impossible probably, but even if we did, they would just hack back in and they'd find another way in. So you need some way to wipe all of your software every now and then, every bit of it. And I think that'll become an industry.

Here's the funniest thing that's happened lately. If you don't follow this Twitter account you really should. It's a parody account and the name on the account is Titania McGrath. And there's a little photo of a youngish blonde woman with sort of glasses like mine. And what's brilliant about it, besides the fact that it's brilliantly written, is that it's a parody account that is so close to reality people are often fooled, which is part of the joke. So a lot of people who see this account for the first time really can't tell. And something happened, a thread that Titania or whoever runs the account tweeted that just is amazing. And here's why. I've been telling you for a while that parody and reality have merged such that there's not really that much difference between a wild parody and what you're actually observing. You want to see an example of that? Titania in her thread gives you several examples of predictions that she or whoever runs the account made that were pure parody that have already happened. In other words, the parody came before the reality. But listen to this list. It's freaking mind-blowing. All right, you ready?

So these are the claims in Titania's thread. She said on December 2018 I called for biological sex to be removed from birth certificates. Now that was parody. We're gonna take your biological sex off of your birth certificate, said that in 2018. In 2020 the New England Journal of Medicine concurred. So the New England Journal of Medicine is now recommending in 2020 what Titania said as purely a joke in 2018. Purely a joke. Is that the only one? Well, I mean if this had only happened once, if it only happened once you'd say, oh that's a funny coincidence, right? If it only happened once.

So on and also in 2018 Titania criticized Julie Andrews who played Mary Poppins in the movie for having chimney soot on her face because you know that was in the middle of the blackface stuff. So as purely a joke she tweeted that and criticized Julie Andrews for having chimney smoke on her face in the movie. That was in 2018. In 2019 the New York Times concurred. So the New York Times basically took on Julie Andrews for having soot on her face and blackface. It was literally a joke two years before it became real. Is that the only ones? Oh no, I'm not even close to being done.

So the thing that's funny is not the individual examples because they're sort of trivial. What's funny is how often it happened. It's the often part that makes the joke. All right, here's another one. March 2019 Titania published a book called Woke in which I argue that skyscrapers are oppressive phallic symbols. In July 2020 the Guardian concurred. So in 2019 literally joking the skyscrapers are some oppressive phallic symbols and then the Guardian writes a serious article one year later saying exactly that.

In that same book in 2019, here's the finisher. She called out Helen Keller for her white privilege. Time Magazine just did that in reality. Now this is just a sample. The actual thread is longer. I just picked out some of the fun ones. But when you see how many times parody and reality overlapped it's, it changes you. I mean this is one of those things where, you know, I've predicted this. I predicted it often and in public that parody and reality were on the way to merging and then to watch it in real time, it actually merged.

Did that sound like a real prediction when I said it the first time you heard me say parody and reality are merging? That didn't sound exactly technically real, right? It sounded more like humorous hyperbole. No, I meant it and it happened. So there you go.

All right, speaking of predictions, one of my other predictions is that history would get complicated because we would no longer have one of them. We would have more than one history. And then if you went to school it might be a problem because you're trying to learn history and there are two of them and they're different. Which one do you believe? Did you think that that was going to happen? My prediction that there would be two histories. Well here we are.

President Trump he unveiled his choices for the president's advisory 1776 commission. So this will be a commission to make recommendations about how to push against the 1619 Project that is already in schools. So the president has literally created a commission to create an alternate history to compete with the history that's already being taught in the schools.