Five Jokes: 6-24-2024
Trump's Migrant Fight Club, Musk's 'Star Wars' Review, Freelancers vs A.I., Apple & Meta In Talks, and A Starliner Spacecraft Conundrum
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In an address to an evangelical group, Donald trump suggested starting a sports league in which migrants fight one another. To which the person at the Q&A mic responded, “And that’s your answer to my question about how often you pray?”
Elon Musk Musk thinks Lucasfilm chief Kathleen Kennedy is "super bigoted against men." For context, he said the same thing about the Space X employee who (allegedly) refused an offer to ‘have his babies’ and the flight attendant he (allegedly) offered a horse to in exchange for an erotic massage.
Freelancers are losing work to artificial intelligence. “Yeah, but I’d still rather have migrants fight,” said the former president.
Longtime rivals Apple and Meta have discussed potentially integrating Meta’s generative AI model into Apple’s new AI system for iPhones and other devices. So, son… Any more questions about the birds an the bees?
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The Starliner spacecraft faces an indefinite wait in space while NASA investigates its faults. Don’t know who needs to hear this but sometimes a “break” is a “break-up.”
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Trump's idea sounds way too close to the old "Battle Royales", where Black men fought each other for supremacy at the urging of white men who literally or figuratively "owned" them. So I can't support that.
Musk, meanwhile, has demonstrated again that he doesn't know his own ass. It's way too easy to use Ms. Kennedy as the scapegoat for Star Wars' recent flaws, but that is not a true reflection of her character. Just ask Steven Spielberg- she very capably assisted him for many years.