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February 23, 2020

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

  • Amazon Alexa customer uses GDPR data subject access request to get a copy of their data. 31,082 interaction transcripts…

  • “Better Help” therapy app shares your data with Facebook.

Threat Level Orange

  • Notes from compulsory therapy sessions given to migrant children now being passed to ICE to assist in their deportation cases.

  • Trump State Department overruled CDC, flew healthy people on a plane with Covid-19 patients.

  • 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!

  • Smugglers are now installing hard-to-spot camoflage ladders on the border wall.

  • Mulvaney says US is desperate for more immigrants.

We’re fucked

  • Here’s the worst-case scenario for 2050.

Sick, sad world

  • What happens when you overdose on 550 doses of LSD at once?

  • Police respond to report of bee sting, attacked by 40,000 bees.

  • McDonalds launches beef-scented candles.

  • 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.
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