The Weekly Whatever: OK Bloomberg edition
Wait, what?
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Great moments in product naming: Pro Lapse.
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8000 BC Zeta Reticulon spacecraft for sale.
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There are too many impeachments these days, and we shouldn't remove a president for petty offenses, argues Ken Starr.
Dystopia technologica
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Ring video doorbell also shares your info with Facebook and other advertising trackers.
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Horror stories from inside Amazon's Mechanical Turk.
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Avast antivirus tracked everything users did online, and sold the information to advertisers.
For science!
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Four new species of walking sharks discovered.
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Study finds that argumentative and egotistical men are particularly likely to drive Mercedes, Audi and BMW cars.
Threat Level Orange
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Supreme Court okays Trump admin's plan to prevent immigration by poor people.
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EPA making it easier for cities to keep dumping raw sewage into rivers.
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New section of border wall falls over in high wind.
That's some mighty fine police work there, Lou
- Maryland officer charged after shooting an unarmed man 7 times while the victim was handcuffed inside a police cruiser.
Get out your tiny violin
- CEO of bankrupt opioid-peddling Purdue Pharma will only get a $1.3m bonus this year.
Sick, sad world
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Getting muted in Runescape does not violate your civil rights.
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Detroit thieves steal wheels from pre-production test vehicle.
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Woman dies speed-eating cakes to mark Australia Day.
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Japanese bakery makes corgi butts filled with custard.
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Daycare worker fired for writing on baby.
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Business is down at restaurant named Wuhan Noodle.
Very normal people
- Mike Bloomberg releases very natural and spontaneous new ad, meets a dog and politely shakes it by the snout.
This should end well
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Cats break into human body farm to feast on the dead.
Extreme awesome
- Prankster gets Katie Hopkins to fly to Prague and accept the Campaign to Unify the Nation Trophy.
The Guillotine Marketing Board
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Jeff Bezos throws a housewarming party at his new $23m Washington DC mansion, and invites Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Kellyanne Conway, James Mattis, Paul Ryan, Elaine Chao, Jamie Dimon, and Bill Gates.
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Elon Musk talks about his grand plans for indentured servitude on Mars.
Late stage capitalism
- Chipotle fined for 13,253 violations of child labor laws -- and that's just in Massachusetts.