Five Jokes: 7-31-2024

A.I. Conspiracy Theories, Kamala Harris Nears VP Pick, Donald Trump Speaks To Black Journalists, Facebook Ads For Illegal Drugs, and The Man Who Started The Vance/Couch Rumors

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• Meta’s AI assistant incorrectly said that the recent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump didn’t happen. The company has since altered the service so that it correctly adds the phrase “From a certain point of view…” at the end of further statements on the matter.

  

• Kamala Harris will visit multiple battleground states with her future running-mate next week. The lucky candidate is currently unknown as no one has yet discovered a golden ticket inside of the new Harris branded coconuts that recently hit stores.

• Donald Trump will speak at the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention in Chicago — and certainly won’t know how to handle the DJ dropping a beat as the crowd breaks into Janet Jackson moves whenever he calls Harris a “nasty woman.”

  

• Hundreds of ads on Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms, some as recent as Friday, steer users to online marketplaces for illegal drugs such as cocaine and prescription opioids. The company has since corrected the issue by purchasing those illegal drugs and feeding it to Meta’s A.I. assistant.

Finally…

• The anonymous poster who started the viral rumor that Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance had sex with a couch said he came up with the smear while shopping at a grocery store. The grocery store claims he never paid for the eggs he dropped mid-epiphany. Can’t imagine having visions like That’s So Raven but only for things that are awkward to bring up in therapy.

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