It’s been a busy week, But let’s start here:

Let’s say you own a Tesla but that you’re starting to feel a little weird about helping to contribute, in some small way, to Elon Musk’s massive fortune. If so, you’ll want to know about Matthew Hiller, a Hawaii man who has built himself a business selling anti-Musk stickers to Tesla owners just like yourself. One of the stickers says “I bought this before Elon went crazy.” Business is thriving. If you own a Cybertruck, though, not even the stickers will save you.

Speaking of Elon Musk, what were those bright lights over Eugene that were reported last weekend? Lizzy Acker, writing in The Oregonian/OregonLive, reports that experts believe most likely they were Starlink satellites, part of Musk’s satellite internet constellation. Sure they were. If you believe that, I have a used Tesla to sell you.

In a possibly related story, mysterious drones are lighting up the skies above New Jersey. Could this be mere coincidence? If you believe that — actually, I don’t have a used Tesla to sell you.

A scofflaw — or a group of scofflaws — has been attaching googly eyes to works of public art in Bend. City leaders responded to this — let’s call it creative vandalism — in a heavy-handed manner, but they appear to have a legitimate point in that the adhesive used to attach the eyes might damage the artwork. My proposal, therefore, is that the city should find an adhesive that won’t damage the art, and share the adhesive with whoever is doing this, because we’re all going to need these occasional bursts of civic whimsy in 2025.

A new story in High County News explores how timber investment management organizations and similar operations — in some cases, owned by institutional investors such as pension funds, mutual funds and insurance companies — now own about two-thirds of western Oregon’s private forestlands. For example, the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America owns about 156,000 acres of forest in Oregon’s Northern Coast Range. The property is managed by Nuveen, a timber investment management organization. Ownership, obviously, has an impact on how the land is managed.

I was shocked, as you might imagine, to learn that I agreed with President-elect Donald Trump on an issue of national importance: He also wants to do away with daylight saving time, as The Oregonian/OregonLive reports.

The recent earthquake about 60 miles off the coast of Ferndale, California should serve as a reminder to Pacific Northwest residents that we live in earthquake country. Here’s what Oregon State University earthquake experts and others think the California quake can teach us.

The Ashland Daily Tidings, a newspaper that served that southern Oregon city, closed down in 2023 after more than a century. But its website has been pillaged by scam artists who stole the identity of a real British journalist and who have been using artificial intelligence to load the site with stories stolen from other sources. The goal, OPB reports, apparently is to fool readers into giving clicks — and the resulting ad revenue — to the scammers behind the site.

A bankruptcy judge has rejected The Onion’s offer to buy InfoWars, Alex Jones’ conspiracy-theory website. The Onion’s offer, which was made in conjunction with some of the parents of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, would have turned InfoWars into a parody site. The judge said there was a lack of transparency in the auction and too much confusion surrounding The Onion’s bid. The next steps in the case are not yet apparent. Saturday, by the way, is the 12th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting, which was not a hoax, despite whatever Jones might have said at the time.

Lee Enterprises, which owns the Gazette-Times and the Democrat-Herald, posted a $9.5 million loss for the quarter that ended Sept. 30. That quarter also wrapped up the company’s 2023-24 fiscal year, during which it lost $23.6 million, as compared to the previous fiscal year, when it lost $2.7 million. The company was able to point to increases in its digital revenue, which now makes up more than half of its revenue. In an earnings call this week, the company also touted new AI partnerships. Lee sees itself as “the interface between the consumer and the world of AI content,” an executive said. Poynter has more details about the earnings call in this dispatch, although you have to scroll down to find them.

The Athletic has additional details of the so-called “College Student Football League,” which could trigger the next wave of realignment — in the 2030s (assuming it can overcome serious opposition from the two conference powerhouses, the Big 10 and the Southeastern Conference, a big “if”). Under the proposal, the Football Bowl Subdivision would be divided into two tiers — a 72-team Power 12 division (roughly the old Power 5 conferences, before the Pac-12 disintegrated) and a 64-team Group of 8 (basically the current Group of 4.) The Power 12 tier would be split into 12 six-team divisions. Oregon State would play in the west division, with Oregon, Washington, Washington State, BYU and Utah. The winner of each conference, along with 10 at-large teams and two teams from the lower tier, would play in a 24-team playoff with eight byes and eight first-round games. Proponents say the system would do away with the rankings generated in secret by the College Football Playoff committee. They also say — and this is probably more to the point — that pooling the conference’s TV rights into one big package (and adding playoff games) could lead to a bigger payday. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned the last couple of years about college football, it’s that money always talks. (The Athletic website does not yet allow subscribers to offer gift subscriptions, so that story may be behind a paywall. All other links in the Weekend Reader are free for at least a week.)

If you can’t get into that story, here’s the second full week of The Atlantic’s Space Telescope Advent Calendar. You’re welcome.

That’s it for this week. Let’s plan on gathering again next weekend — the weekend before Christmas — to share some holiday cheer.