Modern Day Jackie O

Facebook is shaking things up. 💃 💃 💃 

They are ditching their independent fact checking program that uses 3rd party companies for a community notes model where users will moderate content.

Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement yesterday while wearing a $900k Greubel Forsey watch. He let us know that societal and political pressures led to too much censorship, errors, and biased results.

This week they also added UFC’s Dana White to their board and announced a move for several of their teams out of California to Texas.

In light of all the FB news, here’s a reminder to listen to the Mark Zuckerberg x T-Pain Get Low rendition released late last year. 🤝 

Art

A look at Jimmy Carter's woodworking and painting from his 60 Minutes interview in 2010.

Semi-autonomous AI artist, Botto, has made over $4 million dollars since its creation in 2021.

Artist Robin Antar is making 30-pound marble Make America Great Again hats that go for $48,000.

Politics

More of an interesting tidbit rather than news: the President's public schedule for the upcoming day is always posted at midnight ET here.

An Assistant U.S. Attorney said "we're trying to explore whether there might be a global resolution" in court as two of El Chapo's sons are in plea negotiations with the U.S.

Trump met with the CEO of Walmart yesterday. He also claimed his administration will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America."

Biz/Tech

Microsoft would strongly prefer consumers use Bing to Google so before showing results for "Google" they have been showing a Bing search disguised as Google.

The TSA is testing scanners that will allow you to keep your shoes on in the security line.

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, issued a statement about his sister filing a lawsuit against him alleging sexual abuse amongst other things.

Health + Science

Medical debt is no longer allowed in credit reports as US ban goes into effect over the next 60 days.

Wildfires are ripping through LA as thousands flee.

Male mosquito semen will be genetically modified to poison female mosquitoes in Australia for disease control.

Short and sweet today! Enjoy the rest of your Wednesdays y’all. And don’t forget to talk to someone about the world.

XOXO,

Jackie