to see loans fully dischargeable in all bankruptcy cases rather than in cases where borrowers can prove their payments cause undue hardship.
“Absolutely not,” Linkey said when asked if he’ll buck up and pay. “I’m not gonna feed this monster anymore. I’m done. This loan thing is done.”
November 19, 2022
The head of Twitter Inc.’s crypto development team has left the company, part of a mass exodus of employees since new owner Elon Musk issued a blanket ultimatum to staff.
Tess Rinearson, who was tapped to spearhead Twitter’s crypto team last year, posted a tweet late on Thursday with the salute emoji, followed by a blue heart -- the former being a symbol for departing Twitter employees to signal their goodbyes.
Rinearson also changed the Twitter bio on her now private account to “did not click the button”, referring to Musk’s requirement for all remaining staff to opt in to remain employed at the firm by clicking “yes” on a form before Thursday’s 5 p.m. Eastern Time deadline. If they did not respond, employees were offered three months’ severance.
She wasn’t the only exit from Twitter’s crypto unit that day, with Hamdi Allam, a senior software engineer on the project, also posting a tweet to say he’d left the business. Both didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
Twitter's Crypto Head and Staff Resign in Mass Musk Exodus
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-crypto-head-staff-resign-190633380.htmlThe head of Twitter Inc.’s crypto development team has left the company, part of a mass exodus of employees since new owner Elon Musk issued a blanket ultimatum to staff.
Tess Rinearson, who was tapped to spearhead Twitter’s crypto team last year, posted a tweet late on Thursday with the salute emoji, followed by a blue heart -- the former being a symbol for departing Twitter employees to signal their goodbyes.
Rinearson also changed the Twitter bio on her now private account to “did not click the button”, referring to Musk’s requirement for all remaining staff to opt in to remain employed at the firm by clicking “yes” on a form before Thursday’s 5 p.m. Eastern Time deadline. If they did not respond, employees were offered three months’ severance.
She wasn’t the only exit from Twitter’s crypto unit that day, with Hamdi Allam, a senior software engineer on the project, also posting a tweet to say he’d left the business. Both didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
November 18, 2022
Bautista isn’t optimistic. He has lost access to crypto assets valued at roughly $35,000, according to a screenshot he took in the days before FTX tanked and shared with NBC News.
“Everything is gone in an instant, just like that? I’m pretty sure there’s no way to get it back,” he said. “It’s lost at this point.”
Bautista, 34, got the FTX itch thanks in part to flashy advertising.
He was lured by the firm’s wall-to-wall internet promotions and celebrity endorsements, and invested thousands of dollars in his FTX portfolio every two weeks, snatching up blocks of cryptocurrencies like Chainlink, Ethereum and Solana.
Bautista is now driving for a ride-share service to make ends meet while he figures out his next career chapter.
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Thomas Pompon, 23, who lives in Paris, saw FTX as the equivalent of a bank for his cash holdings and treated it the way people might use Venmo or Zelle — a way to pay friends, request cash, and transfer funds to financial institutions. FTX offered sizable interest rates — as much as 8% — for people who kept their assets, including U.S. dollars, on the platform.
Pompon, the chief technology officer of an NFT marketplace, lost access to just over $165,000 in holdings when FTX froze all accounts and blocked users from making withdrawals Friday, according to a screenshot he took the previous day and shared with NBC News.
They put their trust in FTX. Now their money is frozen -- and maybe wiped out.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/put-money-ftx-now-money-frozen-maybe-wiped-rcna57251Bautista isn’t optimistic. He has lost access to crypto assets valued at roughly $35,000, according to a screenshot he took in the days before FTX tanked and shared with NBC News.
“Everything is gone in an instant, just like that? I’m pretty sure there’s no way to get it back,” he said. “It’s lost at this point.”
Bautista, 34, got the FTX itch thanks in part to flashy advertising.
He was lured by the firm’s wall-to-wall internet promotions and celebrity endorsements, and invested thousands of dollars in his FTX portfolio every two weeks, snatching up blocks of cryptocurrencies like Chainlink, Ethereum and Solana.
Bautista is now driving for a ride-share service to make ends meet while he figures out his next career chapter.
____
Thomas Pompon, 23, who lives in Paris, saw FTX as the equivalent of a bank for his cash holdings and treated it the way people might use Venmo or Zelle — a way to pay friends, request cash, and transfer funds to financial institutions. FTX offered sizable interest rates — as much as 8% — for people who kept their assets, including U.S. dollars, on the platform.
