This week, iPhone users flagged an unusual bug with Apple’s voice-to-text feature: as shown in a few viral TikTok videos, saying the word “racist” prompted phones to temporarily write out “Trump” before quickly switching back — an error that, according to an Apple spokeswoman, was the result of “a phonetic overlap between the two words” (??). Shockingly, many weren’t buying the ‘Trump just rhymes with racist, silly’ excuse. In fact, one former member of Apple’s Siri team speculated aloud to the New York Times: “This smells like a serious prank.” Yes, former Siri engineer, it sure does. In other news, Apple’s shareholders recently rejected a proposal to scrap the company’s DEI program, even as Meta/Alphabet/most other major tech companies have abandoned theirs. Coincidence? It’s a time for choosing, Apple: are you here for the vibe shift, or do you want to continue with your Trump… Trump… (*turns off voice-to-text*) racist hiring practices?

AstraZeneca announced this week that its new breast cancer pill “helped patients live longer without their disease worsening.” Analysts expect the drug to generate $1.5 billion annually by 2030, eventually peaking at $5 billion per year. Note that the phrase quoted above means “patients live longer before their cancer gets worse,” not that “cancer patients’ lives are longer,” a claim AstraZeneca admits it can’t even make (yet). So these people are going to make billions off something that might delay your cancer-related death — is this really the best we can do?? I have a supercomputer in my pocket equipped with $20/month AI brains that make me look like a drooling imbecile, and we are maybe slowing down a disease that we’ve been fighting for millennia?? Controversial, perhaps, but if Big Pharma wants to shed accusations of intentionally slow-walking cures, they should stop treating people’s suffering like a subscription business.

Yesterday, WIRED debuted an investigation that shocked the world: criminals are using the internet, and it’s all Elon’s fault. (Kara Swisher reposted it, naturally.) Apparently, a compound for enslaved internet scammers (dark) along the Myanmar-Thailand border is using Starlink to get online. There are “at least eight scam compounds” in the region, said a local official, and “if we can target which compound uses Starlink and collaborate with SpaceX, we can stop the compound.” Yes, brilliant. Also, why hasn’t SpaceX deployed an AC-130 Gunship to take out the electricity powering the criminals' lightbulbs? Why isn’t Musk personally rappelling into the compound with Tim Cook to repo their iPhones? Or, on second thought (hear me out), instead of blaming Rocket Man whenever people use his (incredible, ngl) inventions illegally, maybe authorities who know exactly where criminals are committing crimes should simply do something about it.

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