The Weekly Whatever: Vulture culture
Quote of the week
“I give up my salary – it’s $450,000, approximately $450,000 presidential salary – I give it up, it goes to – usually I give it to drugs, I give some to Elaine sometimes for transportation”
Woodpecker engineering
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Midwest farmers buying 40 year old tractors to avoid modern software and DRM which prevents unauthorized maintenance.
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Boeing engineer described the 737MAX as “designed by clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys”.
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Boeing 737 NG screens go blank if the autopilot is directed to approach particular runways.
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Software given quick lazy fixes for Y2K fails in 2020.
Wait, what?
- Strip club gives tents to the homeless.
Dystopia technologica
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New breed of PR firms will “use every tool and take every advantage available in order to change reality according to our client’s wishes”.
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US government starts collecting DNA from immigrants temporarily held while crossing the border.
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New surveillance startup selling cameras hidden in gravestones, child car seats and vacuum cleaners.
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23andMe sells rights to drug developed using its users’ DNA.
For science!
- 17 year old NASA intern discovers new extrasolar planet on his third day.
Threat Level Orange
- Cambridge Analytica worked to manipulate elections in 68 countries.
That’s some mighty fine police work there, Lou
- 90% of NYPD ‘jaywalking’ tickets go to black or hispanic pedestrians.
Well, fancy that!
- Captain of ICE detention center was a user of a neo-Nazi web site, and wanted to start a white nationalist group.
We’re fucked
- Over a billion animals feared dead in Australian wildfires.
Sick, sad world
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Cities move to ban dollar stores, blaming them for residents’ poor diets.
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Kids throw snowballs at car, driver shoots them.
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Iran may have a fleet of Communist killer dolphins.
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Gwyneth Paltrow selling “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle.
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Vultures take over Trump border patrol tower.