Zyn addiction, uncomfortable babies & dying virtual friends 👀🍿🧃

Hi Wrecklings!

How are there less than two weeks left in this year? Thanks, I hate it.

• “AI Company That Made Robots For Children Went Bust And Now The Robots Are Dying”- Ooof, this is so sad and dystopian.

• “The FTC is officially banning hidden junk fees from hotel and ticket prices”- ABOUT TIME.

• “Designer Babies Are Teenagers Now—and Some of Them Need Therapy Because of It”- Yikes, this brings up so many things I didn’t even consider.

• “Furious fans slam mommy influencer for 'outrageous' picture: 'Why would you post this?'“- I know very little about babies and even I cringed.

• “Labor Board Classifies ‘Love Is Blind’ Contestants as Employees”- The union of reality TV contestants would be a wild one.

• “Aleysha Ortiz, CT high school grad who can’t read, sues Hartford”- How is this even possible??

• “Klarna CEO says the company stopped hiring a year ago because AI 'can already do all of the jobs'“- Gross, no wonder the job market is trash.

• “Taco Bell is testing a beverage concept called Live Más Café”- Not scandalous, but I want to go.

• “OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment”- I have a hard time believing there’s not something more sinister that happened here.

• “Befuddled Elon Musk Proposes Theory That Homeless People Don't Actually Exist”- How people revere this man as intelligent is beyond me.

• “Humble Bundle's revoked all those Indiana Jones keys it gave away for free (even if it was already in your Steam library)”- Bring back CDs!

• “Woody Allen and Wife Sued by Fired Chef After Not Liking His Cooking”- I personally wouldn’t have started working for this man in the first place but ya know…

• More niche-techy drama:

  • “LastPass 2022 hack fallout continues with millions of dollars more reportedly stolen”

  • “UnitedHealth’s Optum left an AI chatbot, used by employees to ask questions about claims, exposed to the internet”

  • “Itch Goes Down, Blames…The Company That Makes Funko Pops [Updated]”

  • “The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained”

• “What we know about the mysterious drones reported over the East Coast”- TL;DR- not much.

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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.

• “Friends Like These When Brian Jordan Alvarez made it big with English Teacher, he brought his friends with him, like they’d always dreamed. Except one.”

• “Hannah Kobayashi family offers refunds to those donating to search efforts now that she's found”

• “Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for illicit drug use”

• “OnlyFans Influencer Lily Phillips Breaks Down in Tears After Sleeping With 100 Men in One Day”

• “When two Indianapolis teens lost their mother, Habitat for Humanity tried to foreclose on their home”

• “Las Vegas bikini model 'forced to show genitals' after Morocco arrest as officers 'suspect she's trans'“

• “She took a DNA test for fun. Police used it to charge her grandmother with murder in a cold case”

• “Influencer's brand faces backlash over bullying claims”

• “Woman finally admits she has been pretending to be her dead twin for YEARS for heartbreaking reason”

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