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249: Skepticrat249 - AI Alternative Artifacts Edition

The Skepticrat

Puzzle in a Thunderstorm, LLC

Government, News, Politics

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode: Make America Healthy Again starts to sound an awful lot like the great reset ... We start wondering why there isn’t a Pulitzer for “best press conference question” ... And X hits a person like a Tesla on autopilot.

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Headline Sources:

MAHA report is full of enormous amounts of nonsense: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition/maha-report-mostly-data-vibes
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/30/maha-report-ai-white-house/

Harvard wins initial court fight to keep its international students: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/harvard-international-students-trumps.html

A hidden measure in the big beautiful bill would crown Trump king: 
https://www.justsecurity.org/113529/terrible-idea-contempt-court/

Donald Trump learns about TACO trade: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-lashes-viral-taco-trade-meme-stand/story?id=122323324

Elon leaves the White House with a bunch of lies: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/fact-check-elon-musk-trump.html

Elon Musk got punched in the face by a 5-year-old: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/elon-musk-black-eye.html

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:24.4

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0:26.8

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0:32.6

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0:34.5

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0:39.2

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0:44.9

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1:12.7

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1:20.3

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These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

1:27.7

This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

1:42.5

It's Monday.

1:44.2

It's June 2nd.

1:45.4

And the word of the day is grok, which means to stare at someone who's eating with the hope they'll offer you some food.

1:53.0

Use in a sentence, golden retrievers are batting 1,000 against me when they grok me.

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