The Weekly Whatever: I'm a toilet-half-full kind of person
Business
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European Union spends half a million dollars throwing a virtual party in Zuckerberg's metaverse. Six people show up.
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Amazon Alexa is a colossal failure, on track to lose $10 billion this year.
Crapto
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More than half of Bitcoin addresses are now at an overall loss.
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New York passes first crapto mining ban.
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Wondering who the people are who were suckered into bitcoin by the early boosters to become the bag holders? Yes, it's Black investors.
Terrible people
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Woman in hospital shuts off her roommate's ventilator because she finds the noise annoying.
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Alex Jones files for bankruptcy citing assets of $1 to 10 million, and liabilities of $1 to $10 billion.
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Ex crapto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried reveals that he gave as much money to Republicans as to Democrats, but he funneled the Republican donations as "dark money".
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A Boise police captain is revealed to have been a speaker at a white nationalist conference.
$8chan
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Twitter fails to meet payroll in the UK and Germany.
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The same weekend as the Club Q attack, Twitter reinstates anti-trans harassers.
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Fugitive Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin is given his Twitter account back.
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Elon Musk invites Andy Ngo to nominate "antifa" accounts to be shut down; leftists and their organizations get banned from Twitter soon after.
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Twitter announces that COVID-19 misinformation is now OK.
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For some reason, half of Twitter's top 100 advertisers are no longer paying to appear on the platform.
Other news
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Facebook's going to quit fact-checking Donald Trump so he can make a start on his election campaigning.
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Brian Cox and Brian Cox check into a hotel. Computer says no.