Vincent Szopa

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

"Grok, sort the responses to this article by wit, charm, and sophistication. Create a report summarizing the results in CSV format and print it out on the loudest line printer in a computer lab where I can pick it up and set it on fire in front of bored nerds."

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A friend writes:

I saw someone's post somewhere that talked about how their
nine-year-old and all his friends have started using "That's AI"
instead of "I don't believe you."

Mom: "We're having dinosaur meat for dinner tonight."
Kid: "That's AI."

YouTube video by Paul McCartney - Topic The Lovers That Never Were (1988 Demo)

"When all of the clocks have run down,
All over the world.
We'll be the lovers that never were."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9JB...

Grudging support for unchecked totalitarianism = total support.

New phrases dropped:

To be the what
Think outside the honest
At the end of the box
It is is it day

In fact, the tomato isn’t a New World crop, either. Tomatoes were discovered on Earth’s moon by NASA astronauts in 1969! Since then the tomato has grown in importance in many world cuisines to the extent that its introduction is assumed to be far in the past.

[add AI slop image here]

Some commentators I’m rarely impressed by are speaking out about free speech, actual free speech unconstrained or coerced by the government, and those are American values and voices I will always defend.

Time to watch Sneakers (always is). Or any of the other amazing Robert Redford performances.

A word or title that should exist:

need-a-logism
premowordition

YouTube video by WillieNelsonVEVO Willie Nelson - Rainbow Connection (Official Music Video)

I'm a sappy guy, so listening to this on Fridays is a tonic. Any version.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=deeb...

It is incredibly simple to acknowledge that violence in any form is awful and erodes society.

I’m certainly against shooting pundits and commentators, whatever their opinions. I hope people disturbed by gun violence will wake up to the need for gun control.

Baseball Stadium Walk On Tunes All Apparently Steely Dan, And Not The Hits Or Anything

Mousea - state of confusion and dismay when an on-screen cursor can’t be found even by vigorously moving a computer mouse.

The Waterhouse Stipulation
The DeBardelaben Consensus
The Big Friendly Llama And Josie's Best Summer Ever
Ornithopter! Ornithopter! A Hollowtree Canyon Adventure
The Flixborough Marginalia

#spareRobertLudlumTitles

“In the midst of AIAI, I found there AI was, within me, AI! an invincible summer of AI”
-AlbAIert CAImus

tiny yellow truck with red trim and blue bed interior. Don't know make/model

1976 Mazda Porter Cab Kei Truck in green

1969 Subaru Sambar truck in blue. the bed opens up from the side?

Tiny yellow truck with an extended cab, so it looks like a tiny van with a tiny truck bed. wonderful

small truck friends

truly baffling that a culture obsessed with machismo and swimming in semi-automatics would struggle with gun violence

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Have you seen it? Beloved part of our family!
REWARD

Hearts begin to change slowly
and then more slowly
until grief relents

YouTube video by Marcus Hedlund Katzenjammer - Flash In The Dark - Rockland (2015)

"Down through the ribbon highway I will go
Searching for a brighter spotlight a brighter sun
I am out on the open road"
-Katzenjammer

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KK7...

13 Year Old ICE Recruit Enjoys Guns, Playing Switch 2, And Arresting His Citizen Parents Repeatedly

Tired: Netflix and chill
Wired: Physical media and capybara*

*calm, quiet vibing near each other and any other animals in the area

The Onion has almost 54,000 subscribers in all 50 states and over 50 countries. This week last year, we had zero.

It’s been a Herculean task by The Onion staff, designers, and even the printing press in northwest Chicago to pull this off.

But people love it, thank god.

www.wsj.com/business/med...

Anne Sexton

Do we talk enough about the ZZ Top Extended Universe as seen through their lyrics?

"She don't like other women
She likes whips and chains
She likes cocaine and flippin' out with Great Danes
She's about all I can handle
It's too much for my brain"

BREAKING: Trump Agrees To Supply Russia With More Than 3,000 Subway Footlongs - Ukraine To Get Only 250 Jimmy John's

Have a friend, I can't really say where. Super into computers, great at electronics troubleshooting. Worth millions, cutting edge sort of guy. A pilot, traveled farther than anyone. Likes to sing and play games, can even read lips. Can't get a date, Earth women show zero interest.

SCIENCE SHOCK: Squirrels Learning Carnivorous Habits From AI

YouTube video by The Breeders - Topic Drivin' on 9 (2023 Remaster)

Summer drive around town while the sportsball team battles it out over AM radio. Somewhere above rock bottom, we can say with confidence.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLik...