On this week’s episode of Let’s Weekend, we talk about the dire climate news, Elon Musk's latest dumb move on Twitter, and what's going on with OpenAI.

Intro

What Are We Up To?

C: Loki S2, Squid Game: The Challenge, YYH, Dredge, Backpack Hero

T: Shivering, Scooby Doo movies, Shaun of the Dead, Boomerang-Fu, new Mario Kart 8 dlc

P: Did my first full-form game-hunting video for YouTube, I think I have a personal Japanese shopper now.

B: Shovel Knight Treasure Trove, The Fall of the House of Usher, post-Thanksgiving recovery.

Brandon’s Random Factoid

Assholes of the Week: CZ, founder of crypto giant Binance, pleads guilty to money laundering violations

About 150 countries met to negotiate a global plastics treaty that ended with little progress as oil and gas producing countries blocked everybody else

The UN Environmental Programme reported that we’re on a devastating course of warming as the world has fallen behind on its promises

Derek Chauvin got stabbed in prison in the least surprising news of the week

Heroes of the Week: Israel and Hamas agreed to a temporary ceasefire that started on Friday to exchange hostages, but there’s scuttlebutt about people breaking the ceasefire

RIP Rosalyn Carter

Federal appeals court has struck down a key part of the VRA

North Korea claims to have put a spy satellite into orbit in its 3rd attempt

Elon Musk’s X is suing Media Matters over report on ads next to anti-semitic posts

OpenAI ousted their CEO Sam Altman on Friday, who immediately joined Microsoft

Then OpenAI brought Altman back after hundreds of employees threatened to quit

Spyglass fired Scream series actor Melissa Barrera over Pro-Palestine comments

Disney has canceled Muppets Mayhem after one season

Dave Filoni has been promoted to Chief Creative Officer at Lucasfilm to plan Star Wars’ future

Netflix has renewed Black Mirror for a Season 7

There will be a new Karate Kid movie with Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan

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