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Bodily Autonomy Activist Clarifies She Meant One Specific Body Part
In this fictional MMG satire, “my body, my choice” comes with a remarkably specific jurisdiction—and the deltoid has apparently been annexed.
One Specific Body Part
A fictional activist discovers that bodily autonomy has terms, conditions, exclusions and, apparently, one very specific upper-arm exception.
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The newest reporting, arguments, satire and oddities across technology, money, culture, science and the stranger corners in between.
Task Force Consults the Data Before Consulting an Ecologist, in That Order, on Purpose
A fictional task force solves a bat problem, then a mosquito problem, then discovers the ecosystem had dependencies. MMG satire.
Bodily Autonomy Activist Clarifies She Meant One Specific Body Part
A fictional activist explains that “my body, my choice” has a highly specific jurisdiction. MMG satire.
Elon's Biggest Fear Is Population Collapse. He's Also Building Its Replacement.
Elon Musk warns that falling birth rates threaten civilization. Tesla is building Optimus, a machine meant to make economic output less dependent on human labor.
America's Proposed AI Manhattan Project: Beat China, Staffed by China
Washington has seriously considered a Manhattan Project-style race to AGI. One strategy paper points out the awkward staffing problem: many of the researchers America would need are Chinese nationals.
$40 Trillion. When Does the Number Actually Matter?
The national debt just hit $40 trillion. Economists disagree violently about whether that's a crisis, a manageable condition, or a number that will never actually get paid back. Here's the real debate.
The Ship That Won't Come Home
5,000 sailors. 270 days at sea. 200 without a port call. One man watched his daughter born on FaceTime. The Navy says morale is fine. Here’s what actually living on a carrier looks like — and what normal is supposed to be.
Six lanes. All of them interesting.
MMG doesn't pick a niche and grind it into dust. We go where the evidence is good and the angle isn't obvious.
Wait, what?
Space, medicine, archaeology, animals, and studies that make you put your phone down. The question this category answers is simple: wait, what? We try to answer it without making it boring.
Recent: Ozempic Is Working. That Might Be Part of the Problem. →What does this actually mean?
AI releases, robotics, cybersecurity, gadgets, and the gap between what a company announced and what a journalist independently watched. We rate the signal. We ignore the hype. Usually.
Recent: America's Proposed AI Manhattan Project: Beat China, Staffed by China →What should I do with this specific thing?
Flipping, barter, auctions, collectibles, used equipment, scrap, part-outs, deal math. The reader is holding something or considering buying it. The output is a number and a decision.
Recent: Sneaker Reselling Is Dying. Grown Men Are Now Waiting Outside Walmart for a Children's Toy. →Why is this happening to me and everyone else?
Prices, inflation, jobs, taxes, corporate failures, recalls, subscriptions, policy. The system-level stuff that shows up in your wallet without asking. We explain the mechanism. We try not to be depressing about it.
Recent: $40 Trillion. When Does the Number Actually Matter? →This did not happen. It merely feels plausible.
Fictional news about real incentives, contradictions and human behavior. Names, quotes and events are invented. The joke should be obvious; the label makes sure of it.
Recent: Task Force Consults the Data Before Consulting an Ecologist, in That Order, on Purpose →What's the non-obvious read?
Film, games, streaming, internet culture, celebrities when they're actually interesting. We don't recap. We don't rank. We find the thing everyone watched and ask what they missed.
Recent: Someone May Have GTA VI Before GTA VI →We check things before we say them.
Every claim traces to a source. Every verdict is falsifiable. When the evidence is weak, we say so. When we get something wrong, we fix it visibly. It's a low bar that turns out to be surprisingly rare.