The Weekly Whatever: Happy Brexit Day!
Advanced legal strategies
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Ontario says it doesn’t have to pay the compensation it owes for violating treaties with First Nations, because it already spent the money colonizing them.
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Judge in Colombia uses ChatGPT to write a legal decision.
Education
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Uvalde, Texas comes up with a solution to the gun violence problem: Demolish the school where the mass shooting occurred and build another one somewhere else.
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Illinois school worker accused of stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings.
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Antifascists unmask Logan and Katja Lawrence of Upper Sandusky, Ohio as the leaders of “Dissident Homeschool”, a Telegram channel offering “Nazi-approved material” for homeschoolers. Turns out Katja designed web sites for the local County Sheriff’s office, what are the odds?
Business
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More than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets are worthless, and they might be making things worse.
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GoodRX shared your healthcare data with Google and Facebook, including your phone number and information about your healthcare conditions and medications you had prescriptions for. But they did display a very nice HIPAA compliance seal on the web site, so there’s that.
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New Tesla features detachable steering wheel. But that’s OK, it’s self-driving, right?
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Australian mining company loses highly radioactive capsule, asks people to be on the lookout for something 8mm by 6mm. Don’t worry, it was later found by the side of the road and they set up a 20m exclusion zone.
Brexit dividends
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Happy Brexit Day! Britain now has the only G7 economy predicted to shrink, and is doing worse than Russia is under sanctions. Inflation is at a 40 year high, and food prices are up an average of 16.9% in one year, with milk prices up over 38%. Things are expected to get worse this year.
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The UK’s two top research universities have seen their funding from Europe drop to almost nothing.
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The Amsterdam and Paris stock markets have now overtaken London in capitalization, as finance companies continue to move to the EU.
Crapto
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Bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius used funds from new customers to pay existing customers withdrawing their funds and returns. Hmm, there’s a word for that…
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Hermès says no, you can’t just sell NFTs of pictures of their handbags.
Life imitating art
- Welcome to The Villages, a Florida utopia for Trump-loving boomers built by the same company that constructed Universal Studios. It features fake trolley tracks in the sidewalks that go nowhere, artificially aged buildings, golf carts for transit, piped-in TV and radio with content syndicated from Fox News, and probably some kind of giant white sphere controlled from an underground surveillance bunker.