The Skepticrat20 Jun 2022

176: Skepticrat176 - Doge-Eat-Doge Edition

On this week's episode: The sane wing of Congress rejects the idea that insurrections become legal if they’re stupid enough ... Committed Dogecoin investors get trapped like the passenger of a flaming Tesla that locks itself from the inside ... And a Google AI does a better job mimicking human interaction than the guy who claims it’s sentient ever managed.

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Headline Sources:

Jan 6 Hearings recap: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/10/1104103404/new-revelations-and-other-takeaways-from-first-jan-6-committee-hearing https://www.npr.org/2022/06/13/1104657476/recap-jan-6-committee-hearing https://www.npr.org/2022/06/16/1105513685/recap-jan-6-committee-hearing

Elon Musk getting sued for running Dogecoin "pyramid scheme": https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-sued-lawsuit-dogecoin-b2102939.html https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/elon-musk-sued-258-billion-over-alleged-dogecoin-pyramid-scheme-2022-06-16/
Lunatic claims Google AI is sentient, gets put on leave: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/12/technology/google-chatbot-ai-blake-lemoine.html

"How to Murder Your Husband" writer sentenced to life for killing husband: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/14/how-to-murder-your-husband-life-sentence/

Chinese telescope signal turns out not to be extraterrestrial: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/18/science/china-alien-signal.html

Mike Lindell has a meltdown after Walmart pulls MyPillow off their shelves: https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-rages-walmart-over-mypillow-pull-youre-canceling-us-1716705

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