SKH Roundup: December 8th 2025
Pete Hegseth's war crime denial, Netflix's new angle, Twitter's hard lesson, and more
Welcome to the first Stuff Keeps Happening Weekly Roundup!
What's this now?
Until recently, Stuff Keeps Happening's newsletter was a once-a-week info dump of multiple stories in one big post.
Stories are now published individually, with a one-a-week roundup post with a few additional bits and highlights.
The video and podcast versions of Stuff Keeps Happening are not changing.
This week, Stuff Keeps Happening returned from a bit of a break, but I gotta say I'm excited to be back at it. Except for the whole, "it's wild as hell out there" thing. So let's take a look at what's making it so dang wild.
The Hegseth Experience
Pete Hegseth is undeniably extant.
Endeavorance
Netflix's Brotherly Discovery
Netflix plants to purchase Warner Bros Discovery, acquiring their studios and streaming while their TV networks are spun out into a separate entity. Paramount—owned by the Ellison family (Oracle)—bid as well but lost out. Now they're big mad.
Endeavorance
Twitter's Expensive Checks
The European Commission slapped Twitter with a fine over the company's dismal handling of the changes to verified checkmarks, ad transparency, and public research.
Endeavorance
Canadian Faces, Now in Real Time
The Edmonton Police Service has started a pilot program to test out "near real-time" AI-powered facial recognition scanning built in to cop-worn body cameras. They would like us all to know that they can totally do that.
Endeavorance
Here’s the Weather
More Stuff
- FIFA made their own peace prize and gave it to Donald Trump
- California's energy grid is no longer reliant on coal, instead leaning mostly on renewables. They've not yet phased out gas.
- Bitcoin (and crypto at large) has seen a staggering 33% drop in "value" in just the past few months
- There's been a record breaking level of bear attacks north of Tokyo in Japan, including a man who was attacked by one while using a public restroom. Very thankfully, he's okay. He fought it off, or perhaps it was the smell.
