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A Modern Kind of Mad

A publication of The Trying TimesFirst edition · October 2026Price: Your last nerve
“Common sense isn’t common anymore.”   |   “Satire is the last refuge of the sane.”   |   “Truth: Now considered controversial.”
The Automated Office · Satire

AI Resume Screener Disqualifies Human for Having Actual Work Experience

An AI interviewer questions a job seeker about a résumé gap beneath a sign claiming AI has not taken any jobs.

The company spent $80,000 on software to eliminate human error, and it successfully eliminated every living human.

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Everyday Hostage Situations · Satire

Local Diner Replaces Laminated Paper Menu With 45-Minute Software Update

A local breakfast joint threw away their $0.50 wipe-clean plastic menus to save paper. Customers must now point a camera at a tiny square barcode, download an 80MB app on one bar of cell service, agree to sixteen pages of digital tracking, and create an account just to find out how much a short stack of pancakes costs.

You didn't come here to manage an enterprise IT project. You came here for two eggs over easy. Now you are trapped in an authentication loop while your coffee goes stone cold.

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From the news desk

Meeting Called to Discuss Why Nobody Has Time to Get Any Actual Work Done

The quickest way to solve a lack of productive time is to gather everyone together and burn another two hours talking about it.

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AI Customer Service, Still Not Helping
AI Customer Service, Still Not Helping.
Escaping the Information Silo
Escaping the Information Silo.
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The Broadside brings the facts. The Bull Sheet brings the familiar absurdity dressed up as news.

Fifty dispatches from the front lines of modern convenience.

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