The Weekly Whatever: Ex Benedict
Business
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People who live in poor or diverse parts of US cities get slower and more expensive Internet service.
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Need to talk to the manager? Karens For Hire can help you with that.
Crapto
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Midas Investments shuts down, taking 55% of customers’ money.
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A new service helps you write off your totally worthless NFTs and deduct the losses from your tax bill.
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MicroStrategy, Bitcoin’s biggest hodler, decides that now is a good time to sell a bunch of Bitcoin and deduct the losses from their tax bill.
Oops
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We wish you an aggressive lung cancer with metastases.
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Teslas are seen malfunctioning in cold weather.
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Tesla autopilots into highway barrier and bursts into flames.
Science
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Time pressure makes people less able to identify misinformation.
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Three physicists win Nobel Prize for demonstrating that the universe is not locally real.
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Boy, we’ve sure had a lot of once-in-a-generation climate disasters recently. Three hurricanes leading to hundred-year floods in about a year…
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If you have a market with repeated free trade between individuals, mathematically you always seem to end up with the super-rich.