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Kathrine switzer was the first woman to run the boston marathon as an offial compartitor, Despite a race officer trying to Physically stop her. SINCE THAT DAY IN 1967, she has dedicated her life to the Other Women Experiencing The Same Feeling of Empowerment from Running, Regardless of their Age or Ability.

In the run-up to the breed, switzer, at the time a 20 -ear-op Journalism Student at Syracuse University, trained with her college of cross-seam for a year (it was against rules for a Woman to comport in the sport). She is alloch with the Men on the Team, so the Assistant Coach, Arnie Briggs, Began Training with Her Separately As he recovered from a kee injury.

“We got Better and Stronger,” Switzer Told Business Insider. “We got up to five miles and then seven and then 11. The guys on the cross country team wouldn’t come out with us after 20 kilometers, but thats I could have kept with gecause they did the endurce i had.”

On their Runs, Switzer and Briggs Discussed Marathons – Briggs Had Run the Boston Marathon 15 Times But Didn’t Believe That A Woman Could Run That Far.

“Butn and Said, ‘Look, if any woman could, i would Believe it was you. I said, ‘hot damn, you’re on,’ “switzer said.

They did a trial marathon and ended up running an extra five miles at the end Because switzer suspect the count was short than the required 26.2 miles and still had energy.

She and Briggs Paid the $ 2 Entry Fee and Signed up for the 1967 Boston Marathon. (The Entry Fee was $ 250 for the 2025 breed.)

About two miles into the breed, things Went Awry.

The breed manager Pulled up in a bus and ran after switzer. “He grabbed with by the shoulders and threw with back. He tried to pull off my number bib and screen, ‘get the hell out of my breed and give me thumbers,’” She Said.

When the Official Grabbed Switzer by the Shirt, Her Boyfriend at the Time, who was training to compete in hammer throw at the Olympics, Charged at Him and Sent Him Flying off to the Side of the Road, she Said.

Nor she kept running, the press hounded het, nansing if she was a suffragette and what she was trying to test.

“I wasn’t trying to prove anyding, I was just trying to run,” She Said. “But they stayed with me a long time and really hassled me, nansing me, ‘we are are you going to quit?’ Finally, i said, ‘i’m going to finish this breed on my hands and my knees if i have to.’ ‘

She did Finish (and Stayed Uprive).

She Said She Felt Empowered, and in 1972 Organized the First Women-Only Road race, which was 10-kilometer-long, and lobbied for the inclusion of a women’s marathon in the Olympics, which eventually happy in 1984.

IN 2024, She Worked With Every Woman’s Marathon To Hold a Women’s-Only Marathon, Which Had 7,000 Participants.

Now 78, Switzer Still Runs Six Times a Week, Including One Day Where She Focuses on 800-Meter Sprint and a Day for a Longer Run that at Least 1.5 Hours. She ramps up her training when she’s approaching a marathon.

Switzer set her personal best at the 1975 boston marathon with a time of Two Hours and Fifty-One Minutes. It is now four to five hours, but it is isn’t about the time, she said. She’s happy that she can run a marathon alongside other women, of every age, Size, ethnicity, and religion, thanks to her efforts and those of other who paved the way.

“I Believe You Can Start a Fitness Program at any Age,” She Said, Giving the Example of A Woman She Knows Who Took Up Running at 72 and Ran Her first Marathon at 81.

Switzer Shared Her Tips for Getting Fit, Whether You Can Run for One Minute or Three Hours.

Start Slow, but be consistent

“CONSISTENCY ISE EVERYING. You just need to keep running every day and budild it up,” She Said.

She starts by running a mile a day around her Garden at age 12 and gradually increasing the number of pencil over time. But it wasn’t easy, she said.

“I Struggled Through That Summer, Running that Mile Every Single Day. Pretty Soon, this Amazing Sens of Empowerment Came Over Me,” She Said. “For some People, this process is going to be faste; for other people, it’s going to be slower.”

Have a goal

Having a goal provides Focus and Will Motivate You to “Put the Work in,” Switzer Said.

Her motivation was to prove briggs work and show that that women cououl Run marathons, but your goal doesn’t have to be as big, she said.

“There’s Going to Be Plenrenty of the Days you don’t want to go out,” She Said.

She still has days when she doesn’t want to run after almost 60 years of doing the sport. But has Having to Aim for Means You’re Less Likely to Skip A Workout.

Accountability is Key

Switzer’s Final Tip is to Find a Way to Hold Your Sesels Accountable. You coulud get a training partner or kep a diary of your workouts, she said.

“People Should Write their World Down Every Day Because You Write It Down, It Keeps You Honest,” She Said.

“But a buddy is really a nice thing to have.

“And for a lot of Women, safety is a really Big Factor. So Run with Other Women – It Also Creates a Really Good Community.”

Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden and Nashville Guitarist William Tyler Have Announched A New Collaborative Album. Out September 19 via Temporary Residence Ltd.The Seven-Track 41 Longfield Street Late ’80s is LED by an 11-minute cover of Lyle Lovett’s “If i haad a boat. ” Listen to it below.

Both Hebden and Tyler Shared Statements About the Album. In his, Hebden Wrote: “We discussed references for an album and Godspeed you! Black emperor, fennesz, and am Oldies radio stations came.

“I think we have bot in the specific wayys want to recontextualize a tear of Music that we greed up with, regardless of the genre, and I think that this is album reflects. It ‘s lot of nostalgia, but it is also very forward focused.” Tyler Added. “I want to know what genre i’m supposed to be in at this point, but i trust kieran, and i love what we’ve done together.

Hebden and Tyler Previously Collaborated, in 2023, on “Darkness, Darkness” and “No Services.” As Four Tet, Hebden Most Recently Releassed The Album Thre.

Read About William Tyler’s New Album, Time Indefinitein “The Best Music of 2025 SO Far.”

