https://thatparkplace.com/newly-announced-harry-potter-tv-writer-andy-greenwald-does-not-like-the-idea-of-a-rigorous-adaptation-of-the-books-and-said-he-has-not-read-the-books/
I'm not watching anyway, because harry potter, but can anyone explain the thought process behind hiring someone who hates the source material to make an adaptation of a beloved book? hollywood literally won't stop doing this shit with shows like the lotr show, or the halo show or the witcher show.
literally why the fuck do you acquire the rights to something and have someone who hates the source material run it and make a show no one wants to see?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/12/helene-starlink-rural-internet-connectivity-satellites-musk/

Elon Musk’s up-and-coming satellite company Starlink had sought federal regulators’ approval for months to try out its groundbreaking technology for beaming cell service directly from space to smartphones.

Established mobile operators AT&T and Verizon were lobbying for regulators to deny part of Starlink’s plan, saying it would interfere with their services. A decision seemed likely to drag out until next year.

Then Hurricane Helene hit.

Starlink’s team jumped into action, arriving in flood-ravaged North Carolina with mobile satellite dishes even as roads remained impassible. “We are sending them terminals right away,” Musk posted on X.

Starlink has emerged as a political lightning rod in the process. Musk has publicly traded curt words with FEMA officials and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg over what he said was Starlink staff’s limited access on the ground in North Carolina. House Republicans, meanwhile, have launched a probe into why the Biden administration previously turned down Starlink for nearly a billion dollars in federal grants earmarked for extending internet service to remote parts of the United States.

Some have questioned whether Starlink’s involvement has been purely humanitarian. The company has come under criticism in recent days after users discovered that the “free” Starlink broadband service advertised for hurricane survivors only lasted a month and required them to spend several hundred dollars purchasing a terminal.

“It’s shameful that Elon Musk is callously taking advantage of a devastating hurricane,” Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) said in a statement.

North Carolina mayor claims his daughter was denied $750 FEMA relief payment even though her home was ‘wiped out’

>https://nypost.com/2024/10/09/us-news/north-carolina-mayor-my-daughter-was-denied-750-fema-relief/

A North Carolina mayor’s daughter who lost her home in Hurricane Helene was allegedly turned down for the $750 FEMA emergency grant – and got only $300 that “won’t even cover what’s in her refrigerator,” her furious dad said.

Newland Mayor Derek Roberts’ daughter applied for the $750 Serious Needs Assistance from FEMA when her home was decimated by Hurricane Helene’s floodwaters nearly two weeks ago, he told FOX News on Tuesday night.

“My daughter, whose house got completely wiped out, she has no flood insurance. She meets with a FEMA person, applies for everything…she doesn’t get the $750 that Kamala says she is supposed to get,” Roberts lamented.

“[She] gets approved for $300 for personal items. What’s that supposed to do?” he continued.

“That’s literally all she got. Her entire first floor is wiped out, we hauled everything off, it’s gone…that won’t even cover what’s in her refrigerator.”

Roberts’ office did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for a comment.

Vice President Kamala Harris mentioned the Serious Needs Assistance grant during a speech last week – drawing outcry from opponents who believed the government only planned to give storm victims $750 to cover massive amounts of damage.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fox-news-proposes-dates-possible-second-trump-harris-debate-2024-10-09/

Republican former President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will not debate Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, hours after Fox News invited the two presidential contenders to participate in a possible second debate on either Oct. 24 or Oct. 27.

Trump and Harris debated each other for the first time on Sept. 10. Trump has said there would not be another debate before the Nov. 5 election. He rejected a past invitation from CNN for an Oct. 23 debate, accepted by Harris.

Trump and Harris face each other in what polls show to be a tight race for the Nov. 5 U.S. elections.

In its statement, Fox said a second debate "would present an opportunity for each candidate to make their closing arguments."

Last week, Harris' running mate and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz debated Trump's running mate and U.S. Senator JD Vance.

"THERE WILL BE NO REMATCH," Trump said on his Truth Social platform. "SO THERE IS NOTHING TO DEBATE."

Trump said it was very late in the process now to have a debate.

Trump faced then-Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. President Joe Biden in a debate in late June.

Biden stepped aside as presidential candidate less than a month after the disastrous performance. Trump had built a lead against Biden following the debate but Harris took over as candidate after Biden bowed out and her entry has tightened the race, with some polls showing she has a narrow lead.

In their Sept. 10 debate, Harris put Trump on the defensive with a stream of attacks on his fitness for office, his support of abortion restrictions and his myriad legal woes.

How far did Trump's censorship spread since you couldn't even post links /here/

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-pennsylvania.html

Donald Trump's campaign coordinated directly with the social media platform Twitter to suppress links to materials stolen from them by hackers, according to a new report.

