Whatever: Pre-election special
Business news
- Google engages in union-busting.
- UK undertakers send Valentine's cards to care home residents.
- Most UK companies that took part in a 4 day week experiment are continuing the policy.
- Kellogg's CEO says let them eat cereal.
- Finally, pork-flavored Starbucks coffee.
- M&M vending machines are discovered to be quietly collecting facial recognition data.
- UK vegan restaurant to serve meat due to cost-of-living crisis.
"AI"
- Trump supporters generate fake AI images of Black people spending time with him.
- LLMs like ChatGPT can generate extremely persuasive propaganda.
- Two more cases turn up of lawyers citing nonexistent cases because they believed ChatGPT.
- An academic paper includes AI-generated images of a rat with a gigantic penis; it's subsequently retracted. The paper, that is.
- An Air Canada chatbot gives a traveler incorrect information, the courts fail to accept the company's argument that the chatbot is an independent entity responsible for its own mistakes.
Politics
- Tennessee Republicans quietly eliminate marriage equality and open the door to refusing interracial marriage.
- Massachusetts Nazi/Republican candidate praises Hitler and promises to "exile all Jews".
Bad ideas
- If you're going to set up a queer-focused social media site, maybe don't register the domain in Afghanistan.
- Texas man raises 250lb pet warthog, which decides to try and kill him.
- Connecticut pastor puts the meth into Methodist.
Law and order
- Nebraska school districts call in debt collectors to go after students who fail to pay their lunch tabs.
- Florida cop empties an entire clip at a suspect after being startled by an acorn falling on his car.
- Thieves somehow steal a 200' radio mast.
Social media
- YouTube "influencer" who offered parental advice is given four 15 year sentences for child abuse.
- Facebook bans ads for "Votes for Women" board game, on the grounds that it's a "sensitive social issue".
Elon
- Xitter is now 31.8% bots.
- Elon lied about laid off Xitter staff receiving 3 months of severance pay; staff sacked from the African office only now received their severance after winning a court battle.
- Don't let your Tesla MAGAtruck get wet, or it'll start to rust.
- Tesla board members felt pressured to do drugs with Elon.
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