Modern Day Jackie O

Art

Since August, Oregon has had a "Googly Eyed Bandit" who is adding googly eyes to public art and sculptures, and the public is thoroughly enjoying it, public officials not so much.

MSCHF has been working on a drop called "Walt Disney and His Sons" for three years, an ancient Greek sculpture reimagined with Mickey Mouse intertwined.

KFC and Casio collaborated to produce a limited edition red G-Shock watch for Christmas.

Politics

Kamala Harris gave her first major speech since the election speaking to students in Maryland yesterday. Watch here.

The EU opened an investigation into TikTok and potential election interference in the Romanian election.

Trump sues Des Moines Register for "brazen election interference" for use of a poll that suggested Kamala Harris would win Iowa.

Iran has hit pause on enforcing stricter punishments for women defying hijab regulations.

Biz/Tech

Apple is being accused of using "blood minerals" in their supply chain by the DR Congo- they filed criminal complaints in France and Belgium.

Google releases FACTS Grounding, a leaderboard ranking the levels of accuracy of popular LLMs on the market due to high rates of hallucination (producing false information).

Elon Musk is opening Ad Astra, a preschool and early elementary school, in Bastrop, Texas near his businesses offering a montessori-like education with a focus on STEM.

Nima Momeni, IT consultant, found guilty for the murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee.

McDonald's is testing stores without dining areas offering drive-thru and McDelivery lockers only.

Honda and Nissan reportedly plan to discuss merger.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple is working on a giant foldable iPad that is the size of two iPad Pros and could be available by 2028.

Health + Science

NASA will livestream a Roscosmos (Russian space program) space walk outside of the International Space Station on December 19.

Spatially cognitive lines of work like taxi and ambulance driving show reduced Alzheimer's mortality in new studies.

Russia has developed a cancer vaccine that will be distributed free of charge to all in 2025.

Bioacoustics research out of France finds that baby humpback whales burp and bark to ask for food from their mothers.

Luigi Mangione, who has oddly captured America’s hearts, has been indicted with a murder as an act of terrorism charge.

In New York, a terrorism charge can be brought when an alleged crime is “intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policies of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion and affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping”.

He’s been indicted on 10 other counts as well and retained lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo who is an NY vet- she worked in the DA’s office as chief assistant DA. She’s married to Marc Agnifilo who is currently representing Diddy… I bet they have interesting convos at home.

Anyways, have a great Wednesday y’all! Talk to someone about the world today!

XOXO,

Jackie