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The Confidence Trick- Why AI Sounds So Sure — and Knows So Little
Reality check: As Wired just highlighted, you can type pure gibberish into Google — “never juggle badgers during a lunar eclipse” — and its AI Overviews will serenely invent an ancient-sounding...
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AI Didn’t Flunk Finance. The Hype Machine Did.
Congratulations to AI: It can write sonnets, hallucinate legal opinions, and deepfake your childhood. But ask it to pull real numbers from an SEC filing—and it short-circuits like a Roomba in a...
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The Loneliness Industry Is Selling You the Wrong Cure
The Atlantic covers the loneliness epidemic and wonders if potlucks and group dinners cure. It’s a generous effort. But generosity alone won’t fix what disconnection has hollowed out. I’ve got news:...
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Work Will Not Love You Back - But It Might Kill You
Maria Fernandes died in a Dunkin’ Donuts uniform, trying to sleep between shifts, in a car filled with gas fumes and exhaustion. That’s not a tragedy. That’s a verdict. Jill Lepore’s essay in The New...
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The Slop Era - You Are Not Consuming Content - You are Being Fed
Reality is melting. Not loudly. Not instantly. Just one AI-generated pixel at a time. Nesrine Malik nails it: we are drowning in AI slop—a grotesque soup of fake images, fantasy nostalgia, and...
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Catch Feelings, Get Fined
Gen Z didn’t kill romance. We did. And we billed them for the funeral. The Atlantic piece wonders why teens are ghosting relationships like they’re spam calls. Fewer first loves, fewer steady...
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