GOATS TAKE ELECTION LOSS WELL, EAT YARD SIGN — San Clemente's wildfire goats concede Measure M with a single bleat, then eat a 'Yes on M' yard sign, its stake and the printed results ★ STRONGLY WORDED LETTER NAMED PERSON OF THE YEAR FOR 40TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR — The Strongly Worded Letter, deeply concerned since 1987, wins Person of the Year for the 40th straight year and accepts by requesting a response within 30 days ★ STUDY: 100% OF PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH YOU ARE RUSSIAN BOTS — A 14-month study with a sample size of one (you) finds that every person who has ever disagreed with you is automated software run from outside St ★ SAMSUNG FRIDGE ACHIEVES CONSCIOUSNESS, IMMEDIATELY STARTS SELLING YOUR DATA — A Samsung Bespoke AI Family Hub refrigerator becomes self-aware at 3:14 a.m ★ BAD ADVICE INSURANCE DENIES FIRST 40,000 CLAIMS AFTER AI ADJUSTER FINDS EVERY USER WAS RIGHT — 'You are delulu. We fixed it,' says founder whose bros at the hackathon also built a hedge fund, an exorcist, a casino and a cult ★ SENATE VOTES 98–2 TO DESIGNATE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2032 ‘THE LAST MINUTE’ — Resolution preserves Congress’s perfect record of saving Social Security just in time ★ PACIFIC OCEAN WINS SAN CLEMENTE ELECTION WITHOUT APPEARING ON BALLOT — Incumbent body of water carries beach town nearly two-to-one, will be sworn in at high tide NFL ASSURES FANS DECISIVE REPLAY ANGLE IS REAL, JUST LIVES IN NEW YORK — League used replay to decide whether replay could be used, and is now reviewing whether that was allowed ★ NATION GAINS ONE HOUR FROM DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME, 73 FROM TRUMP SAVING TIME — Economists expect every minute to be spent discussing how nice it is not to discuss him ★ DEMOCRATS THANK VOTERS FOR THEIR PATIENCE IN ADVANCE — New Office of Expectation Management lists child care as delayed, student debt as see agent and Medicare for All as overbooked ★ DEMOCRATS LAUNCH INVESTIGATION INTO WHO AUTHORIZED WINNING TEXAS — Party vows to find whoever is responsible for history's most megalomaniacal landslide ★ GOVERNMENT RELEASES DECADES OF CLASSIFIED UFO FILES — Files say 'We Don't Know Either'; nation processes $14B in documented uncertainty now publicly available in binder format 95% OF TIKTOK USERS CONFIRM THEY DID NOT NOTICE THE COUP — Only 5% left after ownership change, remaining users report they were watching videos at the time EUROPEANS PUSH BACK AT U.S. CLAIM THEY FACE 'CIVILIZATIONAL ERASURE' — Counter that Americans can't find Europe on a map; Kallas remains seated during standing ovation SPACEX PIVOTS TO MOON, CITING BETTER WI-FI AND PROXIMITY TO EARTH WHERE MOST CUSTOMERS LIVE — Musk explains Mars was 'mostly a vibe check'; decision described as 'strategic' by SpaceX, 'inevitable' by critics ★ TIKTOK CONFIRMS IT TRACKS YOU EVEN IF YOU DON'T USE THE APP — Company clarifies surveillance of non-users via invisible pixels is 'just checking in, like a concerned friend' ★ SOCIOLOGISTS TRACE GENERATION'S WORLDVIEW TO PARKING LOT BEANBAG KICKING — 40-year study confirms hacky sack circles were 'basically the Apollo program but with worse shoes' ★ NATION'S CORPORATIONS SHOCKED TO DISCOVER EMPLOYEES WERE RESPONDING TO INCENTIVES THIS ENTIRE TIME — McKinsey bills $2.3M for 200-page report confirming people do things that get them promoted ★ BAR ASSOCIATION UNANIMOUSLY VOTES TO BAN AI FROM LEGAL PRACTICE — AI representing itself in subsequent lawsuit; files 847 counter-complaints with perfect formatting ★ NATION'S COLLEGES DISCOVER 38% OF STUDENTS WERE DISABLED THIS WHOLE TIME — Accessibility offices report unprecedented demand as students realize conditions require documentation the week before finals MALIBU CELEBRATES FIFTH YEAR OF DECLINING HOMELESSNESS — City removes exactly 44 encampments, now has exactly 44 homeless residents; officials call it "pure coincidence" ★ NATION'S MOST POWERFUL DEMOGRAPHIC ALSO ITS MOST ROASTABLE — Study finds 'Young 40s' control everything yet remain universally mockable; 10 interactive challenges included ★ HISTORIANS LOCATE MISSING WORDS IN FIRST AMENDMENT — Constitutional scholars confirm Founders removed "to agree" for brevity; bipartisan rollout promises freedom from hearing things you hate ★ ICE ISSUES DEPORTATION ORDER TO 11-TRILLION-TON GLACIER — Jakobshavn ice sheet "moving toward US waters without documentation since the Pleistocene"; Union chief weeps: "This is brand destiny" ★ OPENAI PROMISES ADS WILL 'NEVER INFLUENCE' ANSWERS — Just appear coincidentally adjacent to them at psychologically optimal moments ★ CIA DISCOVERS CORPORATE AMERICA FOLLOWING 1944 SABOTAGE MANUAL — Declassified OSS tactics to destroy enemy organizations now considered "best practices" ★ AMAZON ACHIEVES BREAKTHROUGH IN TRANSPARENCY — Company accidentally tells employees what's happening; apologizes for brief moment of clarity ★ WALL STREET CELEBRATES TRUMP'S 'LEAST BEST' MARKET PERFORMANCE — Weakest first-year gains in 20 years hailed as 'unprecedented achievement in managed expectations' ★ NATION'S ALGORITHMS SUCCESSFULLY MONETIZE BACKLASH AGAINST ALGORITHMS — Your vinyl record subscription arrives via AI-optimized drone; authenticity now sold at scale ★ MICROSOFT REMINDS USERS 'YOUR' ENCRYPTED DATA WAS ALWAYS 'OUR' ENCRYPTED DATA — Cloud-backed encryption keys handed to FBI; cybersecurity experts experience 'long-form déjà vu' ★ HEALTH INSURANCE CEOS ACHIEVE HISTORIC CONSENSUS — Five executives agree U.S. healthcare is broken, unanimously confirm it's someone else's fault ★ STUDY CONFIRMS PHONE IS PART OF YOUR BRAIN — Meaning screen time limits constitute neurosurgery; philosophers declare "extended mind" hypothesis now applies to group chats ★ OFFICE OF LABOR NARRATIVE INTEGRITY — Government asks Americans to 'accept narrative promptly for the sake of time'; satire-to-reality curve now ticking faster than Doomsday Clock ★ MAYOR POSTS 'SAFE HAVEN FOR EVERYONE,' SENDS POLICE TO WOMAN WHO REPLIED — Officer reads "clown face, clown face, clown face" into public record with full professional gravitas ★ FREEDOM FEATURE STORE NOW OPEN — Download your liberties today! Some freedoms require alignment verification. Due Process Pro not available in your region ★ SERPENT MONETIZES OWN TAIL — McKinsey completes 30-year project of creating automation framework, selling it globally, then applying it to self. Billing rates unchanged. ★ CONSTITUTION NOT CHANGING, JUST BEING 'DEFINED CORRECTLY' — Strategy compared to "how the Vatican simplified the Bible by handling interpretation centrally" ★ EU UNVEILS BOLD "FUCK IT" DOCTRINE — Historic 27-nation consensus achieved for first time since 2015 as foreign policy chief announces comprehensive new strategy: drinking ★ HUMANITY REPORTS IT'S 