RoseJul 1, 2024

What are the major world news that you got from weird sources (and maybe wish you had heard first from legit news sources)?

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What are the major world news that you got from weird sources (and maybe wish you had heard first from legit news sources)? - Lemmy.World

My random tales: One night, playing bunch of Halo, I got an Xbox 360 voice message. “Message to all recent players. Fukushima nuclear power plant just exploded. You should stock up on iodine tablets.” (I almost sent back a message saying “thanks for your concern, but I’m in the Chernobyl fallout zone and I turned out just fine thank you”) Pluto photographs from New Horizons? Frigging NASA retweet. Most recently, I got a random Discord message from a British YouTuber I follow saying “the Queen just died, please be respectful and stuff”.

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I worked at Equifax during the big breach. (I did not know about it beforehand.) One morning I was chatting with coworkers about stuff and they were talking about a crazy massive breach and how stuff would need to change. At some point I said something like “who got hit?” I hadn’t checked my email (or the news) yet.

But, to be honest, I think hearing it like that may have actually been best. Hearing in on the train on the way to work would’ve been scary.

Jul 2, 2024 at 8:27pmWeb