The Weekly Whatever: Log4j - it's everywhere you don't want to be
Unsurprising news
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Man who glued the lock on the door of a vaccination center is jailed – identified because he appeared on CCTV footage not wearing a mask.
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US hospital billing system revealed to apply automatic 575% markup.
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A Black woman who looks really white reveals some of the terrible things white people have said to her.
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Swiss company that delivered text messages for Google and Twitter had a sideline in mobile phone surveillance.
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Research shows that NFTs are basically an insider trading scheme.
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You opted out of Verizon collecting your browsing history? Too bad, they might have opted you back in again.
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Right-wing Christian Supreme Court appointee Amy Coney Barrett asks about “our position on, you know, Jews, right?”.
Can we just not?
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New Zealand decides to see how well prohibition works with cigarettes.
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Switzerland is developing suicide pods.
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Tile, maker of Bluetooth trackers, has been purchased by Life360, which makes money by selling location data. They promise they won’t be selling your Tile location data, though.
Questionable decisions
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Former Republican strategist for George W Bush and Ted Cruz, who was attempting to campaign as a Democrat in Texas, throws in the towel saying it’s because he’s too white and male.
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Speaking of too white: Terry’s Chocolate Orange flavored mayonnaise anyone?
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Austin substitute teacher asked to leave after performing Britney Spears karaoke in class, complete with disco lights.
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McDonalds mints NFT, which soon links to racial slur.
Random
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Massachusetts company bakes 385kg pot brownie.
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Vinyl records are now outselling CDs, and they’re an environmental disaster as well as an audio one.
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VeggieTales depicts Jesus as a pea, the Internet has questions. (How do you circumcise a pea? Is it just minor surgery on his pea-ness?)
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Reddit-trained AI warns researchers about itself.
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Talking crow befriends Oregon elementary school, swears a lot.
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Man attacked by a romp of otters in a park in Singapore.
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Americans used to eat mince pies at Christmas, why did they stop?
Content recommendations
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A man and his dog go missing in an Australian outback town with a population of 12, and murder is soon suspected.
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The great Chinese mystery seeds conspiracy of 2020. You probably heard that it was a “brushing” scam, but it was probably something totally different.