$4M deli platter, rollercoaster nuggets & the wizards are unionizing👀🍿🧃

Hi Wrecklings!

I authored and scheduled this to send ahead of time while I’m taking some time off so lemme know if I missed any gems while unplugged!:

• “Founder of clothing tech startup CaaStle pleads guilty in $300 million fraud case”

• “‘I understand’: Man speaks out after Cedar Point bans him for eating nuggets on coaster”

• “Former J.P. Morgan Broker Awarded $4 Million After Saying He Was Fired Over Expensing a Deli Platter”

• “People Keep Damaging Garbage Trucks by Throwing Car Batteries in the Trash”

• “TikTok Video Appears to Show Rodents at Gordon Ramsay’s Vancouver Steakhouse — the Restaurant Knocked $100 Off a $700 Bill”

• “A top Disney exec is gushing about his AI ‘son’”

• “Mother renames son after tattooist makes spelling error”

• “Everlane Co-Founder, Shocked by Shein Acquisition, Wants a Redo”

• “PewDiePie makes major parenting decision about YouTube fame”

• “GameMill’s Snoopy Game Has Been Hit With A Copyright Lawsuit”

• “Model Sues Fashion Brand After it AI-Generated Pictures of Her”

• “Spencer Pratt Is the Same as He Ever Was”

• “Pattie Gonia Rejects Patagonia’s Offer To Drop Trademark Suit—Says It Would ‘Erase My Advocacy’”

• “Artist behind Pease Park troll releases statement after sculpture’s destruction”

• “Over a dozen people emerge from manholes in Brooklyn: NYPD”

• “AI Startup Says It Will Pay People $2,000 a Month to M@sturbate—Yes, Really”

• “Chicago graduate says diploma was withheld after viral graduation split”

• “Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Now its COO is questioning whether it’s worth it”

• “CIA accused of using Ancestry and 23andMe to ‘hunt down’ alien bloodlines in millions of DNA tests”

• “Private MrBeast Texts Reveal How He Really Feels About His Embattled Burger Business”

• “Charges dismissed for woman without right hand cited for holding phone while driving”

• “Is there a pianist in the house? Audience member steps up to perform in La La Land in Sydney”

• “250 Hawaiian Airlines Flight Attendants Told To Drop Leis & Aloha Shirts On New Seattle Routes”

• “AI Models Ran A Simulated Society – Grok Went Extinct In 4 days After Committing Over 180 Crimes”

• “3 years on from laying off over 1,000 people, Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast are sending daily emails and physical letters encouraging the survivors to not unionise”

• “United Airlines flight to Spain turns back to Newark because of Bluetooth device name”

• “30 gallons of fuel spilled on National Mall after event for America’s 250th birthday”

• “NH man helps rescue viral OnlyFans model off Mount Whitney”

• 🔏“Microsoft Wants to ‘Make People Addicted’ to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal:”

• 🔏“I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI”

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More Serious Stories

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• This one isn’t necessarily serious, it just gave me the ick, so it lives here: “Cosplay models sold ‘feet juice’ at a Bay Area anime convention. Yes, people drank it”

• “Casey Anthony triggers furious outcry with return to spotlight”

• “France: Delivery apps Deliveroo and Uber Eats sued for ‘human trafficking’”

• “Psycho banker pimped girlfriend out to ‘friends, colleagues and strangers’: ‘I stopped counting at 487 men’”

• “Terrified residents of upscale Seattle neighborhood erect metal barriers to keep out undesirables as crime soars under woke new mayor”

• “Films more likely to star a ‘Chris’ or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study reveals”

• “Officials warn of deadly flesh-eating bacteria on the rise across the East Coast”

• “Worst People Imaginable Freak Out Over Racist Plantation Game As Valve Watches From The Sidelines”

• “South Korean Starbucks boss apologizes for ad campaign that evoked massacre”

• “These Women Are Manipulating MAGA Men Into Actually Facing Reality”

• “11 presumed dead in Washington state paper mill implosion as rescue shifts to recovery”

• “Massachusetts photographer terrified after he was stabbed at Maine wedding: “I could die in this moment””

• “Teenage competitor arrested after 3 horses stabbed at barrel racing event, police say”

• “Threat of massive chemical explosion eliminated in Southern California, officials say”

• “Los Gatos mom sentenced to over 35 years for throwing alcohol-fueled underage parties”

• “Iowa man received survivor benefits as a teen after dad’s death; the government wants it back decades later”

• “Tech layoffs 2026: Over 142,000 jobs cut at Meta, LinkedIn, Wix, Webflow and more”

• “ICE detainees are dying by suicide at an ‘alarming’ rate, an AP investigation finds”

• “Federal judge accused of having s3x in chambers with high-ranking police officer”

• “Van life influencer couple found dead at campsite as police release disturbing details”

• “‘N@ked mom’ parenting trend sparks fierce debate over nudity around children”

• 🔏“Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags”

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