Tuesday: Three Morning Takes
universal basic playstations / himbo piker survives ziwe / snl: shane, nipples, and a loser
PW Daily
Oct 13, 2026
Universal Basic PlayStations
The New York Times followed three people receiving universal basic income (through Google-backed studies) for about a year, and the results were… not surprising? One single mom relapsed after her down-on-their-luck relatives moved in, sapping some of her energy and cash. (She eventually stabilized and found a good job). Another guy with poor health from a lifetime of drug use made some modest improvements (PlayStation 4; smoothies) before sadly dying from a heart attack. A third recipient seemed to use the breathing room from the experiment to land a gig as an after-school coordinator, which is neat. Still, as the Times noted, it was unclear if UBI helped these people make truly life-changing gains. Probably because of the same reason some of them turned to drugs in the first place: people get weird, as well as kind of dumb and sketchy, when they don’t have a purpose. Any other ideas, AI billionaires?
Himbo Piker Survives Ziwe
On Sunday, Ziwe — a comedian known for baiting public figures like George Santos (love that sociopath) — interviewed Hasan Piker, pressing communism’s white chud on his queerbaiting butt-sex bits, Maoist cosplay, $2.7 million home (mortgaged, so apparently he’s not rich), and lynching comments. Throughout the interview, Hasan, called himself a “slut,” admitted to having “zero black friends,” and said he has no remorse telling an old female Vietnamese refugee to suck his dick (uh, misogyny, Hasan). Republican X accounts frame the clips as the ultimate takedown of Hasan’s LARP — one only Ziwe, a popular liberal hot girl with real influence over Dem women, could pull off. Except, apparently, no. According to Bluesky (a sad place) his appearance only bolstered support. In America, there will apparently always be money (thanks capitalism) and a ultra-retarded impressionable audience for people with hot bodies. Jk, Hasan’s chunky underneath all that SUIT, so I can’t really explain this phenomenon.
SNL: Shane, Nipples, and a Loser
As an Ivy League ketamine orgy from 2024 continues to resurrect the ghosts of #MeToo like a séance in Aziz Ansari’s basement, others are doing their part to revive other crazyyyy elements of “Woke 1” — namely, getting outraged over jokes. After Shane Gillis appeared on SNL over the weekend, using his monologue to observe that women in the gym these days are showing more ass than your local plumber, the less-successful comedic actor Dan Levy was appalled. “I’m speechless that something like that can exist on live national television,” Levy said of Gillis’s “misogynist” intro, before musing that he personally sees “more men’s nipples” at the gym than scantily-clad females — something we’re certain has nothing to do with Levy’s observational bias as a very-not-straight theater kid from Toronto. Anyways, good luck with your cancellation crusade, Dan. This totally worked out for you guys the last time you got mad about Shane on SNL.
