Five Jokes: 10-29-2024

Facebook Militias, Ballot Box Flames, Joe Rogan's Kamala Harris Negotiation, CNN's 'Magic Wall' App, and Hallucination Prone Hospital A.I.

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• Ahead of the election, anti-government militias are using Facebook to recruit, coordinate training, and promote ballot box stakeouts. But as anyone who has ever set up a Facebook event knows, you’ve still gotta hustle to get anybody to really show up. Hey, militia burnout is real, so just know that it’s okay to sit one of two insurrections out and have a nice, chill, self-insurrection day every now and then.

• In the final stretch before Election Day, ballots have been set on fire and damaged in two ballot drop boxes and a Postal Service mailbox in three states. In an effort to stop such destruction, president Joe Biden has on numerous occasions shouted, “Ballotbots, assemble!” with his best Optimus Prime voice.

• Joe Rogan said he's still in talks to set up an interview with Kamala Harris, but that he won't agree to the terms suggested by her campaign. Shockingly, the only request was, “Please, abstain from any horse dewormer product placement.”

• Political junkies will be able to pinch and zoom on real-time election results in CNN‘s app — just like John King does on TV using the news network’s famous “Magic Wall” — on election night and beyond. The news network has deemed the app “TikTok for people who can’t seem to find the TikTok app on their phone.”

  

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• Hospitals use a transcription tool powered by a hallucination-prone OpenAI model — which sounds scary until you realize a trippy, A.I. powered transcript likely makes more sense than your average scribbled doctor’s note. At the end of the day, we’re all just interpreting a Jackson Pollack painting.

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