Friday, January 17, 2025

Today's news and jokes









("The FAA issued a warning to pilots of a 'dangerous area for falling debris of rocket Starship'"





"Tom Goldstein, a publisher of SCOTUSblog and one of the most experienced U.S. Supreme Court lawyers in the country, was indicted Thursday in Maryland federal court on charges he schemed to evade taxes for years and used funds from his boutique law firm to cover gambling debts."

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— Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) January 16, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Here's a write-up. And here he is in November writing an opoinion piece for the NY Times headlined "End the Criminal Cases Against Trump"





Batteries on fire at the largest collection of batteries in the world at Moss Landing Power Plant! #MontereyBay #MossLanding HT @nativesantacruz.bsky.social

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— Dustin Mulvaney (@dustinmulvaney.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM












Bob’s Big Boy Burbank inadvertently penned the best Lynch obituary while he was still alive. Worth reading through to the end. bobs.net/pages/hall-o...

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— Kat Peach (@discodruidess.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM








(Youtube has the show "Hotel" he directed for HBO, and the Duran Duran concert film)





Don't use water.











Feels like a test case for the new DA











BREAKING: PlayStation has canceled two more live-service games, from subsidiaries Bend and Bluepoint, Bloomberg has learned. Fans have long wondered what Bluepoint has been working on for the last couple of years. I can report it was a live-service God of War game. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM


PlayStation fans have speculated for years about Bluepoint's new projects since the well-received PS5 remake of Demon's Souls (2020). I can report that from 2020-2022 they were helping on God of War Ragnarok. Since then they've been on the live-service project that was canceled today. Now, unclear

— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 3:32 PM




What companies gotta think about is not "will people play the franchise as a live service" but instead "will people care about any kind of cosmetic/micro-transaction we put in it". If the answer is no, it shouldn't be a live service. Maybe a Ghost of Tsushima Legends at most, but not a Fortnite.

— Emmett Watkins Jr (@ejsponge61.bsky.social) January 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM




























@katodesmet3 Rome 2024 was a vibe 🏛️ #rome #2024 #construction #jubilee #colloseum #vaticano #trevifountain #fyp ♬ original sound - Lachy McIntyre






@meredithgregersonnn New friend? #wreck #newfriend ♬ Scheming Weasel - Tsoulfas Panormitis






@aileenietheweenie86 She loves him ❤️🤪 #dog #dogs #dogsoftiktok #doglover #pets #petsoftiktok #parakeet #parakeetsoftiktok #birds ♬ Sneaky Snitch - Kevin MacLeod






@pubity The baby’s giggles 🥺😭 #RoadTo17Million #Pubity ♬ original sound - Pubity






@gnome_gremlin hawk landed on me while gardening on Christmas. we hung out for like 30 more minutes and then he flew off. #christmasmiracle #hawk ♬ original sound - Gnome&Gremlin




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