The Weekly Whatever: 15 minutes made her a lot more than 15% with GEICO
Crapto
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Company spends $1.5m to buy a cryptocurrency startup, lends employees money to buy company stock, lays them off.
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Never mind The Sex Pistols, buy their NFT bollocks.
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Billion dollar blockchain gaming company backed by Andreessen Horowitz promises a “play to earn” video game, now (post crash) says actually it wasn’t about the money.
Law and order
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Three Arizona police officers stood around and watched a man drown in a reservoir.
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Axon, makers of Tasers, proposes a drone with Tasers. Most of the company’s ethics board resigns.
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The behavior of Uvalde police during the mass shooting will be reviewed by a team of experts – including John Mina, who waited over 3 hours to go after the gunman in the Pulse nightclub mass shooting.
Everything else
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Interviewing the man responsible for Batman’s rock hard nipples.
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GEICO may have to pay a Missouri woman $5.2m compensation for catching an STD in a GEICO-insured vehicle. (She sued the owner of the car, GEICO refused to defend him, the case went to arbitration, GEICO didn’t bother to turn up.)
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AOL 3.0 is back! Over to LiveJournal for the announcement.