The Weekly Whatever: Un**n! R*str**ms!
The ongoing crisis
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A RAND study finds that conservatives swallow bullshit fake news much more than those on the left.
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Another study finds that a subset of conservatives regurgitate fake news much more than anyone else too.
Business
- Amazon is building employees a new chat app that will protect them from bad words like “union” and “restrooms”.
Saving the children
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Florida education agency rejects math textbooks it claims contain “critical race theory”.
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After Texas calls for parents of transgender children to be investigated, many staff of the state’s Child Protective Services resign, leaving the agency even more understaffed than it was before.
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Austin school district reviewing safety protocols after a parent dressed as the Easter bunny hands out easter eggs containing condoms. (It was a mistake caused by grabbing the wrong eggs.)
Role models
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Tennessee Republican state senator gives a speech about how you can turn your life around even if you’re homeless. Guess who he chooses as his example?.
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Mississippi’s Republican governor declares April to be both Genocide Awareness Month and Confederate Heritage Month.
Art vs crapto
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Person who bought an NFT of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet for $2.9m puts it on sale with an asking price of $48m, gets a top bid of $277 (no m).
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Connecticut mechanic finds a bunch of actual art in a dumpster, discovers it’s worth millions.
Law and order
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Cops stop car for not having its headlights on, discover it’s driving itself. Fortunately it’s a white car, and when it tries to drive away it doesn’t end up in a hail of bullets.
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Woman who sued a Tennessee sheriff for assaulting and forcibly baptizing her during a traffic stop mysteriously turns up dead.
Media
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New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has a new wax cylinder player that can decode the fragile recordings using a laser.
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New premium CNN+ streaming channel gets around 10,000 daily viewers. Yes, there are at least 10,000 people who will pay money to watch CNN.
For science!
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Study suggests that fungi communicate with each other using a vocabulary of up to 50 words.
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Do cats pick better sleeping spots than humans? Research student decides to find out by sleeping wherever her cats decide to sleep and measuring her sleep quality.