Hacker News with Generative AI: Satire

Take this on-call rotation and shove it (scottsmitelli.com)
The familiar blue and gold intro graphic fills the screen every evening at six o’clock on the dot. The jabbing staccato string music conjures up vague secondhand memories of what a teletype machine might have sounded like. A high angle view of the studio floor with the large Lexan-clad desk in the middle, then a cross dissolve to a two shot of the presenters for this newscast.
Lest We Forget the Horrors (mcsweeneys.net)
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors.
Elon Musk's Doge Moves to Gut Local Libraries While No One Is Looking (newrepublic.com)
Department of Government Efficiency operatives have found their new target: your local library.
'It's a Heist': Real Federal Auditors Are Horrified by Doge (wired.com)
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has spent the first six weeks of the new Trump administration turning the federal government upside down.
Ogres Are Cool (lrb.co.uk)
The hyper-courtly​ Sir Thomas Wyatt wrote a verse satire in the mid-1530s that begins: ‘My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin,/They sang sometime a song of the field mouse.’
Common Lisp in 2055 (Satire) (medium.com)
The year is 2055. AI automation has made 99.7% of all jobs obsolete — a human barista is now a rare novelty.
'Trump Gaza' AI video intended as political satire, says creator (theguardian.com)
The creator of the viral “Trump Gaza” AI-generated video depicting the Gaza Strip as a Dubai-style paradise has said it was intended as a political satire of Trump’s “megalomaniac idea”.
Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy (nytimes.com)
What started as musings at a dinner party evolved into a radical takeover of the federal bureaucracy.
Buy Infowars for the Memes (bloomberg.com)
Here’s a thing I have never seen before:
DOGE's Chaos Reaches Antarctica (wired.com)
Few agencies have been spared as Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has ripped through the United States federal government. Even in Antarctica, scientists and workers are feeling the impacts—and are terrified for what’s to come.
It's Easy to Save Billions in Taxpayer Funds When Everything Is Made Up (techdirt.com)
Here’s a neat trick for saving taxpayers billions of dollars: just make stuff up!
Show HN: I built an AI satirical news site because news was depressing me (netlify.app)
Umlauts, Diaereses, and the New Yorker (2020) (arrantpedantry.com)
Several weeks ago, the satirical viral content site Clickhole posted this article: “Going Rogue: ‘The New Yorker’ Has Announced That They’re Going To Start Putting An Umlaut Over Every Letter ‘O’ And No One Can Stop Them”.
Buying Wikipedia (wikipedia.org)
Howdy! Are you a government sick and tired of being described as a state sponsor of terrorism? Or an autocratic regime that wishes a few pesky articles would just go away? How about a multinational corporation that could use some nifty advertising? Well, you've come to the right place! As of November 12, 2002, Wikipedia is officially FOR SALE!
David Lodge, British novelist who satirized academic life, has died (nytimes.com)
David Lodge, the erudite author of academic comedy and a wide-ranging literary critic, died on Wednesday in Birmingham, England. He was 89.
Elon's Money (sillyduck.xyz)
Spend Elon Musk's Money
Washington Post cartoonist resigns after cartoon satirising Jeff Bezos rejected (abc.net.au)
A cartoonist at the Washington Post has resigned after the newspaper refused to publish a sketch featuring the publication's billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, satirised bowing before Donald Trump.
The Peter Principle still resonates (cbc.ca)
Published in 1969, The Peter Principle skewered corporate culture decades before Dilbert and The Office became pop culture hits. While it was written as satire, researchers have looked into the treatise to see what can be done to prevent workers from rising to their level of incompetence.
Billionaires want you to know they could have done physics [video] (youtube.com)
Web3 Is Going Just Great (web3isgoinggreat.com)
Bankruptcy judge rejects The Onion's bid for Infowars (npr.org)
The owners of The Onion say they are "deeply disappointed" in a judge's decision to reject their bid to buy Alex Jones' Infowars company.
Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion (nytimes.com)
A judge late Tuesday night said he would not approve the sale of Infowars, the website founded by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, to the Chicago-based satirical publication The Onion, prolonging a messy tug of war between two high-profile suitors.
Elon Musk wants to block the transfer of InfoWars' X accounts to The Onion [pdf] (courtlistener.com)
Onion CEO: We won InfoWars auction, can't wait to relaunch, fun still to come (bsky.app)
Judge orders hearing to review Onion's purchase of Alex Jones's InfoWars (theguardian.com)
A judge has intervened and ordered a hearing to review the purchase of the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s InfoWars site by the satirical news site the Onion.
Satire Slinger The Onion Buys Alex Jones' Infowars with Sandy Hook Families (westerninvestor.com)
The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax, the families announced Thursday.
Not Satire: The Onion Acquires Infowars (status.news)
The Onion has successfully acquired Infowars.
The Onion wins Alex Jones' Infowars in bankruptcy auction (nbcnews.com)
The Onion, the satirical news company that repeatedly spoofed conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has won the bankruptcy auction for control over his media empire — most notably InfoWars, the far-right, conspiracy-minded website that served as Jones' primary online platform.
The Onion buys Infowars (nytimes.com)
The Onion, a satirical publication that skewers newsmakers and current events, said on Thursday that it had won a bankruptcy auction to acquire Infowars, a website founded and operated by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to Lead Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) (cnn.com)