The Weekly Whatever: War on Christmas is over (if you want it)
Crapto
- CryptoEats said it was going to take on UberEats using the power of cryptocurrency. Minutes after launch it vanished taking $500,000 of people’s money.
Technology
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Tesla agrees to stop letting drivers play video games while driving.
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Facebook may not be able to stop antivaxx posts, but they can “fact check” the BMJ and Cochrane Library from being mentioned.
Normal people
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Florida man with cocaine and meth wrapped around his penis denies that they’re his.
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Attendees at a conspiracy theory conference come down with coughing, shortness of breath, and fever. Naturally they don’t believe COVID-19 exists, so they conclude that they must have been victims of an anthrax attack.
Should I not have done that?
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A drunk man gets out of his car and holds two sex workers at gunpoint. Another runs over the mother of his child with his SUV leaving tire marks on her leg. A third is convicted of reckless driving, DUI, hit and run, and property damage. But they’re DC police officers, so they all get to keep their jobs.
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Teacher at at Washington DC elementary school gets third-graders to reenact scenes from the Holocaust, directing them to dig imaginary mass graves and pretend to shoot their classmates, under the guidance of a Jewish student chosen to play the part of Hitler.
Miscellany
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Convicted arsonist achieves his dream of becoming acting head of the fire department.
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Murderbot novel wins Hugo award sponsored by murderbot manufacturer.
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Professor hides cash prize, puts its location in the syllabus, tells students to be sure to read the syllabus. At the end of the semester, nobody has claimed the prize.
Science
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Rescue rats with tiny backpacks being trained to sniff out survivors.
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Want to know where the James Web Space Telescope is? There’s a web app for that.