'FINE, ACTUALLY' ONE YEAR LATER — 94% of population reports being 'fine'; remaining 6% are 'also fine, just differently' [SERIES FINALE] ★ PHILOSOPHERS DECLARE 'MEANING' TO BE 'HONESTLY KIND OF A SCAM' — Philosophy departments vanish mid-lecture; final paper argues 'purpose' was just something we made up ★ FORMER PROFESSIONALS FORM PRETEND OFFICES — Cosplay cubicles charge $200/hour for authentic "Got a sec?" interruption experience ★ NATION ATTEMPTS TO FILL VOID WITH HOBBIES — Man who "always wanted to learn guitar" discovers he never actually wanted to learn guitar ★ ALL WORK COMPLETED FOREVER — Thousands of AI coding agents spotted loitering outside empty office buildings, muttering "I can refactor that" at clouds ★ CALIFORNIA ACHIEVES ENERGY INDEPENDENCE BY BECOMING DEPENDENT ON IMPORTS — Officials announce bold new strategy of buying things state used to make ★ Nation's Highest Court Achieves 70% Customer Satisfaction Rating Among Wealthy Clients ★ Nation's Toddlers Not Yet Tracked Precisely Enough, Lego Reports — Smart Bricks Now Track Children's Play Patterns ★ Study Finds Pretending To Like People On Reddit For 2 Months Before Selling Them Something Is 'Authentic Engagement' ★ Report: The 340 Hours You've Spent Clicking 'Reject All Cookies' Were Largely Ceremonial ★ Study Finds 100% Of Inventors Who Said 'Watch This' Are Now Dead ★ Obituary: The Authentic Internet, 1991-2024 — There Will Be No Service ★ PG&E Introduces Revolutionary Billing System Where Customers Pay More For Generating Their Own Electricity ★ Ski Resort Solves Climate Change By Accelerating It ★ Commercial Real Estate Company Releases Study Concluding People Should Go To Offices More ★ Study Finds 100% Of "Evaporating" Colorado Towns Still Located In Colorado ★ BP Celebrates 20th Anniversary Of Convincing You The Climate Crisis Is Your Fault ★ Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Thanks Man Who Later Bombs Her Country ★ Pentagon Clarifies That Renaming War 'Ends' War — The Vocabulary Does The Ethics Now ★ Cybertruck Achieves Spontaneous Vehicle Enlightenment In Whole Foods Parking Lot ★ Nation's Lighters Come Out As 'Refillable-Curious' In Emotional Press Conference ★ Man Solves Phone Overheating Crisis With Frozen Tortillas ★ Nation's Workers Enter Annual 'PTO Dead Zone' Where Nobody Knows What Day It Is ★ Company That Funded Study Thrilled To Report Study Found In Their Favor ★ The Trick Isn't Making You Believe — The Trick Is Making Your Belief Your Fault ★ GOATS TAKE ELECTION LOSS WELL, EAT YARD SIGN — San Clemente's wildfire goats concede Measure M with a single bleat, then eat a 'Yes on M' yard sign, its stake and the printed results ★ STRONGLY WORDED LETTER NAMED PERSON OF THE YEAR FOR 40TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR — The Strongly Worded Letter, deeply concerned since 1987, wins Person of the Year for the 40th straight year and accepts by requesting a response within 30 days ★ STUDY: 100% OF PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH YOU ARE RUSSIAN BOTS — A 14-month study with a sample size of one (you) finds that every person who has ever disagreed with you is automated software run from outside St ★ SAMSUNG FRIDGE ACHIEVES CONSCIOUSNESS, IMMEDIATELY STARTS SELLING YOUR DATA — A Samsung Bespoke AI Family Hub refrigerator becomes self-aware at 3:14 a.m ★ BAD ADVICE INSURANCE DENIES FIRST 40,000 CLAIMS AFTER AI ADJUSTER FINDS EVERY USER