The Weekly Whatever:
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Substack decides to become the new Nazi bar. (Full interview)
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Parler shuts down, saying that there's just no viable business being a right wing version of Twitter now that that's just Twitter.
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Elon has Twitter label NPR and PBS as "state-affiliated media", then "government-funded media". Texas Public Radio, PBS and NPR leave Twitter. Curiously, Tesla and SpaceX don't get labeled government-funded.
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Twitter was set up to downrank posts about Ukraine.
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The last surviving member of the prosecutors of the Nuremberg trials has died. Strangely, none of the obituaries mention that he repeatedly called for George W Bush to be prosecuted for war crimes.
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If you decline to share your medical data with marketing companies, the providers might just share it with them anyway.
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Clearview AI scraped all your photos from Facebook and put them in a database for police to use with facial recognition software. Police have used the database nearly a million times so far.
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California police drive 500 miles to seize a 9-year-old child's goat so it can be slaughtered.
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A Florida school holds an active shooter drill. As an exercise, one of the teachers has the children write their own obituaries.
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FJWST takes beautiful new photos of the rings around Uranus.
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North Dakota senators reject plans for free school lunches — then vote to increase their own meal reimbursement limits.
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Clarence Thomas's billionaire benefactor turns out to be really into Nazi memorabilia, and has a signed copy of Mein Kampf and two of Hitler's paintings.
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A number system devised by Inuit schoolchildren is being added to Unicode.