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AI doomsday expert Eliezer Yudkowsky looks glum at his laptop while vacationers, a party-hat dog and cheerful robot enjoy life behind him.

Humanity took the extinction warning under advisement and booked the cruise anyway.

AI Doomsday Scold Dismayed That People Keep Making Plans

The AI doomsday is coming, possibly sooner than expected, and Eliezer Yudkowsky is increasingly concerned that nobody has adjusted his weekend plans accordingly. Yudkowsky, 47,… Read More

Elderly man with shoehorn and woman with screwdriver face smart home AI refrigerator lockout displaying equity denial message over frozen lettuce on counter.

Breakfast remains suspended until the occupants formally atone for four hundred years of butter churning.

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Refrigerator Locked Down by Woke Smart Home AI

Biff Scuzzy tech satire 1 month

The new super smart home AI installed in seventy-two-year-old retired linoleum inspector Leonard Prine’s refrigerator had already formed a low opinion of his breakfast. That… Read More

YouTube history illustration shows a viewer watching a fabricated Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton performance surrounded by old celebrity photographs.

Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton share a historic YouTube moment that history somehow neglected to have happen.

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YouTube History Introduces Its Newest Feature: Things That Never Happened

As told to The Pug Bus tech satire 2 months

YouTube history has solved two of the past’s most vexing problems: much of it actually happened, and it was insufficiently heartwarming. Hence the touching but glaringly… Read More

Grocery list held by an elderly writer is inspected by an EU surveillance drone, satirizing AI watermark rules and bureaucratic overreach.

Brussels would like a word about who really wrote your grocery list.

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Local Man’s Grocery List Now Traceable to Point of Origin

philmaggitti tech satire 2 months

West Chester, Pennsylvania, resident Will Doyle, 82, a retired freelance writer, still puts two spaces after a period because “civilization once had standards.” Doyle learned… Read More

Man destroying sensitive documents in an air fryer as stacks of tax returns, love letters, NDAs and an old screenplay await their turn.

For best results, shake the evidence halfway through.

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Destroying Sensitive Documents in an Air Fryer

Biff Scuzzy tech satire 3 months

Americans are abandoning traditional paper shredders in favor of destroying sensitive documents in an air fryer. Known as “crisping,” the technique uses an air fryer’s… Read More

Illustration asking who wrote the Bible, depicting a bearded AI alien on a heavenly cloud with scripture, stone tablets, binary code, and a glowing halo.

And on the seventh day, the server was down.

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Pangram Makes Bombshell Reveal About Who Wrote the Bible

T.J. Eckleburg tech satire 3 months

In a press conference that began on time and ended in disbelief, Pangram Technologies announced that it had discovered who wrote the Bible. It was… Read More

Editorial cartoon illustrating the Digital Fallacy: a man ignores a perfectly cooked steak while inspecting a restaurant oven with a flashlight and clipboard as a puzzled chef looks on.

A textbook case of the Digital Fallacy: confusing the recipe with the meal."

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No Digital Fallacy Allowed

T.J. Eckleburg tech satire 3 months

The digital fallacy is the error of judging a work primarily by the method of its production rather than by the qualities of the work… Read More

A bewildered driver inside a vehicle surrounded by colorful foam, lasers, and rain nozzles during a high end car wash lavish wash cycle.

When you hit 'Triple-Platinum Diamond Package' instead of 'Basic Rinse' and accidentally summon a tropical monsoon, nineteen shades of boysenberry foam, and a personal laser show.

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The $85 High End Car Wash

T.J. Eckleburg tech satire 3 months

The heavy iron doors of the Sparkle Palace Automated Oasis slam shut with the finality of a hydraulic vault. Outside, the sky is clear. Inside,… Read More