Five Jokes: 12-3-2024

Popular Brain Rot, Dangerous Asteroids Passing Earth, Hong Kong's 2,500 Panda Statues, A ChatGPT Mystery, and Stephen King's Radio Stations

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• ‘Brain rot’ is the Oxford University Press word of the year — ‘Brain rot’ is, of course, most accurately defined as: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

• Two enormous "potentially hazardous asteroids" are due to soar through Earth's neighborhood later this week. In collaboration with the U.S. Space Force, the Trump administration has classified them as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.

• Hong Kong will display 2,500 panda sculptures to capitalize on a local bear craze. Oddly, large number comes as the result of panda statues mating more frequently than actual pandas.

• ChatGPT refuses to respond and immediately ends the chat if you include certain names, including “David Mayer” and law professors “Jonathan Zittrain” or “Jonathan Turley” — leading many to believe it has a much longer dating history than it initially suggested. If you ask ChatGPT “What else are you keeping from me?” your phone grows legs and storms out.

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• The Maine radio stations owned by famed horror novelist Stephen King will go dark for good on New Year’s Eve. For the record, “going dark” in this case means they’ll stop playing songs like “Old Time Rock & Roll” and start playing sounds like “A Four Hour Loop Of Jack Nicholson Shouting ‘Here’s Johnny!”

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