Kieran Hebden & William Tyler: 41 Longfield Street Late ’80s

41 Longfield Street Late ’80s:

01 IF I HAD A BOAT
02 Spider Ballad
03 I Want an Antenna
04 when it rains
05 Timber
06 Loretta Guides My Hands Through the Radio
07 Secret City

Illustration: Zohar Lazar

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Slop started seeping into Neil Clarke’s life in late 2022. Something strange was happening at Clarkesworld, the magazine Clarke had founded in 2006 and built into a pillar of the world of speculative fiction. Submissions were increasing rapidly, but “there was something off about them,” he told me recently. He summarized a typical example: “Usually, it begins with the phrase ‘In the year 2250-something’ and then it goes on to say the Earth’s environment is in collapse and there are only three scientists who can save us. Then it describes them in great detail, each one with its own paragraph. And then — they’ve solved it! You know, it skips a major plot element, and the final scene is a celebration out of the ending of Star Wars.” Clarke said he had received “dozens of this story in various incarnations.”

These are prime examples of what is now known as slop: a term of art, akin to spam, for low-rent, scammy garbage generated by artificial intelligence and increasingly prevalent across the internet — and beyond. From their weird narrative instincts and inert prose, Clarke realized the stories came straight from ChatGPT. Sometimes they would arrive with the original prompt included, which was often as simple as “Write a 1,000-word science-fiction story.”

It was relatively easy to identify an AI-generated submission, but that required reading thousands (a “wall of noise”) and manually sorting them. Clarke compared the problem to turning off the spam filter and trying to read your email: “Okay, now multiply that by ten because that’s the ratio that we were getting.” Within weeks, the problem became unmanageable. “We had reached the point where we were on track to receive as many generated submissions as legitimate ones,” Clarke told me. Eventually, on February 20, he made the decision to close submissions temporarily. Clarkesworld had become one of the first victims of AI slop.

In the nearly two years since, a rising tide of slop has begun to swamp most of what we think of as the internet, overrunning the biggest platforms with cheap fakes and drivel, seeming to crowd out human creativity and intentionality with weird AI crap. On Facebook, enigmatic pages post disturbing images of maimed children and alien Jesuses; on Twitter, bots cluster by the thousands, chipperly and supportively tweeting incoherent banalities at one another; on Spotify, networks of eerily similar and wholly imaginary country and electronic artists glut playlists with bizarre and lifeless songs; on Kindle, shoddy books with stilted, error-ridden titles (The Spellbound Quest: Students Perilous Journey to Correct Their Mistake) are advertised on idle lock screens with blandly uncanny illustrations.

If it were all just a slightly more efficient form of spam, distracting and deceiving Facebook-addled grandparents, that would be one thing. But the slop tide threatens some of the key functions of the web, clogging search results with nonsense, overwhelming small institutions like Clarkesworld, and generally polluting the already fragile information ecosystem of the internet. Last week, Robyn Speer, the creator of WordFreq, a database that tracks word frequency online, announced that she would no longer be updating it owing to the torrent of slop. “I don’t think anyone has reliable information about post-2021 language usage by humans,” Speer wrote. There is a fear that as slop takes over, the large language models, or LLMs, that train on internet text will “collapse” into ineffectiveness — garbage in, garbage out. But even this horror story is a kind of wishful thinking: Recent research suggests that as long as an LLM’s training corpus contains at least 10 percent non-synthetic — that is, human — output, it can continue producing slop forever.

Worse than the havoc it wreaks on the internet, slop easily escapes the confines of the computer and enters off-screen systems in exasperating, troubling, and dangerous ways. In June, researchers published a study that concluded that one-tenth of the academic papers they examined “were processed with LLMs,” calling into question not just those individual papers but whole networks of citation and reference on which scientific knowledge relies. Derek Sullivan, a cataloguer at a public-library system in Pennsylvania, told me that AI-generated books had begun to cross his desk regularly. Though he first noticed the problem thanks to a recipe book by a nonexistent author that featured “a meal plan that told you to eat straight marinara sauce for lunch,” the slop books he sees often cover highly consequential subjects like living with fibromyalgia or raising children with ADHD. In the worst version of the slop future, your overwhelmed and underfunded local library is half-filled with these unchecked, unreviewed, unedited AI-generated artifacts, dispensing hallucinated facts and inhuman advice and distinguishable from their human-authored competition only through ceaseless effort.

Clarkesworld was, luckily, only temporarily disabled by the slop deluge; over the course of March 2023, with the help of volunteers, Clarke built a “very rudimentary spam filter,” and by the end of the month the magazine was able to reopen submissions. Clarke doesn’t like to describe how the filter works for fear of giving too much away to the spammers, but “it’s holding things at bay,” he said. Still, “it’s clear that business as usual won’t be sustainable,” he wrote in a blog post describing the problem. “If the field can’t find a way to address this situation, things will begin to break.”

Illustration: Zohar Lazar

The information superhighway”: That’s what the internet was supposed to be. And while it’s hard to regard the internet we have now as a wholly beneficent advance in collective wisdom — the commercial opportunities afforded by connecting billions of people sit uncomfortably with the civic aspirations of some of the web’s pioneers — it’s hard to deny that an information superhighway, with some tolls and billboards and potholes, is more or less what we’ve got. It’s still the first place most of us go to answer questions, to find out what’s happening, and to learn new things.

Since the arrival of widespread consumer-grade generative AI, these tasks have become progressively more difficult. Answering questions via Google now requires contending with AI-authored “Overview” modules at the top of some search pages, which offer incorrect summaries — “None of Africa’s 54 recognized countries start with the letter ‘K,’” one Overview claimed — just often enough to render them untrustworthy. Attempting to read news online is now fraught with the possibility that you’re consuming unedited AI-generated tattle: CNET, BuzzFeed, USA Today, and Sports Illustrated have published stilted and often incorrect AI-generated articles or used phony images and biographies for “authors.”

Imagine you are going foraging and want to download to your Kindle a guide to distinguish between edible and toxic mushrooms. If you look on Amazon, you’ll turn up some obviously legitimate books. But early on in the search results, you’ll find some seemingly AI-generated guides as well — for example, Forager’s Harvest 101: A Comprehensive Guide to Identifying, Preserving, and Preparing Wild Edible Plants, Mushrooms, Berries, and Fruits, by “Diane Wells.” Elan Trybuch, the secretary of the New York Mycological Society, recently wrote a blog post warning mushroom foragers about these dangerously inadequate guides: It’s possible that Forager’s Harvest 101 is fully accurate and safe to use, but it’s almost certainly unreviewed and unchecked and “written” by an AI that, as Trybuch described the technology, “does not know the subtle differences between a mushroom that is poisonous … vs one that is not.”

