❄️ Texas Pays the Price of the Culture War
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Texas Pays the Price of the Culture War. The power gave out last Monday night. When we woke up on Tuesday morning, the temperature in the house was dipping below 50 degrees. We bundled our toddler in her warm jammies and tiny bubble coat. (Adam Serwer via The Atlantic)
Yellen sounds warning about 'extremely inefficient' bitcoin. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday warned that bitcoin is an “extremely inefficient” way to conduct monetary transactions. She spoke as the cryptocurrency’s price tumbled in morning trading, but remained above $53,000. (Jeff Cox via CNBC)
Zack Snyder's 'Justice League': The True Story of the Snyder Cut. Zack Snyder, the director of Justice League, has never seen Justice League. His name is in the credits as the filmmaker, but he’s never sat through the version released to the world three years ago. His wife, Deborah, who produced the movie, advised him not to. (Anthony Breznican via Vanity Fair)
Daft Punk split up after 28 years. The Paris-born electronic music duo Daft Punk are no more. The group, consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, confirmed the breakup with an eight-minute video titled “Epilogue” excerpted from their 2006 science fiction film Electroma, according to Pitchfork, which also confirmed the news with Daft Punk’s publicist.(Nick Statt via The Verge)
Elon Musk Loses $15 Billion in a Day After Bitcoin Warning. Tesla’s biggest decline since September was fueled in part by Musk’s comments over the weekend that the prices of Bitcoin and smaller rival Ether “do seem high.” (Devon Pendleton via Bloomberg)
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says he's losing money amid Dominion lawsuit. MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell says he expects to lose $65 million in pillow revenue this year because of retailer boycotts over his claims that the 2020 US election was rigged. (Jacob Shamsian via Business Insider)
Snack, where TikTok meets dating, gets $3.5 million in funding. After online dating’s tremendous 2020 growth that culminated in last week’s epic Bumble IPO, a new entrant has tossed its hat into the dating app ring. (Jordan Crook via TechCrunch)
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