Pompon, the chief technology officer of an NFT marketplace, lost access to just over $165,000 in holdings when FTX froze all accounts and blocked users from making withdrawals Friday, according to a screenshot he took the previous day and shared with NBC News.
November 18, 2022
Elon Musk's focus on the physics degree ( which he pretended to have)
Interesting long thread about Elon's education and dishonesty about it..
He has been portrayed as a real life Tony Stark ( iron man) but he has no science degree. He would have to be a genius to be actively working on space, new car designs etc without an advanced science degree
https://twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/1593307709172056065
November 18, 2022
Acommentator who compared Herschel Walker's so-called "stupid" speech to that of "countless Blacks in the Deep South" has earned intense scorn—largely from Black people who come from the South.
Michael Tracey, a journalist and recurring guest on the Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight, tweeted his response to critics of Georgia's GOP Senate candidate on Wednesday night. Trump-backed Herschel Walker and Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock are headed to a runoff election on December 6 after neither candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote this month.
"Herschel Walker doesn't come across as the ideal US Senator, but the main reason he's called 'stupid' seems to be because he speaks in a heavy regional dialect, with lots of colloquialisms. This alone does not make him 'stupid'––he sounds like countless Blacks in the Deep South," said Tracey.
Tracey's name, the phrase "Countless Blacks" and the phrase "Deep South" were all trending on Twitter by Thursday. His characterization of Walker's accent was broadly repudiated by people who shared their own experiences in the Southern Black community.
Commentator Ripped For Saying Herschel Walker Talks Like 'Countless Blacks'
https://www.newsweek.com/commentator-ripped-saying-herschel-walker-talks-like-countless-blacks-1760456Acommentator who compared Herschel Walker's so-called "stupid" speech to that of "countless Blacks in the Deep South" has earned intense scorn—largely from Black people who come from the South.
Michael Tracey, a journalist and recurring guest on the Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight, tweeted his response to critics of Georgia's GOP Senate candidate on Wednesday night. Trump-backed Herschel Walker and Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock are headed to a runoff election on December 6 after neither candidate received more than 50 percent of the vote this month.
"Herschel Walker doesn't come across as the ideal US Senator, but the main reason he's called 'stupid' seems to be because he speaks in a heavy regional dialect, with lots of colloquialisms. This alone does not make him 'stupid'––he sounds like countless Blacks in the Deep South," said Tracey.
Tracey's name, the phrase "Countless Blacks" and the phrase "Deep South" were all trending on Twitter by Thursday. His characterization of Walker's accent was broadly repudiated by people who shared their own experiences in the Southern Black community.
November 18, 2022
Polish national football team gets f16 escort to Qatar
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/yxzy76/f16_planes_escorting_the_polish_national_football/
November 18, 2022
Crash a ‘deliberate act,’ sheriff says after driver arrested on suspicion of attempted murder
A 22-year-old Diamond Bar man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of peace officers after the Los Angeles County sheriff said he deliberately ran into scores of recruits on a training run Wednesday in South Whittier, injuring 25.
Investigators “have developed probable cause to believe it was intentional,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva said in an interview with NewsNation on Thursday.
“They went through an exhaustive interview process with everyone involved, with the video surveillance, the statements from the recruits, the physical evidence they have and what they got from the suspect himself, and they were able to form the opinion this was a deliberate act,” he told the news station.
Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez was arrested Wednesday, hours after the early morning crash, authorities said. His bail was set at $2 million, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
Twenty-five sheriff’s recruits were injured in the crash, authorities said.
Loa Angeles county sheriff says 22 year old driver intentionally ran into 25 jogging recruits
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-11-17/investigation-into-whittier-crash-continuesCrash a ‘deliberate act,’ sheriff says after driver arrested on suspicion of attempted murder
A 22-year-old Diamond Bar man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of peace officers after the Los Angeles County sheriff said he deliberately ran into scores of recruits on a training run Wednesday in South Whittier, injuring 25.
Investigators “have developed probable cause to believe it was intentional,” Sheriff Alex Villanueva said in an interview with NewsNation on Thursday.
“They went through an exhaustive interview process with everyone involved, with the video surveillance, the statements from the recruits, the physical evidence they have and what they got from the suspect himself, and they were able to form the opinion this was a deliberate act,” he told the news station.
Nicholas Joseph Gutierrez was arrested Wednesday, hours after the early morning crash, authorities said. His bail was set at $2 million, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
Twenty-five sheriff’s recruits were injured in the crash, authorities said.
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