The Weekly Whatever: Earth, Wind and Fire Day edition
Quote of the week
That’s when I realized that while this might have been the first time I was allowed on social media, it was far from the first time my photos and stories had appeared online. When I saw the pictures that she had been posting on Facebook for years, I felt utterly embarrassed, and deeply betrayed.
There, for anyone to see on her public Facebook account, were all of the embarrassing moments from my childhood: The letter I wrote to the tooth fairy when I was five years old, pictures of me crying when I was a toddler, and even vacation pictures of me when I was 12 and 13 that I had no knowledge of. It seemed that my entire life was documented on her Facebook account, and for 13 years, I had no idea.
Woodpecker engineering
- Man breaks into shooting range online POS system, changes employee names to Boople Floof, Noodle Holder, Glock Meister and Jimmy Cracked Corn.
Wait, what?
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Halloween store introduces sexy tariff costume.
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FDA rules that some diabetes drugs must warn users of the risk of flesh-eating genital infection.
Dystopia technologica
- Digital Recognition Network is a private surveillance network of 9 billion license plate scans, available to law enforcement.
Threat Level Orange
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Man praised by Trump for his heroism during the El Paso shooting made up his story according to police.
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Trump pushing the US towards exiting the international postal mail system.
That’s some mighty fine police work there, Lou
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Phoenix police have a union contract allowing all record of misconduct to be quietly erased from official files.
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County Sheriff discovers that one of his deputies has a recording of him making racist comments, so he allegedly encourages another man to kill the officer.
Well, fancy that!
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Johnson & Johnson knew fentanyl was being abused 18 years ago.
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Scientists have decoded babies’ babbling. They’re bossing you around.
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Pennsylvania Republican state senator who opposed legislation meant to help victims of child sexual abuse is arrested and charged with possession of child pornography.
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Chinese exporters have ignored Trump’s tariffs, and the burden has fallen entirely on US consumers and businesses.
We’re fucked
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North America’s bird population has dropped by 29% since 1970.
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Algal bloom on the beaches of Brittany can kill you in seconds.
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Data visualization shows you average temperature for your location from 1895 onwards, as a series of colored stripes.
Get out your tiny violin
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The super-rich are being scammed onboard their private jets.
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Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer says his client’s life has been ruined.
Sick, sad world
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UK school asks students to write a suicide note for their homework.
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E-cigarette company Juul gave presentations to 9th grade schoolkids about how vaping was “totally safe”.
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Michigan State Health Director, told that Flint water could kill people, responds with “They’ll have to die of something“.
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Firefighters forced to dodge after massive semen explosion.
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Woman makes her dream come true; unfortunately it’s the dream about eating her engagement ring.
Not The Onion
- Pennsylvania judge rules that raccoons are not subject to the law.
This should end well
- Explosion at Russian lab that stores ebola and smallpox.
Schadenfreude Friday
- Neo-Nazi web site The Daily Stormer is down unless they can find $11,000, as their ISP is no longer willing to host them for free.