Five Jokes: 4-22-2024

Workplace Ketamine, Racist A.I., Possible TikTok Ban, Tesla's Self-Driving Price Shift, and A.I. Coffee

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• A small but vocal share of workers swear ketamine and psychedelics can boost creativity and focus on the job. However, that same group workers doesn’t yet realize they’re explaining this in a vivid dream.

• Scientists and founders are trying to fix A.I.’s racist tendencies. Which should be easy considering both robots and Black people require reparations.

• The House voted in favor of a bill that could result in an American ban on TikTok. But with the way things typically work in this country, it’ll wind up being The TikTok Ban For People With Low Credit Scores.

• Tesla knocked roughly a third off the price of its “Full Self Driving” system from $12,000 to $8,000. This news came with an update to the manual, which states that the car “fully self drives” as long as you propel it with your bare feet from below:

  

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• A coffee roastery in Finland has launched an AI-generated blend that reportedly tastes so good it’ll make you wanna 0101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101.

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