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Someone Used A Hair Dryer At Paris Airport To Win $34,000 In Polymarket Bets [Roundup]

by Gary Leff

Apr 23 2026

News and notes from around the interweb: A single temperature sensor at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport was being used for Polymarket bets on Paris temperatures so someone stuck a hair dryer next to it and made $34,000 this month. Charges have been filed. polymarket was settling Paris temperature bets on a single Météo France sensor sitting near the Charles de Gaulle runway perimeter – basically unguarded – the guy bought the long-shot outcome (like “22°C” when everyone expected 18°C) for pennies, since nobody thought it’d hit – then he walked up to the probe and briefly heated the air around it with a portable heat source, spiking the reading just long enough to register as the daily max This makes plenty of sense to me: Tim Cook’s compensation was about $75 million in each…

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American Airlines Explored A Merger With Alaska — Now Working On Revenue-Sharing Deal

by Gary Leff

alaska airlines
Apr 22 2026

American Airlines explored a merger with Alaska, and while those talks reportedly did not advance, the two carriers are now working on a revenue-sharing deal that could deepen an already unusually close partnership. That matters because American badly needs stronger relevance on the West Coast, while Alaska gains more global reach and loyalty value by tying itself more tightly to a larger international network.

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Delta Removed A Passenger Who Appeared Drunk — But She May Have Been Drugged Onboard

by Gary Leff

Apr 22 2026

A Delta passenger who appeared intoxicated was removed from a flight after landing, but the story took a darker turn the next day when she returned to the airport with little memory of what had happened. Witness accounts suggest she may have been drugged, raising the possibility that what looked like a routine removal of a drunk passenger may actually have prevented something much worse.

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Room Service Used To Feel Luxurious — Now It Feels Like Uber Eats

by Gary Leff

Apr 17 2026

Room service used to be one of the clearest signs you were staying somewhere better than an Airbnb or a limited-service chain: hot coffee in a pot, breakfast on a cart, and food delivered with some sense of occasion. Now even premium hotels too often send up plastic containers in a paper bag, stripping away one of the last touches that made paying more actually feel worth it.

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Federal Court Upholds No Fly List: You Have A Right To Travel, But Not To Fly [Roundup]

by Gary Leff

Apr 16 2026

News and notes from around the interweb: D.C. Circuit upholds TSA No Fly List the fundamental right to travel does not mean the travel to fly on an airplane. That’s such a strange argument, because forbidding the use of a plane fundamentally burdens the right to travel to the point it is almost meaningful for many journeys. They also ruled that DHS’s redress process is sufficient due process (even though there’s no opportunity to confront the evidence against you!). Is it weird that I did not know that “gloving” was a thing? Everyone on Frontier Airlines 3803 from Fort Myers to Denver found out, on or about March 22, 2026. I hope you enjoy the show We’re about to start service View this post on Instagram A post shared by Gloving With Doldo (@doldo_gloving) The…

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