May 31, 2020

The Weekly Whatever: From one unit of capital stock to another

Quote of the week

“Our capital stock hasn’t been destroyed. Our human capital stock is ready to go back to work.”
– White House advisor Kevin Hassett

Woodpecker engineering

• Anti-porn filters prevent Dominic Cummings from trending on Twitter.

Dystopia technologica

• Facebook studied how it makes our conversations more extreme and divisive, then decided to ignore the research.

Threat Level Orange

• Department of Justice quietly drops inside trading inquiry into three senators.

• New USAID religious-freedom adviser wrote that “those who understand Islam for what it is are gearing up for the fight”.

• White House decides not to publish an economic forecast before the November election.

Well, fancy that!

• Two weeks after Wisconsin’s Supreme Court struck down the state’s stay-at-home order and bars reopened, the state sees a record number of new coronavirus cases and deaths.

Get out your tiny violin

• “It’s a modern quandary for the ultra-wealthy: a yacht awaits at harbor, but how to safely reach it without risking exposure to the germ-ridden masses?”

Sick, sad world

• Hundreds of tiny arachnids are likely on your face right now.

• Man spends 24 hours vandalizing a school, naked.

This should end well

• Monkeys attack lab assistant and escape with COVID-19 samples.

• Aiming loaded guns at your genitals with the safety off, to own the libs.

Actual good news

• Crayola introduces crayons in 24 new skin tones.