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Travis Scott sent Tesla fans into a tizzy on Friday when he released two new videos to go along with the JACKBOYS project from his label Cactus Jack Records.

There’s an 8-minute long short film “JACKBOYS” which gives a quick flash of the Tesla Cybertruck and the Cyberquad ATV prototype. There’s also the “GANG GANG” video, seen above, which is basically an ad for Elon Musk products. (It also has some explicit lyrics so proceed with caution.)

The “GANG GANG” video is chock full of shots of the Cybertruck. At one point Scott takes an extended spin on the Cyberquad ATV, and he can also be seen holding the Not-A-Flamethrower from Musk’s The Boring Company. Very chill. Read more…

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Have you ever watched a movie full of human actors and thought to yourself, “Man, I wish some of these people were Muppets.”

It’s understandable — Muppets add an extra layer of fun and intrigue to everything. And if you haven’t yet yearned for actors to be replaced by comedic puppets, you most certainly will after reading this article.

On Friday, a thought-provoking tweet from @BeerBottleBlond sparked a very important Muppets discussion. The tweet encouraged people to pick a movie, choose one actor from that movie to keep, and imagine the rest of the actors played by Muppets. It’s a simple task, but the results were hilarious. Read more…

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To celebrate reaching the end of this year, we asked our reporters to look back on 2019 and pick one thing they thought stood out from the rest of the cultural chaos and cursed images. You can find the complete selection of our choices here.

The earth is 4,500,000,000 years old, give or take a few million. For 4,499,999,999 of those years were missing the one key element to make them worthwhile: the Popeyes chicken sandwich. 

It hit us like a flavor wave during an otherwise ordinary week in the middle of August. On Aug. 12, Popeyes unleashed its first-ever fried chicken sandwich upon the world to a glowing response. But things didn’t get real interesting until a week later, when a certain popular fast food chain took a subtle jab at the new sammy. Read more…

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The following contains major spoilers from a whole bunch of literary classics and Netflix’s You Season 2.

When he’s not elbows-deep in a rotting corpse, Joe Goldberg loves a good book.

In You Season 2, viewers followed Netflix’s foremost word nerd-turned-serial killer as he chased a woman to the City of Angels, and racked up a body count that would make Agatha Christie blush. Along the way, there was stalking, maiming, dismembering, killing, and heaps of classic novels. 

Joe’s love for literature was well-established during his New York days, but in Season 2, You‘s creators took special care in curating the works within Joe’s orbit. When he wasn’t celebrating Bisexual Pescatarian Week at Anavrin or suffering through another Great Gatsby “Old sport!” quip, Joe was slowly unveiling — through the books he was reading — the exquisite twists and turns that would befall him and his victims. Read more…

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It’s been a hectic five years of Star Wars filmed entertainment, but the dust has finally settled. Time to take stock of what we’ve seen, and what it all tells us about the future of the franchise. 

The Mandalorian season 1 finale dropped on Disney+ Friday; the final film in the Skywalker Saga arrived in theaters the previous Friday. For the first time since before the Episode VII (not yet The Force Awakens) release date was announced in 2013, we do not have a specific date for when we will see our next live-action Star Wars.

We know only this: It’ll be on our TVs, not on the big screen. 

A mini-series about Obi-Wan Kenobi, starring Ewan MacGregor, is on its way courtesy of director Deborah Chow, who proved her mettle helming excellent Mandalorian episodes. That will probably go into production in 2020. A prequel series starring Rogue One’s Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and sassy droid K-2SO (Alan Tudyk) will follow, as will The Mandalorian Season 2, which is set to drop Fall 2020.  Read more…

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In 2010, the future of electric vehicles looked wide open. The terrain was rocky, but fertile; full of opportunity, if you could make it through the technical and consumer crags. 

Now, 10 years later, things look different. Established car companies like General Motors and Porsche are elbowing for their share alongside startups like Rivian and Byton. But one company is inarguably both the trailblazer and master of EVs: Elon Musk’s Tesla.

In the first half of the decade, headlines frequently predicted doom for the fledgling company. When any new all-electric vehicle idea came out, critics were quick to anoint it with the label “Tesla killer,” no matter car type, range, or level of luxury. Those labels didn’t stick, however: Tesla is still alive and well. In fact, is “affordable” sedan, the Model 3, made up an eighth of all EV sales worldwide this year. It dominates.  Read more…

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As we cap off the year and the decade, there’s plenty to keep you entertained. You have Netflix and Hulu movies to help you learn something new or make you feel like a wine mom or sappy dad watching Lifetime. You have mobile games to play under the dinner table when you can’t take the politics talk any more. You have family-friendly video games to play and movies from the Disney+ vault to enjoy. 

If you want a change of pace, though, here’s an idea. Curl up on the couch with your phone or tablet (or sit at your desk while peddling a mini exercise bike) and read some of our compelling longform features from 2019. Read more…

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Christmas came early for Tesla owners with a “holiday” update that added new features and tools to the software system controlling the electric vehicles. 

But with new features like more voice commands, TRAX music-making, Twitch video streaming, Camp Mode, and new games like Stardew Valley and backgammon comes the inevitable errant Tesla whose computer just won’t update.  

Tesla with its screen-based driving system is known for its quick and painless over-the-air updates. It’s similar to downloading and installing a new operating system on a smartphone. While connected to your WiFi, the car downloads and updates to a new version in about 30 minutes, bringing a slew of new features and changes to the driving experience. But sometimes things get sticky.  Read more…

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Spoilers, and answers, ahead!

Given how well The Mandalorian kept Baby Yoda a secret all the way up until its premiere, it’s not surprising that the show’s biggest twist was unknown until it arrived to drop everyone’s jaws in the finale’s last few seconds. That twist, that Giancarlo Esposito’s villainous character Moff Gideon somehow wields the funny looking lightsaber that any Clone Wars or Star Wars: Rebels fans would recognize as the legendary Darksaber, completely recalibrates what we know about his character. It also blows open a huge world of mythic possibilities for The Mandalorian Season 2.  Read more…

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Ah, the perennial question, at least in 2019: go to class or attend a protest? For some students in Virginia, answering might have just become easier. 

Starting on Jan. 27, one of the nation’s largest school districts, Virginia’s Fairfax County Public School District, will grant students in seventh through 12th grades excused time off to engage in “civic engagement activities,” likely making it one of the first school districts in the U.S. to adopt such a policy, according to the Washington Post. 

The Northern Virginia district will specifically allow one excused absence per school year for such activities, which could include things like marches or sit-ins, school system spokespeople told the Post.  Read more…

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