Five Jokes: 4-4-2024

Amazon Cuts Cloud Jobs, NYC's Bad Advice Chat-Bot, Research On Billionaires Under 30, The Return Of 'The Matrix,' and A.I. Spoofs Of 'Drag Race'

Pssst! — if you find daily emails annoying, you can modify your subscription experience here!

Hey! It’s Thursday in America, and here are Five Jokes!

Donate to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, The Carter Center, and/or Alliance for Middle East Peace.

Y’all hear about this?..

• Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs in its cloud computing unit. Or, as the company called it: “Making rain.”

• Despite NYC’s AI chatbot getting caught telling businesses to break the law, the city isn’t taking it down. It’s all part of Mayor Adam’s bold new “Tech Company to Small Business to Prison Pipeline” initiative which keeps all sectors of the city booked and busy.

• Research finds that all billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth. This data was gathered by asking billionaires under 30, “Do you know what love feels like?” and noting how they all asked their assistants to Google the answer.

• The Matrix is coming back for a fifth movie. The Martian writer Drew Goddard reportedly wowed Warner Bros. execs by his pitch of “… a two hour slow motion cave orgy where characters occasionally whisper about Kierkegaard.”

  

Finally…

• AI-generated spoofs of RuPaul’s Drag Race are flooding Instagram and TikTok. And I think we should all pause and reflect on how amazing it is to live in a world where everyone knows Flubber would be a fierce contestant.

  

  We are truly are our ancestors wildest dreams.

Those were five jokes! Which was your favorite? Use this poll, or drop a comment!

If you enjoyed those, check out yesterday’s jokes! And consider becoming a (free or paid) subscriber:

OR buying me a coffee:

OR subscribe to my YOU ARE THE GENRE podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or right here in the matrix of my newsletter!

🎨: Madhuri Shukla

And you can always share screenshots or forward this to a friend!

(this post may be too long for your email — if so, read the web version!)

A JOKE FROM SOMEONE ELSE

• An oldie but a goodie from Ben Ward about the state of the internet.

  

• Ahamed Weinberg’s Ramadan Diaries — watch them all here!

A GOOD READ

The Future of ‘Star Trek’: From ‘Starfleet Academy’ to New Movies and Michelle Yeoh, How the 58-Year-Old Franchise Is Planning for the Next Generation of Fans (VARIETY)

Neil Jamieson for Variety

STRAY THOUGHT

SOMETHIN’ FROM THE VAULT!

After a brief hiatus,Alternate Timeline(my alternate newsletter dedicated to sci-fi short story writing) is back in action! And my latest story Lunar Self is available for you to cruelly judge HERE!

“Why is this guy emailing five jokes a day?” — I explain it here:

Why I Email Five Jokes A Day

Letters from African America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider sharing…

…or becoming a free or paid subscriber!

See you tomorrow with more…

Like that cartoon face in the logo? It was illustrated by DeAngelo — the talented character/prop designer/YouTuber known as “Hats Off Media!” DeAngelo is working hard an an awesome new cartoon called ScreenTime (teaser). Consider supporting it here!