Missing food influencer, swayed shoppers & a responsible bus-jacker👀🍿🧃
Hi Wrecklings!
I’ve decided to commit these to bi-weekly to balance out startup founder chaos and continuing to author these some semblance of regularity. This also keeps the content plentiful without having the newsletter be overwhelming. So tally ho!:
“Airbnb rival Sonder abruptly shuts down, orders guests to leave: ‘Our laptops were in plastic bags’”
“Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton allegedly looked to ChatGPT to figure out how to not pay that $250 million bonus”
“‘Nobody asked for this’: Waymo cars flock to quiet Palo Alto street”
“Fake NYC Food Influencer Goes Missing ‘45 Minutes’ Around Bill Time, Arrested for Persistent Evasion”
“Japanese chef fights off bear with judo, keeps cooking ramen while bleeding from his face”
“Gen Z Is Skipping College to Become Influencers — A New Study Shows If That Actually Pays”
“Lawsuit accuses influencer IShowSpeed of damaging Rizzbot during streamed meet up in Austin”
This week in idiot Elon:
“Man who took Hamilton bus on joy ride ‘did a great job’ driving, left no dings, say police”
“Ferry company apologises after children left ‘screaming’ by p0rn0graphic film”
“Stolen driveway leaves woman on rocky road as she tries to find out who did it”
“Woman who sent message in bottle out to sea gets angry letter in return: ‘Just wanted a bit of romance’”
“TikTok influencer ordered to pay US$1.75 million for destroying manager’s marriage”
“Influencer Bobbi Althoff Gives Update on Smile After Botox Left Her Face Paralyzed: ‘Makes Me So Mad’”
“Woman Suing Taylor Swift Is Trying to Block Disney+ Documentary Release”
“Influencers Sway One In Four Irish Shoppers During Sales, Survey Finds”
“Norwegian Authorities are Searching for Two Black Metal Musicians Lost in the Mountains”
“Vine Is Back, Sort Of: New App Shuts Out AI as Thousands of Old Videos Return”
“Carmel could become 1st California city to permanently ban pickleball”
“Influencer Ari Kytsya Sparks Outrage After Reportedly Speaking to 1,200 Students at University of Washington”
“Microsoft has issued an urgent warning to Windows 11 users: The new agentic OS features that allow AI agents to operate also open the door to malware”
“Cloudflare outage causes error messages across the internet”
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.
“Outcry as TikTok livestreamer who allegedly hit and killed man asks for donations”
“Man accused of flashing g3nitals to drivers on interstate said he needed excitement in his life, deputies say”
“Man arrested in murder of TikTok influencer Girlalala in Lauderdale Lakes: BSO”
“Police Investigating Influencer Anunay Sood’s Death at 32 as ‘Possible Overdose’”
“Fishing influencer found dead days after issuing mayday call at sea”
“London university sued after expelling student who was impersonated on social media”
“$15 million manhunt: Ex-Olympian-turned drug kingpin Ryan Wedding charged with murdering US witness”
“National Dental Centre photographer assigned to capture patients’ jaws shot over 600 chest photos instead”
“Larry Summers going on leave at Harvard as university investigates ties to Jeffrey Epstein”
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