Five Jokes: 6-30-2025
Trump's Supreme Court Support, Facebook vs Photo Privacy, Tinder's Test Filter, Chicago Rodent Evolution, and Beyoncé's Houston Fiasco
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The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration a series of major wins in the final blockbuster week of its term. But did they have to announce it with the phrase, “And the award goes to…”?
Beyoncé briefly dangled over a Houston stadium crowd as her flying prop car malfunctioned. Fans in the attendance described the moment as “Giviiiing Tesla, but she made it work.”
Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos. So, to be clear, even if you decided against DMing a nude image of yourself, the algorithm still knows about that mole.
Tinder is testing a height filter — which seems pretty damn superficial if you ask me. I mean, how low can you go?!
Finally…
Due to to an increasingly urban environment, rodents in Chicago have rapidly evolved over the past century. Chicago squirrels, for instance, once looked like this:
And now, they look like this:
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