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May 1, 2022

The Weekly Whatever: Hot tractors in your area looking for some plowing

Real estate

  • Illinois family finds 63-year-old order of McDonalds fries preserved inside a wall of their house.

  • Home in Fairfax, VA comes with a stranger living in the basement, sells for $805,000 anyway.

Technology

  • Holocaust-denying white nationalist troll is already chatting with Elon Musk’s team about getting back on Twitter.

  • Facebook really has no idea what it does with your data or where it goes.

  • WSJ interviews the inventor of iPhone autocorrect — from a duck farm.

  • Tesla Model Y summoned via autopilot, drives into $2m private jet.

Aviation

  • 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.

  • Delta airlines kills millions of honeybees.

  • Panic at Boston airport after suspicious item spotted in baggage; it turns out to be a PlayStation.

Careers

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Lindsay Lohan will shill your NFTs for $25,000.

Nature

  • Young python found on a shelf in an Indiana Walmart.

  • Woman stranded for 6 days in backwoods snow survives on yogurt.

Suggested reading

  • Why the last 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid; or, the social networking Tower of Babel.

  • Pop stars talk about life once they were suddenly no longer famous.

  • Why the New Yorker hyphenates the word teenager.

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