Orwell was a satirist. Wasn’t he?

So what’s missing from this piece of WTF info delivered to me by Harper’s Weekly Review? Meta self-mockery? Wit? Animals? Something…

It was reported that Meta began installing software on employees’ computers to track their mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes for use in training the company’s AI models.This is where all Meta employees can help our models get better simply by doing their daily work,” read an internal memo. Meta announced plans to lay off around 10 percent of its employees in an AI-driven cost-efficiency push.

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Strait Sex

[T]he chief executive of the world’s top condom producer detailed plans to raise prices by at least 20 percent after supply-chain disruptions caused by the Iran War.

From Harper’s Weekly Review.

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“What’s in a name?”

[T]he U.S. president endorsed a conservative influencer’s idea to change the name of the federal agency from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to National Immigration and Customs Enforcement (NICE).

From Harper’s Weekly Review.

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