Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

Outstanding micro from @andrewcareaga here!

How frustrating! I’d call her out on it in front of others. “Did you meant to do X” or “Are you trying to make me feel Y” and accompany it with your best innocent smile. If it’s intentional, she’ll know you’re onto her. If it’s not, it’ll put others on alert and they can start correcting her, too. Then again, there’s probably a reason I’m excluded from social circles run by mavens. 🤣

Feels like I interrupted something here.

I have a one-on-one with them and if that doesn’t help then I make sure I’m busy whenever they’re part of the group.

We need a word to describe the rage and nausea of looking at the latest issues of lit mags that rejected your work only to find they ran several stories clearly written by AI despite their no AI policy. At least I’m saving money with yet another canceled subscription.

Imagine if this had been a Democrat’s child. Wouldn’t even need to be Hunter Biden at the height of his struggles. Chelsea Clinton, Sasha or Malia Obama, Amy Carter? We’d never hear the end of it.

Basically the dumping ground for pre-2018 text books.

Well damn. I’d been choosing the boiled eggs thinking they were the option least likely to be riddled with preservatives. Will you be ruining Greek yogurt for me next?

Meta should be required to disclose every single IP address it uses to access other sites for any reason, from anywhere, so site owners can block them. If they refuse to divulge that info, then slap them with IP theft, RICO wire fraud, and criminal trespass.

2026 in a photo.

I went through this very thing with someone recently and had been trying to put it into words. Seeing your post today after @Suzzicks responded brought it together. It’s such a weird thing to experience, and every interaction makes it worse.

Yes! Sometimes it feels like they have a completely wrong version of you in their mind, but that’s the one they’re reacting to and nothing you do will fix it.

President Trump is a walking poster child for dementia. Half the nation diagnosed him years ago. Maybe your brain worm makes this difficult to understand, but you’ll have plenty of time to think about it in jail.

It is, and it’s sad watching them struggle then flinch from the truth. “The horror! The horror!”

We don’t talk enough about how introspection is like muscle: if you don’t get in the habit of using it, you’ll get old, and it’ll be too late. I see so many people my age and older who wandered through life never thinking about how they were impacting others. Now they’re alone and depressed because no one wants to be around them, and they don’t understand how their recklessness toward others’ feelings has led to that. Introspection: use it or lose it.

Always feels like it just invites angry comments from other people there, too.

From a KU student: “I started using ChatGPT in my head…” People, we are doomed.

I didn’t even realize there’s an urgent vet in OP! You’re so right about Blue Pearl. Great place but I nearly needed the ER myself after the bill.

All while being told not to eat, drink, smoke, snort, or screw whatever and don’t forget to tip 25%.