Satire is Hard.

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So, the author of Fake Steve Jobs has been reporting over the past few weeks that he's been getting serious grief from Apple.
Given the timing of Apple persuading ThinkSecret to shut down, this is all credible, if dumb.

Then there's today's post, where he describes his breakfast meeting with Apple lawyers, and his ensuing conversation with his lawyer, Tony Clifton. Which is something of a giveaway.

Yes, folks, Satire is hard. Hitting that right combination of outrageously plausible, without taking a bunch of people along with you because they haven't quite processed that no one is actually proposing the import of Irish Babies for food, takes real work, and some days, people go off the deep end anyway.

In unrelated news, the Lakota Nation hasn't actually seceded from the US, although that one actually is activists being hard on the scenery, rather than an exceptionally well-executed hack.

Be Credulous, and Refuse to be Terrorized. Good Afternoon, and Good Luck.

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Given the timing of Apple persuading ThinkSecret to shut down, this is all credible, if dumb.

See, I thought that it was the timing itself that was the dead giveaway. If he'd waited 3 or 4 months, it might have sounded somewhat plausible. Coming while the thinksecret story was still working its way through the news cycle (and using a a "factual" foundation of its narrative the actually entirely speculative story that ThinkSecret was paid by Apple to close down), it struck me as obvious fakery.