What’s up with Europe’s largest nuclear plant? And what happened within 12 hours of Musk’s Twitter purchase? (11 questions)

After Liz Truss’s record short tenure as the UK’s Prime Minister in 2022, Rishi Sunak became the kingdom’s first non-white prime minister (and its first Hindu prime minister) on Oct. 25, 2022. Sunak is probably also the first non-alcoholic prime minister in the UK since David Lloyd George. Benjamin Disraeli, a Tory MP of Jewish heritage, was the first minority ethnic British prime minister.

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter on Oct. 28, 2022, led to a 500% increase in the use of the N-word to demean Black people on the platform within just 12 hours, according to the National Contagion Research Institute, a disinformation tracking agency. Users were encouraged to amplify derogatory slurs on Twitter in several posts on the 4chan fringe message board website.

Is Trump returning to Twitter?

As of Nov. 2, 2022, Elon Musk announced Twitter would only allow people banned from its site to return once it sets up procedures on how to do so. That includes the former President, despite a fake meme stating otherwise.

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine is Europe’s largest nuclear plant. As a result of Russian attacks across much of Ukraine on Nov. 3, 2022, heavy shelling disconnected the nuclear plant from the power grid, leaving it with diesel generators as its only power source.

2022’s UN climate conference was hosted at the Egyptian coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh from Nov. 6-18. A sponsorship agreement between the conference and Coca-Cola, described as the “world’s top plastic polluter,” has angered environmentalists.

On Oct. 30, 2022, Brazilian leftist leader Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva won a third non-consecutive presidential term. The 77-year-old former metalworker spent 19 months in jail for corruption convictions before the Supreme Federal Court annulled them in June 2021. On Jan. 1, 2023, Da Silva was sworn in as president and pledged to hold outgoing president Bolsonaro’s administration accountable. He has previously vowed to overturn former President Bolsonaro’s far-right policies, including pro-gun measures and weak protection of the Amazon rainforest.

In recent years, Google has released several messaging apps that failed to significantly impact the market, including Google Talk, Google+ Messenger, Google Voice, Allo, Duo, and the long-forgotten Google Wave. Starting on Nov. 1, 2022, Hangouts has joined the list and automatically redirects to Google Chat on the web. As outlined in the company’s announcement, all messages and contacts will automatically be migrated to the new system.

Taylor Swift dominated all the top 10 spots on the Hot 100 chart, for the first time in Billboard’s history, on the Oct. 21-27, 2022, tracking week. Moreover, Swift’s Midnights album charted 20 songs in its debut week. Previously, Drake’s Certified Lover Boy held nine top 10 spots on Sept. 18, 2021. No one can beat Swift’s 2022 records – only tie them.

Jerry Lee Lewis, whose “Great Balls of Fire” helped define the sound of rock ‘n’ roll, died on Oct. 28, 2022, at his home in DeSoto County, Mississippi. He was 87.

After tweeting that he was going “death con 3 ON JEWISH PEOPLE,” Ye’s Instagram and Twitter accounts were blocked, and JP Morgan and Balenciaga ceased collaborating with him. Adidas announced on Oct. 26, 2022, that it would stop manufacturing Yeezy products and stop paying West and his companies immediately. Madame Tussaud’s London ceased showing the star’s wax figure on Oct. 27. Forbes estimated that West’s net worth is around $400m (£346m) – down from $2bn (£1.7bn).

Various museums have displayed a painting by Dutch abstract artist Piet Mondrian upside down since MoMA first displayed it 75 years ago, curator Susanne Meyer-Büser discovered. New York City I is a complicated interlaced grid of red, yellow, black, and blue adhesive tapes, and she warns anyone who hangs it the right way now will ruin it. “Mondrian Evolution” opened in Düsseldorf on Oct. 29, 2022, and shows the work as it has hung for 75 years.

What are the signs that the Mondrian is upside down?

In the way the painting is hung, the lines thicken at the bottom, giving a simplified skyline. A similar-named and same-sized oil painting in Paris’s Centre Pompidou has thickening at the top. There’s also a picture of the artist’s studio with the painting right side up. MoMA first exhibited the 1941 painting upside-down in 1945, and it has been hanging since 1980 in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

“The Way of Water,” the 2022 sequel to “Avatar,” stars Kate Winslet as Pandora resident Ronal. It’s set over a decade later than the original movie. Watch the “Avatar: The Way of Water” trailer.