It’s not particularly easy to tell the difference between the AI-generated guides and those written by experts. Forager’s Harvest 101 has an intelligibly (if cheaply) designed cover and legible (if smooth and voiceless) prose as well as an author biography featuring a photo of a smiling middle-aged woman. Is this a completely AI-generated object, a self-published pamphlet, or a book from a publishing house that recently slashed its marketing and editing budgets? Indeed, I feel comfortable saying it’s AI-generated only because a watermark on Diane’s author photo credits it to the AI that powers the fake-portrait website ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com.

Experiences like this — staring at a collection of books written by AI with computer-generated author photos and dozens of reviews written and posted by bots — have become for many people evidence for the “dead-internet theory,” the only slightly tongue-in-cheek idea, inspired by the increasing amount of fake, suspicious, and just plain weird content, that humans are a tiny minority online and the bulk of the internet is made by and for AI bots, creating bot content for bot followers, who comment and argue with other bots. The rise of slop has, appropriately, the shape of a good science-fiction yarn: a mysterious wave of noise emerging from nowhere, an alien invasion of semi-coherent computers babbling in humanlike voices from some vast electronic beyond.

But the idea that AI has quietly crowded out humans is not exactly right. Slop requires human intervention or it wouldn’t exist. Beneath the strange and alienating flood of machine-generated content slop, behind the nonhuman fable of dead-internet theory, is something resolutely, distinctly human: a thriving, global gray-market economy of spammers and entrepreneurs, searching out and selling get-rich-quick schemes and arbitrage opportunities, supercharged by generative AI.

We know that the original source of these things was side-hustle scams,” Clarke told me. “People waving a bunch of money on YouTube or TikTok videos and saying, ‘Oh, you can make money with ChatGPT by doing this.’” Clarke could even trace spikes in submissions to specific videos: It’s not some burgeoning artificial super-intelligence or even a particularly sophisticated crew of scammers that has waylaid Clarkesworld; rather, it’s the audiences of influencers like Hanna Getachew, an accountant and technology-procurement manager who runs an Amharic-language YouTube account dedicated to “teaching side hustles and online jobs” — and who recently posted a video called “Get Paid With Clarkes World Magazine.” (Clarkesworld pays 12 cents per word for submissions of 1,000 to 22,000 words. Getachew claims viewers can “earn between $250 and $2,460.”)

The economics involved are simple. On one end, the demand: the effectively infinite, indiscriminate appetite for content of websites like Facebook and TikTok, which need enticements for users and real estate for advertisers. On the other, the supply: the astonishingly adequate, inexhaustible output of generative-AI apps like ChatGPT, Midjourney, or Microsoft’s Image Creator, heavily subsidized by investors and provided to consumers at low or no cost.

Billions of dollars are flowing among the many companies on either side of this dynamic, and the question for any would-be AI hustler is how to get in the middle, find an angle, and take a cut. The simplest, most straightforward option is to be a “slopper”: someone who generates content at scale using AI and manipulates or leverages a platform to make money from it. Sloppers may try to sell their content directly to people on a major marketplace — by, say, automating the production of recipe books to sell to unsuspecting (and maybe undiscriminating) customers on Amazon. Or they may build a website filled with articles generated by an LLM, festoon them with advertisements, and try to get them highly ranked on Google News. Maybe, and most straightforwardly of all, many simply vie for direct payments from platforms for AI-generated text, images, and videos: Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter all offer bonus payments for “engaging” content. (In a sense, so does Spotify, though we call those payments “royalties.”)

Take, as a case study in the slop economy, Facebook. Since the beginning of this year, obviously AI-generated images from anonymously administered pages have become inescapable. What began as riffs on already viral images have evolved into bizarre, sui generis dreamscapes through which inexplicable and unrelated themes and topics emerge: multiheaded, enormously breasted “farmer girls”; stewardesses wading in muddy rivers; amputee beggars carrying signs reading TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY. One of the most famous of these images is “Shrimp Jesus,” a statuelike Jesus figure bobbing just underwater, his limbs and torso made entirely of the bristling chitinous bodies of shrimp. For the majority of these pages, there is no obvious scam at play, no ads or external links — no business model at all, just eerily contextless pages publishing demented nonsense into a void.

Where were these images coming from? The answer, at least in part, is a guy in Kenya named Stephen Mwangi. (At least, I think that’s his name and where he lives.) Stevo, as he introduced himself to me over WhatsApp, is the moderator of five YouTube channels and “about 170 Facebook pages” that deal heavily in AI-generated images, the largest of which has 4 million followers. He agreed to show me his methods, for a price. “If you need my information pay me,” he wrote. “No free information.” For a total of $105, I enrolled in a crash course in becoming a slopper.

His process for creating posts, he told me, is pretty simple and AI intensive: “I use ChatGPT to ask for the best images that can generate a lot of popularity and engagement on Facebook,” focusing on topics like the Bible, God, the U.S. Army, wildlife, and Manchester United. “WRITE ME 10 PROMPT picture OF JESUS WHICH WILLING BRING HIGH ENGAGEMENT ON FACEBOOK,” read the ChatGPT prompt in one screenshot he shared with me. You then take the prompts to the image-generation programs Leonardo.ai and Midjourney. Voilà: slop.

These pages make money through Facebook’s Performance bonus program, which, per the social network’s description, “gives creators the opportunity to earn money” based on “the amount of reach, reactions, shares and comments” on their posts. It is, in effect, a slop subsidy. The AI images produced on Stevo’s pages — rococo pictures of Jesus; muscular police officers standing on the beach holding large Bibles; grotesquely armored gargantuan helicopters — are neither scams nor enticements nor even, as far as Facebook is concerned, junk. They are precisely what the company wants: highly engaging content.

On a website like Facebook, the more strikingly weird an image is, the more likely it is to attract attention and engagement; the more attention and engagement, the more Facebook’s sorting mechanisms will promote and recirculate the image. Another AI content creator, a French financial auditor named Charles who makes bizarre pictorial stories about cats for TikTok, told me he always makes his content “a bit WTF” as “a way to make the content more viral, or at least to maximize the chances of it becoming viral.” Or as Stevo put it, “You add some exaggeration to make it engagementing.”

