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May 3, 2020

The Weekly Whatever: Who was that masked man?

Woodpecker engineering

  • Trouble with the IRS web site? Try entering your info in all caps.

  • Sheffield city council stores number plate recognition logs in unprotected database on the Internet.

For science!

  • Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat eels who are forgetting humans exist.

Threat Level Orange

  • EPA scraps all limits on mercury emissions from US coal power plants.

Sick, sad world

  • "I Can’t Tell if It’s a Bad Idea to Have Sex in My COVID-19 Hospital Unit".

  • Vallejo planning commissioner resigns after throwing cat and drinking beer during Zoom meeting.

  • Reporter goes on live TV from home wearing no pants.

This should end well

  • ICE refuses donated face masks for detainees.

  • Georgia drops driving test requirement to get a driver's license.

The Guillotine Marketing Board

  • You might be suffering from the bad economy, but the billionaires are raking it in.

Actual good news

  • Supreme Court rules you can't copyright the law and then charge people money to find out what it is.

  • Sweden shuts down its last coal power plant.

Going viral

  • Strip club in Oregon offering drive through service from masked strippers.

  • Utah spent $800,000 buying hydroxychloroquine, now they want their money back.

  • Florida orders coroners to stop releasing death statistics and removes cause of death from data.

  • NIH cuts coronavirus research funding.

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