- The Biden administration ended the year flush, signing a $1.7 trillion spending bill, including $50 billion in aid to Ukraine and half a million in funding toward artificial intelligence that will detect microaggressions online.
- The border crisis continues to escalate, with November seeing the highest number of border crossings yet.
- Stacey Abrams raised $100 million through her PAC this most recent time, yet she owes vendors at least $1 million.
- George Santos, a New York Republican congressman-elect, admitted to “embellishing” almost all of his compelling story.
- America’s graduate schools are hellbent on making thousands of unemployed people fated to wander the country reminding us that they have PhDs.
- The faculty of MIT have signed a pledge asserting that they value free expression and debate.
- Stanford University has released a list of verboten words so crazed, so long, so thorough, that it would truly take a four-year $250,000 degree to learn it.
- Stanford president is under investigation for faking his past research and one of his professors has had to pay more than $29 million for
- Our latest Twitter Files: Internal documents at Twitter showed the company rigged the public debate about Covid.
- Meanwhile at our friend TikTok: Nice, quirky TikTok, which would never do anything bad, has been tracking Forbes reporters.
- The fall of Roe has created nightmare scenarios.
- McConnell negs Trump: In another sign that Republicans are really ready to ditch Trump, Mitch McConnell was brutal on the former president in a recent interview with NBC News.
- A Roomba’s-eye-view on the toilet: New smart Roombas, exploring your house and documenting its various nooks and crannies as it cleans, can share those images back to Roomba headquarters.
- The New York Times declares Louisa May Alcott a man.
- Remember Wi Spa? End of the year, end of a mystery.
- Life expectancy in the U.S. keeps falling.
- Fun startup going rogue to blot out the sun.
- The end of 2022 we deserve: Because we live in a Clown World, it is only right that the end of this year saw a showdown between Andrew Tate.
Published December 30, 2022.
