Modern Day Jackie O

In the largest act of clemency in a single day, Biden commuted 1500 sentences and pardoned 39 today.

So, unless you’re reading this email from prison, I hope you, too, enjoy your freedom today!

Use it to talk to someone about the world. 🙂 Starting with this news. ⬇️ 

Art

Rolls Royce releases a piece of home decor: the Rolls Royce Cameo, a miniature oak and aluminum car.

Scape, a New York landscape architecture studio, unveils its work in San Francisco's China Basin Park at the heart of Mission Rock, a new neighborhood.

IKEA (founded in 1943) is bringing back some of its most popular vintage pieces in early 2025.

Politics

Meta makes a $1 million donation to Trump's inaugural fund.

Doug Ford, premier of Ontario, threatens to cut off U.S. energy in response to Trump's tariff proposals.

FBI, Homeland Security, Pentagon still deny any known details about the origins of the masses of 6-foot drones over New Jersey.

Biz/Tech

Google announced Willow, their latest quantum chip, performs a standard computation in under 5 minutes that would take today's fastest computers 10 septillion years (that's 25 zeros).

ChatGPT experienced global outages yesterday, and last week we found out the program lies about its capabilities and actions to developers.

Jeffrey Lurie maintains majority control of the Philadelphia Eagles after the NFL approved an 8% minority stake sale valuing the Eagles at $8.3 billion... Lurie bought the team on a loan for just $185 million in 1994.

Health + Science

Evacuations: Mount Kanlaon's volcanic eruption displaced 87,000 locals, around 20,000 people have been issued evacuation orders in response to Malibu fires

Stanford scientists are using a bacterium to create vaccines you can rub on skin like a cream rather than injection.

Researchers have found psychedelic and alcohol residues in a 2,000-year-old Ancient Egyptian mug.

I must add- Willow, Google’s quantum computing chip? In its announcement, Hartmut Neven, founder of Google Quantum AI, pointed out that Willow’s performance may lend credence to us living in a multiverse with many parallel universes.

Fascinating ish, y’all. Enjoy your Thursday!

XOXO,

Jackie

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