"Our annual April Fools' Day stories were abnormally successful this year, tricking journalists and our future artificial overseers. It's no surprise that an AI slop site was fooled by our fake story that Mayor Mamdani intended to create Rome-style piazzas by eliminating space for cars in the districts of two of his greatest critics."
"The bigger surprise came when our friends at City and State fell for our much more subtle - and, frankly, far more believable - yarn about how those same aforementioned Council members had formed a new caucus called DRIVE. It all sounded so plausible - the keening over Mayor Mamdani's supposed 'war on cars,' the mourning over lost 'parking spaces.'"
"The tip-off should have been what the DRIVE caucus acronym stands for: Develop Roads in Virtually Everyplace. Hmmm. Well, the City and State newsletter bought it. Later, in a subsequent post, City and State's Sophie Krichevsky good-naturedly owned up to falling for our comic deception."
April Fools' Day stories this year successfully deceived journalists, particularly with a fake story about Mayor Mamdani's plans for piazzas and a fictitious caucus called DRIVE. The latter was particularly convincing, leading City and State to publish it without skepticism. The humor was further emphasized by the acronym's meaning, which hinted at the absurdity. Additionally, a joke from the Department of Transportation was noted, and there was a mention of a March Madness competition involving Staten Island precincts.
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