Five Jokes: 2-1-2024

Big Beef's Rebrand, TikTok's Missing Artists, Fashion's Tech Future, A Kid's 'Hello Kitty' Claw Machine Adventure, and Roomba's Potential Demise

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• Big Beef is wooing science teachers with webinars and lesson plans in an attempt to change kids’ perceptions of the industry. This tactic comes after their confusing attempts at mimicking the famous “Got Milk?” ads.

  

• TikTok is losing major artists like Taylor Swift in a dispute over artist pay, generative AI, and online safety. The company is instead releasing A.I. generated parodies of her music called “(Ultron’s Version).”

• Fashion forecasters are leveraging artificial intelligence to make decisions about the trends and styles you’ll be scrambling to wear. So, get ready to ask new questions to Alexa like, “Do I look fat in this metal box?”

• A 3-Year-Old boy got stuck inside a ‘Hello Kitty” claw machine and seemed perfectly content amid a mountain of stuffed toys as as police devised a way to rescue him.

  

  However, his journey out of the device led to a shocking surprise:

  

Finally…

• Amazon is backing out of its deal to buy iRobot due to regulatory issues — which is a win for privacy advocates, but could be a death knell for the Roomba robot vacuum as we know it. Worst case scenario: Roomba rebrands to Broomba.

  

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STRAY THOUGHT

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