U.S. Surpasses 3,000 COVID Deaths In A Day For The First Time – On Wednesday, the United States passed another gruesome pandemic milestone, with states reporting over 3,000 coronavirus deaths in a day for the first time, according to the COVID Tracking Project. [nym]

Elon Musk’s Fortune Tumbles $9 Billion In One Day As JPMorgan Warns Investors Tesla Shares Are ‘Dramatically’ Overvalued – Tesla’s billionaire cofounder and CEO Elon Musk saw his fortune fall $8.9 billion on Wednesday, as Tesla stock plunged following a bearish outlook from JPMorgan JPM -0.8% analysts. [forbes]

Major US Lawsuits Seek Break Up Of Facebook – US federal regulators and more than 45 state prosecutors have sued Facebook, accusing the social media company of taking illegal actions to buy up rivals and stifle competition. [bbc]

Rand Rallies To 10-Month High – The rand is at its strongest levels since February this morning, at R14.93/$, R19.97/pound and R18.11/euro. [busins]

The Stars Are Aligning For South African Stocks – Equity strategists are making a growing case for 2021 to be a good year for South African stocks as global investors respond to the anticipated widespread availability of a coronavirus vaccine with an increased appetite for riskier assets. [btech]

Take A Tour Of Cape Town’s ‘High School Of The Future’ – We took a tour of online private high school Valenture Institute’s Newlands boutique campus, to see what all the fuss is about. [here]

Malawi Minister’s Signature Awaited For Arrest Warrants Of Bushiris – The process to have self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary arrested has begun, the Malawian government said on Tuesday. [iol]

Human-Made Materials Now Outweigh Earth’s Entire Biomass – Production of concrete, metal, plastic, bricks and asphalt greater than mass of living matter on planet, paper says. [guardian]

Melania Trump ‘Just Wants To Go Home’ – And has already asked what taxpayer funds she gets when she leaves office – despite her husband claiming he will have a second term. [dm]

Airbnb Gets $47 Billion Market Value In Blockbuster IPO – Airbnb, within hours of DoorDash nearly doubling in its trading debut, priced its initial public offering above a marketed range to raise about $3.5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. [fortune]

Spain’s Juan Carlos Makes A Big Tax Payment Amid New Financial Probe – The former king of Spain paid about $820,000, his lawyer said. He did not say why, but the news came amid the latest investigation into possible financial wrongdoing by Juan Carlos. [nyt]

Don’t Flip, Says Auctioneer Seeking R44m For Donald Trump’s Childhood Home – President Donald Trump’s childhood home is up for sale for the fourth time in four years, with a bloated $3 million (about R44 million) target price that the auctioneer hopes his admirers will pay. [iol]

Great Specials On Airpods, iPhone SE, Apple Watch, MacBook Air, And More – Black Friday and Cyber Monday may have come and gone, but there are still some great specials running in the lead-up to Christmas. [here]

Queen Elizabeth’s Granddaughter, Olympic Show-Jumper Zara Tindall, Is Pregnant With Third Child – The granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip — Zara Tindall — is pregnant with her third child, who would be the monarch’s ninth great grandchild. [cnn] Ok… so they’re definitely boning. 

Mank Movie Review: Led By Gary Oldman, David Fincher’s Period Drama Recreates Old Hollywood – A touching, almost impeccable, tribute to the craft of the screenwriter, David Fincher’s Mank, streaming on Netflix, is a classy piece of cinema. [ndline]

George Clooney ‘Ended Up In Hospital’ After Losing 25 Pounds For His Role In The Midnight Sky – The Oscar winning actor had to spend multiple days in medical care after losing 25 pounds to play the survivor of a global catastrophe in The Midnight Sky. [dm]

The Midnight Sky Review (2/5) – beardy George Clooney marooned in bland cosmic yarn. [guardian]

The 13 Horniest TV Moments Of 2020 – You don’t need us to tell you that 2020 was horny as heck. [mash]

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