🏝️ Zuck’s Hawaii bunker

It’s Monday, December 25 — people are talking about Mark Zuckerberg’s Hawaii compound, Jonathan Owens’s recent interview comments, and more.

As always, we’ve summarized and organized the different shades of perspective, so you can see the big picture quickly. Here at Shades we believe that seeing multiple points of view is the best way to stay informed.

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🏝️ Zuck’s Hawaii bunker

Zuck's new Hawaii compound sparks debate — is it a luxe retreat, or the latest example of billionaire hypocrisy?

🏝️ NY Mag: Meta's Mark Zuckerberg is constructing a new compound in Hawaii, complete with an underground bunker and luxury treehouses.

🏝️ @themaybeseanc sounded the alarm: It looks like Zuck is prepping for an apocalypse — he probably knows something that we don't.

🏝️ The Guardian offered a different takeaway: Zuck’s Hawaii bunker highlights billionaire hypocrisy on equality. He promotes “equality” publicly, yet builds a lavish $270m compound.

🏝️ And Wired thinks the techno-fortress proves that Zuck has the same worries about social-media privacy that we all do: Construction workers can't even snap pics without risking their jobs, per the NDAs they signed.

🎙️ That Jonathan Owens interview

Jonathan Owens's "catch" comment in an interview split opinions: Some found it cheeky, while others cringed or called it disrespectful.

🎙️ Entertainment Tonight: In an interview, Jonathan Owens — an NFL player who is husband to Simone Biles — said he didn't know who Biles was when they met. He also said that he was the “catch” in the relationship.

🎙️ @shelbyalexis___ thinks Owens's interview was a cringe-fest. He was so disrespectful to Simone!

🎙️ And Newsweek said others on social media had the same reaction. The interview was met with a huge online backlash against Owens, with many saying that Owens was trying to undermine Biles’s remarkable achievements — she’s generally regarded as the greatest gymnast of all time.

🎙️ But @vitaminndeee defended Owens's comments: Simone was smiling the whole interview. It was all in good fun!

🎙️ Either way, People Magazine says Owens isn't letting the backlash get to him. He said he's “not bothered” by the outcry.

Quick hits

🇷🇺 Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny was moved to a remote Arctic prison and “is doing well,” according to his spokesperson on Monday. (NYT)

🐋 A pod of orcas continues to nurture calves and hunt dolphins off the cost of Orange County, dazzling whale watchers. (KTLA)

🇮🇱 Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said that an Israeli air strike killed at least 70 people in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp. (BBC)

🏛️ Pope Francis blasted the weapons industry and its "instruments of death", making a Christmas appeal for peace between Israel and Hamas. (CBS News)