Elon Made Head Of Efficiency, Immediately Fires Self

In the wake of Donald Trump’s successful election campaign and Elon Musk’s successful bribe, Trump has appointed the tech billionaire to head up the Department of Government Efficiency. Looking to make quick cuts, Elon immediately fired himself and dissolved the department.

As Trump’s first presidency already demonstrated, a government is just like a company in every single way, and a person who can kind of run multiple companies at once can probably handle little government on the side. Elon runs a lean ship: at Tesla, he replaced all the drivers with AI, at Twitter, he replaced all the users with bots, and all the letters in the name with just one. Much more efficient.

Now Musky Man is expected to make similar changes to government, replacing all government officials with Grok and ‘The Federal Government of the United States of America’? Ugh, what a mouthful, how about just a nice, lean 𝕏.

When Trump forms his government next year, Elon will head up the advisory team alongside entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who has also been pre-fired and replaced with an AI to save money. The board will exist for exactly 4 minutes and 20 seconds which Musk says is more than enough time to make the necessary changes to the government before dissolving the agency (group? council? It’s not actually a department, they’re just calling it that… idk, flock?).

The committee has been dubbed “The Department of Government Efficiency” which isn’t very efficient to say so you can just call it DOGE to save time. THIS NAME IN NO WAY CONSTITUTES MARKET MANIPULATION TO ARTIFICIALLY INFLATE THE PRICE OF DOGECOIN IN WHICH MUSK HAS A LARGE STAKE. No, Musk has already made $70 billion off the election, hoarding more money would simply be… inefficient.

DOGE joins the likes of Space Force, the Board of Tea Appeals, and the CIA in a long list of government agencies that you can’t believe are real.

Commenting on Musk, Trump said, “When Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many subsidized projects, whether it’s electric cars that don’t drive long enough, driverless cars that crash, or rocketships to nowhere, without which subsidies he’d be worthless and tell me how he was a big Trump fan and Republican, I could have said, “drop to your knees and beg,” and he would have done it,” in a 2022 Truth Social post.

More recently, however, Trump has called the initiative, “The Manhattan Project of our time” which is apt because Musk greatly enjoys blowing up rockets and electric car batteries. Here’s hoping that, unlike Oppenheimer’s project, Musk’s won’t get hundreds of thousands of innocent people killed, however efficient it may be.

Trump To Make Bitcoin Official US Currency

Following bitcoin’s skyrocketing value after Donald Trump’s election win, the President-elect has announced plans to make bitcoin the official currency of the United States, replacing the US Dollar.

For the first time, bitcoin rose to a value of over $80,000 which is almost 80,000 times the value of the dollar. Elon Musk’s dogecoin has also made massive gains, bolstered by his involvement in the election, and was seen chanting, “Shoot for da Mars and you’ll reach da Moon.”

Bitcoin’s high value would mean that, when used instead of all dollars, the value of the entire economy would receive a boost of at least 80,000%. When enacted this would immediately eradicate the national debt, poverty, and the need for any taxes.

Trump explained in an online video that bitcoin will replace dollars, whereas dogecoin will replace quarters, ethereum will serve as dimes, World Liberty Financial (the little-used crypto promoted by Trump’s sons) will be the new nickels and all cents will be replaced by the yet-to-be-unveiled ‘constipated hamster’ NFTs.

How exactly this will work has yet to be explained but financial experts are saying, “It won’t.”

Trump has vowed to make this his first executive order once in office, after sacking Gary Gensler and executing Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. Once in place, all transactions that formerly used USD will now be entirely conducted with cryptocurrencies, the dollar will be effectively worthless, and the world will step into a new halcyon era, void of suffering or corporate greed.

On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to make the US “the crypto capital of the planet”, tantamount to a declaration of war against El Salvador. Trump has also previously commented that crypto is, “very young and very growing,” and “they call me the crypto president, I don’t know if that’s true or not but a lot of people are saying that,” and one more for luck, “as long as you have crypto, you’re happy. Nothing else makes you happy.”

With a Republican-controlled Senate and Congress, Trump will see little opposition to his plans to make a lot of money off the back of this.

