The Weekly Whatever: N628TS
Business news
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Hyundai-Kia has been benefitting from child workers in Alabama.
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Multiple online telehealth startups have been sending information about patients' drug use, self-harm and other mental health issues to Facebook.
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Smucker's say they're the only company allowed to make a circular crustless sandwich.
$8chan
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Elon Musk's mysterious $5.7 billion charity donation last year went to his own foundation, which distributed 1.7% of its assets to actual charities.
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A new report finds that anti-LGBTQ slurs on Twitter are up over 1,000%.
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After promising not to ban the bot account that tracks his jet using public information, Elon bans the bot account that tracks his jet using public information -- plus the creator's personal account. Twitter terms of service are quietly amended to justify the ban.
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After saying he hopes his harshest critics remain on Twitter, Elon bans journalists who report critically on his banning of the jet-tracking account.
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Elon claims that a "crazy stalker" followed a car his son was traveling in, and uses the alleged incident to justify his ban on the jet-tracking account. Curiously no report of the incident is filed with the police, and the video of the alleged incident turns out to have been recorded nowhere near an airport.
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Elon joins an audio conference with journalists to discuss the ban. He discovers that some of the banned journalists have been able to join the conference, and is asked awkward questions. The Twitter audio spaces feature is quickly disabled.
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All links to Mastodon (profiles, posts, servers) are now banned from Twitter.
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Coming soon: People who like Elon enough to pay $8 a month for Twitter blue will have their downvotes used to rate posts across the entire platform.
Crapto
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Financial auditing firm Mazars suddenly decides it's not going to audit any more cryptocurrency companies, and quietly removes its report claiming that Binance is sound and has money to back up its cryptocurrency.
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Binance quietly stops allowing withdrawals of "stable" coin funds after $1.8 billion is withdrawn in 24 hours.
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Celebs who allegedly promoted Bored Ape NFTs in return for secret kickbacks find themselves named in a class action lawsuit.
Other news
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Berlin hotel's giant aquarium explodes.
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AI photo styling app Lensa seems to particularly like pornifying photos of Asian women.
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Trump launches horrible NFT trading cards; people who pay $99 for one don't even own them.
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Conifers in Oregon have suffered a record die-off.
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Excited by that fusion breakthrough that was in the news? Here's why fusion power plants will never happen.