The Weekly Whatever: More fun than a 220kg feral hog
Quote of the week
Stephen Miller, on blocking asylum seekers: “It’s just that this is all I care about. I don’t have a family. I don’t have anything else. This is my life.”
Woodpecker engineering
- Rental car refuses to move because it can’t reach the Internet.
Dystopia technologica
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Amazon Alexa customer uses GDPR data subject access request to get a copy of their data. 31,082 interaction transcripts…
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“Better Help” therapy app shares your data with Facebook.
Threat Level Orange
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Notes from compulsory therapy sessions given to migrant children now being passed to ICE to assist in their deportation cases.
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Trump State Department overruled CDC, flew healthy people on a plane with Covid-19 patients.
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Intelligence agencies warn Congress that Russia is interfering in the 2020 elections to help Trump — so Trump fires the Director of National Intelligence.
Well, fancy that!
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Smugglers are now installing hard-to-spot camoflage ladders on the border wall.
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Mulvaney says US is desperate for more immigrants.
We’re fucked
- Here’s the worst-case scenario for 2050.
Sick, sad world
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What happens when you overdose on 550 doses of LSD at once?
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Police respond to report of bee sting, attacked by 40,000 bees.
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McDonalds launches beef-scented candles.
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Boy Scouts of America files for bankruptcy over sexual abuse allegations.
Schadenfreude Saturday
- Trump supporter upset that border wall is being built on his property.