The Weekly Whatever: We all live in a FAFO submarine
Brought to you by WiWi pajamas. Don't forget WiWi before bed. Titanica Too soon for jokes about the Titan? Look at how newspapers of the time snarked about...
The Weekly Whatever: It's a banger
$8chan Twitter stops paying its AWS and Google Cloud bills. Twitter gets evicted from its Boulder offices. Its expensive new unused Boulder offices. As most...
The Weekly Whatever: Kenny's Logins
Updates US National Eating Disorder Association, which replaced its crisis helpline staff with a chatbot after they unionized, discovers that the chatbot has...
The Weekly Whatever: The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
Technology Adobe tells users they’re no longer allowed to use old versions of Photoshop or Lightroom. Free TV shows ads even when you’re not using it. It...
The Weekly Whatever: Happy Mothra's Day
Law and order UK police arrest anti-monarchist demonstrators. Man in mental health crisis is shot at 47 times by police. Somehow he survives, so now there’s...
The Weekly Whatever: Peeshow!
This issue is brought to you by Peeshow. Need to get your daughter a graduation gift? Think Peeshow! Environment Only 5% of plastics get recycled, and that...
The Weekly Whatever: rapid unscheduled disassembly
Tucker is gone but the problem continues If you subscribe to cable or satellite TV, you’re subsidizing Fox News. But the contracts between Fox and the cable...
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Substack decides to become the new Nazi bar. (Full interview) Parler shuts down, saying that there's just no viable business being a right wing version of...
The Weekly Whatever: Platform hamster gaskets
Taking a photo with a Samsung smartphone? That’s no moon. Court rules that Elon musk unlawfully threatened Tesla employees with the loss of stock options if...
The Weekly Whatever: Unconventional and Hilarious Headlines
(Subject line by ChatGPT.) Millions of dollars stolen from cryptocurrency ATMs that allow uploading of videos for some unknown reason. Users who scanned...
The Weekly Whatever: "Year of Efficiency"
Politics October surprise confirmed again: the Reagan campaign conspired with Iranian terrorists to sabotage Carter’s re-election. Far-right software...
The Weekly Whatever: Experimental past tense version
Quotes of the week “We’re all pretending we’ve got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it’s been is too tough to digest. But come on....
The Weekly Whatever: Pope Peterson I
Wildlife Two men shoot and kill a bald eagle, thinking it’s a vulture and planning to cook and eat it. American woman takes her pet cow for a walk in Red...
The Weekly Whatever: [Screaming intensifies]
COVID-19 After 3 years, I slipped up or was unlucky and got COVID. No news story here, just an announcement. I’m doing OK, but definitely wouldn’t recommend...
The Weekly Whatever: Welcome to The Jungle, kids
$8chan With all the experienced ops engineers laid off, Twitter is having trouble deploying code updates. Elon calls in an engineering team to explain...
The Weekly Whatever: Happy Brexit Day!
Advanced legal strategies Ontario says it doesn’t have to pay the compensation it owes for violating treaties with First Nations, because it already spent...
The Weekly Whatever: "Hi, everybody!" "Hi, Doctor ChatGPT!"
Quote of the week I am reminded in moments like this, of something Martin Luther King said, that “the ultimate measure of a [leader] is not where [they]...
The Weekly Whatever: Worst Ever Edition (So Far)
Law and order Kentucky Republicans hold an event at a restaurant to honor one of the cops involved in the no-knock raid that killed Breonna Taylor. Retired...
The Weekly Whatever: Definitely a friend of Frank, honest!
Business Farmers win the right to repair their tractors. For every $1 of new global wealth earned by a person in the bottom 90% in the past two years, each...
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$8chan Twitter makes further cuts to the team responsible for dealing with hate speech and harassment. Technology AT&T will no longer offer human telephone...