Archive of entries posted on 1st March 2025

We Can Dream, Can’t We?

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Bank accidentally credits customer with $81 trillion instead of $280
The Telegraph | Feb 28, 2025 | Louis Goss

One of America’s biggest banks accidentally transferred more than $80 trillion to a customer’s account after a “fat finger” input error by an employee.

Citigroup, one of America’s “big four” lenders, erroneously transferred $81 trillion to the account in April last year instead of the $280 requested because of a keyboard mistake by a bank staffer.

The huge sum, worth more than 20 times Britain’s entire gross domestic product (GDP), was approved after being checked by two of the bank’s employees, before being sent to the customer account the following morning.

The payment was only flagged after a third employee noticed a problem with the Wall Street giant’s overall balances, 90 minutes after the payment between two separate Citi accounts had been made, the Financial Times reported.

Citi successfully reversed the transaction a few hours later …

A few hours? This guy took less time:

Straight Line of the Day: OK, So What Would Be on the Curriculum of a Transgender Culinary School??

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AP Sings the Praises of Pakistani Transgender Culinary School, and We Wonder How Much We Paid for It
Twitchy | February 26, 2025 | Amy Curtis
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For transgender students involved in a very special project at a culinary school in Pakistan, there is more to a class than just learning the art of cooking.

Neha Malik used to dance at parties and weddings for a living and was, occasionally, a sex worker. Since January, she has been enrolled in a new course for the trans community at the Culinary & Hotel Institute of Pakistan.

The free six-month program in the city of Lahore, Pakistan’s cultural capital, welcomed its first group of 25 trans students in January; the second group of 25 began training on Feb. 1.