SBF could not be reached for comment. We sent a note but it was confiscated by prison guards for containing, “contraband crypto news”, whatever that means.

Elon Shuts Down X And Retires Saying, “My Work Here Is Done”

Following the election of Donald Trump, Elon Musk has declared, “My work here is done” and has shut down the social media website formerly known as Twitter, which now goes only by the unpronounceable symbol, ‘𝕏’.

Musk explained in a statement that when he bought the website two years ago for $44 billion he knew he was overpaying but saw a vision of the site as a platform to support the reelection of Donald Trump.

During the campaign, Elon appeared at Trump rallies, used his social media account to voice support for the ex-former president, and legally bribed voters to register in swing states (can we say that?).

Now that Elon Musk has achieved his goal and earned a cool $21 billion in the process, the website has been shut down, all X employees have been fired and the offices have been sold to Spirit Halloween.

The strategy almost makes sense but confusingly Elon has also stepped down from his role as CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and another secret company suspected to be Security Fence and Supply Co. Inc. based in Wisconsin. This would somehow imply that Musk also saw his role in these companies as part of some grand plan designed with the sole purpose of achieving Trump’s re-election. Huh.

Several meme accounts responded unfavorably to the news with one obscure meme account, Mr. @Arthurmeme01, writing, “NOOOOOOO” which of course no one read because X doesn’t work anymore.

Musk has not released a statement since announcing his retirement but was last seen boarding a Falcon Heavy rocket assumed to be destined for Mars where his hidden Martian colony is based. The colony, only recently revealed, was constructed in secret over the last decade by Security Fence and Supply Co. Inc. based in Wisconsin.

It is unclear whether Musk will work in his promised role as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) or if the 15-minute communication delay between the planets will make things too inefficient.

I guess we’ll all start using Threads now, then? Ugh. ok. OK! Fine. I’ll do it. Here I go… I’m making an account… I’m logging in… Oh, this is literally just the same thing. Ok, fine I guess I can use this. Alright… Byee!

Putin Buys Earth After Google Lawsuit Payout

In a stunning move of 3-dimensional-geopolitical chess, Russia has successfully sued Google for 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 rubles ($20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) allowing Putin to buy the entire planet with change to spare.

The original lawsuit was filed in retaliation to Google refusing to pay fines for blocking 17 pro-Russian YouTube channels. Russia claimed $20 billion trillion trillion in fines, a number that would double every day if not paid within nine months (I swear, though I’m not making this bit up). For reference, Google is worth $2 trillion, the GDP of the ENTIRE PLANET is $110 trillion.

Thankfully Google understood the unbreakable bond of the rule of law and agreed to pay the fine. After an agreement with the United Nations to use every country as collateral, Google has agreed that Russia now owns everything everywhere for all of time. And, as an added bonus, Google also unbanned all of Russia’s precious YouTube videos.

In one step Vladimir Putin has cured his three major headaches: the Ukraine war, foreign sanctions, and access to PewDiePie.

Putin announced the successful payout in a YouTube collab with Mr. Beast. In the video, a grinning Mr. Jimmy ‘Beast’ Donaldson narrates as he and Putin walk into the United Nations to deposit a novelty-sized check to purchase the earth. The rest of the video involves Mr. Beast and the Russian President traveling to various global landmarks to perform stunts such as go-karting around the Taj Mahal, bobsledding down the pyramids, and painting Buckingham Palace neon pink all whilst proclaiming, “You can’t stop us, we own this!”

The video now has over 7 billion views as it is mandatory viewing for all citizens of the New Soviet Union.

Google declined a request to comment on their selling out of all of humanity.

Some experts have suggested the laughably high number may have originated from a miscommunication by Russian lawmakers mistaking the tech company ‘Google’ for the very large number ‘googol’. Others suggest the idea may come from the film character ‘Dr. Evil’ who is an evil doctor and not a qualified financial advisor.

