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Today’s Snark Factor 3 in 3 starts where it always seems to start lately:The government didn’t shut down — this time.
According to Scripps News, Senate Democrats and the White House reached yet another last-minute deal to keep most of the government funded, while Homeland Security gets short-term money so everyone can keep arguing about immigration later. Officially, it’s compromise. Unofficially, it’s duct tape and a reminder set for “soon.”
From there, we jump to the future — or at least the version of it that’s already asking for our passwords. Quartz reports that AI “agents,” designed to act on our behalf and manage tasks, come with real security risks. They can be manipulated. They can leak data. They can do things nobody asked them to do. Which is unsettling, because we’re already treating them like coworkers.
And finally, balance.According to the New York Post, inspired by Sex and the City, women in New York are throwing elaborate blowout parties for their 32nd birthdays — because that’s when Carrie Bradshaw supposedly had it all figured out. Cosmos. Outfits. Dinner reservations that require emotional support.
Put it all together and you get a world held together by extensions, supervision, and the quiet realization that nobody actually knows what they’re doing — in Congress, in code, or at 32.
Three stories.Three minutes.
This is the Snark Factor 3 in 3.I’m Fingers Malloy.Let’s talk Monday.
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