AI hallucinations, one-star whales & people won't stop pooping at concerts

Hi Wrecklings!

This edition finds me on a rare stretch of proper unplugging and touching grass. Highly recommend!

• “Circle K AI self-checkout user claims machine ‘hallucinated’ an $8.5B donation to Red Cross”

• “New Bedford Whaling Museum creates merch out of 1-star review”

• “‘How Is That Even Legal?’: Man Opens FedEx Package, Live Iguana Escapes Inside Store”

• “The Pokémon Company Announces Facial Recognition System to Help Kill Scalping at Japanese Card Stores, Mandatory From Elementary School Age”

• “Carmakers Don’t Think They Should Have to Fix Blindingly Bright Headlights”

• “Owner of Viking ship used in The Odyssey says studio has not paid bill for damage”

• “Wild new details emerge after posh CA city chief caught on ‘random’ yacht at 7 a.m. with empty bottles of booze”

• “What Are The Odds McDonalds Ice Cream Machine Is Down?”

• “Comedy Icon Reveals He Turned Down Huge Sum for ‘Icky’ Gig”

• “Tech Titan’s Ex-Wife Wins Big Divorce Payout but Misses Out on A.I. Riches”

• “Storm apologize after co-owner berates teen girls supporting Sophie Cunningham”

• “US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference”

• “Blizzard fires World of Warcraft game master who insta-killed bosses for friends”

• “Hugging Face CEO shares his demands of OpenAI after ‘rogue’ agent hack: ‘It deserves an unprecedented response’”

• “Americans rewire their grocery shopping routines while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 years”

• “‘Coldplay Kiss Cam Energy’: Lawyers That Went Viral For Being Accidentally Caught Kissing In Central Park Identified”

• “Fired Netflix exec sues company after revealing during ‘trust exercise’ that he took medically-prescribed ketamine”

• “Xbox Says Day-Long Outage Is Resolved. Here’s What Happened”

• “Marmot researchers battle record die-off with beer, body positivity — and 0nlyFans”

• “Sam Altman says AI won’t shorten the workweek because humans secretly enjoy being busy”

• “Teacher arrested for clapping in support of speaker opposing data center”

• “Ontario billionaire under fire for arguing poor people shouldn’t be able to vote”

• “Concertgoer Allegedly Defecates In Mosh Pit During Devilskin Show, Police Called To Scene”

• “The spotted lanternfly is ravaging the eastern US. Pet dogs are coming to the rescue”

• “Too many hikers are pooping in Colorado’s backcountry. Could “wag bags” be the answer?”

• “Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society”

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More Serious Stories

We realize some of these can be triggering for some readers, so feel free to skip! Also, sometimes we use weird letter subs so we’re not flagged as gross spam email.

• “Elon Musk’s xAI sues Minnesota over law banning ‘nudification’ technology”

• “Courtney Stodden Is Fighting for Something Bigger Than Jason Alexander’s Apology”

• “ChatGPT medical advice brought man ‘to brink of death’, lawsuit alleges”

• “Influencer Sara Gilson Killed by Husband 2 Weeks After Accusing Him of P3dophilia on TikTok”

• “Surgeon General suggests high measles counts could be tied to abortion opposition”

• “Delegate allegedly enticed child, had ‘s3xual encounter’ after meeting her on Roblox”

• “Man Walks 16 Km To Safety After Impaling Himself On Mountain, Wanted To Avoid Costly Helicopter Rescue”

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