Tech mogul Elon Musk, who purchased the company formerly known as Twitter, has involved himself in Trump's campaign in an unprecedented manner since endorsing the former president, including one favor that directly contradicts the free speech absolutism that he claims was the reason he bought the platform in the first place, reported the New York Times.

"The relationship has proved significant in other ways," the newspaper reported. "After a reporter’s publication of hacked Trump campaign information last month, the campaign connected with Twitter to prevent the circulation of links to the material on the platform, according to two people with knowledge of the events. Twitter eventually blocked links to the material and suspended the reporter’s account."

Musk has poured $500 million of his own money into Trump's re-election campaign, according to a claim the former president told an associate, and he founded America PAC to organize door-to-door canvassers in battleground states, especially Pennsylvania – where the Tesla CEO has essentially moved his base of operations.

“I’m not sure there is a precedent in modern history to how Musk has inserted himself into the presidential race,” said Benjamin Soskis, a historian of the mega rich.

The Trump campaign has outsourced its voter contact operation to America PAC and other outside groups following new federal election guidance, and Musk's operation has spent about $80 million on those efforts so far, although his personal financial commitment won't be made public until later this month.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink is under federal investigation for animal-welfare violations for causing needless suffering and deaths.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9328626/elon-musk-neuralink-animal-deaths-federal-probe/

Since 2018, the company has tested on and killed at least 1,500 animals
— over 280 sheep, pigs, and monkeys, as well as mice and rats.

Amputations, death: What it’s really like to work for Musk’s SpaceX

https://www.afr.com/world/north-america/amputations-death-what-it-s-really-like-to-work-for-musk-s-spacex-20231114-p5ejqk

Through interviews and government has documented at least 600+ injuries of staff at Elon Musk’s rocket company, including skull fractures and brain injuries.

In 1952, a German scientist predicted the name “Elon” would be associated with the colonization of Mars

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/06/13/in-1952-a-german-scientist-predicted-the-name-elon-would-be-associated-with-the-colonization-of-mars/

Nazi Germany’s Wernher von Braun work, The Mars Project - 1952. He proposed instead of presidents, colony rulers would be appointed title of “Elon.”

https://ia802903.us.archive.org/26/items/TheMarsProject-WernherVonBraun1953/The%20Mars%20Project%20%E2%80%93%20Wernher%20von%20Braun%20%281953%29.pdf

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/kamala-harris/kamala-harris-criticism-owning-glock-gun-rcna174534

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/trump-remove-jew-haters-october-7-event/index.html
Former President Donald Trump said Monday he would “remove the Jew haters” if reelected, speaking at an event commemorating the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks in Israel.

“I will defend our American Jewish population. I will protect your communities, your schools, your places of worship and your values. We will remove the jihadist sympathizers and Jew haters. We’re going to remove the Jew haters who do nothing to help our country, they only want to destroy our country,” he said during the event at his golf course in Doral, Florida.

The former president did not specify exactly whom he considered to be “Jew haters.” The remarks came as Trump marked the anniversary of the terror attacks, saying October 7 was the “deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”

Trump claimed “anti-Jewish hatred” was “within the ranks of the Democrat Party.” Trump has repeatedly claimed that Jewish Democrats should “have their heads examined,” playing into an antisemitic trope that Jewish Americans have dual loyalties to Israel and the US.

Putin''s Puppet Donald Trump strikes again!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/08/trump-putin-covid-test-machines-bob-woodward

Former President Donald Trump kept in touch with Russian President Vladimir Putin after Trump left office, according to “War,” a new book by famed reporter Bob Woodward.

An aide to Trump told Woodward he was once asked to leave a room at Trump’s home in Florida so he could have a private phone call with Putin.

“According to Trump’s aide, there have been multiple phone calls between Trump and Putin, maybe as many as seven in the period since Trump left the White House in 2021,” Woodward wrote, according to CNN, which obtained a copy of the book ahead of its release later this month.

Trump has spoken fondly of Putin over the years; he used the words “genius” and “savvy” to describe Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, for instance. Trump claimed to have been the victim of a “witch hunt” when the Justice Department investigated his 2016 campaign’s contacts with Russian sources.

Woodward reported in “War” that Avril Haines, President Joe Biden’s Director of National Intelligence, said she didn’t know whether Trump and Putin have spoken.

“I wouldn’t purport to speak to what President Trump may or may not have done,” Haines said, according to Woodward.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.

Another revelation in Woodward’s new title is that Trump sent Putin a secret shipment of COVID-19 testing equipment in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, when tests could sometimes be hard to come by. Putin reportedly begged Trump not to tell.

“I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me,” Putin said, according to Woodward. “They don’t care about me.”

“War” is scheduled for release on Oct. 15.