Modern Day Jackie O

Good morning!

Another fire has broken out in LA. This brings the total to 5 active fires:

• Palisades Fire, over 17,000 acres, with 0% containment

• Eaton Fire, over 10,600 acres with 0% containment

• Hurst Fire, over 800 acres with 10% containment

• Lidia Fire, 348 acres with 40% containment

• Sunset Fire, approximately 40 acres with 0% containment (latest fire to break out)

Governor Newsom has declared a state of emergency, and President Biden has approved a major disaster declaration to provide Federal aid. So devastating.

Prayers to all affected. 🥺❤️‍🩹 

Arts + Culture

Zaha Hadid Architects and Bureau Cube Partners won a design competition to build the Nikola Tesla Museum in Serbia featuring a 12-million-volt transformer and more of Tesla's innovations.

Kansas City International Airport's $1 million "The Air Up There" art installation hanging from the ceiling has now been removed for safety concerns after a part fell to the ground.

Rivian has created an EV charging station that incorporates a full pit stop with coffee, snacks, and drinks for purchase as well as seating, games, and books to occupy charging time.

Politics

President Joe Biden becomes a great-grandfather as granddaughter, Naomi, gives birth to a baby boy.

A Japanese Yakuza leader has pled guilty in the US for trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar.

Congressman Mike Waltz says acquiring Greenland is important for our national security and natural resources as Russia and China continue to establish ice breakers in the Arctic region.

Business + Tech

Airbnb is helping evacuees from LA's fires by providing emergency housing.

The Wifi HaLow was unveiled at CES 2025 (a big annual tech event going on right now) showing off its 9.9 mile connection radius.

Delta and YouTube announce partnership to allow SkyMiles members to watch ad-free YouTube in-flight.

Health + Science

A video game controller has been designed using materials grown from bacteria and yeast instead of plastic.

California Governor Gavin Newsom says climate change is the cause of fires expanding outside of the typical fire season.

Physicist Lorenzo Gavassino proposes new solution for the "grandfather paradox" making time travel theoretically possible without massively altering timelines.

Day 9 of 2025 and this year has already come in SO hot both figuratively and literally with the fires! Here’s to hoping for peace and healing ahead. 🙏

Have a great rest of your Thursday!

XOXO,

Jackie