New Edition

Hello, Internet Stranger! On a perfect day, I know that I can count on you.

Welcome to The Weekly Click. I’m your host, Sean McDevitt. This week things have changed around here. I’m trying something different, yet familiar. I’m back on Substack and looking to evolve this silly email. I’ve reduced the complicated, made it simpler, and hopefully better for everyone.

Let me know what you think.

As always, The Weekly Click has been this thing I just do for fun. I hope you all get the same charge out of clicking and reading the links as I do gathering them all up for you.

Be seeing you,

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Jack Dorsey announced he would step down as CEO of Twitter, citing his desire to see the company move past its founders. The decision was effective immediately; Chief Technology Officer Parag Agrawal replaces Dorsey. Immediately, all kinds of paranoid thoughts go through my head. [CNET]

What were they thinking? Please enjoy this joyous collection of (mostly accidentally) NSFW logos. [NSFWlogos]

Not at all unexpected. Stacey Abrams launched a campaign for Georgia governor with a video. I hope she wins, but I don’t expect her to do so. [Twitter]

There are plans for another Spider-Man trilogy after No Way Home. If this is a surprise to you, I have a bridge in San Francisco to sell to you. [Comingsoon]

At least four people were killed and others injured after a student opened fire at a high school outside Detroit. Tragic. Don’t forget, all of this happened so easily because his father purchased a semiautomatic handgun less than a week ago. [The Detroit News]

In the span of two days, the head coaches of two of the biggest college football programs in America have jumped ship, wooed by even greater challenges — and the almighty dollar. [Axios]

Here’s some good advice: You Don’t Have to Be Scared of Young People, Because Young People Will Be Old Soon Too. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately, and this is a tidy summation of my thoughts, all told. [Gen]

More good advice: How to Navigate Stress in a Storm. Simple and concise. I like this. I particularly see “#1 Accept the world as it is, not as you wish it was.” and “#3 Focus on the way you treat each other.” as critical. [Leadership Freak]

Can you read my mind? The same technology that auto-completes your emails and powers Google Translate is also helping researchers map and possibly, one day, read our brains. It’s The Science of Mind Reading. This glimpse of the future is way more interesting to me than anything Mark Zuckerberg has ever done. [New Yorker]

Marcus Lamb, a conservative TV preacher whose network offered a constant stream of Covid misinformation to its viewers, died earlier this week of Covid. Arguably, while I generally would not wish to take pleasure in the death of any person, news of the death of people who dismiss the dangers of Covid or the benefits of modern medicine and science does help to combat their misinformation and may serve a public good. The more of these people that die of their own terrible ideas, the less likely other folks are to follow in their misguided footsteps. [NBC News]

Major League Baseball entered its first lockout in more than a quarter-century after owners and the players union failed to agree on an updated collective bargaining agreement. I’d like the players to make a bit more money and the DH in the National League. No real opinion about the rest. [ESPN]

Just an hour after Illinois Football curbstomped Northwestern to claim its first Land of Lincoln trophy in nearly a decade, Illinois Basketball picked up a big man from Baylor. Redshirt-freshman center Dain Dainja is a four-star player in the class of 2020 and a top-100 player nationally. Please turn Illinois basketball into Baylor. [Twitter]

A deep, deep dive into the massive clickbait ecosystem that results in Facebook and Google paying millions to fund misinformation. [MIT Technology Review]

Nearly everything has come true on WIRED’s 1997 list of the worst things that could happen in the 21st century. [Digg]

Jason Sudeikis reflects on his time with Saturday Night Live as both a writer and a member of the cast. These videos from SNL are wonderful. [YouTube]

Republicans are quietly rigging election maps to ensure permanent rule. They’re actually doing it pretty loudly. It’s the Dems that are quietly watching it happen. [The Guardian]

Dave Grohl can make any song into a Dave Grohl classic and he takes things up to 11 with this cover of Lisa Loeb's signature song, “Stay.” Boy, does it take a turn. [YouTube]

RELATED: For something a bit softer, here’s Grohl and record producer Greg Kurstin doing their version of “Copacabana.” [YouTube]

Poor baby. No one seems to like the Lincoln Project anymore. Duh. The Lincoln Project’s expiration date was Election Day 2020. [Politico]

John DeVore says, “I Would Watch Eight More Hours Of ‘The Beatles: Get Back.” I haven’t watched a second of it yet and I’m sure I will want to see more too. [Medium]

Remember that guy with the rocket pack who got knocked into a Sarlacc by a blinded guy? Here we go with the further adventures of Boba Fett. It should be awesome. [YouTube]

Drew Magary has some thoughts on how to kill the American office for good. I’m all in favor. [SFGate]

Alexis Gay understands me on a molecular level as she spends one solid minute on the em-dash. Perfect. [Twitter]

There are an awful lot of articles online about the late Stephen Sondheim and I won't pretend I've read all of them or even most of them. But the best one I've come across that attempts to explain what made him special was this one by Isaac Butler, Stephen Sondheim Solved the Puzzle to Being Alive. [Slate]

Tom Whitwell’s list of 52 things he learned during the past year is always worth a read. [Medium]

I like the advertisements for the new Matrix movie because they aren't really giving much away. It is entirely likely there isn't much to give away, and the Matrix reboot involves someone simply rebooting the Matrix — but hey! It’s super trippy. [YouTube]

Super spreader. I didn't think anything could lower my opinion of Donald Trump any more than its current subterranean level…but the list of places he went and people he probably infected after he knew he had COVID has done it. [Slate]

This seems like a bad idea. World's first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say. [CNN]

Just leaving this tweet from Lil Nas X here. Merry Christmas? [Twitter]

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