Good morning, TSFers! It’s Thursday — we are one day away from another blessed Friday and weekend. That sentence originally had “which means” in place of the em-dash, but the millennial in me couldn’t resist making the change. Apparently that makes my writing AI. People think that usage of em-dashes is a hallmark of AI writing. But that AI was trained on (a.k.a taught using stolen work) human writing and programmed by (probably) millennials. So really, it’s AI that write like us. Because that’s how
most AI works — it gives you the “answer” it thinks is statistically most likely to be correct.
For the record, I went easy on my AI take. There were several sentences written and deleted, all of which were much more pointed. Incendiary, perhaps, might be a better word.
Given Taylor Swift’s recent engagement to Travis Kelce, we’re all about Eras right now. It seems like we’re entering an AI-era, and so far it’s not going well. Something that is going well: the Banter Era for Manchester United. It’s not going well for them, but for everybody who gets to sit back and enjoy the schadenfreude it is tremendous content.
United went out of the Carabao Cup to League Two side Grimsby Town 2-2 (12-11 on penalties). It shouldn’t have even gotten to spot kicks, honestly. Grimsby should have had one or two more goals but a dubious offside flag scuppered both chances. United needed 75th and 89th minute goals from Bryan Mbeumo and Harry Maguire to even get to penalties. It gets better. Benjamin Sesko (Benny Tesco), United’s latest “marquee” striker signing, didn’t step up to the spot until the 10th kick despite being 10 of 11 in his career on penalties. Just in case you didn’t realize, the tenth kick is the last one before the keeper would be taking one, unless your keeper is good a penalties, which some of them are!
Disaster Era is better. Ruben Amorim has been dreadful. The tactically inflexible manager is stacking up ignominious club records. They’ve spent the last two summers buying upper mid-table caliber players (at best) for a club where the expectation is titles. They’re currently freezing out two of their best young players (Mainoo and Garnacho) and may sell them before the window closes. And the list goes on.
Long may they continue to flounder.
