The Weekly Whatever: Maybe it's time for a rename
Science
- Yes, you can detect the prevalence of COVID-19 by counting the number of reviews of candles that complain that they don’t smell.
Business
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Zuckerberg’s VR metaverse is so bad that even the people building it aren’t using it.
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COO of Beyond Meat is arrested after going back to meat.
Crapto
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World’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is taken for $570m.
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Cryptocurrency entrepreneur destroys a $10m Frida Kahlo drawing to ‘transition it into the Metaverse’ so he can sell NFTs of it.
Politics
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🦆 Dr Oz makes a political speech at a fundraiser, while standing in front of Hitler’s staff car.
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Republican commissioner appointed by Ron DeSantis resigns after a photo turns up of him wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe.
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Trumpublican candidate says Google is blocking his web site. Turns out he used robots.txt to prevent it from being indexed.
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Elon Musk has an explanation for why one of his daughters wants to disown him: her school has indoctrinated her in “full-on communism” and the idea that “if you’re rich you’re evil”.
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Wisconsin Republican group sues to prevent student loan forgiveness, on the grounds that it is “motivated by a desire to ‘advance racial equity’ and ‘narrow the racial wealth gap’“, and might disproportionately benefit Black borrowers because they’re poor.
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Arthur Finkelstein was the mastermind behind Republican anti-gay policies of the 1980s. He was gay.