Stevo, who insisted he doesn’t “use bots” to juice his follower numbers or “pay for engagement,” shared a screenshot that showed a $500 “bonus earnings” payout for activity from mid-May to mid-June this year. (Minimum wage in Kenya ranges from about $120 to $270 a month.) It’s not really passive income, either. He said he spends about six hours a day administering his Facebook pages, but he works at the mercy of the website’s opaque moderation and decision-making processes. When I spoke with him, “God Lovers” had been placed under some kind of restrictions and wasn’t earning him money. He wasn’t sure what the problem was, but it wasn’t that the images were fake. “I have other pages which have over 100,000 followers which use AI images,” he said. Facebook doesn’t reveal how it calculates the value of the bonuses, and only creators in certain countries — the U.S., the U.K., and India among them — are eligible for the bonus program, which helps explain why, several times during our interview, Stephen insisted he was actually a British cybersecurity student named Jacob.

There’s a Stephen (and often a “Jacob”) behind all of this slop: an actual person uploading, say, identical Viking “novels” with seemingly AI-generated covers, all called Wrath of the Northmen: A Gripping Viking Tale of Revenge and Honor (that one has been published variously by authors named Sula Urbant, Sula Urbanz, and Sula Urbanr). The sloppers gather on message boards and chat apps and social media to swap tips and tricks. On Facebook, a 130,000-member group of Vietnamese sloppers called “Twitter Academy — Make Money on X” discusses methods of prompting ChatGPT to write X threads: “You are a Twitter influencer with a large following. You have a Funny tone of voice. You have a Creative writing style. Do not self-reference. Do not explain what you are doing.”

There are also hundreds of thousands of videos across the internet giving detailed instructions similar to the ones Stephen gave me. Jason Koebler, co-founder of 404 Media, an independent tech-news collective that acts as the publication of record for the world of slop, watched dozens of Hindi-language slop seminars on YouTube, many of them offering example prompts: “american soldier veteran holding cardboard sign that says ‘today’s my birthday, please like’ injured in battle veteran war american flag,” “A old American women is making forest lion out of cauliflower and her neighbors looking at it. keep it detailed.”

The creators of these kinds of seminars, equipped with the “sell shovels in a gold rush” playbook, often have a more reliable income than the sloppers themselves. They sell lesson plans and memberships to private Discord and Telegram chat rooms and act as middlemen who help set up U.S.-based accounts for international sloppers. If sloppers are the manufacturing sector of the slop economy, these gurus, vouchers, and toolmakers represent the service sector.

This ecosystem is not new. Influencers have been hawking platform-dependent “internet marketing” schemes for decades. What has changed is the level of work and investment involved. For a while now, it has been common for entrepreneurs to outsource the actual production of content: “I have two people in the Philippines who post for me,” one American Facebook-page operator told The New York Times Magazine in 2016. But when you’ve got an automated post-creating machine, who needs two people in the Philippines? For that matter, given the sophistication of the AI, why would the Filipinos need an American?

There’s no definitive way to tell how much slop has already been produced in the few short years generative-AI apps have been widely available, but there are ways to get a glimpse. Guillaume Cabanac, a professor of computer science at Université Toulouse III–Paul Sabatier, has spent the past several years attempting to ferret out instances of fraud, plagiarism, and the use of computer-generated text in major scientific journals. One of his methods is to focus on what he calls “smoking guns” — phrases that show unambiguously the use of an AI text generator like ChatGPT. One of these is “regenerate response,” which appears at the end of ChatGPT’s answers. “The persons did all that copy-paste and didn’t even care to remove” the telltale phrase, Cabanac said. Others are “as an AI language model,” “as of my knowledge cutoff,” and “I cannot fulfill that request,” phrases that ChatGPT and other chatbots use frequently.

Cabanac has found almost 100 cases of obviously AI-generated scientific papers, which he called “only the tiny tip of the iceberg.” A recent study by the librarian Andrew Gray used words that appear disproportionately often in text generated by ChatGPT — among them commendable, intricate, and meticulously — to estimate that 60,000 scholarly papers were at least partially generated by AI in 2023.

You can do your own versions of these experiments at home. Searching “as of my knowledge cutoff” or “as an AI language model” in Google Books turns up hundreds of AI-generated “books” with titles like Hollywood’s 100 Leading Actors and Summary If the Woman in Me: A Guide to Britney Spears Memoir. On Amazon, a quick search found a listing for some (presumably real) underwear with the description “As of My Knowledge Cutoff in Early 2023, Providing Specific Purchasing Options for ‘Women’s Stylish Sexy Casual Independence Day Printed Panties’ Would Be My Capabilities As I Cannot Browse or Access Live Data From the Internet, Including Current Inventory From or Private Sellers.”

Twitter — Elon Musk’s X — may be the most fruitful platform for this kind of search thanks to its sub-competent moderation services. In January, Chris Mohney, a writer and an editor, spotted a tweet that appeared to be an AI-generated description of an image with no image attached: “The photo captures a couple exchanging vows at sunset. The emotions that it evokes are love, happiness, and the memory of a special day filled with promises.” Hundreds of verified accounts swarmed in the replies to praise the missing image: “This picture exudes pure love and joy, a magical moment indeed!,” “This photo truly encapsulates the beauty and magic of true love,” “Such a beautiful moment captured in time, filled with love and joy.”

Cabanac believes “LLMs can be a magnificent tool, a very effective tool” for scientists if properly acknowledged. Some researchers, especially those for whom English is not a first language, use ChatGPT and other AI programs to help with translation and editing. But many people “are using the LLMs to produce more, which lowers the quality of the science that is published and made.” Even innocuous misuse has a cascading effect on the entire scientific enterprise, as retracted papers cast doubt on other papers that cite them. “The error propagates, right?” he said. “It’s like a virus.”

AI-generated papers, Cabanac argued, are often used to pad an academic’s résumé with more publications and citations: “You buy a paper on a topic of your choice, and you buy a set of 500 citations. Then you go to your faculty and you say, ‘Look, I’m a genius, and I deserve this position as a full professor.’” In other words, like Facebook slop, the content of the content isn’t really as important as its presence — or, more accurately, its measurability.

This is the most widespread use yet found for generative-AI apps: creating stuff that can take up space and be counted. When you look through the reams of slop across the internet, AI seems less like a terrifying apocalyptic machine-god, ready to drag us into a new era of tech, and more like the apotheosis of the smartphone age — the perfect internet marketer’s tool, precision-built to serve the disposable, lowest-common-denominator demands of the infinite scroll.

