Satire imagines an incoming Apple chief executive finally deleting the Sent from iPhone signature, on how long a smartphone-era default outlives the era that made it.
This week's stories
World’s Ugliest Hawaiian Shirt Was Designed to Make You Invisible to AI Surveillance Cameras
A Berlin designer tuned a Hawaiian shirt against detection algorithms until their confidence collapsed. Real, not satire: adversarial print meant to hide a wearer from surveillance cameras.
About Our Super El Niño Climate Crisis–Accurate Hot Pilates Studio
A mock brand launch sells a pilates studio on the climate crisis itself, parodying wellness marketing that borrows the language of catastrophe to move a workout.
Generic State University Pivots to Dark Academia
A public land-grant university rebrands around the dark academia aesthetic it has no history to support, satirising institutions that chase a look instead of a position.
Nice Bottle Of Scotch For Fathers Day Confirms You Can Put A Price On Dad
After years of poor presents a father is handed a good bottle of scotch, satirising Father's Day gifting cliches and the sentiment sold alongside them.
Why We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
A satirical memo argues staff must return to the office because artificial intelligence works better in person, skewering return-to-office mandates and the vocabulary invented to justify them.
Seven Steps to Financial Success, According to a Guy Who Won a Multimillion-Dollar Lawsuit Against the Circus
Mock self-help from a man whose fortune arrived when an acrobat landed on him, satirising success literature that reclassifies luck as method.
Word Of The Week: Fredagsbar (A Popular Danish Tradition Of Friday Drinks And Socialising)
A mock dictionary entry defines fredagsbar, the Danish Friday-drinks ritual, and quietly mocks offices that import a foreign custom and call it team culture.
All Rise! Coyote Court Is Now in Session
A personal-injury lawyer weighs, straight-faced, whether Wile E. Coyote could sue Acme over defective goods. Mock tort law on the most litigated product liability in cartoons.