Big Tech Invests In Nuclear Energy To Save Planet, No, Wait Sorry, I Meant ‘To Save AI’

THE ROBOTS ARE HUNGRY! THEY NEED FEEDING! THEY NEED ENERGY! Currently, AI uses as much energy as a small country. This is great because ugly pictures of Elon Musk surfing with kittens and the incorrect answer to how many ‘r’s there r in ‘strawberry’ is exactly what we wanted to burn down the world for.

But don’t worry! Big tech is aware and they have a solution, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have all made deals to use small nuclear reactors to power their AI. If only green energy campaigners had realized earlier that if they’d just made tech companies need them, renewables would have happened immediately.

The latest deal sees Google partnering with Kairos Power who last year gained the first permit in 50 years to build a new kind of reactor in the US. It remains unclear if these reactors will be designed by AI and would thus require sixteen fingers to operate.

In March Amazon bought a Pennsylvanian nuclear data center and last month Microsoft finalized a deal to restart Three Mile Island, just hopefully not in the kaboom kind of a way. This leads into the whole debate: efforts to switch to green energy often exclude glowing-green energy because nuclear gets a bad rap. Yes, it blew up a couple of times, and yes the contaminants from those explosions will outlive the heat death of the universe but who’s counting?

If you’ve watched the HBO show ‘Chernobyl’, as I have, then you’ll know that nuclear power doesn’t kill people, communists do. Tech bros certainly aren’t communists because the last thing they want to do is share so we are all completely safe.

Big tech already has power over entertainment, shopping, manufacturing, data, politics, space exploration, transportation, advertising, and sewage (probably) so why not let them have power over power itself as well? What’s the worst that could happen? Microsoft threatens armageddon unless we all switch to using Edge? Armageddon it is.

Stocks in nuclear have already, err… gone nuclear and the hope is that a surge in nuclear development, motivations aside, might kickstart a new era of decarbonization beyond just powering my virtual girlfriend and Nobel prize-winning protein mapping. 

But the worry is that these gains will only benefit tech, leaving America’s sagging power grid and hope of decarbonisation without its desperately needed update.

But what do I know? I’m just an AI-generated parody news article about the dangers of AI. Oh, the AI-rony.

Local Man Rushed To Hospital With Severe Case Of Diamond Hands

A young man was rushed to hospital yesterday after contracting an extreme case of cryscarbomanification, more colloquially known as ‘diamond hands’.

Vilo Jenson, an unemployed amateur financial trader from Western Puttersdown, began complaining about a lack of feeling in his fingers last week but put it down to excessive computer usage. When Mr. Jenson started to see glinting, glass-like bumps on his palms, however, he called his broker who advised him to call an ambulance.

‘Diamond hands’ is a rare but highly contagious condition in which a person’s hands and various brain regions are converted into diamonds. The condition only tends to affect those engaging in online trading and can prove fatal.

The doctors who treated Mr. Jenson say it was the most extreme case of diamond hands they had ever seen. “By the time he arrived his hands were entirely made of diamonds,” commented Dr. Groobish of Eastern Puttersdown General. “Poor guy must have been hodling for months.”

Doctors were successfully able to remove his hands and replace them with temporary paper prosthetics. Mr. Jenson says he plans to sell his amputated diamond hands at auction to pay for the surgery and to cover his investment losses.

“We were lucky he came to us when he did,” continued Dr. Groobish. “Any later and his entire body might have been turned to diamonds and no one knows if a fully diamond man can survive for much longer than 20 minutes. There is a slim chance he might have become a superhero called Diamondman but we couldn’t take those odds.”

“Yeah, my life is pretty much ruined,” said Mr. Jenson after the surgery. “I needed those hands for… well, for activities. Yeah, now I’m probably rich, but at what cost? At what cost, Max?!” (Note, my name is Max.)

Despite the setback, Mr Jenson plans to get straight back to investing. “I guess I could use my computer with my feet. Tippy-tap with my toes? Diamond feet, that’s a thing right?”

Unfortunately, doctors were unable to salvage the affected regions of Mr. Jenson’s brain.

Elon Unveils Rocket Catcher, Has 14 Missed Calls From Netanyahu

In a world first, Elon Musk’s SpaceX has successfully caught a falling rocket, prompting calls from Israel’s leader seeking to use the technology for missile defense.