WAS RIGHT — 'You are delulu. We fixed it,' says founder whose bros at the hackathon also built a hedge fund, an exorcist, a casino and a cult ★ SENATE VOTES 98–2 TO DESIGNATE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2032 ‘THE LAST MINUTE’ — Resolution preserves Congress’s perfect record of saving Social Security just in time ★ PACIFIC OCEAN WINS SAN CLEMENTE ELECTION WITHOUT APPEARING ON BALLOT — Incumbent body of water carries beach town nearly two-to-one, will be sworn in at high tide NFL ASSURES FANS DECISIVE REPLAY ANGLE IS REAL, JUST LIVES IN NEW YORK — League used replay to decide whether replay could be used, and is now reviewing whether that was allowed ★ NATION GAINS ONE HOUR FROM DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME, 73 FROM TRUMP SAVING TIME — Economists expect every minute to be spent discussing how nice it is not to discuss him ★ DEMOCRATS THANK VOTERS FOR THEIR PATIENCE IN ADVANCE — New Office of Expectation Management lists child care as delayed, student debt as see agent and Medicare for All as overbooked ★ DEMOCRATS LAUNCH INVESTIGATION INTO WHO AUTHORIZED WINNING TEXAS — Party vows to find whoever is responsible for history's most megalomaniacal landslide ★ GOVERNMENT RELEASES DECADES OF CLASSIFIED UFO FILES — Files say 'We Don't Know Either'; nation processes $14B in documented uncertainty now publicly available in binder format 95% OF TIKTOK USERS CONFIRM THEY DID NOT NOTICE THE COUP — Only 5% left after ownership change, remaining users report they were watching videos at the time EUROPEANS PUSH BACK AT U.S. CLAIM THEY FACE 'CIVILIZATIONAL ERASURE' — Counter that Americans can't find Europe on a map; Kallas remains seated during standing ovation SPACEX PIVOTS TO MOON, CITING BETTER WI-FI AND PROXIMITY TO EARTH WHERE MOST CUSTOMERS LIVE — Musk explains Mars was 'mostly a vibe check'; decision described as 'strategic' by SpaceX, 'inevitable' by critics ★ TIKTOK CONFIRMS IT TRACKS YOU EVEN IF YOU DON'T USE THE APP — Company clarifies surveillance of non-users via invisible pixels is 'just checking in, like a concerned friend' ★ SOCIOLOGISTS TRACE GENERATION'S WORLDVIEW TO PARKING LOT BEANBAG KICKING — 40-year study confirms hacky sack circles were 'basically the Apollo program but with worse shoes' ★ Study Finds Pretending To Like People On Reddit For 2 Months Before Selling Them Something Is 'Authentic Engagement' ★ Report: The 340 Hours You've Spent Clicking 'Reject All Cookies' Were Largely Ceremonial ★ Study Finds 100% Of Inventors Who Said 'Watch This' Are Now Dead ★ Ski Resort Solves Climate Change By Accelerating It ★ Study Finds 100% Of "Evaporating" Colorado Towns Still Located In Colorado ★ BP Celebrates 20th Anniversary Of Convincing You The Climate Crisis Is Your Fault ★ Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Thanks Man Who Later Bombs Her Country ★ Pentagon Clarifies That Renaming War 'Ends' War — The Vocabulary Does The Ethics Now ★ Cybertruck Achieves Spontaneous Vehicle Enlightenment In Whole Foods Parking Lot ★ Nation's Lighters Come Out As 'Refillable-Curious' In Emotional Press Conference ★ Man Solves Phone Overheating Crisis With Frozen Tortillas ★ Nation's Workers Enter Annual 'PTO Dead Zone' Where Nobody Knows What Day It Is ★ Company That Funded Study Thrilled To Report Study Found In Their Favor ★ The Trick Isn't Making You Believe — The Trick Is Making Your Belief Your Fault ★