Amazon's bestselling "bitter lemon" energy drink was bottled delivery driver piss: Amazon immediately spotted an undercover reporter but missed that the bestselling 'Release Energy' was its drivers' urine.

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Cory Doctorow

2023-10-20 10:03:30

For a brief time this year, Amazon's bestselling "bitter lemon drink" was "Release Energy," which consisted of the harvested urine of Amazon delivery drivers, rebottled for sale by #CatfishUK prankster #OobahButler in a stunt for a new #Channel4 doc, "#TheGreatAmazonHeist":

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* A Mitfreude of #Anime and #Manga’s Relationship with Anglophone #ScienceFiction (Or, This Essay WILL NOT Try to Get You into Anime and Manga!) strangehorizons.com/non-fictio…

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#10yrsago #NSA hacked email of Mexican president and #Drugwar reformers spiegel.de/international/world…

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#5yrsago Security researchers identify “fingerprints” in #3DPrintedObjects that can be used to trace their manufacturing sciencedaily.com/releases/2018…

#5yrsago All the economists who told the #FTC we shouldn’t break up #BigTech are paid by Big Tech fastcompany.com/90253465/shoul…

#5yrsago US Customs is seizing refurbished Apple batteries and calling them “counterfeits” vice.com/en/article/a3ppvj/dhs…

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#5yrsago “#SmartHome” companies refuse to say whether law enforcement is using your gadgets to spy on you techcrunch.com/2018/10/19/smar…

#5yrsago On-trend in Asia: #JesseJackson’s 1988 presidential campaign logo vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/19/1…

#1yrago It was all downhill after the #Cuecat pluralistic.net/2022/10/20/ben…

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Yesterday's threads: Uncle Sam paid to develop a cancer drug and now one guy will get to charge whatever he wants for it; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2023-10-19 12:48:22

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Uncle Sam paid to develop a cancer drug and now one guy will get to charge whatever he wants for it; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/10/19/sol…

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