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January 19, 2020

The Weekly Whatever: Tuna-friendly dolphin

Woodpecker engineering

  • Microsoft outsourced your Skype and Cortana audio to China with no security measures in place.

Wait, what?

  • American Library Association conference has free speech zone.

Dystopia technologica

  • Secretive company scraped everyone’s photos to create a massive facial recognition database; police are now using it.

For science!

  • Scientists put 3D glasses on cuttlefish and show them 3D movies of shrimp.

  • Bearded men are more attractive to women, unless the women are sqeamish about lice, ticks and fleas.

Threat Level Orange

  • Trump plans 100% tariff on European wines.

That’s some mighty fine police work there, Lou

  • Undercover cop in Houston shoots man and charges him with making a terroristic threat by washing his car windshield.

Well, fancy that!

  • Conservative pundit and Roger Stone supporter sentenced to prison for stealing her mother’s social security checks.

  • The advertising industry is systematically breaking European privacy laws.

  • Disney renames 20th Century Fox so people won’t think it has anything to do with Fox News.

  • Pentagon lied about Iran missile attack casualties.

We’re fucked

  • How to stop freaking out and tackle climate change.

Sick, sad world

  • Gin and tonic yogurts criticized.

  • Stolen therapy goat reunited with depressed cow.

  • Man asks to settle divorce via samurai sword fight.

  • Elementary school kids doused in jet fuel as plane makes emergency landing.

  • Crystal meth Christmas card leads to unhappy new year.

  • Ex Drexel professor accused of spending $96,000 of grant money at strip clubs.

  • Man posts TikTok video of his wife squeezing his back zits; attentive viewer alerts him that he has skin cancer.

  • Reality TV star Gary Golding grills and eats baby dolphin.

Late stage capitalism

  • Spectrum Internet discontinues its home security service, leaving customers with bricked hardware.

Extreme awesome

  • Vermin Supreme wins New Hampshire Libertarian Party state convention nomination poll.
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