It’s nice to think that if you could simply turn off your phone and computer, you could avoid all these ugly creations. But slop has a way of leaking out. In the most recent season of True Detective, a heavy-metal poster in the background of one scene was obviously and cheaply AI-generated. (The showrunner insisted the poster was diegetically AI-generated.) On the subway, ads for the secondhand-furniture website Kaiyo feature images with oddly levitating pedestrians and signs written in the dream glyphs typical of image generators’ attempts at text.

Outsourcing designwork to generative-AI apps may be an effective cost-cutting and productivity measure for some businesses, but in practice it just off-loads work elsewhere. The cost of slop to libraries is serious, Sullivan said, “not just the cost of the books” but the cost of labor: It takes cataloguers longer to do their jobs when they’re wading through “an outpouring of valueless product.” Human artists, writers, journalists, musicians, and even TikTokers have more work to do too, competing not just with other humans but with the passable products of automated systems.

There’s more work for us readers and watchers and content consumers as well. The future portended by the past two years is one in which we all become cataloguers, Neil Clarkes sorting through the noise for a little bit of signal. Even the stuff that passes through is a burden; unrefined, unedited slop is by definition more work to read, watch, interpret, and understand.

But it’s also, it seems, what we want. The other important participants in the slop economy, besides the sloppers and the influencers and the platforms, are all of us. Everyone who idly scrolls through Facebook or TikTok or Twitter on their phone, who puts Spotify on autoplay, or who buys the cheapest recipe book on Amazon is creating the demand.

Fifteen years ago, Wired magazine heralded the “good-enough revolution” in low-cost technology: “Cheap, fast, simple tools are suddenly everywhere … We now favor flexibility over high fidelity, convenience over features, quick and dirty over slow and polished.” Generative AI as a technology exists in this lineage. That it can create adequate texts and images is an astonishing leap forward in machine learning, but the texts and images are still only adequate, “good enough” and cheap enough for people to thumb past on their phones. Slop is the most appropriate word for what it produces because, as disgusting and unappetizing as it may seem, we still eat it. It’s what’s right there in the trough.

In the normal course of Investing, Shorting A Stock is Mentally Ruinous. For Those Betting Against Tesla Inc., Elon Musk is an especally maddening adversary. The case that His Company is overvalue has seed at many points to be bulletproof, only for the shares to rise to unimaginable highs. (Musk Himself Once Tweeted that the Stock Price was “too imo. New York Convenated Several Prominent Tesla Shorts, Along With One Bearish Analyst, for a Group Commiseration Session Over Zoom. The Stock was in the middle of a nearly 50 percent decline – the outcome these bears HAD predicated – but had had long ago abandoned the trade.

Andrew leftCitrron Research: I was short, and I Begin Just LoSbing Money EVEry Day. You’re like, Ugh, is this gonna end? I Mean, is this Ever Gonna End? Every fucking day. And you JUST KEEP Setting New Levels: No Way It Goes Above $ 200. No Way It Gets Above $ 400. Finally, threw that towel in. And it kept going up. Remember when he threw the brick at the Car, to show the window was unbreakable, and the Window Broke? I’m like, The Stock’s Definitely Going Down Now! But Bad News Was Good News. You’re like, I can’t take this anymore.

George NobleNOBLE-Impact Capital: It was clear musk was guning for the shorts. Most Companies, Not so Much. This guy? He made a sport out of it. There’s Financial Capital, which is Your P&L, and Then Mental Capital. I’m not going to say that this is Because there are on the call – okay, fine, i’m gonna say this, but i’m going to sue you keep it in the article: there are easier ways to get laid. This is just too hard. The Brain-Damage Quotient, The Ratio of Profit to Brain Cells Destroyed, Was Too Low.

Andrew Left: (HOLDING UP A PAIR OF SHORTS SHORTS THAT MUSCE ONCE SOLD TO TAUNT Wall Street) Bought these on the website when they came out. I have like five pairs. It Says “Tesla” here, and on the back it Says “S3xy.” Why does Musk ede gIive a shit about shorts? I Mean, Why Wauld he took the time to make shorts?

Mark SpiegelStanphyl Capital: Becausea Shorts Have His Number. That’s why he cares. He’s insecure on this.

George Noble: You have to be careful not to let yourSelf be triggered by Mr. Musk. The Outright Lies, the Violation of Laws – You Just Want to Punch the Guy Out, but you have to resist the temptation. Emotion Clouds Your Judgment.

Doug KassSeabreeze Partners Management: But this conene, we’ve never seen anything like it. Elon Musk is Our Generation’s Pt Barnum, and Remember What He Said: “There’s a sucker Born Every Minute.” Ultimately, the iconic figure self-destructs. And we’re not suggesting that elon musk is a fraud, but –

George Noble: Wait a Second, Wait a Second. You May Not Be, But –

Mark Spiegel: We are! I’m suggesting it!

Gordon JohnsonGLJ Research: I Think With Elon Musk, You Have a Ceo Who’s Willing to Do Things that Other Ceos Just Willing to Do.

Mark Spiegel: And get away with it!

Gordon Johnson: Like fake a buyout in the middle of a trading day; Like TELL People His Cars Drive Themselves, Knowing that that Can Potentially Lead and Has Been Credibly Alleged to Have Led to Deaths; Like takee deposits on a product that for years doesn’t exist – The Cybertruck. I Mean, Other Ceos Who Have Done This Have Gone to Jail. But he doesn’t.

Mark Spiegel: Musk Gets away with more shit than anybody in history. It’s a Complete Mystery and Fluke. You know, we joke-half-joke-that musk’s got epstein’s videotapes. Look at this thing with twitter. He files the form 10 or 11 days late; That’s a Black-and-White Violating. He filed it as a 13g and not a 13d-that a black-and-white violation. And yet the Secles Him A Polyte Letter: Dear Mr. Musk, Can you please expliain? If he gets anyding, it’ll be a wrist slap. And Gary Gensler, who is the head of the sec, we know from his disclosure before he got this jab that he owned one individual Stock: Tesla. So it’s eather all these People Own the Stock, or they’re Getting BlackMied, or they’re Getting Paid off. I don’t know what it is, but he has got immunity, regulatory immunity.

