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:

• 5 sites for free Christmas carols, Karaoke, and songs
  
• Rvian pauses partnership
  
• Carvana
  
• GM and LG get $2.5 billion 
  
• 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 incentives 
  
• Netflix and HBO Max
  
• The Twitter account that tracks Elon’s jet
  
• Google employees worried about layoffs
  
• Elon smeared Twitter’s former head of trust and safety
  
• US lawmakers want answers
  
• SpaceX launches private mission
  
• December 2024 is the date for a universal phone charger
  
• A Tesla driver claimed a Model Y ordered him to pull over
  
• Google refused Hong Kong’s request
  

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