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In a week when Pixar had a shakeup and Uber customers felt shook up, this also happened:
Thick with irony, or something: Billionaire Facebook board member Peter Thiel wants to bid on the bankrupt remains of Gawker.com, which he helped drive out of business by financing wrestler Hulk Hogan’s invasion-of-privacy lawsuit. The Wall Street Journal reported that any new owner would be free to shut down the domain and, ahem, remove all its old articles.
You just knew this tweet had to be from Elon Musk: “Initial Hat Offering going great w over $300k in hat sales already! Thanks for buying our super boring hat. You rock, figuratively & literally. All cash goes directly towards more boring.” The Tesla CEO, who is trying to dig tunnels for another of his ventures, had tweeted a link to the Boring Co.’s hats Oct. 17. Even though Salesforce lowered its outlook slightly after beating earnings estimates, many analysts raised their price targets. MarketWatch reported that one, Canaccord Genuity’s Richard Davis, even gushed in an email subject line: “Best Software Company On The Planet, Analyst Says.” An Ohio couple lost in federal appeals court after they sued because their engagement photo appeared on the cover of an erotic fiction book about a woman’s desire for New England Patriots star Rob Gronkowski. The photo showing them embracing was pulled from their photographer’s website and used on the cover of, wait for it, “A Gronking to Remember.”
Why the Internet is horrid: LeVar Burton, the actor known for “Star
Trek” shows and “Roots,” has been getting hateful tweets. The New York Daily News explained why: His name is remotely similar to LaVar Ball, left, the basketball father feuding with President Trump, and, well, people are idiots. Why the Internet is wonderful: When Kate
McClure’s car ran out of gas in Philadelphia, a homeless man named Johnny Bobbitt Jr. bought her some gas with his last $20. McClure started a GoFundMe campaign to help him, hoping she might collect $10,000 to get back on his feet. Now the fund is over $300,000.