Modern Day Jackie O

BREAKING NEWS: Walmart has updated their logo and branding for the first time in 20 years… 😅 

While I DO like the slightly brighter colors, I really thought this was a joke and just the same ol’ logo produced in newer software.

I’m sorry, Walmart! Appreciate the refresh. 👏 

Arts + Culture

Ahead of Apple TV's Friday release of a second season of Severance, the actors along with a glass-walled replica of their office showed up in Grand Central Station yesterday.

Elon Musk tweets so much that people place bets on how many hundreds he'll post per week and it regularly does over $1 million in trading volume.

Mac Miller's posthumous album, Balloonerism, is accompanied by a short film that begins screening worldwide today and tomorrow.

Politics

U.S. regulators banned Red Dye No. 3 and it must be removed from products by 2027/2028.

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol surrendered to his second-arrest attempt to avoid "unnecessary bloodshed."

Biden names two new nuclear-powered aircraft carriers for Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Business + Tech

Google's Notebook LM gave its AI-generated podcast hosts "friendliness tuning" so they didn't get frustrated with humans interrupting them.

DJI will no longer enforce "no-fly zones" after drones had a hard time trying to help fight LA fires.

Apple is in final testing stages of American made chips- a step towards relying less on Taiwan and China.

Texas is suing Allstate after they allegedly used apps like GasBuddy and Life360 to track drivers and inform their policy decisions.

Health + Science

It's coyote mating season through March and they are already being wild in Chicago- police had to pull one out of an Aldi freezer earlier this week.

A recent study from Japan indicates drinking 2.5 cups of green tea or more per day may protect the brain from developing greater amounts of white matter lesions linked to cognitive decline and dementia.

An Egyptian dive-boat sank in the Red Sea on November 25 and so far 35 survivors are accounted for while 11 have either passed away or are still missing. Read about the survivors' experiences being trapped for 35 hours in pitch-black air pockets.

BETTER BREAKING NEWS THAN WALMART’S REBRAND: Qatari and Hamas officials say a ceasefire has been reached; Israel’s war can be paused and hostages released.

Whew! Have an amazing rest of your Wednesday, y’all!

XOXO,

Jackie