Marjorie Taylor Greene's views have changed. AOC says she knows why
Consider it a revenge tour?
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AOC shared a fun theory on her Instagram stories about why Marjorie Taylor Greene has suddenly changed her position on many policies.
There’s a personal chive-cutting competition, of sorts, going on in the r/KitchenConfidential subreddit, and it’s fantastic.
Explaining the “slopper” insult, a new term to describe people who can’t make any decisions without consulting ChatGPT first.
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“Revenge tour”: AOC offers theory on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “rebrand” after MTG called herself a “victim” of QAnon
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is shedding some light on the reason she believes Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has been singing a different tune when it comes to President Donald Trump and the MAGA agenda lately.
Most recently, she went on The View to calmly state she no longer believes in QAnon conspiracy theories and alleged that she was actually a “victim…of media lies and stuff you read on social media,” rather than a changed person.
“You’ll never get it perfect”: Reddit can’t stop critiquing this user’s daily chive-chopping posts
Chives are having a moment on Reddit’s r/KitchenConfidential subreddit. Reddit user u/F1exican has created a personal challenge online, and it’s gotten a big reaction from other foodies.
They have decided to chop chives every single day until the other members of the cooking forum have deemed them “perfect.” This is a pretty wild undertaking considering it’s next to impossible to please everyone on the Internet.
“Immediately using this”: What is a Slopper? The AI insult about people too obsessed with ChatGPT
We’ve all heard about Clankers, but what about Sloppers? Obviously, AI is slop, and slop is AI, but when it comes to interacting with that slop just a little bit too much, you can be deemed a ‘slopper.’
So, what is a “Slopper”? The problem isn’t necessarily using ChatGPT to double-check something or ask a question — it’s using it to replace your actual brain.
🕸️ Crawling the Web
📝 Somebody’s boss is sharing the surprisingly unfiltered request for leave he recently received from a Gen Z employee, and it’s sparking debate about workplace expectations.
💻 A TikTok creator is drawing widespread attention to what he describes as “AI psychosis,” saying that months of compulsive interaction with ChatGPT worsened underlying mental health struggles and fed a spiral of paranoid delusion.
📺 Vanderpump Rules fans are still trying to process the fact that the show’s entire cast has been replaced (except by Lisa Vanderpump, of course).
🚗 A driver of a Subaru was “distraught” to find the interior of her car stained and sought answers on Reddit.
📺 Ryan Murphy’s All’s Fair just debuted on Hulu with a whopping 0% Rotten Tomatoes score—and viewers are obsessed.
🍪 Oreo is jumping into the Thanksgiving game with holiday-themed cookies that have people asking, “Does anyone really want this?”
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