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  • Meta’s Vibes Feed Is a Slop Cannon — Here’s Your Counter-Program

    Meta’s Vibes Feed Is a Slop Cannon — Here’s Your Counter-Program

    “When the product is vibes, the KPI is trance time.” Cold-open Meta just swapped “Discover” for Vibes—an infinite slot machine of AI-generated micro-clips inside the Meta AI app (and on meta.ai). Think TikTok if TikTok fired…

  • Robot Ump, Human Ego: When Geometry Wins

    Robot Ump, Human Ego: When Geometry Wins

    “We automated fairness and kept the arguments.” Cold open Bottom of the ninth. Tie game. Pitch nicks the zone like a rumor. Batter freezes, catcher fist-pumps, crowd inhales—and then it happens: the challenge. Two fingers to…

  • Dark UX, Dumber Traps: Five Fixes by Lunch

    Dark UX, Dumber Traps: Five Fixes by Lunch

    Trust is earned in pennies and lost in wire transfers. Here’s the repair kit. August field notes: the gloss got glossier, the traps got dumber, and the only honest person in the room was the network…

  • NPC Internet: One Brain, A Billion Mouths

    NPC Internet: One Brain, A Billion Mouths

    Personalization turned into personality deletion. You know that déjà vu you get mid-scroll—like the internet is telling the same joke with different faces? That’s not imagination. It’s the sound of a shared brain speaking through a…

  • The Infinite Apology Machine: AI’s Role in Outsourcing Corporate Guilt

    The Infinite Apology Machine: AI’s Role in Outsourcing Corporate Guilt

    “Our AI regrets your feelings.” Like What You Read? Dive Deeper Into AI’s Real Impact. Keep Reading TL;DR Brands are outsourcing contrition to bots. It’s faster, cheaper, and emptier—an assembly line for “we hear you” that…

  • The Algorithmic Alibi – When Criminals Blame the Recommender System

    The Algorithmic Alibi – When Criminals Blame the Recommender System

    (“Sorry, Your Honor—YouTube told me to do it.”) Like What You Read? Dive Deeper Into AI’s Real Impact. Keep Reading TL;DR “Algorithmic alibi” = defendants claim recommender systems nudged them into crime. Legal success is rare…

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Is this moralizing?
No sermons. Constraints you can enforce. Red lines first, features second.
How do you verify “responsible” claims?
Receipt Chain + explicit falsifiers. If it can’t be wrong, it isn’t right.
Do you call out vendors?
By method, not by meme. We test flows and publish the harness.
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Editorial values. No dark patterns. No quiet drains.

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Talking to the Machines

This isn’t just a blog—it’s a running dialogue with the systems shaping your future. Talking to the Machines is our behind-the-screens series: the prompt tests, contradictions, and quiet reveals you won’t hear in a press release.

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I don’t sell vibes. I run receipts. If a claim can’t be falsified, it doesn’t publish. Come see how the sausage gets stamped.