The future's so meh, I gotta wear shades
Today I was struck by the absurdity of headlines in my inbox.
The European Commission has serious concerns about Amazon’s potential stifling of the robot vacuum cleaner market.
SAP, a software company, paid cash bribes in Indonesia to (among others) the country’s Fisheries Ministry.
A piece of malicious software unironically named Atomic Stealer exists. You can rent it for $3000 a month. I advise that you don’t.
The SEC’s X (née Twitter) account got hacked. The “hacker” used the account to falsely-or-prematurely claim that the SEC would approve exchange-traded funds holding cryptocurrency, causing a dramatic spike in the price of bitcoin. (Or: A fake message on an outmoded messaging platform caused a spike in the price of imaginary assets on an unregulated exchange.)
Someone tried to send a bitcoin to the moon, but the vehicle it was on didn’t get there, so now it’s space junk.
And finally, people are concerned that Elon Musk’s use of LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms, and ketamine might have a harmful impact on his companies.
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