Seeing that, I too immediately thought, in popehat voice, "It's not RICO."

I can't even

Same here - I had a very small universe curated for myself. I didn't leave immediately, but when I did, there were a whole lot more weird ads and bots and stuff in my feed. I think that I only ever saw prøn once, and I was actually shocked that it even existed on Twitter.

The Gropers and the Groypers are the Trump people. It's the grouper that can breathe underwater, right?

First they came for the eyeballs, and I said nothing.

“Latecomer’s guide to creating an AI girlfriend”in this Sunday’s NYT magazine.

I read it the same way, but he is quite pretentiousness.

Behind the Bastards had a few episodes on how AI children's books are on offer at Amazon - also creepy and unhealthy.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/part-one-ai-is-coming-for-your-children/id1373812661?i=1000617646703

Skip to 1:03 for a second ... this is the super-fast lyric portion of the video. Saying all of those syllables fast causes Mr. street-sounding rap guy to lose his accent code-switch and for that verse he sounds like a generic white guy. Pretty funny actually.

I think the long content is a gullibility filter

Like those "one weird trick" videos that go on and on without displaying playback controls. Only the rubes get to the end.

Sometimes I believe 5 impossible things before breakfast, but they are always serious.

I have to admit, for a brief moment i thought he was correctly expressing displeasure at twitter.

Same here. I think that it also works as a defense of Twitter - reframing the trauma that you experienced by reading Nazi tweets as "learning the wrong thing" from them.