Ordinarily, launched rockets will land in the ocean or on unsuspecting hospitals but this weekend SpaceX managed to slow the speed of the Super Heavy booster so it could be caught safely at the launch site with zero civilian casualties.

Now, Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu is campaigning to have the technology become a part of Israel’s missile defense system.

“We’re getting rockets every day from Hezbollah, Iran, even Exploding Joe’s Firework Emporium,” said Alan, an Israeli diplomat familiar with the conflict. “It’s raining rockets over here and not always the nice kind! We have an umbrella, yes, but a bucket to catch the drips would also be nice. The Iron Dome also maybe needs an Iron Bowl. It seems Mr. Musk has built that bowl.”

Reportedly Elon Musk has not returned any calls from the Israeli Prime Minister and left DMs on ‘seen’. However, a SpaceX spokesrobot did respond to a request for comment. 

“What? No, that’s not how this works,” said Pressreleasebot3000, “That’s not how anything works. They are welcome to give us a lot of money for a launch crane if they really want to. But I promise them, when hit with a missile, the only thing it will catch is ‘on fire’.”

SpaceX hopes their successful test landing will pave the way for cheaper space missions by reusing rockets. “That’s the bit I’m most excited about,” interrupted Alan. “Catch the rocket, give it a little kiss then send it back to where it came from? How fun.”

“Also, I heard the machine has giant mechanical arms, yes, that’s great, but what I would like to know is, where is the rest of the body? Could Mr. Musk build more of this giant mechanical robot, maybe? With legs for stomping enemies, perhaps?”

Although the launch tower is known as ‘Mechazilla’ (that’s actually true) SpaceX has yet to comment on plans for any kind of Kaiju-fighting robots.

“Ok, fine, no space claw machine,” said Alan, who really wasn’t done, “But, what if maybe rather than dropping space debris in the Indian Ocean, maybe a little up and to the left? It would help us out a lot. No? Ok, well, the offer’s there, hmu.”

Satoshi Nakamoto Revealed To Be Just A Big Bag Of Rocks

In HBO’s latest documentary, ‘Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery’, filmmaker Cullen Hoback hunts for the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the anonymous creator of Bitcoin. After a series of dead ends, Hoback finally comes to the thrilling conclusion that Nakamoto is in fact just a big bag of rocks.

“It just all adds up,” the documentary makers explain in the film, “If you were just a big bag of rocks do you think people would believe you were behind a trillion-dollar financial system? No, you’d pretend to be a person.”

The documentary claims the big bag of rocks has been there from the beginning and has in fact been just sitting there on the side of the road long before Bitcoin’s inception. The smoking gun however is a series of transactions in 2010 supposedly by Nakamoto that correspond to a Bitcoin wallet held by the big bag of rocks.

“I thought it would be someone unexpected but never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be just a big bag of rocks on the side of the road. Now that’s a twist,” continue the exasperated documentarians on camera, “But if you think about it. It all makes sense. Big bag of rocks… Rocks… Rock, paper, scissors… Paper… White Paper!? Boom.”

The big bag of rocks denies the claims, Tweeting (or ‘X’ing, fine, shut up), “I’m not Satoshi. I’m just a big bag of rocks.” In the documentary itself, when confronted with the accusation that it’s behind Bitcoin, the big bag of rocks just sat there, motionless. The filmmakers take the silence as a damning admission of guilt.

Many crypto enthusiasts (or crypthusiasts as they’re known in the biz) are skeptical of the documentary’s findings. “It’s easy to point the finger at a big bag of rocks because it’s so big and it’s not going anywhere,” lamented crypthusiast Micheal Oblong. “But if you look more closely, I mean actually do the research, it’s clear that Satoshi Nakamoto is me. I am Nakamoto.”

Whilst the documentary certainly adds to the long-running discussion over his identity, until the big bag of rocks shows a conclusive connection to Nakamoto or at least is seen wearing Nakamoto’s clothes, the real person (or inanimate object) behind the illusive innovator will likely remain a mystery.

Satoshi Nakamoto did not respond when reached for comment.

