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College grads stunned after surprise donor pays off their student loans

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

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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SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD

The Man Who Killed the World by Ray Cummings - 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.

The Man Who Killed the World by Ray Cummings Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar Episode

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Also Worth A Look…

• How Tarot Readers Are Using AI, and What It Says About Our Growing Reliance on Chatbots - 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 - 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 - That’s one idea I certainly had never heard before

• Newly Discovered Asteroid to Make Close Pass by Earth - 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 - 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 - 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 - Or you could just pay for the wine and avoid all of the pain and bow-leggedness

• Student Pleads Guilty After ChatGPT Confess - 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 - Who had “Drunken French deer” on their Bingo card for May?

• Ohio man wins two lottery prizes in under a month - Well that hardly seems fair