6.02.2018
5.31.2018
Difficult to even imagine anything more wonderful than this
Russian politicians call on Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to testify on privacy - CNET
Russia's state media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, has threatened to ban Facebook over its failure to comply with a 2015 law that requires tech firms to store Russian citizens' personal data on local servers, according to the Moscow Times.
5.30.2018
Probably didn't realize it was the wrong window until he got inside
Man climbs into Dunkin' Donuts window, immediately leaves
5.29.2018
Save the chickens! We want to eat them!
Brazil Trucker Strike Eases As Oil Union Threatens Walkout - Bloomberg
The meat producers association ABPA said poultry growers have lost 64 million chickens.…An additional one billion chickens and 20 million pigs continue to be at risk
The GIGO affair
Garbage In, Garbage Out: machine learning has not repealed the iron law of computer science / Boing Boing
No
"Remember how much fun it was as a kid in the '80s and '90s to collect those cartoony scratch-and-sniff stickers that smelled of strawberries, fresh-cut grass, bubblegum and even skunks?"
Come on. Who was a kid in the '80s and '90's? (Also, skunks?)
Nevertheless, I'm up for this:
US Postal Service wants you to smell its new stamps - CNET
We haven't read it yet but do we really have to?
Dull Men of Great Britain: Celebrating the Ordinary (Dull Men's Club) (Dull Mens Club) eBook: Leland Carlson: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
5.28.2018
But the warranty is still good, right?
NOAA's brand new weather satellite is already broken
The GOES program, which includes the decades-long operation of four GOES satellites, has a budget of $10.8 billion. Exactly how that breaks down in terms of cost-per-satellite is unknown, but suffice it to say that the hardware isn't cheap.
A brush with abject panic
More than 228K pounds of Spam recalled
But no, whew, everything in my stash is safe. The world has not ended. And it's even a holiday.
(Noted by Some Guy.)
(Noted by Some Guy.)
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