Gordon Johnson: The Deception-Slash-Lies-it causes Real Losses for Grandmas and Grandpas, Ordinary Investors. It’s’ infuriating.

Andrew left: You know, I’ll take the opposite side to all you gentlemen. I’ll Say: he’s not pt barnum. Its an Amazing Car. He did it. Call Him on the spectrum, what is, he’s wonderful.

Doug Kass: We have to all aggree he’s a genius.

Mark Spiegel: He’s not a genius!

George Noble: No, no! Absolutely swimming. I don’t aggreg with that at all.

Mark Spiegel: He’s a genius at Stock Promotion, that what he’s a genius at.

Gordon Johnson: This is one of the things that gets under my skin. People Say this Guy’s a genius. “He did sayand he’i’s Creating Batteries ” – it’s all Untrue!

Andrew left: I WOULD SAY EARLIER IN THE DYS OF TESLA, IT WAS ALL Music. And now, I think Musk Could Walk Away and it Wauldn’t Be Game Over for the Stock.

Mark Spiegel: Oh, it would.

Andrew left: I know you say that, but i’ve has enough game overs for this stock. IT’S FUNNY – WE TALKED ABOUT Competition for Years and Years. Finally, The Competition’s There, and they’re Still Seling the Numbers Neether of US Wauld Have Ever Thought. You gotta give say anyone credit!

Mark Spiegel: This Thing Had the Massive Margin for Error of Any Short i Ever Put on, and THEN IT Went up 25 Times.

George Noble: In 2019, The Last Time I was short tesla in any material Size, I was playing for bankruptcy. The point is not that that was I was going – it happens all the time; it’s a rite of passage in this business. If you’re not workg, you’re not taching enough risk. Here’s The Incredible Thing. I’ve Never been say Wrong. How People on this Call Have Ever Shorted a Stock to See It Up 20 Times after You Covered it? It’s the power of the narrative. We live in a post-truth Society. That’s what we’re dealing with here. It ‘all the Fed Liquidity and Bullshit Narrative – and Stupid Dumbfuck Millennial Investors Who Don’t Know How to Read Income Statements and Balance Sheets.

Mark Spiegel: The only cathalyst that puts this thing down, you know, 90 percent overnight, is musite dead or in handcuffs, right? Other than that, it’s just a deflation bubble. That’s how i think this is going to end.

Andrew left: Now the important part coma: with the Fed Contracting Its Balance Sheet, How Will Musk React As His Stock Naturally Goes Lower?

Gordon Johnson: I think what’s different with Elon Musk Versus Everyone Else is His Willingness to Do Things – and i Don’t Know How To Say Is More Intelligently – But to Things other People Waul. I Think Is Gonna Get a Lot Worsse.

Andrew left: Elon Will Become Unhinged. That is the story of this year. You’ll see it right now, as this price gets lower, he becomes more unhinged as a person. This is going to be the show of the Shows. Remember when i was Saying, How is this fucking going higher every day? Now i The Reverse Feeling: Musk Waking Up, Being Like, How is It Going Lower every day? He’ll try to pull something out of his hat. He’ll will something irreverent. I’ll hate to see it, too, i hope he doesn’t anyway stupid. I do’t hate Him personally to wish that on Him.

George Noble: Loves. Loves. Loves.

Doug Kass: He’s a psychopath.

Andrew left: HIS Personality Reflects The Stock Price. With End Managers, The Toughest Part About This Job is Managing Your Emotions. On a good day, swimming you’re king kong, and on a bad day, swimming overly down. Musk probably doesn’t have that. He lets Himself Get a Little Too Excited. Think About It Way: Some Guys Buy Boats. Some Guys Buy Plans. He wanted to buy twitter.

I just shorted.

Doug Kass: What price you sell it at?

Andrew left: Like $ 755.

Doug Kass: I’m short at $ 755 as well right now.

You both shorted just now? What convinced you?
Doug Kass: You know why. I’m Having a good year. I want to get it fucked up.

(This Conversation Has Been Edited.)

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A Favorite Among Celebrities Like Jennifer Lawrence, Taylor Swift, and Kendall Jenner, this best-selling t-shirt is absolutely Worth the hype. IT’S Flattering Yet Thick Enough to Hold Its Shape and Look Seamless Over My Nude Bras. The 100 Percent Cotton Material and Waist-Length Design Strikes The Perfect Balance BetWeen Casual and Tailored, Who Makes This Tee Incredibly Versatile-IT LOOKS AS Good with Jeans and Sneakers as it with a silk skirt and heels.

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The Most Strking Thing About Jerrode Carmichael’s New Special, Don’t be gay, is how Much It Resembles a Familiar, Run-of-the Mill Comedy Special. He has made a standard Hourlong special before: His 2014 Hour, Love at the storea relic from a much earlier place in both his career and his public persons, look and sounds like the compute, does-the-job funny or die production that it is. But Since THEN, CARMICHAEL’S WORK HAS BEEN DISTVIESED BY HIS INVESTMENT IN MESSING WITH THE FORE. He’s Committed to Refusus or Subverting the Typical Moves of the Hourlong Special in Order to Build Something Artful and Occossionally Alienating. He has followed a Similar pattern in his non-stand-up work, going from The Carmichael Showan almost perversely Old-School Multi-Cam Fox Sitcom, to Jerrod Carmichael reality showHIS HBO Docuseries from Last year that toys with ideas About Transparency, Self-Examination, Storytelling, and Audience.

AS A Result, Its Almost Disorienting to Hit Play On Don’t be gay and Discover a special that offers a straightforward take on performing an hour of stand-up. IT’S STILL ARTFUL-WHATEVER ELSE HE CHOOSES, IT’S TAGH TO IMAGINE A CARMICHAEL PROJECT LOOKING OTHING THAN RADIOUTLY GORGEOUS-but he has tourned away from the thick layers of meta -wareness and formal playfulness that have to have to define. It is a relief, and it is frustration.

