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9/15/2022
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Numlock News: September 14, 2022 • Sargasso, Myopic, Dry Cleaning
By Walt Hickey Check out a new story I wrote at Insider about the age of the United States government as part of an exciting new series of stories. Welfare The ongoing investigation into a scheme to
9/13/2022
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Numlock News: September 13, 2022 • Floppies, Elton, Sublimation
By Walt Hickey Floppy Disks While floppy disks are not being manufactured any more, they're still needed, and when they are people will turn to companies that refurbish and resell the antiquated
9/12/2022
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Numlock News: September 12, 2022 • Barbarian, Salt, Donkeys
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Doldrums This week a movie called Barbarian dropped at the box office, and America, which hasn't seen a new movie in weeks, said to hell with it, let's hear them
9/9/2022
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Numlock News: September 9, 2022 • Scams, Luck, Pine Nuts
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend. Scams Romance scams are insidious, and the ability to make a digital footprint on a site like LinkedIn has only made the problem worse. For instance, as of mid-July
9/8/2022
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Numlock News: September 8, 2022 • Steak, Freight, Mitigate
By Walt Hickey Blackout California deftly avoided rolling blackouts this week amid an energy surge through a novel innovation in the green energy space that researchers are calling “text everyone in
9/7/2022
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Numlock News: September 7, 2022 • Eternal Orbs, Raccoons, Fliers
By Walt Hickey Orbs Reports are brewing of a massive widespread currency crisis in the game Diablo Immortal related to the in-game currency of Eternal Orbs, which can go for $1 for a pack of 60 orbs or
9/6/2022
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Numlock News: September 6, 2022 • Jaws, Lux, Floppy Disks
By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Numlock's annual sale is on! It's the best deal I do. Upgrade to a paid subscription, start getting the Sunday edition, support an indie and save some money today:
9/2/2022
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Numlock News: September 2, 2022 • Pheromones, Butter, Pantolambda
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! We're off on Monday in observation of Labor Day. Also, the huge annual Numlock Back-To-School sale kicks off soon! Pheromones Pests eat a fifth of the
9/1/2022
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Numlock News: September 1, 2022 • Albedo, Bubbles, Smuggle
By Walt Hickey Instagram A massive scheme took in cash in exchange to get verified accounts for people on Instagram. The hustle was clever, and exploited the service's granting of verified accounts
8/31/2022
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Numlock News: August 31, 2022 • Theme Parks, Zombie Ice, Cyberspace
By Walt Hickey No Longer Defunct Lands The theme park business is humming right now, with the major American theme park companies posting revenue figures that put even pre-pandemic hauls to shame.
8/30/2022
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Numlock News: August 30, 2022 • Sage, Spice, Seals
By Walt Hickey A New Season The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it: Starbucks is
8/29/2022
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Numlock News: August 29, 2022 • Sake, Ponzi, Comedy
By Walt Hickey Comedians In Courts Getting Litigious George Lopez has launched a lawsuit against Pandora, seeking $5.5 million and alleging that the music streaming service has been streaming his work
8/26/2022
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Numlock News: August 26, 2022 • Sailing, Rivals, YA Book
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Rivals Scientists who study organizations and achievement have built up a body of evidence showing rivalries can be excellent at boosting motivation. One research
8/25/2022
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Numlock News: August 25, 2022 • Neon Lights, Dark Side of the Moon, Nuclear Power
By Walt Hickey Endowment Harvard, an incredibly valuable Boston-area hedge fund, may very well see its financial might challenged by a Texas-area hedge fund called the University of Texas that stands
8/24/2022
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Numlock News: August 24, 2022 • Avocados, Thieves, Revenants
By Walt Hickey The Return Every civilization, every culture, has the myth of the revenant, the dead thing that returns by one means or another to a state resembling the living. In ancient Norway they
8/23/2022
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Numlock News: August 23, 2022 • Eruption, Transformers, Psychedelics
By Walt Hickey Flavored Tobacco In 2020, California banned the sale of flavored cigarettes, electronic cigarettes and vapes, including menthol. The law never went into effect, as days after passage
8/22/2022
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Numlock News: August 22, 2022 • Dragon Ball, CW, Shortest Day
By Walt Hickey Prototype A prototype of an Apple-1 Computer used by Steve Jobs in 1976 to demonstrate the capabilities of the then-nascent company has sold at auction for $677196 to an anonymous
8/19/2022
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Numlock News: August 19, 2022 • Kilimanjaro, Sake, Balrogs
By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! Lord of the Rings Embracer Group, a large publishing group that already owns a massive stockpile of IP, has bought the rights to The Lord of the Rings and The
8/18/2022
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Numlock News: August 18, 2022 • Dijon, Orchestra, The Gray Man
By Walt Hickey ITT The Department of Education announced it will forgive $3.9 billion in student loan debt owned by students of ITT Technical Institute, a now-defunct for-profit college that
8/17/2022
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Numlock News: August 17, 2022 • Queen, Kingdom, Sky Rivers
By Walt Hickey Tax Prep The Inflation Reduction Act, while broadly a climate, health care and tax bill, also steers $15 million to study how the IRS could implement a public system that would enable