The Daily Whatever, May 30: Fucked-Up Friday with Mr. Troy Ford

What an amazing treat! Mr. Troy Ford stole the show at The Daily Whatever today as we ramped up for our fave day of the week: Fucked-up Friday! Troy, we could not have had more fun with you, and thank you for joining us! Please come back soon!

We kicked off by talking about Troy’s book release—out on June 3rd!

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I’ve pre-ordered my copy, and I hope you’ll get yours, too! It sounds fun and poignant and touching all at the same time, and I can’t wait to read it.

“The Whatevers” in the chat were as amazing as they ever are—today the chat was thumping, and we could barely keep up. We love it, and we are so grateful to this community that has built up around our show. Y’all are who we do it for, and it just keeps getting better!

The Fucked-up competition got kicked off, and chat, there was a lot of AI today!

• Tory presented: Legendary Facebook Exec Scoffs, Says AI Could Never Be Profitable If Tech Companies Had to Ask for Artists' Consent to Ingest Their Work

• Dana countered with: CEO of Anthropic Warns That AI Will Destroy Huge Proportion of Well-Paying Jobs

• And finally, I shuffled up with this tasty bit: As If Masculinity Couldn't Be More Fragile Right Now, Men Are Now Shaving Off Their Eyelashes To Appear "Less Feminine"

What the actual fuck?

We had our vote, and I won by a hair (ha!) With news this depressing, who could really exult in such a win, I ask you?

Troy closed us out by reminding us that true bangers existed in the 80s, including his pick for Iconic GenX Song: Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)

Thanks for an awesome FUF, Troy! Come back and visit us again soon!

Join us tomorrow for Community Meet & Greet! We’ll pull people up from the audience onto the screen so we can meet more folks! Come dressed to get yanked onscreen, and tell us what your writing (or working on!)

Love you, Mean it, Bye!

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