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No images? Click here Good morning! Like many of you, we're all abuzz over the recent Twitter news. How do you think this is all going to play out? Personally, I wish Twitter employees all the best as they work from their home offices on Mars. - Annie Johnson ON OUR RADARSometimes we lose sight of the way we actually treat people. You might think you're cheekily roasting your pals when you're actually coming off to everyone as a huge jerk. "There is a single steadfast rule for being alive right now, and it is: Do not bet against the dumbest possible outcome." Charlie Warzel explores the three likely paths that Twitter might now take. DIGG PICKS | SPONSORED Ending Soon: This Comforter Is Made To Keep Your CoolIf you hate laying in bed, soaking in sweat, this "InstantIce" comforter is worth checking out on Kickstarter. AROUND THE WEBCould This Nasal Spray Become The Next Pandemic Game-Changer? Vaccine company founder Marty Moore thinks we can beat COVID. "But now we need something else to gain control of the virus," he says. Why Pillows Turn Yellow And How To Clean Them Discolored pillows look worse than they actually are. There’s a reasonable explanation as to how the stains got there, and it’s possible to remove them. Who We Spend Time With As We Get Older In high school, we spend most of our days with friends and immediate family. But then we get jobs, start a family, retire and there's a shift in who we spend our days with. VIDEO OF THE DAYSomeone Strapped A Camera To A Weather Balloon, Launched It Into The Stratosphere And The Footage Is SpectacularA ONE X2 action camera got strapped to a weather balloon and sent up 80,872 feet. Here's the footage that they captured during its extraordinary journey. DIGG PICKS | SPONSORED Mom Deserves Some Luxury TowelsIt's time to splurge a little for Mother's Day with a waffle weave towel set and bathrobe. IN THE NEWS🐦 Elon Musk Buys Twitter For $44 Billion. One of his biggest challenges running the platform will be content moderation. (CNET) 📱Mark Meadows's 2,319 Text Messages Paint A Damning Picture Of The Trump Administration's Schemes To Overturn The Election. The texts show Meadows's key role in spreading conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and in attempting to stop Biden's inauguration. (CNN) 🏛 President Biden Grants First Three Pardons Of His Term. He also commuted the sentences of 75 others for nonviolent, drug-related convictions. (AP) 🏙 The Prototype For The World's First Floating City Has Been Unveiled. The floating city would be a sustainable version of the key shipping hub of Busan, South Korea. (CNBC) CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUTBaseball Fan's Unusual Dipping Routine Has Polarized The InternetThis fan's hot dog and beer combination isn't the problem — it's how he went about it. GET MORE FROM DIGGDid someone forward this email to you? Subscribe to the Edition and Digg's other newsletters.
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No images? Click here Good morning! We want to wish Al Pacino and Hank Azaria, the stars of "Heat," a very happy birthday. - Annie Johnson ON OUR RADARThis week, a boss asking to talk to an employee’s doctor, a boyfriend who lost $14,000 betting on crypto — for the third time — and a wealthy woman stealing basic necessities from Little Free Libraries. In the weekend where Trump ranted about dishwashers at his Ohio rally and Best Buy recalled more than 700,000 air fryers — Insider has a roundup of some top stories you might have missed. DIGG PICKS | SPONSORED Name A Better Desk Decoration — We'll WaitWe all need to distract ourselves from the constant suck spreadsheets from time to time. This crowdfunded marble track delivers on just that. AROUND THE WEBHere’s Why People Don’t Barf on Planes as Much as They Used To There've been all kinds of advancements in making planes nicer in the last 36 years, but the redundancy of the barf bag is an interestingly specific thing. From Nirvana To Goo Goo Dolls, Here's How Gen Z Is Revitalizing 90s Grunge And Rock After trending on TikTok, Nirvana’s 1991 song “Something In The Way” and Goo Goo Dolls 1998 song “Iris” both re-entered the Billboard charts. Inside The Chaotic Collapse Of CNN+ The shuttering of CNN+ three weeks after the subscription service launched will be remembered as one of the most chaotic moments of CNN's 40-year history. The tea leaves were there if you were following along. VIDEO OF THE DAYJohn Oliver Destroys The Central Legal Argument Behind 'Air Bud' In Epic 15 Minute RantJohn Oliver takes a blow torch to the 1997 Disney sports comedy by challenging its most famous line in "Air Bud" i.e. "Ain't no rule says a dog can't play basketball." DIGG PICKS | SPONSORED Time To Get Swole At Dwight Schrute's Gym For MusclesIf we're only going to have a single tank top, we're taking Dwight to the gun show. IN THE NEWS🇫🇷 French President Macron Reelected. After winning another five years in the presidential palace, Emmanuel Macron intends to go back to work on domestic and foreign policy. (AP) 🐦Twitter Moves Closer To Selling To Elon Musk. Twitter was negotiating with Musk into the early hours of Monday morning. (New York Times) 😷 Beijing Locks Down Some Areas As COVID-19 Cases Mount. Beijing began mass testing of more than 3 million people on Monday. (AP) 🇺🇦 US Pledges New Diplomatic, Military Support For Ukraine On Secretive Wartime Visit To Kyiv. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin slipped into Ukraine on Sunday for an extraordinary wartime meeting with President Zelenskyy. (NBC News) FROM THE ARCHIVESBoomers And Millennials Alike Debate The Point And Humor Of This Old Steve Martin Sketch From 'SNL'This novelty song debuted on "Saturday Night Live" 44 years ago, and there's some debate happening suddenly about how it holds up, and its merits. GET MORE FROM DIGGDid someone forward this email to you? Subscribe to the Edition and Digg's other newsletters.
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