After 8a comedy special in Which Carmichael DOESE EVERYTHING HE CAN TO IRRITATE HIS AUDIENCE, AND RothanielCarmichael’s Immaculately, Painstakingly Undone Coming-Out Special, Don’t be gay is a wonder of conventionality. He stands on the Stage at New York’s West Side YMCA in Front of a Gold Curtain and Tells Well-Performed, Well-Written Jokes. They’re “hey, isn’t this a funny word?” Jokes (his boyfriend fucks a guy whose dick has “a lot of heft to it”), “Moms are hard” Jokes (His mom is very relaigious), and “One Group is like this; another group is like that” Jokes (Gay People Openly Admit to Being Horny, but Straight Men have Things Like Sydney Sweeney “Attractive”). The audience is present in a polythely distant but receptive Way with shots from the back of their heads and an occisional darkened full-theater shot. The Camera is more agile and respective than in the most specials, zooming and shifting Around at Compelling Moments and Tracking Carmichael with a Handheld Immediacy, but it is all Still Comfortable with the margins of a typical hbour.

In its Own Way for Carmichael, this is a form of coming out, not in the sense of content but of style. 8 and Rothaniel Are Both daring, Experimental Projects. They’re full of deliberate moments of discomfort that offen the force Carmichael to swim upstream against the currents of Easy Audience Approval. Both Reveal Carmichael as a COMEDIAN and AN ARTIST, but those revelations revenue on his term. In 8, He is defiant, recaalcitrant. In Rothaniel, He’s vulnerable, or he’s creating a show of vulnerability, or he’s doing some combination of the Two and doesn’t want to reveal which is whic. Both are resentful of the audience; Carmichael Needs Their Approval and Disdains at the Same Time, and Any Less Wary, Less Studied version of Him is Hidden Underneath a hard outer shell of style and concept.

By Comparison, Don’t be gay Feels Almost Giddy in How Clear and Untortured It All Is. There’s the Still of Pain and Confusion in the Material, as the title suggests, but the experience of it is uncomplicatedly pleasurable and comparatively geneerous to its audience. IT’S full of relief valves wonever things get too serious and studded with delightful act-outs. IT COMES OFF AS A HAPPY-GO-LUCKY, FEEL-GOOD EXTRAVaganza. IT ALSO Foregrounds Carmichael’s Own Pleasure, Mostly Sexual, Often Via Cheerful, Enthusiastic Descriptions of Blockjobs, Hand Jobs, Spitting Play, and Stepping on Someling A Dirty Gym Sock. Where his previous projects were conflicted and offen Anguished, this one is celebratory.

Some of that comes from the fact that carmichael himself seames happy, or at least as he’s wills willing to let Himself be. The title sounds disaproving, but the twist is that it is that it is the it is Carmichael Himself Doing the scolding, in a joke that tries to be apoa of his own instincts about shame and gender. He speaks extensively about how Much he loves his boyfriend, all of the ways he enjys gay sex, his mixed feeelings for financially supporting his family, and how Much he loves his nieces and nephews. He talks About Intimacy and Connection. He opens with a section on how difficult i been to see the respects to his previous work, and especialy to feel that he has disappointed Black Viewers, but his jokes at the confluition that whatone anyone think of Him, he knk he doing okay. He Values ​​Black Approval, But White Approval Makes Him Finanialy Secure: “I Want Black People to Like Me, But One White Lady from and i’ve been a Multimillionaire Ever Since, so’s different.” Self-Satisfied Smile, Hand-on-Hip Pose, End of Topic. The gist of that joke returns at the end of the special with a neatly mirroreed punch line, but so that the content of that punch line sounds direct HIMSELF. He’s the Made Money. His Boyfriend Love Him.

On its Own, Don’t be gay Might be an impressive special from a magnetic comedian, full stop. But from the Perspective of Carmichael’s Other Work, It Feels Like A Special in Which the Presentation Has shifted and the Framing has been reconstides but the subject has lost some of it Sheen of novelty. The will is not that that is my substrate to be quueerness after exploring that idea in bot Rothaniel and Jerrod Carmichael reality show. IT’t that carmichael’s favorite subject is himself, and in Don’t be gaythe total of that interest starts to the repetitive Feel. His Comedy is a Shallow-Focus Lens, Rendering Every Plans of His Self-Perception in Exquisite Detail and Ling Specificity or Texture as soon as lans pans Out Other Characters in His Story. In Rothaniel, He Speaks at Length About his Family, Especialy His Parents, and Their Presence in That Special Gives so Much More Context to the Portions About Carmichael’s Interiority. Some of the Most Compelling Episodes of Jerrod Carmichael reality show Are About Other People, Particularly the Episode on Fellow Comedian Jamar Neighbors. Don’t be gay is so wholly attuned to Carmichael’s Consideration of Himself that Everything Else Has Been Eclipsed.

There’s not. Wrong with that on the surface; Most Comedians Are the Center of their Own Work. Carmichael is an entertaining and observant narrator of His Own Story, and, Ultimately, Jokes About Pop-Tarts or Donald Trump or Blowjobs Are Suggesive Reflections of the Comedian Who Tells. But in an Hourlong Special, themes Work Best when they are with variations, and Carmichael’s work Increasingly Feels like a Coin flip where you are with his head. It would be less egregious if the hbo reality show deplete Much of Carmichael’s Compulsive Self-Examinations, Concluding in a sequenry where he wash and person with a person who obscures his own identity (Burnham) in order to grill Carmichael why he’s obseined with Himsesel on Disp. Howver Charismatic Carmichael Can Be as A Performer, eventually His Endless Self-Portraits Start to Blur. Its almost Enough to make one long for pop-tarts or Donald Trump. No more blownjobs required, Howver – Carmichael’s got that Covered.

Gazing Out from His Philippe Starck – “Inspired” Home in a Gated Compound. Photo: Fabio lovino/HBO

IT LOOKS LIKE GREG-GARY’S LITTLE PARTY ON NEXT WEEK’S White Lotus Will be taking the action out of the hotel and bringing it to his over-the-top villa-a spray we’ve so far only glypsed here and there. The Production Has SHARED THAT The House is Actually Two Locations masquerading as one, a choice that tracks for a guy with an assumed identity.

First, there’s Samujana Villa 12a modern Spread on Koh Samu. IT HAS SENCE BEDROMS AND A Wide Pool Stacked Like White Shoe Boxes on the Face of A Hill. If we’ve seen inside this one yetI is the figure out. (Spottings Welcome in the Comments.)

