The Weekly Whatever: Hot tractors in your area looking for some plowing
Real estate
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Illinois family finds 63-year-old order of McDonalds fries preserved inside a wall of their house.
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Home in Fairfax, VA comes with a stranger living in the basement, sells for $805,000 anyway.
Technology
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Holocaust-denying white nationalist troll is already chatting with Elon Musk’s team about getting back on Twitter.
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Facebook really has no idea what it does with your data or where it goes.
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WSJ interviews the inventor of iPhone autocorrect — from a duck farm.
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Tesla Model Y summoned via autopilot, drives into $2m private jet.
Aviation
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Boeing’s CEO says the company’s previous CEO should never have done a deal with Trump for two new Air Force One jets; they’ve already lost $660m as a result.
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Panic at Boston airport after suspicious item spotted in baggage; it turns out to be a PlayStation.
Careers
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UK Tory MP resigns after admitting to watching porn in the House of Commons; says it was an accident and he was trying to look at tractors.
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New York teacher put on leave after telling black students to put on handcuffs and pick seeds out of cotton during a history lesson about slavery.
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Lindsay Lohan will shill your NFTs for $25,000.
Nature
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Young python found on a shelf in an Indiana Walmart.
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Woman stranded for 6 days in backwoods snow survives on yogurt.
Suggested reading
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Why the last 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid; or, the social networking Tower of Babel.
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Pop stars talk about life once they were suddenly no longer famous.
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Why the New Yorker hyphenates the word teenager.