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Hi Wrecklings!

How’s everyone doing? It’s been a year, huh? Remember to hydrate and be kind with yourself and the people around you.

• “Latest from Mormon Land: YouTube’s MrBeast partners with LDS Church; spate of new new stakes created”

• “Hydrogen car owners say Toyota told them to stop making payments, then sent them to collections”

• “San Francisco Viral Restaurant Brawler Beats Case”

• “Matt Damon Says Netflix Wants Movies to Restate the ‘Plot Three or Four Times in the Dialogue’ Because Viewers are on ‘Their Phones While They’re Watching’”

• “Student arrested for eating AI art in UAF gallery protest”

• “‘Stop sending butt plugs to Bahrain’: Toronto s3x store receives letters from U.S. Department of War”

• "‘A Disorganized Mess’: Meghan Markle Trolled After Alleged Details of Her ‘Embarrassing’ As Ever Inventory Was Revealed Due to Her ‘Poorly Designed Website’”

• “Man sues restaurant after promotional TikTok video exposes his secret affair”

• “Ubisoft is shutting down a studio 16 days after it unionized”

• “Palo Alto tries to rein in Zuckerberg’s Crescent Park expansion”

• “Anonymous crypto gambler made $436,000 on Maduro capture”

• “AI starts autonomously writing prescription refills in Utah”

• “Pilot who safely landed Alaska Airlines jet after door blowout says Boeing tried to make him a ‘scapegoat’”

• “Trump Rules Out Pardon for FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried”

• “Family says Geico denied claim after crash because young children weren’t on policy”

• “I paid £175 to have my dead pet hamster immortalised as a stripper in a pink thong”

• “Winning greyhound tests positive for methamphetamine but racing investigators can’t find the source”

• “No, Grok hasn’t paywalled its deepfake image feature”

• “Waymo passenger flees after car drives on Phoenix light rail tracks”

• “Alberta man claims WestJet flight attendant mocked his weight, patted his stomach”

• “How a friend request led a beauty queen to uncover Scotland’s most prolific catfish”

• “Woman found swimming nude in neighbor's pond was 'trying to be a mermaid'“

• “Weight loss jabs affecting Greggs, boss says”

• “Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates”

• “Ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO fit to stand trial, prison officials say”

• “Starbucks barista accused of drawing a pig on sheriff’s deputy’s cup”

• 🔏“The Hero to a Million Drunk Santas Vanished for Decades. Then He Resurfaced.”

• 🔏“Shen Yun: The Dark Side of a Dance Troupe”

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More Serious Stories

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• “Mother of Elon Musk’s child sues xAI over Grok deepfakes”

• “Catholic influencer’s 5-year-old son dies after contracting flu”

• “I called out Grok for removing women’s clothes, then it removed mine”

• “‘Inside Edition’ execs and talent made racist, sexist, antisemitic, and anti-Muslim comments, former producer says in a new lawsuit”

• “Teenager Dies Of Overdose After Using ChatGPT As ‘Drug Buddy’”

• “Woman Accused of Killing 2 Girls with Poisoned Raspberries Pulled Alive from River in Dramatic Capture”

• “Ex-Nickelodeon star opens up about ‘twisted’ age-gap relationship that started on set and inspired debut novel”

• “Woman unfairly sacked after her wife tried to kill boss”

• “‘Home Alone’ Star Daniel Stern Cited in Alleged Prostitution Sting”

• “Jeffrey Epstein’s brother says new autopsy details will be released in February and will prove pedophile was murdered”

• “Google employee made redundant after reporting manager who showed nude of wife, court hears”

• “Antioch man arrested for child p0rn0graphy with help of electronic sniffing dogs”

• “Jasper Jones author Craig Silvey faces Fremantle court over alleged child exploitation offences”

• 🔏“‘Love Is Blind: France’ contestants sue over ‘inhuman or degrading treatment’ during filming”

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