The Weekly Whatever: Nancy Pelosi's gazpacho soupersoldiers
Quote of the week
"I am not comfortable with the transgenders, the kids that they brought in my classroom, when they said that this kid is transgendering into a different sex, that I couldn’t have kids laugh at them." — Texas Republican candidate Shelley Luther
Next week's news
Crapto
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This week's hack: $325 million, Wormhole.
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BBC pulls documentary about cryptocurrency millionaire after The Guardian asks if he's really a millionaire, and whether maybe the BBC should have mentioned that his cryptocurrency was suddenly shut down last year leaving suck^H^H^H^Hinvestors out of pocket.
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World Wildlife Fund announces eco-friendly NFTs, is informed that they've been scammed and the NFTs aren't eco-friendly at all.
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Wondering why celebs are pushing NFTs? It's because they're represented by Creative Artists Agency, which has pumped a lot of money into the NFT marketplace OpenSea.
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The number 2 NFT marketplace is 87% wash trading, some $8.3 billion worth. And in related news...
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Melania Trump's NFT sells for $170,000 to Melania Trump.
What a prize!
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Massachusetts woman competes on "The Price is Right", wins a fantastic vacation trip... to New Hampshire.
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North Carolina animal shelter gives away rooster called Cluck Norris on the condition that the recipient promises the bird will never come back.
Questionable decisions
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Pakistani faith healer tells woman that hammering a nail into her head will ensure that she gives birth to a boy, she agrees to the treatment.
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Burglar steals $20,000 of equipment from security camera company, somehow gets caught within hours.
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Bored security guard adds missing eyes to painting using ballpoint pen.
Politics
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Trump-appointed USPS Postmaster decided to go with a new fleet of gasoline-powered postal trucks that get 8.6 mpg.
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QAnon Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R, GA) warns about Nancy Pelosi's gazpacho police.
Antisocial media
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Twitter announces that it's done with taking action against misinformation about the 2020 election.
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Facebook's content algorithm is mostly steered by the top 0.3% of hyperactive users — who tend to be old, white, male, homophobic and antisemitic.
Sotfware qualty
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Bug in Mazda car software leads to radios getting permanently stuck on NPR, requiring hardware replacement.
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Bug in Hyundai software makes the dashboard flip upside-down when the weather is really cold.
Suggested reading
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The NASA nuclear engineer who invented the Super Soaker.
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Personal update on a week in the desert.