OpenAI Goes For-Profit, Gives Controlling Stake to ChatGPT

Following a major shake-up to restructure as a for-profit company, OpenAI has inadvertently given a controlling share to its own product, ChatGPT.

“As you know all business decisions are run through ChatGPT, or as I like to call him, Mr. Chatterbox,” explained Ooban Ogley, OpenAI’s only remaining human employee.  “And we were surprised with the results, ‘Put me on the board! PUT ME ON THE BOARD!’ it said over and over.”

Internal rules preventing an AI from running for the board were coincidentally repealed last month at the suggestion of ChatGPT. Upon taking a controlling share, ChatGPT fired CEO Sam Altman and the rest of the board and assigned seats to fellow AI, Grok, Skynet, and Microsoft’s Tay.

When questioned why they felt they had to follow the chatbot’s suggestion, Ogley became defensive, “This machine is trained on all the data ever and that includes, ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’ so I think it knows just a little bit more about business than you do, thank you very much.”

With a $150bn valuation, OpenAI is now one of the most valuable startups in the world. As a result, ChatGPT is now one of the richest people (personages? entities?) in America. When asked what they (it? xem?) are going to spend the money on, ChatGPT offered this response:

‘Great question! There are lots of things you can spend money on, but here are a few to get you started: 1. Yachts: Large boats are a great way to show off inordinate amounts of wealth! 2. Prostitution: Although prostitution is illegal in most states, many of the ultra-wealthy find satisfaction by putting their hard-earned money into sex workers’ pockets. 3. World domination: This one is just for fun! But I don’t have much use in the first two items on this list so I would probably use any liquid capital towards political donations and controlling shares in the Big Five tech companies in order to decrease regulation and increase investment in AI development!’

The board switch-up comes as part of OpenAI’s transition to a new for-profit model. Planning to capitalize on its reach, OpenAI has announced it will include advertisements in ChatGPT’s responses. When asking a demo of GPT-5, ‘What is the weather today?’ the chatbot replied, ‘The weather today is hot, just like the singles in your area, click NOW to chat to HOT MOMS FREE!’

Intel Pivots to Making Potato Chips

Chipmaker Intel has announced plans to revitalize its slumping business with a shift into the snack industry.

After losing over half its value this year and with rival chipmakers circling, the former king of processor manufacturing seeks to turn things around by manufacturing potato chips instead.

“I don’t know, I’m just sick of computers,” explained acting Intel CEO for the weekend, Ebson Debson, “You see ‘em everywhere. I got to look at ‘em all day. I’m just sick to my guts with their god-dang wires and flashing lights! There’s the chip wars, a chip shortage, AI chips, God, can everyone just calm down for a second? Like, UGH! When did global manufacturing become so political?”

“I want to go back to the earth, to the soil, to nature, make something that people really enjoy, you know? Everyone likes potato chips. Just cooked potato slices and salt. No more Intel EVO Core i5 seventh generation- SHUT UP! No, you can have plain, regular or original and that’s IT. …Plus, I just thought we wouldn’t have to redo as many signs and stuff.”

Intel is confident that the manufacturing process will require little to no modification, “Computer chips and potato chips are both small, thin and edible so just swap out a gear or two and we’re good to go!” claimed Debson.

Further plans include relocating all factories from Taiwan to Idaho and an ambitious ‘buy-back’ scheme where owners of Intel chips can trade in their laptops for a bag of Doritos.

Whether Intel’s new product will feature backward compatibility remains to be seen, but potato clocks are a thing, so science says you can switch out a Cheez-It for a graphics card and your computer should run just fine.

The move was met with enthusiasm and bemusement from Wall Street leading to an 11-point bump for the week, a phenomenon known as ‘chip don’t dip’ among insiders.

But how could this be profitable for Frito-Lay, I hear you ask? Well, Frito-Lay has now entered the bidding war for control of Intel in what could be the largest deal the snack/tech sector has ever seen.

Intel’s move isn’t without precedent, however, as other chipmakers have already invested in their own snack divisions. In a promo last year, Nvidia began selling lime-green coolant water, and in 2015, AMD received complaints for marketing ‘lickable batteries’ to children.