The Weekly Whatever: Is it safe?
Perspective
- Many countries have structures that can be seen from space: Egypt has The Pyramids, China has the Great Wall, and America has a burning Walmart.
Technology
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Artificial intelligence finds 40,000 possible new chemical weapons in 6 hours.
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Microsoft Defender flags Microsoft Office updates as ransomware.
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Tesla employee posts a video of his own car self-driving into a bollard. Tesla fires him for breaking policy around "responsible social media activity". Wait 'til they find out about Elon.
Media
- Gray's Anatomy writer placed on leave on suspicion that some of the plotlines she wrote may have been fictitious.
No Fucking Thanks
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Man who paid half a million dollars for an NFT of Pepe the Frog is very upset that 46 identical NFTs were given away for free.
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NFT collector accidentally sells his clipart-style picture of a rock for $0.0012 instead of the $1 million he somehow imagines it's worth.
Health
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Largest trial to date confirms once again that Ivermectin is useless against COVID-19.
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A quarter of US personal care products tested contained dangerous levels of benzene.
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Dentist deliberately broke patients' teeth so he could make money installing crowns.
Education
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Assistant Principal reads book "I Need A New Butt" to second graders. School district fires him, outraged that 8 year old children might find out about the existence of butts.
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North Carolina school apologizes for mock slave auction in which white students were invited to sell their black classmates, with staff and faculty present.
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CIA black site used detainee as prop to train interrogators how to smash a person's head into the wall so they could be certified.
The first casualty of war
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Russia posting fake fact-checks of nonexistent Ukrainian propaganda.
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National Mustard Museum banishes Russian mustards.
Nature
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Parrot rescued from tree turns out to be ceramic.
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Camel escapes from petting zoo, kills two men.
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Eastern Antarctica is 40°C warmer than normal. The Arctic is 28°C warmer than normal. Don't look up.
Nostalgia
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Mike Tyson's company selling cannabis edibles shaped like ears. Your move, Lorena Bobbitt.
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Re-live classic user interface design of the past with HOT DOG Linux.