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In an interview with Australian website Finder, two Ubisoft VPs tried to explain why gamers should care about NFTs and embrace them as the future of gaming.
NFTs

Gaming Exec Says His Customers Are Idiots For Not Understanding How Great NFTs Are

"It’s really beneficial. But they don’t get it for now."

Crisis Text Line, one of the most popular suicide crisis hotline chat sources, is capitalizing on data collected from people experiencing true trauma and depression.
Health & Medicine

A Suicide Hotline Is Sharing People’s Data With a For Profit Company

Uh — what the actual heck!?

US officials have confirmed that leaked social media photos are indeed the $100 million stealth jet that crashed into the South China Sea.
Future Society

Photo Shows US Navy Crashing $100 Million Jet Into Ocean

Well, that's embarrassing.

In space, Russia, Ukraine, and the US are just shapes on the globe — just ask the astronauts and cosmonauts.
NASA

NASA Astronaut Touts the Benefits of Drinking Russian Pee

"Now that's transcending politics."

Indonesia's government is leaving and moving the country’s capital of Jakarta to the island of Borneo due to sinking, pollution and congestion.
Climate Change

Indonesia Is Switching Capital Cities Because the Old One Is Sinking Into the Ocean

What happens to the people left behind?

The European Space Agency and NASA's Solar Orbiter has flown through the tail of a comet — for the second time.
Science & Energy

NASA Spacecraft Flies Through Tail of Comet

Just as scientists predicted.

DARE, the drug education program started in the 80s, told TMZ this week that Euphoria is glamorizing drugs and wants to collab with HBO on its message.
Future Society

DARE, Which Apparently Still Exists, Is Furious at a TV Show for Dumb Reasons

Wait, DARE still exists?

In an unhinged Twitter tirade on Thursday, Musk argued that "if you scare people enough, they will demand removal of freedom. This is the path to tyranny."
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Goes on Paranoid Rant About Vaccines

"Freedom is being stripped away one piece at a time until it is gone."

This Rhode Island man's story of his terrifying and rare brain mold condition reminds us that disease truly is everywhere.
Neuroscience and Brain

Man Alarmed When Doctors Discover Black Mold Growing on His Brain

"I honestly can’t believe you’re alive."

Facebook-now-known-as-Meta is attempting to sell off its ill-fated cryptocurrency project the Diem Initiative, according to Bloomberg.
Cryptocurrency

Facebook Is Reportedly Trying to Sell Off Its Botched Cryptocurrency

It's an extremely unpopular idea.

Federal investigators are looking into why, exactly, the cops who captured the escaped monkeys chose to shoot them to death.
Health & Medicine

Feds Investigating Why Escaped Lab Monkeys Were Shot to Death

They were just scared little guys!

The former governor of Alaska simply cannot stop going out to restaurants after testing positive for COVID-19. 
Developments

Unvaccinated Sarah Palin Just Won’t Stop Spreading COVID

A City Hall spokesperson urged "any New Yorker who came into contact with Ms. Palin to get tested."

Melania Trump launched an NFT auction that ended with the image going for $80,000 less than the starting bid due to crashing crypto markets.
Cryptocurrency

Melania Trump NFT Completely Bombs During Auction

I don’t really care. Do you?

Military Desperately Trying to Recover $100 Million Stealth Jet From Bottom of Ocean
Future Society

Military Desperately Trying to Recover $100 Million Stealth Jet From Bottom of Ocean

Whoops.

Astronomers are puzzled by a mysterious celestial object that is releasing massive bursts of energy at astonishingly regular 18 minute intervals.
Science & Energy

Scientists Puzzled by “Spooky” Object Sending Radio Signals Every 18 Minutes From Deep Space

"It's in our galactic backyard."

Researchers and scientists recently expressed their horror at Musk's goal to connect human brains to computer chips just as Neuralink enters human trials.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Express Concern at Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chip

"I'm always cautious about what Elon Musk says."

Joe Rogan Ridiculed for Astonishingly Stupid Climate Change Interview
Climate Change

Joe Rogan Ridiculed for Astonishingly Stupid Climate Change Interview

"Jordan Peterson displays a near complete misunderstanding of climate change."

Amazon quietly funded classes that teach students how to work at Amazon in a California county where it's the largest employer.
Future Society

Amazon Pays for High School Class About How to Be an Amazon Grunt

This is seriously dystopian.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover did a little shimmy to loosen yet another pair of pebbles blocking its sample collection instrument.
Mars

Mars Rover Does “Twist on One Foot” to Shake Off More Pebbles

"When you run into a challenge, sometimes it's best to step back and shake it off."

Eating edibles may have adverse effects on testicles, a new study suggests. 
Studies

Bad News: Scientists Say Eating Too Many Edibles May Make Your Balls Shrivel Up

This is decidedly not dank.