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RE: mastodon.social/@anon_opin/115718023210788676

I thought this was referencing a track on the first tape I ever owned, but upon further investigation my Lionel Richie tape was actually the one prior to Dancing On The Ceiling, Can't Slow Down. I was mostly interested in the track All Night Long (All Night). The parenthetical in the title always struck me as odd, but it does result in the echoed background vocal immediately coming to mind when reading it. I was 8 and had a tape player like this one.

Record cover of "Can't Slow Down" by American recording artist Lionel Richie, released on October 14, 1983, by Motown Records. It's him, sitting in an empty room with big windows in the back--maybe overlooking LA or something, but you can't tell. He's sitting reversed in a chair, like a youth pastor about to get real with the kids. He's wearing a blue oxford shirt with the sleeves slightly rolled up, white pants, and white shoes.An 80s tape player, the rectangular kind with a smallish speaker in the back, and a microphone somewhere in the front. They were typically for recording your speech, but I used it for listening to 80s pop music in my under-10 years.
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"GPT" is a brand in the common parlance where the majority don't know what it even stands for. This feels like a new or unique circumstance. What are some other examples?

Others have made-up names to obscure the underlying tech: Bluetooth, 5G. Others are in front of people all the time, like HTTP, but not part of their everyday speech.

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GenAI chatbots sometimes offer helpful suggestions at the end of a response. But other times...

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- A Powerpoint appropriate for a CEO on a bad trip?
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- A text adventure game that crashes with every user interaction?

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