The (Mostly) Weekly Whatever: Those stolen classified documents really tie the room together
Reasonable people
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Another Russian oil executive dies after falling out of a window, what are the odds?
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New York couple wish to assure people that their allegedly racist party wasn’t racist at all, and that the woman’s racist Twitter account is a parody.
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Alex Jones’ lawyer pleads the Fifth Amendment. Not for Alex, for himself.
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George Dawson Middle School bans book by George Dawson.
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Right wingers are upset when armed anti-fascist activists protect a drag brunch from them.
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Canadian scaffolders are threatened with jail time if they refuse to work voluntary overtime.
Crapto
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Cryptocurrency exchange FTX tells customers their money is FDIC insured. No it isn’t, says the FTC.
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More than half of all Bitcoin trades are fake, wash trading aimed at making it seem like a popular option.
Top tips
Technology
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A new startup wants to use neural net software to make call center workers sound white.
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Tesla wants videos taken down that show its cars running over child-sized dummies. Meanwhile, some Tesla owners try to prove the experiment wrong using their own actual children.
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A father took photos of his naked toddler to send to the doctor. Google flagged him as a possible pedophile and reported him to the police.
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Old laptop hard drives crash when exposed to Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation”.
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Confirmed: US police are routinely carrying out mass surveillance of people’s movements by mapping their cell phone locations.
Business
- Miller High Life introduces ice cream that tastes like a dive bar.
Environment (so you might want to stop reading at this point)
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A third of Pakistan is under water, including cities that have exceeded 50 celsius, with a wet-bulb temperature that’s unsurvivable.
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China is experiencing the most extreme heat wave in world history.
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An extreme heat belt is developing across the USA.
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After consultation with the airline industry, Google adjusts its estimates of how much damage your plane flights are doing to the planet, by excluding everything except direct CO₂ emissions.
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The IPCC’s estimates of sea level rise were hopelessly optimistic.
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Good news! That plastic pollution in the ocean? It’s not from your drinking straws, it’s from industrial fishing.
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Billionaires are building luxury bunkers to save themselves from the climate crisis they helped create.
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Where the rest of us will end up living as the planet burns.