Twitter Blue for individuals, Gold for businesses, and Grey for government officials, but you will have to pay $8.00 monthly to get it. The blue checkmark was a thing when it was super selective and odd who would get it and who would not. But if you spent years validating people, I wonder how you feel when they will delete all those verified checkmarks.

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Show Notes:

* –Five sites for free Christmas carols, Karaoke, and songs

* –Rvian pauses partnership

* –Carvana

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* –Jeff Bezos and Micheal Strahan 

* –Ticketmaster is in trouble again

* –LG’s first 27-inch OLED monitor

* –Lexus is developing a manual transmission for EVs.

* –Twitter Blue for the second time

* –Amazon sued 

* Apple to encrypt cloud backups

* –Amazon CEO putting a stamp on the company

* –DOJ split over charging Binance 

* –Lyft’s latest EV inc...