Relevant real Microsoft patent on the IS NOT OPERATOR:

https://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2...

Why is satire so much better at predicting our dumb reality than sci-fi? This is definitely the darkest timeline.

Because rational people like to think people are rational. Rational people then go on and write their great sci fi works.

People writing satire know people are irrational. Otherwise they wouldn't be writing satire, would they?

To quote George Carlin: Take an average idiot on the street, then realize half of people are dumber than them.

GPT-3 says: In mathematics, there is a search for a satire-to-satire mapping function with the longest cycle length. These are called N-quines.

Haha wow. In another testament to the times, the length of yesterday’s satire seems as long as todays “long form”, and much more developed than todays two line satire “articles”. /end soapbox

I mean, it's not A Modest Proposal, but Onion articles are still actually article length. I know most people just read and share the headline, but they're still taking the time to do full write-ups.

Relevant SMBC comic: "Mister President! India is suing for half of our data!" https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-08-29

Perhaps this issue came about because Google's AI read this article.

From 1998 no less!