The Weekly Whatever: Old McDziedzic had a troll farm
Quote of the week
- “[She] cried her eyes out when I met her at the hospital that fateful day… I mean not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn’t.” — Donald Trump, on meeting Steve Scalise’s wife after he was shot.
Woodpecker engineering
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Uber’s self-driving car killed a pedestrian because it hadn’t been programmed to know that pedestrians could exist outside of crosswalks.
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Apple Card? Computer says no.
Wait, what?
- CVS asks to see Puerto Rican student’s immigration papers before they’ll sell him over-the-counter cold medicine.
Dystopia technologica
- The Guardian investigated life in a Polish troll farm.
Threat Level Orange
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White House halloween party encourages children to “build the wall” with their own personalized bricks.
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Library attempt to purchase New York Times subscription blocked by Trump supporters.
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Mike Pence funneled foreign aid money to his favorite Christian groups.
Well, fancy that!
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Mueller interview notes reveal that Trump personally ordered his staff to get the stolen e-mails from Russia.
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Co-founder of Students For Trump pleads guilty to fraud scheme.
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Under Armor, whose CEO said in 2017 that Trump was an asset for the country, is now under federal criminal investigation for fraud.
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Richard Spencer, who said he wasn’t a Nazi, turns out behind closed doors to be violently racist and antisemitic.
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UK Conservative government promised to build 200,000 new homes in 2014. Number built so far: zero.
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The Trump campaign holds lots of contests to win dinner with the orange one, but nobody ever seems to win…
Sick, sad world
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Antivax mom says she handed out chickenpox-infected lollipops to help kids develop immunity.
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Republican asks woman to prove she isn’t transgender, threatens to drop his pants and get his dick out.
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Phone sex line number printed as suicide hotline on middle school student ID cards
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Man tries to open bank account with fake million dollar bill.
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McDonalds apologizes for Sundae Bloody Sundae ice cream ads.
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Popeye’s won’t pull chicken sandwich which led to fatal stabbing.
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Brooklyn hypnotherapist secretly hosts neo-Nazi podcast.
What year is this?
- Restaurant owner gets 10 year sentence for keeping black man enslaved for 23 years.
This should end well
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A million cannibal ants escaped from a Soviet nuclear bunker.
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MIT biomimetic robots lurk in leaves and pounce.
Extreme awesome
- Calgary TV meteorologist shows up on Halloween dressed as Ferdinand the mystical unicorn.