The Weekly(?) Whatever: Unsuitable for gorillas
Elon
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"Free speech absolutist" threatens to sue the Center for Countering Digital Hate for hurting his company's reputation with their words.
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The far right are now being paid to post by Twitter.
Law and order
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Police are not primarily crime fighters — "U.S. police spend much of their time conducting racially biased stops and searches of minority drivers, often without reasonable suspicion, rather than 'fighting crime.'"
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Woman prosecuted for helping her daughter obtain abortion pills after Facebook provides her chat logs to police.
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Officials bust an illegal medical lab stocked with at least 20 varieties of infectious agent, including COVID and HIV.
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Ponzi scheme fraudster whose sentence was commuted by Trump is arrested again for allegedly defrauding investors.
Education
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Houston Independent School District plans to eliminate libraries from 28 schools, replacing them with "discipline centers".
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Florida approves new standards for African American history; students will be taught that slavery gave Black people a personal benefit because it helped them develop skills.
This is fine
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That was the hottest July in 120,000 years.
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It's so hot in Arizona that the cactus are dying.
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Meanwhile in Florida, the ocean is 37°C.
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Former head of the UN's climate body says he's very pessimistic that we stand any chance of keeping global warming to less than 2°C. (One current projection: 2.7°C.)
Brexit dividends
- Britain's fish and chip shops are disappearing thanks to Brexit and the energy crisis.
Nature
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Humans didn't start by keeping chickens as food — they were initially kept as exotic pets
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A third of north America's birds have disappeared.
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Toronto Zoo would like people to stop showing gorillas mobile phone photos and videos, it makes them anti-social.
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Oh, Hugh the manatee dies after high intensity same-sex behavior with his brother.
Sports
- Maria Sharapova and John McEnroe take on Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi... in pickleball.
Entertainment
- At last you can buy an empty collector's edition metal case for your streaming Disney movie.
Real estate
- Can we turn some of those empty office buildings into much needed housing? Turns out that's a hard problem.
Technology
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A new browser extension will get rid of irritating YouTube face.
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IMAX movies are still controlled using Palm Pilot software.
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Microsoft will stop charging $57 a month for access to your security logs.
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The Internet Archive sends a DMCA takedown notice targeting a book DRM removal tool. Don't worry, you can still download it from the Internet Archive.
AI
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MIT student Rona Wang asks an AI to make her look more professional, so it gives her white skin and blue eyes.
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Someone asked an AI what Europeans think typical Americans from each state look like. Here are the results.
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A Google AI chatbot is already being tested in hospitals.
Politics
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An Alabama town elects a Black mayor, so the previous mayor and council reappoint themselves in a secret special election and lock him out of the council buildings.
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An Arizona Republican refers to Black people as "colored people".
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The Minnesota Republican party has funds of $53 and debts of $334,000. Now that's fiscal conservatism.
Finally...
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Is your head stuck in a fence? Then this is the perfect article for you.
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