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March 4, 2024

Whatever: Pre-election special

Business news

  • Google engages in union-busting.
  • UK undertakers send Valentine's cards to care home residents.
  • Most UK companies that took part in a 4 day week experiment are continuing the policy.
  • Kellogg's CEO says let them eat cereal.
  • Finally, pork-flavored Starbucks coffee.
  • M&M vending machines are discovered to be quietly collecting facial recognition data.
  • UK vegan restaurant to serve meat due to cost-of-living crisis.

"AI"

  • Trump supporters generate fake AI images of Black people spending time with him.
  • LLMs like ChatGPT can generate extremely persuasive propaganda.
  • Two more cases turn up of lawyers citing nonexistent cases because they believed ChatGPT.
  • An academic paper includes AI-generated images of a rat with a gigantic penis; it's subsequently retracted. The paper, that is.
  • An Air Canada chatbot gives a traveler incorrect information, the courts fail to accept the company's argument that the chatbot is an independent entity responsible for its own mistakes.

Politics

  • Tennessee Republicans quietly eliminate marriage equality and open the door to refusing interracial marriage.
  • Massachusetts Nazi/Republican candidate praises Hitler and promises to "exile all Jews".

Bad ideas

  • If you're going to set up a queer-focused social media site, maybe don't register the domain in Afghanistan.
  • Texas man raises 250lb pet warthog, which decides to try and kill him.
  • Connecticut pastor puts the meth into Methodist.

Law and order

  • Nebraska school districts call in debt collectors to go after students who fail to pay their lunch tabs.
  • Florida cop empties an entire clip at a suspect after being startled by an acorn falling on his car.
  • Thieves somehow steal a 200' radio mast.

Social media

  • YouTube "influencer" who offered parental advice is given four 15 year sentences for child abuse.
  • Facebook bans ads for "Votes for Women" board game, on the grounds that it's a "sensitive social issue".

Elon

  • Xitter is now 31.8% bots.
  • Elon lied about laid off Xitter staff receiving 3 months of severance pay; staff sacked from the African office only now received their severance after winning a court battle.
  • Don't let your Tesla MAGAtruck get wet, or it'll start to rust.
  • Tesla board members felt pressured to do drugs with Elon.
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