Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene once again made headlines after suggesting the government should pursue cloud seeding technology to “bring rain down on the wildfires.” Stories generally piggybacked on her older posts about the government’s secret hurricane lasers, framing her, and the entire subject, as insane. Now, I agree the hurricane laser thing was very dumb and bad, and Marjorie is narrowly wrong about cloud seeding in this case. But she is directionally correct — we should be controlling the weather. And if we spent the past few decades building a system of new reservoirs and canals connecting cloud-seeded regions of the country to LA, rather than crying about global warming? If we then pursued new technology for rapidly deploying that water rather than wasting our time making fun of the hurricane laser lady? Marjorie would probably still be saying crazy shit, but LA might not be on fire.

Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon vowed to force Elon Musk out of Trump's orbit before the inauguration, calling him a “truly evil person” whose ideas are “really about the implementation of techno-feudalism on a global scale.” Bannon also questioned why a white South African, “the most racist people on earth,” would have a say in US politics, and said Elon should “go back to South Africa.” Okay. While racism accusations followed by “go back to Africa” demands are a *chef’s kiss* level bit, and there are legitimate policy gaps between the two men (see: H1-B visa fiasco), this kind of just feels personal. Bannon emerged from a 4-month stint in the slammer to find The Don replaced him. Now, the man’s been reduced to one of society’s darkest archetypes: an angry old man with a podcast in his basement (uh, I mean…War Room). It hurts to lose a friend.

Yesterday, WIRED released a special “Money Money Money” edition of its online magazine, a medley of articles exposing “the patriarchy controlling the purse strings,” and revealing — in a shock twist and stark departure for the typically pro-man outlet — rich men rule the world, which is bad. The letter from the editor laments the “fractured gender dynamics of wealth accumulation,” noting women are “vastly, outrageously outranked in executive positions.” Which, okay, let’s throw a few more wealthy women in the arena. But I do think it’s time to ask the question: are rich men really all that bad? Washington was rich. The Medicis were rich. All the greatest roman emperors were rich, and if the dozens of affiliate links plastered across their website are any indication, WIRED isn’t. Which is too bad, because if they were (like some billionaire mayor media moguls I know), they might feel more at liberty to write about something that actually matters.

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