From News Sidequest from Keith Conrad <[email protected]>
Subject Someone paid off 200 kids' student loans / The guy who got his Bitcoin back / Tarot readers need help from AI too
Date May 15, 2026 5:01 AM
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College grads stunned after surprise donor pays off their student loans [ [link removed] ]
That’ll definitely change the trajectories of their lives. Well done
AI Helps Man Recover $400,000 in Bitcoin After He Changed Password While High [ [link removed] ]
The lesson here is what we really need is some sort of screening process that’ll ask you to do something you could do while high before it allows you to change your password
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The Man Who Killed the World by Ray Cummings [ [link removed] ] - When the wealthiest man on Earth realizes that even his total global monopoly cannot buy the genuine happiness of a penniless young couple, he decides that the only way to truly own the world is to become its sole survivor.
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Also Worth A Look…
How Tarot Readers Are Using AI, and What It Says About Our Growing Reliance on Chatbots [ [link removed] ] - It would probably be far more accurate. I don’t know why a customer wouldn’t just go straight to the source rather using the Tarot reader as a middleman
NTSB urges airlines to train their pilots better in simulations to deal with smoke in the cockpit [ [link removed] ] - I’m not sure I want pilots to be trained to do anything other than immediately land at the closest airport if there’s smoke in the cockpit
Bathroom Vents May Have Spread COVID Between Apartments, Study Suggests [ [link removed] ] - That’s one idea I certainly had never heard before
Newly Discovered Asteroid to Make Close Pass by Earth [ [link removed] ] - It will pass between the Earth and the Moon, but there’s no danger of a collision. Still might want to set your 401k back to “Aggressive” (Not financial advice)
Man steals $735K for property, OnlyFans, life coaching: Records [ [link removed] ] - I’m guessing the life coach probably would have advised against doing most of that
Alabama woman, 65, shot and killed husband, 69, because he was annoying, prosecutors say [ [link removed] ] - I can see how that could be unpleasant, but maybe just consider a divorce?
Traverse City woman accused of hiding stolen wine in body cavity [ [link removed] ] - Or you could just pay for the wine and avoid all of the pain and bow-leggedness
Student Pleads Guilty After ChatGPT Confess [ [link removed] ] - I think we as a society are very fortunate that most people who commit crimes are just really dumb
French police warn drivers to beware of drunken deer [ [link removed] ] - Who had “Drunken French deer” on their Bingo card for May?
Ohio man wins two lottery prizes in under a month [ [link removed] ] - Well that hardly seems fair
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