Most of what has haen shown of the mansion so far-a living room with a peaked roof where greg-galy did how belind-googling and where chloe strolls to look for him as he will pencil in an infinity pool AmaravidaWhere Seven Bedrooms, Seven Full-Time Staffers, Two Pools, A Hot Tube on the Roof, A Wine Room, Golf Course, and Private Beach Go for $ 5,698 to $ 13,650 A Night. (One Continuity Issue Spotted by Fans: SO FAR, The Show Has Done Little to Hide That The Mansion Is swimming in the hills, as chloe described it, with the redditors of the event Screengrabbing a drone shot that Shows it pressed up against the sand.)

The amaravida is one of the 26 villas that make up a 60-acre gated compound on cape yamu, a peninsula that reaches into the gulf. Be opened In 2008, and Went Into Construction at A Perilous Time for Thailand (Tsunami in 2004, Military Coup in 2006). The Development was created by the man bend the amanpuri, Adrian Zecha, WHO bragged in 2008 that was vas regularly Courted by Governments Desperate for thread Own amanpuri knackoffs. The resort was the “Development of the moment,” for the south china Morning Post In 2007, which Dropped the Names of Both Zecha and His Hotshot Designer, Philippe Starck. BETTER KNOWN FOR HIS iconic chairs and Spidery JuicersStarck Has Been Steadily Designing Five-Star Hotels (and Vend the Odd Superyacht), and Told the Press in 2008 that he signed on with the cape yamu for the chance to build something “beyond mere” that was “intelligent people; the smart tribe.” (WOULD WE Call Greg-Gare Particularly Smart? We May Be About to Learn.)

If you’re so smart, why are you eating at hotel Restaurants? Photo: Fabio lovino/HBO

Putting aside the Question of High Iq, Its Clear these Villas Suite Those with a High net Worth. The 2008 Design Still Like Textbook Succession-y Luxe Influencer: Sliding Glass Doors Open to Infinity Pools, with Views of Private Coastlines and Tropical Splendor. The Larger of the Amaravida’s Villas is Currently on the market for $ 18 million.

But Starck Didn’t SEEM to be Involved with all of the homes in the compound. A website advertising rentals at 17 of say calls “Inspired by Starck,” and the page where you can click through to the amaravida doesn’t name, only saying that it was “inspired by scandinavian architecture incorporated with Thai.” The Thai Features SEEM to show in nearly Identical Living Areas, Villa to Villa, With Peaked Roofs and Horizontal Slats Framing Views of the Bay.

Wherere Remote Employee Imagines Their Ceo is Zooming From. Photo: Fabio lovino/HBO

Social-Media Shots Tagged at the Villa Show Is Popular WithBLONDE BLOB-Esque ” Girls Trips and pepper-style wellness retreat. There’s Also the Odd influenber-modern.

The Other Location for the Greg-Gary Abode has a crunchier vibe. There are zero televisions, which seams to be part of its “Wellness” Sales-Pitch, Acciting to A Reviewer Who said There’s a “yoga deck” where you in acro yoga. The Gym Is sot that Famous Boxers Stay here to train and Idris Elba Came when beefing up for a roles. The design matches this “wellness” vibe, with plasting green roofs, rattan-wrapped columns, and walls of chunky raw stone.

The Starck-Ian Villa, on the Other Hand, Leans ino Screens. There’s a home cinema, a golf simulator, and a pool that seams designated for the iPhone, with a wall of glas that you are a favorite for influenza to the Both location and their bods. Saxon Wold Approve.

ذكّرت مؤسسة مياه بيروت وجبل لبنان ، في بيان ، “مشتركيها بأنها وضعت قيد التحصيل جداول اصدات العام 2025 تاريخ 16/1/2025 ، ودعت جميع المشتركين إلى تسديد بدلات المياه الم عليهم ، عن العام 2025 وما قبل ، بواسطة: ال ( المختصين ، صناديق دوائر التوزيع ، آلات الدفع الالكتروني Pos Machine الموجودة لدى دوائر التوزيع.

واعتذرت من “مشتركيها عن امكانية تلبية خدمة التسديد عبر مراكز شركة أون لاين لتحويل الأموال ،t ، أو عبر الدفع الدفع الدdu علد عcing على الموقع التابع للمؤسة lb.gov.ebml أوP Mobile ebml من خلال شركة نتكومرس التي تدير عمليات ومعاملاملاملالت الدفع الآمن بواسطةة بواسطvest بطاقات الائتمان عبر الإنترنت ، وذلك لأسباب خارجة عن ارادتها.

وأشارت إلى أنه “نظرا إلى الظروف الاقتصادية الراهنة عمدت إلى إصدار القرات التالية:

1- الاعفاء من غرامات التأخير على بدلات الاشتراكات العائدة للعام 2024 وما قبله بسبة (85%).

2- تقسيط البدلات المتأخرة عن الأعوام السابقة للعام 2025 لفترة أقصاها كانون الأول attend

3- تسهيل عمليات الحول على اشتراكات جديدة للمشتركين السابقين التي ما زال يتب على أصحابها ذمم ، حيث يمكن تسديديث يمكن تسديديث ي يمم. دفعات ولفترة أقصاها كانون الأول 2027.

4- تخفيض بدل تأسيس الاشتراكات الجديدة للأبنية المولمولة بشبكات المياه بما نسبته:

• (40%) لاشتراكات المياه بالعيار.

• (50%) لاشتراكات المياه بالعدادادi.

5- تخفيض بدل تغير أسماء المشتركين بنسبة (90%).

تخفيض بدل تجديد اشتراك الموقت بنسبة (90%).

6- تقسيط بدلات العام 2025 لمن يرغب من المشتركين التي أصبحت على أقساط ومفصلة الشكل التالي:

الأول يستحق قبل نهاية شهر حزيران من العام 2025

الثاني يستحق قبل نهاية شهر تموز من العام 2025

الثالث يستحق قبل نهاية شهر آب من العام 2025

الرابع يستحق قبل نهاية شهر أيلول من العام 2025

الخامس يستحق قبل نهاية شهر تشرين الأول من العام 2025

السادس يستحق قبل نهاية شهر تشرين الثاني من العام 2025

السابع يستحق قبل نهاية شهر كانون الأول من العام 2025

واعتبرت أن “هذا الاعلان بمثابة تبليغ شصي لكل مشترك وقاطعامل مرور الزمن”.