The Whatever: Regularly irregular schedule
Technology
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Amazon has been promoting Alexa as a reliable source of election news. Unfortunately Alexa has been claiming that the 2020 election was stolen.
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If you're Jewish and thought it was a good idea to pay 23andMe to store your genetic profile and personal information in a big database, I have some bad news...
Politics
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The Trump administration uses executive power to ignore 26 laws and allow bulldozing wildlife habitats for border wall construction. No, wait, the Biden administration.
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Politico publishes an opinion piece arguing that voluntarily joining the Waffen-SS in 1943 doesn't necessarily make you a Nazi.
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50 years of tax cuts for the rich have failed to trickle down.
Education
- A school in Indiana says it will continue to use the N word in history lessons, for "educational purposes".
Florida
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A Florida man is arrested at sea in a self-built giant floating hamster wheel, and says he was on his way to London.
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Palm Springs plans an AIDS memorial sculpture that many feel looks remarkably like an anal sphincter.
Crapto
- 95% of NFTs are now utterly worthless, so only 5% to go.
Nature
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A man is prevented from bringing his emotional support alligator to a baseball game. In unrelated news, Florida police investigate after an alligator is seen dragging a dead human body down the street.
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A bar in Singapore hopes to offer mealworm margaritas.
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Scientists would like to rename the Hitler beetle, as neo-Nazis keep collecting them to the point that they're nearly extinct. (The beetles, that is. Unfortunately.)
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Scientists are working on breeding stronger variants of bacteria that can digest plastic, because what could possibly go wrong?
Random
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Life imitates Grand Theft Auto 5 as a shirtless man driving a golf cart leads police in a low speed chase.
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Pilot dies after plane crash during "gender" reveal party.
Musk news only below this point
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Russian state TV loves Elon Musk.
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Xitter introduces new ads that don't say they're ads and don't let you block them.
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Neuralink has kept evidence of its illegally cruel animal experiments secret in spite of partial public funding.
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Elon's actions at Xitter seem to have followed suggestions from a far right blogger who somehow managed to get fired from the Trump administration for speaking alongside white nationalists.
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Xitter now claims the right to collect your biometric data and read your "encrypted" messages.
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Elon's grandfather was “a daredevil adventurer with strongly held opinions” and “quirky conservative populist views”. That is, he was an antisemitic conspiracy theorist who left Canada for South Africa because he thought apartheid was a great idea.
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Elon calls for Germans to support the far right AfD, who are officially not Nazis, but just happen to be found palling around with Nazis.
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After announcing that it was expanding its election integrity team, Xitter cuts its election integrity team.