I'm embarrassed to say the reason I stopped harboring even light ambition to write as a vocation was watching Kaleb Horton struggle. I read his stuff and was completely blown away; maybe I could top out at a weak facsimile of that. Then I watched him struggle and thought "well, if this guy can't"...
New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.
I live in Bolingbrook Illinois and I just had to run the goddamn gestapo out of the park while walking my dog. Fuck ICE. Fuck you if you voted for this. I will see you all in hell.
if you are a dude who struggles with knowing what to say to a lady you are digging on, try "I'm really digging on you". If you can't wait to see her again, text her "can't wait to see you again". right away. If you are down bad, tell her "I can't stop thinking about you" right now. Jesus.
this is probably fine, and not, uhh, the entire international financial market beginning to collapse. Probably. Possibly. I mean, we could make it out of this. Maybe. Who knows.
![As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugcmot4f3ool6cottht63wx4/bafkreierpoqvjgg5hqx3zhtlfmvrfq3vaakb3h5wppcdzrvs5jh3zr7ce4@jpeg)
