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Twitter owner Elon Musk confirms that Kanye West's Twitter account is suspended after the rapper now known as Ye tweeted a post that featured a swastika. The now-deleted post went up last night after Ye appeared on Alex Jones' Infowars show and repeatedly said he admires Adolf Hitler. Ye said he sees "good things about Hitler," claiming that the Nazi leader invented highways and the microphone he uses as a musician. Ye posted a number of controversial tweets, including one with a picture of a swastika merged with a Star of David. Twitter promptly took down the offending post and Ye's account.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/tech/elon-musk-kanye-west-twitter-suspension/index.html
Bob Dylan is apologizing for machine printed signatures on his recently released book "The Philosophy of Modern Song." Simon and Schuster, the books publishers, sold copies of the book that were said to have Dylan's handwritten signature but instead had a replica signature made by an auto pen machine. In a statement, Dylan explains with contractual deadlines, a case of vertigo, and the COVID pandemic, signing sessions were hard. The next best thing suggested to him was to use an auto pen for his signatures. Dylan ends his statement saying using a machine was an error in judgment and he's working with Simon & Schuster to rectify it immediately.
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/bob-dylan-apologizes-book-autopen-signature-1235176703/
Today is the 30th anniversary of something just about all Americans do dozens, if not hundreds of times a day. No, not adjust their underwear. It was on this date, December 3rd, 1992, British software programmer Neil Papworth sent the world's first text message. It went from his computer to his colleague Richard Jarvis. It read, "Merry Christmas." Papworth was working as a developer and test engineer to create a Short Message Service, or SMS. One year later, Finnish cellphone maker Nokia introduced an SMS feature with a distinctive beep to signal an incoming message.
The first trailer is being released for the upcoming thriller "Cocaine Bear." The film follows a bear on a murderous rampage after it encounters pounds of cocaine in the wild. The movie is based off a true story, minus the murderous rampage, when a drug smuggler offloaded a duffel bag of the drug in the Georgia wilderness and a bear ingested it resulting in an overdose. The film is directed by Elizabeth Banks and the cast includes Keri Russell and the late Ray Liotta. "Cocaine Bear" is set to hit theaters on February 24th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWEEKeJLMI
A Warner Brothers' Batmobile is up for sale. The car was featured in Tim Burton's live-action films, 1989's "Batman" and "Batman Returns" in 1992. Since then, it's been used as a prop at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey, in front of the Batman Returns roller coaster. It comes complete with a working flame thrower.
The Batmobile is being sold by an avid movie car collector for one-and-a-half-million-dollars.
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/michael-keaton-era-batmobile-sale-million
A North Carolina man wants to spice things up with Guinness World Records. Vic Clinco says he's been talking with the organization about his massive collection of 11-thousand bottles of hot sauce. And he doesn't plan to stop there either, and wants to make sure his collection leaves "no wall left in sight." Clinco hopes to have his hot sauce obsession officially recognized by Guinness and would also like to hold tasting events down the road.
https://kiss951.com/2022/12/01/north-carolina-man-worlds-largest-hot-sauce-collection/