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Lol the surfer's hand! That nightmare hand!

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Whew. I thought I was the only one to whom AI sent bizarre images. Thanks, Michael! And, while I think Zeus and the Olympians popularity has waned, perhaps commercials featuring Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva might draw a crowd, or at least increase the popularity of cricket.

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“Hey honey,” I called out. “We need a rescue.” -- there's something deeply and weirdly romantic and loving about you saying this

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im gonna take flyer question #6 as my technological ignorance has just begun to figure out what QR codes are and what they may or may not portend to the future which i have always assumed was adequately foretold in a century old short story by E.M. Forrester called "The Machine Stops".

The Super Bowl Circus or even the partaking of any amount of gummys while drifting into dreamland with Apple Music library on eternal shuffle is always a legitimate alternative to scanning the QR code of our current cultural mor-"ass" which where i live seems to be sprouting spanking new Dollar Generals like mushrooms after each tumultous rain storm and not the potent ones which i assume the government is still eliminating by injecting chemicals into the cow feed......If Rihanna and utterly unfair game result did for a moment distract us from possibility there is an Alien cover-up going on i'm all all for it, i bet UFO's never seen anything like her either and will in time even appreciate the convenient if soul-crushing homogenity of Dollar Generals as well.......Even if the butter tastes faintly like dry-ice and moth balls....

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How about a horror movie where an AI is built to use genetic engineering to create humans, but the AI's humans come out with weird hands and surfboards through their hearts?

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Feb 15Liked by Michael Estrin

Thanks for the laugh. Worth every penny. Miss you guys.

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There's so much commentable stuff in here, Michael. I'm going to handle it stream of consciousness style: Your clerks love epiphany squeezed my heart. Your list of questions are the only questions there are. I dream of being the AI you outsource Situation Normal to, and OMG do I miss Alan Rickman. For me it's Sense and Sensibility Alan, but still. Your AI surfer was a reassuring hellscape. Thank you. And back to the top. Your not a robot. You're a human. You're going to fudge up and we already forgive you. And never stop with the 90s references. They keep me young. 💜

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Feb 15Liked by Michael Estrin

You are forgiven for fudging the name of your new supporter Ruth Ann, if I am the “Ruth” to whom you refer.

Anyone who provides such high-quality content on deadline gets a big pass.

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I'll go as far to say our mock ads CURE brain damage. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.

Also, I think about that Hans Gruber line -- earning twenty percent -- all the time. Recently I've concluded it must've been more realistic during the high inflation era of the eighties.

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Feb 15Liked by Michael Estrin

This is the best recap of the Super Bowl I’ve read! Laughed out loud at your list of questions 😂

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That surfer tho. AI scores another question mark...

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Feb 15Liked by Michael Estrin

It is ALWAYS time to break out the popcorn.

The more important question, however, is whom among your new paid subscribers is the best.

I vote for Ruth, “who wisely splurged on the founder subscription, which includes free rides to doctors appointments in Los Angeles County,” not because she splurged but bc your account of driving her to her doctors appt will be SO GREAT.

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Jesus is suspiciously rich to be able to afford Super Bowl ad time. Has anyone checked to make sure he's not just three tiny capitalists in a trench coat?

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Your 1-10 list had me cracking up, as well as your description of an NFL-minute. So very true, ha! My wife despises two-minute warning time because it takes forever to make it to 0:00. Throw in some timeouts, calls under review, and you’re looking at a solid ten or fifteen minutes! 🤣

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Feb 16Liked by Michael Estrin

Zeus has been in a bunch of movies and that hasn’t brought back polytheism. But, maybe a Superbowl Ad might do it.

Other possibility… Could the Mormons run an ad and be able to gain converts without having to send their kids out on missions? The cost of an ad would probably be cheaper than sending people all over the world.

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"As it turned out, Christina was using the standard NFL-minute. So for the next five minutes, I stood there barefoot, surrounded by broken glass, trying keep Mortimer from walking around by indulging his bullshit story about how some Chihuahua named Groucho Barks had robbed him of the 2012 Puppy Bowl MVP award."

Best. Graph. I've. Read. All. Day.

Michael Mohr

"Sincere American Writing"

https://michaelmohr.substack.com/

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