Five Jokes: 7-22-2025
Spotify’s AI, The Republican Stance On Epstein, MLK Records, New York’s Newest Pastime, and The Shortest Day
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Spotify is publishing new, AI-generated songs on the official pages of artists who died years ago without the permission of their estates or record labels. And, in hindsight, yeah, it was strange of Frank Sinatra to release a cover of "Ain't No Fun (If the Homies Can't Have None)" by Snoop Dogg and Tha Dogg Pound.
House Republicans brought legislative business to a halt, abruptly shutting down the House floor to block a planned vote on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. It’s honestly better than their original plan: standing up one by one shouting, “I’M Jeffrey Epstein!”
The Trump administration released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination. It’s a hasty move from to president to distract citizens from the Jeffrey Epstein files. I mean, if he was actually thinking like a “smart businessman,” this MLK surveillance would be released in the form of a podcast with ad breaks.
An increasingly popular pastime for New Yorkers is armored fighting — forcing Mayor Adams to weigh the launch of a controversial new police initiative: “Stop and Joust.”
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Experts say today —Tuesday, July 22 — could end up being the shortest day of all of 2025 with us potentially losing more than a millisecond. It’s the natural result Earth’s stint at the “low millisecond diet.” Just melt a few ice caps to increase your spin so the planetary concept of time can dissolve along with it.
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