The Weekly Whatever: Space Karen vs the world
Crapto
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Asshole who burned a Frida Kahlo drawing to increase the value of his 10,000 NFTs only sold four of them, for a total of $11,200.
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In the wake of the FTX collapse, the US Libertarian Party goes antisemitic.
$8chan
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Elon might have been lying about his credentials for 27 years.
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Nazis and QAnon cultusts return to Twitter and get blue checkmarks.
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Twitter employees are locked out of the offices, Elon demands that developers fly to San Francisco to show him screenshots of code they've written.
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Mastodon gains 200,000 new users overnight.
Law and order
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North Carolina Sheriff caught on tape being extremely racist about Black law enforcement officers wins re-election and gets his job back.
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Indiana policeman visits a school to teach children how to be a good law enforcement officer, and shoots one of them.
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Italy outlaws use of facial recognition technology. Except by police and government, obviously.
Science
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Scientists determine that capybaras like to take hot baths and that it improves their skin.
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People are much more likely to start believing something they didn't believe, than to stop believing something once they've started.
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Meta introduces a new AI aimed at writing scientific papers. It turns racist and they pull it after a couple of days.
Normal stuff
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Man arrested after buying an owl at a gas station in Payson, Arizona.
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Chinese man runs a marathon while chain smoking.
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About 10,000 mink are running loose in northwest Ohio.