The Weekly Whatever: It's a banger
$8chan
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Twitter gets evicted from its Boulder offices. Its expensive new unused Boulder offices.
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As most of Reddit shuts down in protest at ludicrous new API fees, the CEO talks about his admiration for Elon Musk and sends threatening notes to moderators.
Environment
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Your plane flights that are contributing to climate change are hitting more turbulence because of climate change.
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Those “hygienic” plastic cutting boards are dumping microplastics into your food. (The right answer is a bamboo cutting board, wood cutting boards kill bacteria.)
AI
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Workers hired to train AI chatbots are cheating and using AI chatbots to train the AI chatbots.
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The US Copyright Office says its policy is that AI-generated artwork cannot be copyrighted.
Reasonable people
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The Taliban’s short of cash, so it’s selling tickets to see the ruins of the Buddha statues it blew up.
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Pro-Trump pastor suggests that Christians should become suicide bombers to get their way.
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White supremacist takes MDMA for a scientific study, achieves a moment of clarity, asks himself “Why am I doing this? Why am I thinking this way?”, and hires a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultant to help him turn his life around.
Random
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Ontario family finds a million pennies in the crawl space of their house.
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The company that makes Instant Pot is going bust because the appliances are made reliably and last a long time. If only they had made them crappily as capitalism apparently dictates.
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Illinois man dreams burglars are breaking into his home, and shoots himself in his sleep.
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A mathematician attempts to calculate the ultimate swear word.
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I know dead fish don’t swim home.
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Donald Trump offers food to all his followers, then quickly departs before there’s any risk of being taken up on the offer.